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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10

me for spending more time on him than 1
should spend on the baths of the ward.
I'm the bed next the chimney-sweep IS a silent
yellow faced Bohemian, dying of too much
swea tshop and tuberCular tumOT. and next TO
him an old Irish FISHERMAN. The FISHERMAN is
fat and fabby, like jelled oil and the first
time I was told to rub his back 1t seemed to me
that I couldn't touch it, but once put my hand
upon him Che has internal trouble. and
suffers horribly I forgot all repulson in being
sorry for him. There is thing about these
men, they are generally so pleased at what you
do for them and polite to you in their way.
Almost any nurse will tell you she would
rather be in ward than in the private pa
tents building where the richer people CO.
WeII-to-do people, used to being waited on,
are apt to regard the nurse as a species of maid,
and demand a great deal of you; the poor, never
having had comfort, expect little, and make
much more tractable patients.
Next to my oysterman is a young Scotch
teamster who told me while 1 rubbed him about
his two children and the fve-roomed house he
had half paid for in The Bronx; and next TO him
a patient whose nationality I didn't guess at
first for he lay in a stupor, all bundled In blank
cts till my Scotchman mentioned that he gave b
per cent on his mortgage, when the bundle
started up crying: Vat you say? You pays 3
uer cendt? I hat Won friendt. Abraham Gold
stein he will lendt to you montsh for per
Cendt alretty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
Each Large Part in the Everyday Life of the
Professional Nurse of Sick Adults.

with a broken leg, feeling the need OF exercise
got out of bed while her back was turned ana
took a promenade.
"Oh, yes" she remarked the next day to the
other nurses, ''yes, that John Smith got up with
his broken leg and pranced around and made
compound fracture of simple one; but, good
gracious as 1 told Spivens when he threatened
to report me-" "Spivens'' was their nickname for
the inferno who looked after legs and such mat
tiers, Il could not help it; can't be in half
dozen places at one and the same time. Let
them have more nurses!"
The inferno did not report her Probably he
reflected that there was truth and justice in her
observations.
Considering that the nurses in hospitals are,
most of them, girls not very long out of their
teens, young students earning their diplomas,
they do pretty well on the whole The amount
of work they perform is tremendous, and the
heroism one occasionally finds among them is
rather fine. It must for instance, have taken a
good deal Of courage for two North Brother
Island nurses to meet an emergency that con-
fronted them in the way they did They were
IN charge of a woman who had the smallpox
and, discovering that the patient was becoming
dangerously chilled dhe bed was in tent the
hospital buildings being full, a. cold storm was
blowing, and no hot water bottles were at halld)'
they got into bed with her one on either side
and warmed her body with the neat u IHOiA0-
ROSE TO THE OCCASION.
A thing that was daring in another way was
done by nurse (she was a graduate but sun
youthful GRADUATED who had gone to WORK
among the poor whites in the Tennessee noun
tains, under the auspices of a philanthroplc OF
ganization. In one remote settlement she was
called to see a man who proved to nave an
abscess that was threatening his life ana thal
demanded instant lancipg. Tine only physician
In the region was twenty miles away usherlIis d
baby mountaineer into the world ana oohse-
ouentIy 1t was UP to the nurse to do what sne
could She had no instruments, but she pos
sessed a penknife. This knife she sterlnAso5 y
boiling st in water, and with 1t she procseeITeo -
lance The abscess which was an aoooalLlal OS &c
And tho man got we'll. That was fortuuaiIt9, ~.
her FOR though he could not have liVed Wt .
az oneretion to have him die under heF ntSs
MAR one would have been pretty unpieasH4l@ "
say the least. ..., .-,ora HE from,
pnretng are the part that bites into one wIe ~
I,,i,t re feel things that way, the druogeTy %
q. no SroeIi narf Particularly is this true OF
ho. nj work Private nursing may or may
,io9 yoean hard labor. Hospital training IN. m
a1t+sbIr does and lots Of It. There Is selHo i
800 tIay one nurse in ward at nlghh o4ny
a. no 90 Instances are there two, ana IN eno
Al Itt,.,e when the ward is most exactins' tnere
uaS LIZ LIZ ttree-a head nurse, senior ana
iIlnior-three pairs OF hands or eouhIhs ''s
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10

