The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-01

In the Family or Charles
Brown of Greenville.
BROKEN HEARTED PARENTS
Two More Sons Ill in the Hospital
on Tonnele Avenue-0nly
the Baby Safe.
A pail has fallen over the home OF
Charles Brown during the past week, VINO
resides with his wife and a baby boy, an
that is left of a family of nine, at NO. zo
erhun avenue, Greenville. Gloom IN
deed hangs over this once happy home.
Diphtheria. in its worst form, has broken
M this family and carried off three boys
and a girl within the past week. Two
more boys are now lying in a preearious
condition at the Emergency Hospital OF
Tonnele avenue. The disease has done
deadly work in the Brown family witnin
the last week. The story of the deaths
Of the four children is indeed pathetic.
Charles Brown. who is a hard working
carpenter, had a very happy nome Oh
Terhune avenue. and lone perhaps was
more pleased than he when on coming
home from his daily toll, he was greeteo
with kisses by his loving children ana
his affectionate wife. This was lhdeeu d
very happy home. but a week ago FRIDAY
the little girl, Campbell f., seven years
old was taken i'll. The mother did every
fhi,,r that she could for her only girl, IN
her own simple way, but the chlid peeaiie
so sick that DIR. Lignot was calieo H.
He saw at ence that the girl had CON
tracted diphtheria, and 1t was tneh SER
Gus. He told the parents at once dhu az
yised them to send the girl to the hospitai
on Tonnele avenue as soon as possible
b,,t in the meantime put the other chli-
dran At a safe distance until the sick girl
. ,emoved Before the girl could pc
taken AWAY to the Emergency Hospital
she died. h was on Tuesday moriins'
and as all people dying from contagious
diseases are to be buried inside OF twenty
four hours. Undertaken zeiger was sum
rnoned and the girl buried that afternoon
in Bay View Cemetery, Greenviile.
Immediately after the girl had been
.,,r;aa Iohn n. aged four, was taken
sick with the same awful disease' II
mother. who was nursing a oaoy, oio hoe
dare to go near her sick boy TOT lear "
endangering the life of her little one 50
1obn eot no nursing except what the
father could give him before he went 10
work in the morning and after he came
= 3 nv TiOnnfE Ia hOT6Q ON6IF
+ha hoy. hut he passed out of this worlo
late on Wednesday night. arter auou'
twenty-four hours illness. Ddke the other,
John was laid to rest the next moriilhs-
The hearts of the parents were almost
broken. but it seemed as if their trouDies
would never cease, for on Ihursuas
night Frederick j., twelve years olu' was
laid low with the same maiady. Like me
other he was left alone all day long VIII
ont nursing. save what the doctor olo =
the mother not daring to go near
him as her baby's life hung in the balance.
Iobn was indeed a sick boy all day FNrlday,l
hnt ON that day Walter H., the oldest
hov and the pride Of the< family, was
stricken and he being older IMAM tnel
res+ the disease went hard with him. he
was sixteen years old
The parents were distracted ana Iuhe
father did the best he could to nurse ms
SONS hack to health before he went 10
work in the morning. However, po Tnnne,e
were removed to the hospital on IohnelS
aven1e Friday afternoon. FrederlcK aleo
shortly after being brought there ana was
taken to the house on TeThune avenue "
be prepared for burial. lhe palei n,n,ost
seeing their third child dead were Amos
crazed Frederick, like the other, was
hnried in Bay View Cemetery,
of his brother and sister. the same gay
he died. The PHYSICIANS at the nosptsat
honed to save the Oldest son Walter, put
their efforts were in vain and he died iate
Saturday night. The fourth funeral IN the
Brown family occurred Sunday morning
and Walters body was lowered
of his brothers n sister.
The grief stricken parents tnought
surely their trouble had ended az the
of their favorite child Waiter. hun
dreds of friends came to the nome OF MI.
and Mrs. Brown and sympathized with
the bereaved ones over their misfortune.
But the climax had not been reached YET.
There remained still two boys between
the age Of eight and ten a fRat were Th uar
immunity did not continue long, now
ever. as both of them were taken sick
Monday and were sent to the hospltai
on Tonnele avenue. UP TO late iast hlgnt
nothing had. been heard as to their con-
dition. MeSnwhile the parents are being
slowly tortured waiting for news about
their sons. Should these two children die
only the mother and father and a young
baby would be left of a family of ten.
A case where the ravages of that dis
ease had SO thoroughly done its work as
this one has never been heard of before.
That the baby has been spared through
it all is miraculous and many are the
prayers offered up by the sorrow stricken
parents for their sick children now lying
almost at the point of death in the hos
pital. With careful nursing, such as a
mother could give, some of the dead ones
might have been saved, but Mrs. Brown
did not dare leave her baby to go to her
sick children, who all through their ill
ness called incessantly for their mother.
for fear that she might carry the dis
ease in her clothes back to her baby. and
to lose him would have killed her. Many
of the neighbors have offered unsolicited
aid to the Browns, but in all cases it has
been refused, and the heart broken
parents refuse to be comforted and sit
for hours brooding over the awful mis-
fortune which has fallen to their lot.
Meanwhile they are awaiting patiently
any news from the hospital about the
sick children. The cup of sorrow is in
deed full.
TOOK HIS RING AND PLEDGED 1T
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