After months starving, with fear as my only companion, and seeing how death recruited a large part of the inhabitants, I see now that a ray of hope rises above the city. Today, Philadelphia wakes up with its streets cleaned up. The number of deaths caused by yellow fever started to decrease. The epidemic is still around, but it loses strength every day. People have started fighting fear and going out their homes. A couple of farmers are already willing to bring food to the city. The people who fled the city at some point are coming back. Owners have begun re-opening their businesses. Most doctors are saying the fever will be completely gone by the winter. Thus far, there is an exorbitant number of dead, and that is a painful and sad scar that we, the survivors, will take with us forever. With people returning to Philadelphia , I can see with hope how my neighborhood starts filling with life after it had almost lost any signs of life. Even though all my friends died, and I am currently alone, I can feel some joy seeing the city breathing once again.
“Oh! Thanks God to see you again, John” Mr. Brooks, the long term inhabitant of Philadelphian, a silversmith, eagerly said. His body was shaking with the mix feeling of happiness and sadness. He continued. “Some people suggested me to wait a few days longer, but John, I couldn't help myself to stop homesick” His pale blue eye were full of tears, he gaped and gawked along the Main Street. “When I'm away from here, I recognize myself how much I love this city. May be more than my hometown, even though I wasn't born here, I want to die here. This might be an old townee's last wish.” In normal, I could feel sad for his words, but hundreds of death turned my heart iron. Like a fool, the old man wiped the dust from his shop windows, put his best silver handiwork on the shelves, as like the customers come and buy soon. The old man Bernie passed through in front of the shop, looked at him and sighed faintly. Which kinds of person come and buy the silver craft in such time? Mr. Brooks continued whistling an old song and making clean. I saw hundreds of people crowded, coming and shopping in his eyes like the old days. But, the Main Street was still empty. He reopened his shop on October 31, no one came and bought anything until the last, but he was happy in his last days, he whistled every day, every day until end. The yellow fever re-emerged in Philadelphia. A few people were taken away in this time too. Nearly hundred added to the existing thousands. Mr. Brooks was one of them. The disease could take easily his weak body. He passed away on November 3. The silver craft shop was left in open.
Despite Mr. Brooks' death, the hundreds of Philadelphians returned day by day. Nothing could stop them. They were tired to stay outside of their home. A group by group came back day by day. A hundred of carts were arriving all the days. The old folks, the old friends regain a chance to meet each other. But the one I expected earnestly was still missing.
I had been impatient since my departure from Philadelphia. I left Secretary of War, Henry Knox, in charge of the government with specific instructions to report to me every week, but Knox left the city short after. He sent information about the areas surrounded Philadelphia but not from the city itself. The only information I received is confused and not always true. I didn’t have any official documentation with me and I couldn’t call Congress into session outside Philadelphia. The Attorney General, Edmund Randolph, though it’s unconstitutional. I decided to move back to the city. I stayed in Germantown, in David Deshler’s house. It’s seemed that the fever is losing it power thanks to the coldest weather. I couldn’t wait anymore and went to Philadelphia on my own to see by myself the true condition of the city. I rode around the city street. The air smelled fine and the streets were clean. I went back to Germantown and informed to my staff that the city was ready to back to normal and that Congress would meet in December.
Lina Shkilko, October 28, 1973 Today October, 28. The weather is not so hot and humid the sun isn’t as unrelenting and unmerciful as couple month ago. We still stay in Maryland and scary even think about arriving. My brother’s family gives us support, such as food, roof under head and little money. Some people with whom we acquainted, now going back to Philadelphia. We can’t understand how it possible, because we just flee from this stricken place. We don’t really know what occur now in the city. We can assume something only according rumors. We knew a lot people, who died in Philadelphia before our departure to Maryland and we can’t imagine how we can arrive home. I think it is safer for my family and me, to stay here, in Maryland for couple month more, as a minimum.
How everybody knows Philadelphia became a city of panic since the yellow fever touch there. Nobody really wanted to go back there neither me, probably i'll wait until i see some change in the city or until they got rid of the epidemic completly, because i don't want to put in risk my life.
The people in philadelphia was suffering a lot and they were so frustrated because they couldn't do nothing to stop the epidemic.
So many peole as me are afraid to come back yet, they want to avoid be in contact with any people who live there.
