The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-24
NO CHOLERA ON POLARIA
The Suspected Steamship
Comes in With a Clean
Bill of Health.
POISONING THE GERMS.
SulDhuric Acid Given to Endan-
gered People as Lemonade
Camp Lows Panic.

NEW YORK, Sept. "a, 1S92--It was very
dull at Sanitary Headquarters, where
they have settled down to steady
routine that is anything but exciting.
The one thing that is notable there is
that they are not. in spite of the favorable
turn CT the situation, taking any chances.
Even the psychological reports are
framed cautiously: 1--WE have failed to
find the spirillum;" not that it is not
there
The original failures and final success
in .McAvoy's case made the men with the
microscope careful. AS result the pa
tients thus in a measure relieved
from suspicious are not relieved
spirillic as she has been declared TO be, Is
still in the hospital. registered as q
cholera patient and treated like one. She
was reported TO be doing well this NOR D.
ing. On the contrary, the man Stuart,
from Morris streeu. is very sick. He will
have hard time of it pulling through.
NosING FOR SUSPECTS.
President Wilson received the passen-
ger list of the State of Nevada from
Colonel Weber this morning. and DR..
Roberts is now having all those who are
known to be still In the city locked up.
The idea is TO ascertain If any of them
has been i'll since Knox, the fireman. died
of cholera on board. IL there is the lea st
suspicion attaching to any one, off he
goes to the hospital as suspect
The chances are that they will be found
all TO be perfectly we'll Knox probably
went ashore and got the spirillum there.
His ship aud the canal boat, the
owner of which was dying of
cholera in New Brunswick. lay quarter
of a mile apart. In some way KLox
and Carr may have connected ashore. per-
haps in one Of the riverside saloons. It is
the explanation the Health Officers are
disposed to accept in the absence of a bet
ter, and it leaves the State of Nevada out
as carrier of oontagion.
sULPHURIC ACID LEMONADE.
The boarders IN Mrs. Guenther's house
in First street have survived the wash
ing, the smoking and the dosing the
Health officers gave them when Vein
hagen was found to have cholera in the
house. The last item, the dosing, they
did not even suspect. In fact, when
they were quarantined after the en-
forced bath, and big crooks of iced
lemonade were brought In and set In the
yard and in the Railways. for them 10
drink from. they took it as a substitute
All SlAS O|Sk onSy VSAS NAokAAfSo ga - nOA v
of peace offering of the sanitary authori-
ties. They drank and liked 1t, and drank
more. When the crooks were empty they
were filled up again. and Mrs. Guent her 3
thirsty boarders gathered about them in
groups and voted DR.. Edison not such a
cbump, utter all. in spite of his wash
tubs.
If they had known that they were
drinking sulphuric acid in medicinal
doses as prophylactic against the chol-
era, they would probably have ragged
around and sworn at him and at things
in general. That is what it was. 1t was a
happy thought of DR.. Edison to lug it in
in crooks disguised as lemonade
He and President Wilson put up the
job and laughed In their sleeves at It's
success. "But then,' said the doctor,
speaking of it. sit was good, real good,
anyhow"
And as nobody took the cholera, it did
what it was intended to do, and every
body is happy.t Mrs. Guenther's boarding
house was about the most dangerous spot
in the city for the cholera to break out In.
At twenty minutes to two this morning
DIR. Frederick M. Helbig of No. 246 West
Thirly-seventh street reported to the
Board of Health that Wilhelmina Grant,
six weeks old, soiored. No. 1928 West
Twenty-seventh street. was i'll with some
suspicious sickness. The case ID under.
going investigation.