The evening times., 1897-03-04
ACCIDENTS OF THE DAY
Decorator at the Pension Office
Falls From a Ladder.
Sanitary Officer Frank Superintends
the Work OF Taking Care of the
InJured-PFeparafto for Prompt
Treatment Perfect Cases for
Medical and Surgical Care Few.

The authorities took every precautiOn to-
day for the caring OF the sick and injured,
and the entire ambulance force of the city
was placed at the disposal OF the police.
SANITARY Officer Frank. with headquarters
in the District building. had the suDerin-
tendence OF the whole arrangement- There
were seventeen aInbuIances in service and
fourteen stations were located at CEN
traI points, from which they worked
Either an ambulance OF patrol wagon
that could be forced into service as such,
was situat ed at each statiOn-hOuse tb rough
out the city. All the hospitals, except
ing the Homeopathic, were equipped with
one OF them One Of the police am
balances, in charge of Driver Oliver,
was stationed at the Twelfth street
station-house. Another, under charge Of
Driver Orr, stood at the Avenue and
Seventh street. The remaining two
were at police and ambulance head
quarters. in charge Of Drivers Rfgiey and
Rhodes.
Several police patrols were left in the
downtown districts. In every Instance
the wagons and smbUlances stood all day
with horses attached ard esdy fer imnie-
date action. The new ambulance OF
Emergency Hospital stood at the main
entrance of that institution Another am
buIance waited in the street at the conner
of the Avenue and Thirteenth street. with
the telephone call in OgTam's drug store
Another can was situated at ThOmpsOn's
drug store, corner OF New York avenue
and Fifteenth street. a third at the
corner of the Avenue and Seventh street,
with a can at the American House.
Providence, Fveedman's CART ieid. the
Children's Hospital and the Navy Hos
pftaI all had their ambHlances and their
calls. There was also an ambulance at
the front steps OF the Capitol
In case OF accidents or sickness the police
telephoned the message directly to Sam
tary officer Frank and he summoned the
ambulance nearest the scene where it was
wanted.
But with all of the rush and nerve
trying experiences at the sanitary office
there was the amusing. the sad and the
aggravating. People had been in the city
for weeks. but whose homes were in other
localities, called and asked Co be sent home
on a day when the railroads found il al
most impossible to handle the well and tie
strong. The friends OF those who had lain
on the sick bed for days took the busiest
of all occasions TO ask that their sick be
sent to the hospitals for treatment. An
old man who SAID he had but 5 cents and
lived in Morrison, Ill, wanted deportation.
lie alleged that he had been the victim
of crooks and lost all the money he brought
with him
A woman with three children decided
that she had visited here long enough.
she had been in the city three weeks. and
wanted pauper rates home. She grew
angry when il was explained TO her that
she had better prolong her stay until the
crowds had dispersed from the city.
One OF the first calls of the day was at
$50 O'Clock, when a police ambulance
was summoned to the Pension Office W.
K Hoey, aged thirty-twO, OF Philadelphia,
who came here as a decorator, fell from q
sixteen-foot ladder, while working on the
Presidents stand in the diniHg-room. He
was picked up unconscious and hurried TO
Emergency Hospital. Both OF his arms
were fractured, and it was feared that he
posstbiy sustained internal injuries. Drs.
Lawrence and Hooe reduced the fracture
and dressed his other injuries
B. Scott, aged sevent y-four. con-
tractor, living at No. 706 Tenth street
northwest, took sick on the streets, and
was taken to the Emergency Hospital
in the ambulance OF the institution.
Police Lieut.. McCathran reported TO
headquarterSthis morniagt hat about 1880
O'Clock last night a guest at the Hotel
Varnum, corner OF New Jersey avenue and
C street southeast, was seized with
severe tit, and was removed 20 the Wash
ington Asylum Hospital in the patrol
wagon. He is about forty-five years Old
and is unknown at the hotel, the e.efk
being unable to tell which IS his name on
the register, and the stranger being stiu
unconscious.