Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-18
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|AS tA h ASt A dangerous but last attempt to save the life of the five year-old son of Solomon Wolfe of Prince street was performed yes
 terday morning by Drs. Fleischner, Mail
 house and McCabe. The boy is suffering from mem5raneous croup. and this opera l tion, known as tract otomy was performed as last resort to gave his life. The oper- ation consists of cutting hole in the | windpipe below the membrane which hin l ders the breathing and the insertion of a | tube through which the breath is drawn | into the lungs. The operation was suo-
 cessfully performed, but it is doubtful if
 the patient lives. He is nephew of At torney Isaac Wolfe.
 sle1ghfng on the Avenue. There is fine sleighing all over the city
 and on the avenue thers is quite crowd
 every afternoon and great many good
 horses and double teams which make a pretty sight. There are the Smith Bros.
 each have good horse, and Dr. Ross with
 his sorrel and bay pscers, which are speedy. The Treat boys have 8 nics pair, and Mir. l Charley Crittenden was out mith his fami- ! ly team, and later with a bay horse that went fast; also Benham, the shoe man, l was out with a nice team, Dr. Stetson with | his trotter, Fred Oaks with a nice bay 1 horse also ths Hubinger Bros, both with 1 fast horses; MT. Hobart B. Ives of Fair Haven with 8 speedy pair of bays, which
 were leading Mr. B adiey, also of Fair Hs- ven; Smith, the traiuer with Spider, who made the snow fly; Fred F. Andrews has out chestnut horse which they say is fast; David Cowell and his wife with nice black horse; Henry Cowell with nice chestnut horse which he raised; Sher Thompson with his speedy black geldinR; MT. Gamble with speedy horse; and all
 seemed to epjny it. There Is prospect of a good spell mora of sleishing.
 YALE NOTES.
 Athletics at Worlds Fair-yaIe-ssar- varc ebate-Freshmen's Union
 New York Alumni Dinner.
 The Chicago Athletic club will have charge of all the athletics held at the worlds fair and it is hoped to have the winners of the Yale Harvard and Oxford-Cam- bridge racts meet, and negotiations with this ob- ject in view are now going on.
 The final arrangements for the Gsls Harvard debate, to bs held in Cambridge this evening, have been completed. The Yale delegation leave for Boston this morning and a banquet wilt be rendered them at Youpg's hotel this evening by the members of the Harvard union.
 The first regular meeting for this term of the Freshmen union was held last evening in Old Chapel. The subject for debats was: Resolved, That capital punishment should be abolished. The debaters were, for the affirmative. J. o. Moore and R. l.. Riss; and for the negative, c. d. Beyer and l.. c. Oakley.
 The annual dir ner of the Yale Alumni associa- tion of New York city, will be h-ld at Sherry's January 20 Harvard. Princeton and Columbia will be represented by prominent speakers. and Yale Alumni win bs represented by Mr: Norton of Chicago and Mir L. J. Elder 73, Of Boston, president of the Yale Alumni association of Bos- ton The above gentlemen will be the speakers of the evening. Hon M. Depew '57, president of the New York association. will preside and President Dwight will be present A double quartet from the University Glee club will render selections
 Twenty, one men were present at a meeting of those wishing to try for places on the freshmen crew. Their weights run from 179 to 193 and their ages from twenty three to seventeen.
 Brownell 94S, has left college on account of ill ness and will join '95S next year.