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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-18

pets shrek in shrill ecstacy. horses paw
and shudder and bound forward
through the smoke. Men mutter and
shout as the tide OF defeat rolls resist
lessly on.
The scene is full or picturesque and
dramatic episodes. A trooper mounted
on his jaded animal picks his way
through. bearing across his saddle
a wounded and bleeding drummer boy;
a bugler with a last despairing blast
tries TO stem the tide and falls by the
wayside. shot through the heart, as the
last notes from his bugle echo through
the hills: company after company
straggle backward firing as they re-
treat; a battery OF artillery crashes
down the road, the horses covered with
foam and the drivers flashing them flu
riously: another battery is making
one last desperate stand on the side Of
a hill, the men stripped 10 the waist,
loading. firing, cursing like demons; an
officer here and there tries in vain 10
rally his men with hoarse shouts OF
command and entreaty. but panic OF
defeat is on, and there is no withstand
ing 1t; men drop. gasp and lie as they
fall while others crowd on over their
inanimate forms.
Then comes the change like an cleo
tric shock. Somebody mas espie1 the
general far down the line coming like
idan," goes up the cry from hundreds
Of throats. and then with a rush like
unto the force Of cyclone comes Sher-
idan dashing forward on his foam
flecked black horse. Turn the other
way, boys." he cries to the retreating
hosts. The cry is taken up by his gal
liant staff. They rush on after their inn
petuous leader. The flying regiment
only needed leader. The nausea of de-
feat is overcome by the elixir OF hope.
and the discouraged. defeated men, re-
vving 10 the splendid spirit of the
thing. turn about and with cheers that
ring through the valley reform and
snatch victory from defeat 1t is a
thrilling. inspiring scene never before
appreciated in perfection Of detail Lit
tie wonder, therefore that il sets an
audience wild with enthusiasm, or that
this revival OF Shenandoah" with a
fine company Is the most talked OF
attraction now before the public. Maur-
ice Barrymore and Mary Hampton still
head the cast.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-18

only May Irwin can. There is no need
for comment on Miss Twins singing In
coon" songs. 1t is a field she has all
To herself Miss Irwin's songs, though
all new. are being whistled on the
streets i'm many cities. and by the time
her engagement I'm Providence closes,
they will probably be heard here also.
Her new songs this year are I've Got
Him Dead, "If | Only Had a job, y
"Dere's Sumpin' Bout Him Dat I
Like" when Yo' Amt Got No Money
You Needn't Come Round and shes
a Thoroughbred.
. Conspicuous among the successes
scored without the advantage OF books
is way Down East" Lottie Blair Par
ker's play of life i'm rustic New Hamp-
shire. which was elaborated and pro-
duced by Joseph Il. Grismcr. This play
crept into immediate popularity from
it's first production and there is no city
i'm which il has been presented that has
failed 10 give II the stamp OF approval.
1t was launched in New York by Man
ager William a. Brady without any ad-
vance heraldng at all. and the result
was that it ran for seven months at the
Manhattan and is booked to occupy the
New York Academy OF Music all next
season.
Way Down East" will come TO the
Providence Opera House for the entire
week OF March 81
The Alice Nelson Opera company. in
"Thc Fortune Teller" comes 20 the
Providence opera House, April 3, for
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-18

The Alice Nelson Opera company. i'm
"Thc Fortune Teller" comes 90 the
Providence opera House, April 3, for
nnn Mnpk
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-18

AS soon as the firemen could get their
scaling ladders into position they climbed
the sides OF the building and entered at
every window where there was an un-
fortunate guest appealing for assistance.
and many cases of heroic rescue were
witnessed by the throng In the street.
At the corner OF Forty-seventh street
and Fifth avenue. directly across from
the hotel. is the home OF Miss Helen
Gould. and OF her direction many OF the
injured were carried there and were
treated by physicians and nurses whom
she had sent for. In the meantime the
chief OF police had telephoned to every
hospital i'm the city as;ang that assist
ance be sent 10 the sufferers.
Several occupants OF the hotel ap-
peared at the windows of the sixth and
seventh stories. and even on the roof.
and nos o. &C. 20 -e - the streets from
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-18

