Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-11-02
L FEVER VICTIM.
Man Sent to Study Sanitary Con-
ditions SucCumbs to
the Plague.

New York, Oct. 29.-Col. G. E. War
ing, Jr., died of yellow fever today at his
home in this city, where he had been
since be arrived from Havana on the Yu-
catan on Tuesday last. He was 81 years
Of age.
DR.. Blauvelt, who had been attending
Col. Warlng during his illness, was sum
moned to the house at 1 O'Clock this
morning. He found that Col. Naring
had been attacked with black vomit.
lhls symptom continued all morning
without cessation. Everything possible
was done for the dying man, but he only
lived until 7:45 a. ~.
President Murphy of the board of
health was informed of the death of Col.
Waring within five minutes after it oc-
CURED. DIR. Roberts, the sanitary super
mtendent, was ordered to have the body
placed in a hermetically-sealed casket i'm
medlately. Mr. Murphy also gave orders
that every precautiOn should be taken to
prevent the spread Of the disease. He
SAID that extraordinary precautions would
be taken to this end.
Col. Waring had been sent to the city
OF Havana as a special commissioner of
TINS government to ascertain the exact
sanitary conditions Of that CITY and to
form IDEAS for the best methods for put
ting the place in frst-class sanitary shape.
tie was to report to the President, and
on the day he returned he said ne ex-
pected to go to Washington the next day.
He said he felt unWell, but it was not
thought that he had more than an ordi-
nary illness. He said that he had a
great deal of information which he
thought would be of service to the Presi-
dent. Ihe plan of the commission was
TO place the city Of Havana and the
coast towns of Cuba in such a good sani-
Iary condition that the recurrence of vel
low fever and its entrance into the gulf
cities OF the United States would be pre-
vented.
Col: War1ng was apparently well when
he left Havana, and he felt only slightly
III during the latter part of the voyage.
but when he reached his home he was
obllged 10 a k to his bed. 1t was then
discovered that he was suffering from yell
low fever.
Col. Waring was immediately isolated
IN ms apartments on the ninth floor of the
ItutnefIOrd, 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 to see Col. Warine.
Everything that was taken in or out of
the apartment in which he was lying, was
dlslnfected. Inspectors of the board of
"SS4'A WIZ SAdlIOL6u at anu III the mouse
10 prevent people from getting near to
the sick man.
The doctors at first did not think that
the case was a malignant one. When
Col. warnings temperature rose to 1851
however, the physicians became alarmed.
and the case was considered in it's most
serious form and Col. Waring was treat
ed accordingly. 1t was plain that he was
getting worse. The black vomit. the
most serious symptom, was fought off
nul / O'Clock this morning. The end
came six hours later.
Three hours after the death of Col.
Waring, his body, inclosed in a metallic
casket, was taken from the apartment he
mad occupied to the dock at the foot of
One Hundred and Fifty-eighth street,
where the quarantine boat was in wait
ing. The body was placed on board and
taken to Swinburne island. 1t was there
placed IN the retort and DIR. Doty him
self lit the file which cremated the re-
mains.
As soon as the body had been removed
from the house the apartments of the
Warnings were fumigated and disinfected.
The father, mother, brother and three
sisters of Mrs. Waring died of yellow fe-
yer IN New Orleans some years ago.
Col. Waring was Il native of New York
and much of mis- earlier life was spent
in the study and practice of scientific agri-
culture. He was for some time in charge
of Horace Greely's farm at C~happaqua,
n. Y. In 1857 he was appointed agricul-
tural and drainage engineer of Central
park, this city.
He entered the army in 1862 as a ma
jor in the Garibaldi reserves, but was
transferred to the Army Of the South
west, where he helped consolidate the
Fremont and the Benton reserves into
the Fourth Missouri cavalry, of which he
became colonel.
During the yellow fever epidemic of
1878 in Memphis, Col. Waring devised
the system of sewerage in vogue there
now, which has since been adopted in
many other American and European cit
les. Col. Waring was appointed commits
sioner of the bureau of street cleaning in
this city by Mayor Strong and made a
highly-creditable record for efficiency. 1t
was he who ordered the street cleaners
to wear white uniforms. and the innova-
ton was SO startling that the sweepers
became known as warnings White
Wings"