The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-26
Dr. Friemann Of Berlin Who
Believes He Has Discov-
cred q Cure is Now
in America.
PEOPLE FLOCK TO HIM
Will Give Treatments Tomor.
& row Under Government
Supervision and May
Prove a Blessing

| United Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORn. Feb. 26.The revolr-
ing stormdoors of the Waldorf-Astoria
turned on more tuberculosis sufferers
| in a few hours today than possibly
ever went in and out OF the famous
hostelry in all its existence.
The big hotel was the mecca OF
white plague victims because it
housed blonde young German, DR..
Friederich Franz Friedman, the Ber-
Film scientist, who came here aboard
1.-The Kron Prinzessin Cecilie and
brought with him what he asserts is
cure for tuberculosis in every form
and stage except the Enthusiastically
hopeless cases
my culture is not cure for death, ;"
the young doctor explained in his best
English.
The fame of the Berli7 scientist
grew amazingi- over night when it
became known that he refused Bank
er Finiay's offer of sl.000,O0o for proof
that his cure is genuine. 4
The lung sufferers proyerbially are
the most optimistic and hopeful of all
the sick people of the earth. So the
white plaguers today made their pill
srimages to the waldorf-Astoria to
consult the specialist from abroad.
but they were doomed to initial dis
appointment DR. friedman de-
clined to consult patients, or make
any tests until tomorrow, when he ex-
poets to make his arrangements with
the United States government.
The government was the first to
welcome DR.. Friedman to America.
The first man OF the revenue cutter
that went down the bay to meet the
liner was DR.. Milton H. Foster, of the
ited States public health anc ma
rine hospital service. He was he
personal representative Of the surg.
1 co.. general. He at once asked DIR.
Friedman i Re would submit his cure
10 the government for test. and the
German unhesitatingly accepted the
proposition. Details OF the expert.
ment We're left TO conference that
DR.. friedman VIII hold tomorrow al
the Waldorf with a laboratory man
OF the marine hospital service.
Extreme nervousness and intensity
were the most striking characters
ties OF DR.. Friedman, when he was
seen today in his hotel apartment
His shock of blonde hair stool bolt
upright on his head, wholly innocent
OF comb or brush. and his close-crop
ped blonde moustache worked nerv
ously. showing til most extreme ami
nation. His dancing, shifting steel
blue eyes We're highly expressive
dilating with wonder and curiosity as
ne tried vainly to catch the questions
OF an interviewer, spoken in English
10 his secretary. Charlie De Vida
hundt, a former newspaper man, and
again contracting to pin-roints, blaz
ing with fire as he told of the wonders
OF his baecilli and his faith in tbs
efiiciacy of .iis brain child.
The scientist himself was takins
no chances with tuberculosis. Ths
most noticeable feature of his cos
tune was a pair of black rubber over
shoes, which he wore even in his bed
room. These were over dapper pat
ent leather, button shoes and payet
the way for modist pearlgTss spats
His long legs were encased in blacl
trousers with pearl-gray stripes Il
match the spats and of inordinats