Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-26
MAY BE CHOLERA
 ON BOARD
Feared that La Touraine Car ries Victims of the
 Disease.
THE STEAMER DUE AT NEW YORK
 TOMORROW MORNING.

Her Clearance aC Havre Revoked Just
 After She Had Sailed by the United
 States Consul Immigrants from Ham,
 burg to Be Carried Separately for the
 Present. Health Authorities Through
 out the Country Thoroughly Aroused
 The Death Record.
 NEW YoRK,~ Aug 26.-Well- reasons exist for believing that the first vessel to bring the much-dreaded cholera to this port will be the big French steam ship La Touraine, which is now on the seas and due to arrive early tomorrow morning. On her last trip to this port La Touraine got in on Friday night, having broken the record from Havre.
 She will not be allowed to come up to Quarantine before being boarded by Health Officer Jenkins, who has already completed arrangements to meet the steamer far down the bay. She carries 256 saloon, 119 second cabin and 415 steerage passengers. Her complement of officers and men is 280, making total of TOTO souls aboard the mammoth steamer. If the cholera has broken out on this vessel the terrible scourge will have many VlCDlInS WlUnlu 6GSy E0dCu OL US OoTTlUl0 grasp.
 When the French steamer left Havre, at which port cholera has already found hosts of victims, she was granted a clean bill of health by the American Consul at that place. A few hours after she had sailed, however, the officials who had su- perintended her inspection were thrown into a state of consternation by the dis covery that the plague had broken out NrrsSa were to have sailed on La Touraine, but, owing to her crowded condition, could not be furnished with accommodation.
 These immigrants had travelled many miles in company witt 6 ores of t oS wHo had obtained passage on the rench steamer and among whom the scourge was liaEle to be k out as it had among those left Lehind. The steamer had hard ly passed out of the harbor before this discovery was made.
 Fleet tugboats were dispatched in pur- suit, but nothing Lut City of Paris could have overhauled her, the fleet Frenchman having the advantage of oh a start. The tug captains discovered tn e futility of their chase when the steamer was seen low down on the distant hori- Zon.
 Upon the return of the tugboat the American Consul telegraphedkto Secretary
  issued to the steamship, and setting forth the foregoing facts in brief. Secretary Foster notified Health Officer Jenkins and the agents of the line in this city.
 Officers of the Hamburg American Packet Company have just received the following message by cable from the headquarters of the company in Ham burg:
 ''As danger of infection may come from emigrant passengers booked together with first and second-class passengers, we have decided, in order to secure for our passengers the best sanitary condi- tions possible, to separate emigrant traffic from first and second-class entirely, for warding emigrants on separate ships ex- Clusively.
 Besides, the express steamers will run until further notice between Southamp- ton and New York only, beginning with the Columbia, now due at Southampton. '
 Emil L. Boas, general passenger mana ger of the line in New York, said that those passengers now on the Continent who are booked to return by the Ham burg-American line will be carried from Hamburg to Southampton free of expense to them.
 The express boats referred to in the cablegram, MT. Boas said, were the Augusta Victoria, Fuerst Bismarck Normannia and Columbia. These steamers will carry only first and second-class cabin passengers. From time to time boats will be sent from Hamburg to New York with only emigrants on board.
 Before the emigrants leave Hamburg, Mr. Boas said they will be fumigated at the company's expense, and no person with symptom of disease will be taken on board
 An apartment connected with the steam pipes, will 5e fitted up on all the emigrant vessels, so that when they arrive at quarantine here every piece of baggage | on board can be cleansed before being l landed on Ellis Island.
 With this perfect system of disinfectinG and the watchfulness of the officers a quarantine, Mir. Boas said he apprehendet | no danger from cholera.