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GENERAL EDWIN c. PIKE.

tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIRUNE.I
Chatham, Mass, Sept. 2.-General Edwin c. Pike
OF Brookline. is dead at his summer home here
at the age OF eighty-one years. He was a native
OF Eastport Me. and went 70 ST. Louis IN 1885,
when that city was a frontier town. He engaged
IN the wholesale drug business. and when the Civil
War opened was placed in command Of the Union
militia. He with Generals Lyon and Blair
az the capture Of Camp Jackson. and later COM
manded brigade under General Rosecrans. He
had made his home in BToOkline for several years
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
BENJAMIN NJ. EvERHART.

West Chester. Penn. Sept. 22-Beniamin Matlack
Everhart died at his home here to-day. aged eighty
seven. He was an expert botanist and It is said
that fifteen different plants have been named for
him. these honors being largely conferred in foreign
lands. He also wrote poetry and books Of travel
His works on botany are regarded as authority on
that subject: He was the last Of the family and It
charity
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
w. q. PATTERSON RESIGNS.

William r. Patterson. OF No. Ga West Ninety
sixth-st register OF records IN the Tenement House
Department. has resigned. the resignation TO date
from September Ie. The salary is 5000 year. Mr.
Patterson has accepted a place in the Iowa State
University. Mr. Pattersons office is to be filled by
i,yl Eergrf
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
FRANCIS |. HoLsRooK.

Francis L. Holbrook. for more than twenty-five
years connected with the headquarters of the Ma
uonal Express Company died yesterday at the
home of his daughter. Mrs. Frederick BOVINE at
flushing. Long Island. Death was due to compli-
cations resulting from long illness. Mr. Hol-
brook had home in Manhattan. but was visiting
his daughter at the time Of his death. He was
the son of the late Lowell and Angelina Nelson
Holh-ook. formerly well known residents of Rem
sen-st., Brooklyn. His widow survives him. The
body will be buried at Greenwood
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
WHAT is GOING ON TO-DAY.

Republican campaign meetings. Nos 5o1 and 5se Broad
way, noon
Annual dinner Of the international Advertising AssOeIa
ton. Hotel Manhattan, 7:30 ?.
Republican Assembly district conventions In Kings Couh-
~
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a. -. LaEard is bent upon beautifying. IL not
-, woe OF his capital at any rate the surround
A.. .s London residence at Buckingham PAL
-. sne me alterations far as the environ-
.e., q The palace are concerned are OF sucb an
!, .te se ehaFaeter-botb those IN progress ae Uer
re,., proleeted-that people visiting the Rritisb
q. - l"eiVs months hence. after an absence
~. s.af OF 80. win be amazed by the cranges
n. 49, oid houses that have until now emf ofr
dcvv, - - IRON Irafaigar Square are beInc cut
ths ,.',... es % give al uninterrupted view from
!, eis down the tFee-iintd Man 70 tbe nslsca
a ~ further end. and II has been sae,S.S 80.
sAers ..aiaisar Square entrance 20 the avenYo
ias $3.50 y oe q magnincent arch. a memorial "a
se-s4. sec,,or - poet Shakespeare. ana toward the
IL, - - which considerable aFnoun. - -,o,a,,
spssr. "ssoy been subscribed. With tbe shs,,o.
riet !, mortal Arch AZ one end of The Ma, -
een,ur,.. sls''eai EPISODES during the last three
Wee nc 1ith the stately memorial -, o.,
Ealss. az the other end frontjnv ,,c,-,ssl,,-a
s-x4 uoss, .s eDifoach % tie latter win indeed be-
10y 10 every seLxc OF the word az the
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Postomee Notice

Should be read DAILY by all Interested as Changes
may occur at any umel
olesn mails for the week ending September "a 1904
VIZ ose promptly in all cases) at the General POsocs
a oIlovS Parcels Post Mails earlier than
CIusils une SHOWN below. Parcels Malls
many close at .. N. September 70 and o.
regular and Supplementary Mails Foreign
@ corner o. West ald Morton Streetsl hsf hour later
nah StSng time shown below Except that Supplement-
" Mails fo- Europe and Central America, via Colon.
e'1se 0ne hour later at Foreign Statoul
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Mr.. severu's father was the English Consul at
Rome when the son was born. The boy edu-
Gated at Westminster School. and began his career
In the Civil Service. but developed a reputation
water color landscape painter. He was encour-
aged by Mr.. Ruskin IN reviving art needlework and
embroidery and worked with Charles Eastlake on
art furniture Fifty OF his pictures exhibited
AZ Aguews New Gallery in 1874. He Illustrated Lord
HouEhton's Good Night and Good Morning and
published Golden Calendar" Deer and Forest
SCENERY and Morning and Evening Service. I"
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A POLITICAL PUN.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Allow constant reader to suggest that it
VIII be n decade before D. Cady will be Governor
OF New-York. r. T. NJ
Brooklyn Sept. q. 1904
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PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS

ALBEMARLE-Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock New
mort n J. GREGORIAN-Tom L. Johnson, Cleye-
land: W. b. Punkett. North Adams Mass, BOL- GiI
T.AND-Professor 3. KlingsbeTg. Berlin IMPEttlAb
Theodore Grunewald. New-OTleans. PARK AVE-
NfTF-Professor ]. Carina Milan: Professor D.
TornbaTdi Naples WALDORF-ASTORIA-B
scfIippenbach, Russian Consul at Chicago; Hobart
Weed Buffalo WOLCOTr-Dr Arkar JunRhaus'
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cuoeus TO SING IN HOSPITALS.

