The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 41, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 February 1912 — Page 2

(new NEWS Os yesterday J f. F _,. E j EDWARDS l =3 - - - -- : ,

Tale of Broken Appointments * ——

Strange Way In Which Public Came to Learn of Operation on President Cleveland’s Jaw While '* Aboard Benedict’s Yacht. In August. 1893. there was printed a newspaper report that told in detail of a serious operation performed upon the upper left jaw of President Grover Cleveland while he was at sea on the yacht of his friend, E. C. Benedict of New York. The report was in the best sense of the word sensation al; the operation was the sole topic of national discussion. For some time thereafter the truth of the report was d!<pi\ted by several newspapers, and it was thought ad-visable-by those who were near President Cleveland at his summer home at Buzzard’s Bay to give but a qualified denial of its accuracy. But later, the late Daniel S. Lamont, then Clevtv land’s private secretary, wfio was with Cleveland at the time the operation was performed, confessed to ipe that my'account of the operation on the president was so amazingly accurate that It was impossible not to believe that it had been described to me by some one who was in the presidential party at the time of the operation. The president had been taken to sea upon Mr. Benedict’s yacht chiefly for the purpose of- surrounding the operation with secrecy. I have been asked many times how 1 obtained my information of the operation. This Is the story, which I am now at liberty to tell: Upon my return to my home from a brief vacation in August, 1893, I found my family physician, the late Dr. Leander P. Jones of Greenwich, Conn., waiting to see me. Dr. Jones was the physician ot E. C. Benedict, of Henry 0. Havemeyer, president of the Sugar trust: of Andrew Carnegie, when he lived in Greenwich, and of the Rockefellers when their home was in that town. He said to me as we met: “In the most extraordinary way I have learned that a very difficult operation has just been performed upon President Cleveland; I can tell you the story In detail without any violation of professional confidence. “It so happened that I had a patient on whom an Important, almost heroic, surgical operation was to be performed. I engaged the services of one of the ablest in New York and the day and hour were fixed for the operation. I was greatly xlarmed when this surgeon did not appear at the time set, nor did he appear until two days later, when the

DealL Merciful to A. T. Rice

Appointed Minister to Russia, He Could Not Have Maintained That Position, for His Once Largo Fortune Was dissipated. Very few persons probably now remember the late Allen Thorndike Rice, and to the younger generation the name means absolutely nothing, set twenty-five years ago Allen Thornjike Rice was thought to have the most promising future of any young Republican of New York state and was deemed a more interesting and piquant character than even Theodore Roosevelt, with whom Rice was Intimately associated in politics of the late eighties. He was Boston born, but Jived for many years in Europe and was a graduate of one of the English universities. He returned to the United States about 1576 when he was only 33 years of age. He was reported to be the possessor of a very large forinne; and of a scholarly as well as a practical turn of mind, a reputation that he justified by buying the North American Review, the oldest and gtaidest of American periodicals, and by entering upon a career of practical politics. He was a candidate for congress in ISS6, in a New 7 York city district, but whs defeated, and he gained national notoriety by his advocacy of the Australian ballot, lit was, in fact, the first to bring that form of ballot to the attention of the American people. Benjamin Harrison was one of Mr. Rice’s intimate friends and after Harrison entered the presidency he nominated Mr. Rice minister to Russia and the nomination was promptly con--1 firmed. Rice, however, never went to Russia. He was taken ill three days before the date fixed for his sailing and died from some acute intestinal trouble. Mr. Rice was a personal friend of the late William R. Grace, who was twice mayor of New York, and ft was from Mr. Grace that 1 learned the following incident of Mr. Rice’s last hours. one afternoon I was in an elevated railroad train on my way home when I saw, across the aisle, but some distance from me, someone beckon to me,” said Mr. Grace. “In an Instant I realized that it was Allen Thorndike Rice and that he seemed io be In distress I hurried to him and -saw that he was seriously ill. He was suffering intense pain. He told me that he had been stricken after

condition of my patient was desperate indeed. I asked Jiim for an explanation of his delay and he gave It to me in these words: “’I went by appointment to New London. Conn., five days ago to perform a last resort operation. I had engaged Dr. Hasbrouck of New York city to meet me at New London and administer nitrous oxide gas to the patient. Dr. Hasbrouck assured me that he would be in New London on a certain train, but he did not come. I telegraphed to his office in New York and in reply was informed that his assistants did not know where he was. All they knew was that he had gone away a few days earlier to administer gas in a ’surgical operation, that he had gone with the expectation of returning in thd evening, but he had not come. ’ “ ‘The next day Dr. Hasbrouck appeared in New London. He found me in a very angry frame of mind; but he asked me not to criticise him until he had told his story. He then said he had been engaged to go upon Mr. Benedict’s yatch to administer laughing gas to a patient who was to be

