LEGISLATION FOR NEW

YORK STATE.

The Legislative Committee of the New York State Pharmaceutical Association convened at the Kenmore Hotel, Albany, on Thursday, December 15, to discuss prospective legislation on pharmacy during the approaching session of the Legislature. The meeting was presided over by President Wm. Muir, of the State Association, who is Chairman of the Committee on Legislation, and a member of the New York City Board of Pharmacy; R. K. Smither, of the Erie County Board of Pharmacy; Dr. A. B. Huested, of Albany, of the State Board of Pharmacy, and Felix Hirseman, of New York city.

It was agreed that the committee should carry out the instructions given by the State Association at the Rochester meeting and introduce a bill for the unification of all of the boards of pharmacy in the State. The members from the upper portion of the State were desirous of introducing a pharmacist-storekeeper's license amendment to the Raines law, but final action was not taken upon the proposal, the committee deciding to await developments until after the meeting of the Legislature, when if it is deemed expedient the law drafted by the State Legislative Committee two years ago will be introduced giving druggists a special storekeeper's license at a reduced rate.

The resolutions adopted by the State Association in opposition to the Shorter Hour bill of the so-called Druggists' League of New York City were considered as committing the committee to oppose the measure, and should it again be introduced the committee will act in accordance with the instructions of the State Association.

The State Board of Pharmacy submitted a number of amendments to the present State law, and the committee agreed to support these amendments should it prove impossible to secure the passage of a bill giving a uniform law for the entire State. The bill drawn up by the State Board embraces a number of minor amendments to the present State law, which is known officially as Chapter 661 of the Laws of 1893.

The changes proposed in the several sections of the law are as follows:

Section 180-Three instead of five pharmacists shall be nominated to the Governor from whom to select a member to fill any vacancy on the Board.

Section 181 provides for remuneration for members at $10 per day for time actually employed. This is not provided for in the by-laws of the Board.

Section 182-Greater privileges are granted to assistant pharmacists, and some ambiguity is done away with.

Section 183 clears up the law without changing the sense materially, and relieves the Board from bringing action.

Section 184 changes the section so as to do away with any ambiguity, and requires three instead of two years' experience of assistants.

Section 186-The fee for assistant pharmacist's license is increased from $3 to $5. Provides for annual renewal of all licenses, with a fee of $1.

Section 187 curtails the privileges of a practitioner of medicine so that he cannot evade the spirit of the law.

Section 188 The words "employes" and "physicians" are inserted to cover a

technical fault in the law. Provides for changes which will prevent evasions of the law relative to charges of store during the absence of the proprietor or manager.

Section 190 provides penalty of $5 for failure to display license.

Section 191 provides the following poison law as a substitute for sections 404 and 405-a of the Penal Code, which are repealed by this act:

shall be unlawful for any person to re"Section 191, poisons, retailing of-It tail any poison enumerated in schedules A and B as follows, to wit:

"Schedule A-Arsenic cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, cocaine, morphine, strychnia, and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids, and their salts, essential oil of bitter almonds, opium and its preparations, except paregoric and such others as contain less than two grains of opium to the ounce.

"Schedule B-Aconite, belladonna, cantharides, colchicum, conium, cotton root, digitalis, ergot, hellebore, henbane, phytolacca, savin, strophanthus, tansy, veratrum viride, and their pharmaceutical preparations, arsenical solutions, carbolic acid, chloral hydrates, chloroform, corrosive sublimate, creosote, croton oil, mineral acid, oxalic acid, Paris green, salts of copper, salts of lead, salts of zinc, white hellebore, or any drug, chemical or preparation which according to standard works on medicine or materia medica is liable to be destructive to adult human life, in quantities of sixty grains or less, without distinctly labeling the bottle, box, vessel or paper in which the said poison is contained, and also the outside wrapper or cover with the name of the article, the word 'poison' and the name and place of the seller; nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell or deliver any poisons enumerated in schedules A and B, unless upon due inquiry it be found that the purchaser is aware of its poisonous character and represents that it is to be used for a legitimate purpose. Nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell any poisons enumerated in schedule A, without, before delivering the same to the purchaser, causing an entry to be made in a book kept for that purpose, stating the date of the sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name and quantity of the poison sold, the purpose for which it is represented by the purchaser to be required, and the name of the dispenser, such book to be always open for inspection by the proper authorities, and to be preserved for reference for at least five years. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of poisons, in not unusual quantities or doses, upon the prescriptions of practitioners of medicine."

