The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-11-21
ABOUT QUARANTINE.
SOME OF THE DISADVANTAGES OF
THE SAME-LETTER FROM AN
OLD SEA CAPTAIN.
PAsCAGoULA, Nov. Is, 1879.

oLD SEA CAPTAIN.
PAsCAGoULA, Nov. Is, 1879.
Editor Dcmocrat-Star:
SIR-The people of East Pasca
goula are crying out against hard
times. No vessels in port to EN-.
ploy men to lead them, ETC., etc.
Will you kindly give me space in
your columns to say a word in regard
to the cause OF these hard times
Vessels will not come here to load,
or to any Southern port, while the
rigid quarantine rules exist, such
as have ruined the prosperity of
your port and others the past year.
With your permission | will state
my own experience this last voyage,
and any one can see az a glance
that no vessel will come here while
she runs the risk of being detained
at quarantine until she has eaten
up her whole freight. l arrived in
Pensacola last month from Rio de
JaneirO. Had been nine months
on the voyage, and had not had a
case of sickness on board an hour,
or heard of any contagious disease
in any port visited. | brought a
clean bill of health to Pensacola,
but was quarantiued for six days
and obliged to discharge my ballast
with my crew for which privilege
| paid S75, besides other charges
amounting to S1O9 in all. Was re-
leased from quarantine; lost my
charter through my detention there,
and was at that city for ten days
when | was tOwed here. My ex-
penses in Pensacola were S1400. |
came here, and having no bill of
health, which L did not suppose
necessary coming from one Ameri.
can port to another, was kept on
board my vessel for three days,
was fumigated, and had to hire a
tug-boat to tow me out of quaran-
tine limits, making an expense to
ny vessel Of
six days detention in Pensacola s 300 90 |
Quarantine charges. es.......... 109 90 |
Three days detention at PascagOula $50 90 !
etc, etc.......... II so |
Towage NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. so
kilograms to board of health, Pen
sacola. ........-.--.......- l 81
1888 30
NIw, sir, is il any wonder that
'esselS do not come here when
hey have to: submit to such
hargeS. No doubt "a strict quar-
ntine is necessary against vessels
oming from infected ports, and
NY master of one who would try
D pass his vessel in a port with
ellOw fever on board should be
Still it is unjust and un-
pasonable to put vessel to such
aud expense as the
bOve when it can be proved she
as no sickness on board, and has
al none for many months. 1t
nells too much particularly of ,
EMS cOla) like the Tammauy
ng, Barnum's woody horse, or the
arditf giant. Every vessel com
lg here puts bread into the mouths
the labOring classes, and your I
officials, by using a lit |
Z discretion, can easily tell which
pssels are dangerous and which {
e safe. AS the matter stands
DIV there will be the same rules ,
ext year. Your mills will have to ,
nut down; your stcvedores will ,
'ag out "a miserable existence, f
Ieir wives and children want q
cad, and all because vessels upon )
hich they rely for support are c
'iven from your waters - for 5
hat' Perhaps the board of health II
N answer. The hatches of my g
,ssel were kept off from the Odd I
" OF June until [ reached Pensa- 5
la-a period of nearly four n
Onths, then put on in order to 7
migdte the UeSseI and driUe out the a
ul air. The same process was Ii
me through with here. "
| cannot understand why the a
ople OF PascagOula are so blind n
their own interests as to tamely n
bmit to have the bread taken O.
,m their mouths in this manner. G.,
lie money appropriated to build a,
station on Round island cl
,uld no doubt cut out a channel {;
rough your bar at Horn island
SIS, which would result in great
neft. Will any benefit be de.
'ed from such quarantine station n,
Zen completed, except to those u,
10 have the jobf | have left Sc
300 here, and shall never come W
ain while IA quarantine exists. W
In conclusion | beg to state that h,
was treated both here and in n,
in gentlemauly man. n,
r by the quarantine officials. 81
TILDEN HALL,
Master of American Bark Brunswick.