Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-09-08
CHOLERA SPREADING
TWELVE NEW CASES AND A DEATH
IN NEW YORK HARBOR.

But the Quarantine Restrictions Are So
RigidIy Enforced That tho Health Au-
thorities Say the Plague Cannot Get in
the Country Through That Ocean Gate.
New YoBK, Sept From seven to four
teen miles of salt water still separate the
borders of New York city from the dread
Oriental plague which has stretched its arm
of death across 5000 miles of ocean. There
has been no outbreak of Asiatic cholera in
the city ITSELF according to the bulletins
which are now issued twice daily by the
board of health. And these bulletins are
most wholesome check upon panic, discour-
aging and discountenancing sensational and
unscientific diagnoses of intestinal disorders
in the thickly settled tenement house dis
tricts.
But in the harbor deaths pirate, cholora,
still threatens with breeding swarms of
bacilli the waters of both the upper and
lower bays and continues to add to the
number of his victims. Yesterday there
was another death-this one from the Rugia
added to the grim catalogue of victims on
sea and in harbor.
There were twelve new cases reported
three steerage of the Rugia and eight of the
crew of the Normannia, as we'll as one of
the Normannia's passengers on Hoffman
island. And also there arrived the steam
ship Elbe, with 460 steerage and 302 first
and second class passengers. from Bremen,
port now infected, but not 80 when the
Elbe cleared; the Corean from Glasgow,
clean port, with 23O passengers; the Persian
Monarch, from London, with So cabin pas
sengers; the Elysia, from Gibraltar (whence
came our last visitation of cholera) with
23O passengers, and the Cachimere, from
the dangerous port of Marseilles, with 45S
passengers.
All Guaranteed.
There had been only one death upon all
these vessels during passage, and that was
upon the Elbe from heart disease. But,
though all these ships had a clean record,
the quarantined population of the harbor
keeps growing.
The special police patrol continues to guard
the quarantined vessels from contact with
willfully inquisitive visitors. A further pre-
caution against bringing the germs on shore
is the order forbidding bathing on the
shores Of Staten Island near the Narrows
Today there is due the steamship City of
New York. Among her passengers are the
wife and daughter of Secretary of the Treas
ury Foster, who will receive, the secretary
has himself announced, exactly the same
treatment as all other passengers.
Upon the cabin list of the City Of New
York is also booked the name of Chauncey
M. Depew. An excursion down the bay to
meet him, arranged by G. G. Clark, H. Wal
ter Webb, j. M. Toucey, j. B. butcher and
w. j. Van Arsdale, has of course been
abandoned.
Will Keep the Plague Out.
Health Officer Jenkins has written to the
secretary of the treasury that he will carry
out the presidents order that all immi-
grant ships sailing after Sept. be detained
twenty days in quarantine.
Ex-Surgeon General Hamilton, after his
visit to quarantine, said he was confident
cholera would not enter this city.
The commandant of the Brooklyn navy
yard has placed tug and two steam
launches at the disposal of DIR. jenkins to
prevent unauthorized communication with
the steamers at quarantine.