The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-29
DIR. LORENZ A GUEST OF
GOULD AT LAKEWOOD j.

According to the New York World
Prof. Lorenz, who has been visiting Bos-
ton, DR.. Mueller and DR.. w. R. Town
send of the New York Polytechnic, who IS
George J. Gould's physician, were to
spend yesterday with Mr.. Gould at Lake
wood, N. j. Lorenz said:
Il gladly take the opportunity to be
presented to Mr.. Gould to see one of
your great country houses and one OF
your winter resorts
There have been reports that l have
made S15O,OOO, and even more, in this
country" said Professor Lorenz last
night ut is true. as I have said before
that I am richer now than l ever have
been, but am far from being rich man.
l did not come here for moneys sake
and l have not earned anything like the
great sum metioned. l did receive $780,
900 for treating Lolita Armour, but the
other fees in this country were inconsid-
erable,'
Lorenz spoke with feeling. He con-
tinued:
Il came here TO demonstrate to my con-
ferries of this great country, my blood
less operation for congenial dislocation of
the hip. 1 have succeeded in my demon
stration largely because your surgeons.
whose technical skill and training is per-
feet, needed nothing more than a few
hints.
Your hospitals are magnificent.
"Your newspapers have been kind to
me and have thoughtfully spread what
l came here to teach.
Il have been welcomed most Hospital
bly, from one end of your country to an
other. l can never forget it,
81 am tired. I will rest. do a very few
operations, then return home to my work.
Il have been highly honored, far be-
yond my deserts and far beyond any,
thing I could have expected. But I have
tried to leave behind me something money
cannot buy.
Boston is a beautiful city," continued
the Viennese professor. In its surround
ings Boston is, perhaps, the finest city
1 have seen in America.
1.-THE surgeons and the hospitals there
are what I have found everywhere in
America-the best.
Certainly the students at Harvard
university have every facility to become
learned. The museums, the apparatus,
the means of teaching there are superb.
And the money; ah, the money they
have! For the students sakS money is.
essentially the most desirable thing for
any university"
Lorenz, with natural pride, is very fond
of his full beard. Thrice he went to
the hotel barber shop yesterday after
noon, to find 1t closed, of course. After
the third visit he cried disgustedly:
Three times have l searched for this
barber and he is not there
The great orthopedst will take pas
sage on the Celtic next Wednesday. De-
cember 81. He will hold no more public
clinics, but will operate on a few private
patients. He said only two such oper-
atoms have been positively arranged. lie
will also hold consultations with DR.. Vir-
gil P. Glbney. DIR. Newton NJ Shaffer. DIR.
Townsend and one or two others.
Lorenz dined en- famille with DIR. Town
send at his residence, No. 125 West Fifty
eighth street, last night, and afterward
went to the Empire theatre to see I'm
prudence" Tonight he will be the guest
at the Arion club of the German, Aus
train and Hungarian physicians of this
city, among whom Dr. Carl Beck is
leading spirit. Tomorrow night he will
dine at the Union League with J.
Adriance Bush, trustee of the State
Hospital for the Crippled, at Tarrytown.
of which DIR. Shaffer is surgeon chief.
Small Miss Kehoe. on whom Lorenz
operated for double dislocation of the hip.
was perfectly happy yesterday in the
Orthopedic hospital East Fifty-ninth
street She had her arms full of toys,
and, better than that, she was feeling fine
progressing most favorably. Perfectly
happy, too, were $50 other little cripples,
most of them inmates and a few outdoor
patients.
These children gathered in the biggest
room in the hospital around mighty
Christmas tree, electrically illuminated,
and real Santa Claus visited them.
wearing a benevolent mask, a beard
longer than Lorenz's and red robes
trimmed with ermine. And to the wide
eyed happy children Santa Claus dis
tributed beautiful dolls and wonderful
woolly dogs and sheep and cornucopias
full of candy and mechanical toys and
to their mothers comforting packages of
tea.
Miss E. c. Whitney and Mrs. Charles
B. Alexander, patrons of the hospital,
proved the generous Christmas bounty
Some. of the tiny patients have spinal
diseasefands fheag bodies wrapped in plas-
ter of paris bandages, they could not
raise even their heads. For these Mrs.
Douglas Robinson, President Roosevelt s
sister; Jemes K. Oracle, his cousin. Mrs.
William Robson, Mrs. Delano, Miss Kerr