probationer when there is one. say three and
half pairs. And when one considers that there
are twenty or twenty-one beds in the average
ward, and not often an empty one and that
when the hospital is crowded and in New-YOrk
they generally are crowded, extra cots have to
be brought in; that the PARENTS must have their
meals, most of them on trays in their beds, and
that many require special kinds of nOurishment;
that medicines must be given; also baths; that
wounds and sores must be looked after; that
the patients who are well enough to sit up have
to be dressed and the backs of the helpless ones
rubbed and bedsores guarded against; that in
surgical wards there are patients to be made
ready for operations that the stretcher cases
which are constantly coming in must be re-
ceived; that the clothing of the arriving pa
tients must be tagged and put away; that beds
have to be made and that the ward must be
kept spotlessy clean that bandages and COM
presses and all kinds of supplies must be pre-
pared; that the doctors have to be attended
when they go rounds; that frequently one of
the nurses is called~away to go on duty in the
operating ROOM I'm fine, that the things which
have to be done are endless, it becomes evident
that three pairs of hands, even three and
I1 NOT
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
DANGEROUS CARELEssNEsS.

Another little trick is suddenly to begin back
ing out the boat from the slip without the
slightest warming 1t is wonder that people
are not drowned by this. Il was caught with
one leg out in the air and a whole bunch OF
neonle pushing behind me- was the way one
staten Islander described this absentminded-
ness of the boats skipper. Another was sePa-
rated from his wife by this sudden evolution,
bTt somehow no tears glistened in his eyes as
he told Of it. -
AS to the boats themselves there are many
criticisms passenger the other day com
planned that the air in the mems comparthent
was so thick with smoke and foulness that ne
Thought the ship af1re. Worse than a ioS'
he said when I opened a window four men
yelled at me to close 1t, as ] was creating a
draught THAT'S what I want 10 90, yeiied
haclx Two of them rushed up and jammed the
window down again, and If we hadn struck IIe
sin inst then believe would have mixed II
nm some An adequate system OF NehtlldIioh
during the winter is conspicuous by us aDseiice
a tic name of glass in one of the upper salooil
doa~s vas broken the other night ana WIleIl
tbe boat started unsuspecting passengers IN tle
;cinifTy were blown away like 50 many Iealheis
~ the draught created. The nlghI was
o,6 ord in a few minutes the sleepy man over
IN tbe corner was dreaming that ne was CHASING
bAsrs around the North Pole $50. -t -
II ia now seen that the coal bunkeIs are ~
rae1i and that too much time is wasted IN coa1-
S Although life preservers are accesslplo
1a s +Ie seats it would take the famed ChlheSe
Continued on second page.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
RACING DEAFENs cHAUFFEURs.

He had done in his uO-horsepower car a mile IN
80 seconds.
Congratulations" said the young girl as he got
out.
'What?" said he
Congratulations"
He smiled and shook his head. ''whatT'
4 said congratulations What is the ulatter
with you? Are YOU deaf?''
But again he failed to hear her.
'In few minutes" he said. IN be all right
suppose il was the noise OF the motor or the
swift going-at any rate. am envelopeG In the
most terrific tumuit.-a Ike the winds OF
hundred storus-and I can't hear word you say.
1T am almost always like this after race" he
continued For M zen minutes or I
deaf as a post Then, gradually, the roaring In
my ears subsidies ard / begin 10 distinguish tdS
sounds that occur around I see. now, lips
moving and mouth a-jump. but hear not word
All men that In heavy powerful decorating
cars are deaf like me- at their races end. ]
unaware though. OF any chauffeur whose hearing
has been permanently injured by racing.
Louis CSlObe-DemOcTat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
B EgS GREATER COST, POORER SERVICE. PA
is Agsravate Islanders-Erratio Time
Table-N1any Useless Employees.

the side Of the Richmond for. as they expected,
a quick and merry trip 20 the Great White
Way. They had not gone far when the steer
ing gear damned and they drifted around
like derelict while the engineers were try
ing to patch her up. A brilliant idea struck
the captain and he tried to steer her by the
twin screws. She wound In and out and
around the bay, now heading north, now east.
now south, west, rushing at islands
only to sheer off in time and scare the
sea green off the eyebrows of some old tramp"
skipper Finally she landed alongside the
Whitehall rack. After much twisting and strug
giles with the tide she was brought into the
slip. The theatregoers got ashore nearer to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
Municipal Ferryboats