MANY members OF 1.-The Isle of Spice company
In ,1aI-e trim in automobiles to-day to the
Roosevelt and Bellevue hospitals where they viii
entertain the convalescent patients Win the more
,,-'a ,nsical numbers of The Isle of Spice"
They will dress at the theatre at noon. and make
the trim in costume.
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cHIcAeo UNIVERSITY HEAn HoNoREo.

Berlin. Sept. 22>-It is officially announced that
Emperor william has conferred on President Har-
per Of Chicago University the Order Of the Red
Eagle Of the second class and on Nice-Presldent
Juason the Crown order OF the second class
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
Local oricial Record.-Ths follow
1904. 1893.

Highest temperature yesterday IS dsgFeesi lowest s0
average. az; ayeass fer corresponding date ' seA. 20
average corresponding twenty -te Asazs %
forecasfEnir today and Saturday, win tle"ly
ris.sr temperature, light 20 seusaS' Nnas
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MAILS FORWARDED OVERLAND. ETC. EXCEPT
TRANSPACIFIC-

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MAILS FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL. AMERICA. WEST


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buFnetts Vanilla Extract
the and the none too Eoo1 for vour food
and drink Insist having Burnetts
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WALTER SEVERN.

London, Sept 22.-walter Severn. president Of the
Dudley Gallery Art Society. is dead. He was born
in Rome in 1880
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24
CLEANING UP PANAMA
Causes of Disease on the Isthmus Explained by
Writer Familiar With the Country.
BY HAROLD JENKINS.

Colon, the terminal points of the
canal, are just about as unsanitary as
any town could be. A large building
in Panama was used several years ago
as charity hospital, and many hun
dreds of people died there of yellow
fever. 1t was abandoned as a hos
pital and is now used as storehouse.
'As 1t never was disinfected or fumi-
gated in any shape or manner, to my
mind, it is a hotbed of the disease"
said DIR. Wolfred Nelson, a Canadian
physician who spent five years on the
isthmus.
why Death Rate Is High.
This is only a single example of
many similar plague spots which exist
to-day in Panama and Colon, unheeded
by the ignorant, supine local authori-
ties. 1t is no wonder that the death
rate in Panama for the week ending
March 81, last, was 80 per 1000 of
population, as compared with death
rate of Fl In the least healthy city of
the United States. In Colon, during
the same week, the death rate was 80,
which was an exceptionally low figure
for that town.
Nobody who has not visited the
isthmus can credit the filthiness of the
condition under which the population
lives. 1t has been well said that 'the
filth Of ages" is stored away in most
of the houses, even in those of the
weather. classes. AS for the aver
age peasant, he wears a r'aiment of
dirt-and very little else-from his
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24

girl tried in vain to win him back to
her, and by the time the ship reached
Alden she was nearly heartbroken.
Going ashore there for a walk. she
managed to offend the religious fanati-
cism of some Mohammedan pilgrims
who were travelling from India to Nee
ca. They mobbed her. and for mo-
ment her life was in danger: but the
stoker, who had also gone ashore, rush
ed into the thick of the mob and saved
her.
What happened after that nobody
knew except the lovers, but they evil
IDENTIFY made up their quarrel. She re-
turned to the ship, radiantlY happy.
He went back to the stokehold for the
rest of the voyage, but at Bombay
they left the ship together and were
married within a couple of hours by
special license, the skipper giving the
bride away.
Many stories are told among sailor
men of the, heroism and GOODNESS dis
played by stokers in the moment of
danger. When peril comes to a man in
the vitals of a big steamship it comes
with a rush. He has no time to screw
up his courage" Unless he keeps it
always screwed up, he fails miser-
ably. Suckers rarely fail.
The prince Victor" a tramp steam
ship, which used to be well known in
the West Indian fruit trade, was
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24

