Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-11
mo PANIC IN BERLIN.
The Capital Free Iof Cholera, and the
Worst Over in Hamburg.
A SHALL INCREASE At HAVRE.
Prince Bismarck's Household Virtually in
State Of Siege.
4 LIBERAL GIVER TO THE VICTIMS

BERLIN, Sept 1O.-The Berlin autnorl'
ties consider that the foreign papers exag-
gerate the condition of affairs in Hamburg
Cholera is bad enough in the poorer and
older quarters of the city, but the middle
| and upper class residents would not have
known of the existence of the epidemic ex-
cept for the information CLEANED through
the newspapers.
If the view that Hamburg is pest-polluted
throughout its bounds could have been
justified, the Imperial Board of Health
would have assented to the suggestion of
the alarmists to isolate the city and its
suburbs and interdict all communication
with them. The Ministers, however, took
special advice of Pref. Virchow, Prof Koch
and other authorities, and arrived at the
conclusion that rigorous system of sur
veillance would be sufficient protection.
If any reliance whatever is to be placed
upon the Hamburg official cholera statistics
the disease continues to abate there. Yes
terday 1872 new cases were reported, de-
crease of 211 as compared with the returns
for Thursday. The deaths yesterday are
placed at 122 against 215 for Thursday.
Onicisl Figures Still Unreliable.
The daily reports however, continue to
be badly mixed up, as is shown by a supple
mentary report issued to-day, giving 1913
new cases and Al deaths that occurred prior
to yesterday and were not incorporated in
the prior returns
A large number of fugitive families from
Hamburg have now sought shelter at Stral-
sund, Rostock and other places in Mecklin-
burg -Schwerin, and the disease is almost
unknown among them. Many o. these
families have just reason to complain of
the arbitrary and illegal measures taken by
the petty local authorities iu trying to
debar them from admission to hotels and
lodging houses
Count Won Eulenburg, Prussian Minister
of the Interior, to whom the municipal
authorities appealed for permission to Gre
mate the bodies of cholera victims, has
given his assent to the cremation of bodies
when an autopsy absolutely proves that the
death resulted from cholera Not single
since the Minister'S assent was given. As
a. matter of fact, Berlin is remarkably
healthy.
No Panic Now In th- Capital.
Among the public here the scare has
utterly vanished. Even the hotels have
now ceased to reject guests from Hamburg.
A panicky feeling, however, continues to
prevail in the rural districts. An instance
of this feeling is given at Alt Ruppin, a
town of Prussia, where q volunteer corps
has been organized to guard the approaches
to the town and keep strangers out until
they have been subjected to a weeks quar-
antine. The town of. Pine is similarly cor
doned.
Business reports from Hamburg grow
worse. 1t is estimated that the financial
and commercial losses there already reach
total of 200, 900, 900 marks. The disclos-
ures of the horrible unsanitary state of the
city and its suburbs have raised the ques-
tion as to whether the Hamburg Senate
ought not to be deprived of its administra-
tion of affairs and the Prussian Govern
ment assume control.
Prince Bismarck's people at Friederschs-
ruhe, who drew their household supplies
from Hamburg, have been in a condition
bordering on state of siege since the out
break of the disease in Hamburg. All con-
nection with the city has been cut of, and
supplies are now taken to them from Berlin.
Visitors are not now Welcomed at Friede-
richsruhe.
Bismarck a Liberal Contributor.
Prince Bismarck shows great sympathy
with the people of Hamburg. He daily re-
ceives kilograms from friends in the city,
giving details as to the progress Of the
epidemic. Besides subscribing to the pub
llc relleI Iunus, ne mas sent privately money
with which to purchase medicines.
The officers here of the Hamburg Amer
lean Packet Company are constantly be-
sieged by anxious friends of passengers on
the Rugia and Normannia, clamoring for
news Many Americans who started for
England to take the Hamburg-American
line steamers from Southampton are unable
to secure their baggage, as the Belgian
authorities refuse to allow baggage from
Berlin to pass through Belgium. A great
pile of baggage has, consequently, been re-
turned here. Many American ladies who
sent their trunks in advance to Hamburg
have decided to leave them there until the
epidemic is over. They hope thus to escape
having their baggage tumigated and their
costly dresses possibly ruined.
American attention ought to be given to
the numerous bales of rags now lying at
Hamburg ready for shipment. If they are
imported into the United States after the
quarantine is over the danger OF cholera
Infection, which would seemingly have
ceased, would be renewed