The Staten Island Historian
Winter 2009 Volume XX, No. 2, p. 15
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Across

3. Hygeia - A Staten Island Ice Company.

5. Robitzek - Last name of a doctor from Staten Island who helped cure one of the world's most deadly diseases - tuberculosis.

7. Oceanic - A Hook & Ladder Company from Travis, Staten Island.

8. Old Rusty - A squirrel tail fire pumper owned by the Staten Island Historical Society.

9. Waller - Last name of the doctor whose house was burned down at the Marine Hospital. He was the Deputy Commissioner of Health.

10. Sea View - The name of the Staten Island hospital where tuberculosis was cured.

12. Burns - Name of the hotel where the arsonists gathered!

14. Marine - Name of the quarantine hospital that was burned.

15. Tompkinsville - Residents of this Staten Island Town burned down the Marine Hospital.

Down

1. Ray Tompkins - First and last name of a man accused of being a leader in the assault on the marine hospital.

2. Camphene - A fluid burned in lamps.

4. Commodore - Nickname for Cornelius Vanderbilt.

6. Yellow Fever disease that causes black vomit.

9. Weissglass - Last name of the family that owned the _____ Goldseal Dairy Corporation.

11. Bissell - Last name of the Physician-in-Chief of the Marine Hospital.

13. Yellow Fever - 93 people in Staten Island died from this disease in 1856.

Word Scramble

SHIPICANY = PHYSICIAN

EVERTOLUN = VOLUNTEER

RAINEM = MARINE

PETUNIRK = TURNPIKE

USUROOTECH = COURTHOUSE

NYCOOL = COLONY

OPHILATS = HOSPITAL

CUBLOUSISTER = TUBERCULOSIS

LEEDBLER = REBELLED

IRAGRACE = CARRIAGE

BEANSKOR= ROSEBANK

MINDROCH = RICHMOND

Underlined Words "STATEN ISLAND"