The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-06-22
CITIZEN" TRAINS BATH
Incidents Of His Removal From
a Pesthouse.
MUCH EXCITEMENT IN STANFORD

Connecticut City's Counen Met In
Extraordinary seasion-PoIice Pre-
pared For riot Famous Chnrac-
ter, Indignant at His Treatment
For smallpox, Demands $4,000
From stamford and TELLS his Doc-
tor lie Is Doomed to Die.
George Francis Train, about whose
gaunt form chung sheets redolent of the
things which chemists sell as sover-
eign remedies for smallpox. left the
pesthouse, three miles from Stamford.
Conn, recently and returned to his
daughters home in Third street, says
the New York Herald. He was clad
mostly IN hydropathic force, for he had
refused all raiment Of the conventional
kind, and his feet were innocent of
socks and shoes. The return Of the
philosopher was not accomplished
without a cataclysm in odicialdom, a
special meeting Of the council, a hurry
call to the police to repel with drawn
revolvers the march Of contagion, the
defiance Of the smallpox camp and
threats Of six lawsuits,
Stamford is $1,000 poorer for the
visit Of the Citizen" and he says he
will sue the city for $4,000 damages
for his being detained against his will
His physician and three attendants
will present claims for extra services,
and then it is likely that Stamford will
demand that New York make amends
for the trouble which came there with
the apostle Of psychic force.
1t seemed the other day as IL all
Stamford's citizens were puppets Of
psychic force, for from morning until
night the city was in an uproar. The
report that the Citizen was about to
leave his camp spread through the
quiet streets. The common council
seeming danger, assembled at II
O'Clock in the morning in extraordinary
session. An expense of $1,000 had
been incurred, and there was no way
to pay it except to draw from the
funds set aside for the maintenance Of
tie pumping station Then was asked
why the patient was taken from the
house where lie was being cared for by
relatives to be attended at an expense
of more than $50 a day. On the heels
Of this inquiry there came a demand
over the telephone from the physician
and the attendants for twelve days
pay after the patient should have
shaken the dust Of the camp from IFS
feet.
It has been the custom 70 pay quar-
antlne time to the physician and at
tendants who serve at the isolation
hospital Although this delightful pc
Rod OF Inactivity carries no response
bility and care except to wonder
whether they are really going to get
the smallpox themselves, the public
servants have not always spent the
periods in strict seclusion. ConeY Is
land has been regarded as a good place
for retrospeetion and the New York
theaters and roof gardens always have
been highly regarded as resting places
during the time required for eultiva-
ton of germs
DR. c. II. Borden and his associates
in the camp therefore put in their bills
for thirty days instead Of TWEEN
fy-five. The council consented to limit
the usefulness Of the pumping station
twenty-five days and no more, and then
the Instruction broke forth in the dis
Tant camp Alarming bulletins came
every few minutes from Or. Borden.
The council informed him that no pay
for quarantine time would be given I'm
less he and the attendants actually re-
manned in the pesthouse or in some
quarantine station The doctor said
he would not stay another day himself
and that he had ordered the employees
TO remain and that they had refused to
do So He reported a few minutes
later that all had decided to omit the
process Of final disinfection and TO in
wade the council chamber to demand
their quarantine pay.
"Tell the policeF' cried the council
men.
Chief Bowman was notified to send
policemen with drawn revolvers to pre-
vent the incursion
IF they come into this council cham
ber,p exclaimed an excited official, tax
ing an empty revolver from desk and
swapping 1t ominously into the mouth
piece of the telephone, "Ill blow out
the brains [clickI of every last [clicSl
one Of them. DO you hear that DR.
Borden?''
GIVE me the telephone" said Mayor
Leeds Il wish to say to you. Or. Bor-
den, that if you permit such thing
you will take upon yourself q large
measure Of responsibility
The mayor handed the instrument 70
Graham Holly, the city clerk.
"Oh. say. now, doctor, that is pretty
strong language for a Christian" said
the clerk no, won't give the mayor
any such message I'm no telephone.
You've got to say that to his face"
Again the instrument slid across the
desk