St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 31, 1901

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a ?) aah & eS PON eget Soe as 4 e $ pp gee : oe ‘ et or eee Reet WY a ate Hd ee - - . te . > - as ve es ar Pas a)! ~ 2 af > b ae a9 Sy Pa 179,375 : LAST SUNDAY, R2.000 BICGER THAN ANY OTHER. THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. TEN PAGES. ~ VOL, 54, NO. 132 ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1901. DED BROT DEAD HUSBAND - — Mrs. Meyer Fulfills Promise Made at Deathbed. WED ELVE YEARS CAME BETWEEN NG WIDOW WAS A WELL-TO- DO HETRESS. y Augustus Meyer Popped the Question and the Happy Pair Were United at Belleville Monday Afternoon. When Mrs. Katie Meyer of Kansas City became Mrs. Augustus H. Meyer of St. Louls at Belleville Monday afternoon, she ‘carried out, after 12 years, a sacred re- quest of her first husband, H. G. Meyer. “T would rather have you marry my brother Gus,” said Mr. Meyer on his death- bed, “than any other man.” The sorrowing wife promised that she - would wed no other. Years past, and the young widow, well- to-do as the heir to her husband's large wholesale grocery business in Kansas City, continued to reside in the city by the Kaw. Occasionally she made visits to St. Louis, where, at the home of friends, she fre- quently met her brother-in-law, the St. Touls Meyer, who was a prosperous grocer in the Rock Springs section of the city. Mr. Meyer was a bachelor, and apparently y confirmed one. He was 39 years old when his brother died, and that was 12 years ago. The widow was but 27 at the time of her bereavement. Mr. Meyer and his brother’s widow al- Ways were good friends, and among their acquaintances it has been a matter of com- mon expectation for the past ten years that they would be married. Last week Mrs. Meyer came down to spend the holidays with her friends, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Sommers of 426 Blair avenue. Wife for a Christmas Gift. Just before Christmas—that season s0 conducive to confessions—the topic of Christmas gifts came up. “IT reaily don't know what I should like to have for a Christmas present,” said Mr. Meyer. “TT know what you ought to have,’ repiled Mrs. Meyer. "What?" asked the bachelor. “Well, for a man of your years—you are r ~ Bl now, Gus—Y think a good, sweet wife —e ould be the most useful present you could have.’ Mr. Meyer agreed with her. As a mem- ber of the Sommers household remarked: “He saw it was up to him, and he popped the question. He would have done it years ago had he not been too bashful.”’ Mr. Meyer and Mrs. Meyer quietly stole ever to Belelville Monday afternoon, with- out confiding in their friends, and when di they returned they were entitled to be aa ‘ a -@reeted with open arms, and congratula- *tiona were profuse. xe x x he PEs, 7 eae wet ai aa retias 8°52 iS ee > 4 ee i ~ yea fami @alled Mr. and Mrs. Meyer. When they revealed their secret they were A fine repast was Werved at the Sommers residence, and it Waé altogether an incident of holiday mirth and joy. Mr. Meyer will depart early next week for Europe with his bride on an extended visit. PUT HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH ~ - pet 7 ae > fe aa re m SSS oe ‘2 aus | $ ee Mes. Mae ‘ef ‘It Took Three Men a Couple of Hours to Relieve Predicament of This : Trotting Horse. BLOOMFIELD, N. J., Dec. 31.—Tattler, a 8-year-old trotting horse, stabled at The- odore T. Maxfeld’s, in Franklin street, has earned a reputation as an acrobat. A groom found the animal doubled up in a knot today, his right hand hoof in his mouth. The horse's jaws were set and he was unable to move. Efforts were made then sent for Edward O'Neill, a blacksmith, oe bi z ~' beets Ts 3 ~ and three other men. The stall was part! pie down in order to allow room to wo. and after an hour's work, Tattler was ly extricated from his peculiar posi- THIEF LEFT COAT AND HAT : Whey Will Be Used as Bvidence 4 y pounds of being half as heavy as his mother. In a year he has grown wonderfully—seen strange sights, passed through stirring ad- ventures and has learned to walk and talk. A new century calendar himself, Baby Shaw naturally divided his life in four WINTER EPOCH. Baby Shaw receives the Post-Dis- patch prize as the first St. Louis in- fant of the twentieth century and is nemed Junius Pulitzer Shaw. He also learns to make his wants known. Baby Shaw cannot tell why he was s¢- lected as the first St. Louisan of the new century, nor does he recall the journey— the swift, silent flight through the cold fields of the sky where stars are bigger than moons and the Man in the Moon is So near that you can count the wrinkles in his face or watch him pluck the hare. Tucked safely under the great wings of the stork, Baby Shaw passed from Baby- land to earth life, silently and swiftly and as warm as a bug in a rug. On earth the bells were ringing a requiem for the old year as the welcome for the new. : in St. Louis 10,000 mothers and many eager children were wondering who would be the first baby of the new century—who would win the honor and the Post-Dispatch prize. When the stork rested at Mack Shaw's home there was joy and gladness. Nested in his mother’s arms Baby Shaw slept peacefully. A mere bit of protoplasm —§ pounds in weight—perfect in form and feature. The weeks passed. The prize for the first baby of the