The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-12
ANEW ORDER OF THINGS
THAT IS WHAT SHIP MASTERS
WANT AT QUARANTINE.

The Sanitary Association Investigat-
ing the Charges OF Unnecessary
Detention Of Vessels - The State
ments of TWO Captains from Mar
tinioue - A Reflection Upon the
Quarantine Oncers-General Com
plants to the Association of Long
Detentions.
Inspector Desvergers of the Citizens San
itary Association reports that complaints,
from masters of vessels, Of the detentious
at the quarantine station continue to come
to the committee on public health.
The captains Of tive vessels fled affidavits
last week setting forth their griev-
ances. Capt. Herwig Of the German
bark Prinz Regent says that he cleared his
vessel Dec. from Fort de France, Mar
Unique, for Savannah. He had bill of
health signed by the United States consul,
which certified that his vessel cleared that
day with a crew Of eleven healthy men and
no passengers, and that Fort de France and
the adjacent country were in good health
and free from contagious disease. de got
into Tybee reads Dec. 30, in the afternoon,
and was compelled TO anchor three miles
from TIE QuSiEdullue sbhlloH.
AWAITING AN INSPECTION.
Up to , O'Clock the next day no quaran-
tine officer had visited his vessel, and, as he
was anxious to get up TO Savannah with as
little delay as possible, he took three men
besides himself in his skiff Of only fifteen
feet in length, and went upt to the quarantine
station. He presented the quarantine
officer bis bill OF health, and showed him
that his vessel had been twenty-five days on
the voyage; had every man she cleared with,
none of them sick, nor had any been
sick during the voyage, and urged him TO
visit his vessel at once. The quarantine
officer refused, saying that the water in the
roads was too rough to go out upon; that
he would not go out for $500 Upon the
captains suggestion that as he and three
other men had come from the vessel TO the
, station in skiff the quarantine officer could
safely visit the vessel in his larger boat,
refused under any circumstances to visit the
vessel.
TRIED TO GET A PERMIT.
The captain then asked for permit to
come up TO the city, and this was also re-
fused on the ground that no permit to visit
vessel had teen inspected. The
vessel was inspected the following
Thursday after a Norwegian bark
lying further out had been inspected. The
Norwegian bark was from Santos, Brazil,
and was permitted to go up to the ballast
wharf the following day, and Capt HerwiZ'S
vessel is yet awaiting her turn TO get to the
wharf to discharge clean sand ballast taken
from salt water five miles out In the bay
at Martinique.
CAPT. sTABEN's COMPLAINT.
In the other affidavit Capt. Stabeu Of the
German barkentine Parana, from the same
r.f thn Del, ..s,.
cumstances, with clean bill of health, long
voyage in which not case of sickness was
on the vessel. and her ballast clean sand
also taken from salt water FIVE miles out in
the bay, makes the following statement:
The vessel came into Tybee roads Jan.
3. The captain visited the quarau-
tine station the same day in his
skiif, and found the officer absent. He
waited until the Officer and three other men
came from the ballast wharf Three other
captains were also awaiting him, aud on his
return each asked for a permit 10 come up
TO the city. The officer replied that he
would visit the vessels tho next day, IL the
weather would permit.
BOUGHT PERMIT.
The next day he visited the Parapa in a
Norwegian captains boat, and said that he
would only give Capt Staben permit
10 come up to,Savannah if he would take
him to an English brig which lay nearer
than his vessel to the quarantine station.
Capt Staben replied, "Well l must do it to
get a permit" aud he sent the officer in his
boat as requested. The Parana Is also
awaiting her turn to discharge ballast.
The inspector says that the captains who
come from healthy ports. particularly those
from the Argentine republic. complain Of
being compelled to submit to detention for
the purpose Of discharging ballsss, when
vessels from ports in other healthy attitudes
are allowed to cone up to the city without
detention.
DON'T UNDERSTAND IT.
They think it strange that vessels from
sSeville and Lisbon, and from Port Eliza
beth, in Africa, have come into Bybee
within the last few days and were permi tied
10 come up to the city without detesA ion,
whilst other vessels are detained and sub
Jected to extra expenses.
The captain of the Norwegian bark Brill
siaIit, from Bahia, Brazil, with clean bill
'of health, complains of detention of his
vessel twenty days, and of himself
sand his crew being exposed to the wea her
during the fumigatioa of his vessel He
lsays that every days detention at dentur-
srage rates costs him over $50, aud the CON
seignee OF the vessel gives the following
atems OF extra expense occasioned by quht :
aentine: Extra towage, $50; extra pilotage
ss12; two fumigatlons, s6S Total, slid
besides the cost of hosting ballast
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