McKinley in Misfortune

William S,'Hawk’s Story of the Fortitude With Which the Ohioan Met Financial Disaster That Seemingly Ended His Career. , William S. Hawk, president of the Ohio Society of New York city, one of the largest of the state organizations of the was for many years as intimate a personal friend as William McKinley had. The intimacy began <4n Canton, Ohio, which was the boyhood and early manhood home of Mr. Hawk. How close that intimacy was may be judged from the fact that Mr. and Mrs. McKinley invited Mr. Hawk and his family to become their personal guests at the White House at the time of McKinley’s inauguartion as president. Probably no one now living had better opportunities for observing McKinley in the privacy and the charm of his domestic life, or of learning what McKinley’s real personal character was, than had Mr. Hawk. “I always knew that McKinley had strength enough of character to meet courageously, without flinching, any emergency, however, serious; 1 was perfectly prepared for the fortitude and the beautiful resignation which

— • - I he entered the car and that he was afraid he wou'd not be able to reach his hotel. “He seemed grateful when I offered to accompany him to the Fifth Avenue hotel, where be lived. I had to support him upon my arm down the elevated station stairs and lift him into the carriage which I summoned. I feared that he would lapse into unconsciousness before he reached the hotel. After we got him to his room and put him c® his bed he seemed a little easier, and when the physician came Rice brightened up a little, so that I felt justified in saying to him that I hoped he would recover from the attack by the next day so that he would be in good shape to sail for Russia. “He looked at me with a pathetic expression and motioned me to bend over him; and when I had done so he told me in a whisper that he never would get to Russia, and that it was . probably just as well. "After I left him I thought there was something., unusnatTy sigpificant in his remark tfiaMt would probably be just as well if he did not go to Russia. I did not, however, fathom the meaning until two or three weeks 4aft- . er Rice’s death. Then every one of his friends was surprised at the reve- , lations which were made when the -examination of his estate was flnish- , ed. We had all supposed that Rice I was a very rich man; we found that the~e was little or nothing left of his estate. He had some personal belongings—books and ,brica-brac—and he owned the North American Review, which I think cost him more to run than he received from it in the way of income. He must have realized, ’ therefore, that as minister to Russia he would not be able to maintain him- ’ self in the style to which he was ac- ' customed and which was necessary . at the Russian court, for he was not the kind of man who could live upon ’ his salary. So I have always believed .’ that when he realized that he was stricken with a mortal illness he also felt that he would by it be spared the humiliation of being unable to 1 maintain the luxury and entertainJ ment at the Russian court which bls ’ manner of life and his reputation as a ’ man of wealth would have exacted 1 from him. ’ "We were never able to tel! how great a fortune he brought to the ’ United States or how he had used 5 whatever wealth he bad obtained.” ’ <Copyrlght. 1311. by E. J. Edwards. '.All r Rights Reserved.)

operated upon there for some trouble. When the yacht was out at sea, he found that the patient was President Cleveland himself. He administered the gas and kept the president under the Influence of it for several hours. Then he wished to go ashore, but no I pleading of his that they land hlth was ■ listened to. since it was thought pos- I slble that another operation on the , president might be necessary.’ ’’Dr. Hasbrouck then described the ; operation in detail, and why it was , made, to the surgeon who had em- I ployed him and whom I had employ- j ed,“ continued Dr. Jones, “and this , surgeon, in turn, described the opera- j tion to me. Now, I will tell you exact- ; ly what I have been told, and you are at liberty to; use it publicly or not as j yoti see fit. I would advise you, however, to see Dr. ’Hasbrouck, at his office in New York, before you write your story." The next day I called upon Dr. Has- , brouck and told him the story of the operation as I had heard it from Dr. Jones. He listened to me in amazement and the he said: “Some of the physicians who were aboard the yacht ' must have told you that story. You could not have obtained it in any oth- I er way." (Copyright. 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved*