new century was awarded to Baby Shaw. His mamma hung a gold jocket around his neck. He was named Junius Pulitzer Shaw. He was 6 weeks old when he made a wonderful discovery. He learned that there was a great difference in the way folks made sounds. All his life ne had cried Waa-waa-waa- waa. Whether bothered with sticky pins, colic or nunger he had cried the same wa and his mamma could never tel] what ail him. This day it was a sticky pin. Baby Shaw started out Waa-waa. Just then he moved his little body, the n ceased sticking him and he was stuil. Mamma Shaw heard the first cry and pnd ge Fa o— ——— was the matter. She ou es oxy pin, t n and Baby Shaw “oy og esson. Hereafter he. knew her lessons followed in like Ww learned a v Ss mamma and only his THERE ARE 35 POUNDS OF BABY IN JUNIUS PULITZER SHAW FIRST ST. LOUISAN OF NEW CENTURY : BABY JUNIUS PULITZER SHAW. Who is the first St Louisan of the new century and who has made wonderful Infant Who Won Post-Dispatch Prize for Being First Born in This City in 1901 Has Learned to Talk and Walk and Is a Wonderful Baby, est events in any baby’s life. It starts when baby follows every movement of papa or mamma with great wondering eyes anda still tongue, and it ends in walking and talking and being a real grown up. Baby Shaw took notice of everything. He stared at the green grocer, he waved his hands at the big dog Dash, and he gurgled his content when Papa Shaw held his great watch chain for baby hands to encircle. SUMMER EPOCH. Go-cart time begins and ‘Baby Shaw rides forth in his chariot of wicker. He weighs 24 pounds and can wave his hands. — | Now summer was in the land and great events in Baby Shaw’s life crowded one another. June is gocart time in the baby calendar. Bach warm day Baby Shaw rode forth a prince in his chariot of wicker. Now he could pat the big dog Dash and wave his hand at the pussycat “Mandy” and smell the red roses with a tiny wrinkled nose. And his mamma/took him to the photog- rapher’s and he-sat on a rug and watched for the bird: A big fat boy was Baby Shaw. He weighed 24 pounds on July 1— a gain of three pounds a month—he was hearty as a pig—and his temper was sweet and his cheeks rosy red. One could hide a finger in the wrinkles about his thighs and his ‘‘tum’’ was tight as a big drum. AUTUMN EPOCH, A long holiday of good eating and lots of petting, for a little ivory tooth appeared. And baby went to the country, too, and learned to talk and walk. Baby Shaw’s autumn was a long holiday— a season of keen delight, much good eating and constunt petting. It began the day early in August when Mamma Shaw’s ex- ploring finger was clenched between a hard little gum and a wee bit of pearl that some- how had lodged on Baby Shaw’s rosy upper gum. “Gracious me—teeth,"’ cried Mamma Shaw, jerking her numbed finger away. Baby Shaw didn’t know what teeth meant. He knew that he had been pest- ered by sore gums and that for days he had a strange desire to chew things. Mamma Shaw said teeth meant hard times for babies, and country life and air. So she put right for Clarksville, Pike County, where Great Grandmother Lyter and Grandfather and Grandmother Shaw and Grandmother Reneau and aunties and uncles and scores of cousins and things were waiting for Baby Shaw. Baby Shaw found out what a choo-choo train was. He stood up in the car seat and watched the telegraph poles run by him, and the tall trees bow and all the peopie wave their hands—all of course at Baby Shaw. It was a grand triumphant march. And best of all it lasted months ana months. At Clarksville the choo-choo car stopped with great noise, and Baby Shaw was plunged right into Grandpa Junius Shaw's open arms. Baby Shaw cried: “Waa Waa,”’ for grand- pa’s whiskers stuck just like stick pins. But after awhile Baby Junius learned what whiskers were really for and hereafter had great times pulling them. Now to tell what fun Baby Shaw en- joyed in the long weeks on the farm is opening the fairly tale book and reading the best story there. | He frolicked out In the wide shady yard files that floated by and crawl—why he could scramble around fast as the week-old He Jearned to taik—mot real grown-up talk—but a language that served-as well. : 7 $ eo - sae ) Soe Bo eae a Me ae eS SCIENCE PROVIDES EDGAR JACKSON A SILVER JAW, Operation Will Restore What a Gunshot Destroyed. THE WOUND WAS ACCIDENTAL METAL PLATE AND GRAFTED FLESH ACT AS SUBSTITUTE. St. Louis Surgeons Who Are Doing the Work Are Confident of Its Ultimate Suéecess. Surgical science is building a new jaw for Edgar Jackson of Carrollton, Mo., who is a patient in the Polyclinic Hospital, Jef- ferson and Lucas avenues, Dr. H. Tuholske Sunday performed the second of a series of three operations which will restore to Jackson the right side of his chin, which was shot away March 3 by the accidental discharge of a shotgun. A silver bridge will replace a two-inch section of the young man’s jaw, which Is now missing, and over this metallic substi- tute for the shattered bone, skin and flesh will be grafted. When the series of operations has been completed, two or three months hence, it is expected that Jackson, except for’a few scars will be without inconvenience or disfigurement from the wrecking of the lower portion of his face. Patient Is 18 Years Old. Jackson is 18 years old. He shot himself by accident while hunting on his