The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-04
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Wrapped In Blankets Frozen to Her Body Mrs. Harriet Ward is Found in Her Fashion able Home After Four Days Without Food.

Wrapped in blankets and comfortables which had frozen stiff about her frail body, suf- fering from cold and hunger, and enjoying only the compan- ionship of a little Japanese ter rier, Mrs. Harriet Montgomery Ward, was rescued from death.
 The scion of one of the oldest and finest families in Connecticut, and at one time woman of considerable wealth, was removed to Hillside Home by local charities officials yesterday afternoon, when she was found virtu- ally at the point of death, huddled in a chair in which she had sat without food or warmth for the past four days, in the flooded, frozen kitchen of her handsome residence at 539 Hunt ington Road.
 Left in a decidedly weakened con- dition by the combined effects of her narrowing experience and her advanced l age, Mrs. Ward responded but slightly l to the treatment administered to her at the poor house. and is today in a serious state. though expected to re- cover. She will remain at the institu- ton until relatives have made pro- vision for her comfort.
 Although she bore signs of intense suffering. Mrs. Ward retained all her former spirit and nride when Pharma- cist Alexander MacPherson, of the emergency hospital staff, called at her home to take her to Hill Side, and ob- jected strenuously to going to the poor-farm. After an hours argu- ment, however, she was persuaded to assured that her dog, '~Toto," a val uable little animal, would be well cared for during her absence, she quite willingly consented to go. Mac | Pherson was compelled literally to carry her to the ambulance. her own tottering limbs refusing to support her slight weight.
 Evidence came to light after Mrs. Ward had gone to Hill Side, to show that she had been sitting alone in her frozen, cheerless kitchen for at least four days, and that during all that time she had not touched food Ito her lips. The conditions found by Pharmacist MacPherson in her home were pitiful in the extreme.
 The house is a substantial, we'll built structure, equipped with cost ly steam-heating plant, but this was not in operation. The boiler in the heating system had burst, as had pipes and radiators, and these were coated with ice. The room in which Mrs. Ward sat was flooded, and part of, the water was frozen. There was TO fire in a kitchen range nor in a gas. stove. Not a bite of food was to be found.
 There was coal a plenty in the eel lar bins, but the heating plant was not running because it needed re- pair, and the plumber summoned some time ago had not called to dc the work. Furthermore, Mrs. Wards housekeeper, a woman who had lived with her for some time, quit her em- ploye about two weeks ago, leaving her aged mistress to shift for herself when last weeks severe cold wave came on.
 A neighbor. yesterday discovered Mrs Wards plight, and after giving her as much food as she though would be safe after so long period of hunger, notified the charities de, partment of the unfortunate woman: predicament, with results as described | above.
 Mrs. Wards career has within tn, past several years not been withou misfortune. Before her marriage sht was a New Haven girl, Harriet Mont gomery Atwater, daughter of a well to-do merchant and financier, who tr his day, was president of two O the largest banks in the Elm city Miss Atwater was noted for her lcharm and beauty. and was courted
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