he displayed after he was laid low by the assassin’s bullet. His conduct at that time was exactly what I would have predicted,” said Mr. Hawk re ! cently. , “But I think, after looking back over my years of close intimacy with him, that possibly the finest example of his courage, of his ability to stand up against most grievous emergency and embarrassment, occurred at a time when he was a guest at my home in New York city. “McKinley was then governor of Ohio. He looked forward to the future with confidence; he felt assured that the setback he had received through his defeat f<sr congress was only temporary. He was in the best of health and spirits. He was never more buoyant. And then, suddenly, there came a dispatch from Ohio informing him of the disastrous failure of a business associate. “I was with him when the message came. He did not flinch when he read ! it. Yet I knew from his attitude the J thought that Was dominating hie I mind: this failure would make it nec- I essary for him to give up his cher- | ished public career—he would have to | begin life all over again—he would have to make determined efforts to meet the obligations which his associate had assumed, for, whatever the law might say about some of them, nevertheless there was a moral responsibility attached to all of them. “It was at this moment that Mrs. McKinley, to whom McKinley had shown the dispatch, declared, that he must take all of her personal ftjr- ; tune, or so much of it as was necessary. in order to meet these obligations immediately. McKinley’s only reply was that it was incumbent on them to pack up their things immediately and take the first train for Ohio. And he said it smilingly and aa calmly, outwardly, as though no great shadow had settled down upon him, as though his cherished political ambitions had been realized instead of shattered. “An hour or two later he bade me goodby. I knew that he was going back to Ohio confident that his public career was ended and with the full knowledge that he must begin all over again—that he had actually to go to work to earn an Income sufficient to support Mrs. McKinley and himself. Yet/in his countenance I could not detect the slightest hint of resentment, the slightest trace of sorrow, or ! any indication whatsoever of the crushing sense of disappointment that he must inwardly have felt in his be- i lief that all his high hopes of a pub- j lie career had been shattered. “Fortunately, as is well known, i there were friends who were able to finance McKinley out of his difficulty; and how great was McKinley’s happiness when he found that it was not necessary for him to give up his public career no one need to be told.’ 1 (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. AU Rights Reserved.) "Catching” Measles. Paul D. Brooks, Norwich, Conn., states that the microorganism that causes measles has not yet been discovered, but one may assume that it lives for a very short time outside of the body. Measles is about always communicated by the presence of an infected person and rarely through clothing, a third person, or house in--1 lection, it is infectious from the be--1 ginning of the catarrhal stage. At ' present satisfactory results are not 1 obtained in its control by dlsinfeo * tion. One should not neglect the ca tarrhal stage but must isolate cases ai 1 soon as the first catarrhal symptoms J appear.—Medical Record. Wise Man. “Why are you so particular to get ’ a hearty supper?" “So I won’t be hungry before I turn ( in. lam going to be up late at a banauet tonight."

\v6MAN^^hS PHtRE -

FURS FOR MOURNING ALL BLACK ONES MAY BE CONSIDERED IN STYLE. .—. , ' Sealskin Also Worn, So There Is a i Considerable Variety to Choose From—Crape Always Combines Well With Fur. All the black furs and those dyed ; black are used for mourning wear. | Sealskin, although not black, is also , worn. There is a great variety to ■ choose from, including fox, marten (skunk), caracul, Persian lamb, aatrachan, broad tail, pony and black lynx. Many other skins are dyed black and sold under assumed names. They are practical and look very well. Crape combines beautifully with fur and is used in conjunction with it to make up some beautiful sets for • mourning wear. By adding crape furs I may be remodeled and the most ele- , gant effects produced. Furthermore I small muffs may be made large and j the unworn portions of coats or scarfs i used for new and fashionable neck I pieces. Nothing could be handsomer than j the combination of crape and Peri sian lamb. A collar and muff are ! shown here of crape and fur, worn ■ with a cap having a fur crown and j crape coronet. A small muff provided the fur for i the large one shown here. A large ! “bed" was suitably lined with smt' i black silk and double ruffles of crape j I laid about each end. The fur in a > I broad band covers the center. An- i other muff on a fiat bed shows the crape shirred at the center and the fur in a band at each side with fading plaited ruffles of crape. The new piece is cleverly shaped and worn with the separate tab in ;■ i - — ' - - I 1' front. Two folds ot crape outline the edges. A ruffle of soft dull silk ribbon finishes the neck and a bow is placed at the fastening. The crape used for this purpose is