After many days of frustration and desolation, something good was about to happen in Philadelphia and this was the change of the weather. The cold weather was arriving to Philadelphia and this was something good for the city because it would help to clean and improve the air in Philadelphia and get rid of the epidemic.
The epidemic was disappearing little by little and some other people weren't afraid to comeback to the city, so people who had left the city during the yellow fever started to comeback.
Some Doctors have predicted that the change of the weather would bring calm and would help to disappear the fever.
The Yellow fever had left hundres of victims on his way for Philadelphia, not only humans also animals like dogs, birds and some others species.
Now the streets on philadelphia started to look clean and the air feels fresh and clean, and the unavoidable deadly disease did not stop peple from returning to the city.
October 28, 1793 The hopelessness is vanishing and the bright light is coming. While I was writing my diary, the wind cold blew my face. I never leave this city even though object of my desire. Philadelphia has been continued to change in the better way. I think everyone will breathe clearly in the fresh air again. I noticed someone began open the door and window to find the refreshment in the morning. Some people who detained themselves in house come out for walking in the street. The business began to run. For example, the shop shown the sing to open, and ship sailed to sell the food to hungry city. Even the government is preparing to announce that the stagecoach can be service in early November. Many doctor predicted that the epidemic will cease when the winter come back. My neighbors just came back from Maryland. He and his family left the city since he known that someone die in August. We talk to each other for a while and he told me that he is confident the fever will end because he agreed with Dr. Rush. He followed any information about Dr. Rush’s cure. He is so great to come back to his home. In this moment, I feel seem like I am getting a new life it beyond happiness. Meanwhile, I fell absolutely sad because I could not save my family until this time. This is a numerous defeat in my life. Many people died because of the yellow fever epidemic. It is hard to exactly know that how many people died in during had the fever. Because, the officers of government who had responsibility to record they fled the city and someone had sickness. In my opinion I thought that more than a thousand took a spirit to the fever. I hope the situation will get to normal recently.
I was taken to Bush Hill, when i got there, they notified me that my wife passed away. I receive their treatment that was very gentle, and because of that, I am alive and now i feel better. I feel very sad, because i lost my family, and I couldn't do nothing to save them.
Now I am back in one feet. I look around me, and i see very desolate, even though people are returning to their homes, there still the emptiness of the people that are gone forever.
The president, and other members of the government are back. they look afraid and worried at the same time. I see people faces, but I don't know all of them. there is a difference between people who fled the city, and people who stayed during the hard attack of the epidemic.
All the people, who survive to the fever have yellow glow on their skin and black teeth. This two thing append because the people that contracted the fever, their skin turned yellow, and the back teeth is because they drank Dr. Rush's passion.
Well after the heavy hit if this disease, I hope to completely recover, it will not be easy because my life, and the city is totally damage, and I don't feel much volition to work right now. bit by bit, I hope everything will go changing.
OCtober28 I tried to help the people who stayed in the city by bringing food for them.that is why i saw all the stages of that terrible epidemic. FInally , i saw a white flage on Bush Hill Hospital.i was very plesent to know that the fever was gone and no more sick people inside it,and i remarked that the streets were clean and a stench went away.i did not notice any foul smells neither. As a result , i decieded to return with my family to my city, but it was not easy decession because my wife would be shocked by the amount of the death . After i arrived , my predictions were totally right . MY wife cried a lot since she lost her best freinds and neibors .the city was different . Eventhough the people were walking in the streets, we felt it empty with no sence of life .All folks were sad for their lost or totally exhausted after they tried a toxic cure . The sadness was around every body in the city.
Hector Flores April 16,2013 October 28,1793 After the storm comes the calm. I have been in he city since yellow fever started to make Philadelphians life probably the worse in the country. Today is Monday, October 28 and everything seems to be better for us. I went out of my house this morning and the sun appeared to be a new one, a brighter one, but less hot. Here around my house smelled very less bad than couple days before. I have walked through the city, looking for a way to feed myself, and I noticed that our streets were clean like someone made them new. In fact. I couldn’t see even baggers and homeless children. The life was coming from everywhere. I saw many people returning to their homes. There were children, men, women and I also thought see some animals. They have came to the place they belong. Everybody here seems to be hopeful. All this movement makes me feel happy because with everyone coming back, the jobs will return, and with them the hope of life will grow. The disease have tool too many lives. A lot of people that I knew have died. Some of them leaving behind children without parents, and some parents without children. This is the reality, I have seen the sadness of those who miss their loved ones. I tried to help them although I did not have anything to offer. I hope their situation gets better because I don’t like to see my friends suffering. Today has been a day where anything received a new chance to start. Every kind of people is now arriving and that's really good news. I hope start working soon to earn some money and contribute to revive our damaged city.
