Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-17
Hospitals Crowded With Grip and
Pneumonia Patients
NAVAL MEN ANDDEWEY ARCHPROJECF
Views on C,rbaQof Former School
Superintendent Frye.
ROMANCE OF A RUSSIAN


NEW YORK, January 16, 1901.
So crowded are the hospitals with grip
and pneumonia patients that Superinten-
dent Blair of the outdoor poor department
says that unless there is marked change
for the better 1t may be necessary to use
the armories for hospital purposes.
"All OF the hospitals are crowded. he
says, "and the applications for relief con-
tinue without a let-up. 1t will be neces-
sary to make some provisions for the sick
poor So far We have done all we could
but IL there is corresponding increase in
applications to what We have had in the
last few days it will become an exceeding
ly serious matter"
The epidemic has spread to the Bronx
and Fordham Hospital is crowded with grip
and pneumonia patients. Dr. Eugene Mo-
nahan. sanitary superintendent of the
Bronx, said that physicians all over the
district are working day and night to over
come the disease. The effect of the grip is
felt In the theaters and many actors and
managers are among the sufferers. A num-
Der have been incapacitated as Il result of
the epidemic. and in the words of a we'll
known member of the profession the grip
is hard on those who are working.
Every time l get to a nice point he
said. land an effective speech, there's a
chorus of coughs from all over the house
and my efforts go for nothing
OF secondary Importance is the weather's
effect on business. The big shops have
been more or less deserted and In the
shopping sections at the hours when thou
sands of women are ordinarily to be seen
the occasional swish OF wet skirt a
'rainy-daisy'' marked about all the life
there was.
To Perpetuate Dewey Arch.
The naval alumni has now taken up the
plans for the perpetuation of the Dewey
arch which was recently dropped by the
Dewey committee. The Alumni Associa-
| ton Of the United States Naval Academy
consists of all the graduates of the acad-
envy, both In civil life and In the navy.
1t has decided to raise the additional funds
needed to rebuild the arch in marble and
erect 1t upon a suitable site Associated
with the alumni are the Naval Militia
and Naval Reserve societies of the state
When the committee in charge of the fund
decided to abandon the plan Rear Ad-
miral Joseph NJ Miller L. S. N, retired
laid the matter. before the alumni asso-
citation at a meeting about a month ago
II was decided to take hold Of the work
of raising the money, provided Admiral
Dewey approved. To communication
| stating that the alumni would like to per-
petuate the naval arch as tribute to the
entire navy Admiral Dewey sent the fol-
lowing reply:
II think. too, other naval alumni do.
that the glorious deeds of the navy have
not been fttingiy commemorated, and that
ii
ment to it's valor should at once be taken,
| and 1 shall gladly give all the assistance
In my power"
The alumni then appointed a committee
of Its most prominent members, to which
the old committee said 1T would gladly
hand over the fund of 100000 already
raised. Col Church announced that his
| committee will lend its hearty co-opera-
ti0n.
Former Superintendent Frye ON Cuba
layic
public schools in Cuba. left here today for
Boston with his bride Fifteen months ago
Mr.. Frye found the Cubans In condi-
ton of ignorance and prejudice similar to
that OF the middle ages. On the school
| lists were $4,000 pupils, only about half of
whom ever attended. The common people
hated the Americans and suspected them
of wishing to Americanize their children
in order to make them disloyal to Cuba
Libre. In five months Frye had 145,OO0
scholars enrolled. and now the people are
clamoring for more schools. His fghtest
utterances are respected az those of a
| man whose word is good his bond.
and he has not only the admiration but
the affection of all classes. He visited
New York with his Cuban bride before
going to California for a wel-earned rest.
do the Cubans think the administration
sincere in Its determination to allow Cuba
its Independence was asked of him.
when l left Washington, fifteen months
tary Root were, Let your one burning
thought be that Cuba is to be a republic,
and that you are there to prepare the cit
liens for self-government. 1 have spread
that sentiment everywhere. The Cubans
themselves are not of one mind. There is
no doubt that they will be much relieved
when independence is granted to them. One
thing that did more than anything else 20
reaSSure them was the trip of the teachers
last summer The Harvard visit was an
unqualified success, and to President Eliot
is due the greatest commendation
Are the Cubans fit for self-government?"
Yes. Look at the constitutional conven-
ton which has met and deliberated in the
most orderly and law-abdng manner pos
sible. l have no patience with the people
who say that the bulk of the Cubans are SO
Incorporate and childish as to be unfit to
govern themselves Most of them are small
farmers. uneducated, l grant, but honest
and law abiding.
The SOusa-Fanciulli Fight.
The rivalry between Band Leaders Sousa
and Fanciulli has been transferred from