The evening times., 1899-04-19
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Washington may, have. its Peace Car
nival." said H. R. Davis, Of Pittsburg ut
Willard's last evening. but the Smoky
City is going to have Its Dewey Day. May
will be the first anniversary of the bat
tie of Manila Bay. when the Admiral of the
Pacific station saiiea into the enemys
waters and opened the eyes Of the world
to American valor and prpwess. Pittsburg
is preparing to celebrate the event. and the
affair will be called the Dewey Day Gle
bration. A general committee has already
been appointed to arrange for the various
features Of the day. and Mayor Diehl, as
sisted by his associates and business men
of the place, is working zealously for the
success Of the celebration. 1t Is very prob
able that some of the local organizations
may arrange to have some form OF pa
rade on their own account. Several began
arrangements of that nature some weeks
ago. These organizations inclUde the
Washington Infantry. Battery B. the First
Regiment of the Pittsburg School Cadets.
and the Naval Veterans Association. The
Pittsburg members OF the Naval Veterans
Association of the United States are among
those most desirous Of participating in the
parade. Admiral Dewey belongs to this
association, being a member Of the Gideon
Welles Association. Of New Haven, Conn.
and this fact only serves to. inspire the
members Of the Pittsburg branch OF the
organization all the more. Among those
most deeply interested in the project are
Mayor Diehl. Col. A. J. Logan. Col. Frank
l. Rutledge, and Morris Einstein. of Ale
gheny."
stopping at the Arlington, had just finished
reading a paragraph in The Times re-
garding the prevaiency Of cerebrO- spinal
meningitis in Washington when approached
by reporter last night. Yes" he re-
piled to a query, I'VE have been bothered
with the malady in our city and in other
Western communities just as well as you
have in the East here. In Kansas City
the prevailing epidemic shows no signs Of
abatement with the approach of warm
weather. Nearly every case that has oc-
CURED there this winter has followed a
case of an attack Of grip. which has been
largely attended with spinal symptoms.
Where these have developed to any cOnsid-
cradle extent cerebro-spinal meningitis has
followed. In nearly every case the menin-
gifts patient has died, and death generally
occurred within two or three days. AS far
as has been learned the epidemic has not
been most prevalent among the poorer
classes. This is rather unusual and some
what contrary to most contagious The
physicians OF Kansas City have treated
fewer than half a dozen cases among the
several thousand persons who have applied
for free medical treatment since the first
OF the year. Private physicians have had
more cases Of the disease to handle than
the hospital STATS and physicians to the
poor. There Is a wide difference of opin-
ion among Western doctors as to whether
or not the malady is epidemic. In st.
Louis they apparently consider it epi-
demic. as they are isolating all cases
in that city. In our city the con-
trary is true. Since April there
have been seventeen deaths from men
ingitis in Kansas City and twelve OF
these were cerebro-spinal meningitis"
Engineers are surveying a route for the
proposed extensions OF the Collins Park
and Belt Line Railway" said d. W. Dunn.
OF Atlanta, at the Riggs. which. when
completed. will give a through rapid tran
sit route from Atlanta to Marietta. The
surveyors have about completed their
work and il is now announced that through
cars will be run between the two cities
in t he near future; in fact, just as
rapidly as the road can be built and the
rolling stock acquired. The line was orgi-
nally built in 1892 and runs distance of
eight miles from Atlanta. The extension
to Marietta will consist Of eleven miles of
new track with slight curves and easy
grades. There will be double -geared mo-
tors of the latest pattern. and the cars
will have running capacity of forty miles
an hour 1t is understood that the same
line will run tram cars in the streets Of
Marietta. The completion OF this line will
| mark a new era of rapid transit in Geor-
gia, as cars will leave each city every
thirty minutes and make the trip between