The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-08
JACKSON'S NOSE BROKEN AFTER
 SHOT OF SERUM Mishap May Keep Him From Participating Tn
 Naval Cruise
FELL TO THE FLOOR
 FOLLOWING INJECTION
Particulars of Cruise of, Ma val Reserves on Battleship
 Rhode Island July g

Although he is inocculated with anti-typhoid serum there is a. possi-
 bdIity that Seaman Jackson of the
 Third Division. Naval Reserves. will
 not go on the annual cruise of the sailor Iboys on July 23. Jackson has 8. broken nose which it is alleged he
 received when he was inocculated at the State armory on Monday night.
 It is claimed that, just after pr. Willis H. Grove, of New Haven, surgeon of the Connecticut Reserves, had inject
 ed the serum into Jackson's right forearm with g. hyperdernaic needle, the seaman tainted and tunoled to the floor on his face. It so happened that the surgeon had turned his back for a moment after rubbing iodine on the spot where the infection had been
 made and there was no one close to Jackson to note his condition.
 He gave no signs of being overcome but toppled forward face downward on the hard wood floor of the equipt n1ent room of the reserves where the asnti-typhoid serum was being admin istered. Dr. Grove and others hur- riedIy picked him up and after restor- ing him to consciousn ess 1t is said the doctor dressed his hurts and then Jackson was sent home 5n a, taxi-cab
 nless he has sufficiently recovered he will not be taken on the cruise which starts on July 2S. Lieut.. A. J. Merritt, comn1anda.nt of the local division could not be located today when an effort was made to get fur ther Information on the subject
 The anti-typhoid serum was Issued by the government to the surgeons of the reserves when 1t was anticipated that the reserves would be called for service in Mexican waters It is claim fever. All officers and men of the U. S. army and navy have to gubraits to inocc11latfon. y.
 The Reserves will go on a cruise l for 20 days this year, the longest in the history of their organization The'I Bridgeport and South Norws.lk divis- ions will leave this city at 6:3s and gy by train to New Haven.
 The local Reserves have been ordered l to assemble in their armory at 5:30 on the morning of Thursday, July g. At New Haven they with other members of the Connecticut Reserves will ern- bark on the U. $. battleship Rhode Isl- and. They win go to Newport where they will take on board the Rhode Isl and naval reserves, then to Portland. | Me, where they will take the Maine 1 navel reserves. The Rhode Island 1 will be under direct command and | by officers of the naval re- serves of the three states mentioned l but United States naval officers will be | on board as supervisors.
 me E1nOOo 4Slan0 VIII rSnnaln ouSi Halifax, N. S., for four days and dur ing this time all well behaved Inenb CTS of the various commands will be al- | lowed 24 hours shore leave. From Halifax the Rhode IslanS will go to | Bay, Me. where there will l be practice in boats, landing. parties, | signalling, etc. The Bridgeport d. 1 vision will reach home on the morning l of Friday, August T About 68 men | win go on the trip from Bridgeport all l Of them have received the anti typhoid l serum with no i'll effects and they are 1 enthusiastic over the prospect of their long cruise.