The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-30
COL. WARING DIES OF FEVER.
HIS END CAME YESTERDAY AT HIS
NEW York RESIDENCE.

Attacked with Black Vomit mt 1
Died at 7,4J-His Body Immediate
ly Cremnted.
New York, Oct. 29.-Col. George f. War
Ing Jr, died of yellow fever to-day at
his home in this city, where he had been
since he arrived from Havana on the
Yucatan on Tuesday last He was 65
years of age
DR.. Blauvelt, who had been attending
Col. Warlng during his Illness, was sum-
moned to the house at O'Clock this morn
ing He found that Col Waring had been
attacked with the black vomit. This symp-
tom continued all the morning without
cessation Everything possible was done
for the dying man, but he only lived tn
til 745 o'clock.
Three hours after the death Of Col. War
ing, his body. inclosed In a metallic cask-
ct. was taken from the apartment he had
occupied to the dock at the foot of Fif-
teenth street, where the quarantine boat
Goyenor Flower was in waiting The body
was placed ON board and taken to Swim
burn Island. 1t was there placed in a re-
tort, duu Ut. DOty nlnSelI III Inc nFe
which cremated the remains
AS soon as the body had been removed
from the house, the apartments of the
Warnings were fumigated and dIsinfected.
Col. Waring had been sent TO Havana
as a special commissioner of this govern
ment TO ascertain the exact sanitary condl-
tions of that city and to form ideas for
the best methods for putting the place in
first-cass sanitary shape.
lie was to report TO the President and
on the day he returned he said that he
expected to go to Washington the next
day He said he felt unwell, but il was
not thought he had more than an ordina~
ry Illness lie said that he had a great
deal Of information that he thought would
be of service to the President
The plan of the commissioner was to
place the city of Havana and the coast
towns Of Cuba in such a good sanitary
condition that the recurrence OF yellow
fever and its entrance into the Gulf cities
of the United states would be prevented.
Col. Waring was apparently well when
he left Havana, and he felt only slightly
i'll during the latter part of the voyage,
but when he reached his home he was
| Obliged to take to his bed. IL was then
discovered that he was suffering from
yellow fever.
| Col Waring was Immediately isolated
in his apartments on the ninth floor OF the
Rutherford, the apartment house In which
| he lived. There are nine families in the
house.
Precautions were Immediately taken TO
prevent the spread of the disease. No one
but the physicians and Mrs. Waring, who
had had the disease. and IS, therefore, i'm
mune, were allowed 10 see Col. Waring.
Everything that was taken in or out
of the apartment In which he was lying
was disnfected.
Inspectors Of the board of health were
stationed at end in the house to prevent
people from getting near TO the sick man.
The father, mother brother and three
sisters Of Mrs. Warng died Of yellow fe-
yer in New Orleans some years agQ
Col Waring was appointed as an expert
special agent OF the tenth census, with
charge of the social statistics of cities, in
1872, and member of the national board
of health in 1882.
During the yellow fever epidemic of 1873
in Memphis, Col. Waring devised the sys-
tenn OF sewerage in vogue there now,
which has since been adopted in many
other American and European cities. In
a general way, this consists in separating
surface and house drainage.
George p. Waring, Jr, was born at
Poundridge, Westchester county, New
York July a. 1888. His boyhood was spent
and his early education was acquired al
Stamford, Conn, where his father,
George e. Waring, was q manufacturer
of stoves and farming implements. Sub
sequently d847-1S4s) he attended the Bart
lett School at Poughkeepsie, ". r.. and
during 1850 he was a clerk In a hardware
establishment in New York. In 1851 he
managed a grist mill at Stamford, and I'm
| 1853 he became a student of scientific ag-
| In, Na he
agement OF Horace Greeley's famous farm
at Chappahua, N. Y. In 1857 he was ap-
pointed drainage engineer of Central Park
and had charge Of the agricultural work
of the park until May, 1861, when he was
commissioned major Of the Thirty-ninth
New York Volunteers (Garibaldi Guards,
and went with them TO Virginia. He serv-
ed with his regiment In Niles brigade
(reserve) near the first battle of Bull Run.
Early in August Of that year he was
transferred 10 Gen. Fremont's department
as major OF cavalry. In st. Louis he rails
ed a battalion OF cavalry. called the FIRE.
| mont Hussars, which was consolidated
with other troops on Jan. Q, 1862, and
formed the Fourth Missouri Cavalry OF
which he was commissioned colonel. In
March, 1866 Col. WarIng was mustered
out OF service, and became engaged in oil
and coal enterprises, which were unsuc-
cessful. He went to Newport r. l.. in
the spring of 1867, and took a fresh start
In life. as a market gardener, farmer and
florist, and had control Of the ogden farm
for the following ten years. During that
time he wrote the "Ogden Farm Papers'
for the American Agrlculturist and edited
the Herd Book" He gave up his gar
dening operations in 1872 and farming in
1887. and devoted his entire time to sanl-
tary engineering work. He supervised the
construction OF plumber Of sewer sys-
tens throughout the United States, and
was the author Of several volumes dealing
with farming and drainage subjects. In
1895 Mayor Strong Of New York city APP
pointed him commissioner OF street clean
ing. and he reorganized the department
and applied strict business methods to
the work.
Col Waring was an honorary member OF
the Royal Institute OF Engineers OF Hol-
land. "a member Of the Institution OF Civil
Engineers Of England, fellow Of the San
itary Institute OF Great Britain. and cor
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