New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-08
AMONG THE SHIPS AT QUARANTINE.
SOME OF THEM ALLOWED TO COME UP; soMF
STILL DETAINED.

SOME OF THEM ALLOWED TO COME UP; SOME
STILL DETAINED.
Upper Quarantine held fairly large feet last night
but il looked clear and empty In comparison with
is appearance of the preceding night when seventeen
hg steamships lay there. Early N the morning.
however il looked bad At the Narrows for there was
feet there still larger than the night before BESIDES
Il number Of schooners and barks there were twenty
one steamships, and traffic by water was seriously
impeded. The big ships were in one another's way,
and the swift tide made 1t dangerous thing for
them 70 move when they weighed anchor to leave
Quarantine The steamships which lay at Upper
Quarantine yesterday were In the order named
La Bourgogne, stubbenhak, Persian Monarch, Darn
stadt Elbc Brilliant. Cackemc, Elysian, Venezuela
Iiamant Lsboneusc, Massachusetts. wyoming, Corean
March, Johannes Brun, Sana, Adirondack Mark Lane
WaeSland Oevenum, Port Jackson and Hosten.
At about 10 O'Clock In the morning the big interna-
tiona navigation vessel City Of New York steamed up
and cast anchor of Rosebank north Of Quarantine.
La Bourgognc will be allowed to so up today The
Elysia was allowed pass 10 her pier ycster y. The
Dsrmstadt allowed to so to her pier. III, Iol-
stein followed, and then the disabled March vert up
under tow. The Wyoming with 27s passengers was
held The Persian Monarch and the Brilliant ent
up cnrly in the morning The big Spree. which came
In late in the afternoon, was held. and Will be de-
tained. But her mails TO be disiniectcd and
sent 10 the city late last night. The steamer Hazel
kirk of the passengers OF the steamship Corean
and brought them to this city. The steamship
Wyoming was carefully inspected by DIR. Tamadge.
She had 275 cabin passengers and 1863 Storage.
Among the lattcr fifty Russian Jews. The
steamship Wacsand, from Antwerp, arrived at Up
per Quarantine with 100 cabin and AS steerase
passengers. She will be detained for some day.
although DO disease was reported on board
DR.. Jenkins statement that sandy Hook might b.
utilized as II quarantine station for the cabin passen-
gers OF the detained ships, has called attention to
this comparatively unknown Government rcservhuo..
The passengers Of the Persian Monarch which mr.
rived at Quarantine early on Tuesday morning. knew
nothing OF the cholera being In the harbor of New
York and. in fact not seriously alarmed over
the cholera In England. The Persian Monarch sailed
from London day before the cholera broke out
there. She had more passengers than usual because
the Hamburg American line steamships we're over
crowded. There nfty-slx cabin and twenty three
stcerage passengers The pilot boarded the ship about
800 miles out, and he knew nothing about cholera In
the harbor either. lie brought papers from London
which had been road there by the passengers before
they left England. having been brought TO America 0l
"A fast ship II Was not, therefore. tin sandy Hook
passed that the passengers had any suspicion that
there was something wrong Then the three plague
ships and the hospital bulk In the Lower Bay, and
the yellow Gag flying the hospital Islands told he'I
tale 20 Captain Bristow. But he RETAINED from tell
ing his passengers what he suspected TIL the sight Of
the huge In the Narrows aroused their curiosity
There was disInay aboard which changed TO Iubila
ton when II learned that they would not b. held
long and that the cholera had not yet appeared In
the city.
There has been some talk about the detention OF
pilots quarantined vessels. The fear
pressed that 1t would make the pilot boats short.
handed II many vessels Held In quarantine.
An effort will probably be made TO get DIR. jenkins
to make arrangement by which pilots may
escape quarantine. Their assertion Is that they
on the bridge while they board OF the
sci. That. therefore, the danger OF their getting the
infection IS exceedingly slight The plots who arc
now aboard the plague Ships Frank Nelson Of
New-Jersey. who boarded the Normannla from pilot
boat No. 4, OF NewJersey, and Daniel INarsons OF
New-York. who boarded the Rugia from the New
York pilot boat No. 4.
The police regulations at the Lower Bay have been
well enforced far small craft, such tugs. row
boats and sailing vessels concerned. But 1t is
strange fact that the Monmouth and sandy Hook are
allowed TO pass close that they are not 800 feet
away from the Normannia. on the way down.
A big black steam yacht, with yellow funnel,
OF the mysterious ones she came suddenly from
nowhere In particular, ran around aimlessly In the
Lower Bay, came up, cruised In and ont among the
steamships, steamed up 10 the head Of the fleet, the
CITY OF NewYoris. turned and came back slowly, and
then stopped altogether and lay In the channel I'LL
darkness hid her from view.
The mate OF the Richard Courtney unwittingly com
United infraction OF the Quarantine laws by rowing
ashore after his vessel was anchored I'm Quarantine
Before she had been boarded by the Health officer.
But when he explained that the captain deadly
sick and that he wanted help, he was excused. The
Richard Courtney came from Vera Cruz, aud was
twenty five days out. She had clean bill OF health
from tho Consul mt Vera Cruz. The captain was
found TO be suffering from diarrhoea disease
DR.. Hamilton, eX-surgeOn General, took another
trip down the bay on the tug Manhattan. lie has
been spending much time among the quarantlned
plague-shlps and the hospital Islands during the
last three days.
The laying Of the telegraph wire to Hoffman and
Swlnburne Islands has not yet been finished. It's
completion Is awaited with much anxiety for at
present news from Lower Quarantine reaches the
Upper Fay except by boat.
itchard Croker visited Quarantine again YESTERDAY
For him. though his occupation Ii nOmnally only thai
of a private American citizen without any Ohc, or
special preroeatve, there apparently such things
AZ quarantine laws. The steam yacht goes amnnv
the quarantined shipping, she goes down the Lower
Bay, she up al the Quarantine pier which tx
crime for any other vessel to do and the men on carI
how 0bscquiously and clear away the rope for ms
one OF them said last night Look at the fone large
Juicy pull the man has"
The arrival OF the big steamship City of New