father’s farm, near Carroliton. Two boys, who were with him, carried him to his home, and he was placed in the care of Carrollton phy- sicians. It was found that two inches of the right jaw had been shot away, that the lower gum and all the teeth on the right side of the head were demolished, and that pieces of the broken bones had been driven into the right cheek. The upper lip, be- low the nose, was also tern away. The Carrollton physicians devoted their efforts to saving the young man’s life, and when he was out of danger, sent him to St. Louis to receive surgical attention. When he was first brought to the Poly- clinic Hospital his tongue protruded from the shattered gums in such a way as to form an impediment to his speech and to eating. The first operation was for the separation of the tongue from the«giim, to which it had come to adhere. The right cheek, through the shattering of musciés, was left drawn up, and the tongue still protruded. Sunday’s operation placed the tongue in its prpper position, and partially repaired the loss of the upper lip by letting down part of the cheek above. In the third and most severe operation the silver substitute for the missing por- tion of the jaw will be inserted, and the upper lip will be fully restored. Grafting Will Supply New Skin. It is expected that the necessary skin and flesh for covering the artificial portion of the chin can be secured from the pa- tient’s own body. The grafting will be a gradual process, and will consume several weeks. If resort is had to other persons for portions of skin, care will be taken to get skin of the same tint as that of the patient, that his features may not be dis- figured. As it is not believed that a beard will grow on skin grafted from other portions of the body to a man’s chin, Jackson will probably have to pass the remainder of his days without the luxury of a beard, or will be able to grow burnsides only. False teeth will be another inconvenience to which Jackson will have to submit. These will be put in piace as soon as the missing part of the jaw has been supplied, ' and when the gums have healed. Jackson welcomes the prospect of get- westward on an Olive street car. slight difficulty with the conductor, who did not know that the passenger was one of the company’s attorneys ahd the one is be.n and skin and farse :eeth. while he was hunting. The heav is being replaced and the light treat-d, Surgeons are bu TRANSIT ATTORNEY FELS CONTROLLER —— AN OLIVE STREET MOTORMAN STRUCK MR. ROBINSON WITH IT. LAWYER WEARS A BLACK EYE. Has Been Defending Trainmen in Po- lice Court and Made no Com- plaint of the Assault. Attorney Robinson of Mourton W. Jour- dan’s office, who was in the Dayton Street Police Court Tuesday morning taking ap- peals in several cases in which he had rep- resented the transit company, examined by several brother attorneys as to how he acquired several highly colored bruises around his left eye. was cross- Mr. Robinson smiled and was silent, but it was learned from other sources that the black eye was caused by the controller bar of a transit company motorman coming in violent contact with the lawyer. Sunday night Mr. Robinson was riding He had a ting the artificial teeth, as his capacity i'who defended motormen and conductors, In for nourishment is now abridged by the lack of suitable molars. The man's palate was little affected by the charge of shot and, when the opera- tions have been completed, his power of speech will be fully restored. At present h earticulates with difficulty. The principal danger of complications has resulted from the exposure of the pa- tient’s tonsils, which were left uncovered by the shattering of the jaw. This danger was averted, and the case is said to be responding satisfactorily to the surgical treatment. BIG. FISH FOUND INA TANK It Entered Through a Pipe When It Was Small, and Grew to Be a police courts, who were arrested on charges of attacking passengers, Mr. Robinson declined to state the exact nature of the differences between him an. the conductor. ever, in explanation of his discolored eye, that the struck him on the eye with the controller bar. He had told already, how- motorman approached him and The attorney has not filed a complaint against the motorman. SENATOR DEPEW STARTS HOME After Dining With James Gordon Ben- nett He and His Bride Start From Nice. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) NICE, France, Dec. %81.—United States water a great with James Gordon Bennett, left to travel det F3 i ii 4 - ba = 4 “ . aa : " Ay “a t CAR SERVICE 1S CRITICIZED Christopher Branch of 4816 Greer avenue, one of the seven men who permitted them- selves to be taken to the car sheds Thurs- day rather than submit to a transfer on the Cass avenue line midway of their jourfiey | . oh pene A BE x OM - ee . e- in r >. COS? aa ey a sO ape ao This sketch shows how Badges Jackson, a patient at the Polyclinic Hospital, ld'ng anew jaw of a silver plate, grafted Mr. Jackson's — chin was shot away dotted li ines where the flesh is being rep! . - dai > " : . oe ah ‘ . ae nS a a in [Hees "i o— “ ee rar een eae ee a ee ~ ~ flesh in an accident nes in the sketch show.where the bone ——~* OR, HYATT PREDICTS HE WILL BE GOOD —_— SUNSHINE OFFERED TODAY AS EVIDENCE OF GOOD FAITH. LOWER TEMPERATURE COMING. 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