IS DISTINCTLY BAD TRAIT Too Many Girls Aim at Complete Monopoly of Men Who Pay Them Attention. Are you one of the girls who is so I feaful of sharing your good times that you steer men from the other ; girls? ( There are many girls like that, and I they are not loved by their own sex ■ in consequence. If it were only the unpopular girl who acted thus there might be come excuse for it —a man on her horizon is such a wonder that she wants to hold him. But there are girls who are belles who are selfish about keeping men to themselves. Why do' they do it? Perhaps from vanity. They like to seem the great belle of their set, the one with an ever-growing string of admirers. So they calmly take every strange man they meet as their property and take no chances by introducing him to other girls. Perhaps from jealousy. There is many a girl who would indignantly deny being jealous who presents that appearance by her dread of sharing her attention. She makes a point of keeping her men friends and her girl friends apart; she never introduces save when driven to it, and quickly follows the introduction by detraction of the other girl to the man, sometimes by open mischief-making. Perhaps from selfishness. She thinks that the fewer girls a stranger in town knows the more time and money he will have, to spend upon her. Whatever the cause, it Is a poor one and shortsighted. A girl must be

CUTAWAY COAT ■rn ; 1 weSM* Everything “cutaway” in type is becoming immensely fashionable, both for men and.women, and the little velvet suit pictured here shows this jaunty putaway effect in both coat and skirt, the tunic being sloped to correspond with the coat. The suit is built of black velvet, with collar and cuffs of gray and white striped taffeta. The hat has a silver lace crown and gray plume and is faced with black. The boots are patent leather, with buttoned tops of dull calf. of the English water-proof variety and it is essential that this fabric be moisture proof, otherwise the first snowstorm may demolish it. It should ; .be tested when purchased. Matched sets, including hat, muff, ; neck-piece and bag are so much the fashion that the possessor of furs I which are beginning to show wear might take the hint this illustration gives, and combine fur with velvet, ; silk or chiffon, if not in mourning, or, by all means, with crape if in mourn- • ing. The result is something elegant and very up-to-date. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Green and Brown Combined. Some excellent new models in chis son blouses have just been brought out. Green and brown seem to be j favorite colors in these, sometimes •combined, as in a model having an upper part of green chiffon over a band of the brown and over gold and brown appliqtfe banding. The same color scheme is carried out in a model of satiffi a single green satin revet bordered with brown fringe, appear ing on a brown satin blouse..,

uncertain of her own power to charm tht she fears to stand her chances with other girls. A girl whom a man likes will be singled out by him from the midst of a dozen fascinating maidens. If he doesn’t like her, nothing can chain him to her. And the more a girl seeks to keep a man to herself the more restive grows that man. It is fatal for any girl tc have ownership airs with the in er that are nice to her. If the man be serious in his attentions he begins to wonder if his fair one is jealous. If he is only polite, he thinks the girl misunderstands politeness and cools off forthwith. The more eligible a man is the higher he rates himself; the more inclined to sheer away from the girl who seeks to monopolize him. Personal Economy. My first and greatest economy is in buying street suits. I never have a suit that is extreme in style, but always get *as nearly as possible the regulation tailored suit. Such’ a suit when made of really good and inconspicuous material can be worn three or four seasons without being remarkable. In order that my suit may be exactly what I want I buy my own material and lining and tell my tailor just how it is to be made. Another precaution which I take la, when buying my material, to get a yard and a half more than will be used in making the suit, so that in case the skirt gets torn or needs to be altered or remodeled there will be plenty of material for new breadths. By making the tailored skirt myself I can save about half the expense of making the suit—Harper’s Bazar.

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