OBITUARY NOTES.

JOHN B. HAMILTON, M.D.

Dr. John B. Hamilton, widely known to the medical profession as editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, died at Elgin, Ill., on December 24, 1898, at the age of fifty-one.

EDWARD PLUMMER.

Edward Plummer, a well-known New York druggist, died at his home, 355 Warburton avenue, Yonkers, on Sunday, January 1st. He had been ill about two weeks. He had carried on the drug business at 405 Fifth avenue, this city, for the last sixteen years. Mr. Plummer was a governor of the Palisade Boat Club, of Yonkers, and a member of the New York State Pharma

ceutical Association. He was forty-two years of age and was born in Leeds, England. A wife and three sons survive him.

Charles A. Heinitsh Dead.

Charles A. Heinitsh, D.Sc., Ph.M., of Lancaster, Pa., died at his residence in that city on Thursday, December 29, at the age of 76, of pneumonia, following the grippe. Dr. Heinitsh was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association, and had been connected with the American Pharmaceutical Association since 1857. Dr. Heinitsh was highly esteemed wherever known and enjoyed the confidence and respect of the community in which he resided all his life. His drug store was founded in 1782 by his grandfather and was the oldest in the United States that has been continuously in the same family and name. He entered the drug business more than fifty years ago, and last June, at the meeting of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association, he was presented with a gold medal commemorative of his fifty years as proprietor, by the members of the Association. This gift came as a great sur

prise. In 1889 Franklin & Marshall College conferred on him the degree of doctor of science, and Philadelphia College of Pharmacy the degree of master of pharmacy. Dr. Heinitsh leaves a widow to survive him, his only child, a son, having died some years ago, in memory of whom he has since sustained a mission in Africa.

The funeral services took place from his late residence on January 2. The body was taken to the Trinity Lutheran Church, of which the deceased was a member. Interment was made in the family lot in Woodward Hill Cemetery, and was strictly private. Among those who attended the funeral were Mahlon N. Kline, Philadelphia, president of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association: Joseph L. Lemberger, Lebanon; W. L. Cliffe, Philadelphia; Dr. Charles T. George, Dr. J. A. Miller, Col. H. C. Demming, official stenographer of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association; Prof. Joseph P. Remington, Philadelphia; J. H. Redsecker, Lebanon; W.

S. Thompson, of Washington, D. C., and John F. Patton, of York, Pa.

In 1885 a local newspaper said of Dr. Heinitsh's connection with pharmacy: "Like the Steinmanns in hardware and the Demuths in tobaccos and snuff, the Heinitshes have been in drugs in Lancaster for over a century. Although the present representative of the house is not the oldest apothecary in the city, no local name has been connected with the pharmaceutical profession here so long as that of his family and none is better known the country over nor has any had such high honors of the profession paid to it as that of the present owner.

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"The appearance of the name in typelike that of Kevinski-indicates its Polish origin, and the ancestor of the American family, Carl Heinrich Heinitzsch, was once receiver of duties for the King of Poland. One son became mayor of Lutzen and another, after the long apprenticeship which is considered only a proper training in Europe for trade, came to the United States before the Revolution to try his fortunes in the New World. He tarried very briefly in Philadelphia and came to Lancaster where he clerked for a period of two years with Paul Zautzinger, merchant. In 1782 he established himself in the drug business, which has gone down nor passed out of his family. It was first located up on East King street, next to where Eugene Bauer now hands out the flowing beer, and when its proprietor died in 1803, with a family of young children, it was continued until 1816, for their benefit by an_elder_son, who then admitted his brother John Frederick to partnership. Frederick subsequently was for a short time partner with Dr. Samuel Humes, but later set up for himself and for twenty years had the business alone in the first square of East King street. About 1838 the store was where Williamson & Foster's now is; but in 1841 he planted it where it now is, admitted his son Charles A. to partnership, and in 1849 retiring therefrom left the young man to the sole proprietorship, in which he has ever since continued. The elder Heinitsh's sister was wife of that James Smith who founded the drug store continued by C. A. Locher."

