Show WARING IESOFYELOY FEVER DEATH OF WLLXNOWN NEW YORK MAN Was Sent to Report On Best Methods of Placing Cuban Capital In First class Sanitary Shape New York Oct 29Colonel George E Waring jr flied of yellow fever today at his homeIn this city where he had been since heZarrlved from Havana on the Yucatan on Tuesday last He I was G7 years of age Dr Blauvett who had been attending Colonel Waring I during his IllneSS was summoned to the house at 1 oclOck this morning He I found that Colonel Varlng had been attacked with black vomit This symptom symp-tom continued all morning without cessation Everything possible was done for the dying man but he only lived until a quarter of 8 President Murphy of the board of health was informed In-formed of the death of Colonel Waring within five minut after It occurred Dr Roberts the sanitary superintendent superintend-ent was ordered to have the body placed in a hermetically sealed casket at once 11r Murphy also gave orders that every precaution should be taken to prevent the spread of the disease Colonel Waring had been sent to Havana Ha-vana AS a special commissioner of this government to ascertain the exact sanitary san-itary conditions of that city and to form Ideas for the best methods of putting put-ting the place In firstclass sanitary I shape lie was to report to the president presi-dent and on the day he returned he said he expected to go to Washington on the next day He said he felt unwell un-well but It was not thought he had more than an ordinary illness He said he had a great deal of Information which he thought wpuld be of service to the president The plan of the commission I com-mission was to place the city or Havana Ha-vana and the cpdSt towns of Cuba In such a good sanitary condition that I the recurrenceot4eITow fever and Its entrnnc Into the gulf cIties of the United States would be prevented f Colonel Waring was apparent well when he left Havana and he felt only slightly ill during the latter part of the voyage but when he reached his home he was obliged to take to his bed It was then discovered that he was SUf ferlng from yellow fever Colonel War log was Immediately Isolated on the ninth floor of the Rutherford the apartment house In whllh he lived I There are nine families in the house Precautions were immediately taken to prevent the spread of the disease No one but the physicians and Mrs War I Ing who has had the disease and Is therefore immune were allowed to flee Colonel Waring Everything that was I taken In or out of the apartment was dlsinfEcted Inspectors of the board of health were stationed at and In the house to prevent people from getting near the sick man II Three hours after the death of Colonel Colo-nel VarIng his body enclosed In a metallic casket was taken from the apartment he had occupied to the dock I at the foot of Fifteenth street where the quarantine boat Governor Flower with Dr Dotj In charge was in waiting wait-Ing The body was placed on board and taken to Swlnhurd Island It was there placed in a fire and cremated As soon as the body had been removed from the house the apartments of the 1Yarlngs were fumIgated and disin creed The father mother Ioroth and three sisters of Mrs Varlng died of yellow fever In New Orleans some rears Jn Colonel l Waring was a native of New I York slate and much of his earlier liCe was spent In the study and practice of scientific agriculture He was for some time in charge of Horace Greeleys farm at Chappaqua N Y In 1057 he was appointed agricultural and drainage drain-age engineer of Central park this city He entered the army In 156 as a major In the Garibaldi reserves but was transferred to the army of the southwest south-west where he helped consolidate the Fremont and Benton resenes into the Fourth Missouri cavalry of which he I became colonel During the yellow fever epidemic in ISiS in Memphis Colonel Varing devised the system of sewerage In vogue there now which has since been adopted In many other American and European cities Colonel Colo-nel WarlnJ was appointed the commissIoner com-missIoner of bureau of street cleaning In this city by Mayor Strong and made a highly creditable record for efficiency I |