The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-28
AMBULANCE GRAND STAND PLAY.
Mayor Denny Made the Call md
Pennsylvania Street Was Alarmed.

People living on Pennsylvania street. be-
tween OHIO street and Home ave-
nue., were startled last evening.
about Z o'clock. by a clash and
a %clatter, yells and shouts and the
violent ringing of a gong. 1t sounded as II
the noise might have been produced by the
fire department and sixteen runaways. Peo-
pie rushed from their homes and the street
was lined with people, who saw nothing
more than the city ambulance going north
ward. The old white horse, whose board
is paid by the city, was running as if going
for a Derby prize. The ambulance swung
from one side of the street to the other.
looking at times as IL IL would unset and
leaving a cloud of dust and a great deal of
confusion in its wake. The steam arose
from the white horse like foam from the
driver leaned far forward. and both he
ana the horse strained every nerve. The
gong sounded wildly, and the clatter of the
horses hoofs upon the pavement, with the
shouts TO get out of the way, created
fright. The motor cars stopped until the
ambulance, in its mad run, had passed.
Wheelmen and wheelwomen dismounted and
took their bicycles upon the pavement.
some seeking safety behind trees and in
down side streets, and everybody FASTENED
out of the way of the white ambulance.
In. a thousand anxious minds there arose
but enc question: What has happened?'
Men. women and children, some afoot, some
in vehicles, some on bicycles. and many
hatless. ran after the ambulance to see
what terrible casualty had occurred. At
the corner Of Home avenue and Pennsyl-
vanja. that is. a few yards north of the
corner, a large crowd collected. With
blanched faces the crowd stood expecting 10
sec, some, mangled remains gathered up and
laid on the stretcher within the ambulance.
Some expected TO find that an entire fami-
ly had been massacred. but no evidences
OF any such horrible affair could be found.
Mayor Denny stood in his front yard, calm
and serene, sprinkling the grass. A man
who had been sitting on the curb arose
and climbed in the ambulance. Mr.. Denny
spoke "A word 10 the driver and the ambu-
lance turned and started back toward the
city.
As a general thing the ambulance does not
answer calls TO care for epileptics. but last
evening Mr.. Denny called the ambulance.
The man who sat on the curb had just re-
covered from a fit which seized him in
front of the Mayors home. He said il
was due to weakness, and ~neighbCrs gave
him food and drink. When ii was learned
that Mr.. Denny had sent in the call il
was understood why the run had been made
SO rapidly. The ambulance attaches did not
ask where the sick man was to be taken.
He had no home. and the City Hospital
cannot take such cases. The ambulance
driver simply said that perhaps the Friend
ly Inn will care for him. and Mr.. Denny re-
piled all right. Mr.. Denny was not repri-
manded for calling the ambulance upon so
slight a provocation, nor was he told that
the ambulance was not paid for convey
ing epileptics TO their homes or 10 the
hospitals. Sometimes the employees talk
south on Pennsylvania street as late as s
o'clock were stopped by the question of the
anxious many:
What was the matter up thereg'
MIR. Denny called the ambulance for a
sick man. was the answer most frequently
given. and the suspense was relieved.
And the grand stand play" OF the am
bulance was explained.