Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-27
SMALL POA SCARE SUBS|D|NG
The Shelter" is Quarantined
 and Inmates are Happy.

Captain and Mrs Richardson of the
 Army Are Among Those Quarantin-
 ed ill the Building-The Corps
 Does Not Want to be Confounded
 With the Shelter" and Gives No
 tice That It is Doing Business at the
 Old Stand.
 Very little is heard on the streets to-day about the smallpox scare Most people are too busy with other things to devote much time to this question, so that unless something unexpected turns up we won't hear q great deal about the matter from now on. But this must not be under stood as implying that the authorl- ies are in any way lax in the per- formance of their duty. On the con- trary they are fully alive to the ne- cessity of using every precaution to prevent the disease from spreading and with this end In view strict quarantine is being maintained at the Salvation Army shelter on South Main street. the place being guarded night and day by a body of police officers. At the present time over thirty persons are confined in the building, including Captain and Mrs Richardson, all of whom are being fed by the board of health. Most of the inmates feel quite to home and occupy their time looking out through the windows at folks pushing them selves through the slush, play ing a game of dominoes, smok- ing the pipe of peace, telling yarns, and once in while a careless joker starts up q snatch of song and gives 8 short exhibition with his heels in the hallway Oth- CTS are somewhat refractory and show disposition to get out of there and return to their old haunts, but the sight of the bluecoatS on the out side prevents them from making q dash for freedom. It is hard to blame them for this. One cannot imagine the feelings of a man who is shut up there for an indefinite period with the thought of catching the loathsome disease constantly before his mind. No wonder one of them takes a fit once in . while and has to receive medical aid It is said that some of the quarantined parties can play different kinds of musical instruments and that there are not many in the crowd who would object to 'smile," especially under exist ing conditions If this be so it might be humane act on the part of the city, by whose authority they have been denied their freedom to supply them with musical instru- ments and small amount of stinu- lants until such time as they can be set at liberty. No matter what some citizens may think of the Salvation Army and those whom they harbor. it cannot be denied tbat tbey are en- titled to the best that can be done for them While they are cooped together in that building and the board of health deserves credit for what they are doing in this direction.
 But it might be we'll to inform the public that the smallpox scare has Hot put the Salvation Army out of business. The corps still holds it's regular sessions at the old stand in the rink building and have their head quarters at the usual place, 73 Ab- bolt avenue. The place on South Main street was used solely as a lodging house for wanderers who dropped into town and had no place else to stay. It was in charge of Captain and Mrs Richardson. The delightful sunshine of to-day renders life rather irksome at the shelter and viewed from the street most of them
 
 through the windows and beckon to people on the outside whenever they see familiar face
 Meanwhile people are using the cure mentioned in the Democrat and II faith amounts to anything in de- termining the success of q remedy Waterbury will soon have . popula- tion that will be proof against small pox. One man told a Democrat re- porter this morning that his family is so large he had to mix a whole gal lon of the stuff'' and that he intends to use it right along and give it to his children. He has implicit faith in the cream of tartar and hopes to see it come into more general use He said he thought the doctors would boycott the Democrat for printing the recipe, but as he winked at another fellow at the same time it was plain that he was joking. None of the physicians want to see the disease spread. They have as much interest III their own safety and that of their children as the rest of us, and in con- sequence they would be but too glad to see people use anything that might be good safeguard.
 The condition of the smallpox patient is not very encouraging to-day. The man was q wreck physically when he came to town and it would not surprise anybody if he should succumb to tbe malady.