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Show In New York's Tough Districts. The experiences of tho llellovuo hospital hos-pital ambulance surgeons In tho tin-lighted tin-lighted districts skirting Kast river, New York, where It Is not safe oven for policemen to venture sometimes, hno led the hospital authorities to equip the Instrument bags carried by tho surgeons with a tubular electric dark lantern, sixteen Inches long nnd two InclieH thick, weighing about two pounds. It serves equally well as n lantern nnd a night stick. According to the stories of the surgeons, when they have teturned from calls to particularly par-ticularly dangerous districts, Iho defensive de-fensive end of tho contrivance has often proved moro useful than tho electric ends. |