HEBER D. HEINTISH.

Dr. Heber D. Heintish, of Columbia, S. C., died at his home in that place on December 28. Dr. Heintish has had charge of a drug store in Columbia for twenty-five years, but did not practice medicine to any extent. He has been in bad health for some time. He was about 47 years of age. He leaves a widow and a small family.

HERMAN M. GARLICHS.

Herman M. Garlichs, a well-known druggist of St. Joseph, Mo., was found dead in his bed on Christmas day. Mr. Garlichs was a delegate to the St. Louis convention of the National Retail Druggists' Association, and attracted much attention there. In appearance he was tall and spare, and his rather sharp features were ac centuated by his closely-cropped red beard and shaven upper lip.

JONAS GARMAN.

Jonas Garman, a prominent citizen and recently well-known druggist of Lykens, Pa., left home on December 27 for Harrisburg to attend to business, leaving word with his family that he would return home that evening. His wife has heard nothing of him since, other than a telegram from Harrisburg on Tuesday evening, pur. porting to come from him in which it was said he missed the train. Not returning home on Wednesday or yesterday, the family and friends of Mr. Garman became uneasy and have notified the authorities in Harrisburg of the affair and to be on the lookout for the missing man. Mr. Garman is 70 years old, five feet four inches tall, weighs about 140 pounds, has gray whiskers all over his face, and when leaving home wore a dark suit of clothes.

Charles R. Liehman, the popular druggist of Eleventh avenue and Fifty-second street, was married last month to Miss Austeron, of this city.

The Hudnut pharmacy, at 205 Broadway, will, it is reported, soon be incorporated, George Bancroft relinquishing his interest in the busi

ness.

Arthur C. Gould, formerly of Moseley, England, where he was employed for twelve years in the pharmacy of T. W. Lowther, is a new comer in the local trade.

Dr. Mary H. Eccles, proprietor of the retail drug store at the corner of Pacific and Smith streets, Brooklyn, has been on the sick list, suffering with an attack of the grip.

Hugo A. Selesky, whose last position in a retail store was with C. F. Winkle, at 310 Graham avenue, Brooklyn, has been sick for the past three months, but is now convalescent.

H. E. Vaughan, of Kansas City, Mo., was among recent visitors to the New York drug market. He is a well known drug broker and represents Magnus & Lauer in the West.

Members of the class of '98 of the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy are requested to communicate with their former president, Geo. N. Lawrence, Ph.G., 764 Manhattan avenue, Brooklyn.

F. E. Smith, proprietor of the Hoffman's Arms pharmacy at the corner of Fifty-ninth street and Madison avenue, was made happy a few weeks ago by the advent into his family of a little girl.

E. Stoffregen, resident partner of the firm of Sharp & Dohme, has been ill for a couple of weeks, but has sufficiently recovered to be out of doors, though he has not yet resumed his duties.

Charles Valerius, has resigned his position at Robert C. Kraft's pharmacy, on Willis avenue, corner of 141st street, New York City, and accepted a position as prescriptionist at the drug store of Hegeman & Co., 196 Broadway, this city.

Dr. Charles Rice, the chairman of the Committee on Revision of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, and chemist and chief apothecary, of the Department of Charities of New York city, is among the sufferers from the grip. At last reports he was convalescing.

Reeder Brothers, 460 Fourth avenue, have secured the appointment as medical purveyors to the United States Army Department of the East, supplying the officers of the regular army and the United States Volunteers with medicines on prescriptions of army surgeons.

The announcement of the engagement of Miss Georgie E. Burns, of this city, to Edson Eastman, of Whitefield, N. H., has been made. Miss Burns was for some time connected with the firm of R. H. Luthin, the Bowery druggist, and is now with the American Investors Co.

