The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-08
JOHN LIS CLOSE CALL.
Ate Seven Chickens in Four Hours
Then Went to Hospital.


New York Cor Pittsburg Dispatch
John l.. Sullivan has just emerged from
hand-to-hand conflict with death. AS
usual, his bulldog courage and uncon-
quefaple belief in himself have proved
victorious, but in this struggle he was
seconded for the first time in his life
oy anxious surgeons. Most of John L. 8
friends thought that his going to the
hospltal was mere incident. They will
De surprised to learn that the man who
LOT Twelve years held the championship
Oh the world came near to dying In
the New York Poly Medical School
and Hospital
l had no more idea than a child" sa d
'plln 10 a reporter this evening" "of the
"onueriul things these surgeons can do
Win man that's out of order The
' .rouo!e began this way 1 was feeling
pretty hungry one day, and 1 ate seven
chtckens inside of four hours Then |
hdu some pain inside of me. [ said to
my paftner-Brooklyn Jimmy Carroll as
Squdre man as [ ever kneW-I'm a.
SICK man He sees it's real case of sick
ness, SO ne gets a cab and takes me to
the Polyclinic hospital.
tell you, now they all thought L
was zone. You know, at that a real
good man can always beat case Of
S,chhess. My partners father, old Mr..
CaI[oil' shook hands with me and said
soou-oye and good luck His hand was
SHAKING IKE leaf and his face was as
WillCe as your collar. But 1 knew-well.
what the use of talking. You can't kill
good man.
Al z:5O in the afternoon I was put in
ped in the hospital At $50 the next
morning they cut me open in the side.
nfteen inches long and eleven inches
oeep' NO ether or chloroform They
were AFRAID of my heart Ha! They
round out afterward my heart was as
strong as when I was eighteen years cid.
l was good young fellow then, and I
feet. y
Well, they cut me open ard fixed me
up: AS m told, I've got part of the
SKIN OF the tail of a kangaroo sewed into
me- also lot of fiddle strings They
can say John L. isn't full of music now
can they? You can bet your last dollar
on lhls-there are 120 stitches inside of
me Ihey've put a lot OF bandages out,
size to hold me together while the stitch
es are taking hold and keeping in place
our weeks and five days was in the
hospital. It's great place to study hui
man nature, that hospital. Thev Kent ma
nat on my back in one position; wouldn't
let me Stir for fear the stitches would
part. mats the hardest time ever put
III III all my life. Why, the soles of nv
feet were full Of pins and needles. But
WouIcnt move. l stuck to the rules of
the game as DR.. Bodine gave them to
me You can't kill a good man. Won
Know The sickness tired me, but il
couldn't beat me. You know, I had the
doctors back of me. They know how to
handle a case of sickness.
That hospital was new world to me
Now, this is no kid. They brought in a
young Fellow sixteen wears old that had
never had any use of his legs since he
was born. DR.. Bodone and his men 1ixed
MN up and put him in a plaster cast.
and in three weeks he was all right
wouldn't you call that a miracle? This
young fellow, hollering: Let me out!
want to run! And he began dashing I'D
and down the aisle
There was another fellow, twenty-four
years old, and they did run him I'D the
same way. l tell you. it's wonderful,
Inc hospitals of this city are great /
take off my hat to them You know 7
had money. But it wouldn't have made
any difference if hadn't a cent. I tell
you these hospital people are all right.
fellows
''They brought in another poor fellow
who was in trouble His wife was going
under the knife. She was the mother of
twelve children and she was a good
woman and a fine locker You'd take
her for sister Of her children instead of
the mother. The poor husband was all
broken up and they asked me to put a.
little heart into him. Say / saws to
him, you haven't got a 100 to L chance
to lose that good wife of yours She'll
peat IT, now, you mark my words, she'll
peat It Wen, she did beat it, too, God
bless her. She came cut all right