The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-28
NO DOCTOR TO EASE HOMELESS LABORER'S DEATH His Fellows in Cheap Lodg- ing in Water Street Call
 in Vain for Aid. POLICE CALLS FOR
 PHYSICIAN FUTILE After Many Hours, Death Comes to Relieve His In
 tense Sufferings. 4

John Youngs is dead. He was 2 man of little repute, fact whict prevented his obtaining that medica aid which might have saved his life He had no known friends nor relatives Homeless on the eve of Christmas his share of Yuletide cheer was a narrow cot in the attic of a 15-cen1 lodging house at 559 Water street which bore the identification mark NO. 13-' 7 aOvercome by the primary effects o1 quick pneumonia, he had staggered into the establishment last Saturday at midnight His plea for medical assistance resulted in the police be- ing notified For IA hours they left no stone unturned in their efforts te have him removed to a hospital or given that urgent treatment by at taches of the Board of Charities which might have saved his life.
 Repeated telephone calls to the Emergency hospital were ignored The fiotsam-jetsam of humanity, who are the inmates of what are termed '.nops'' are perhaps Of social strata beyond the pale of official aid or tol- eration-
 Youngs tossed on a bed of pain neglected by all but unfortunates like himself. They wet his parched! burning lips, with water from bat tered tin dipper, until the mercies of death put an end to his IA hours of agony. A physician from the Chari- ties Board arrived when life was ex- tinct- The medical examiner pro- nounced death due to pneumonia and the body was taken to the morgna.
 This morning the mortal remains Of John Younes were buried in: a nan1e1ess gravel dug in the coarse field of stubble, which surrounds the Hiflside Home. There were no ob- seQnies- That painful unostentation which marks the passing of paupers prevailed. A frail stick thrust un.- ceremoniously in the ,fresh-turned sod, marks the last resting place of adarnant society's victim.
 The alleged neglect of the dying man is today the chief topic in official circles. Last Sunday morning at 11:30 o'clock, a .shivering unfortun- ate-approached Patrolman Edward Wheeler and asked the latter to get aid for a man who was dying il, the lodging house run by Peter Khara- drian- The policeman called up Lieut. Joseph A Hazel at police Headquarters and related the cir cumstances-
 Wheeler was connected by phone with the Emergency hospital The police of11cer-of the big open very ill in the lodging house, seemed to ashave pneumonia or heart trou- ble." and asked that attaches of the Emergency come to his aid. His duty performed, he left his beat at 9 o'clock, one hour and half after the -can and was relieved by Patrol man Fred Derrick
 i About 8 o'clock that morning, seven and a half hours after the first request for aid an inmate of the lodging house approached Derrick in Water street and asked him to come into the lodging house and see a man swho is dying" The patrolrlan hurried into the house, c1ihQbed four flights of stairs and notings Youngg condition hurried out and called up Sergeant James Ramsey at police headquarters, asking to be put on the Emergency hospital wire.
 ! He related to some attache the circumstances and requested aid as the man was in a serious condition. Derrick's call met the same fate as that of Patrolman Wheeler-itl was ignored. About 10 o'clock John Finn, an habitue of the place, ac- costed the patrolman and begged aid be obtained.
 sIt was a shame to leave the poor fellow to die like that Finn told a Farmer representative last night ESQ I asked the cop to see if he couldn't dc som mething for him. The cop tried hard enough. but you know how it is.'
 Derrick again called police head quarters and talked with the Elmer gency hospital He appealed four times that morning over the tele- phone for aid. Youngs was in bad shape N"and required immediate at tentien," he told the hospital. His pleas for succor fell upon deaf ears.
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