Clara. Mary.
Armstrong. Bridget.
Kellogg. Or. kennith T..
Morgan. Miss Annie Taylor.
Loree, Harry w.
Angei,n. Mary.
MacKay, Mrs. Frederick.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-18

CARA, MARY.
Armstrong. Bridget.
Kellogg. Or. Kennith +.
Morgan. Miss Annie Taylor.
Loree. Harry w.
Angei,n. Mary
MacKay. Mrs. Frederick.
The flames could not be checked. and
In two hours from the time that the fire
broke out the entire structure was In
ruins and the streets on three sides OF
the building were filed with debris from
falling walls and tall chimneys. while
the streams OF water being poured upon
the interior OF the ruins had no other ef-
feet than to fill the air with clouds Of
scaldins steam. making IL impossible for
any one to approach near enough 10
search for missing bodies.
The Ere was the most spectacular af-
fair OF the kind that could be imagined
When IL broke out Fifth avenue was
crowded with people watching the 81
BatrlCA Gay parade, anu every WINDOW
In the front CT the hotel. facing Fifth
avenue. was filled with spectators watch
ing the marching men and floats in the
street
As soon as the flames were first dis
covered shooting from the windows. that
part OF the st. Patrick's day procession
which was near the building came to a
halt and in a few minutes the parade
was disbanded for the police came rush
Ing towards the fire from every direc-
ton, and as far as they were able drove
the people from the streets. one alarm
after another was turned in and the first
OF the fire engines were not long in APP
pearing upon the scene, and they caused
wild scramble among the paraders and
spectators as they rushed along the
street and got into position for service.
In addition 10 the regular guests Of the
hotel the windows were crowded by a
large number OF spectators. residents OF
this city. who had congregated there tc
witness the parade.
Soon after the first alarm was given
people In the lower floors of the hotel
those who had easy access to the street
and stairway. commenced TO pour out of
the building in great numbers. but IL very
soon became apparent that a great ma
Jority Of the occupants OF the hotel were
either panic stricken or were unable to
make their way to the ground floor.
Windows were thrown Np on every side
Of the building and guests mostly
women. in all stages of terror. made their
appearance and commenced TO make
frantic appeals for assistance to the
crowd standing below. As the flames
gathered about them they became more
and more terror stricken. and presently
several Of them stood upon the narrow
window slis and beckoned to the specta-
lplOw "a tn "A r.,
to the streets A number of women left
the window sills and dropped 10 the
street. In most of the cases the efforts
to catch them and break their awful fall
were unavailing. for they struck the side
walk and In most cases broken limbs
were the result
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-18

Opera House next Thursday night I'm
new play that II said 10 be- the best she
has ever produced. She will NO doubt
be accorded upon her re-appearance a
cordial welcome. and the success of her
engagement seems assured. May Ir-
wins name is we'll known Co PfoVi-
dence plny-goers. and the success Of
her now play. Kate Kin" has been Of
ten remarked I'm this city. There are
but few women on the stage today who
rank as laugh-makcrs. pure and sim
pie. In fact. May Irwin is the only one
who has attempted and made n success
in this line az work There is n per-
sonality about her that is possessed by
no other.
In four years May Irwin has pro-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-18

Cen. Merritt believes that II Aguin-
aldo should he captured by the Ameri-
cans the Filipinos would still have n
capable leader in Pho del Pillar who Is
extremely hostile 20 the United States.
and is not of the sort TO BE- conciliated.
Another fairly able insurgent COM
mander." saws Gen. Merritt. "is n fell
low named Mariel He is a man. how
over. with whom we could at least
treat"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-18
Fourteen Known TO Be Dead While More
Than Double That Number Were
Injured---The Missing.

