Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-14
VEIL p FLOWER.
HISTORY REPEATED.
The Fire Islanders Following the Example
of Staten Islanders i'm 1883.

The Fire Islanders Following the Example
of Staten Islanders in 1883.
New YORK, Sept. 14.-The opposition
of the Fire Island clam-diggers to the
landing there of the unfortunate passen-
gers of-the Normannia is repetition of
the attitude assumed by the Staten ISL
anders many years ago. When the
plague was threatened in 1853 the isl
anders organized a band called Sepoys.
Its members swore to raze the quaran-
tine buildings, which were then on the
island, near Tomkinsville. On Sept. 1,
1868, they carried their threat into exc
cution.
Masked and otherwise disguised, and
under cover of the night, the Sepoys
scaled the quarantine inclosure and
fired the building. 1t was brutal act,
for the hospital contained many helpless
inmates, some of whom were at the
point of death. The New York militia
was ordered to the scene, and the fifty
gun frigate Sabine went down the bay,
anchored off Tomplzinsville, and threat
ened to lombard the town. Driven
from Tompkinsville, the authorities re-
moved the quarantine hospital to
Seguin's Point, the southwesterly ex-
tremity of Staten Island. Temporary
hospitals and outbuildings were erected
there, but before the place could be put
in order the Sepoys again assumed their
DISCUSSES, lighted their torches and fired
that place also.
The authorities the following year
bought the ship Falcon as hospital
ship. They were actually driven from
the land to the water to care for the I'M
fortunates. The Falcon did fairly well
until 1866, when the cholera again ar
rived in New York. The lower bay was
crowded with pest ships. The Virginia,
the England, the Union, the Peruvian
and the Helvet.a, all carrying first cabin
and Storage passengers, arrived within
short intervals of each other. The Fal-
con could accommodate but seventy
five patients, while hundreds of persons
stricken with the infection were arriv-
ing on each steamer The United States
sloop Illinois was pressed into service tc
accommodate the healthy passengers,
and another ship was sent down to serve
as a hospital boat
After after while the passengers on
the ships and the citizens of New York
as now, clamored for some relief for the
quarantined ones. The authorities were
at their wits end Finally the board OF
health decided to remove them to the
old grounds at Seguins Point. The ar
rangements were made in secret in feal
of the Staten Islanders. On Wednesday
June 6, large squad of police of New
York and Brooklyn was marched al
night on board the harbor police boat
The force was under command of Police
Captain Holdbrook and six sergeants
They proceeded down the bay, &C
companied by the revenue cutter Cuya
hoga. When the inhabitants of Slater
Island awoke the next morning they
found the police in possession, and thu
cutter Cuyahoga ready to assist the au
thorities.
Barracks and temporary habitationl
were hastily constructed, while the 20
lice watch ,d day and night. T {
United States furnished part of the ma
terial for these temporary homes from
the old soldiers barracks then on Bed
/ loe's Island. AT Fort Wood and For
Schuyler passengers were disembarket
under the guns of the Cuyahoga. Thu
Staten Islanders threatened, and at Ross
vile the following notice was posted
1.-The citizens of Staten Island are re
quested to meet tonight June 4. 1865
at Lavand's hotel, Rossvills, at 3 o'clock
to prevent the establishment of chol
era hospital on the island" This meet
ing and others were held. There wer
threats of burning up the buildings, bu
the police and the guns of the Cuyahog
did the work, and the unfortunate pas
sengers We're defended in their positio
to the end,