Charles E. Mooers, for the past eighteen months one of the New York City representatives of the wholesale drug house of Lehn & Fink, resigned his position, on the first of the year, and has gone to Los Angeles, Cal., where he will become interested with his brother in some mining property.

Edward O. Francke, N. Y. C. P., '97, formerly with Roediger Brothers, Lexington avenue, corner of Seventy-first street, and more recently clerking at William Huether's pharmacy, at the corner of Lexington avenue and 16th street, is now in the employ of Munsch, Protzmann & Co., pharmacists, on Sixth avenue and Thirty-ninth street, this city.

Chas. H. Bjorkwall, who has a wide circle of acquaintances among the alumni of the New York College of Pharmacy from his office as

registrar, leaves his position on the editorial staff of the Druggists' Circular this month to take up an enterprise foreign to the drug trade, the details of which have not materialized sufficiently to permit him to speak of them in detail.

The Chemists' Club of New York City has been incorporated to promote the interests of chemists and those interested in the science and application of chemistry. Directors, Charles F. Chandler, Edward R. Squibb, Thomas J. Parker, Marston Taylor Bogert, Charles F. McKenna, Abram A. Brennan, J. H. Wainwright, James Hartford, Charles A. Doremus, William McMartin and Edward G. Johnson.

Eustace H. Gane, of the chemical staff of McKesson & Robbins, was elected a member of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, at the last monthly meeting of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Gane once wrote a paper which contained some reflections on the local association of German apothecaries, and some opposi tion to his election was expected from that source, but if any developed, it was insufficient to bar him out.

The "Astor House" pharmacy has secured the northernmost corner store in the immense twenty-nine-story Ivins Syndicate building, now nearing completion on Park Row, opposite the Astor House. The new quarters will provide ample room, the lack of which has long retarded the development and growth of the pharmacy in the old store. Mr. Hennesy, the manager of the store, is jubilant over the prospect, and promises great things.

ALUMNI NOTES.

The Alumni Association of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York will give a reception at the College on Wednesday evening, January 18th, to which all members of the Alumni Association and their friends are invited. Dancing will be a feature of the evening's entertainment. The annual (ball of the As sociation will take place a week later, on Jan. uary 25th. This is always well attended, and is a notable event in local pharmaceutical circles. The chairman of the committee of arrangements is Charles S. Erb, 121 Amsterdam avenue, who has spared no effort to assure the success of the ball. The music for this occasion will be supplied by a special orchestra.

GEO. B. WRAY FILES A PETITION IN BANKRUPTCY.

On December 30th Geo. B. Wray, head of the Geo. B. Wray Drug Company, Yonkers, N. Y., filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities of $7,376 and assets, $465, of which $150 is claimed as exempt. The assets consist of wearing apparel, library, shotgun, bicycle, desk, camera and stereopticon; also two lots at Lowerre, held by him as tenant in common, valued at $1,400, and mortgaged for $1,400. Of the liabilities, $17,178 are unsecured, $15,250 secured, $22,232 in notes, $1.416 in judgments and $22.300 liability on bond and mortgage signed by him for money loaned to his wife. The bonds and mortgages are held by the Yonkers Savings Bank, $6,500: John E. Andrews. $6,000; Bell Brothers, $6,000, and Louis E. Holden, $3,800. The Citizens' Bank of Yonkers is a creditor for $11,150, secured by shares of stock of the George B. Wray Drug Company, Palisade Boat Club and the City Club. He owes Tarrant & Co., of this citv, $11.283. and the First National Bank of Yonkers, $7,975.

Board of Pharmacy Notes.

The following candidates passed a successful examination at the December meeting of the Board of Pharmacy of the City of New York: Carl J. Ericson, Charles Horn. Chas. Keller, Geo. A. Gortikov, Ernest Werneburgh, John C. Dalton, Joseph Friend, John Garveson, Henry Glassman, Gustave Horstman, Bernard Mislig, Louis Romanoff, Gesualdo Searpelli, Morris Weschner, Wm. Whitehead and Herbert A. Willmott.

Several pharmacists have been prosecuted lately by the Board and fined in Special Sessions for having permitted unregistered clerks to compound prescriptions.

