The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-09-07
TEN NEW CASES
M AND ONE DEATH
Alarming Reports from the
Infected Fleet at
New York.
ACTION MUST BE TAKEN REGARDING
oUARANTlNED PILOTS.

! If Nnt, Local Commeroe win Soon be
| I;urred From Passing the Narrows-Dr.
Jenkins Acquiesenoo TO the Trea,ury
Circular Makes h Matter of Release
of the Detained ships More Uncertain
Than Ever-Resolutions of the State
Board of Health.
QUARANTINE, Sep. 7. 49, The situation,
while scarcely changed as to the battle
with the cholera, is materially altered in
that the sanitary conditions of the float
ing cities, as each of the ships may be
called, promises to be a problem far in
excess Of the actual pestilence itself.
The fact of the deaths and the new
cases from day to day is matter Of pro
portion to be expected as the disease
runs its course. The sanitary conditions
OF the detained ships for both cabin and
steerage passengers is one that calls for
the most careful thought ON the part of
Dir Jenkins and the city and State health
authorities, who are giving him tine most
complete support
The necessity for the detention OF so
lti et a NllbtI VI DthlAb Wlblllu blltl
circumscribed limits for the period indi-
Gated in his reply expressing intention to
comply with the full terms of the Treas
ury circular, drawn at the suggestion OF
! the Presdenti is praisewOrthy in its recOg
milton of the supreme interest and watch
care of the National Executive, but it's
results to the souls thus detained cannot
| be over estimated
inf Of xyiat
danger threatens, the pilots bringing the
detained vessels being as securely quar-
antined as the voyagers themselves 1t
is scarcely to be doubted that as soon as
the health officer finds that the New York
| Pilot Commissioners have their available
! men locked up in the detained ships, he
will see to it that the Treasury Depart
ment makes a special rule eXempting
from quarantine regulations the pilots or
there will be none of them off shore to
bring in the incoming ships with knowl-
edge of his wishes and the crowded road
stead at the boarding stations.
Ii this action is not taken it is easy to
be seen that the Narrows will soon be
cboked, and local commerce as well as
tlat from across the water, be barred
from passage.
The following new cases and deaths are
reported;
! Normannia-New cases, Heinrich Frei-
teg, aged 20.
Franz Bdumbach, aged 2j
Rudolf Enls, aged 2l.
Christian Peterson, aged 81.
Ru Sia-Jacob Grawer aged 81.
Johannes Jabllouiker, aged 26.
Kuethe Seiirort, aged 29.
Hoffman Island Gertrude Scharm,
aged 3; dead.
Ernest Ihiel, aged 34.
No new developments on Moravia.
Swinburne Island - Nurse Adelaide
Merres, very sick.
DR.. Jenkins position until yesterday
was that as Health Officer he was subject
to no dictation, but possibly willing to
receive suggestions. He alone was re-
sponsible, but now it would appear that
he is willing to share his cares with the
Federal Government.
DR.. Jenkins has not explained the
causes which led to his decision and it is
improbable that he will do so, but that
Secretary Foster had something to do
with it there seems to be no doubt
1t had originally been Dr. Jenkins in
tention, should no cases of sickness de-
velop, to release La Bourgogne to-mor-
row night, but he has not yet determined,
in view of his official acquiesence with the
Treasury circular whether he will detain
the French liner beyond his original inten-
tion or not.
In view Of his concerted action with the
President, it is probable that all ships
having emigrants from infected ports.
which TO an extent may be said to include
the British Isles, will be detained for the
full 20 days unless given earlier relief on
| special investigation by representatives of
! the Treasury Department
Regarding the fright which has been
caused by statements regarding the
steamship Elro of the Wilson line from
| Hull to New York via. Boston, and
which tied up to Brooklyn wharf yester-
day, William Seguine said to-day: 81
myself boarded the ElrO on Dr. Jenkins
orders, and gave her permission to go up
the bay, after thoroughly satisfying my
self that she was fit to do so, and had
passed the Boston Quarantine. There is
no danger from the Elro. l have now
been in the Quarantine Department. for
seventeen years, and it is not likely that
l would allow a suspect to go to her
wharf with rags and everything else, and
we certainly are not making mistakes at
critical period like this
There was an attempt mt merrymaking
aboard the Normannia and La Bourgogne
last night. On board the latter there
was concert, in which the theatrical
people figured, and until late hour the
music could be heard by those on shore.
"Ill be sorry for any one who is caught
by the police down the bay" said a
deputy this morning, "for there will he
trouble. The Doctor is feeling pretty
hot under the collar, aud the police are as
mad as hatters"
The Hamburg American Company is
apparently nervous over the excitement
its vessels have succeeded in stirring up.
and is now disposed to concede pretty
nearly everything. Its representatives
assured Dr. Jenkins that they would
attempt to charter the Sound steamboat
that he had asked for, and, failing in this,
would try to get another and equally good
one. On this would be transferred the
cabin passengers of the Normannia, who