New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-29
No Joke 70 Oenyse.

NO JOKE 20 Oenyse'
Are YOU sure your friends were not
playing a practical joke on you?'' asked
Mr. Scofeld.
They didn't act as though they were.
replied Denyse "Anyway I believed
them"
He was asked 10 describe the jar. u
was eight inches high. ne said. and about
five inches in diameter, yellow stone
crock with a fiat cover like that of a
preserve jar. The cover was not fast
ened down or sealed. and he was sure
such was the case with the other jars
containing human ashes.
Colonel George r. WarinE. jr.. former
Street Cleaning Commissioner of New
York. died on October 20, 1895. at his
home in Second avenue. from yellow
fever. He had contracted the disease In
Havana. where President Mckinley had
sent him. following the Spanish war, 10
study the problem of sanitation present
ed there. Immediately after his death
his body was placed in ap hermeticallv
sealed coffin and transferred 20 swim
burne Island, where early in the MORN
ing Of October 81 IT was cremated. Tho
disposition Of the ashes is best described
by DR.. Doty, who absolutely denied
and condemned Denyses testimony last
night
MY attention has been called" said
he. TO a statement made by Arthur
Denyse at the investigation to-day I'm re-
gard 70 the ashes Of Colonel Waring. IL
would be difficult for me TO express my
indignation regarding the character or
this statement. Colonel Warnings BODY
was cremated at SwInburne Island. The
ashes We're placed in an urn and de-
posted in a vault at that place. and
subsequently they were forwarded TO the
relatives Of Colonel Waring IL would
seem 70 be hardly necessary 10 empha-
size the statement that the ashes ~
Colonel Waring We're not treated in the
sacrilegious manner referred to-"
Reporter Passes" Vessels.
Richard Lee. who has been employed
at Quarantine for thirty years as marine
correspondent Of The Associated Press.
was the first witness called when the IN
quirv was resumed at 1890 och, x
yesterday morning Lee said he was
also employed by Dr. Doty 20 board
coastwise vessels at times and pass"
them.
You made sanitary inspections
boats when the physician, the regular
boarding officer. was not present"
asked Charles Dushkind attorney FOR
the complaiuants against Or. Doty. Lee
replied IN the affirmative.
You would issue permits FOR vessels
10 proceed. and sign the name of the
boarding officer who was not present."
Lee said he would ask the officers Of
the ship n they had any sickness aboard.
and on getting a negative reply would
issue the necessary permit I'm return for
fee. Commissioner Bulger remarked.
The witness may have had lle right %
20 on the vessels and make inspections.
but ne had no right 10 charge a zee OF any
kind. Then. again, it is the duty OF the
health officers 20 examine vessels SO as
p
TO guard this port Tor instance. from
yellow fever from. New Orleans. This
only a physician could do"
Mr. Scoreld said he thought the fees
were properly collected. but that Il they
we're not the shipowners should sue the
state FOR their return. since they all went
/ into the state treasury.
Denyse. who lives I'm Tompkinsville.
followed his former employer on the
stand and testified that he (Denyse) used
to assist In the collection OF fees from
coastwise ships. often going alongside In
small boat ana receiving the fee over
tho side in a bucket, in which he would
place the "pratique slip permitting TIC
vessel To proceed He said he had often
J boarded an ocean liner with "a. 49,