davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New Britain herald., 1920-11-12
NO CROOKEDNESS.

New York, Nov. 12.-Practices of the U. S. Shipping Board which led to the present investigation were not corrupt, according to Commander A B. Clement, executive assistant to Rear Admiral ". S. Benson, who was the principal witness at the conclusion or the congressional committee inpesti- gation hearing yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1920-11-12
sUGAR DROPS LOWER.

New York, Nov. 12-There was an- other break of IA cent pound in the price of raw sugar yesterday with Cubas selling at cents, cost and freight, a new low record for the sea son.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

pay for it out Of their rations and
wages"
Accordingly, on the fifth day be-
fore Christmas, 1868, six-bed in
Urinary was opened, with Surgeon
Varrepger in charge. Assisting
him as matro1 at a salary Of 100
forms year, was Hilletje Wilbruch,
the wife Of Cadet Tobias Wilbruch.
It may be believed that Varrenger
was happy, too, for he had said in
urging the establishment Of such an
institution that he was "sorry to
learn that sick people suffered much
through cold, Inconvenience and the
dirtiness Of the people who had
taken the poor fellows (the soldiers)
into their homes, where bad smells
and filth counteracted all health-pro-
ducing effects Of the indictments
given by me; death has been the re-
suit in many cases, and more will
follow"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

soon alter Lord CORVALLIS sailed
away there were 800 inmates, about
one-third Of them women.
Raised by Lottery
In 1895 the institution housed 600
persons, counting sick, homeless and
malefactors. A public lottery was
held by authorization of the Legis-
lature, and with the $4,000 thus
realized a new group of structures
was erected on the north side of
Chambers Street. These served
fairly we'll for sixteen years, until
1910, when the almshouse and bride
we'll were crowded with the over
flow patients from the hospital, for
by that time New York had grown
to the dignity of a population of
5000.
In the rural district north of the
city was a farm fronting on the
East River that in 1772 had been
acquired by Robert Leake, who
named it Belle Vue.
The sailing ship Antoinette ar
rived at Whitehall Street dock on
May 20, 1906. Lying aft on the deck
under an awning made of old sail
cloth were two of the crew, suffering
agonies with yellow fever. Not de-
string to risk spreading the infec-
ton in the city, the health officer Of
the port, Richard Bayley, ordered
them taken to pest house that had
been established at Belle Vue,
which had been acquired by Mr..
Livingston. The place was also
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
Driven From Venice by Fear Of
Austrian Bombs, Ancient Steeds
Are Restored to Their Place

i've years, however, the horses seem
to have been forgotten; in 1929 the
Duke Pietro Ziani placed them above
the portal of st. Marks Basilica.
The early hypothesis that the
horses were Of Roman origin is as
sailed by A. DALI Acqua Giusti, the
Italian historian. He attributes this
tradition to the ignorance of Vene-
tlan chroniclers, who associated the
horses with the triumphal arch of
some Roman emperor, probably
Nero. DALI Acqua Giusti points out
that the quadriga, or triumphal
chariot drawn by four horses, was
by no means Roman invention, but
had been copied from Greek
model. 1t is actually identical with
the vehicle of the winner in the
Olympic chariot races held every five
years. According to the testimony
Of antique coins, such statues Of a
team OF tour horses had existed in
various places in ancient Greece.
Thus, Pliny speaks of one, executed
by Lysippus and standing in the Isle
Of Rhodes. Papias, the Byzantine
historian, mentions another group
Of four bronze horses broughtlfrom
Chios to Constantinople by the En-
peror Theodosius, who reigned in
the years 373-395. It is likely that
the Horses Of st. Mark are actually
identical with the latter group, in
which the theory of Roman origin
and the transfer to Byzantium by
Constantine the Great may be dis
carded. The story quoted by Sa-
nude, the Venetian writer, that the
horses hail from Persia is, Of course,
pure myth.
Symbol of the Republic
Ever since their arrival at Venice
the horses have been regarded as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
Famous Horses of St. Mark
Return Home in Iriumnh

