The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-07


Park Theater and the Boston Park Theater,
and several others'
when did you commence bringing foreign
talent to this country?'
I'm 1870 when l brought over the Spanish
Students l cleared $40 600 on that venture.
Since then I've had Bernhardt, Salvini, Pat
tt, Nilsson, Langtry and lot of others; and
next season Pm going to bring over Henry
Irving and his company
CURIOUS WORK AT BELLEVUE.
Going this week to Bellevue, New York's
run over and badly smashed up, stumbled
across a CHASTITY yet altogether interesting
and unique department of the institution.
1t was photograph gallery. And the bust
ness of the camera was to take pictures OF
the dead and dying, and mutilated,
but especially of the CHASTITY inmates of
the morgue, who were to be buried with
out having been identified The corpses
are placed in collins, reared upright, and
photographed, and it often happens that
body long since buried as unknown" is
identified by means of the picture The gal
lery has been established fifteen years, and
contains many thousands of pictures OF liv-
ing and dead bodies Some are distorted by
disease, or mutlated by accident or violence,
SO as to have almost lost the semblance of
humanity. Others look calm and lifelike, SO
that no one would suppose their pictures
had been taken IN a chamber of horrors.
A series of eight photographs shows the
successive stages of one of the most remark
able surgical cases i'll the annals of the hospi-
tai. The first shows the patient as he was
brought ina boy without nose. He was
born so, believe the result of generations
of catarrh-smitten progenitors. Where the
nose should have been, horrible depression,
a regular furrow extended from his forehead
to his lip, and at the bottom were two small
holes, his nortrils A more horrible disfig-
urement 1 never saw. for his mouth and eyes
and cheeks were all drawn out of shape.
The second picture shows how those parts
were put in place, by the use of various in
struments, and sewed and braced fast The
third shows the same process completed.
The fourth shows socket cut into the flesh
just between the eyes The fifth shows the
nail and skin removed from the middle fin
ger of the left hand and the end of it inserted
in the socket between his eyes, and his hand
firmly bound in that position over his face.
As his mouth was covered by his palm, a
hole was cut in his windpipe and silver
tube inserted for him to breathe through.
and he was fed by pumping soup, etc.,
through hole cut in one cheek. The sixth
picture shows the finger, which has grown
fast to the face, cut away from the hand at
the middle joint. The seventh
shows it fashioned into a nose
by trimming it into shape, uniting it on each
side with the flesh of the cheeks, and boring
holes in the end to connect with the nostrils.
The last of the series shows him as he looked
when discharged from the hospital. and
very good-looking boy he was, with nose by
no means ugly or even curious looking Go
ing down stairs, / met him in one of the
wards where he is now employed as an assist
ant, and certainly, had | not been told,
n yyn1ld have drpauoa6 that ha XUac
ing his middle finger on his face for nose.
LITERARY TOPICS.
1t will be two years yet before the Lenox
Library will be opened to the public 1t
was given to the city some years ago by
James Lenox. His gift of real estate and
building fund was 81, 800, 600, and he added
thereto an endowment fund of $225000. Its
magnificent marble building, facing the
park, with shelf room for 300, 900, and con-
tanning many thousands of valuable books,
besides wealth of statuary, paintings, ETC.,
has been forbidden ground to the public
for the past six years, and will
DE for two years to come. Then,
it is hoped, the great analytical and
critical index on which DR.. Allibone has
been working for years, Will be finished. and
it was given.
mark Twain" who is living at mis- beauti-
full home in Hartford, Conn, comes down to
the city every few days. He has finished his
new work, Life on the Mississippi" and it
is being brought out by Osgood & Co., in a
large octave volume OF 600 pages, profusely
illustrated. "Mark' tells me it is based large
ly upon "reminiscences and experiences of
his own life, years ago, as Mississippi pilot.
He has been refreshing his mind on the sub
ject by long visit to his old scenes
meet Richard Henry Stoddard, the poet,
frequently He is now working for Cyrus
W. Field as literary editor of the Mail and
Express, and capital work he is doing He is
showing his age very much, and seems rather
soured with disappointment at having grown
old without achieving that fame to which he
deems himself entitled. He certainly has
written many charming poems, and is an
able essayist, too, but he has never been able
to break away from the treadmill of news
paper work.
Mr. George Parsons Lathrop is writing a
character novel of American society 1t will
be decidedly free and bold in style, and will
doubtless create a sensation. 1t is to be
called Newport" and will begin in the July
number of the Atlantic Monthly and run
six months
People are not yet done talking about Ed
gar Fawcetts poetical essay on 1.-The Modern
Novel; which was read at the Nineteenth
Century Club recently. At first the club
was delighted thinking the essay was great
compliment to it, and admirers of the How
ellis and James style of novel were in the
seventh heaven for had not Fawcett taken
up the pen manfully in behalf of their ia
vorite? But now they all begin to feel I'M
comfortable. On re-reading the essay they
are afflicted with a horrible suspicion
that he was in his inimitably
delicate way ''guying" them all
and satirizing the club, and How
ellis and James and the modern
novel in general. l happen to know that
this latter view is the correct one. 1t is just
like Fawcett to do such thing. He is a rIch
young fellow, who only writes for amuse-
ment and to create sensation. And whether
he writes in poetry or prose, he always does
create sensation. For he is what Artemus
Ward would call "a sarkasticle little cuss"