The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-23
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N85 NEW#fYoRIl, Jul 90 % -- w On top ofs
one OF the highest bull dings In the world
for ii x ty-oe days there has ain abso5s
lIutely8 unconscious o sir six years old.
whose little body Is ri 80 distorte IL bys
spinal meningitis that the legs are {tWlst-7S
I'd backward and II her toes are sS locked
behind her ears. She Is the daugh terSofS
Superintendent ylor, OF y the foot Dot
Iskyscrap per, 1T N .. 80 Wall Street and
day after day the tenant OF Il tho tell J
building have met the "a her With sallx-sS
sious Inquiries as to the little girl Il cons
iditlon. Hut for two months now his an-Ss
3swer has been al ways 81 the same, and 4
the twisted, shriveled heap bone the he
white sheets has con inued through the
days and weeks barely to8 breat he. es
hum and Il roar OF 4 the 4 city III rising &
around her bed has allen on 8unh edinG$ ]:
ears and the lights on \; the II bayl8i have
StWinkled over the edge Of The sRlndoW.iS
sill into &unseeing eyes. 81;
AZ Tho child was more dead N nan a. I've 4
Ethrou g II much OF May and oil ~ June, ana
mas a continued so Pllysici clans II say the
5pass into medical history. Spinal 8mentns3Ss
gifts usually runs Its co urse wi til alMost
the swiftnesa OF the eadsman' s. axe. But
hero Is a patient who W as \ Heized wit hi
the disease on the first OF May went
through strange symptoms that may have
been a crisis on the 21st Of that MONTH.
aud now, In tho last ten days OF Jul
still living. hi ssSs
Tenants Miss Sufferer. 81
But while physicians are studying Elsie
as a .case. = there are hu dredsS q tens Iss
ants who have thought q bout her, but I'M
no cold -blooded, scientific way. Her plA
eyes her light curly hair parted on the
side. the dimples that showed d at each
5bashful smile when they spoke to her Y,
the high marbled entrance hall all made ss
1t hard for them Il t 4 think q of her ns III
cease. e n Prosperous bankers. laWyerssS3
even tho clerks with shiny sleeves missed \
her in less than q week from tho time /.
she was carried from her school one n N
day and laid In 4 the large room that
looks down upon the dwarflsls pultd'ne ~ I
below, Ii gis8 gs silf85 y y
All winter and spring she has been 2
familiar sight to them ms aho set out IN
the morning lust as they came, wi n herS5s
hooks dangling from n strap IN her han d.ssss
EARLY In the ftern6on, when they were
hurrying back from olu bs. afes and guiok
luncl, rooms, they had often stopped 70
shake hands with her and ASK mel aWna
she had learned that day. s 81;
Tho stricken girls father has been
something OF stole through It all and nd
he has not told the tenants py any 7, !, "
ali Of what has been going on ~ III
wind swept rooms far above the hustle
and noise Of the great money market
hundreds Of feet below, The tenants
knew that there was q llfeIandid death
atruggle on above. but Its details they
never learned. and even last night, when 4
Taylor ana his wife sat on the root Wild !
their eyes fixed on the rim q silgn1s
no desire to tell It. N