Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-09

ed Lis life.
lIe is a man to whom physicians con
hdeI siz months asu That there va
no hope
lie fought nobIy from the moment
he was stricken.
Hc Is 6gbttas toHaH =aehfius less
hopeless battle. an4-with -ue hope OF
raeoge. almost wfshin sight
This ease also proved d direct re-
futati6a Of fire 69eerE =ef medical
science. hitherto a principle in aAysio=
Iogy. tflat when more than one-thff=f
of the sEin e Il human body#is de
ssroyed death will result.
When t6ey toet Wilson S. Frederick.
of #DuneIIcn, y. ]. from the Wlees
which occurred near Wesfiield en- )ann=
airy 27. Oh the Central Railroad of New
Jersey, he was as good as dead.
He breathed however, and was hUr=
ried to Muhlenbers Hospital, at Plain
field, n. J,
At the hospital it was found that
Frederick was frghtfully sealded froh,
head to foot by dry steam, The LETT
side of his face, his left arm and both
legs to the shoe tops We're fearfully
burned.
On these parts not an inch of skin
remained.
Can you imagine the condition Of
this man when the doctors laid him
upon an air bed.
Just think of one-tn1rd of the body
being raw and sore, There is nothing
more painful than burn. During his
conscious moments Frederick was in
fearful agony.
He could not move without suffering
tortures the like of which have driven
men insane.
Frederick never for one moment be
lieved, as did the men who sWathed
him in vaseine bandages, that he could
not live.
There was something inspiring in
the courage and hope Of the pale-faced
man who lay staring at the ceiling with
great lines drawn about the corners OF
his mouth.
It was his calm, cool confiding man
ner that nerved the doctors to use
all their skill to benefit him.
Masons to His Aid.
Frederick is a Mason.
He will forever and day bless his
good fortune that his application to
Anchor Lodge No. 149, A. f. & A. M,
was acted upon favorably.
1t was his Masonic friends who came
to his succor in the darkest hours OF
his life
Doctor Albert Pitts. the attending
physician at the hospital and a mem
Der of the lodge to which Frederick be-
longed. understood that if the life OF
his brother Mason was to be saved
prompt action was necessary.
He communicated with Louis |. Van
Alstyne worshipful master of Anchor
Lodge Van Alstyne jumped into the
breach without moments hesitation.
A vast quantity Of cuticle was needed.
1t could only come from scores OF
men. More than 1000 pieces OF skin
alone could save Fredericks life. II
seemed a forlorn undertaking.
Van Alstyne was the first man to
bare his arm at the hospital. Ihen ne
called meeting Of the lodge.
The l0dscroom was crowded by a
solemn intense body of men. Doctor
Pitts and Van Alstyne told the Ma
sons OF Frederick's S danger, and that
many pieces of skin must be cut from
the bodies of robust men To cover the
burned surface of the Mason's body.
With these men there Was no useless
argument; they were ready to aid a
brother.
And to the hospital they Went in Two
and threes. while the sharp knives OF
the surgeons cut strips of skin from
their arms ana bodies and hastily
sought the bedside of Frederick.
Jerusalem, an Older lodge of the
order was quick to follow the lead o.
the members of Anchor.
They had sympathy in common
Day after day the Masons went TO the
hospital and after them the employees
of the United States Express Company
where Frederick had been Employed