Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04
Hamburg the Only German
City Which Is Afflicted
With Cholera in the
SHAPE OF AN EPIDEMIC.
True Cases All Traced to That CITY
Which Exist in the Capital.
THE DOCTORS FAVOR CREMATION
AS the Only safeguard Against the Plague
During Next Season.
AN AMERICAN CHALLENGES WILHELM

COPYRIGHT, 1892, BIZ n. Z. ASSOCIATED PRESS.
BERLIN, Sept 3-The public alarm oc
casioned by the cholera is fast dying out
owing to the limitation of the disease in an
epidemic form to the Hamburg district, an6
the confidence that is felt in the vigilance
OF the authorities. Cool weather anG
abundant rain storms are keeping down
diseases Stimulating cholera, and all inlu-
ences are restoring general sense of secur-
itY.
Cases resembling cholera are rife enough,
especially in Charlottenburg. The water
works in this suburb of Berlin provide only
scanty supply of muddy water. The sanl-
tary conditions of the place are otherwise
bad, and it is natural, therefore, to find its
residents figuring largely in the hospital
returns of intestinal disorders
The undoubted cases of Asiatic cholera
that have neen taken to the Moabit Hos
pital are all traceable to Hamburg. Two
fresh cases that were taken there to-day are
illustrations of all the others. One of to-
days cases was an engine driver on the
night express train from Hamburg, while
the other was young porter who carried
linen for a person who had Just arrived
from Hamburg to the disinfecting chambers.
The Coutagion Is Quickly Caught
The marvellous rapidity with which the
Hamburg infection operates, was shown in
this case. Not half an hour elapsed be-
tween the time the victim went near the in
fected linen and the time he was stricken
down. The narrow Steinstrasse, through
which he passed, has been thoroughly dis
infected, as has also been the Sophien Real
Gymnasium, which is situated on that
street
Although there is no sign of the disease
spreading here, the authorities have not re-
laxed their precautions. The great horse
market which was fixed to open Tuesday,
has been indefinitely postponed. This fair
would have been the likeliest center for the
propagation of the epidemic, as it brings to
Berlin dealers from every quarter of Ger
many near the Baltic Sea.
President Harrison's circular is mainly
regarded here as justifying more rigorous
measures to stop Russian or other emigrants
from entering Germany. The Austrian
provinces of Galicia and Bohemia, Hungary
and even Italy send streams of immigration
through Germany, and these are likely to
be thrown upon our hands. Under Presi-
dent Harrison's edict the decision of the
steamship companies not to take steerage
passengers on the vessels, keep a number of
Russian refugees here; but no more will be
allowed to cross the frontier.
The German Frontiers TO be Guarded.
Henceforth the frontiers will be closed
absolutely against Russian immigrants, and
in the case of those from other countries,
none will be permitted to enter Germany
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their final destination guarantee fulfill
ment of their contract. Immigrants from
anywhere will be disinfected and their lug
gage fumigated.
The medical papers support the agitation
of the compulsory cremation of cholera
victims The De1rsche Medisindl maintains
that there NAV be a recurrence of the epi-
demic year after it has seemingly died
out, due to the baciIli surviving in the
buried corpses. The Cremation Congress,
which opens at Baden Wednesday, at which
delegates from Berlin, Frankfort, Munich,
Dresden and other centers will be present,
will probably decide to raise funds to
cheaper cremation. The Hamburg Crema-
tory has been extensively used since the
outbreak of cholera. The others existing in
Germany, at Gotha, Heidelberg and Offen-
bach, are rarely resorted to.
Better news comes from Hamburg, though
the city is still one immense hospital A
high German official who mas just returned
from Hamburg told the representative of
the Associated Press here to-day that the
sanitary condition of the city is still fright
tul, though the enforcement of active
remedial measures is proceeded.
Hamburg Must BE Part v Rebuilt.
A radical overhaulingis is necessary. New
water works are necessary to replace the
eElsung 4O-year-old system The present
water supply is defiled with sewage.
Houses for blocks must be rebuilt, streets
widened and the drainage improved. A
large number of tenement houses in the
city are said to be worse than ever they
were in the New York Five Points" dis
trict. The staircases in some of these
buildings are so narrow and crooked that it
requires dexterous handling to carry the
cOrpsts down.
great Catholic congress has been held
at the Mainz at which the leaders of the |
Center party, Herren, Bellestrem, Boil |
niger, Kitteler and ReIchsenspeiger, spoke. |
At its final sitting the congress approved |
a resolution, affirming that the restoration |
OF the Pope to temporal power is an essen |
tial condition to the independence of the |
holy See. Herr Bellestrem, in his clos ing |
Grafton, declared that the Catholics in Ger |
many will never consent that the Pope be
subject to any power The law of guaran-
tee could not suffice to protect the Papacy.
Nevertheless, the Center party, he said,
cannot recognize any enmity between the
members of the Triple Alliance and the
Papacy. The Pope is not, as some Catho-
lies pretend, hostile to the Triple Alliance,
nor is the Center party embarrassed by the
policy OF the Vatican.
Tho Sensation Caused by tn. Speech.
The congress sat for five days Herr
Pellestrem's discourse was meant as . re-
Ply to tie attacks on the Center party as
being assoc ated with the PapaI policy in
favor OF France. His speech has created a
sensation.
The cholera scare has thinned the Ameri- |
can colony here nerceptibly. Hundreds of |
Americans have left for the mountains, |
while many others have gone to England.
The representative of the Associated |
Press has inquired into the case of Mrs |
Goerdeler, whose husband challenged the |
Emperor TO fight duel, and who was SUBJ |
tequently sent to lunatc ASYLUM. Mrs |
Gaerdeler has written TO the Emperor |
Chancellor Won Caprivi, Prince Henry of |
Prussia and other high personages, asking |
Tor his release from prison. The G rman
authorities say that if the United :,,ates
want Goerdeler they will be glad 10 turn
him over, provided they are allowed to see
HIM safely aboard a steamer bound for
America.
Mrs. Goerdeler maintains that the au-
tholtIes are conspiring to keep him out of
q large inheritance. The American lega-
tIon Is preparing a report to the State De-
partment at Washington on the subject.
Emperor William in Mimic War