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Gently Of tho successful TRANSMISSION OF
blood from a healthy husband to his wife
critically III IN a Jersey City hospital. This
sick woman Is Mrs. Anna Bradley. The
hospital physicians deemed TRANSMISSION the
only hope Of saving the woman's life. and
nearly a pint OF blood taken from Mr..
Bradley's veins was forced into her en-
feeblcd circulating system. Beneficial re-
suits were soon observed. becoming more
marked with each passing hour, and con-
tinuing so steadily that Mrs. Bradley was
pronounced out Of danger four days after
the operation. Now comes the second
stage Of the operation developing results
more surprising 10 the physicians than the
woman'9 recovery. Mrs. Bradley is turn
ing into a man. A few weeks ago she was
the most feminine of women, frail. in
tensely nervous, subject TO fainting fits at
the least excitement, and literally weak
as a woman Today her nerves are as
unshskable as though they we're wires
OF steel, her muscles have hardened until
they are as firm as those of a man, and
as for fainting under the stress of any
kind OF excitement, Mrs. Bradley herself
would be the first to laugh at the idea.
The doctors declare that they can even de-
tect a change in the timbre Of Mrs. Brad
ley's voice, that it has taken on an I'M
mistakably masculine tone.
All this has been effected by the infusion
into the woman's veins OF a large quantity
Of mans blood. Relatives who have visited
at the hospital say that they would hardly
know her and that she appears more like
her younger brother, an athlete of some
reputation, than her former self.
Mrs. Bradley wants to leave the hospital
now, but the physicians are delaying her
departure as long as possible in order to
record the changes that are being worked
in her. She dislikes the notoriety that her
case has entailed, but has agreed to sub
NIT to it for a few days longer for the good
that it may do in furthering medical
knowledge.
The only explanation possible, accord
ing to the doctors, is that the blood of
Patrick Bradley has so changed his wife
that she has in reality become a part Of
him. The matter, which will be the sub
ject for discussion at the next meeting Of
the Essex County Medical society, opens
all manner Of possibilities.
The husband in a strapping six-footer. a
strong, dark, remarkably virile man. An
athlete all his life, he had never known a
day Of serious illness. Just as his wife
was a typical example of womanly weak
ness, he was a type of the strong man.
No. 9 Willoughby street, Brooklyn. will
continue to be an auction room, as it has
been for over thirty years, but as the
Willoughby street auction room, the fam
Gus political headquarters Of the late Hugh
Mclaughlin. it has passed into history, re-
ports the New York Sun.
No. 8 gained its distinction more than a
generation ago. when Mr.. Mclaughlin,
long the unquestioned boss Of the Kings
county democracy, established his personal
headquarters there. The late Thomas r.
Kerrigan, the city auctioneer, owned the
building at the time and had his office
there. He was a close personal friend of
Mr.. Mclaughlin and the visits OF the latter
to the auction room became so frequent
that by degrees the place became known
as his headquarters.
No political boss in the country had
more modest and unpretentious quarters
than were allotted to Mr.. Mclaughlin at
No. 9. The political sanctum was a single
back room on the first floor and the furni-
ture consisted of half a dozen chairs, a
couple of benches and a couple of desks of
old fashioned type. There was no carpet
and the floor and the walls were utterly
devoid Of pictures or decorations.
1t was in this dingy room that the boss
met the big men from all over the country
VINO from time to time visited Brooklyn
to consult with him, and 1t was here that
he held his daily consultations with his
lieutenantsa and planned his political battles.
Kermit Roosevelt is to be the official
photographer with the presidents party
on the African hunting trip. In prepare
tion for this important work the young
man Is studying with Frank NJ Chapman,
the ornithologist of New York City. The re-
sponsibility, which will rest on Kermits
shoulders will be heavy, for all his
fathers accounts of his adventures are to
be Illustrated. The president is anxious
TO bring back photographs OF rare African
birds and other animals taken in life for
several of the big museums. including the
Smithsonian institution at Washington, and
the American Museum Of Natural History
here. The president was anxious to have
Mr.. Chapman him, but when
this was found. to be impossible II was de-
cided that Kermit should get a. complete
camera outfit and be trained in its use by
Mr.. Chapman. Mr.. Chapman is associate
curator of the Department OF OrnitholoRy
of the Museum of Natural History. and
has made a study of the photographing Of
birds and animals. Kermit will have to
snap the birds on the hop, skip and jump.
A pair OF king cobras from India, which
Curator Raymond J.. Ditmars says are
the most deadly of all known reptiles, are
two expensive new boarders at the Bronx
park zoo. These cobras eat nothing but
live snakes. They usually eat two at a
meal. Live snakes cost the zoo manage
ment Sl,5O-even the most common species.
But these king cobras have eaten nothing
since they arrived, threee months ago.
Curator Ditmars and Keeper snyder of
the reptile house will make an effort this
week to procure live snakes for them.
The cobras which are fasting Just now
because of the lack of food snakes are
each about twelve feet long. They are
the most vicious in the collection and are
kept in a cage TO themselves. Their long
fast seems to have had no effect upon them,
unless it is to make them uglier than usual
An Old-fashioned English stonemason Is
employed in a yard in upper Hoboken TO
chisel tombstones. He makes &. 40 a day.
as against $2.33 in the old country. He
lost his job last week, and there was
some protest, to which the manager re-
piled: He is a splendid workman. but
he is always getting us In trouble. Why