new York. March 1s.-Flames. which
originated from the igniting OF lace
curtain, burst forth from the second
floor OF the Windsor hotel at Forty
seventh street and Fifth avenue shortly
after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, just
as the 81. Patrick's day parade was pass
ing the building. and in n few moments
they had leaped up to the roof and en-
veloped the entire Fifth avenue and
Forty-seventh street fronts Of the hotel.
Ten minutes later the flames were roar
ing through the interior OF the hotel ana
all means Of escape by means Of stair
ways and elevators were cut off. and
there was the widest scene OF excitement
within and without the building.
Hundreds of people were in the hotel
when the fire broke out. and for many of
them escape with safety was impossible
Probably from 10 10 10 lives were lost
within a half hour and 80 or 80 other per-
sons were injured in Jumping from win
dows and In rushing through the roaring
flames in the corridors and on the stair
ways. Many who were injured died later
at nearby residences ard at hospitals
and others who made wild leaps TO the
stone sidewalk were so badly injured
that they are still hoyering between life
and death.
IL may be "a hours or more before the
complete. list of fatalities may become
known. and il viii be longer than that
u ,ore it can be ascertained definitely
how many charred bodies are in The ma IS
OF fallen masonry that marks the spot
where the hotel stood.
The following is a list Of the dead:
Leland. Mrs. Elizabeth. wife Of War
ren Leland. proprietor of the hotel.
Leland, Helen. daughter of Warren
Leland
Paddock, Mrs. Amelia.
Kirk. Nancy Ann (Mrs. James S.
KirlO, Chicago.
Pierce NJ. Macon. Ga.
Grandy. Miss Laselles.
Gibson. Airs Addie.
Goodman, Eleanor Louise.
Connolly, John.
Unknown woman, (No. II.
Unknown woman, middle aged.
Unknown man.
Unknown child. thrown from window
by mother.
Unknown woman, mother of above
child.
The list Of missing is as follows:
Thompson. Gladys. IA
Belts. Sadie.
Upham, Annetta, daughter of eXSen-
ator Upham of Vermont
De Cordova. Mrs. Alfred.
Bradley, Miss.
Steiner Miss.
Morgan. Miss Catherine.
Guien, Warren.
Auze Miss.
McNulty, Miss.
Buckhorn, Miss II.
Mccarthy, Catherine.
Shea, Kate.
Jose, Mary.
Mcconnell, Kate.
Nruit, James.
Demorasch. Mrs.
Brand, Mrs James.
Fuller, Miss Margaret.
Troops. Miss.
Chapman, Mrs william III.
buckley Mrs.
Worth Miss.
Rgley Miss Jennie.
Casey Ellen Il.
Ford Charles.
Welsh, Mary.
Walsh. Nora.
Lammy. Mary.
Stokes Mrs. James VI.
Mullen, Christopher
McFloy, Mr.. 80 years old.
Hoffman. Miss Dora. and two nieces,
Baltimore.
Kelly. Fli""
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-18

May Irwin. who has not been seen
I'm Providence Tor several seasons, VIII
begin an engagement at the Providence
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then be ready to cover the same dis
lance the next day and, in fact, for
almost any length of time. 1t would
make no difference if the ground was
uneven or hilly. Small attachments
could be made to march ten or twelve
miles in two hours, and be all ready
to fight at the end of the journey. Pro-
fessional walkers on the track have
seldom done better than ten miles in
an hour and a quarter. The record
distance of professional track-walking
for four hours Ia twenty seven and
oue-fourth miles. 1t is known from
tests of fexion marching in the French
army that fifty men can cross at least
twenty miles Of rough ground, without
roads in the same time. 1t takes
about three months to drill men to
proper efficiency for such speed, but
after they have acquired it they are
expected to go fully twice as fast and
as far as when using the system of
marching now in vogue.
This seems like a rather large story,
but if 1t is all true it is very important.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-18

The talk that Dreyfus will be par
doned this week is interesting. If he is
his pardon will be as consistent as his
conviction with extenuating circum-
stances was. OF course the govern
ment would feel better and perhaps be
safer if Dreyfus We're out of prison and
out of France. Dreyfus, too, might feel
better but many think he can't afford
to accept a pardon even after what
he has suffered. Those who thus think
haven't been imprisoned on Devils ISL
and and haven't been through what
Dreyfus has. If he Is pardoned, and
If he has pluck enough left to decline
to accept the pardon, the situation
would be more interesting than ever.
Would the government then put him
out of prison?
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-18
THE UGI ND4 RAILROAD.