symbolic of the destiny Of ST. Marks
Republic. Thus in the year 1879
when Venice was besieged from the
land side by the Padnans and from
the sea by the Genoese, the leader
OF the latter, Pietro Doria, said to
a Venetian envoy asking for truce:
Upon my honor, you shall not
nave peace until we have bridled
those unbridled horses Of yours that
stand on the palace Of your evan
gelist, st. Mark"
Notwithstanding the threat of the
Genoese admiral, the horses Of st.
Mark remained unbridled for an
other four centuries; but, strangely,
the prophecy implied in Doria's
words came true in 1897. In that
year the ancient Venetian Republic
was destroyed by Napoleon, then
First Consul of France; and the
event was marked by the s'bridling,"
as it were, of the four bronze
horses, which were taken by the
conqueror and carried away to his
distant capital. On conquering the
city, Napoleon demanded, among
other things, the cession Of twenty
paintings, mostly by Titan and
Veronese, adjoining the ducal palace
and the churches Of Venice. The
city council, however, petitioned him
to content himself with sixteen
paintings and offered to substitute
for the other four pictures the four
horses Of st. Mark. The latter, it
was said, will "be in Paris a monu-
ment worthy Of the achievements Of
these days, so famous in the annals
of the world"
Napoleon accepted the compro-
mise, and the horsee were taken.
Napoleon planned to hitch the four
bronze horses in front Of quadri-
ga which was to hold his own statue,
crowned with a wreath Of laurel,
after the manner of the Roman
Caesars. In 1906 the team was actu-
ally placed upon a triumphal arch
erected in front Of the imperial resi-
dence in Paris. A distich on the side
of the arch, commemorative the pro-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

ing the period between 1880 and
1897 the hospital occupied building
little south Of Warren Street and
east Of Broadway, for in the latter
year Mayor de Peyster sought a
larger house near the old site. In
1876 the hospital occupied plot of
ground now covered by the City
Hall, the surrounding territory being
known as the Vineyard" In those
days men injured in encounters with
hostile Indians were sometimes
treated at the hospital, as we'll as
fever sufferers.
The institution was then called
1.-The Workhouse, Hospital and
House Of Correction" The contrac-
tor who built it, John Roomer, re-
ceived $40O for the job and several
gallons of rum for "the men who
laid the beams and raised the roof"
DR.. John Van Buren, then became
the medical officer. He received
100 pounds annually, but had to
provide his own medicines.
When the British prepared to oc-
cupy New York during the Revolu-
tionary War patients and inmates
Of the hospital were transferred to
Poughkeepsie. Seven years elapsed
before they were brought back to
New York. Several additions were
built during that period and a CEN
sus of the institution showed that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
Three Hundred Years of Idle.
ness Have Dulled the Imag-
nation of Master Poet
By Haywood Broun

cause she has succeeded in convinc-
ing "men of the cloth, laymen, scien-
titic men, researchers, Jews, Catho-
lies and Professionals.
However, all this seems puny
proof indeed beside the guarantee of
the spirit of Shakespeare himself,
who is quoted at the beginning as
certifying that the book is dictated
exactly as herein found. No illitera-
cies, no deliberations chargeable to
the medium. My hand and seal here
on.-W. S. in spirit"
It is, perhaps, not to be wondered
at that Shakespeare has turned out
such profuse food Of words for
the new book, because it represents
his first attempt at writing from the
time Of his death until the morning
Of December 10, 1915, when he
dashed off three short poems called
"Peace After War;" Heaven Is a
Part Of Love" and "War No More
on Miss Shatford's ouija board.
Three days later he began speaking
to the medium directly and there
was no further need Of the board.
Moreover, Shakespeare's spirit takes
occasion in his foreword to state
that the book has been transmitted
entirely through my treasured
humble clairaudient. Sarah; the only
medium through whom l, as spirit.
have worked at words"
Rusty With Idleness
This was dictated as recently al
August ID, 1919.
One might suppose that after hi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

known to New Workers as Kip's
farm, after one of it's early owners.
The fever epidemic spread and the
rough board cabin at Belle Vue be-
came crowded with yellow fever pa
TENTS, many Of whom died soon after
they were delivered, with scant cere-
mony, at the pest house. Belle Vue
was unable to house ali the victims,
and a new pest house was estab-
lished on Bcdloe's Island, from
which Liberty now enlightens the
world.
Seven hundred yellow fever deaths
occurred during the summer of 1896,
and the entire city was quarantined.
Then the epidemic subsidized until
1893, when it broke out with re-
newed fury. BY that time Belle Vue
was accepted as an isolation hospi-
tai. From July until November
about 2,100 deaths occurred from
yellow fever and 1000 others died
from the after effects of the disease.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
the horses:
Greece coded them,
Rome has lost them,
Their fate changed twice,
1t will change no more"

