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IXTY THOUSAND American chil
dren have non-pulmonary tubercu
losis, that is: consumption of the
Joints or glands. Of these 4500 live In
the over-populous tenements of Greater
New York.
That this disease is entirely curable
has been established beyond question.
Kresh air and proper nourishment, used
with knowledge, are the chief essential
therapeutic agents. The method of
treatment is conclusively proven.
And jet, to save these 60,000 little lives
for none may escape under ordinary con
ditionsthere Is but one hospital in ail
the I'nited States, and that can accom
modate but 15 patients.
This institution is ''Sea Breeze," at
Seagate. Coney Island, conducted by the
New York Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor, which began In
this country 3V years ago, experimental
treatment of tuberculous diseases of the
bones, joints and lymph nodes at the
seaside.
This association has for the past year
and a half had on hand a round quarter
of a million dollars In cash and com
plete plans for a great sanitarium for
t lie treatment of this disease. Tet the
"City Fathers" of the metropolis are
still in process of making up their minds
to provide a site on the ocean front,
though the donors have agreed to turn
the institution over to the city without
other cost upon Its completion.
On March 15, 1906, the State Legislature
empowered the City of New York to ac
quire real estate on the seashore for the
establishment of a seaside park for pub
lic health and recreation. On November
26. tho Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor notified Mayor
JlctJlellan that they had succeeded In
demonstrating at .their hospital at Sea
Kreeze the efficacy of sea air in the
cure of tuberculosis of the bones, joints
nd glands, at the same time urging the
importance of tile provision by the city
of a suitable seashore site for a perma
nent hospital. In March, 1907, the au
thorities accepted the .offer of the asso
ciation to huild a hospital upon a site
to be provided by the city, and designat
ed 1000 feet within the proposed Seaside
Park, to be established at Rockaway
Beach. Condemnation proceedings were
instituted by te Corporation Council
during the Summer, but were Interrupt
ed, upon motion of Mayor McClellan, in
October, 1907. and no action taken since.
"If any brute should take a child and
burl It over a cliff, smashing the life out
of Its little body." said Frederick D.
ireene, the assistant general agent of
the A. 1. C. P., "that creature would
never live to die at the hands of the
law. He would probably be lynched.
And yet. we are letting 4500 children die
just as surely and more slowly and pain
lully. in the tenements of New York of
a disease which is perfectly preventable
and curable.
"If one-tenth had been said about this
wholesale slaughter of children in the
big cities that has been said about the
slaughter of rabbits and rats by vivi
section, the people would have stopped it
altogether. I'm sorry for any animal
that lias to suffer, but I'm sorrier for the
i hildren."
Thirty years ago Burope began to act
and today alone supports 20000 children
afflicted with the disease at the seaside,
besides other thousands supported by
private charity. England has such hos
pitals, so have all other enlightened
countries, even Spain
When the hospital opened nn June 6,
SOME LEGENDS OF MODERN ROME
.No riace in the World and Xo People So Rich as the Inhabitants of the Holy City.
NO PEOPLE", is so rich in legendary
history a the Romans. Old le
aends. despite the efforts of critics
to demoiish them, have survived and
are still remembered, while new ones
re cropping i:p every ijay. The modern
legends are not as beautiful as the
undent ones; no poet will have them
wrought into verse and no historian will
retard them in his writings: still, they
sit already regarded by many as positive
nets, and a few years hence they may
become sober historical truths as weli.
nys a Rome letter to the Now York
Sun
Here is one legend that is not very
recent. -Many years ago, as many as
ten. an American lady, flashy, well
gowned, and presumably a widow, was
crossing Fiiizia di Spagna on a bright
Spring morning. Women stared at her
with envy and men with admiration.
Anions the lHtter was one named Toto
Maneml, a dark young Roman with lilaek
mustaches turned, upward, long hair care
fully brushed backward, a flowing ne.ck
tie and a check suit. Signer Manelni was
a goxcrnment clerk with a monthly salary
of 419 SO. and his only ambition in life
was to marry money. He stopped to cast
an admiring glance at the dashing Amer
ican lady. The lady smiled. Sisnor
Mancini smiled back and took off his
soft felt hat in a courtly, flowing Italian
bow. The lady put out her small hand
encased In kid. Signor Mancini, hat in
hand and in a princely attitude, pressed
it hard and reverently raised it to his
lips.
