New-York tribune., 1922-07-25
Baby Nursed by
All ON Lines. Has
Chance to Live
Wee Pneumonia Patient on
American Legion Survives
Quick Trip TO Hospital,
Where Crisis Is Expected
Whole Ship Waits ON Him
Voyagers Bring Word of 30
Mile Bloodless Battle i'm
Revolution in Paraguay

Thomas n. Mcconnell jr., ten months
cid, who was brought ashore yesterday
from the Munson Line steamship
American Legion suffering from pneu-
monia ard whose fight for life was
seconded for week by the efforts of
all the vessels passengers and crew.
was reported last night at St. Luke's
Hospital to have fair chance Of re-
covery and to be none the worse for
his ambulance trip from the pier to
the hospital.
From the day the baby, whose father
is assistant general manager of the
Ford agency at Buenos Ayres and q
former major in the army, became i'll
the comfort of the other ninety-ntne
passengers and the ships routine were
voluntarily subordinated to his needs.
Air being the primary requirement Of
the little sufferer, a hospital was
rigged up on the port side of the main
deck, where Louis Weir, the ships sur
geon, and the ships nurse watched over
him day and night. Electric pads to
keep his body warm were attached to
wires connected with the dynamo room.
Whole Ship Guards Him
That portion of the deck he occu-
pied was declared sacred to the pa
tient. Passengers talked in whispers,
the ships band was silenced, sailors
working nearby took off their shoes
and the liners whistle was used only
when absolutely necessary. AS re-
suit little Tommy's temperature was
Legion reached port, although earlier
Jo.y jfr1$
when his fever was SO high it was
feared that he could not live. The
crisis in his illness isr- expected in
about thfrty-six hours. g.
Major Mcconnell returned to the
United States with his wife, his daugh-
ter, Virginia, and the baby for a busi-
ness conference and to visit relatives.
Passengers from Paraguay told Of
witnessing an opera bouffe revolution
IN which gunboat engaged in a run
ming duel with party Of insurgents
who had mounted a gun on fiatcar
on a railroad siding paralleling the Rio
Paraguay. The combatants pursued
each other for eighty miles, it was
saln' without either side registering a
nit. Finally, party of government
soldiers landed and tore up the track.
and when the train was thus forced to
come to halt the gunners on the
war vessel were enabled, by a lucky
sshot, to place a shell within fifteen
feet of the train. The insurgents
thereupon decided that the affair was
becoming too serious, so they can-
celed the revolution, quit their cars
and took to the woods.
Heavyweight Fighter stowawav
One traveller the American LEGION
brought in was not on any of the pas.
senger lists. He was William Ware
negro pugilist, whose sporting SOU
briquet is Rough House." and he came
as a stowaway, despite the fact that
he is able to boast of intimate acouaint
ance, as q sparring partner, with Jess
Willard, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnse1
and others.
Last May Ware went to South Amer
lea with Louis Firpo, heavyweight
champion of Latin America, after help
ing Firpo in his work here. "Rough
House" signed contract at 200 peso.
q month to be Firpos sparring partner
in the south, because a friend told hin
that peso was worth two or three
American dollars. When he got Il
Brazil, however, he found out tina
swapping blows was the only kind O