Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-07-22
The SPREADING PLAGUE.
All Europe to Suffer From
Cholera.
DEATHS AT MARSEiLLEs AND ToULoN
Disastrous to the Summer Resorts---h Great
g. Falling of In Pleasure
travelling.


OF certain French scientific authorities to
minimize as much as possible the cholera
panic on the continent it must be admitted
that DR.. Koch was justified in those terrible
predictions which have alarmed all Europe.
The whole continent is terror-stricken. A
correspondent seeking for conservative au-
thorities upon the subject of the cholera
scarce. met Mr.. Cook, the great tourist
agent, and obtained from him an interview.
Mr.. Cook said:
1T is almost impossible to exaggerate the
effects of the cholera outbreak in France.
Besides the depression it has brought upon
general business on the continent, its effect
upon European summer travel, both COM
mercial and holiday, has been simply enor-
nous. 1t is true that the present rush from
the southern and eastern countries to Eng
land somewhat compensates for the losses
in he regular transportation eastward and
southwark, but the general effect of the
cholera panic upon European travel has
been disastrous"
American Travel.
How about American travel?
The number of Americans who have re-
turned and arranged TO return from the
continent to England is unprecedented for
the time of year The English continental
tourists have been the mcst thoroughly
alarmed. They have nearly all returned
home. The Americans may be divided
into two classes, those who insist on keep
ing posted about current events through
correspondence and newspapers, and those
wi make their vacation blank so far as
the worlds troubles are concerned. The
former class have been nearly all scared
back to England by the scourge A few
Of them, however, have resolved to brave
the danger and adhere as closely as posi-
tlr TO their vacation programme. These.
added to the second class, make up pretty
gcod total of Americans who pe'siSt in
mixing the grand tour
Pleasure Resorts Closed.
The genera! result must be rather disas-
trous to the continental pleasure resortsY
Disastrous Well should say so.
There are many continental resorts availa-
bic without risking any probable contact
with the contagion, but even these are
suffering from lack of patronage. But
along the entire Riviera and throughout
Italy and the entire cast nearly all the
summer resorts have already been closed,
because of entire lack Of patronage. The
steamers to Turkey and Egypt are now
sailing direct, without stopping at any of
Mediterranean ports.
What accounts do the returning travel
ers give of the plague scarceY
They don't talk go mnch about the ter
rors of cholera as they do of the inquisito-
rial character the nuisance and the horrors
of the quarantine process to which all trav-
elcrs are subjected along all the southern
continental frontiers. The quarantines are
probably driving back as many tourists as
the nIague. Take Ventimigla, in Northern
Italv. There were at last accounts two
thousand travellers imprisoned there under
quarantine. The rich the commercial
travellers and the poor emigrants were all
hcrded together like animals Of common
breed. On Lake Laggiore the steamers
were prohibited by the Jealous authorities
from carrying travellers. The hotel keepers
and boat owners, in despair, refused to re-
spect the prohibition and the military have
been placed in possession of the lake to sup
press travel upon il.
No Improvement.
rs France improving any,
81 fear not. The City Of Toulon, despite
the almost incessant work to make 1t sani
tarily suitable, still remains almost indie
scribably filthy The heat there has been
terrible, and the atmosphere moist and
humid In the work of renoyatlng the
town an old sewer has been discovered run
ming right under the chief hospital of the
city. This sewer rocked with filth and had
been untouched for three years past. Ten
Of the workmen who were employed to open
it when it was found were overpowered by
the escaping stencil and tainted
Alarm In England.
How about England
There has been a revival Of uneaSiness in
England since the arrival in the Mersey,
from Marseles, Of the French steamer St.
Dustan with the cholera aboard. The fact
that two persons died from the malady
during the trip from Marseilles, has evident
" shaken the public faith in the efficacy of
French quarantine methods, and intensified
public fear. A general outcry has been
raised against the inadcguacy Of the
methods pursued against the St. Dustan.
The craft has been simply isolated and dis
infected; but the ship is in England, and it
is feared that cholera germs have passed
out from here and may even now be float
ing around seeking places for effectual
lodgment. The sanitary authorities
throughout the country have issued circu-
lars instructing the people in hygiene and
enjoining prudence in eating, drinking and
cleaning.