This prophecy was not fulfilled.
In 1915, after the fall of Napoleon,
the horses were removed from their
Paris location at the order Of En-
peror Francis Of Austria and car
ried back to Venice, which then
formed the most highly priced gem
among the Hapsburg possessions. It
is strange irony of fate that the
same Austrians should have restored
the Horses Of st. Mark to their an
Gent home, whose barbarian meth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

NHERE used to be a theory
that when writer died he
stopped working. Even if he
did not attain heaven or
whereabouts, he at least had the sat-
isfaction of being done with the
task of setting down words on paper.
Unfortunately, the disquieting belief
is now advanced by some that for
the writing man death means no
more than the substitution of the
ouija board for the typewriter.
William Shakespeare, for in
stance, who was we'll regarded in his
day and even more highly thought
Of q few centuries later, might be
thought to have gained all the repu-
tation a. man could wish. Seem
AAS1y VIC ACSu AOI OK HISSSlOu ~ AOC
among the things which pass with
death, for there has just been issued
a thick 480-page book containing
some two or three hundred poems
and short prose selections written by
Shakespeare's spirit and published
under the title of "shakespeare's
Revelations.
Sarah Taylor Stafford, the earth
ly sponsor for the book, announces
that it required more than year
for her to take the dictation of
Shakespeare's spirit and two years
more to prove to the world that the
revelation was genuine. She makes
the publication now, she states, be.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
Officially Opened in 1916

Then after a few years the city
bought from the Kip estate for $22,-
494 the half dozen acres on which
Bellevue now stands. The corner
stone was laid in 1911. The War of
1912 was fought, and so the building
wasn't completed until 1916. On
April 20 of that year the Rev. John
Stanford officiated in the new chapel,
and Bellevue was declared open.
The grounds then extended from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
Hosting Of the horses its old place above the
Portal of St. Marks
tho horas $3.50

ods OF warfare necessitated, Just
one hundred years latet, the removal
of the priceless statues to the COM
parative safety of Rome.
During the late war, when raids
of the Austro-G German airmen mem
aced the art treasures of Venice, the
horses were first covered up with
sandbags, like the rest Of the public
monuments. However, it was
thought that the great weight Of
the group might, in case of an ex-
plosion, imperil the facade of ST..
Marks itself, and so the horses were
hoisted down and taken to Rome,
where they found accommodation in
the Baths of Diocletian. There they
remained until last November.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
As the City Grew

The best available records fix the
site Of Surgeon Varrenger's hos
pital in Broad Street, just north Of
Beaver. The institution remained
there until 1880, when it was sold
and a better building provided.
There is no exact record Of the next
location, but it is believed that dur
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
n HERE is a fat old horse at
Bellevue Hospital that
spends it's waking hours be-

spends its waking hours be-
tween the shafts Of a COW
cred vehicle resembling a grocer's
cart, measuring with his ambling
hoofs the few hundred yards that
separate the time-stained old build
ing from the new and larger red
brick pathological addition that con-
tains the city morgue.
AS = the horse clump, clump,
clumps under the blackened arch
that is tunneled through the old
building, it is the wagon Of the
dead that he draws. In his count
less journeys over the same path he
has learned to move with the great
est economy of effort, and as he
is the only horse on the premises
where there are many automobile
ambulances there is none to share
his oats and hay. These conditions
have conspired to make him fat.
No doubt he has driver but no
one ever pays any attention to him.
Must Learn New Tricks =
But now there are plans afoot
that will change the orderly routine
of the horse. The old building is
to be torn down. He will have to
travel new path for the rest of
his days. He may mourn the
change, but he will mourn alone.
To remove the old building will be
like discarding an ill-smelling, un-
fashionable garment reeking with
unpleasant memories and donning
fresh, clean clothes of modern cut,
for McKim, Mead & White have
drawn the plans for the new hos
pital that is to replace this worn
out, unsanitary and hideous build
ing, the cornerstone of which was
laid by Mayor De Witt Clinton
July 80, 1917. The design for that
building was drawn by Alderman
HIGHLAND in competition for a
500 prize offered by the Common
Council. This was 1853 years after
the hospital was first organized. But
1t was not until 1915 that the exist
ing structure was dedicated.
Opened in 1863
Jacob yarrcnger, surgeon to the
Dutch West India Company, sug-
gested it first. He said that New
Amsterdam, With it's growing popu-
lation Of 1000, should see to it that
"a proper place" be arranged for the
reception Of the sick where they
could be taken care Of by faithful
| person who would assist them bodily
with food, Are and light, ascldiers 10
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

