Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-26

/ fatal are reported.
An ambulance is summoned in various
/ ways. A message summoning one may
I be sent by telegraph from police station
/ to the police central office, or the sum-
mons NAV BE- sent on the fire telegraph
wires. The stations on the elevated rail-
roads are also connected with the central
4 office by telephone, so that their wires are
I also used to summon an ambulance in
case of accident. From the central office
! the call is transmitted by telephone, or
| telegraph, to the hospital nearest to the
1 place where the ambulance is needed.
Twenty strokes, followed by the number
| OF the signal box nearest to the place of
need summons an ambulance on the nre
telegraph wires. There is a gong in my
| office connected with the fire telegraph
system. and continually in the course of
the day its hammer beats the 20 Ominous
strokes and then comes the box number. A
call for an ambulance from, for instance,
| Fifty-tifth street and avenue A, at which
ire-boX 56S is located, consists, there
fore, of twenty strokes in succession,
then, after short pause, five strokes,
after another interval six strokes, and
after a third interval eight strokes. The
intervals are so short as to be hardly no.
ticeable TO any but a practised ear.
Twenty-three strokes, followed by the box
number. summon every ambulance in the
city, and, of course, imply some dread
disaster on wholesale scale. Among
the last occasions when all the ambu-
Iances were thus summoned were the
sinking OF the steamer RiYerdale in the
North river and the Brooklyn bridge dis
aster.
Efficient as is the New York ambulance
system, the hospitals to which il forms a
part are so distributed that they do not
e1eet the greatest good to the greatest
number. The Chambers Street Hospital,
for example, has TO serve the needs of all
the lower part of the city and Ian ge part
OF the east side. An effort is making to
establish another hospital in the lower
half OF the east side of the city, but until
this is done victims of accident east of
the B0Wery, between Grand and Houston
streets, will have to rely on Bellevue Hos
pItaI or Chambers Street. each of which
Is full two miles from the further points
OF the districts covered by them. St. Vim
cents Hospital, at Eleventh street and
Seventh avenue, and the New York Hos
pital, in Fifteenth street near Fifth ave-
nue., treat cases in a district extending
along the west side of the town from
Canal street to Forty street. The
other hospitals on the west side are the
Roosevelt Hospital, at Fifty-ninth street
and Ninth avenue, st. Luke's, at Fifty
fourth street and Fifth avenue, and the
named has to cover district as large S
that OF all the rest put together, and this
Is where the hospital service is most de-
fcient.
For the remaining hospitals, the Mt.
Sinai, the Presbyterian, ETC., are all in
bunch on the east side, between Sixty
sixth and Eightieth streets, and none of
them takes cases above One-hundredth
street. The victims to accidents IN Har-
lem and the annexed district, comprising
many squares of territory, are all Deepen
dent on the Ninty-ninth Street Hospital.
which is too small for the work it has to
do. \ man, therefore. who is injured at
Fort Washington, kingsbridge, fremont
or Eordham has TO be carried from five 10 /
ten miles in the ambulance before he re- /
cefYeS medical care. beyond the tempo
rary treatment which the ambulance sur
geon gives him. Unless the people in the |
upper part OF the city. whose number is I
increasing by thousands with every pass
ing month, are to continue TO be deprived 4
of privileges which the rest Of the pOpula- /
ton enjoys, the Legislature must set apart /
an Appropriation for a new hospital /
beyond the Harlem river the coming win /
ter.
Not only is the upper part Of the city |
nearly as hOspitalless as a country vii /
lage, but il also suffers from lack of a pro- |
per police service. So small is the num- |
Der Of policemen in proportion to the area |
TO be protected that policeman, whether /
on foot or mounted, can in some cases |
hardly pass over his beat in the six hours /
in which he is on duty. Passing over it a /
second time is, of course, out of the ques- /
tiOn. The fact that Percy r. Pyne, Jr.'s, /
Robert r. Martins and other houses in /
Riyerdale were robbed in succession early /
Sunday night proves how insufficient the |
police force is to perform efficient service. |
WHILE THE RAILROAD WAR CAUSES |
WEEPING
and waihng and gnashIng of teeth among
those whose dividends will be curtailed, /
il not entirely cut of in consequence, it /
causes propOrtionate joy among those
whose travelling expenses are lessened /
thereby. There has been large increase
Of travel on all the roads which are cut
ting rates, thousands Of people taking |
advantage Of this opportunity to ride for /
a cent a mile to make excursions for
business or pleasure which they would
Although the rate for one travelling the |
entire length Of the route is much less
than a cent a mile, the action of the
elevated railroads in charging but five
cents fare all day Sunday win apparently
prove the reverse OF a losing operation.
The increase in the net earnings last Sun
day over those of the corresponding Sun
day of last year was 1868.
The druggists are rivaling the rail-
roads in cutting rates. Here and there
all over the city you viii find a drug store
with popular prices" printed in large
letters outside, and therein you win be |
able to buy articles for, on an average,
about two-thirds what you would pay at
the stores which sustain the old figures.
The proprietors of the latter, who have
combined together to resisting the pOpu- |
T7riaR 6nnnHnnG tho hrruf 1
sold by their rivals as adulterated.
1t is noteworthy how many men there
are, who, for one reason or another, fail
to perform their duty as citizens. New
Workers, TO avoid jury service, very often
refuse to vote, as the jury lists are taken
from the poll lists. Tney thus omit two
duties which they owe to the public.
Foreigners do not naturalize for the same
reason. / know of a German who
would like very much to vote for
Cleveland, but is so afraid of being
obliged to serve on a jury that he will not
get naturaliZed, although he has been in /
the country several times longer than the
period necessary TO constitute an alien a /
citizen. Men keep their names out Of the I
directory with the object in view, and this /
is done 10 such an extent that the directO- /
~ is of comparatively little use in finding |
the residence of a man who is not house |
holder. Although there are seven men in |
a lodging house | know of, for example, |
the number of but one, the owner, appears |
in the directory.
BEFORE CONCLUDING WITH BIT OF |
LOCAL POLITICS
let me tell you of a somewhat romantic |
incident connected with the first marriage
Of Mrs. Fletcher U. Harper, who married
her brother-in-law the other day. Mrs.
Harper is the daughter of Senator Nc
Donald, of Indiana, and is an unusually
beautiful woman. She was but the second
choice, however, of her first husband, who
had previously been Tilted by faithless
creature to whom his heart continued to
owe allegiance even after his marriage
with Miss Mcdonald. Mr.. Harper, in adj
dition to being brilliant Conversations
list, was something of a musician,
and before being Tilted, he dedicated
bit Of music to her, who evidently was
first and last and all the time the mistress
of his affections. When she came to his
wedding he ordered the musicians to play
his composition, and the woman to whom
it was dedicated advanced to greet the
bride Of the man she had Tilted, with the
music of her lover sounding in her ears.
Mrs. Harper's present husband is the
uoT1rOacf hrofhor of hpr first and no