- that the election is well over the prin-
=, .on,c of conversation of Staten islanders
: +,s new municipal ferry. Cold print cannot
: ce the neat With which they speak of
E71fore the new boats were finished every
adv on the island revealed in dream that they
~ 49, move ike the winged steed in The
.-sbian Nights" which, at the turn OF screw
80 carry one with the speed of desire with
srsoever one should list
zr,+ alas! fond hopes, blooming in the spring.
sa5 with the flowers in autumn The boats
20 found to be erratic. the schedule myth,
-. service farce, the cost the only great thing
sho,t them Tammany had pompously tackled
ION the boats some big plates engraved in
,a-ga letters with the name Of George B. Nc
rqeIlan and claiming all credit for the inception
- +bese modern arks. But when they began
- csvort all around the harbor instead Of sail
mo On their beaten course Tammany kept as
M, as old Rameses IL That was tact.
The Hearst supporters made the horrible mis-
ella Of their lives when they pointed with
-iaA TO these wanderers of The deep as munich
ri ownership pets. Whereas in Manhattan.
rba Bronx and Brooklyn Mcclellan and Hearst
broks almost exactly even, Hearst lost Rich
-oond by over three thousand votes.
And vet the boats themselves are not so bad.
IN fact in spite of several defects in design.
they are far better than the old boats. 1t is the
service that is causing the chief complaint
Minor details worry only a few persons but
zrben 2 man sweats down his collar chasing to
the slip only to find that the next boat is lost
somewhere off Governors Island and won't be
IN for an hour he is apt to thicken the air with
sor7s rich blue adjectives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
PET OF THE WARD.

''The pet OF the ward is Pap Waddy, ninety
two years old and toothless; he is a dreadful
plague because he will persist in making
cache of the interior of his bed crusts of bread,
zicbv bottles sticky prunes and fragments of
eggs tumble out every time I change his sheets;
hut he is a poor old baby. There is one patient
here with striking face: he is a Finn. and
cannot speak English well. but a man who
visits him told US his story. He was journalist
in Finland. but he was too liberal in his opin-
ions. and was sent to Siberia, escaped and fed to
America. Here not knowing the language. he
had to do anything for his living that he could
get to do He was working the docks, when
something fell on one Of his legs and crushed It,
and so he landed in the hospital. Put it down to
the credit of the doctors who are so often ac-
cused OF being operation mad, that the one
who has this case refused to cut the mans leg
off. though at first it looked simply awful, ana
Yesterday heard him say to the head nurse, in
a tone Of great delight and satisfaction, I be-
Iieve that we're going to save that fellows leg:
7 really believe are.
don't yesterday a young machinist was brought
In dreadfully hurt about the head. When the
doctors had done what they could. was told to
wash him. His face and hairy neck We're caked
With grim and blood: blood trclkled from his
ears and mouth. I tried to sponge 1t away; II
was ahastly work, and was horribly afraid OF
b,1rttnR him though he showed no signs Of life.
except few great gasps at nrst; and sponged
and sponged and by and by the head nurse
came along stopped. looked at him. and said to
me You ought to have notified me at once
,,,ben this man died suppose should have
felt ashamed CT being so stupid as not 70 know
care"
TrnopCE THAN DEATH
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
LAUNDERING HABITS.

The Brooklyn seems to be the "hoodoo" boat
The next night she also dallied with her
passengers. This dallyinE was the more az
gravating in that it occurred at the end Oh
Whitehall Slip but each time the current threw
her off and she smashed into any old thing in
the way. Finally the proper allowance was
made by the pilot and she steamed in and
was made fast. The theatregoers found 1t
was 8 o'clock. Meanwhile the Manhattan had
come UP and was waiting for the Brooklyn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10

