The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-02
Europe.

NEW Yonx, Sept. l.-Captain Cross,
Of the Eldridgo street station, reports
tonight he is informed by DR.. II. b.
Beck, OF "a Irvington street, that he at
tended a man named Elwainig, who
lived on the fourth floor OF No. s. Or
chard street, and that he found him
maniiestiug symptoms OF cholera, The
man, he said, was Russian and arrived
on Sunday on the steamer Russia. The
board OF health was notified.
NEw YoRK, Sept. 1.-The different
agents OF the transatlantic steamship
lines we're greatly excited to-day over
the first tidings OF the President having
issued an order Tor twenty days quar-
antine against emigrant steamships.
Tho meaning OF the order was not clear,
and the agents did not know whetherit
applied to vessels carrying steerage
passengers only, or to all vessels carry
ing cabin and steerage. 1t would mean
great financial loss either way, but if it
applied to the latter class, they saw
disastrous condition OF things in it.
The Inman line management has de-
cided to carry only first cabin aud sec
ond cabin passengers from Liverpool
duriug September.
A dispatch from quarantine received
at & p. IN. says: "Dr. jenkins has just
returned from Holland Island and the
steamer Moravia. There are no new
cases and no fresh developments, but
one OF the crew OF the steamboat Hazel
Kirk was taken sick and either knowing
that he had cholera, jumped over board
aud drowned himself.
President Wilson, of the health board,
said this afternoon that he had
selected a suitable location for
cholera camp in the event OF
general outbreak OF the plague.
He declined to say where it is to be
located, but stated positively that it
was not any OF the islands in the
vicinity OF the city. Mr.. Wilson said
that there is not patient at present in
the William Parker hospital at the foot
OF East Sixteenth street and there
are only twenty-six patients on
North Brothers islands. The trustees
of st. Johns Guild to-day offered to, the
health board the use OF floating hos
pital" in case OF an epidemic. Presi-
dent Wilson accepted it and tomorrow
it will be moofed at Sixteenth street in
the East river ready to receive persons
suspected to be suffering from cholera.
The arrival of the steamers from
Europe, particularly those from in-
iected ports that arc new at sea,
is anxiously awaited by the quaran-
tine officials. There are twenty OF them
due to arrive between September 3 and
4.
Colonel Weber, superintendent OF
emigration, said to-day that no believed
the cholera would undoubtedly get into
this city. He said he believed there is
great danger OF its being brought here
by tho cabin as by tho steerage pas.
senSErs. lie said the cabin pas
sehgers should be quarantined as
well as the storage in order to
protect the country from the plague.
lie thought there was much danger al
so from merchandise coming from Eu-
rope and especially from infected ports.
The Colonel said ho had applied to
Washington for steam plant to disin-
feet the baggage and clothing OF emmi-
grants suspected Of having contagious
diseases. He expected his request 10
be complied with in q few days. He
said the authorities on Ellis Island will
use extra precautions to discover any
cases OF cholera that may escape quaran-
tine.
Discussing the quarantine measures
adopted at this port, physician in this
city who has had much experience
with cholera said to-day to n reporter:
at is popular fallacy that cholera
necessarily maniiests itself in a
few days, and that n vessel which
has left an infected port week or
moro ago and arrives here with no case
OF cholera aboard is therefore beyond
fear or suspicion. 1t is true that
the disease comes out soon after
infection, but often it may take
several days or longer before injection
takes place. Thus a man might be
taken sick with cholera by
first coming into contact with
some garment or food which had
become injected weeks before. Tho
discovery OF q cholera case on tho
steamer Britannia, from Marseilles, and
Naples, which arrived at quarantine on
October IA, 1887, with 4OS steerage pas.
sengers, is case in point.
ION the following day, October IS, a
boy was removed from the ship with an