October,28 Today i have heard a good new that Philadelphia finally got rid of the disease.However, the city's life is not the same before. Those people who chose to stay, and survived from the disease had been seeing their friends and relatives died during the Epidemic.And that left a deep emotional would in their lives.One of my friends told me, the emotional wound that has leave in her life will never heal. Men, women, and children were killed in the variable numbers.I also heard that people who had fled the city to shunned the disease start to come back to the city,including some Governors and president Washington.They surprisingly see the city becomes completely different.The streets are super clean,no any stench or foul smell in the streets, and things getting so organize. Some people have asked me if I want to come back yet.my answer is I don't want to come back yet because am not sure if the disease really completely gone.Am afraid it just temporary gone and it might get back again. Beside that am just getting used to life in New York city.I also just got a job as a clerk in the most famous bank in New York. So I want to establish my life in New York, and I will come back to Philadelphia one day to visit my friends and my co-workers.
We, the people who stayed in the city, are seeing the light around to the corner. The unmerciful enemy seems to be gone because the weather is getting colder and colder. So many people have been returning to the city looking right away for their families who didn't flee. Unluckily, so many people died during this epidemic that couldn't see their families again.Some people died starving and other from the illness. Apparently, Philadelphia has changed in so many ways. Thanks to the volunteers, the streets became cleaner and without beggars or homeless children. Those poor people were put in a specific place were to live and the stench that used to be in the city is gone. Now we can see who was strong enough to survive from this terrible plague. Unfortunately, nobody knows exactly how many people died during this time because the official people who count it, fled the city. We can see whose got infected by looking their skin or teeth which most of them were treated by Dr. Rush.I think that our full recovery will be long and hopefully this plague won't come again.
Thomas Waters
ReplyDeleteOctober 28, 1793
After months starving, with fear as my only companion, and seeing how death recruited a large part of the inhabitants, I see now that a ray of hope rises above the city. Today, Philadelphia wakes up with its streets cleaned up. The number of deaths caused by yellow fever started to decrease. The epidemic is still around, but it loses strength every day. People have started fighting fear and going out their homes. A couple of farmers are already willing to bring food to the city. The people who fled the city at some point are coming back. Owners have begun re-opening their businesses. Most doctors are saying the fever will be completely gone by the winter. Thus far, there is an exorbitant number of dead, and that is a painful and sad scar that we, the survivors, will take with us forever. With people returning to Philadelphia , I can see with hope how my neighborhood starts filling with life after it had almost lost any signs of life. Even though all my friends died, and I am currently alone, I can feel some joy seeing the city breathing once again.
ReplyDeleteOctober 28, 1793
“Oh! Thanks God to see you again, John”
Mr. Brooks, the long term inhabitant of Philadelphian, a silversmith, eagerly said.
His body was shaking with the mix feeling of happiness and sadness. He continued.
“Some people suggested me to wait a few days longer, but John, I couldn't help myself to stop homesick”
His pale blue eye were full of tears, he gaped and gawked along the Main Street.
“When I'm away from here, I recognize myself how much I love this city. May be more than my hometown, even though I wasn't born here, I want to die here. This might be an old townee's last wish.”
In normal, I could feel sad for his words, but hundreds of death turned my heart iron.
Like a fool, the old man wiped the dust from his shop windows, put his best silver handiwork on the shelves, as like the customers come and buy soon.
The old man Bernie passed through in front of the shop, looked at him and sighed faintly. Which kinds of person come and buy the silver craft in such time?
Mr. Brooks continued whistling an old song and making clean. I saw hundreds of people crowded, coming and shopping in his eyes like the old days. But, the Main Street was still empty.
He reopened his shop on October 31, no one came and bought anything until the last, but he was happy in his last days, he whistled every day, every day until end.
The yellow fever re-emerged in Philadelphia. A few people were taken away in this time too. Nearly hundred added to the existing thousands. Mr. Brooks was one of them. The disease could take easily his weak body. He passed away on November 3. The silver craft shop was left in open.
Despite Mr. Brooks' death, the hundreds of Philadelphians returned day by day. Nothing could stop them. They were tired to stay outside of their home.
