The Portland daily press., 1892-02-15

x soldier of the second corps and who
fought in the peach orchard at Gettys-
burg, and who now preaches to Jay
Gould and Russell Sage IN West forty-
second street. delivered tlle Aose mag
nifeent euLsgium ever nearo In any
church, and he was inferred at SYRIA
cuse, where, thirty-one years ago, his
funeral sermon was prematurely
preached. And there splendid obse-
quies last week, the tributes ana tears
of admiring friends, the love OF MS lntl-
mates, and the record of duty nobly and
honorably Observation-Disclosures memo
ries of a kind and genial good ieliow-
were all that this brave, sunerlng ana
noble soldier left.
That Famous Aston Bahy.
The failure of DIR. William T. Lusk
to send a certificate to the board OF
health of the birth of a baby within ten
days from the arrival. as the law re-
quires, has given the esteemed and dis
tinguished doctor a quite unneeded
amount of gratuitous advertising
In the whole course of his large
and very lucrative practice his
name never appeared IN the
papers so profusely as it did in only
two days time But the unregistered
baby was young John Jacob Astor's
frstborn boy, William Vincent, and
the reason why the doctor failed to
make the proper return was that he
has so much else to attend to that ne
actually forgot it, till reminded OF it
more than two months after the birth.
This lapse of memory not only
extensively and needlessly adver-
tised the doctor, butt gave all the news
papers the opportunity to repeat the
highly ford fiction that the forgot
ten babe was esheir to $150,000.0 900, !"
when probably the whole fortune OF
Grandpapa William amounts to about
one-tenth of that sum. 1t is not gem
orally believed by real estate men, who
are the best Judges, that the entire
Astor property in this city amounts to
more than S1O0,0O0,000 and the great
bulk of it is in the hands of William
Waldorf Astor in trust, as it We're, for
transmission to his eldest son. AS
nearly all this great property is in real
estate, it is easily discoverable if Grand
papa William pays taxes on more than
SIS, 900, 900 Of property, and possibly it
will be found that his own return
is somewhat less. But about DIR. Lusk
he is still in his prime; in fact, as we
reckon men here, he is still young
man, with practice probably of $780,
900 year, and principally among PEG
pie who can afford to pay big fees,
even when they only pretend
to be sick. DR.. Lusk, like
Polk, Janeway, Stephen Smith, Loomis
and half dozen more who might be
mentioned, was originally an inferno
on the Bellevue hospital staff, begin
ming there as poor young doctor, hap
by to serve as junior and senior year
for nothing, and then six months more
as sshouse" for board, lodging and wash
| ing. That hospital has been the prac-
tice-beginning. OF. many Of the most
eminent physicians and surgeons in this
city-men who now derive immense in
comes from their own private practice.
And what is creditable to these distin-
guished doctors, among whom Lusk is
an eminent example, is that they never
;.break aways'5 from Bellevue where
they began as internes. For years they
serve on the medical board of that pub
lie institution, are in their turn visiting
| physicians and surgeons, daily for q
month at time, and are on call at any
hour, day or night, for any complicated
or critical case. All this, of course, grar
tuitously; they leave the bedside Of
perhaps their best-paying patient and
gladly go down to the hospitals to treat
the poorest man or woman for nothing.
Noble professionl