young era5uate nurse here IN New-Ho DIX
..us a story of q case that she had not lolls
$50 II was a surgical case in the private pa
+s,ts, building at the hospital where she was
trained and when she arrived upon lLle So
+bA man had lust been brought down from liie
o,.-a+,,,o room and lay on his bed recovering
from the ether L person coming out from u
der the influence Of ether is HoE as d ICie' 3i-
agreeable object, and after awhile a hazy no
ton of this fact appeared TO inter 1ilrou
awakening perceptions Of this one
@sav." he blurted out In that stridenf voice aii
ether patient has in the hrsl nioiheHS
sciousness are you poor?
She was a trife surprised at the question
4-oro stranger. but then nurse is prepared
fo- any kind Of oueerness- She signlneo as si0
held +be basin. that she was not ricn-
WAL Won must be pretty hard up ne
.,-zla5 4or 1you wouldn't take a job IKE lll0'
~, % nursing meant nothing more tryIne
tban assisting ansasthetized patients back 10 me
4, vo,7l6 he a very much easier Tocaloh 'ii1+- =
is AFsnv and various are the unpleasant llliiie'
8 nu-zA must do. and as for druogery' sio -
made soouainted with that very early -
career On the other hand, 1t is a
absorbing occupation, always proVlolhe ono -
the temperament No calling unoer INO
sbo,,, b,,r,on nature at a closer range, or Is
more nEeiV 10 c6rTy O4lS AI4CO SNO
corners Of IifeL Then there Is the sc1entino elUo
Of tbs work, the fascination that there Is bor
instance in being present at difficult opera
ton. and helping In it; there is the e1hliafatlOA
Of fighting disease; ara also. TO the born nurse
there Is the satisfaction that lies In serving
peopIe who are sick and In pain. TO d NURSE "a
this type the repugnant things that nave - %
done are simply part of the days work or tfle
nights work; but what does wear upon her. she
would probably tell you. is the sense OF re-
sponsibility, from which she Is never 1ree. AAei
Is theory that since the physician gives INC
orders and the nurse is under his direction ner
part "a not one that means much strain really.
CT course. that is nonsense. for every physician
knows how Infinitely much depends on the way
his orderg are carried out. Moreover there are
the countless emergencies that nurse Is hAeiy
70 encounter. The average nospitaI uaiiii"s ~
cludes q IibaraI education In emergencies; they
are nut down In the curriculum. but they have a
way OF happening
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
TIE sHRlkg. OR BUTCHER slRp.

There IS a strange little bird about big robin
which nearly every winter brings he gsneraly
alone Ike tiny black and gray hawk IN many % his
WAYS but related truly the gentle viroos ana wA
Viuas no northern Bhrike. butcher bird ara
he gets cruel living BY catching mice and little birds
which hangs locust thorns sharp twgs points
wire fence as his little feet, unlike the haEka
not strong enough 20 held his handsonae
fellow rarely may hear very swese Ittia son<
sits the top OF leaaeSs bush particularly
true birds % pres. AZ best sivsS ony ras slaa
-lst NschetAa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
soNE EMERGENCIES.

For example, one night In a New-York nos.
pitai. The night nurse for Ward < being equireo
IN the operating rocm or laid up with ponsiiltls'
0: some exigency OF the sort happening. tae
nurse In L was desired TO take charge OF "a "a
addition to her own ward. In both of the wards
al the beds were occupied. and one Of the
patients was a big Irisnman, who had unex-
pectedly deyeIoned deIirtuna tremens on top OF
the pleurisy for which he was brought there.
AFTER good deal of trouble she got the IrlSh-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
WHY THE NURSE PAINTED.

Or for example. down at another hosplIal
man was brought in one day very Ill with pneu-
,o-is and highly delirious. In the middle or
+ba night. however, he seemed to grow quiet and
tta v,nrse prepared to cup him. the doctor hav-
t,e- directed her to do She was alone IN the
,rera except for the sleeping patients. Sac set
.ba cumming outfit, the glass cups the cotton
a.. I,,bted alcohol lamp and the dish Of alcohol
90 che rest of it on tn bic beside the bed as
a. rod 70 be. cupping be1ag business that re-
80. c,,iex action. and she was working away
Tr,,.r without any warning, the mans frenzy
80. IN again. and he made wild effort to
t,,r,, His arms hit the lamp. the lamp rolled
-.o. end IN an instant the bedclothes were
blazing. -. 4,,.a
xr,.J her hare hands and a blanket snatcneo
-. +ho rext he'd the nurse smothered the
80 Then she went TO the telephone ana
- +,,a of7ce what had happened, and. finally
-. ,,,+tI after the doctor had reached the
~. . go thew had examined the patient and
so,,,d that he had received no worse injuries
- .corcbed beard and was not gong 70
-. 1oort failure from the shock-she Ialnteu'
c.. raa IN fact. taken the brunt OF the nre'
- -. ton6s still bear the scars OF that nignts
10 Get through the average hospital training
-. t,ecounfng a wreck one must have
- - che philosophy that was possessed by
80 49,. ,,o,,nq woman who was graduated from
-yorlr nurses training school last year
60. ,,,,en this nurse on night duty alone IN
,,a,e surgical ward. one Of the patients a man
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
Erratic Time

