Evening journal., 1897-12-22

ING PUT IN THEM TO LULL YOU
TO SLEEP.
RAILROAD COMPANY'S WOUNDED.
Just within the gates Of the P, w. &
B. shops,at Water and French streets,
there is a small room, probably ten by
twenty feet in dimensions. 1t is the
railroad company's emergency hospital.
For years it has proved a blessing to
persons injured in the shops or on the
road; for years its walls have echoed
the groans and cries of poor wretches
who have sustained injuries in the
performance of duties connected with
their dangerous calling, or because of
gross negligence upon the part of them
selves or of other persons upon whom
they had relied to protect their lives
and limbs.
Detective Jones has charge of this
emergency hospital, which has in its
time minstered to the physical needs of
hundreds. Associated with him is Off
Ger Smith, the genial cOnservator of the
peace in and about the railroad station.
He is a brOther-in-law of Detective
Jones, and the two are of great service
to DR.. James II. Draper and DR.. How
ard Ogle, the cOmpany's surgeons. In
fact, the detective has been engaged in
the work for so many years that he is
as expert in stitching and dressing
wound as he is in detecting and captur-
ing transgressors of the law. By ma
ture cool and self-possessed, he has
performed many good offices without
the aid Of the surgeons, and numbers
of persons owe their lives to the
prOmptitude and skill Of this valued
servant of the company and Officer
Smith, who know just what to do in
case of emergency which cannot await
the arrival of the surgeons.
The little hospital is completely
equipped for its humane mission. Hot
and cold water are within a foot or
two Of the operating table. There are
stretchers of various kinds in readiness
for immediate use iu transferring the
injured from the train or ambulance to
the operating room. Boxes for broken
legs, splints of the most approved pat
tern for broken arms and hundreds Of
yards of bandages are to be seen. The
instruments at hand are worth several
hundred dollars, and are contained in
a large walnut case. Nearby there is an
emergency chest, fully equipped to
carry out upon the road at moments
notice. A cupboard contains ether, an
| tiseptic solutions, specially prepared
| carbolized lint, ligatures in oil, silk
/ thread and everything which can pos
sibly be required to minister to the
II needs of the man who has had the mis-
Il fortune to be MANNED or mangled.
When a man is hurt he is imme-
diately hurried by train, ambulance OF
stretcher to the operating room and
Detective Jones or his assistant is ap-
prised by telegraph or telephone to be
ready to receive the patient, the char
acter and extent of the injuries and the
time of arrival being usually given.
The surgeons are Immediately called up
by telephone and requested to go to the
operating room at once. Sometimes
81 they get there before the patient at
IOther times the patient has TO rely upon
4 III the detective and the officer to keep
N body and soul together until the sur
geOns arrive, as it is not always pos
sible to get them on first call. When
he patient and the surgeons and their
assistants are once inside the operating
room the door is closed and the work
i of saving life and alleviating human
suffering progresses uninterruptedly
until the patient is ready to be re
moved to his home or to one OF th'
ocal hospitals, which receive substan'
,ial remuneration for taking in the
eompanys wounded men.
After the removal has been effected
I'LL traces of the operation are washed
away and the little emergency hospita
put in perfect readiness to receive
4 is next BENEFICIARY.
HIS REGARD FOR OFFICE.
1t is related of the late Chief Justic
Joseph p. Comegys that after he wa
Elevated to the bench there was a dis
POSITION on the part of some Of his olt
chool-mates at Dover to treat him az
amiliarly as they had before the dig
ity Of the head of the Delaware
)ench was vested in him by the gov
rnor But he soon gave his familiar
O understand that it would not dc
)ne day he was standing in the centr
# a group of friends in front of tn
]apitol Hotel, at Dover, when clos
riend called him Joe"
you will please call me chief jus
ice" he said. Il do not ask it for my
elf. but for the standing and dignit,
the Office which I hold"
That was sufficient. Everyone pres
MT saw that it was not mere vanity
ut an earnest desire to prevent per
onal familiarity from breeding con
smpt for the high office which he hel
With such ability and unprecedente
ignity for a long number of years.
It was, perhaps, the last time that h
,as called Joe" by anyone but som
lembers of his family and few of hi
lost intimate friends.
WHAT THE MEAN NAM DID.
"There are many persons who PEI
)rm acts of charity so quietly that, :
ne public at large, they are regarde
hard-hearted and penurious," n
larked a woman, who is engage
trgely in charitable work, to the Wa.
.arer recently. ''They give more in
ear than many of their self-const
tied critics give in a lifetime, al
nowledge of their benefactiOns is lin
ed to a very narrow circle. Recent
e desired to get an old and indigei
erson into a home. You know it r
uires money to do that. Someone su
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