The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-04
HOTEL LOBBY GLEANINGS
DIR. WILLIAM A. BARTLETT, OF
WASHINGTON, ID. C., IN THE CITY.
He Talked with DIR. Lorenz, the Wen
ma Specialist, I'm Chicago About
Armour Child-Hotel Stories.

DR.. William a. Bartlett, of Washington,
d. c., a former pastor of the Second Pres
byterian Church of this city. is in Indian
apolis for a short visit with old friends and
is a guest at the Denison Hotel. DIR. Bart
lett came to Indianapolis from the Plym-
outh Congregational Church In Chicago in
1876, and it is a rather remarkable coinci-
dence that Dr. j. A. Milburn, who was pas
tor of the Second Presbyterian Church for
several years, left this city eighteen months
ago for the Plymouth Church in Chicago.
DR.. Bartlett has just returned from Chi
cago, where he attended the semi-centen-
NAL anniversary of the founding of Plym-
outh Church. and he said last evening that
DIR. Milburn was meeting with remarkable
success in his new field.
When DR.. Bartlett was pastor of the
Plymouth Church the Armour family were
among his parishioners, and while he was
in Chicago this week he visited Mrs. Philip
Armour, sr., the widow of the head of the
family. He also called at the home of j.
Ogden Armour and saw little Lolita Ar
mour and DR.. Lorenz, the famous Vienna
physician, who recently performed the op-
Grafton on Lolita that attracted almost
world wide attention.
DIR. Lorenz is a wonderful man." said
DR. Bartlett in telling of his visit at the
Ogden Armour home. land he has worked
almost a miracle with little Lolita, but the
result of his treatment was not all that the
newspapers have made of it. According TO
the reports in some papers the reader
would infer that the child is now able TO
walk, but such is not the case. She can
move her limbs slightly and can stand erect
with the assistance OF a nurse, but she VIII
-A% ~ Il 10 a lnna for manV On1nS
Lolita will be taken TO Vienna next March
for the second treatment, and after that IL
is expected that her recovery Will be RAPID.
1T has also been currently reported that
Lolita's father will establish a great hos
pital in Chicago for the Lorenz treatment
as a mark of gratitude at the success OF
the operation, but this is equally erroneous.
DIR. Mueller, who is DR.. Lorenz's assistant,
will return to Chicago next spring under
Mr.. Armour's patronage TO take charge
of a ward in one of the city hospitals and
that may be brought there, but there Is not
a sufficient number of such cases in this
section of the country to warrant the es-
tablishment of a separate hospital. Mr..
Armour will bear all the expenses of DR..
Mueller'S work.
"Dr. Lorenz left Chicago last night for
Washington and Baltimore, where he Will
stop a few days before sailing for Europe.
L consider him one of the most remark
able men l have ever met. Meeting him
one is convinced that he Is almost inspired
with a great mission to relieve suffering
and unfortunate humanity. He seeks no
reward other than the satisfaction of sue
cessful work. He might stay in this coun-
try and become enormously rich, but he
does not want money and did not even
~stipulate the amount he was to receive
for coming here to operate on Mr.. Armour's
daughter.
Little Lolita is a beautiful child. sweet.
lovable and affectionate, and il is to be
hoped that she will recover completely from
her terrible crippled condition. She is an
only child and she has had everything that
money can buy, except a perfect body.
She has never known what ii means to
run about and play like other children, and
yet she is not the least bit pettish or spoiled
or selfish. When l called at her fathers
home / was taken up into the nursery to
see her. L was introduced to her as DIR.
| Bartlett, and she shrank from me, saying
it was explained to her that L was a min
lister and not a physician she welcomed me
gravely and with the dignity of a woman.
Her misfortune has made her prema-
turely old. To counteract this tendency her
parents nave surrounded her with every
She has a wonderful nursery that contains
everything in the ordinary child's dreams
of fairyland. Every %plaything that has
ever been invented is there or has been
there, and she has a dollhouse that is a
| perfect reproduction of a large house. with
miniature electric lights and all such APP
pointments. She also has a little girl to
play with her as a companion, not as a
servant, and she really enters into their
childish amusements and diversions with
more fortunate playmate"
DR.. Bartlett went to the New York-ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church in Washington
from this city in 1852 and served as
tired and is spending a great deal of his
time in travelling.