Africa isn't anywhere near as dark as
it was, and when the Uganda railroad
| is done there will be still more light
there. The railroad is being built at the
cost of the British imperial treasury to
bring Uganda and the Upper Nile with
in easier reach. The length when COM
| pleted will be some $50 miles, over half
| of which distance has been finished.
Engineering Gondon) states that up to
the end of 1898 227 miles of the line were
open for freight traffic and 207 miles for
passenger traffic The work has been
done under tremendous difficulties The
climate Is very bad For the first $50
miles the fly killed the beasts of bur-
den; for the first 300 miles water was
scarce and bad, and special water trains
had to be run to supply the working
parties. For practical purposes most of
the country is unlnhabted and nearly
all the labor is imported from India
AS many as $4,000 coolies have been en-
ployed at one time. Wages are rela-
lively high, and the worl1men must be
cared for in sickness as we'll as in
health. Practically there was an army
of $4,000 men in an almost waterless
country, devoid Of all resources and of
all means of animal and wheel trans
port. Even at the base of supplies
everything had to be imported from
distant country The cost per mile, in
Guiding rolling stock, has been about
$22 900, and the amount spent up to Oc-
tober. 1898, was $5,OOO0OO Like the ST.
berian railroad, this road from Nom
hasa, on the Indian ocean, to Lake Vic
toria is a strategic railroad for imperial
purposes, but it is expected to create an
active commerce with the interior of
Africa.
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prolong the intelligent life as long as

prolong the intelligent life as long as
| possible?
go one step further. To-day cancer
and consumption are. generally incura-
BILE. But it will not always be so. Some
| time it will be discovered how cancer
and consumption can be avoided-hoW
the initial attack can be prevented;
how 1t can be neutralized, postponed,
perhaps successfully resisted at least
in the earlier stages.
So far as consumption is concerned he
is very ignorant man who does not
realize the worldwide activity of the
human race in the investigation of ev-
cry feature of the disease with a view
to the discovery of the means of pre-
vention and cure.
Now l say it is the duty of the phys-
clan, even in such cases, unless prohib-
tied by the patient, to try whatever
remedy his teaching and skill and ex-
perience may suggest; not merely to
alleviate. but to cure the disease
With the consent of the patient DR..
Doty Of New York tried the new serum
in case of yellow fever so far ad-
vanced as ordinarily to be fatal, and
the patient lived.
I have been unable to see any new
point in this latest contribution Of Judge
Baldwin to the cause of social science,
or if there is a point it seems to be err
roneous.
The truth is that between birth and
to the hour and article of death it is
all fighting ground between the forces
that make for life and the forces that
make for its destruction. The fight ls
always on. 1t may be for the time be-
ing that the life is so vigorous that the
fighting is not severe; may not be no.
ticed but it is going on just the Game
and nobody doubts its ultimate issue
1T Is this struggle that is the one SUI
preme fact of every human life. All else
Is subordinate. Conduct in this struggle
is one of the great tests. perhaps the
greatest test Of human character.
Clearly the duty of every person is to
make the most gallant fight for his life
and for that purpose to get all the help
he can find. even from the doctors SO
far from surrendering to the forces that
make for death, the instinct TO live and
not to surrender should be cultivated.
Death should not be feared except as
soldier fears it, We shall be beaten at
last, but of our great enemy we should
say, Nos morlturi te salutamus.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-18
FLEXION MARCHING,

