The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-15

.cavatioa which is being made for new
building at No. 500 Seventh Avenue. The
workmen had dug some distance lower
than the foundations of the two buildings
in ,Thirty-eighth Street. and the wall was
weakened
]. Kumenzky who shares Mr.. NIoretti's
studio and sleeps over it. was awakened
by the noise of the falling wall. ran out
into a glazed extension in the rear OF Mr..
Morettrs studio, and was cut off there by
a falling timber which janmed the door
to. He managed to get out.
The two buildings run back about sixty
feet from Thirty-eighth Street. The back
wall of the building used by Mr.. Partridge
toppled over about 1l:l0 o'clock. The roof
of tho building saGsed over couple OF
feet and n heavy beam cracked kumenZ-
ky woke up. put on a heavy ulster and
ran down stairs. He went to the rear OF
the building to the glass extension. and
as he passed through the door part OF
the corner of the roof of No. 1o2 fell and
slammed the door behind HIM kumenzky
thought that the whole building was gong
to fall on him. but after little difficulty
he succeeded in clearing away the DEBRIS
and made his way to the front OIL the
house.
MORE SMALLPOX.
Jaseph Mazzea, of 3C6 West Sixty-ninth
ter visited yesterday the office OF Dr.
Bauveit, chief of the Bureau Of Contagious
Diseases. The interpreter told Dr. .B!au-
vet that Mazzea wanted to see a doctor.
Mazzea pushed back his hat from his fore
head and DR.. B!auvelt saw at once that
he had smallpox. The interpreter was
yaccinated on the spot, and NazZea was
sent to the Willard Parker Reception
Hospital in a carriage and from there to
Dyot jsfn Iy
his inspectors reported that Aiazzea had
been lodging in the basement OF a West
EiXty-ninth Street house and had been
cooking in a restaurant. He sent inspec-
tors 10 find the restaurant.
These smallpox victims were taken from
their houses yesterday by the Health De-
partment inspectors to North Brother
Island: James Nelson. so years Old, OF Oh
West Forty-second Street; Edith Mitchell,
Sc years old. and George Menier. II years
old, both OF 256 West SiSty-eishth Street.
and Mary Bratton. - years old. OF Sl3
West Seventeenth Street
Dr. Blauvelt and Sanitary Superinten-
dent Dillingham; said they were not sur
prised at having so many new cases. That
was just what they had expected.
The cases OF George Meniec and Edith
Mitchell" said DR.. Dillingham;. are very
exaspera ting. They are brother and sister
Mitchell, the kindergarten janitor., who
was removed on Thanksgiving Day My
inspectors tell ne that they wanted TO
vaccinate them. but they were English
Observation-Disclosures and wouldn't be in
oculated If they had been they wouldn I
have got the disease, or at least would
have had it in mild form.
INHALED GAS.
Miss Anna A. Fields. 80 years old. rich
in her own right and daughter OF John j.
Fields one Of B-oOklyn's wealthy resi-
dents. committed suicide by inhalinS gas
at her home No. 1l6 Lefferts Place, Brook
lyn. Yesterday morning She was found
dead in her bed at ! O'Clock
Melancholia caused by nervous dis
orders is believed to have led TO the act
The death. about nine months ago. OF an
old sutton for her hand had, it is thought
an influence on the mind of the woman
who several years ago was recognized
belle o. the Bedford section OF Brooklyn.
Her life, it is said, was s!aught with dis
appointment.
Miss Fields had suffered from nervous
complaints for two years, and had been
treated by Dr.. Pretchard OF this city
Until last Thursday Miss Fields stayed
at the Hotel Majestic while being treated
She was improving, when news came that
a favored sutton OF her younger days had
died. Her condition became much worse
Recently it was thought that sine was on
the road to recovery, and she was taken
10 her Brooklyn home u week ago yes
terday.
Mrs. Hermaze, her nurse. smelled gas in
the hallway yesterday morning and trac-
ed it TO Miss Fields room. She opened
the door and found Miss Fields on the
bed, in her night clothing. dead \ rubber
tube stretched from the bed to Il gas heat
er. with one end in the womans mouth.
\ physician said shea had been dead sew
eraI hours.
STEAMER ICE COATED.
| The White Star liner Majestic. which ar
| rived yesterday from Liverpool and
| Queenstown. was delayed day by tunult
| of the wintry sea. She acquired piatings
OF frost and icicles while she was hove
| to for seven hours on Tuesday, when the
crests OF combers that boarded her raced
| from stem to stern. On three days OF the
| voyage she made little more than tramp
| steamship time
Among her passengers were ]. Stonewal
| Jackson. a fourth cousin of rhe famous
} Confederate General. and Horace ]. Rob
! inson, a Canadian, both OF whom Tough
| in the Boer war on the British side III {
| SQUADRON of Srabant'S Horse.