Show LEGS AND ARMS FOR ALL how old soldiers get artificial limbs to replace those they have lost MOST OLD SOLDIERS PREFER THE MONEY HONEY I 1 to the limb trouble occasioned toned to the surgeon generals office by delay in fix appropriations otis some funny fanny points about loea legs arid and arms tor for veterans V sept 23 1800 tho the old soldiers lit all over tho the country aro are making things rid hot just now for tho the office of the tha 8 surgeon burgoon gen general oral ot of tho the horti horo la in washington they want their logs legs and arms and tho the government has been slow about dealing them out those art fickal members with which undo uncle sam provides nil all the maimed veterans at stated silted periods were appropriated for in tho the sundry civil bill which was delayed tor for so long in its passage by congress in conse ananco or of this del delay ay iy the br bravo ave a old it cripples ples havo have been abl obliged ged to wait overtime over time for tho the limbs duo them and they have not dono done it very cheerfully hundreds ol of let letters tersa a day have been pouring into tho the surgeon generals office demanding to know why their claims were not satisfied while senators and representatives lave have had their letter mail largely ina increased crease byro by requests quests and even thrU threats ILLS on the subject to understand stand this it ft must bo be known that tho the groat great majority majro rity of tho the veterans accept a money equivalent instead ot of the 3 begs arms they are entitled too the law passed by congress in 1870 declared that every soldier or sailor who had lost a limb or the use at 0 it in the service ot of this country should bo be sup plied eliod with an artificial one to r replace it once every sim five years at tho the governments ex expense or it was provided that if the beneficiary did not wish to tako take the limb he should to do paid its cash value instead now KOW an artificial limb Is a pretty costly thing and many an old soldier prefers to stump are around and on a wooden peg and put his 75 in his pocket that is the sum given as commutation so called for a leg 50 being the amount paid for an arm it must mint be remembered that the law covers riot not merely limbs lost but also IMMS A man whose hand band has been disabled by a contraction of tho the fingers resulting from disease or injury incidental to service is entitled to an artificial arm it if his foot has been amputated above the ankle ho he Is entitled to a whole artificial leg of course there are many moro more old soldiers who have disabled limbs than have lost them and feces draw the money thus you yen w will III find that out or of veterans who lie receive this bounty from the government every five years only about call for actual letual arms andregs and legs tho the rest accepting cash instead in perhaps as man many T as goo COO more inore prefer to go without the artificial legs they need its as a measure of economy using stumps slumps or crutches instead the one armed men take their chec checks ks nearly every time when the law was first passed nearly as many inacy arms wore were called for n as z lc leg k but tho the cripples soon discovered by experiment that while an artificial beg ce is a most ml useful acce of mechanism and a very fair air substitute for tho the real article the abst f also arm Is hardly more than a thing far ornaments ornamental purposes so it awo camo about that there havo have ban been few applications for arms since i nine legs leas being made at government expense for every arm of ec course ourse tho the old soldiers ar are 5 t 0 f them poor and they count U upon pa T this payment of diio 50 when mhd time for or it comes around A delay may ba a considerable sid erable misfortune 1 to trient hence their a anxiety n andl indignation I 1 on file he subject was not altogether unreasonable even thoe who desh desired ed real artificial limbs doubtless wanted gricin bally bailly por bior you see tho tao average storo store leg of 0 the best quality lasts about eight years ye r irs and those of tho who use ahcin i I 1 are ara mostly acculto accustomed mod to make them do tor for ten years though they may get somewhat dilapidated and shaky tit in the joints toward tho the end bettig thus enabled to draw their rm every other five f ive years the tha government has a list of about forty artificial limb factories in it all parts of the united states from which the tha vete veterans may make their own selection so that any one may have his LEG on OB aint al tt OUT by any of these establishments establishment that ho he prefers all of the manufacturers on tho the list aro are under bonds of qi oooo each to supply tho the old soldiers with satisfactory goods it Is id provided incidentally den trilly by tho the law that tile tho person needing the limb and being provided with a it shall bo be given free transportation from his homo home to any city ho he desires where it a f factory is situated with sleeping car accommodations and return thus a veteran in now new york liay may desire disiro to bo be measured for a leg in san francisco and it if so is L entitled to lo a trip across tho the continent and andack pack once in five years in a pullman palace car treo free 0 of expense iio must