The honor of the French army doesn't
seem to be worth initiating Just now,
but perhaps its new system of infan-
try marching is. This system Is called
dexion marching, and judging from
what the Army and Navy Journal says
about it 1t is well worth attention In this
country. The value of the theory of the
fiexon style may be inferred from the
ability of French soldiers using it to
cover four and onn-half miles an hour
on an average for the whole day A
speed of five and one-half miles on an
average has been obtained for two or
three hours with little or no training
Tests Of carefully trained men have de
veloped as much as seven miles an hour
over rough and billy country, while at
not winded or worn out. The carriage
of the body and the use of the feet in
practieing this system are thoroughly
described by the word f1exion, which
OF course means bending of the body.
In this case the bending is necessarily
forward the trunk being well-inclined,
and the legs being bent proportionately
for the support of the trunk. The foot
falls fiat upon the ground with the
softness and noiselessness of the ad-
vanced foot of fencer The system
jars the body less than ordinary march
ing, and, the knees always being bent,
the height of the moving soldier is re-
duced, his figure looking smaller by
several inches than usual
BY this system it is expected that a
marching army may cover twenty-five
miles in six hours or forty miles a day
without unusual WEAKNESS. 1t would
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-18

grading and sodding the land, been sell
ling 1t off in lots at several hundred
per cent profit. He Is a popular man
with all classes, for he is at all times
approachable by everybody, and is
quite as likely as not to make q rich
man wait while he talks to a poor negro
labofer or washerwoman in quest of
charity. He is a liberal giVer, has
large, old-fashioned mansion down
town, and fine country place out in
the region of Rock Creek.
or late years Mr.. Mclean has had
his attention much occupied with govt,
and last winter he took a new malady
in the form of what was pronounced
paralysis of the diaphragm. While it
costs him, doubtless, not less than
100000 a year for his household and
FAMILY expenses he says that his own
living expenses do not exceed $50
year, for he can eat but three or four
things, and lives chiefly on mush and
milk, which, being of Ohio birth, he
likes well. All his life he has been
what politicians call good mixer =
While q police reporter on the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, he became very popular
Will Liz lllSIlleu anu llc pOllSC Va thete
city. AS a result he has for 20 years
been an honorary member of the Gin
cinnati fire department, He owns the
the most singular collection any faddist
ever got together in the shape of
private rogues' gallery, which the police
have steadily for years assisted him
to collect. 1t Is said to be the largest
collection of the kind owned by a pri-
vate individual. Mr.. Mclean Is most
domestic in his tastes, and is the in
seperable companion of his charming
wife and bright young son. The latter
has famously handsome four-in- hand
of Shetlands, which he shares with
every child in the block where the
McLeans live. Mr.. Mclean has an i'm
portant collection of paintings, and Is
a well read man In art and literature,
He keeps a sharp business eye upon
the charities of Washington and Gin
cinnati, and annually gives many
thousands quietly for this purpose
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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Judge BaId win on the Issues of Life and
Death

To the Editor of the journal and Courier:
What does Judge Baldwin mean?
| suppose II is to be understood that
the forceps at birth and the anodyne in
the "artcle of death are everywhere
recognized as within permissible prac-
tice by physicians.
If Judge Baldwin means that in the
article of death-when all hope is aban-
doned--he physician ought not to try
the most potent remedies, his position is
self-contradictory, for it assumes that
all hope has been abandoned and of
course there Is no experiment to be
tried and in such case every reputable
physician leaves the patient to nature
or to an anodyne, If the agony is too
great.
1t will not do, however to prohibit the
physician from experimenting, no mat
ter how desperate the case. If he sees
his way to try again, and is not pro-
hibited, 1t is his duty TO do so. have
in mind a relative, given up by one of
the most eminent of New York phys-
clans, specially called in the case, but
saved by the stubborn courage vi the
Iafnlly physician anu retoNellhS anu
doing the best work of his life in the
few years that remained Of it,
But Judge Baldwin says that the pa
tient should be left to nature in the last
stages of such insurable diseases as
cancer and consumption,
What is meant by leaving such cases
to nature? Does ii mean in cases of
cancer that the uIcer is not to be taken
care of, treated in such a way as to
cause the least distress? Does it mean
that the consumptive is TO be neglected?
In each of these cases the brain is clear |
AS a doctor once said to me: "Consump-
ton is glorious way of dying. 1t |
leaves the mind so clear" Why should |
not the medical art be employed in each |
of such cases to alleviate distress and to