New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-22
DISTRESS IN HAMBURG.
ALI, BUSINESS AT A STANDSTILL.
STARVATION THREATENS THE woRKING-PEoPLE
THE PLAGUE SEEMS TO BE INCREASING

THE PLAGUE SEEMS TO BE INCREASING
AGAlNt-A SAILOR DIES AT HULL
Hamburg Sept. 21.-According to the official figures
there lao new cases OF cholera ana sH'!-lo"r
deaths the disease In this city yesterday com
pared with the official returns OF Monday, yesterday
figures show an increase OF eight new cases anu
decrease Of three deaths. The doctors To-Day say
they believe the disease Is again increasing during
the last few days more ambuanccs We're seen In the
streets conveying patients TO the hospitals
The present endemic is carrying In its train such
want and suffering as have never before marked the
History of Hamburg, and daily the distress is incrcas-
ing Nearly all the trades In the city are at stand
stu and thousands OF workmen who depend upon
heir daily toll for the support of themselves and
their families find It utterly impossible 10 earn a
n,ennie The people who have heretofore done
business With Hamburg afraid now to handle
anything made in the plague stricken city. and In
consequence every branch of industry shows an entire
absence Of orders. OF course. with no demand for
their products. manufacturers find It impossible to
keep their employees at work, and daily the Idle
population OF the city gaining fresh accessions
from the ranks of clerks, artisans and unskiled
laborers who are discharged because Of the utter
stagnation OF business.
The distress IS most marked among the dock
laborers and fishermen. The shipping trade Of the
city has received q most severe blow from the ep-
demic and many Of the vessels belonging to Hamburg
have been forced to lie up until the epidemic absies
The dock laborers and the other men employed about
the wharves find nothing to do, and in many cases
sctual starvation is staring them In the face inc
fishermen, too find their occupation gone. as nearly
everyone Is afraid to touch fish. Those who still
follow their business find money in il. Whole
loads OF fish are every day carted away from ST.
Pal's market and sold for few marks to farmers, TO
be used fertilizer on their lands. The many
p,rters about the city are without work and have
been idle for a considerable time
of belonging
the territory called Vierlande. Here live many per-
sons who cultivate small tracts OF land. and who
have heretofore found a ready and profitable market
for their produce in the city. Now all Is changed,
and these market gardeners the verge OF ruin
They are unable dispose Of their produce and their
fruit is rottng on the trees. The situation Is ex-
tremey bad In whatever light II IS Viewed and sue
cor for the impoverished and famishng people will
have to come from the charitable.
A peculiar custom obtains in Hamburg no mention
OF which has heretofore been made in the stories Of
The epidemic sent from here, and TO this custom may
be attributed many OF the cholera deaths that have
occurred here. As is well known the old town OF
Hamburg rs very low and is traversed by many canals
or fleets" as they are called mere. These fleets
generally form what may be called back streets, and
they are bordered by warehouses, cellars and the
dwelling houses OF hundreds Of poor people These
aneets, are subject to the tides of the Elbe, and
n certain times they are quite dry.
When they In this condition the
wFleetenkiekers, wander along the coy
channel and pick up any articles that the water may
have deposited. As the tide PUSHES up the river from
the North Sea- the " fleets are filed with wnter TO
depth Of from fifteen 10 twenty feet As soon as II Is
heh tide at Cuxhaven three shots fired from the
Stnfang at the hnrbor TO warn the inhabitants along
the elects and II the progress OF the tide up the
river gives indication Of danger three more shots are
fred TO add emphasis TO the warning Then the people
who live along the lower levels make for higher
.bair tlc ~ "
About the present time these lower levels are often
Inundated by the tides for several days In SUCCESSFUL
but when the floods abae the people return 10 their
oozy abr6es Now II well known that the water
OF the t.ibe is impure AMI tire are many who be
IIeve that through drinking cholera is caused. With
these people of the afeen known the Lud Won de
Wasserkrsnt handling articles picked from the canals
and living in houses mpregnated with the flthy EIbe
water 1t Is an easy mattec for the disease to obtain
, foothold
London Sent. 21.-The sailor who was suffering
from cholers and who was removed from the steamer
Uranus. which arrived at Hull Monday from Ham
burg died in the hospital at Hull last night The
vessel 4, SIN In quarantine. The rest OF her crew
are well.
The North German Lloyd steamer Lain sailed from
southampton for New-York today. She has on BOARD
1873 saloon and 10 second cabin passengers No
storage passengers were carried
Warsaw sept; 21-Cholera has appeared AZ Ndovici.
a town CracOw
Berlin Sept 21.--Twenty-two persons suffering from
suspicious Illness taken 70 the Moamt Hospital
Yesterday The doctors there say that five OF them
have Asatic cholera.
St Petersburg Sept. 21.-Forty-eght new cases OF
cholera and sixteen deaths reported In this city
yesterday. Compared with Mondays returns, this IS
an increase OF thrtyseven new cases ana decrease
Of twenty eight deaths Fiity-two hospital patients
were discharged as cured
Vienna. Sept 2l.-One case OF cholera and one death
from the disease arc reported Przemys in Austrian
C;alicia At Podgorze. also In Austrian Gacia across
the Vistula River from Cac0w several wooden houses
that in had sanitary condition were aDnhoon'u
BIZ their occupants, who were ordered to leave inc
buildings by the authorities. The houses "ef" theh
Bucharest Sept. 21.-Numcrous cases Of suspicious
sickness reported In this city II IS thGugnt tnat
he sickness a. cholera. The army reserve have been
summoned for service, but now II - feared taI @
may break out artng them and their diSoaha"eh' ID
demanded. ,.
Rome sept 2lIt is understood that bee ase OF the
canSe tbe usual october pilgrimage to Rome to be
postponed. The holding Of the Papal Consstory WIZ
also be delnyei for couple OF months ioT 'ie 'aA
Vienna, sept o1.-"The Tageblatt" says: " DR..
Podgorze by female hnwker who had p, evoasly oeel
IN company with Russian field laborers Podgorze 10
in shoclingly bad sanitary condition. III Iiany
places cesspoos have oversowcd int) the souryaras
Of The woman WHO brought the aiseast t at
tr town was placed III hospital where other p'ucI.o
were confined and the doctors ialed 10 oiasNoS
her disease cholera NJ arrangement. were 'n ne
vent the Infection OF other patients. OIL, ,.. 30
A Cispaich from Cracow states that throughout "a
acia nom tis date OF the outbreak Of cholera al 70,
DAY. there have been reported thrty-'"o cases '"'
eleven deaths. , ,o,,r
Artwerp sept o1.--Two new cholera cases and iour
death, we're reported here to-day and at MONS 'hree
and one DEATH -. ,. ,toro
Puris sept @I.~In Paris and It's suburbs there
were reported Yesterday twonty-ninc new ehoief"
cases and sixteen deaths. ,, -, ho.r
The Hague sept. 2l.-Onc case OF cholera mas been
ramon, - In his CITY In Sciedam case and one
death have been reported, and in Bleskensraaf TWO
deaths . =, .
ii.hon Sept 2l-It is stated that the steamer
peicbs,ar which arrived In the Tagus YESTERDAY from
ten eases OF cholera on board. -, -.. +,