Then lhay sDOka. &ha In cenuine Amer
TIED
( TOTV WHO HAVE ' I f ; T KU-t&l : -H 5 .
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mitted at two
year with spin
al tuberculosis.
Photographed on
ar Bradford frame
whers'ihe has been
for six months, 'growing
, fat and rosy.
1904, it consisted of ten tents, with a ca
pacity of 50 patients. In the Fall the
patients were removed into the perma
nent buildings on the beach at Seagate,
and there they have since been quar
tered. When the-hcpital was moved the
number of patients was reduced from 50
to 30, but later It was Increased to 45.
Since the opening of the hospital, on
the 6th of June, 1!)04. 123 patients, all far
advanced in the disease, have been
treated there. Of these 35 are In resi
dence at the present time; 59 were re
moved by their parents and guardians
in six cases against the advice of the
superintendent; four were discharged im
proved: 19 cured and 30 died.
The favorable results obtained at this
hospital are astonishing. One boy of 12
who had already undergone several op
erations and who had suffered for six
years with a tuberculous ankle, is ap
parently perfectly sound today and there
is no sign of the disease in him any
where. Several who have come unable to
walk took part In all the children's games
before they left and this sort of thing has
kept up ever since the opening of the
hospital.
A little girl in one of the city hospitals
was suffering so greatly from this dis
ease that the surgeons asked permission
to take her to Sea Breeze to be built up
in preparation for the amputation of both
legs. Six weeks later a physician from
the city hospital -went down to get her
for the operation. He wandered among
the cots, but could see no sign of her.
Then he peered into the faces of the chil
dren on the piazzas, but she was not
there. He glanced at a group of racing,
romping little ones on the sand and idly
watched them, though he knew, of
course, that his charge could not be on
her feet. Inquiring of a nurse at last,
she was pointed out among the liveliest
of the running tots below them, but so
changed that he could hardly recognize
her even then. The sea air had done in
six weeks what unaided medical skill
could never have done.
Bess, the "Little Sunshine" of the Insti
tution, is a typical child of the Ghetto
tenements, or at least she was. Her
mother died of pulmonary tuberculosis,
her father has disappeared. She has tu
berculosis of the knee and most of her
time is spent in her crib, either on the
porch or in the ward. The crib is raised
ican, he in indifferent French. What
they said is not known, probably owing
to the simple fact that Signor Mancini
did not understand English and the lady
did not understand French. But that
they spoke is a fact corroborated by the
evidence of about a score of persons of
both sexes who stopped to watch the
scene. Signor Mancini hailed a cab. into
which he helped the lady and got in him
self. They drove away and within a
week they were married by the American
Consul, who warned the lady that by
Italian law the wife was expected to sup
port her husband.
"Well. 1 guess I have enough for both."
she said, and Signor Mancini resigned his
government appointment and renounced
his right for a pension. "He is rich to
day, a millionaire," his old colleagues
will tell you. and they vouch for the au
thenticity and accuracy in every detail
of the utory of his courtship and mar
riage. The old American rasidents of
Rome, who know Italy and the Italians
thoroughly, qualify the Mancini story as
a legend, but the crowds of young men
with black moustaches and flowing neck
ties who daily ogle the women in Piazza
di Spagna afford a proof that their efforts
are fruitless and vain. "Italian men stare
so." any American girl visiting Rome
will tell you. "and they are so insolent
in their admiration. Why. they are the
limit. Why is it. I wonder?"'
The second legend is more recent. A
farmer in the Campagna Romana had a
son about 27 years ago. When the son
was a boy of 12 he happened to meet
a foreign painter who was sketching a
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THE SUNDAY
at the foot to an angle of 45 degrees and'
the affected limb is tied down with ropes
running over pulleys to which weights
are attached. When Bess was admitted
eight months ago she was pale, puny and
more dead than alive. Today she is the
picture of health, fat and rosy cheeked:,
always smiling and on the rapid road to.
recovery'. ,
Camille. another popular little patient,
was brought to the hospital .when 2 years
of age unable to walk. 9he was placed
on a "Bradford" frame on which she re
mained many weary .months. Her recov
ery is considered wonderful. At 4 she is
a pink-cheeked, active youngster: enjoy
ing life oh the beach to the full, although
her little body is still encased in a
"Calot" jacket of the French model.