Three medical experts connected
with the United States Army and
Navy have gone to Panama to make
the preliminary arrangements for the
cleaning up of the isthmus, so that the
lives of the many thousands of men
who will be employed to dig Uncle
Sans big ditch may be safeguarded.
1t will be very much bigger job than
the cleaning up of Cuba after the
American occupation 1t will be, per-
maps, the greatest single sanitary task
ever undertaken by civilized man.
The Isthmus of Panama is one of
the worst territories in the world, if
not the very worst, from a sanitary
point of view, and it's record of dis
ease and death for centuries past has
been appalling. But it is not neces-
sary to despair on that account. Up
to the present time modern sanitation
has not tried what it can do on the
isthmus.
Did Not Attempt Sanitation.
De Lesseps' French Canal Com
pany, though it spent barrels of
money lavishly in many directions,
never made any serious attempt to
render the territory less unhealthy.
The Frenchmen, apparently, believed
In prevention rather than cure. They
built fine hospitals and sanitariums in
stead of draining the swamps, clean
ing out the rivers, and making war
on other foci of disease. One large
sanitarium, erected on the Island Of
Toboga, in the Bay of Panama, cost
the Panama Universal Interoceanic
Company over 100000; and the prin-
cipal hospital of the company, at
Panama, must have cost, from first
to last, considerably over a million.
The canal officials and laborers are
sent to the sanitarium to repair their
wasted strength after they are dis
charged from the hospitals, and in
the old days the institution was al
ways crowded. Nowadays there-are
not many persons there, for only
small force of men has been employ
ed on the canal works during the past
two or three years, and those simply
in order to avoid the forfeiture of the
franchise.
Built Many Hospitals.
The hospitals and the sanitarium are
the only institutions of which the
French company has a right to be
proud; their splendid efficiency has at
tracted the admiration of many for
eign doctors who have visited Para
ma. But the large sums of money
they have cost would have been better
spent in prevent disease. The Amer
lean medical experts will give their
first and principal attention to that
task. although they will probably all
so recommend the maintenance and ell
largement of the hospital and sanitar-
ium work.
The city of Panama and the town OF
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24

nearly cut in two by a liner in the
English Channel some years ago. The
stem of the liner struck the Inflated
vessel at right angles, cut two-thirds
through it, as if it were cheese, and
then stuck.
The stokehold was penetrated by the
stem. Some of the stokers were killed
by the impact, others by the rush of
boiling water and steam from the
smashed boilers. Only three escaped
to the deck, and two of them insisted
on rushing back to the stokehold to
see if they could rescue any of their
mates. The stem was grinding up and
down, half way across the hold, and
the steam and hot water tortured
them horribly, yet they persisted un-
til they brought up one man. They
went down again, and neither of them
returned. The ship sunk a few minutes
later.
This is a typical story of the hero
ism of the stoker, and it could be par
alleled a hundred times. But their
bravery is usually of the far harder
kind, which simply sticks to routine
duty in the face of death. Suckers can
generally be depended on to keep the
fire going in the sngine room, even
when they know that the ship is in
momentary danger of sinking.
Copyright, 1904, by William THORPE
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24

ing unto heaven. The civil authorities
of Panama are to blame. Money
enough in all conscience is exacted
from the merchants and others to keep
things as they should be. They are
very careful about the collection Of
that money, but there it ends.
This is the kind of thing you see in
the suburbs: A lane leading from a
main thoroughfare to the seashore,
with both of it's sides lined with piles
and piles of rubbish and old bedding,
or bedding on which people have died.
The natives of Panama after a death,
throw away cots, mattresses, pillows,
and often the eating utensils of the
departed AS many people on the
isthmus die of yellow fever and small
pox, this practice simply means a per-
| petuation of the infectious and conta-
! gious diseases named.
THE authorities never do anything
more than publish an item upon re-
form in La Cronista,' or La Estrella
de Panama. This is deemed ample,
as it gives the people something TO
think about; and yet these authorities
fondly fancy that they are sanltarians
of the first order.
Old Well Filled with Bedding.
II remember an old well near the gas
works, one of those huge stone wells
which the Spaniards were so fond OF
building. That well had been filled in
with just such bedding and at last
the pile coned up above the mouth Of
the we'll That is their way and a
very bad one it is, too"
1t will be seen, from these facts that
the unhealthy state Of Colon and Pam
anna is due largely, If not entirely, to
causes which the enforcement of mod
ern sanitation along the lines adopted
in Cuba would speedily remove. 1t Is
equally obvious that the people will
have to be sternly disciplined by the
American authorities before the evil
customs rooted in centuries of ignor-
ance can be stamped out.
So much for the cities, but the I'M
healthiness of the isthmus is by no
means due to their foul condition
alone. According to DR.. Wolfred Nell
son and other medical authorities who
have studied the question carefully,
the large decomposition Of vegetable
matter and the mixture of salt and
fresh water in the lagoons and rivers
are fruitful causes of malaria and
other diseases.
Mortality I'm Labor Camps.
The terrible mortality in the labor
camps of the French Canal Company
was largely due to the fact that many
of them were pitched in the worst
parts of the low-lying "malarial belt. .
Later on. the Canal Company built
numbers of small frame houses on
high ground above that belt for their
workmen, who We're then fairly free
from disease. This policy will have
to be adopted by the American build
ers Of the canal, at all events until the
low-lying territory has been made thor
oughly healthy The filthy manner in
which the laborers were permitted to
live by the French authorities was also
responsible for thousands of deaths. 1t
is not to be supposed that that mistake
will be repeated.
Many of the causes of the unhealth-
mess of the isthmus can be removed.
and the CHASTITY death roll of the Pan
anna Railroad Company and the French