Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-14
A BIG STEIKE AveR1EO.
An Incident of the war-A Hundred Mill
ions Paid for Military Railroad Service.
l.'Garh's Interview with Gen. whiton.l

l''GaIh's Interview with Gen Whiton.l
Said I: "Do you recall any instance where
4 one of Stanton's subordinates faced him
| downl'
"Why, Of course, there were occasions
when we had to stand our ground and tell
the secretary that he must do SO and so.
| When LIE saw the justice of any thing he
was perfectly adaptable. You must re-
member that he had 5000 railroad en-
| ployes under the pay of the United
States, probably more employees than
all the railroads possessed before the open
ing Of the rebellion. These employees were
| all civilians, tracknen, tiemen, contractors
telegraphers, brakemen, bridge-builders
and they could not be court -martialed for
desertion. IL they could not get their
money with some regularity there was dan
ger of general strike cmong them. At
one time we owed g., DOC, 900 to these people
Their families were about starving. ID ,af-
lection had become very general among
them, and got information that unless We
paid s 900. 600 within three or four days, or
on the next pay day, that the whole military
railroad force would he On a strike from the
Atlantic TO tho Pacific went into Hariy's
room and said: 1 want you to give me an
order for 81. 00o, 900, which l must have be-
fore the treasury closes, and it is now
quarter TO four
Said he: 4 can't do it; the secretary has
already positively refused to give orders for
money
Said |: lie must do it, So / went to the
secretary and said TO him with more decision
than | generally used: Mr. Secretary,
want your order for 81 ,000, 900 to pay for
labor i'm the railroad military service' i
won't give it said Stanton Sir, you must
said l. The occasion admits OF no delay
What' said Stanton, looking at me with
some establishment You must said |, or
this force will be scattered t. the winds
~fle took the paper and wrote the requisi-
ton. ! snatchei it from his hand and
started on a run for the treasury building,
passing across the White House yard
rushed to the secretary's Office, and the clerks
were already being dismissed Mr. Secre-
tary Chase said ], 1 must have this money
before you close the department. He sent
for one of the registers, AMI rung n tell for
another person TO take me through the list Of
officials who had to sign that bond
before it could he valid 1t was
draft / presume on the United
States repositories at Louisville and
Nashville. Another messenger had been
sent TO hold the chiefs Of departments who
had to sign the paper at their desks Tor few
minutes. So ! went through those Offices
when they were comparatively deserted.
The draft was put in the presidents own
mail. which was taken 70 the station up 10
the latest moment / got word in about
forty hours Of the arrival OF the draft, and
in the mean time had written the secre-
tary's name to an order that no portion OF
that money should be given 10 contractors,
bu: the whole Of il paid TO the labor rolls"
Fasteur's Experiments with Hydrophobia-
lRevue des peux Mondes.I
We come now to Pasteur's more recent
works, works to which humanity will soon
owe, We may hope, the disappearance OF the
most dreadful of contagious diseases hydro
phobia No culture Of rapid virls from
without the organism has up 10 the present
time succeeded. The mirobe which cau.es
this terrible evil appears 70 be developed
only in nervous matter, and its ravages are
manifest only when the deease is fixed in
the brain
Pasteur satisfied himself upon this point
by inoculating. 10y trepanning. in the brain
of dog portion of the infected matter
from the brain Of another dog which had
died of hydrophobia: the animal was taken
This explains how the period of incubation
lasts sometimes 50 long; the virus il son
nected with the organism but has not at
tackled the vital point Ii was also |
an explanation Of the fact, that. in 50 many
cases statistics show fifty ont OF every hun |
dred for dogs. and eighty out Of every hun |
dred for mem. hydrophobia communicated |
by bite is not manifested This rendered |
possible researches which could not have |
taken place If the OPERATOR had not been sure |
of communicating the rabid virus As his ex- /
periments should demand. and II seeing the |
malady manifest itself Immediately
The results actually obtained are the fol- |
lowing: The culture within the organism OF |
a monkey diminishes the virulence of the |
disease; the culture within the organism of a |
rabbit increases it. After numerous attempts |
a system OF vaccination FOR dogs |
has been adopted A monkey Is
inoculated by trepanning; he dies at the /
end OF from eight to ten days Small frag-
ments CT diseased brain are inserted in the |
brain Of a rabbit ami from this dogs are
vaccinatei by inocculstion under the skin |
Pasteur actually possesses number OF dogs |
which are absolutely proof against hydro
phobia, and which have resisted even inoc-
ulation in the brain