A group by group came back day by day. A hundred of carts were arriving all the days. The old folks, the old friends regain a chance to meet each other.
But the one I expected earnestly was still missing.
John Warner
Aung
Monday, October 28, 1793
ReplyDeleteI had been impatient since my departure from Philadelphia. I left Secretary of War, Henry Knox, in charge of the government with specific instructions to report to me every week, but Knox left the city short after. He sent information about the areas surrounded Philadelphia but not from the city itself. The only information I received is confused and not always true. I didn’t have any official documentation with me and I couldn’t call Congress into session outside Philadelphia. The Attorney General, Edmund Randolph, though it’s unconstitutional. I decided to move back to the city. I stayed in Germantown, in David Deshler’s house. It’s seemed that the fever is losing it power thanks to the coldest weather. I couldn’t wait anymore and went to Philadelphia on my own to see by myself the true condition of the city. I rode around the city street. The air smelled fine and the streets were clean. I went back to Germantown and informed to my staff that the city was ready to back to normal and that Congress would meet in December.
Lina Shkilko, October 28, 1973
ReplyDeleteToday October, 28. The weather is not so hot and humid the sun isn’t as unrelenting and unmerciful as couple month ago. We still stay in Maryland and scary even think about arriving. My brother’s family gives us support, such as food, roof under head and little money. Some people with whom we acquainted, now going back to Philadelphia. We can’t understand how it possible, because we just flee from this stricken place. We don’t really know what occur now in the city. We can assume something only according rumors. We knew a lot people, who died in Philadelphia before our departure to Maryland and we can’t imagine how we can arrive home. I think it is safer for my family and me, to stay here, in Maryland for couple month more, as a minimum.
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ReplyDeleteHow everybody knows Philadelphia became a city of panic since the yellow fever touch there.
Nobody really wanted to go back there neither me, probably i'll wait until i see some change in the city or until they got rid of the epidemic completly, because i don't want to put in risk my life.
The people in philadelphia was suffering a lot and they were so frustrated because they couldn't do nothing to stop the epidemic.
So many peole as me are afraid to come back yet, they want to avoid be in contact with any people who live there.
After many days of frustration and desolation, something good was about to happen in Philadelphia and this was the change of the weather. The cold weather was arriving to Philadelphia and this was something good for the city because it would help to clean and improve the air in Philadelphia and get rid of the epidemic.
The epidemic was disappearing little by little and some other people weren't afraid to comeback to the city, so people who had left the city during the yellow fever started to comeback.
Some Doctors have predicted that the change of the weather would bring calm and would help to disappear the fever.
The Yellow fever had left hundres of victims on his way for Philadelphia, not only humans also animals like dogs, birds and some others species.
Now the streets on philadelphia started to look clean and the air feels fresh and clean, and the unavoidable deadly disease did not stop peple from returning to the city.
October 28, 1793
ReplyDeleteThe hopelessness is vanishing and the bright light is coming. While I was writing my diary, the wind cold blew my face. I never leave this city even though object of my desire. Philadelphia has been continued to change in the better way. I think everyone will breathe clearly in the fresh air again. I noticed someone began open the door and window to find the refreshment in the morning. Some people who detained themselves in house come out for walking in the street. The business began to run. For example, the shop shown the sing to open, and ship sailed to sell the food to hungry city. Even the government is preparing to announce that the stagecoach can be service in early November. Many doctor predicted that the epidemic will cease when the winter come back.
My neighbors just came back from Maryland. He and his family left the city since he known that someone die in August. We talk to each other for a while and he told me that he is confident the fever will end because he agreed with Dr. Rush. He followed any information about Dr. Rush’s cure. He is so great to come back to his home. In this moment, I feel seem like I am getting a new life it beyond happiness. Meanwhile, I fell absolutely sad because I could not save my family until this time. This is a numerous defeat in my life. Many people died because of the yellow fever epidemic. It is hard to exactly know that how many people died in during had the fever. Because, the officers of government who had responsibility to record they fled the city and someone had sickness. In my opinion I thought that more than a thousand took a spirit to the fever. I hope the situation will get to normal recently.
I was taken to Bush Hill, when i got there, they notified me that my wife passed away. I receive their treatment that was very gentle, and because of that, I am alive and now i feel better. I feel very sad, because i lost my family, and I couldn't do nothing to save them.