Master Harry was brought from Chi
cago. He is in the graduation class, hav
ing successfully come from the "Brad
ford" frame. "Calot" jacket and braces
to the full enjoyment of a healthy boy's
life at 7.
Mary J is another little tot in Camille's
class Paralysis as a result of spinal tu
berculosis was the diagnosis in her case
three years ago. She has now discarded
the frame and is running around in a
"Calot" jacket.
Johnny Grant, after suffering two and
a half years, has graduated and is pre
paring for his homeward journey. He
spends his time, when not eating or sleep
ing, with "Frenchy." Kenneth, Joe and
Chicago Harry, bathing, digging in the
sand, carrying driftwood and building
houses with blocks.
David has only been at Sea Breeds since
January of this year and is still on a
frame, but he has developed a wonderful
knowledge of ships and nautical matters
in general.' What his history is no one
seems to know. Only those living in a
great city like New York can realize the
difficulty of tracing the antecedents of a
child once the parents have lost interest.
The poorer classes seem to spend most of
their time moving about: to trace them
from place to place is a task next to im
possible. i
A very important factor is the educa
tional work done among the parents.
When the parent comes to associate a
crooked spine, a blotchy skin, a sore hip,
with consumption, he learns to take pre
cautions. Practically none of the parents
really knew what ailed their little ones
bit of wild landscape near his father's
field. The boy watched the work with
interest, and one day the painter gave
him a pencil and a piece of paper, and
he sketched the bit of landscape himself.
The artist thought that he had discov
ered a Giotto, so he took him to Rome
and taught him to draw and paint. Then
he left Rome, but the boy remained
there, determined to become a great
painter. He started to copy a Madonna
in one of the galleries, and when he
finished it he sold it to a dealer for 15
francs. He copied it again and again,
and every time he sold his work to the
same dealer for the same price.
One day Pietro Funavalli was hard at
work copying the same old picture when
two American girls who happened to be
doing the gallery stopped to look at the
young man's work. Taking it for granted
that he did not understand English, they
freely criticised the copy, one pronounced
it a daub, the other said it had good
qualities in it.
The two girls after discussing the
work, proceeded to discuss the painter.
"I think he is just lovely." the prettier
of the two said, "so real Italian, such
eyes and such dark hair. His pointed
beard makes him look so distingue." The
other girl said she liked the picture tet
ter than the man, whereupon the first
protested strongly, and again said the
man was lovely. She ended by saying:
"Why. I am in love with him already."
Pietro then stopped his painting, and
turning around to the girl with a smile
he said in perfect English: "And I, too.
am in lova witb. you " xactly what
OREGOXIAJSV - PORTLAND, .
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or,
Sy
until they were told at Sea Brepje. If an
adult member of the family is consump
tive there are, of course, germs in the
air. A child gets a fall, a knock or a
bruise and the germ settles there. Soon
after the little one has a "sore knee' or
a "sore wrist." nobody realizing that he
is started on the road to death, where lie
is put in bra res or a plaster oast. Per
haps he is saved to be a cripple the rest
of bis days. They cannot do better, even
in the hospitals. But generally he is kent
at home where he cannot get air, rest or
food that will effect a cure. .
Sea Breeze, however, has other func
tions than the treatment bt non-pulmonary
tuberculosis. It has a building
for stay-parties for school children, moth-
ere and babies and a large pavilion where
day's outings are given to women and
children and a few men .twire a week
from May 20 to September SO each year.
"Of the uffO.000 school children in this
city," said Frederick D. Greene, the as
sistant general agent of the A. 1. C. P.,
who has special charge of this branch
of the work, "one-third are just able to
get through their year's work. Ijnless
they are braced up in some way during
the Summer they will have to take the
same work next year. They will try to
go ahead, fall because of poor health and
drop, back.
"The school board estimates that more
than 200.000 pupils in the schools are from
one to three years behind in their studies.
