New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-07
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH

In one or Brooklyn'S hospitals is a doctor VINO
has. to say the least, very unceremonous way
of doing things. patient there the other day
can testify to that. He had been treated, among
other injuries. for severe over the eye. Some
kind of adhesive plaster had been pasted over the
eye and when the time to dress the wound
the doctor. instead of applying warm water and
gently removing the plaster, inserted his hnSer
nail under 1t, and swiftly ripped it from the pa
tents face. The poor fellow screamed from the
excruciating pain. and protested that the doctor
should have applied warm water first to the pias-
and removed 1t gently.
oh we've time to use hot water here, was
the doctors insolent reply.
Then he went to the cot of a patient who
amused himself in similar way Getting pur-
chase on plaster covering the surgical WOUND ne
ripped II from the body the patient who let out
scream of agony that startled the whole ward
In the same hospital who had been so Sc
verely injured by fall that his face was smashed
in and he barely escaped fracture of the skull
was allowed to lie in the hospital about four hours
without having the blood washed from MS
face and head TO say nothing OF receiving lhne-
date treatment. His WIFE who had been informed
by a policeman of the accident which had befalien
her husband. him in the hospital five hours
after his fall, which had been caused by vertigo
Naturally. she shocked to see the neglect 10
which her husband mad apparently been subjected
A woman of refinement she courteousy begged
passing nurse give her husband u drink OF water
Tor which he was calling. he nurse piid no a'Iell
ton whatever to the request. Again the nurse was
begged by the woman to pIing drink OF %Ler ior
dignity long enough TO say:
car 90 Of T nsqn madam wen take good
But she didn't bring the water and the worried
wife and mother went home. SICK at heart, ana
feeling that that day could net come TOO soon Don
more or less tender mercies OF a public hospital
One of Brooklyn's police captains more noted for
the pull that landed him in his present place than
for any extraordinary degree Of intelligence. was
out for a walk last week when he passed a little
park where one Of the guns captured in the Span
ish war is mounted. The captain walked over to
where the big steel tube stood looked it over care
fully squinted down its barrel ana then remarked
his companion:
Say, Bill is that ere thing Of those new
sewer pipes?"
bill who Is possessed Of vastly more Intelligence
than his superior. although he Is only q patrolrnah
then explained to the captain that the supposed
sewer pipe q Spanish cannon a trophy OF the
late war ...,. .,,. ~. sota tb, cantain Isn't
that a name for cannon? never heard one
The patrolman concealed his mirth and ma, made
remark about the weather ny way oi c'dis
ing the conversation
Much space given in the newspapers to Peary
and his North Pole expeditions and to other arcuc
and antarctic enterprises and the resulting talk
about such things in the home have put ne" ana
odd ideas into the heads of the children Inc
mother of a bright little four-year-oid bfoohiyh
girl went into the nursery one day last week ana
found the child slowly lifting her doll up IN the
air as high as her little arm would permit, ana
then letting 1t sink slowy no eh 70 herself and
the mother mystihed by the performance "arh h
she heard: 49,. -.,nn - tho North Pole. as the
going to the South Pole, and the ooli WAS io"eieu
slowly toward the moor
I2rooklvn is to have what is known as midnight
mission, which will be under the auspices oil the
Brooklyn City Mission Society h%pe'Ie"eo 'to
shown that many men and women VINO are out III
the streets late in the evening can he attracted ny
mission services to which they would pay no at
tention were they held at the ordinary time. me
idea is to begin the exercises about IV."o coGN'
lust when the theatres and music mans are p'
ginning to send their crowds out INTO ihe 1 SUI -
sTbev are to be held in Central Chapel Jay ana
Wiioughby sts and the frst one VII hin p byt over
Ing in Jay-st short outdoor services
he given for the purpose of attracting attention;
Then an invitation TO go inslde VIII pe IN Gen
r n0S chanel are successful others will be held in
various parts of the borough
Dr r r Lane the head of the academic
department of the Brooklyn Polytechnic institute,
whose original and progressive loetiS o' euue'''
methods advanced him to the head OF the punlc
school system in Washington within lew years
has already begun to take an active interest," i+fh III
genera tn Rrookvn from Washington only few
months ago he has just been elected preslue"' Vi
When the football of the Poly Prep re-
ceived its recent invitation to go 10 lineage ioi d
- Nth the HYDE Park High School II was
feared that Mr. Lane would not approve Oh the
hovs taking such a long trip They were much anu
agreeably surprised however. when he at once pc
caroA enthusiastic over the proposition ny Ger
tainiv he said; go. by all means II WIN De d
good experience for you boys 10 30 rt of the coun
try Only keep your eyes and ears oPe hr ttsA
n,Ias+ions Learn how they do things out there; .
somewhat similar requests had been Feluseu III
past years
FOR ALL ILLS TO WHICH FLESH Is HEIR
..oid IT ever strike you what cureall whlskey
,s to the real Westerner. the man of the piaihs+
asked a New-Yorker who has just returned from
a year in Arizona.
s,;es the friend who has never in his life been