I the East River to Second Avenue
from Twenty-fifth Street to Twenty
eighth Street. The main building
was of gneiss rock, 1926 by SIS feet,
with two wings, four stories high,
and in the center a cupola. The
north wing was for white and the
south wing for colored patients.
There were cells for the unruly and
apartments for maternity cases.
There were sixty rooms, 80 by "a
feet, and forty-one of these cham
bers were for paupers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
Most Modern in World

But from then on the history of
Bellevue is less gruesome story.
And now it is going to be the most
modern and the largest hospital in
the world.
The new Bellevue Hospital will
have 1000 beds, 500 more than the
structure it replaces. The specifi-
cations are now being prepared,
according to DR.. George O'Hanlon,
superintendent at Bellevue, who has
been there for the last ten years.
He said a few days ago that con-
tracts would be advertised and let
for the new building in about two
months. The new Bellevue group
will cost 100000, as against the
$421,109 that was paid for the
old building and the ground it
stands an.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
By Eugene S. Dagger

T(HE Horses Of st. Mark are
back in their old place. Re-
! moved, for fear Of destruc-
ton by Austrian bombs, on
Nav 81, 1915, to Rome, the price
less group Of the four bronze
horses was carried back to Venice
in veritable procession Of triumph
on November II last and replaced,
amid the enthusiastic ovations of
the Venetian people, on its old
PEDESTAL just above the portal of
the Basilica of San Marco. The
ceremony was described as "the
greatest event in Venice since the
beginning Of the war" =
So the peregrinations Of the IA
nous horses have come to an end
for the present, at any rate. For
these horses seem to display a
strange wanderlust-an inclination
to change their habitat every few
centuries or so. They have been
described as the oldest and, at the
same time, the most travelled ami
mails in the world.
How old are they? Nobody
knows for certain. Their story
reaches back into some uncharted
tracts Of Greco-Roman antiquity.
Legends and hypothesis concerning
their origin there are aplenty; GER
tainty there is not.
A diagram showing their wander
ings IN the course Of ages would lin
way, trace the progress Of Euro
pean civilization. Modelled by some
Hellenic sculptor-one version at
tributes them to Lysippus, one of
the greatest of the great-the team
may have been originally hitched to
the golden chariot bearing the,
statue of winner in the great
Olympic games. Tradition follows
the group tosimperial Rome, where
it may have adorned the triumphal
arch of victorious C@sar-Nero,
perhaps.
The next stage in the career Of
the four bronze horses finds them in
the Hippodrome of Constantinople,
whereto they had been transplanted
by Constantine the Great on the
transfer of the imperial capital to
Byzantium. There they survived, for
eight centuries, alike the ravages Of
plunder-mad barbarians and the re-
ilgious fury of survived
even the decree of Theodosius order
ing the destruction of all pagan mon
uments and symbols.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
Cost Only $42l,lO9

The cost of the structure and
ground totaled $421,1O9. The in
stitution was inclosed by a ten-foot
wall.
And that is the Bellevue that is
to be torn down. In 1919 and 1882
there were other epidemics, first Of
yellow fever and second of Asiatic
cholera. This scourge killed 900
out of 1000 sufferers brought to
the hospital and in other parts of
the city 1900 died.
There is no one alive who can
adequately describe conditions in
the hospital in those days. Old
DR.. Stephen Smith, who spent
the best days of his life work
ing at Bellevue, used to tell about
the method of performing surgi-
cal operations there in the days
before gold had been discovered in
California. There were no anes-
thetics, so the surgeon used to round
up four or five stout laborers to
hold the patient on the operating
table. He said the screams and
struggles of the unfortunate pa
tents were terrible The nurses in
those davs xuora Udr,,pksv u,hn ha 4
been sent to Bellevue from the city
courts. In 1848 the almshouse
part Of Bellevue was removed to
Blackwell's Island, where the bride
we'll also had been established. DR..
Smith has said that even as late as
1851 the nurses at Bellevue Hos
pital were 'ten day DRINKS" from
Blackwell's Island. Trained nurses
were just beginning to be heard
nf then
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
Napoleon's Loot

