The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-16
A CURE FOR
YELLOW JACK
MI. Tripler Has Faith In
LlQuefied Air.
WOULD GO TO SANTIAGO
Believes He Can Save the Lives Of
Many Of Our Soldiers.
COST OF PLANS INSIGNIFICANT.
WOULD GO TO SANTIAGO
COST OF PLANS INSIGNIFICANT.

New York, July 16.-Nearly all medi-
cal authorities agree that yellow fever
patients are immeasurably penenteo
by removal to locality where there Is
low temperature.
In ALI epidemics of the disease which
have ravaged southern .cities the phy-
sicians, it may be remembered, always
hoped for a fall in the thermometer.
The disease Is unknown In places
nearer the pole than AZ degrees north
latitude. nor is Ii found where the
temperature Is lower than ~ degrees
Fahrenheit.
Knowing these facts there is one man
I'm this city who believes one of his dis
coyeries may be of incalculable benent
IN the soldiers at Santiago VINO nave
| been stricken with the fever. Ana wnat
| Is more, although he admits MS dread
| of the malady, such faith has he In MS
| appliances that he is ready 10 go 10
| Santiago and do what good he may.
He is Charles e. Tripler, whose new
| method of manufacturing liquened air
| at a small cost created STIR In the
| scientific world recently. The air is re-
| duced to a liquid by an extraordinary
| degree of cold, and in such state IL
may be used to diffuse its cooling pro-
| perties.
The government officials are cogniz-
| ant of Mr.. Tripler's invention. For be-
| fore the departure OF the troops ior
Cuba the authorities had considered
the danger of yellow fever ana tne
measures necessary to lessen it. 1t was
then "a friend of Mr.. Tripler put him-
self in communication with the officiais
i'm Washington, telling of the good tnat
might be done should an epidemic come
by Mr.. Tripler's discovery. But the
officials decided the matter was TOO en-
Il IA a
| Rut Mr.. Tripler il not dismayed. de
certainly has the courage or MS con-
| victions.
"I am not a physician" he said to
reporter, "and can speak or yellow
fever only from the layman's stand
point. But know. as every otner a. mar, as
| knows, that frost or cold VIII 90 as
| much to rout yellow fever as any other
agent. IL not more. A temperature az
the freezing point, as take II, VIII XIII
the germs.
with this as a starting point, 1 ar
gued that IL man stricken win ehe
} fever Is removed from the heat OF Q
tropical country his chances OF recov'
ery are isnmeasurably increased i car
mt every one of our soldiers in Cups
suffering from this disease In a room
| where the atmosphere VIII be as 1risie
as that OF the North Pole, IL necessary
, with my liquefied air can produc'
! that temperature or any approximatioi
. TO il in a speedy, wholesome, sanitar.
| way and at such SMALL cost ina
; | money will have no bearing on the un
| dertaking. And Ii will be absolutei.
{ | pure. dry air, too, and can be produce'
right in Santiago.
Now. i'm times of peace, the govern
. | ment couldn't have hired me to go 10
feyer-stricken district; but noW L zee
that II our boys are dying and 4 can d
anything to help them, II is my place
| my duty, to do 1t. -,
a nlant in Cuba, and at the highest
would not cost more than $4,000. Tina
o would include the equipment or a roof
, large enough to accommodate one nun
: dred patients. a liquefier and com
I pressor. and IL / couldn't get one or IN
5 latter I would take that in my ow
I laboratory. -.
maintaining the plant-for fuel, eng
i neers and a manager. All heat woul
a have 20 be kept from the room, ana
! do this there should be double door
; windows and partitions with pa'
y ding of hair-felt or asbestos.
s 1T would have my liquid air evap'
!, ratad outside of the room and the co
y air thus obtained forced into the roo
through pipes running along the Gel
l. inu From holes 1t would leak into u
'. room. lowering the temperature 10 al
Ie desired point. even 80 or 100 degrees
8 low zero. -,
~ to,ned and the atmosphere breath
e Nv the patients would be cold and q
- and pure. for every foreign. impure su
- stance is removed from the air by {
is process Of liquefaction.'