The Portland daily press., 1892-09-09
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ANOTHER COMPLAINT.
| A Woman Appeals for Public Sympathy
for the Passengers.
New YORK, September 8.-The follow
ing letter was conveyed yesterday from
the infected Normannia to the Office of
the Evening Post and printed in that
newspaper. 1t purports to have been
written by a lady Oh board:
II write you on your own letter; paper
is difficult to get. Our chief suffering is
from pure neglect. We want a sanitary
expert to take charge of such measures
ON the ship. A great deal has been
done, but the experts could do
more. This feeling of neglect is demon
time combined with it tells on the
strongest. 1 saw one of the best men on
the ship clasp his little girl in his arms
convulsively this morning. Only man.
| hood kept the tears back. All would be
patient could they feel that any wise
care was being exercised over us,
and could we be removed from
the crew and stokers, the only peo-
pie inclined to any kind of illness. Try
what you can get done for us with the
members of the medical profession. They
must realize the wretchedness of our sit
uation, if no one else does. The health
officers cite public opinion, and could
| this pressure be removed from them
| they will be more inclined to act. AS
for medical science, where is it? Could
| you not get strong medical opin-
| ion published on the folly of keep
|
pie shut up in small space
with stokers and such persons uncon-
trolled in their living? The captain has
no control over them. Wages had to be
guaranteed by passengers, or the crew
would not work-said their engagements
with the company were over, and they
might not be paid for extra services. If
| we have storm we cannot lie here-too
shallow.
'sWe do not complain of our necessary
detention, but to leave 460 men, women
and children cooped up here in contact
with infection, without medical
inspection, or supervision, or dis
infectants, or fresh water, or hospital
boat, or regular communication
with the shore, is crime of the worst
| kind. It is pitiable to see the situation
| of the ladies and children, though they
| is giving out, and there is no means of
| replacing it."
The Navy in Charge.
WASHINGTON, September 8.-The navy
department has assumed charge of the
quarantine patrol OF New York harbor
and will place an officer from the Brook
lyn navy yard in charge of the patrol
vessels in the lower harbor. The old
monitor Nantucket will be used as sort
of flag ship and place of rendezvous for
the patrol boats.
Released from Quarantine.
QUARANTINE, Sept. S.-Steamers City
of New York, La Bourgogne and Elbe
were released today and left for New
York. Chauncy M. Depew and his sec
retary and the wife and daughter of Sec
retary Foster were taken off the City of
New York and transferred to the cutter
Grant.
A Consul Suspended.
WASHINGTON, September S.-The Sec
retary of State today ordered the suspen-
sion from duty of James c. Kellogg,
United States consul at Stettin, and as
signed the vice consul to the duties of
the Office. This action, it is explained,
grows out of the complaint of the health
officers of New York that on August 9
the consul was absent and the inspection
of vessels from that port was very lax.
Consul General Edwards of Berlin, was
directed to proceed to Stettin, make an
investigation and report. A report was
also called for from the consul. Their
reports were received today with the re-
suit above announced.
Maine Man a Victim.
SAN FRANCISCO, September S.-The
I,s, l. De-,
Yesterday from Calcutta after having
| touched at Madras during the voyage.
Seaman Archibald McDougal and Will
liam E. Whitty, chief officer, native of
Maine, died of what was reported on the
arrival of the vessel here to have been
cholera. The death occurred last April
and since there have been no signs of di-
sease. The vessel, however, was fumiga-
ted under the direction of a quarantine
officer.
Doesn't Know What Heis Talking About.
MONTREAL, September S.-Sir Edwin
Arnold, who is still in Montreal, denoun-
ces James G. Blaine for his utterances on
the cholera question. He says he is
panied and grieved to see great nation
through one of its representatives pros
trate itself to the dust, grovelling in fear
of the threats of the approach of a mere
stomach ache. All these precautions he
said would be unavailing for the disease
would do no harm in the low tempera-
ture of an American autumn.
Canada's Danger.
TORONTO, September S.-The Globes
Quebec correspondent telegraphs that
there is reason to believe that case of
cholera has been found on board the
steamer Mandrahin from Hamburg, which
passed Father Point yesterday. The
Quebec governments proclamation for
bidding immigration and making regu-
lations for the inspection of vessels was
hurriedly issued last night.
Seamen Refuse to Sail.
LONDON, Sept. S.-The presence of
cholera in Hamburg has frightened many
seamen so that they refuse to ship on
vessels bound for that port or intending
to call there. The mate and eighteen
of the crew of the ship Aladdin Rutter,
now at Falmouth ready to sail for Ham
burg, refused to proceed to the infected
port, and the owners of the vessel in
structed the captain to proceed against
them under the statutes.