Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-15
CAMP ON SANDY HOOK.
Cabin Passengers of tho Normannia Go
Live in Tents.

Cabin Passengers of tho Norhhah" ~
Live in Tents.
New YORK, Sept. SANDY Hook
Point will look like great military en-
campment tonight, if the lnformaLlon
Given by Secretary of the Treasury Fos-
ter is correct. Mr.. Foster is enthuslas-
tic about the matter, ana ms
enthusiasm is shared IN
degree by Dr. Hamilton and Secretary
of the Navy Tracy, with whom MI.
Foster last evening had conference;
"Dr. Hamilton and DR.. jenkins, SAID
Mr.. Foster, twill 60 to Sandy HOOK TO-
day to inspect the ground. Ii they
find the place in good sanitary cohol-
ton, and ii other conditions are favor
able and | have no doubt everything
Will be found satisfactory, they
will decide to make tie Hook the
site of the camp Of refuge tor
the cooped-up cabin passengers OF the
steamships now detained and OF those
that are still to come from Injected
ports. have sent numerous dispatches
to the War Department asking them 70
have things in readiness, and by night
fall We will have 500 tents on the
ground. By Friday night the erection
of barracks will be SO well under way
that all the passenger now de-
tanned on the infected ships
may be landed at once and
find shelter in them. You see, we are
rushing things. 1t would be inhuman
not to make all possible haste for the re-
lief of the sufferers. In all likelihood
the Reading Railroad will begin
it's work of relaying its track
on the point at the same time.
This track, when finished. will be
course greatly facilitate the transporter
ton OF supplies. If the plague con-
tinues for any length OF time the rail-
road will, of course, be used by retu-
gees, as soon as they are discharged. l
don't know who will pay for the erec-
ton of tents, barracks, etc., whether it
will be the state or federal government
or the steamship companies. However,
there need be no present trouble on
that score. A wealthy gentleman called
on me and offered to undertake all con-
struction and stand all the expense,
and take his chances of getting his
money back from the party liable there
for. [ am not at liberty to give you the
gentleman's name. He is nOta contract
or. AS [ understand the matter only
cabin passengers are to be put ashore on
the Hook. Whether there will be any
difference made between first and sec
ond cabin l don't know. There has
been some talk of the danger of infec-
tons being increased by the presence
of these passengers on land. So far as
that matter is concerned, [ will say
the discretion Of DR.. Hamilton and DR..
Jenkins. They will consider that point
thoroughly"
A dispatch received here yesterday
from Dr. seibert, the well-known Ger
man physician Of this city, who went to
Europe recently on behalf Of the Board
of Health of New Y ork, would seem to
indicate that the situation there is
much worse than related. The dis
patch referred to is addressed to DR..
Cyrus Edison, the sanitary superin-
tendenJ, and says:
BERLIN, Sept. 6.-EGsO11, NclD York;
The private work for the week is done.
Berlin steams all articles from Hamburg
for one hour. The highest opinion is that
all the rivers in Northern Europe are in
fected, and new outbreaks are expected.
The new law will stop all Russian immi-
grafton PASSING the quarantine. Months
will be insufficient to stamp the disease out.
The only efficient method for you in Amer
lea is to steam all immigrant baggage or
other articles for at least an hour. They
must be steamed singly or else immigra-
ton must be stopped. The germs are
everywhere. No port is safe.
SEIBERT.
A copy of the cablegram was sent at
once to DR.. Jenkins at quarantine.
The record for yesterday was eight
fresh cases among the crew of the Nor
MAMMA and two more cases among the
steerage passengers of the same
ship. Consequently since the chol-
era arrived here there have
been thirty-one cases of sickness
from that disease and eight deaths from
the same cause at this port. 1t will
be noticed, however, that this is
not an alarming state of affairs
considering that there are about
twenty steamships detained either at
the upper quarantine or anchored in the
lower bay at the cholera anchorage. 1t
will also be seen that the
fined to the crew of the Normannia,
and that the stokers of the vessel
seem to be the greatest sufferers. Eight
of the steamers crew, all strong, hardy
men, were removed from the vessel
yesterday afternoon and transferred to
Swinburne Island. The doctor would not
say that these men were suffering from
cholera, but admitted that they had
diarrhna and other symptoms that
were very suspicious. It is safe to as
sumo that the transfer of these men
to the pest island would not have been
made had not the health officers been
morally certain that the disease was
cholera.
DR.. Jenkins says that these doubt
ful'' cases, even though they are sent to
Swinburne Island, will be carefully iso-
lated from the other cholera cases there,
but anyone who knows how small the
island is will be scarcely treasured by
that statement. Suppose these eight
men are quite we'll in the morning and