Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-21

Ice Is also used. The boys don't like
this fresh batch, because they purify
so quickly, and all the classes endeavor
TO hang back until another batch comes
in. Then there is a good deal OF
| choice about the matter. You would
make a good subject because you are
not overburdened with sdipose tissue.
A SUBJECT Is NO GOOD.
Lean ones are what are sought after,
because the tissues and muscles are
not covered and hidden with fat.
A talk With some other gentlemen
and with Health Commissioner Francis
brought out the same facts, namely,
that there was little or no resurrecting
done, and, as far as was known, very
few bodies shipped to or from the city.
The reporter, piloted by q friend who
Is a medical student, made a visit to a
couple of the colleges aud saw for Kim
self how the thing is done.
The first place called at was the st.
Louis medical college. On Seventh
street, just back of the college, there
Is a very dark alley, and In g little
way an entrance, closed by o heavy
double door.
"Here's the place they bring In the
stiffs," said the student; Tin through
this door"
At this minute, a vehicle, drawn by
one horse, turned into the alley, and
the student said:
"Here comes the wBgon now"
1t was very dark, but he knew the
outfit because he had seen 1t SO many
times. The driver stopped, knocked
at the door, and soon showed In two
pine collins. He wss an old, Grabbed
looking fellow, with q rough beard
and a short pipe, and would never be
taken for O person of such horrible &C.
oupation.
Lets 90 up on the elevator" said
the student.
"Not much" said the reporter,
especially when he saw that the bodies
were being loaded In the same cor.
trivance.
"Come on, you fool, 1t Is shorter
than going around the front way"
The reporter s%trsnuously objected,
aud the man who ran the elevator also
put his veto on the matter, saying
that the continuance would not hold so
much weight.
The dissecting rooms at the college
are situated In the rear CT the build
Ing, in two long and narrow rooms,
one above the other. The lower one
Vas fitted with low tables, about each
of which was a crowd Of students.
The room was full of tobacco smoke
and everybody was 80 busy that the
entrance Of a stranger was not noticed.
Young fellows were laughing, talking
and discussing. Here and there were
a knot intensely interested over a par.
ticular q
THE HARSH NOISE OF THE SAW
could be heard avery now and then,
as 1t grated through the skull of some
poor wretch whose brain was wanted
for inspection, There were about ter
bodies In this room, and nearly thirty
students at work. Men and women.
aome of them old, some young, ant
many so mutilsted that an inexperi
enced eye could not tell anything
about them, lay around on all sides
The ~btudents do not seem to heed the
surroundings, nor the horrible stencil,
Most of them use gowns at the work,
which cover their clothes. The re
porter's companion laughed at hill
pale and ghostly countenance, anc
said this WAS nothing. Sometimes
there were as many az
TWENTY. CoRPsEs IN II ROOM.
The boys sometimes 60 so far an t.
lunch in the dissecting room, although
that performance is rare. Sometimes
however, the scslpel would slip and Gu
9 Students finger, and he would i'm
msdiataly begin to suck at II with nj
his power, Quts IL this kind axs vef,
likely 70 introduce q virulent poison
Into .ne system, and the students
guard against them with the utmos
care. At the back of the room was
shaf, with an opening leading to o vel
N the cellar. Into this the refuse il
thrown, quioklime is put on the top o.
1t and the place 10 cleaned out one,
every two or three years.
Lets go up to the top roomG" sale
the student.
"Not this evening"" said the re.
porter, who was sick and weak enough
to take refuge in the old joke. The
place Is kept as scrupulously clean al
possible, yet the neighbors have OBJ.
jected now and then. Several years
ago a number of colored people made
q raid on the building, In search Of
the remains of Q friend who wa
thought to be there. They got into
the building and up the stairs leading
to the ~dissecting room, when q SUDDEN
turned out the lights. Confusion
commenced immediately. A couple
Of students, 10 the story goes, caugh'
up q body, hurled 1t down stairs upor
the invaders and the latter rushed ou'
and q away as best they could. II
several of the colleges
THE REMAINS ARE THROWN INTO WATTS
Few people are probably aware thai
dissectlng ir going on In such q centrs
neighbour God as No. 1925 Washing
ton avenue. At this place the refusI
and the bones are burned In q larg,
stove, and thus disposed of. There i
no smell or disagreeable sight, and tn,
neighbors have never had any cause
for complaint.