Show IllS FACE ALL BURNED AWAY i I Editor Arkoll Wears 850 Pieces of Strul1fc Epidermis I Saratoga Correspondence New York World i One of the most active of the men I darting in and out of various conferences i i was W J Arkell the publisher of the j I i Albany Journal and a new force in Mohawk I i Mo-hawk Valley politics He is very earnest I in his advocacy of the claims of Joseph W Drexel Mr Arkell who is only 31 years of I remarkable history lie most i I age has a i I I was in his fathers factory when lie was I of a ter 17 years of age at the moment rible gasoline explosion The workman blown i with Arkell was I who was young o left of him out of sight Not enough was to be gathered together for identification Young Arkell who did not lose consciousness con-sciousness covered his mouth and eyes I and made a dash for the door Time I building in which this explosion took with black I place became filled at once smoke his head The boy butted his way with through live doors going literally through fright fire In this passage he became burned The time of tho accident fully was winter When he finally readied the outer air he rolled in the snow and I I S left in the snow the front and back oft of much t both his hands and the covering of the lower part of his lace lie was I burned so hopelessly that the doctors for i a long time despaired of him Senator I i Arkell who was on one of the upper floors of the building when the explosion I took place escaped by dropping from a 1 window down a fall of twentyfive feet upon a strip of bare rock His son was in bed for two years His face was so badly burned thatit was impossible im-possible for the natural skin to recover His hands were equally afflicted Senator Arkell discovered in his reading experiments experi-ments in the direction of transplanting skin from one person to another He asked the surgeons in charge of his son to try this experiment The result was one of the most interesting known in the chapters of surgery Upon the f11lc of young Mr Arkell there were transplanted S5G pieces of skin from the arms of various people The result is that his face was entirely built nn RO that today while lift hears i very heavy l scars he yet looks very well I considering what he IIPS been through He has indomitable courage and pluck and aspires to a high position as a pub1 lisher of newspapers |