The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-27
BR4INARD T. IVES.

Death Game Yesterday Morning at Ills
 Home in Mount Catmel-The New Haven
 Hospital Authorities Censured by Cor
 respondent.
 Brainerd T. Ives, who was stricken with apoplexy in Disbrow's hat store on Church!stree Friday afternoon, died at his residence in Mt. Carmel yester- day morning. MT, Ives was the owner of the Mt. Carmel stage line, which he established about twenty years ago, and on the afternoon that he was stricken he was attending to the duties pertain ing to his business. The ambulance was called as soon as MT, Ives condition Was realized by MT. Disbrow and he was taken to the hospital, where the authorities refused to receive him, giv- ing it as their opinion that the man was drunk. MT. Ives was then taken to the Central police station, where Ser geant Cook and Signal Officer Began discovered that the patient was not drunk, but was suffering from an acute illness. Dr. Bellosa was called, as no police surgeon was available. The phy- sician prescribed for the relief of the sufferer and word was sent to his son, MT. George Ives, who canle' and took him to his home in Mt. Carmel. Medi- cal aid was called, but the efforts of skilled physicians and the nursing of sympathetic friends could not relieve him.
 The testimony of his many friends and acquaintances is uniformly to the effect that the deceased was temperate man and an excellent citizen.
 FROM ONE WHO KNEW HIM. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The comrades of the late Brainerd T. Ives and those who knew and esteemed him for his manly worth and integrity mourn his sudden taking off, and most especially lament the outrageous treat ment he received at the hands of the authorities at the New Haven hospital.
 
 need the testimony of MT. Disbrow and his clerks, Officer McKiernan and so good authority as Dr. Bellosa that Mr. Ives was not suffering from the effects of drinking, for among them all he was known as a man of strictly abstemious habits.
 It would seem a cruel state of affairs when worthy man stricken with dis ease in our streets must be refused ad- mittance to public hospital and cast into the police station like miserable culprit because, in the judgment of soma medical clerk, his condition was the result of liquor indulgence.
 It would seem pertinent to inquire who this clerk is that has authority to pass summary judgment after super ficial examination and condemn worthy people when misfortune and the inevit- ble accidents of life have placed at his mercy.
 This is a matter that should interest Us all since none of us are exempt from the fatalities that beset life.
 MT Ives was widely known and popu- lar. He had been for twenty years proprietor of the Mt. Carmel stage line, and had made hosts of friends by his uniform habits of genial manlinees. His ancestry was of the Puritan stock and dates back for five generations.
 He enlisted in Company F, Twentieth Connecticut Volunteers and left this city for the seat of war on the 11th of Sep tember, 1862, serving his country with fidelity and valor through the war. He participated in the battles of Chancel- lorsville and Gettysburg, and was shot down before Atlanta.
 At the battle of Peachtree Creek, July 20, 1864, he was picked up for dead. but was revived in the field hospital, where it was found that he had beem shot through the neck, the bullet com- ing out through the cheek bone. This wound has always been a source of pain and trouble to him, though other wise he has appeared to enjoy good health.
 He was member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities, and also of Ad- miral Foote post, G. A. R.
 He was fifty-seven years of age, and leaves wife and two sons and daugh- ter. A CITIZEN.