St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-04-19
Tntal 4eus.
EN- ROUTE TO DWIGHT.
Some Notes Picked up on the Way.
Correspondence of the CALIFORNIAN
DWIGHT, ILL.,, April 9, 1894

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New York, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chi
cago and Dwight. At Wells River
there was no snow to be seen and
the sandy river roads were dry and
dusty At Bradford patches of
snow again appeared and continued
in varying quantity as far as Brat
tleboro. At Norwich DIR. Smith, a
professor at Dartmouth Medical Col
lege, and my old instructor, boarded
the train. He reported the Medical
College in fourishing condition. A
large class graduated last fall, and
the present class numbers over one
hundred.
At Springfield and beyond, there
was no snow, but instead the fields
were quite green. the trees were bud
ding, and winter wheat was two
inches high. Everything was green,
of the passengers.
BADLY VENTILATED CARS.
One thing that impresses the ply
sician travelling is the ventilation of
the cars, or rather the lack of ven
tilatiou, for it is abominable wher-
ever one goes. From St. Johnsbury
to Springfield the brakeman would
come through the train once an hour
and turn on the steam, and after
raising the temperature to fever heat
would shut it off again, so it was
not long before the passengers began
to expect a "sweat" when said
brakeman entered the car.
IN NEW YORK HOSPITALS.
I spent two days in New York
hospitals and came on out here. 1
found my friend and former room
mate at Bellevue, holding the posi-
ton of house surgeon at St. Vincent's
hospital, and he received me most
cordially, inviting me to accompany
him on his rounds. l gladly COM
piled, and during the two days there
I assisted in reducing and putting
up in splints over a dozen cases of
fracture. Some were of the legs,
some of the arms; some were simple,
others compound. One man had
both legs broken just below the knee,
due to the kick of a horse. There
was one old man Is years of age,
with a broken thigh; there was a
little boy of six with the same break.
An old woman was suffering from a
burn.
"She lighted the fire with kerosene"
But unlike the other girl, she has
since been seen. One arm from the
hand to the shoulder was red and
raw and of course, very painful. A
young man was there too. He had
a broken arm and the sharp frag-
ment of bone had cut through the
skin and divided blood vessel in so
doing. Three times had the flow
been stopped, only to break out
anew at an inopportune moment,
and so much blood had been lost
that death" was plainly written
on his blanched countenance. He
was little aware of his danger and
his only request was water with
tortures an exsangulnated man. A
gong sounds in the ambulance room
and Immediately that vehicle darts
off at full speed toward Broadway,
its gong changing a warning to
pedestrians and hucksters to clear
the way. 'It was only an old man
run down by a cable car" they said.
The car had passed entirely over
him and he came out with only a
scalp wound and an injured rib.
How in the world he did it and not
meet instant death is a mystery yet
unSOlved.
CARS WITHOUT HORSES.
The street railroads in New York
and Brooklyn have nearly all
abandoned horses and the cars are
now propelled by the trolley, and
the cable. This is equally true on
many of the horse car lines all over
the country and without doubt this
fact is largely the cause of the cheap
ness of horses today. The demand
has suddenly lessened while the
supply has remained as before. 1t is
hard on horses to draw street car,
going on a trot all the time over
those stone pavements, and after two
or three years they are sold to farm
ers to draw the plow. Poor intel
ligent animals! How they must re-
joice in the cable and the trolley.
HARD TIMES IN NEW YORK.
New York feels the hard times as
keenlv as any section. Many large
Wholesale houses have discharged
numbers of clerks and are buying as
little from abroad as possible. There
is much diversity of opinion as to
the cause of this depression. Some
say it is only the harvest of the seed
sowed by the republican party
Others lay it to reproduction in
every hranch of industry. Still