New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-14

10 assist Dr. Weight in preparing for the pas
sengers. With the professional uppermost in his
mind, he said We'll have a concert in the
parlcr tonight, II can arrange it, Schnrwenka
will play, and think we may induce Miss Lettie
Collins TO electrfy you with 'Boom-der-ay'
Fischel had been In extremely agi'a.eu
frame Of mind until the tug Rppler arrived with
all the things be needed sent from the Holman
House. Then he, too, was happy. Three hours
of hard work, Of excited running up ana do"h
stairs, and in and out the rooms of the hotel OIL
travelling TO and from the Cepheus, for or with
beds, blankets silver, linen, and stores apd their
workers were ready to receive their guests, 10
give them the first square meal and the first
comfortable bed that they had known in several
days.
At last the end came. At thirty minutes of
five I. Cepbeus hove up to the pier, the gang
plank was laid the stewards jumped ashore, and
then with the band of the Cepheus playing Hail
Columbia the first of the second cabin pas
sensers marched in battle array. flags waving.
TO the hotel.
ASSIGNING PASSENGERS TO ROOMS
Great hustle followed the arrival Of the pas
sencers at the hotel. Considering the fact that
500 guests arrived within five minutes, 1t was
natural that some confusion resulted. Every
one was good-natured, however and waited
patiently until assigned TO his or her quarters
Such progress was made by the temporary hotel
clerks that inside two hours all guests were
comfortably situated. No distinction was made
in the disposition Of rooms. and it WAS all
lottery But there was no grumbling. Every
one was too happy fer that. Gray-hsired men
Jumped about in the sand like boys The
second cabin passengers were put in the westerly
end and the first cabin in the easterly. AT
"a would
difficult to find happier crowd than filed the
dining rooms C0nventionalities were cast ASIDE
Every one knew every ONE else, and cengratula-
tions were showered from every quarter OF the
room No strict quarantine was maintained
He'd they thought Of it, onehalf the passense
could have walked up the shore half nile
hired catboats, and sailed to the main shore
windstorm is raging. All the passengers
ire thankful that they not in the Cepheus
o-nisht Nothing has been heard from the seth
Regiment or the Naval Reserve. Tie gale has, no
ioubt, kept the Reserve away 1t is expected that
Il will reach here in the morning. The soldiers
and sailors will be needed TO maintain the guar
antiIe regulations.
TALK WITH A. NJ PALMER.
A. NJ Palmer tonight said while the pas
seneers feel that they have been put to great
hardship, they have nothing but praise for Gov
ernor Flower He has shown himself a man adj
the way through. He has accomplished wonders,
Ind no one on the Normannia will ever forget him
We In the cabin had intended buying Fire Island
and the hotel We had raised 5000, when
word arrived of its purchase by the State. One
thing want TO say is that the American pubic
has gone crazy on the cholera. Not one American
has yet died on any of the infected ships Tho
disease only takes hold of underfed and unclean
persons | have lived with it for eighteen days
and I know"
Iottie Collins, looking radiant in spite of her
troubles, laughed and said: We'll. I'm glad I'm
alive anyway. Two days and nights in the open
air sleeping under the sky is all want IN life
time When think of those ruffans long 1ol
pistol Do you know that last night TWO OF
Them rowed out in small boat, passed close 10
the Cepheus and with eering gr1n, held up
loaf of bread so that we could see 1t"
The conduct Of the policemen on the Oepheus
has caused criticism There were twenty VI
them in all eight in uniform and twelve IN pam
clothes. Mr.. Palmer said that Of course II would
have been an easy matter for the meh on 'ie
Cepheus to have repealed the mob, but that they
could hardly act under the circumstances lie
thought the police should at least have landea
and caught the boats lines. Sergeant Crowley
said lie believed two determined men could have
effected landing. The officers of the snip SAID
@he notice were much more interested in what
they had TO eat and drink than they were in
fighting.
Late tonight men were circulating among the
messengers in the hotel offering to run them |
across 20 the main shore in yachts for $50 a
head Dr. Voight had patrol of eleven men out |
tonight guarding the hotel from fire fends.