The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-25


LannOn Took Her Child From the Eye
and Ear Hospital TO the Altar and the
Relic.
From the New York World.
James Lannon has made Vote Of
fering Of his spectaeles to St. Anne, at
whose shrine in East Seventy-sixth street
he says he recovered his sight.
James is only years old and lives
with his parents at No. 522 West Fifty
sixth street He is a bright. handsome
lad and full Of fun. Although his eyes
were crossed and his vision so dim that
he could scarcely see without glasses,
he was never absent from any game
gotten up by his playmates. 1t was
while engaged in sport OF this kind last
August that a neighbours son threw a
stones which struck "Jimmy's" spec
tacles, shattering one Of them ana driv-
ing the splinters into his left eye.
Crying with pain and bleeding the boy
ran to his father, who carried him in his
arms as fast as he could to Roosevelt
hospital. in West Fifty-ninth street.
There two bits Of glass were removed
from the eye. but a third piece was
lodged back of the pupil, and the child
was taken to the eye and ear hospital,
on Park avenue, near Forty-first street.
to have an operation performed for the
removal of that. The operation, which
was performed by DR.. johnson, involved
the cutting away of portion of the iris,
and diclosed the fact that the eyes an
terror chamber was entirely destroyed.
For four weeks James remained at the
hospital, receiving all the care that so
serious case demanded. But with all
the applications and nursing and
bandaging, DIR. Johnson declared that
nothing could save the sight unless an
other operation was performed and
then the result would be extremely
doubtful. The wound itself was, in
deed, healing nicely and nearly all the
pain was gone when, on Sept %, DIR.
johnson declared that the vision could
be saved by nothing but an operation.
Mrs. Lannon, 'Jimmy's" mother, was
frantic with grief and dread. 1t hap
pened that while in this plight she was
visited by Mrs. Donovan of Forty
eigth street, who lives near the south
east corner of Tenth avenue. why
don't you take the boy to st. Anne's?"
asked Mrs. Donovan. II had neuralgia
ever since l was little girl and l was
never a day without it until the relic
of St. Anne was applied to my head.
And l haven't had a moments pain
there since"
That settled It, Mrs. Lannon got
leave to take her boy out of the hos
pital promising to return him the fol-
lowing day That was Sunday. Straight
to st. Jean Baptiste's church in East
Seventy-sixth street, they went, and
there, at st. Anne's shrine, near the
altar, the boy and his mother knelt and
prayed while the Rev. Father Tetreau
touched the boys wounded, sightless
eye with the relic.
Mother, l can see again. suddenly
exclaimed Jimmy" Il see better now
than ever before"
Three days latter when Mrs. Lannon
took her boy back to the hospital, the
physicians were amazed and could
scarcely understand, Mrs. Lannon says,
how so sudden a change could have
taken place. Not only was the vision
restored, but the squirt" was also gone,
and when. DR.. Johnson asked jimmy
why he didn't continue to wear the
spectacles that had been given him be-
fore he went from the hospital the boy
said;
"Oh, I gave them to ST. Anne be-
cause she made me see so well that I
didn't need them any longer"
st. Anne was the mother of the Virgin
Mary. The relic at st. Jean Baptste's
French church is a bone said to have
been cut from her wrist.
1t is said to have wrought many mi
raculous cures, the most recent being the
nuns of the Congregation" who have
charge of it. say the restoration of sight
in the case of Emilio GalVez, who came
from Guatemala to have the relic ap-
piled, and the healing of 9-year-old Mar
guerita McManus of No. 81 Hoyt street
Brooklyn, who had been scalded almost
to death.
nv w p rrboronsop Who was in
charge of the eye and ear hospital
last night, said that although the case
was a remarkable one in many ways
the cure was probably due to natural
causes and could be satisfactorily ex-
planned ON scientific grounds. He ad-
mitted, however. that it was strange
that the restoration of vision should have
ooncurred with the removal of the
"squint' and the sudden stopping of the
flow of tears.