pay tor for his mea icah 19 oil en route however which he ha Is likely to consider au an outrage botho recent grand army convention at atI hoston loston old soldiers went as deadheads dead heads beads from all parts of tho the united states for or tho the purpose st df being measured for armmand arms and legs this rilay may bo be referred to perhaps Is as an fi illustrative definition of tho the slang term that puzzles so many people pulling onos ones leg of course this Is the distribution that is being mado made now of artificia artl licia limbs and the tha unavoidable delay has brought tho the whole business in one tremendous rush upon tipon the office of of I 1 tile s surgeon ur geon general who ever sinco since tile tho sundry civil bill passed pai sed has spent ills his time signing certificates in duplicate dupik ate lie iio Is doing his best bui tho 0 old sol soldiers seriously OBJECT TO WAITING last monday ho be received a voucher r calling for the usual 75 S from a ono one logged legged veteran lu in pennsylvania it had reached Wal washington hIngton tho the warning morning before but business being intermitted loll 1011 on tile sabbath there was a 3 delay of twenty tour henrs monday afternoon however tho the check was duly sent olt oil by post on tuesday thoda after a 1 I very choleric letter arrived from the old soldier said ho he how long is this d d ungrateful government going to roalo me wait for my money I 1 sent in my voucher last week and I 1 have not received it yol yet it is an outrage sir it 11 your subordinates were mado made to do their duty duly instead of loafing gibe the veterans who fought and bled in the service ser vice ot of the country conn try would not have to wait indefinitely for their duo due I 1 trust I 1 may got my 75 s some time before christmas sinco tho the war which necessarily mated a an n enlarged demand for artificial fic fal limb laruba theta has been vast im in th llmer dir arc am mado so admirably now that ono one can valk with two artificial ones so well as to act exhibit very little difficulty tit in the iho gait bait willow or basswood Is the material used tho the lumber Is most carefully selected and cut into blocks eight inches square and tour four feet long gioles 0 are drilled through these thesa blocks blacks I 1 tewo th 0 n g wo with an auger and they aro are allowed to season tor for three years then they aro are ready tor for use the Tho blockis block 1 craved and sandpapered sand papered into shape as exactly like a real leg as possible next it Is hollowed out to the ho desired thickness after which it is covered with kid aud and the surface ronderos ron ren derod waterproof water proof by a coating of a peculiar varnish tile tho lower part ot of tho the limb Is connected with tho the upper by an knee joint and ahn whole Inter interior lor i ot bf the iho logis ie is filled with in fix which a spring plays nn important pirl part rubber with a wooden coro core that is of tho the samo piece with tho the lower leg is the of tho the foot it is upon the w wood 0 0 d layer after layer and gives a na natural tu r al spring to the iho step till roe ARM air is madr pretty much in tho the same way but with comparatively little mechanism tho the hand being of rub berwith a wooden core and flexible wires extending the lingers so that tho the latter can bo be bont bent into any desired position tor for grag grasping ping or other purposes A glove covers the iho hand always because it il Is impossible to make it look boole lifelike life like in tint tho the way to learn how to walk with an artificial legli to si accommodate the motions of 0 the live member to those of the imitation and not the opposite as is commonly dono done A veteran is entitled by law to one limb or its equivalent in money forbach lor tarn amputation suffered so that somo old sold soldiers lers who have no limbs lof left b that are of any eso ret get four now ones avory five years 1 or 1 50 it if they prefer out of all loss logs lost by mon men 33 3 per cent are amputated because of war and add only 15 per cent on account of disease 31 81 per cent of the cases being que duo to railways which are arc thus soon seen to occasion th the bloss loss of almost as many as battle women curiously enough lose 51 per cent tit of I 1 i their amputated logs legs in consequence or of disease and exhibit a according to statistics to lobo lo 10 so their right logs legs much oftener than their lett left it should not bo be forgotten lor gotton to axx mention that not merely the veterans of the war but all soldiers and sailors as well who lose a limb or the use of it in the service ot of the united states are aroca on titlow to the bounty described in five years in 1870 whon when the law was first passed shrewd washington attorneys got lists of ail all tho the crippled pensioners from the office and SENT TO EVERY ONE of them saying in each case wo we have hav 0 ascertained that you are entitled to 10 such and such money front from the government and we will obtain it for you yon on oil con condition didon that af after ter on oil have received it you will remit to enslo per cent of the amount blanks were enclosed for tho the pensioner to fill out his application and voucher an and d instruction was wa s given that those these blanks should