The Washington herald., 1914-07-04
on THE GREAT WHITE WAY.
ny O. O. MINT YuE.

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spscial Correspondent Of The washingtoa Herald.
New York. July 3.-Dr. Sidney Z. Smith
has .defed the health department. and
announced publicly that Mrs. C. z.
Mercer. a patient. was killed by an IN
oculation OF the health departments
typhoid serum. Several. other deaths in
| serum. and yet the health department
defends It vigorously. DR.. Julian ].
Myer. a tuberculosis specialist, has added
xest to the controversy by inquiring why
the health department put the ban on
the Friedman vaccine serum, when the
| records do not show a single death d.
rectly from its use. On the other hand.
DR.. Myer. in his statement declares that
the percentage OF cures have been moth
ing short Of startling.
One may. IL one cares, get a shot of
cocaine on the street in our little city
4 by the payment Of a dime This inter-
esting information was brought out when
Nellie Brockner and Viola Grant were
picked up by detectives on Thirty-nfth
street. The women walked along the
street. and several sallow-complexioned.
sunken-cheeked youths followed them.
ed. Then the saw the youths bare their
drug.
There are many New York merchants
who have their Offices here, but live in
Philadelphia and ride back and forward
every DAY. One OF these Philadelphia
commuters is none other than Theordore
n. Vail. the telegraph king. There are
\ also several merchants who even COM
mute to Washington twice a week. So
IL was not strange when Fra Eleerr
Hubbard announced that he was going
to open a gymnasium for tired New York
business men in East Aurora-which Is
Buffalo. The Fra elieves that
mar men would not hesitate to come
down to his physical training place from
New York several times a week. He
has even secured the services OF Charles
Postl. the Chicago physical trainer. to
direct the work, and Postl will com
mute" from Chicago several times a
month to look after things.
II is the notion Of Franklin P. Adams
the humorist. that a good sport is a man
who won't read the love letters that
newspapers print in divorce stories. In
fact. Adams believes that reading them
isn't far above key-hole peeping. Singu-
larly enough 1t has been learned that
copy reader on one Of the morning
papers was dismissed because he refused
to read the copy Of the Schuman- Heink-
Rapp divorce. He said that he didn't be-
lieve he had any right to read these
letters, and that IL other copy readers
would. do as he did. newspapers would
eventually refuse TO print them
Bill Snyder. of the Central Park me-
nagerie. is always on the lookout for
romance He once caught a donkey try
ing to charm a bull moose, and some
time later a monkey grooming his better
half IN an imitation Of Caruso. The other
day, however. was the first time Snyder
ever realized the intimacy that might
exist between a hippopotsmus and a. cat
He heard a meowing near the hippo
tank. He found the corporations cat
sitting on the edge Of the tank with
Kongo. the baby hippo, sitting on the
opposite edge. Kongo grunted, Minnie
meowed. and Kongo toddled up and lick
ed the cats face. Then they rolled and
gamboled about till Kongo saw Eynder.
The hippo then filled its nose with water
and blew II over the keeper. Anyway
all is fair in love or war.