Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — CAUGHT IN MACON HOTEL [ARTICLE]

CAUGHT IN MACON HOTEL

Bell Boya Who Waited on Chase As fileted With Disease. Macon, Ga., April 9.—Hal Chase is believed to have contracted smallpox here by coming In contact with twe bellboys at the hotel where the New York team was stopping here. These boys are now in the contagion hospital. Catcher Eddie Barrett of New York and Pitcher William Brunner of Gulfport, Miss., members of the Macon club of the South Atlantic league, have been sent to the hospital suffering with clearly defined cases of the smallpox. Brunner is very ill.