The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-09
CANDY GIRLS vACCINATED.
$50 At HUYLkR'S FACTORY BARE
THEIR ARMS 70 THE NEEDLE.

The Reason was that . nean who Worked
There . Week Ago steksnea with small.
pox In Long leland Csy-Ne Danger or
1sfeetics Or. Ed,on says.
They stopped making candy at IInyer's fae.
tory at Eighteenth street and irving place for
several hours yesterday because one OF DR..
Cyrus Edson's physicians came around to vac.
clnate the employees. About 25O persons
work in the factory. More than half OF them
nre girls aud women. Two hundred Of them
were vaccinated yesterday.
Henry Rugner. 20 years old. OF Long Island
City. who had worked in Huylers. was found
sick with smallpox on Saturday. Mr. Huyler
told the inspector that Rugner had not
worked there for week past. He was taken
sick last Tuesday at noon and went home.
At any rate. DIR. Edison decided to vaccinate
Iie sent DR.. W. Warren Talley to the factory
to do tho work. DIR. Taley brought 200 points
OF virus with him. He arrived Mt tho factory
at noon. Mr.. Huyler took him IN to the sixth
floor and showed him where Rugner had
helped run candy.making machine. Thirty
men and boys we're at work on that floor. and
they were the first to no vaccnated. On the
nth floor were more men and boys
On the fourth floor DR.. Tnlley met the first
batch OF girls. There were about forty OF
them They pack the candies In boxes They
had Just done luncheon when Mr. Huyler and
DR.. Talley arrived. Mr.. Huyler made little
speech to them.
Now. girls" he said. after he had told them
about Rugner. you mustn't think you will be
harmed in any way. Tho health authorities
say It Is better that you should BIO vaccinated.
and yon will do mo "A favor II you do everything
possible to aid DR.. Talley. Your beauty won't
be spoiled bit. so como along
The girls we're surprised. OF course. A few
OF the younger ones remarked that their
mothers ought to be asked.
I'm not afraid" said ono girl. turning up
her left sleeve and stepping forward. She held
out a well-rounded white arm and looked the
other way. In a minute DR.. Tnlley had finished
with her. by that time other girls had got in
line behind the first. and were ready to UNDER
60 the operation. In less than An hour DR..
Talley had vaccinated the whole forty While
tho work was going on the girls compared
their arms and asked one another. Did it
Tho second and third floors were occupied
entirely by girls and women. On each floor
Mr.. Huylcr got the employees around him and
one or two had sub limited on each n'i fioor there
IL the others s to Let
said itlie Ies SeInas s As RUE the girls
bali next week May 60 II You vae eli s
but he said that it would be well not to wear a
Many Of the girls had been vaccinated before.
Physicians deem it unnecessary to yaccinate
years. Dr. Tailey saccinated Every With iii hut
one whom Mr. huyler brought to Iii NJ. That
in the factory. said she had had the small -pox.
has
years. She cracks wanuts for the candies.
She is little deaf. and DR.. Talley had a time
trying to make her understand what was
wanted. Several OF the girls went to her in
tho corner where she was Mt work by herself
and displayed their barred arms to her. She
didn't understand even then.
=, DO you want to- get smallpox ?" three OF
them asked her in chorus.
That settled it. She barred her arm quickly.
and the Job was done In q minute. Al 4 o'clock
Dr. Tallev left the factory. He had vaccinated
200 persons. $50 OF whom were girls and
women. To-day he will vaccinate the other
employees.
DR.. Edison said last night that there was no
danger Of infection.
Rugner." he told Sun reporter. left the
factory before the small pox really got hold OF
him. He was not then in a state In which he
would convey the disease in the factory.
When he was removed to North Brother Is
land he was in tho first stages. We vaccinated
the employees merely as II precautionary
measure"
Domenico Troloni. years old. was found
sick with small -pox yesterday at 80 Elizabeth
street, where sixteen italian families live. He
was taken to North Brother Island. and the
fumigators and vaccinators went to work.