Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-12
The Case to Be Heard OF Thursday
Next.
DOWN IN ARANTIN E.
RESTRAINED FROM LANDING.
Temporary Injunction Against Using Fire
Island for a Refuge station.


TROUBLE THREATENED.
During the morning several bay boats arrived
at Munceys dock, just within the state prop
erty limits and landed a number of special con-
stables from Islip and Bay Shore. who rem
dezvoused at Muncey's saloon. in readiness to
resist the landing of the Normannia's pas
sengers.
DR.. Voight ordered them of the ground. but
they refused TO go and demanded to know by
what authority he acted. Ii being asserted
that DIR. Voight had no written authority John
Sire, who was il charge of the constables. re-
fused TO 60, and the crowd broke into derisive
cheers as DR.. Voight took his departure for the
hotel.
Frank H. Johnson, editor Of the Bay Shore
Journal. ard manager Of :he Western Union
telegraph Office. came TO the hotel and asserted
his right to remain in the telegraph Office until
an expected message relating TO the applica-
tlon TO the supreme court in Brooklyn for an
Injunction to be made today by County Judge
Wilmot was received.
DR.. Voight requested johnson to leave the
Office and hotel, but johnson refused to do SO,
DENYING the doctors authority.
DR.. Voight has ordered Muncey's saloon, in
which the crowd of bay men is congregated, to
be closed.
The Cepheus was reported to be off Fire
Island inlet at Il:20 a. m.
WHAT GOV. FLOWER SAYS.
Gov. Flower, while en- route from Albany to
New York, sent the following dispatch:
To DR.. Jenkins, Health Officer, Quarantine, n Y
Your dispatch received and l am very thank
full that you have acted SO promptly and
with such ability and discretion. The
feeling. as voiced to me from Bah ylon and New
Isip, against the occupancy of Fire Island is
intense. If the senders Of the protests were
placed where the passengers are, with deaths
g.. he Ill. Al.
feet. they would think no sacrifice too great to
relieve them.
The sober second thought viii convince them
that your action is wise and for the best interest
Of the whole country, well their own
homes. Well done. good and faithful servant.
ROSWELL Z. FLOWER.
Fifty armed detectives were sent to Fire
Island early this morning TO protect the Nor
mammals first and second cabin passengers who
will be transferred from the steamboats, Ston-
ington and Cepheus to that place this morning.
ANGRY EXCITEMENT AT BABYLON.
BABYLON, l.. l.. Sept. 12.-This village is in a
state of the widest confusion; angry men are
at every corner uttering deep threats against
the proposed invasion from the cholera laden
Normannia and Rugia. Il is quite evident that
the residents are determined to prevent by ex-
treme measures the landing of the steamboat
Cepheus.
VI.
for Brooklyn to apply to Judge Bernard of the
supreme court for an injunction restraining the
passengers from landing.
Ex-Proprietor Sammis of the Surf Hotel left
for New York on the o'clock train and had to
be escorted to the railroad depot by a body
guard, the mob being determined to make an
example of him for disposing of his prop
erty. All the wealthy residents Of
the vicinity, including L. B. Sutton, Judge
Benjamin d. SIlliman, ex-district attorney Of
the eastern district; Henry B. Hyde of the
Equitable Insurance Company, H. V. Post. C.
H. Sands, son-iu-law of the late Alexander Nc
Cue, once solicitor Of the treasury, have gone
to Brooklyn TO aid Judge Smith.
Almost everybody in the village is armed and
will resist any invasion. Justice of the Peace
James B. Cooper says that the hotel and ali its
surroundings will be burned to the ground if q
landing is attempted
!Ihe Commercial Adrertiser this afternoon
says: More than a hundred South Bay cat
boats, tharpies, sloops and other small boats,
each with ten or more men and boys on board
were under weigh ut daybreak this
morning and sailing from all points
on the great South bay toward
Fire Island. In all the boats every man who
had or could borrow II gun or pistol brought it
with him and the entire fotilla carried perhaps
a thousand armed men. OF these five or six
hundred came from Patchogue, Sayville and
the country near them. $50 from Bay Shore
and perhaps as many from Babylon.
Every man on board q boat was either a
'bayman" or a sympathizer and fully deter.
mined to prevent by force. if necessary, the
landing Of the quarantined cabin passengers on
Fire Island.
In Bay Shore the feeling stands at fever heat
and loud threats are heard of treating Land
lord Samn,is, who sold the Surf Hotel to the
state authorities for refuge, TO coat Of tar
and feathers.
A special to the Mail aud Express from
Babylon, L. l., says: Almost every one in the
village is armed and will resist any invasion
Justice of the Peace James B. Cooper says that
the hotel and all Its surroundings will be burned
to the ground If landing il attempted.
NO HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION.
FIBE ISLAND, Sept. l2.-Up to this hour (9
am no further demonstration has been made
by the health authorities and the citizens Of
Islip Town. steam launch having on board
thirty armed men from Bay Shore, which tied up
Mt the dock here last. night, steamed away about
3 O'Clock. DIR. W. A. Baker, health officer Of
Islip, who remained here all night, accepted the
answer of Secretary Balch of the state board
that the local board had no authority to inter
fere as final, and counseled his fellow
members against any further resistance to the
landing Of the Normannis passengers. But the
others decided to ignore the advice and o report
comes this morning that 200 or 800 baymen and
others will make an armed demonstration when
tue SepueUs Arrives.
DR.. Walter Voight arrived by sailboat from
Babylon about II O'Clock last night to relieve
President Wilson Of the health board and now
has full charge of the state property. At 8
O'Clock this morning Chef Dubois and Steward
Fisher. with eighteen walters and cooks from
the Hoffman House, were sent down here.
Mr.. L. 8. Stokes has arrived and viii take
charge of them. Dr. voight has sent to the
city for other necessary help.
President Wilson, Or. Cyrus Edison and \
party left ON the steamer Ripple for Babylon at
905 o'clock this morning en- route to New YORK.
Word has just been received that the steamer
Cepheus left her anchorage about 9 and is ex-
pected here about noon, when it win be high
water.
just before leaving President Wilson received
. message from Secretary Of the Treasury
Foster that he bad instructed Superintendent
Dominy Of the ife-saving service thas he must
allow Pilot Weeks, one OF the crew Of the Fire
Island hfe-saving station, to act as pilot OF
the Cepheus and other vessels coming here.
Yesterday Superintendent Dominy advissd Mr..
Weeks not to act ~ pilot.
The defendants are to show cause on Thurs
day why this injunction should not be made
permanent The complaint in the action sets
forth the purchase Of The Surf Hotel and islsud
from NJ eannin Sw ~ - - shsltsr