New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-19
NURSE, UNPAID,
TENDS STRAY ELK
Woman Followed Wheel
Chair of Wanderer in
40,000-M Plea
CRIPPLE AGAIN
SEEKING HOTEL
Insists Order Must Sup
port Him as He Quits
Suite in York

Harry Pannill, who has lived well at
many fashionable hotels on the credit
of the Order of Elks, seemed last night
/ to have reached the end of his string
/ Of hospitabe hotel men. He covered
many cold and windy Broadway blocks
searching the side streets in vain for
I fresh hotel whose latchstring was out
/ for him.
Not until midnight did the crippled
man and his wheel chair and the little
nurse, who divided her energy be-
/ tween trying to cheer up one and push
along the other, find haven oil refuge
/ in the Hotel Remington.
Maybe il was true as the hotel clerks
/ said. that the rooms had all been taken.
/ Or maybe words Of warning had been
passed along the line ahead of the
wheel chair by those hotels which al
ready had had the doubtful benetit OF
the Elk-hunting paralytic's patronage,
Excep in rare instance, Mr.. Pannl!l
doesn't settle his hotel bills-not be-
cause he hasn't the will. but because
he hasn't the money. 1t is his theory
that the Order Of EMS should meet all
his living expenses, and the coin IN
which he paws Is an order on the Grand
Lodge of Elks, because he once was
an Elk.
All that involves a long explanation,
which at best ends in the air and is
aside from the mark so far as tnis
story is concerned. For the story IS
intended to set forth sketchily how
H. c. Pannill, totally paralyzed and
without stable income, has been able
TO keep on one continuous grand tour
of the United States for the last four
or five years.
On the Move Again
pannill started his day at the Hotel
York. Seventh Avenue and Thlrty-slXth
Street. Thither he had gone when the
management of the Waldorf, perturbed
bv his efforts to break in on the Elks
banquet Saturday night, had turned
him out of mis- SIC day suite.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon Pannlli
was informed by the manager OF the
York that he would either have TO pay
in advance for another day or find new
quarters. OF the S12 which had been
contributed toward his current eX-
penses by sympathetic persons the
night before. 81 remained, and PannlIl
decided to move.
Leaving behind their baggage-two
battered suitcases, held together py
labels: a pasteboard box and couple
of paper bundles-Pannill and Mis-
Catherine Jerrick, the nurse, went 70
the clubhouse Of New York Elk Lodge
/ No. /, IN Forty-third Street, near Sixth
Avenue. They waited there couple
of hours, but were not permitted 10 see
either Clayton J. Heermance, exalted
ruler of the local lodge, or Albert
Leach, past grand exalted ruler.
"I've got right 10 be supported oy
the Elks,r complained Pannill. after he
Rad exchanged greetings with the house
detective of one of the hotels in when
he had been an unpaying guest. Nhen
/ hurt myself / was an Elk IN good
, standing. and it isn't right they should
turn me down.
an the last few years I've travelled
more than 10000 miles, putting my case
before lodges of Elks in all parts OF
/ the country and trying to get justice.
Rut about the best | get is enough
money TO move on to the next stop
pretty Tough" He Says
Miss Jerrick had tucked the heavy
chair blanket warmly around her pa
/ tent. but he shivered as the wlnd
/ swept through the street;
/ Pretty tough" he said, TO be kept
/ cut in the cold like this.
/ Tho nurse was shivering, too. she
bod no blanket for protection. Hell
suit of light serge had been built for
summer wear and the soles Of her
shoes were paper thin.
Catherine derrick must have been
more than ordinarily good-looking girl
when she took Pannill's case four years
ago. She is yet-in tired ana Wor-
ried sor. Of way. 40, 3,
"Hard on me?" she laughed. "Oh, |
don't know. A trained nurse doesn't
ever have cinch.'
The nurse said that in four years
she had received just $500 OF her pay,
which theoretically is $50 week. The
navments were made through two
/ neriods. during which the Elks as
I sumed Pannill's expenses, and the
money was subsequently spent on the
natient's support when the other in
come stopped.
"Clothes?" Miss Jerrick went on.
"Why, just don't have occasion 70
wear any good ones. This IS the only
/ suit | have. and I've had it for two
wears. My nursing uniforms cost only
/ fftv cents apiece. and my sister sends
/ those from Oklahoma City
/ Miss Jerrick says there isn't any
romance about her devotion to Pan
mill. -.
/ "The case came 20 me in the ordi-
nary way" she explained. When my
nav stopped | saw that no one else was
Going TO do anything for Mr. Pannil!.
probably. Il was just I'D 20 me, Tor II