The board experts say it costs $33 a year
to educate each normal child in their
charge. Two hundred thousand children
at $33 a piece makes a total of $6,600,000
wasted each year for children that have
to take the last year's work over. Add to
happened is not known, as Pietro. the
pretty girl and her companion ara all
silent on this subject. But one may
presume that there was a lot of blushing
and apologizing and confusion, and that
In the end Pietro was invited to tea at
Xhe fashionable hotel where the girls were
stopping. Pfere he was introduced to
"Mamma dearie." who asked him to come
to dinner.' Pietro borrowed a five franc
note from a fellow-artist, hired an even
ing suit and went to dinner. The next
day he was not seen in the usual place
at the gallery copying the usual picture,
as he was engaged in painting Maud's
portrait. It did not turn out a success,
but it had good qualities in it. Then the
inevitable happened and Pietro and
Maud were married. Pietro's father, who
is still a farmer, will tell you that his
son is one of the best painters in Amer
ica, and Mamma dearie 'tells her friends
that Maud's husband is the son of one
of the most prominent Roman landed
proprietors. As for the romantic love
story of the gallery, why it is a legend,
that is all.
T5i Jnngfnui.
Lippincott's. .
It is the hour when yon stern height
Puts on her bridal grace.
The hour when day's departing light
Steals to her lonely face.
And touches- every rugged line
With such ethereal gleam.
The crystal mountain stands divine,
A maiden in ber dream.
White, white, as white as seablrd's breast
That flies against the foam;
Tet wtill her love is unconfessed.
The wistful Sun sails home.
But when at last his golden boat
Hath faded on the dim.
Mysterious purple seas remote.
Her blush remembers him,
Blush that betrays her wonted mood
Of cold, vnsentle snows.
The secret heart of maldenhood.
JL sure. Impassioned rose.
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JULY 5, 1908.
AFFLICTED CHI
ON THE
.i cl.
free from tuberculosis.
these the thousands of children who
must go back two and three years and
the great total of $10,000,000 wasted for
education of the children in the public
schools of Greater .New York proves a
reasonable estimate.
Much of this money could be saved if
the municipality would provide a sea
b?ach park for the children as a Summer
playground. Here they could build up
their health in order to do' belter work
during the following school year."
During the past Summer there were 23.
253 persons given a day s outing at Sea
Breeze. The stay parties included 300 ha
bits suffering from every imaginable dis
ease from mumps and pneumonia and
meningitis. There were, however, only
two deaths, and one of these children was
permitted to go to Sea Breeze in a dying
condition in the hope that its life might
be saved. This remarkaole record was
due to the admirable system of nursing
at the institution, which consists not only
in ordinary hospital care, but also in in
struction of mothers in the preparation of
food. In the cleansing and dressing of
ineir baDies and in ine way io maKe tne
most of what sunlight and fresh air can
be obtained at home.
The results of the one-day outings are
truly magical. Often it seems as if as
much benefit had been given as a week's
vacation brings to the more sophisticated
and the need for a vast extension of this
work is very vividly indicated by the still
greatly Inadequate covering of the fiuld.
The methods used in the conduct of Sea
Breeze are interesting. At first a resi
dent physician was employed, but this
plan was abandoned for frequent visits of
SEA BRtwt. .v - . ,, nare f or the
BIG SALARIES FOR NEWSPAPERMEN
Exact Facts fop Young Collegians Who Are Anxious for a Career in Journalism. . .. . .
Baltimore Sun.
A YOUNG man in North Carolina has
favored us with the following com
munication: "I am about to graduate from college
and desire to enter some learned profes-'
sion. I believe I have a talent for liter
ary composition. Do you think that Jour
nalism offers me a good opportunity?
Are newspaper editors well . paid? And
how long would it take me to advance
from reporter to editor?"
We confress that th adjective em
ployed by our correspondent In the second
part of his preliminary sentence gives us
an agreeable thrill, for this is the first
time, so far as we are aware, that tho
word "learned" has ever beeen applied
to the Journalistitc vocation. We have
heard it called almost everything else,
from "abhorred" to "zymotic," . but
"learned" is new. We thank the young
gentleman of North Carolina and pass
on to his questions.
A talent for literary composition? Is
it useful in journalism? We believe that
it is. It will serve at the start to make
the aspirant's application for a Job grace
ful, grammatical and convincing. It wilL
serve again years after, when he retires
from active service and begins to write
his reminiscences. And in between it
may prove its utility more than once. We
have never encountered a reporter whoso
literary skill was quite equal to( Walter
Pater's, but we have 'no doubt that it
such a one ever bobbed up his talent
would do him no great damage.
