St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-15
CAPITAL CHESTNUTS.
The Interest of the Rail-
roads in the Present
Cholera Discussion.
The Ancien t Republican Sup
RENE Court Judges viii Not
Resign For Awhile.
Gen. Grant Really in Danger OF Los
ing the Princely Income of the
Amount Donated For His
Support.
Senator Saulsbury's Peculiar Suit For Sian
der-The Prosecution in the Swain Trial
Gets in its Evidence.
Pass-Discussing State MiIitia-The
Bankruptcy Bill to Come up
Monday.
Senator Saulsbury's Peculiar Suit For SLAM
der-The Prosecution in the Swain Trial
Gets in its Evidence.
SHOT GUN QUARANTINE.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |

Especial Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 13.-Dr. Outten, who
has charge of the medical department Of the
Wabash system, and who has been in attend
ance at the meetings of the national board of
health, was asked tonight: 'sWhat is the
relationship of your railway medical depart
ment to the national board of health?"
''Well," he replied, elf you remember
anything of the shot gun quarantine estab-
lished along some of the railroads in times
past, you must know that we are greatly in
terested in all that points to such matters.
In the time of epidemic a man going over
the Iron Mountain road, for instance, would
find himself brought under the operations of
half dozen separate and distinct quaran-
tines in days ride Perhaps these had no
relations with each other, no interchange of
bills Of health, but acted independently and
caused great annoyance and delay. Now,
don't you suppose it would be greatly APP
preciated by the railroads if there was a well
organized national system of quarantine I'M
der the intelligent direction of a national
board of health, to be. put in harmonious
operation during time of the epidemic?
We would like to see that take the place of
the old methods. Travel isn't encouraged
by the appearance on the station platforms
of committees armed with long poles to
punch stranger getting off, with the admo-
milton: Here, you son of a gun, get back
there; you can't stop here.'"
''There is also to be said about the interest
we as physicians connected with the railroad
service have in such gathering as the one
just closed" said DR.. Jackson, taking up the
conversation. stWe are as certain to have
cholera in this coun try as summer is to come
again. The prevention of panics and the
provision for proper precautions are of the
greatest importance. The medical depart
ments of these railroad systems are able to
reach the thousands of employees d.
rectly, and when we reach them
we reach their families, too. We shall
have to tell them what to do, and,our rela-
tons are so close with them that they will
take the advice given and follow it. BY CO.
operation with the national board of health
we can do much toward controlling the in
fictitious disease and lessening its ravages, so
we are here to get all the information we can,
to be fully prepared to do our part when the
time comes"
DR.. Outten had considerable experience at
the st. Louis quarantine, just after the war,
with cholera. To show how the dis
ease might be checked, he said that,
with patients dying at the rate of score q
day or more, and with large number of
negro troops there. rigid system of disin-
lection and prompt attention 10 the first
symptoms resulted in putting complete
stop to cholera among these soldiers in ten
days after the matter was taken in hand.
The disease was then prevalent in South st.
Louis and continued so long after it was
stopped at quarantine.
AGED SUPREME COURT JUDGES
Information from reliable sources, mostly
derived from personal interviews and from
intimate friends, is to the effect that there
will be no resignation of judges in any of the
courts at Washington before the 4th of March
next to permit President Arthur to place Re-
publican jurists on the bench who would
serve during the next Democratic admins
tration. 1t had been supposed up to this
time that Associate Justice Brady, of the SUI
preme court of the United States and two or
three judges of the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, would resign within
the next two months, as they have or will
within that time reach the age of seventy.
and will have been more than ten years on
the bench, which would entitle them to retire
on full salaries for their lives, but it now
transpires that none of these judges will re-
lire, all evidently having hopes of living
till another Republican president will appear
in Washington to appoint their successors.
GEN. GRANTS sTRAIGHTENED CIRCUMSTANCES.
A gentleman intimately connected with
Gen. Grant and conversant with his business
affairs was in this city this week, and was
asked If Grant really needed the pension
which he has just declined or the salary of a
general on the retired list. His reply was:
"Grant does need it, and if he doesn't get
put on the retired list he is liable to find him
self in very few years really impoverished.
His house in New York is not enough TO
meet Vanderbilt's claim of $3.50, 900. and all
the property he has left is his house in Wash
ington on Iowa circle, which has been rented
for 81, 800 year. He has salary of $1O.-
900 year as president of the Mexican
National railway, but any annual election of
officers may throw him out of that. He is
getting per cent. interest on the $3.50. 600
raised for him a few years ago, which
amounts to $500 year, but be won't get
that long. He only gets that under the
guarantee of Drexel, Morgan & Co. The
stock doesn't pay it. When the subscription
was made the first name on the list was that
of Gov. Morgan for $1,000. The largest
subscription was Jay Gould's $25, OO0 When
the S25O,O00 had been raised the question
arose as to how it should be invested Gov
eminent per cents. were proposed, but
they would yield less than $4,000 a year.
Gould was then pushing Wabash US, and the
preferred stock was paying eight per cent.
annually. Some of the subscribers urged
that the money be invested in Wabash i.
Jesse Seligman objected. Any railroad stock
he said was subject to fluctuations which this
fund ought to be safe from. Besides. if the
investments were made in Wabash Jaw
Gould would cause the information to be
circulated all over Europe that the Grant
fund was invested in Wabash because of the
exceptional security of that stock, and he
did not want the fund used to advertise an v
mans railroad. The result was a
compromise. The fund was in
vested in Wabash stock upon