ReplyDeleteNow I am back in one feet. I look around me, and i see very desolate, even though people are returning to their homes, there still the emptiness of the people that are gone forever.
The president, and other members of the government are back. they look afraid and worried at the same time. I see people faces, but I don't know all of them. there is a difference between people who fled the city, and people who stayed during the hard attack of the epidemic.
All the people, who survive to the fever have yellow glow on their skin and black teeth. This two thing append because the people that contracted the fever, their skin turned yellow, and the back teeth is because they drank Dr. Rush's passion.
Well after the heavy hit if this disease, I hope to completely recover, it will not be easy because my life, and the city is totally damage, and I don't feel much volition to work right now. bit by bit, I hope everything will go changing.
OCtober28
ReplyDeleteI tried to help the people who stayed in the city by bringing food for them.that is why i saw all the stages of that terrible epidemic. FInally , i saw a white flage on Bush Hill Hospital.i was very plesent to know that the fever was gone and no more sick people inside it,and i remarked that the streets were clean and a stench went away.i did not notice any foul smells neither.
As a result , i decieded to return with my family to my city, but it was not easy decession because my wife would be shocked by the amount of the death . After i arrived , my predictions were totally right . MY wife cried a lot since she lost her best freinds and neibors .the city was different . Eventhough the people were walking in the streets, we felt it empty with no sence of life .All folks were sad for their lost or totally exhausted after they tried a toxic cure . The sadness was around every body in the city.
Hector Flores
ReplyDeleteApril 16,2013
October 28,1793
After the storm comes the calm. I have been in he city since yellow fever started to make Philadelphians life probably the worse in the country. Today is Monday, October 28 and everything seems to be better for us.
I went out of my house this morning and the sun appeared to be a new one, a brighter one, but less hot. Here around my house smelled very less bad than couple days before. I have walked through the city, looking for a way to feed myself, and I noticed that our streets were clean like someone made them new. In fact. I couldn’t see even baggers and homeless children.
The life was coming from everywhere. I saw many people returning to their homes. There were children, men, women and I also thought see some animals. They have came to the place they belong. Everybody here seems to be hopeful. All this movement makes me feel happy because with everyone coming back, the jobs will return, and with them the hope of life will grow.
The disease have tool too many lives. A lot of people that I knew have died. Some of them leaving behind children without parents, and some parents without children. This is the reality, I have seen the sadness of those who miss their loved ones. I tried to help them although I did not have anything to offer. I hope their situation gets better because I don’t like to see my friends suffering.
Today has been a day where anything received a new chance to start. Every kind of people is now arriving and that's really good news. I hope start working soon to earn some money and contribute to revive our damaged city.
October,28
ReplyDeleteToday i have heard a good new that Philadelphia finally got rid of the disease.However, the city's life is not the same before. Those people who chose to stay, and survived from the disease had been seeing their friends and relatives died during the Epidemic.And that left a deep emotional would in their lives.One of my friends told me, the emotional wound that has leave in her life will never heal.
Men, women, and children were killed in the variable numbers.I also heard that people who had fled the city to shunned the disease start to come back to the city,including some Governors and president Washington.They surprisingly see the city becomes completely different.The streets are super clean,no any stench or foul smell in the streets, and things getting so organize.
Some people have asked me if I want to come back yet.my answer is I don't want to come back yet because am not sure if the disease really completely gone.Am afraid it just temporary gone and it might get back again. Beside that am just getting used to life in New York city.I also just got a job as a clerk in the most famous bank in New York. So I want to establish my life in New York, and I will come back to Philadelphia one day to visit my friends and my co-workers.
Monday, October 28
ReplyDeleteJohn Watkins
We, the people who stayed in the city, are seeing the light around to the corner. The unmerciful enemy seems to be gone because the weather is getting colder and colder. So many people have been returning to the city looking right away for their families who didn't flee. Unluckily, so many people died during this epidemic that couldn't see their families again.Some people died starving and other from the illness.
Apparently, Philadelphia has changed in so many ways. Thanks to the volunteers, the streets became cleaner and without beggars or homeless children. Those poor people were put in a specific place were to live and the stench that used to be in the city is gone.
Now we can see who was strong enough to survive from this terrible plague. Unfortunately, nobody knows exactly how many people died during this time because the official people who count it, fled the city. We can see whose got infected by looking their skin or teeth which most of them were treated by Dr. Rush.I think that our full recovery will be long and hopefully this plague won't come again.