Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-01
HAS A NEW FACE.
Rebuilt by the Doctors, so That His
Friends do Not Know Him.

n. Y. Cores ondeuce Philadelphia Times.
DIR. Kelly of Belleview Hospital, who
gained wide renown by the grating of q
dogs bone upon the leg of little Johnny
Nethaus few months ago, has just sue
cessfully concluded another most remarka-
bic surgical feat. He has given q promi-
nent New York politician new face; has
SO changed him facially. in fact. that every
day his Identity is questioned by his nearest
friends.
Martin Engel is as well known in the
Eighth assembly district Of New York as is
Jay Gould on Wall street. There is no local
politician more popular than he. Silver
Dollar Smith-so named because the floor
of his bar-room is decorated with silver dol
lars-who is one Of the many peculiar pro-
ducts of New York politics, which permits
him TO be an alderman, voting upon the in
terests OF the metropolis OF the country,
although he IS the proprietor of two gam
bling saloons and low bagnio, would not
have been tolerated even i'll the Eighth
assembly district had it not been that
Martin Engel was his spOuSor. The latter
is one of that strange class which, while
engaged prosperously in business, dabbles
in politics as Il diversion.
On June IS, Engcl, while bent upon po-
litical mission, fierce local contest then
being in progress in the district. went into
MckeG-l's notorious saloon at Christie and
Hester streets. This is what is known as
L knocker-out dive, where, if Il prosperous
looking stranger irnocently enters, what
ever liquor he orders is drUgged III such 4
way that in 4 very few moments he be-
comes helplessly drunk. In that con-
dItion he is fit prey for the thugs
who infest the neighborhOod. This is 4
matter of common repute and has fire.
quently been exposed in the public press.
Engel, who well knew the character Of the
place, wa leaning against the bar, when
at NFylC att thI iNr ma a
left elbow addressing an inquiry 10 him
concerning John BrOdskY, Well-huown
Republican district leader.
He turned and was making a petulant re
ply when a man on his right struck him on
the side of the head with an iron bar, aud
thereupOn the bartender jumped over the
death dealing mahogany and battered En-
gel in the face with a bung-driyer. These
two weapons were SO cruelty applied that
in a few minutes nearly every bone
in Engel's face was broken, aud he fell 10
the floor unconscious, and for
time was supposed to be dead.
There is no doubt of the fact that his life
would not have been saved had not I'm aban-
doned woman, moved by pity, given the
alarm to a policeman, who had the wounded
man conveyed 10 the hospital. This officer
had known Engel for twenty wears, and in
making his report of the case At the police
station he described the victim of the as
An examination of the unfortunate Engel
disclosed the fact that both his Jaws, his
cheek bones and his nose We're fractured.
The fact that he lived was almost mirlcu-
lous. DR.. Kelly. who took the patient In
charge, saw fit subject for experiments
with a number of new surgical appliances,
and as a result Engel to-day has not
Z scar upon his countenance, but he
has an entirely new face. It has
been actually remodeled by the hand of
the surgeon. His nose. formerly aquiline,
now presents q fat, Mongolian aspect. In
the main is artificial, and yet its outer sur
face is Of human skin and flesh. The in
terror alone is of artificial composition.
Yet this peculiar nasal organ shows no
sign of scarifcation. His eyes are more
drawn down upon his cheeks than they
were formerly. His mustache has been
made to assume different shape in order
TO conceal the Disagreement of his upper
lip.
In mending his broken bones, his
face has been pushed into a rounder shape.
Within two months his health has been per-
fectly restored, with the exception that he
has not fully regained his normal weight.
AS he walks the streets of the Eighth
assembly district, however, men who
bowed down to him low as one of the politi-
cal magnates Of New York, pass him by
without nod, utterly failing to
recognize him. He PUSHES up to old
time friends with the intention of
shaking them warmly by the hand,
but they gaze ueon him strangely and sug-
gest that they read the newspapers and can
not be entrapped by by bunco-steerers. To
prevent mistakes which are constantly hap
pening, he has now, provided himself with
a certificate from DR.. Kelly, stating that he
is Martin Engel. Physicians say that the
mending of his countenance will ever figure
memorably in the annals of surgery.