restored to Venice, there to stay un-
molested for exactly 100 years. Be-
tween May, 1915, and November,
1918, once again, after lapse Of
1900 years, their abode was Rome;
ana now they are back in the place,
winch, after all, can be considered
as their proper home-the city Of
st. Mark, Venice.
From classic Hellas to Rome,
snence to Byzantiufn, Venice, Paris
the line of travel described by the
Tour bronze horses symbolizes, in q
sense, the shifting Of the European
center Of gravity, political and
cultural. Their fight westward
curing the war before the ravages
ol the Teuton is, perhaps, equally
SYMBOLIC; and their replacement her.
aids that once more Latin civiliza-
ZION is safe from the wrath of north
en barbarians.
however. as regards the earliest
history Of the group, scholarly
opinion is still unsettled. That it
mao been brought to Venice from
Sonstantinople in the course Of the
so-eaIied Latin crusade early in the
1@oVs seems assured; but nothing
certain is known about it's previous
,iSsory. Az a matter of fact, it's
nfst authentic mention occurs in
.. d. 1854. On June A of that
year, Petrarch, the noet, standing
W tne right Of the Doge Of Venice,
~ platform overlooking the piazza
VI St Mark, watched the triumphant
procession COMMUNICATING the great
ssnetian victory over the febe|lious
'lesans. Describing the event, the
p0et mentions "among those pres
ent," A. It were, the wonderful Gilt
aorsss Of st. MARX" 10 Iifclike that
Wy almost ,eighed and stamped
With their feet"
according 70 Venetian tradition,
, ua'ea mas an inherent probability,
~ ~ four horxes were brought 70 the
~ q the Lagoons from CONSTANT
"pls BY the Duke Enrico Dandolo
SIS. S sns year 1904, with ether notable
.s1res captured on the conquest
sse Eastern capital By Inc Latjt,
80 por nv usxt tvsnty-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-05-03
How Teams Stand
In Star League


Ten trans got under way In the
first days play In The star Junior
league sunday, the Ballard beaver
Rainier Valley Juniors game heins
poxtponed and South Seattle her'
chants and City Cub tut also BEING
put over.
There was only ono close game
In Stndsy'S tits, the Diamond Aces
nos. nr out the Madison park ouuit
bv a IA 10 i3 count. The fellx cluo
established what should be league
record when they spanked the
spartan Athletic club. 70 TO !. bo,h
games were played at waiia Waiia
field.
Tailored Ready. last ycar's cham
Mons. came out on stop In loosely
played game, winning over the Z"
lumbln sllckers. 10 10 4. at Column
bsa field. Howard Alien featured
the mix with five hits out OF six
srsps to the plate. Wills pitched
good ball for the winners. holding
the sIckers to a brace Of blngies-
M. Baker Juniors didn't have
much trouble beating the shamrock
Athletic club. 81 to 7. This TIT was
n,so played at Columbia field
the wana waila Juniors took the
Alki Juniors into camp hS a IL TO
count. scoring their runs on hard
hitting. The tilt was staged az
H.Awatha
There was some trouble Sunday In
attaining the grounds for the game.
Home teams for next sundays game
should line up their grounds To-Day.
The Star schedule has been sent 10
the park board and II is hoped that
the grounds win be linsd up for the
seaxon 80 the teams won't have 20
trouble about H. But to protect the
league for next Sunday the homr
teams want TO get the grounds lined
M and inform the sporting editor
Of The star as 40 what time they
have the fields.
There will be an important meet.
ing Of star league managers at The
Star wednesday. IL is important
that every team in the league IN
represented as there viii be an cleo
zion OF officers and a discussion Of
the umpire question which caused
eorne trouble Sunday.
Here Is next Sundays schedule.
Rainier Heights Janiers vs. Georgetown
Merchants south Park.
Tasiersd Ready - walla walls Juniors
a. waiia Waila field
All Juniors Va. Columbia Siiek~rs a,
Columbia ficid.
pianord Aces va Spartan Athistic eias
n Woodland park.
seatfIs Boys club vs.. Tntsrbsy Juniors
~ frssrbay.
Nj Baker Juniors ~. Eaufh s~atti-
Merchants a, south Seattle
City Cubs - FhAmrock Athletic club
~ woodland park
Ballard Na3esfles N Loyal Heights
Badgers at Adams reid.
ACES II; MADISON PARK 4,