CERTIFICATES AWAITING OWNERS.

The secretary reports that certificates of regis tration await the following persons: W. H. Alberts, Adolph Ammon, Charles J. Allen, Emanuel Beitman, David Ballingal, Adolph Bayer, Jr., William L. Becker, Abel Braslau, O. H. Bancroft, John H. Blake, Robert F. Collins, Sam. Cohn, M. Dresher, M.D.; George M. Eberle, Herman J. R. Feder, William H. Flynn, George J. Gorman, M.D., Harry S. Hardy, Homer H. Howgate, Ludwig Herr, Otto H. Hueffmeyer, Joseph Huntington, Thomas B. Hughes James M. Horner, John J. Kalisher, Ignatz Kaufmann, H. M. S. King, M.D., Richard Krause, Theodore Kuttner, Walter Lehman, Bernhard Liebich, Charles J. Lapp, Robert P. Leslie, Michael F. McGrath, M.D., Charles E. Meyncke, James McDermott, John J. McLaughlin, Willette Milspaugh, Jacob C. Michael, Charles S. Marsh, William A. Neill, Frank L. Oakley, Haim Ornstein, Charles Roenbeck, Leo Ratner, Frank W. Reeve, Charles A. Ritz, Charles R. Scattergood, Frederich Sutheim, Harry D. Shipman, Charles L. Stevens, Henry G. Steinheuer, Charles M. Tobine, J. Horton Uhle, Ludwig P. O. Wolfert, Le Roy Washburn, August A. Wassersheid, Egon C. B. Wernicke, Richard J. Wenzel, Gustav A. Wildman, George F. Williams, John H. Zipp.

The secretary of the Board can be communicated with at his office at the New York College of Pharmacy, 115 West Sixty-eighth street.

PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO PHARMACY LAW OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

Amendments to the pharmacy chapter of the charter of the City of New York will be asked for by the members of the local Board of Pharmacy and the several organized associations of pharmacy within the limits of the city, during the sitting of the present Legislature, as follows:

Section 1510 is amended to provide that no person unless a registered pharmacist shall be allowed to prepare or dispense a medical prescription or physician's prescription or sell at retail poisons or medicines, or have charge of or supervise any pharmacy.

Section 1511 will require applicants for licenses or certificates of registration to furnish proof by affidavit or otherwise to the satisfaction of the board that for at least ninety consecutive days immediately preceding the presentation thereof, the applicant has actually practiced pharmacy under the license presented in the county or district for which the Board of Pharmacy which issued such license is created.

Section 1512 will define graduates of pharmacy to be persons who have had four years' experience in stores where prescriptions of medical practitioners have been compounded, and who have obtained a diploma from any college of pharmacy within the State of New York. The diplomas of foreign institutions, including American institutions outside of the State of New York, will not be accepted as certificates of competency and qualification if this amended section becomes law, as the parts relating to this in the old law are deleted from the amended law.

Increased power is given to the board in an amendment to section 1513, which requires them to "investigate all complaints of disregard of, non-compliance with, or violation of any provision of the pharmacy act, or of any other statute regulating the dispensing or sale of drugs, medicines or poisons or the practice of pharmacy in the City of New York as constituted by this act, and to take and hear testimony with reference

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thereto and to prosecute the same." The license fee is raised to $10. The inspection of pharmacies with a view to the prevention of the substitution for any Grip Makes Business Brisk drug or ingredient in a physician's prescription of some other drug is provided for in this amendment and the board will be given power to revoke the offender's license after a hearing. Inspectors of pharmacy are provided for and the compensation of such inspectors and pay of same will be fixed by the board.

Under another amendment to the same section the board will be enabled to make such rules as may be necessary for the further regulation of the practice of pharmacy in the city of New York, and to add to or amend said rules. The board under another amendment "shall be deemed to be a board within the meaning of sections 843 and 854 of the Code of Civil Procedure."

The re-registration of licensed pharmacists is provided for in an amendment to section 1514, and all pharmacists doing business in New York City are required to register within 90 days after January 1, 1901, and again within 90 days after the first day of January in every third year thereafter. The fee for re-registration is placed at $2.

