New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-08
NEW CASES OF CHOLERA.
MORE STEAMSHIPS DETAINED.
NONE OF THE LATE ARRIVALS BRING THE
DREAD DISEASE.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR PUTTING THE NoRMANNIAs
CABIN PASSENGERS on FIRE ISLAND OR
SANDY HooK-PROMINENT PEOPLE
HELD IN QUARANTINE.


HELD IN QUARANTINE.
The news from Quarantine yesterday was reas-
suring in some ways and in Others II was dlshearV
ening. The progress of the cholera on the de-
tanned ships does not appear 10 be compeueS
stayed, two new cases of the disease deVeIope"
on the Rugia and there were eight suspicious cases
among the crew of the Normannia~ Still, In al
Of the biz feet of steamers which swung at their
anchors in the Narrows at dayoreak YESTERDAY
there was no case Of cholera which the newly ar
rvc d steamship, Lad brought The question OF the
separation of the cabin passengers OIL the infected
ships from the crew and steerage passengers, among
whom the cholera has already broken ont. is one
which received the anxious consideration OF Dr.
Jenkins yesterday.
dozen different plans were proposed and re-
ected 40 impracticablc. The result of the de-
lbcratons seems to he embodied in DR.. Jenkins :
dispatch sent last night TO Secretary Foster, recon-
mending Fire Island place where cabin pas
sengors might be landed and Isolated. brrl 'hs
may also he erected on Sandy Hook 1o-isy
tug will 90 from the Navy Yard and establish
patrol of Long Island Sound at Wllltts Felh'
20 that no vessel may enter the port from that
direction until she has been thoroughly inspected
and regularly passed. This will remove source
OF danger which too long has been dsregardcd
The arrival Of tie big City OF New-lork with
over 900 passengers and her detention at quar-
antne was one of the things which excited srea'
interest yesterday. Among the passengers VINO
NAV have TO worry out a five days quarantine
on the City of New-York are Chauncey NJ
Dopcw, Garrett A. Hobart, of New,
jersey. Mrs. and Miss Foster the wife and
daughter of the Secretary of the Treasury. Hiss
Rusk. the daughter Of the Secretary of Agriculture
= nd nighv Roll the actor.
The yellow flag hostcd many times yesterdV
on the Normannia and Rugia signalled that the
desperate fight in the lower bay against Asia'lc
cholera has not succeeded yet in appreciaoy
obcckinr its spread There were no deaths out
two new cases dcveopd in the Rugias pest IN
fested stceraee; in mockcry Of all scientific c'hods
of fumication disnfcction. and lsolation ana oi
the Normannla's crew, which has already ios'
several men. with many now in the pest hous''
fen Others were stricken with the disease iIe
deputy health official last night saih h"l'-
heartcdy that they had caught cola from u'r
baths they had received on lloiiiEan lsahu am
that they had only ordinary darrhocal con'piaii''
pa, Tho svmntorns were serious enough TO frlghteh
81. doc.ors into sending them 10 tho pest house
an Syylnburno Island as fast as possible Inc
orA,. hit Of cheering information from the lower
hay was that the nuTse, who was taken SICK WI"
cholera some days ago, Is recovering Inns y"
tbe official report 1t had been rnInorei ne'oio
that she was dying.
The case of the eisht men OF the Normsnnih
crew has aroused much comment. 1he e"" VI
The Normannia were transferred to liohh'"n
Island some days ago. carefully washeu. l""r
cotcd and watched After rigid Inspection IL "'T
decided that they were perfectly Tree iroh III
fection. and on TUsday night some OF theih W.T."
taken back 20 the steamer Yesterday nhor"'''-
,Io r.s. tollowcd They had hardly begun attend
ing 10 their duties before they wcr" '""eh III WV
hr ono II also seems strange that hardy sailors
should get bowel complaints from oa'h' "i."
Tho s,oorace messengers have gone through the
ordeal unscathed. II is also remarkah' am
alarming toct that there has not yet been reported
a single case Of recovery among the paucn'h WHO
have been sent to Swinburnc Island with the eN-
oon,ior NJ tho nurse DR. Jenkins has not made
pcn+ion NJ one deputy health officer was
osked about il Yesterday. and he achnowledgcd
,La, hc know Of none The presumption naturally
ia that the health officers would he highly pleased
m rcport cases Of recovery. and the fact that eS
have mi done 80 is considered significant
Tho records Of deaths and illnesses have p'el
badly hunclcd somewhere since the beginning ana
tho ncwspaper correspondents have had erra'
trouble in getting correct and Trustworthy Hsts'
Dr Jenkins il strangely uncommlnlcatlV". ic'
tordav for instance. he arrived at Upper pnaran
tine AT half past five o'clock In thr evening u"
announced briefly that two men -oi tle cre" o'
tho Normannia had been taken sick. He ala NOT
rive their names, and showed no great WILLINGNESS
70 give any information Then ne went UP 10
tbc house but soon returned and boardcl the s'eah
.ocbt Fra Davolo The Yacht stecred into
,be bay and went about among the steamers
Dr Jenkins came back at about half past SIN
o,cIocl and sent ont word 10 the reporters thh'
he would see them at o'clock. They assembled
in his Office promptly. DIR. Jenkins was then IN
the house. The newspaper men waited I'LL ioui
minutes before eight before he made his appear
apce Then he said that he had nothing to tell
and referred to his nominal deputy, who gave the
list of cases as follows:
On the Normannia. all crew-Nlax Gchrmann'
twcnty-four years old; Stanislaus knaus twenty
six: Richard Fischer, twcnty-four; Franz Gent
thir1y-one: Emil Petric, twenty-one; JULIUS SOL
wiz. thirty: wilhelm RcnncnvcG, thirty; Carl
Eorandt. twcnty-four. In the stecra2c oi the
Ruuia the eases were Orakl Kapoian twenty
eicht wears old Katherine Tcssarowa, twenty-five.
Cheering news for the cabin passengers on the
nl.ouo ships were received at Quarantine yes
terdav Steps have been taken by DR.. jenkins
10 nrcnare the Government Sandy Hook rcserva-
tion for the reception Of people, the land having
bocn freely offered by the United States Govern
mcnt. and he also expects TO secure Sound
steamer.
Nrw-York city will also breathe easier wheh
il learns that what the quarantine officials OF
the State have avowedly neglected. the Cni'eu
States Government has done, namely 10 guar"
the entrance through the Sound Coitctor
Hendricks telegraphed DR.. jenkins last night as
follows: captain Theodore F. Kane United
States Navy, telcgraphs that Navy tug Narkecf"
goes Immediately to Willctts Point TO patrol
with orders to detain all vessels from foreign
mort coming that route, until released by proper
pcrmits from local health authorities