bo be forwarded to the office of the alio gendral hero here of 01 course the office receiving tho the blanks made out in due form sus had tho the caso case investigated according to the law and paid the ilie amounts subsequently the attorneys wrote to the abo applicants saying sayin 9 that they supposed the money had been received by them and requesting payment ot of tho the 10 per cone cent of 01 course their cue was to persuade tho the beneficiary bene that they had exerted themselves personally in his behalf and got the dash cash for him tile fact being that tho the pensioner had only to write to washington on his own account and receive his 75 or without a pennys dennys cost to himself by this ingenious method ithrom firms of lawyers in Inthis this city cleared clear cd in percentages w month but the surgeon Gen general cral soon realized what was going ton ion and put a stop to the business by the simple expedient t of ado g a new form of blank When whenever everone ono of the old stylo was received pit at tho the office after this it ic was sent sont back to tho the applicant one abne ortho new ahr stylo style blanks which hall had a hatice af aits its top informing the pensioner peni flens ioner that ho he required no legal services to procure his money and had it d inform the office directly in 1 order to get his rash at any gate time of course this cut the shrewd shred lawyers industry short oft off inasmuch as it would have been of no use for them to send out copies of the now new stylo style blanks that gave their scheme dead away of all the crippled veterans in it the country gulfy the most fortunato fortunate are arc those who 1 I 0 O a are re employed at the capitol in washington several of them are arc on the employment list of the senate which never neer thinks of dismissing so servants r i who conduct themselves properly fourteen more serve serto as messengers for the house of representatives and a law was passed by the forty eighth congress declaring that they shall not bo be discharged save for cause which must bo be reported to and approved by voto vote of the if I 1 0 house these aliese messenger servo as doorkeepers keepers for committee rooms and for tho the entrances to tho the house when it is in fix session T their heir duties are arc light and they getS get 1200 ft a year each though they by do no work between sessions of tho the heroic fourteen private S 11 II keeker booker Is tile tho roost most romar kahlo inasmuch as lie ho his has lost both arms III he lost them at Perr percyville perryville kentucky b by a pro mature discharge of artillery and tho the accident entitles entities him film to aloo a month pension at present lie he tends the doors of tile the press gallery hugh levis a private lost one arm fit at the last battle of pull cull eun in fit august Ati gusc ISM private john stewart lost ono of ills his arms by a musket bullet at chancellorsville his other hand being considerably damaged Fornando Page was cora compelled polled to relinquish both legs by the explosion QI on of a shell james J Afe mcconnell McCon Connell nelI and john it whitaker have both lost a log leg alio lie former it at stevensburg Stevens burg va in 1 I 1 and tho the latter at richmond kentucky in ibia J IV white abandoned ono one of his arms at jonesboro Jone while accompanying Shen Shern nans ians march to the sea the missing arm ami of jolin john roule home was waa left upon afield a field of battlo battle jn I 1 the mexican war E S williams 21 was s out of tile army of tho the colomac with one ing less than he hohag liall when it gen IV T pitch fitch still liolis tile tha courtesy rank of brigadier though ono of liis lifis logs has his has boon rendered on en arely useless by a gunshot we wound d col william irving was sf arving in 1110 thirty eighth ohio regiment lie ho hall had one leg shot oil off and tho tha other por per maii man Bully outly disabled capt john ryan and capt jolin john A travis have each lost a leg major J P wilson had his entire el I 1 tire lower jaw shot away at fort doncyson ile ho draws KO 0 O every five years as an equivalent I 1 for an artificial arna arak auy any ono one would rather I 1 al A lf AMI AIM TIIA THAN A JAW seven of till the men on the maimed soldiers roll tit in the rouge house have hav e been appointed by republicans and boven by democrats on oa the senate side ci ono 0 of tile assistant doorkeepers capt jolin john G Merrl tl lost tile the rise lisa of hla his right log leg by a 6 gunshot wound pec received elved at the first battle of null bull run two oilier employees lost each cah an arm in tho late lalo war they aro are both doorkeepers at present tito tho former of the hie two J C ball lost ml n 0 1114 11 1 ah lil ion of 1 I 1 J ar M pipes suffered a similar misfortune in the service of 0 a volun fcc r regiment capt cape merritt Mr ritt by tho the way was awarded a mod medal al of honor by con congress sa tor for brave bravery ryoon on the ibo field three stuffers Scuff ers senators lark a limb atleco butler and wado wade hampton both bolli of south carolina havo have but two logs legs between them to represent the understanding of 0 the delegation from that state both wear wooden limbs though in latelers bailors Bai B lat lors lers caso case you would grovef never sug |