The evening world., 1889-12-31
Lawyer Dup|esSis Helm
SuCCumbS to the
Dread Disease,
new YORk'S FIRST VICTIM.
Frighttul Spread Of the Disease
In This Country.

fluenza or La Grippe.
yer. died at the home Of his tntber-in-law,
u. b. Moses, 224 West Forty. fifth street.
from pneumonia. which was the outcome
Of Gn attack of influenza.
Mr.. Helm was forty-four years old. mar
ried. and the father of eight children.
On Christmas Day he was attacked with a
mild attack Of La Grippe. After three
days his illness developed into pneumo-
MIA, and he grew rapidly worse till he
died.
He was a fon of Rev. james I. Helm,
born III Salem. n. ], He WAS a graduate
of Princeton and a partner of ID. Noble
Rowan Mt one time. His funeral will take
place Thursday from his fathers present
church, It. Paul's, at Sing Sing.
This is the first fatality here resulting
Health declare that the spread of the
malady cannot be stopped. Everybody,
almost, will have it.
"A green Christmas makes n fat grave
yard" IL n trite saying, founded on the
experience of ages. Warm. humid
weatf er in mid Winter is unnatural. I'M
~seasonable. and the cold blasts from
the frozen ZONE that alternate with
the zephyrs from tue south breed all
manner of diseases, and encourage the
development of Others.
Fortunately the grip seems to have
attacked the people of this city with much
more mildnesS than those Of Paris and
the Continent, but it is here Just the same.
At the theatres last night there was a
general coughing and sneezing by the
audiences from the openinC OF the doors
to the dropping of the curtains on the last
scenes.
The northeast wind is known to the
city Health Department as the pneu-
moni0 wind, aud northeast winds have
prevailed for weeks. and there il no
doubt that many OF the thirty-two deaths
from pneumonia reported yesterday by
the Health Board were complicated by
the grip, which leaves the patient i'll a
condition particularly susceptible to lung
troubles.
The Board of Health. while still pro-
claiming that La Grippe is not dangerous
of itself, urges the people to he very care
full, to stay indoors from the moment that
they suspect mn attack of the epidemic,
and to send for O physician the moment
they detect the first symptom.
The influenza has attacked the Police
DtpuTlultul' duu ZVO DOllCcHIch NIt Iulu
up, nearly all OF whom are down with the
grip. Among those who have the malady
is Inspector Steers, though he has
vnl ntly stuck TO his post.
q .p'. Garland, five sorgeants and
twelve roundsmen are among the grip
patents, and Patrolman limo by J..
Golden. of the Fifth Street Squad, died
yesterday of pneumonia. which begun in
q cold on Saturday night.
JuIua Incpmha pt tina IInital States
Circuit Court, is ill with influenza. and
Assistant United States District-Attornev
O'Connell is sneeZing with it. So are
Commissioner Shields aud Assistant Dis
trIct-Attorncy Rose.
ST. Francis Hospital has five new cases
of grip, and there are q score of new cases
to-day in the Blackwell's Island hospital
Surveyor George W. Lyon is able to sit
up after q severe attack of La Grippe. and
Robert Bonner has fully recovered.
Auditor W. j. Lyon. Of the Finance De.
partment. is dangerously i'll with conges-
ton of the lungs.
There are fifty cases Of grip in Belle.
yue Hospital. and among the theatrical
fraterni y ii is quite general.
Company, was too i'll with tho mhlady ia
appear last night. md eight chorus girls
at the Casino were unable 10 sing.
Coroner MESSENGER has passed the crisis
and is on the way to recovery from IN
a tack of pneumonia.
Rev. Henry c. Mcdowell. of st.
Agnes's Church, was attacked by lniiu,
enla Friday night. 1t developed into
pneumonia and Sunday night the patients
may recover.
Rev. DIR. John Hall preached Sunday
morning. but he is nursing h grippe
now.
Dr. Bryant, of the Health Department.
still insists that the Russian influenza II
not Mt all ser ous III itself, and says that
when il becums universal. as il now is IN
Paris, aud the people. panic stricken.
any death is accredited TO the epidemic.
when in reality the only deaths resulting
even remDteiv from influenza nre those
Of old aud feeble people, or people who
were already diseased. weak iungod OT
suffering from chronic bronchial trouble.
The Germans of Hoboken, where there
are 400 cases to-day, cali the malndv
" Fpidcmischer Schunpteniebef." OF
snuiting fever.
Chief of Police Murphy and Drs. Rae
and :. w. Clarke are among the Thousand
or more sufferers i'll Jersey City. but tn
ep .dcmic has not yet appeared ut tue
county institutions.
Anthony ComStock is confined Ia his
house at Summit. n. j., with the grip,
and this rounds out the li,t OF reformers.
Col. Elliott /. Shepard, Commodore
Elbridge T. Gerry and Ward McAllistcl
having succumbel some days ago.
The City Fire Department has severn
cases among Its members, but it is notice
able TINT the epidemic takes firmest hold
| upon those whose cmploymentS keep then
much indoors. whllo truckmen. stree
carmen and other outdoor workers are
nearly exempt from tho mOlndy.
In other cities he epidemic Is rapidly
developing. At Albany the public office
nrc running with dccimatcd forces, aud
Secretary " State Cook is SO i'll tibet hi
removal TO his home in Rochester wal
ordered by his physician.
Kingston has il : % badly that tho Free