Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-08-29

fhoe of the ladder with his dinner kettle
John was house carpenter with family
~ nve children, and his wife always sen
him his dinner by little Jennie, the eldes
daughter. He managed-to clothe and feet
oAem we'll, and TO send the three oldest 3,
SCHOOL, for he vowed that he would have
~ beneft Of ono tau at least. He lived
- part OF the city where the
WISER was % poorly served that the
hydants were left turned on all the time
with buckets under them to catch whatever
moisture the department had TO spare, and
/ who're the streets were ms a foreign country
70 the city road makers, and the tramp OF
~ industrious policeman was seldom
ho1rd. John was a thoughtful man
md knew that though he paid
no taxes directly he did so through
paying his rent 10 the house
owner who paid the tax. lie therefore
Mn quite proud Of himself for getting even
with the authorities, by sending his whole
hmily TO school as fast as they grew old
enough, and keeping them there ms long
- they chose. John talked 10 his little
daughter about the approaching re-opening
Of the schools, and after a hearty lunch and
pleasant chat he returned 20 his work, and
tie little girl went home again with the
empty kettle.
A short, loud shout! A crashing of tim
ber, hurrying Of people. The plas;erers
N the fourth story room stopped and gazed
~ one another for moment of listening
silence The old foreman ran to the win
dow. He could not see the pavement for
Ne cornice. but the tops Of the scaeiold poles
were not there.
TITS John fell to the pavement"
The men quickly descended and joinel
The gathering crowd around the figure on
the sidewalk and were glad tc hear him
groaning, as at first thought any injury is
less terrible than sudden death. But when
they found the man lying with broken
leg and long splinter driven through his
osher thigh, piece of the pole that had
broken the fall ana perhaps saved his
iie, they doubted whether fatal ending
would not have been better than
20 much suffering. Alreadya pool of blood
mad gathered and IL was evident that the
man would bleed to death if something
was not done for him at once A swift ex-
: animation showed the end of the bone pro-
Jecting from his right Leg but the thick
splinter In hts leit thigh added TO the agony
OF bis position on the hard pavement and
made 1t impossible TO move him with
out giving fearful pain. Tho wounded
man said nothing and bravely
tried TO stand tho pain, though
bis chalky face and blue lips told of the
struggle. He was too much hurt 10 think
much, but looked forward with q vague
horror to the moment when he must be
lined to the floor of q wagon and must un-
dergo the fearful torture of tho long ride 10
hts home. He knew that he could not
stand 1t. He had been present when a
brakeman with n crushed leg was loaded
on the floor of an express wagon and taken
70 the hospital. The doctors said the man
died from shock, but the carpenter and
others believed he died from wagon floor.
That brakeman's agonized face as he
went Jolting through the streets was now
bsfore the wretched man on the sidewalk,
among tho shifting faces of his wife and
children and the vivid memories that come
TO dying men. He seemed TO hear tho
groans and cries of the man in the wagon
ana recalled his bitter thoughts of the neg
lect that made such inhumanity possible.
Just then he heard little bell sharply
Tung and heard some one say: Here II is
1.-The ambulance -
John had been 80 busily ut work that he
had been too tired 10 read the papers for
several nights and though he knew that an
ambulance was 10 DO bought he was not
aware that 1t had arrived and was in place
q fire engine house, from which it could
be called by telephone.
A practical man across tho street had
seen the scafiold give way, and John had
hardly fallen before the practical man was
1t the telephone ordering the ambulance
and the telephone exchange girl was a. the
same time notifying the doctor.
The light but strongly built wagon came
rushing down the street while the doctor
on the seat beside the driver held his case
Of Instruments and bandages In one hand
and rang the warning bell with the other,
that all vehicles might get out of the way
quickly. Thank God, here's the ambu-
lance" said tho old foreman as he turned
with tears in his eyes from rough |
attempt to stop the bleeding. The crowd |
feii back to allow the vehicle TO come close
up to the mangled man and the doctor was
soon kneeling by his side hard at work.
Ihe door at the back of the vehicle was
opened, showing two stretchers swung i'm
IN ingenious way at either side and go
arranged that BADLY injured man could
be taken through the streets without
delay and with no jolting or iarrinv.
One OF these was removed and placed on
the ground by the injured man, who was
now more quiet under the influence of n
drug. The blood was stanched, and bound
In many firmly wound bandages, the man
was carefully lifted on the stretcher, and
then the stretcher was easily and quickly
placed in position in the ambulance. the
doors were closed, and physician and po-
tient drove off to the latter's home, To Tho
anxious wife the doctor said ave have
your husband here, but he will pnIl
through all right, because i got there in
lime TO sayo him some blood"
But John only muttered as he was lifted
On the stretcher to his bedside, and easily
transferred TO the bed. THANK God for
he ambulancet'
The lNTELLiGENcER announced on Sat
irday that 1t would receive contributions
or the purchase OF an ambulance, and
o-day envelopes have been distributed en-
lorsed az follows:
CONTRIBUTIONS
for the
AMBULANCE FUND.
Please put donation in this envelope and
eturn to bearer or INTELLIGESCER office,
'iving amount and name.
>dme. ..... ...-.............,...
AMOUNT. ..
Following are the contributions received
D date
previously acknowledged So 50
on. ~. W. PATTERSON, Tor humanity. 8 90
has. =. Haberbush. ..,........,........ 90
= = H,;. 90