But a good literary style is less essen
-."'ftnt hcre to prepare
the attending physician and the attending
surgeon. Only the minor operations have
been performed at the hospital. For the
major cases t lie children were transferred
to the hospitals of Manhattan and Brook
ly and then returned to Sea Breeze. A
dentist visits the hospital regularly and
the highest skill in all branches of the
medical profession has been at the dis
posal of the litrle sufferers. To avoid any
possible mistake in diagnosis two or more
surgeons, a a well as the attending physi
cians, pass on each applicant for admis
sion. The meaical staff has control of the ad
mission and discharge of the children. No
patient is admitted without their con
sent. The age limits are 2 to 14 years. As
to the treatmentl other than diet and
fresh air, there is little to say. Plaster is
used in preference to braces. In tubercu
losis of the spine the "Bradford ' frame
is used first, then the v"Calot" jacket, in
hip joints, the ' Lorenz" spica. In knee
diseases after the acute stages plaster of
pans is also used.
The medical authorities of the world
maintain the following:
(l) The seashore IS the best place for
treating children with tuberculosis aden
itis. Whether there is anything "specific"
about the sea air, or whether the chil
dren simply thrive better and so over
come more quickly the disease, Is not
fully determined. . Those with adenoids
and enlarged tonsils should be operated
on in the beginning.
C2 The seashore is the best place for
children with tuberculosis joints, if they
can have the same skilled orthopedic care
as elsewhere. The disease runs a some
what milder and probably a- shorter
tial In journalism than a good digestion.
The journalist must be able to digest
anything and nothing. He must be able
to go three days without food, and an
hour without a drink: The accidents and
-catastrophes whiah make up the news of
the world have no regular office hours.
They happen at any old time, day or
night. When they break loose the jour
nalist must proceed to record them and
he must stick to the task until they are
recorded. As a result he must learn to
stretch the hiatus between lunch and
dinner until it attains the dignity of a
geological epoch. One day he' dines at
7 P. 3t. and the next day he dines the
day after. One day he is invited to 22 oys
ter roasts and Is so busy that he can't
go to one of them, and the next day he
may have little to do and no invitations
come his way.
Are newspaper editors well paid? Our
answer here must be both yes and no.
The average malefactor of high degree
makes more, but the average evangelist
makes less. We have yet to receive
proof that any editor in the United States
can match the J500.000 per annum of
John Hays Hammond, but we know of
at least 20 who receive $125,000 a year.
In the $100,000 class there are probably
60 or 80, and in the J75.000 class several
hundred. In the smaller cities salaries
are somewhat lower, but we know of no
editor who gets less than $50,000 a year,
with board, lodging and laundry. We are
speaking, of course, of editors-in-chief.
The minor men receive somewhat less,
the average for telegraph editors being
1 "Louis" giving a patient an
ocean bath. This man's ten
derness to the .little sufferers
has won all their hearts.
course, and the functional results are
better than those elsewhere.
(3) The results at Sea Breeze have Been"
largely due to the careful attntlon tin-'"
eluding feeding and nursing) which has
been given the children. '
about $600 a week: for city editors. $750;
for night editors, $500, and for horse edi--,
tors. $450. Dramatic critics get $250 for '
every performance they attend, -besides,
frea passes, and society editors are paid
$150 a reception, with automobile and .
dress suit hire thrown In. Poeis are paid.
$15 a line and editorial writers from-$S- -to
$a a word. - v
The line of promotion in newspaper. of
fices, from lowest to highest., is as -follows:
Dramatic critic, war correspond-
ent. special writer, baseball- reporters re
ligious editor, editorial writer, copy read--lng,
society edtior, detective report--, as
sistant city editor, city editor, news edi
tor, assistant managing editor, managing
editor, editor-in-chief, editor. Our cor
respondent wants to know how long :it
will take him to reach the top of the'
ladder. The question has Interested- u '
very much and we have lain awake sev
eral nights figuring upon an answer.
Working it out carefully after consulting
more than 2000 Journalists and with tho
aid of the table of logarithms, the United
States census reports for the period
1820-1900 and all available dream books,'
we have settled upon 265.76453(14827 years..
We may be wrong about the decimals,
but the 265. we are sure, is reasonably,
correct. -
The total value of Importations of bicy
cles into Belgium during the year 1307 In
creased by more than ' $44,000 over -the:
sar 1305. and i32,0O0 when compared with
1906. The Increase . for bicycle parts
amounted to 9172, too when compared with.
lUua and $::34,000 over 1906.
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