An amendment to section 1515 provides that every individual co-partnership or corporation being the proprietor or proprietors of a pharmacy or store for retailing, compounding or dispensing drugs, medicines or poisons shall cause the actual name of such proprietor or proprietors to be displayed upon a sign which shall be kept conspicuously placed upon the exterior of the premises where such pharmacy or store is conducted. The name or names so displayed upon the sign shall be followed by the word "proprietor" or "proprietors,” as the case may be, and shall be deemed presumptive evidence of ownership of such pharmacy or

store.

The prevention of adulteration of drugs, chemicals or medical preparations is covered in another amendment, providing that all who knowingly, intentionally and fraudulently adulterate or cause to be adulterated the drugs, chemicals or medicines they may sell or dispense, with the exception of those sold in the original packages, and every proprietor whose name does not appear upon the sign above referred to, and every holder of a license or certificate of registration who fails to display the same as above provided shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, shall be fined $50, or sixty days' imprisonment, and his license shall be revoked and his name stricken from the register without further hearing.

A number of amendments to section 1518 relate to the dispensing of prescriptions in the pharmacy of a registered pharmacist by unregistered persons and the sale at retail of poisons or medicines by unregistered persons except under the immediate supervision of a registered pharmacist and provide that such shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by fine and imprisonment and all fines imposed and collected shall be paid to the Board of Pharmacy, to be distributed in accordance with the provisions of an amendment to the succeeding section, which directs that three-fifths of every penalty recovered and of every fine paid shall be paid to the colleges of pharmacy of New York and Brooklyn under the old arrangement of three-fifths to the former institution and two-fifths to the latter.

BUFFALO, Jan. 5.-The drug business has improved very materially of late, mainly on account of the prevalence of grip. Buffalo has not as a rule taken the disease in a violent form, and many who complain that their "cold" is of a character not to be taken for the ordinary article are out much as usual. Prescription orders have fully doubled of late, and as there are said to be about 25,000 cases of grip in the city the trade will last indefinitely. As a rule, it may be said that all sorts of medicine are taken for the disease. The list includes quinine, phenacetine and that class of drugs generally.

Smallpox.

Then there is a steady call for vaccine virus on account of the prevalence of smallpox in the towns about us. Just as the towns up the shore of Lake Erie have succeeded in stamping it out there is an outbreak of it in LeRoy which is very serious, and the town is at present quarantined, and other towns are quarantining against LeRoy. The cases at first were so mild that the local doctors called it chicken pox and it took an expert to make it out. Schools and churches are closed for the present. Buffalo has reason for congratulation that it has not developed a single case of smallpox during the whole year of its outbreak through Western New York. It all appears to have been derived from the Joshua Simpkins Dramatic Company that finished its career in quarantine on a steamboat on Seneca Lake. Before it was known that the company had the disease it had sowed it far and wide. The difficulty has been on account of the mildness of the attacks, scarcely any one dying of it.

Exit Niagara Pharmacal Co.

The Niagara Pharmacal Company has concluded to go out of business. It appears not to have caught the favor of the trade as was expected, and it is reported that its assets are about $3,000 less than its liabilities, so the management, seeing no immediate prospect of improvement, ordered a halt. It is said that the principal members of the management, C. O. Rano and Dr. H. P. Hayes, lost considerably in the venture. It was the plan to manufacture articles most needed by doctors and cater directly to that trade. But the doctors did not appear to need the company.

NEWS NOTES OF BUFFALO.

J. A. Lockie, of the County Board of Pharmacy, who lately underwent an operation for appendicitis, reports that he never felt better. He is still maintaining considerable caution, however.

Dr. E. H. Long is preparing a paper on a pharmacal subject to be read before the Buffalo It will be College of Medicine next month. discussed by three druggists and three doctors selected for the purpose.

The distilled and mineral water concerns are driving a big business in Buffalo this windy fall and winter. The lake water is sometimes very roily, and though the impurity is little more than sand, it is not very palatable at times.

New drug stores still develop. Denis Cogan is about to open one on the west side in the Grant street and Military road district. Peter Kreuz, formerly manager of the Darlington store