Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-18
A SHADOW LIFTING,
The Great Death Letting Up
a Little in His Moving
Down in Europe.
PARIS BAD AS HAMBURG
Except That Its General Cleanliness
Is Proving It's Salvation.
QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER DOLLS
A Rival for Common Interest With the
Duke of Tork's TrOuser&
PARIS BAD AS HAMBURG
QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER DOLLS
A Rival for Common Interest With the
Duke of Torks Trousers
INTERESTING NEWS FROM OVER TRE SEA
Thy CABLE TO THE DIsPArCH,l

LONDON, Sept. IL Copyright THE
shadow of the Great Death is lifting from
Europe. Cholera's dead this week do not
number more than Il, 900, if the returns are
approximately true Hamburg's total death
roll has mounted TO about 1000 and the
plague has renewed in some degree its in
.ensity in that stricken city. In Russia,
however, there has been marked improve
ment, and the disease is rapidly disappear
ing in many places in Western Europe,
where it threatened to become a great
scourge. Paris continues to be a danger
point, although the daily reports given out
BY the authorities indicate that the pesti-
lence is subsiding
1t was asserted In these dispatches a week
ago that the authorities of Paris had been
guilty of criminal folly in concealing the
facts about cholera in that capital. Ample
proof of the charge in addition to the evil
dence then at hand is now available I
quote from letter several davs DELAYED,
Just received at the London Office of THE
DISPATCH from Dr. Louis L. Seaman, late
chief OF the medical staff at Blackwell's
Island He saws:
THE facts regarding the cholera epidemic
here have been SO misrepresented by the
-ess which is either subsidized or muzzled
he interests of the authorities and shop
pers whose rich harvests are now being
hered from returning continental trav-
rs, that after careful personal inspec-
/ and examination I deem it my duty to
ee the following truths before you, to be
d as your Judgment dictates: The
ditiOn Of Paris to-day is second
to that of Hamburg. 1t
I'D be equally bad were it
for its broad boulevards, its beautiful
ks and its perfect cleanliness. The
acy of terming the prevailing disease
olerine,' or merely a severe form of
rrhea, is most monstrous and criminal in
deception Of the public. 1t is the
luine cholera of Asia, the Tonquin
-iety, less contagious than the Ganges,
equally deadly. 1 have seen both types
China and in Calcutta, Benares and
ler cities of India, and speak knowingly.
Through the courtesy of an old profess
onal friend was to-day smuggled into the
ards and morgue of PHotel Dieu, the
lrgest hospital in Paris There were but
w cholera patients in the main building.
ut in the annex, the old building across
che Seine, there were % cases Eleven
deaths occurred here during the previous "a
lours.
No Possible Chance of Mistake
ST witnessed two autopsies. There was
no mistaking the character of the pathology
ical conditions A large proportion of
the deaths occur within six hours from the
onset of the disease. Those surviving "a
hours are comparatively safe. At the
Hospital st. Antoine the daily admissions
are from 30 to go. Nearly 30 per cent
die. In the bastion at No. Sc Porte
Ornans, the annex of the Hospital
Bichat, which I also personally
visited, there were II deaths Yesterday.
This institution is situated at the old forti-
fcations, and during the past three days 63
patients have been admitted, 40 of whom
are now dead. OF the 26 admitted yester-
DAY "A were dead before midnight The
disease prevails principally in the Tenth,
Eleventh and Nineteenth ACCOMPLISHMENTS,
and almost every hospital in the city, in
cluding the Ia Charlie, has its quota of pa
tients
''The ignorance of the danger that menaces
the public is sublime. There is no excite |
ment or alarm except among the authori |
ties. There is no discussion of the subject |
In the medical journals, and as it is the sea-
son Of vacations there are no meetings of
the medical societies. 1t is time, however,
that intending visitors should know the
truth, and 1 trust that THE DISPATCH will |
not hesitate to proclaim it,
Terrible Tidings From Poland.
At last there are tidings from Poland. |
The Great Death has been there, and the |
people fell down before him like the trees
Of forest before the breath of tornado |
The first chapter of the story is told in |
onC article in to-dsy's Tunes from the pen |
of Hall Caine, who describes the situation |
Of that desolate people when the shadow of
the new calamity first fell on them. give |
TWO pictures which he draws of scenes in
ne Of the larger Polish towns
81 visited one OF the prayer houses on
saturday morning. No Christian, and per-
laps no Hebrew who knows the Hebrew
Worship only by what may be seen at the
great synagogues of London and Berlin.
with their touching, beautiful and iuspir-
ing services, can have more than the remot-
est idea of the wild scene in one of these
Polish prayer houses when the Great Death
has terrified the worshipers The room was
Is feet square some so
men and boys were crowded into
It. In the middle there was
! deal table with the tora stretched over it.
Three or four men stood about the table and
ne Of them was reading aloud. The rest of
be worshipers were not listening, but each
as praying from his own prayer book, in
Srying tones. Most of them were stand
Pg, and many were twisting and bowing
I'D rising and STOPPING as they cried and
Ing or even shouted and shrieked. A few
Iere sitting and mumbling by the wall,
ith their books on their knees and their
eads on their bands.
Beating His Forehead With Bricks,
'One old man in the corner with his face
D the wall was beating his forehead with
ricks, clapping his hands, throwing out
is arms, turning up his face and casting it
own again. The babel was terrible. The
smosphere was sickening. To Western
yes there was no solemnity in this Worship.
ut much that was fanatical and almost