8 than to O'Clock. looking much if they
had lost something. And so they had-time,
religion and faith in the ferry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
sOME CONVERSATIONS.

It is fortunate that in hospital work there are
compensattons. For of course there are. No
place in the world could be more interesting;
from every side, as one moves among the pa
tients-an sorts and conditions of people. coming
from all varieties of homes and from no homes,
at all-stories fly up and hit one in the face. Or
if the human appeal means nothing, one may be
girded up by visions of the $50 week that will
presently, as a private nurse, be earned.
And there is one thing to be said of the work.
With the first day of probation one is right in the
midst of it, and any young woman who under
takes the training with the notion that nursing
is a romantic occupation consisting of holding
sick persons hands and smoothing their broWs,
is relieved of the misconceptfon While she can
yet retreat in good order.
Il thought" a probationer in a New-York
training school wrote to friend, Il thought L
knew what work was before came here was
kept tolerably busy at home But now 1 per-
ceive that what 1 formerly regarded as work
was really just what you might call potter1ng.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
A FAsT-BLACK PATIENT.

''If it were not for the patients 1 should drop"
she continued, "bnt their numerous ills sort OF
make you forget your own sore feet and lame
back and their little ways keep you interested.
The ward am in is called by the internes and
others around the hospital the bum ward,
meaning that we get many disreputables. But
that is not quite exact; some OF our patients are
buns but more are workmen- One man on the
side of the ward where mostly circulate is
thin little wizened negro, exceedingly black;
has crushed ribs and broken arm. The day
he was brought in started to wash his face,
and when had done 30 the water was as black
as he was l took fresh water and washed him
again; same result again. water black as ever.
FINALLY when his flesh WIS beginning to feel
quite aayed. and was wondering If It could be
that n color came off, though his face didn't look
as If It had lost any, he spoke:
"'Ah'm q chipnney-sweep. Miss he said
'Yas'n; got to mex ma livtn' someways.
i've not got that negro clean yet. though he's
bsen here week, and my head nurse Fsproved
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10

man Gained down. she thought" said mem
Der Of this nurses class, who was telling the
story, land she attended to the other patients
in the ward, and then she went across to h.
She was busy in there giving fever patients
baths and taking temperatures and doing hItV
other stunts, when suddenly she heard a noise
in [. She rushed back through the nan "hIcn
divides the two wards and there was that u l.
patient going head first out of a window inns
was on the third floor, by the way She mace
one plunge and caught him by the feet II
wasn't time for argument. man VINO sees
eleven pink rattlesnakes chasing him isn't TO De
argued with She wrapped her arms around ms
legs hooked her feet to the nearest ped' ana
shrieked for the orderly, but the orderly nao
gone downstairs; the patients were all too SICK
or too frightened or confused, to do anythlns'
and there she fought alone, and she's not large
s;ri. holding that lunatio back from death Ana
she held to him till help came, though by that
time he had struggled across the narrow balcony
outside the window, and all but over the RAIL-
dragging her with him."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-10
WORSE THAN DEATH.

The Lying-In Hospital IN 17th-st.. where
nurses In the hospitals so to get their train
iro An obstetrics, Is place where EornAtIInAa oEs
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Continued on second page.
The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1905-11-18
Twas Only Lettuce.

- -
There is evidently no truth in the
statement that the water hyacinths
are spreading on the lower canals of
the Florida Coast Line Canal and
Transportation Company for the
Delray correspondent of the Miami
Metropolis says: Captain Geo. G.
Gleason, of st. Augustine, who spent
last Wednesday in town and took a
trip down as far as the Hillsboro In
let, looking up the rumor in regard
to water hyacinth being in the canal
found only lettuce which will do nc
damage"