The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01
MOTHER AND SON STRICKEN WITH TYPHOID Mrs. w. J. Baird and Son, Donald, Taken to
 Hospital ARE VICTIMS OF WOODMONT EPIDEMIC Husband and Father Is Man ager of Meigs & Co.'s
 Store
MT. Baird Heard Comforting Intelligence from His
 Family Today

Among the typhoid fever patients taken from Woodmont to New Haven hospital yesterday were Mrs. w. J. Baird and her little son, Donald, of Bridgeport. They are the wife and 6 Co. of this city.
 This afternoon MT. Baird received a telephone message that both of the pa tients passed a very comfortable nj--..- and that the maaady had not taken an intensely dangerous form in either in stance.
 Mr. Baird was asked how he ac- counted for the epidemic at Wood mont. He replied: T don't know. That is g. question that is being asked on every side and the authorities in charge should be made to answer it. The situation has reached a state where it is a terrible thing.''
 MT. Baird was the former manager of the coInpany's store.
 The first death resulting from the typhoid epidemic which is scourging Woodmont this summer, occurred there yesterday under very pathetic circum- stances, when Frederick Hotchkiss Miner of New Haven, young draughtsman, who had been ill for but two weeks, died 8 few moments after
  lady who was to have been his bride under happier circumstances later in the month. Miner was stricken a couple of weeks ago and in his illness he had Been nursed with tender love byS Miss4 HeleE4 Crone of Milford, a scfl6Sl t4lchfr of that town, to whom he was engaged to be married. Yes- terday his condition was seen to be very critical by Dr. Bean c. Bangs, who has been attending him, and real srsv, fhot I,4 I,o<I hut forxr ,rp.o hours to live, Miner was carried to the home of his bride-to-be to die.
 When the young couple had become conscious of the fact that in a short time death would put an end to all their plans they decided that it should find them man and wife, and with her lover lying on his deathbed, Miss Crone was united in marriage to him at her home last night by Bishop Williams, who is residing in Woodmont. Short ly after the marriage ceremony had been performed the young man died
 Frederick H. Miner was in his 24th year and was employed as an illus trator with the Stoddard-Brown com pany of New Haven. His wife is but 21 and a popular school teacher of Mil William R. and Carrie Pardee Miner of New Haven. The funeral services will be strictly private.
 The full seriousnesS of the outbreak has just begun to be realized with the coming of death into the midst of the summer vacation camps.
 Mrs. Harte of Woodmont, was taken to the New Haven hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from typhoid. A. Rowden King, of the New Haven Journal-Courier, who has been in the hospital since Monday, is doing as well as can be expected under the circum stances.
 Dr. Hartshorn, who has been ap- pointed milk inspector of Woodmont on account of the trouble which is considered due to the milk supply, said last night that the new regulations now in effect are even more stringent than those in this city, and is confi- dent that the new licensing law will soon straighten out matters. He be- lieves the worst is over now. The epidemic has hit the shore ho- tels hard and most of them are closing either this week or next. The cot tages also are closing early because of the typhoid.