The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-02
IMMIGRATION TO BE STOPPED.
Federal Officers, on Presidents Ad-
vice, Order Special Quarantine.
steamers With steerage Passengers to
Be Detained Twenty Days or More
The Fruit Business Killed by the

island and the steamer Moravia. There
are no new cases and no fresh develop
mentS but one of the crew of the steam
boat Hazel Kirk was taken sick and,
either knowing or fearing he had cholera,
jumped overheard and drowned himself"
The arrival of steamers from Europe,
particularly those from infected ports that
are now at sea, is anxiousiy awaited by
the quarantine officials.
The cholera scare is rough on fruit
dealers in Washington market and else
where, for since eating unripe or ovcrripe
fruit has been tabooed by the board of
health peaches, pears and plums have
been at discount. and large dealers say
they are having hard work to find mar
ket for their goods at any price. Big train
loads of fruit are coming in from the
country every day. and the stock is sc-
cumulating with such rapidity that some
of the dealers can hardly find places to
store their crates, boxes and barrels.
Today policemen were stationed on the
wharves and along the shores of the island
from Stapleton to New creek, at South
Beach, distance of four miles. to prevent
any landing of small boats which might
have on board any one who came from any
vessel quarsntined. or any person from
foreign vessels. Strict watch is being
kept also to prevent immigrants from
Swinburne or Hoffman islands from land
ing at Fort Wadsworth. S. I.
The manner in which the circular of the
surgeon general is received in shipping
circles shows that the agents were ex-
pecting such an order and realized the
necessity for it. Tonight everything at
quarantine is quiet. The search for bac-
terra in foul linen on board the Moravia
which was worn by cholera victims has up
to the present been fruitless, but further
experiment will be carried on tomorrow.
Strict guard is being kept on board the
Moravia, and orders have been given to
her captain 10 fire at any one endeavoring
to go alongside the steamer unless health
representative. Although things have been
very quiet at the quarantine station to-
day, the health officer expects lively times
tomorrow and the following days, as sew
eral ships are expected in from infected
ports.
Captain Cross, of the Eldredge street
station, was informed by DIR. III. Beck, of
Irvington station, that he attended man
named Joseph Epwaing on the fourth floor
of No. 50 Orchard street, and found him
manifesting symptoms of cholera. The
man, he said, was Russian, and arrived
on Sunday on the steamer Russia. On in
vestigation il was found the disease was
not cholera.
The steamship Morayia, which arrived
from Hamburg on Tuesday, having had
twenty-five cholera deaths among her
passengers, was ordered to lower quaran-
tine, south of Swinburns Island, this
morning. There are no new cases on
board The two women still sick are on
the road to recovery. The passengers were
given baths this afternoon. The steamer
will remain at lower quarantine until all
traces of the disease have been removed.
The health officers profess not TO expect q
further outbreak on board, but from the
fact that expert nurses have been called
for TO serve for month it seems certain
that they are prepared for such a happen
ing. DIR. Jenkins said this morning he
was not prepared to say that the disease
on the Moravis was truly Asiatic cholera
until the examination of the infected
clothing had been completed. No one
could say positively what the disease was.
He admitted that there were symptoms
such as are not known 10 exist except in
the case of the Asiatic scourge. and few
doubt that it is that The sanitary de-
partment will ask that special harbor
police be appointed to patrol the bay, with
orders to shoot any one attempting to
board any quarantined vessel. 1t is be-
lieved that this is aimed at inquisitive re-
porters.
All the big transatlantic steamers
scheduled to arrive up to today have been
heard from. The health officers say all
are clean and the passengers healthy. The
captain of the Moravia went ashore on
Staten island last night. As soon as the
fact was discovered he was ordered back
| on his vessel. He has not been in contact
with the infected part of the ship. and it
| is not believed that any trouble
will result. There were rid
| ing at anchor in quarantine this
| morning the steamers Circassia, Veendarn.
Teutonic. Lain. Gallia. City of Washing
| ton and 0iinda. The last named comes
| from Oporio and other Mediterranean
| ports by way of Boston, where she was
| subjected to- quarantine. The City o.
| Washington comes from Havana. A san
| i.ary inspection Of the steamer Lain this
/ morning showed that all the passengers
were in exceptionally good health.
| The Lain has 25i saloon pas
sengers and 4s3 immigrants, mostly
| Germans, with some Russian Jews. Mos,
| OF the saloon passengers are tourists from
| Europe who have passed through places
| in Europe now infected with the disease
| The captain was instructed to fumigats
| the vessel thoroughly and 10 remain in
| quarantine until given permission 10 leave
| The immigrants on board will be trans
| ferred to Hoffman island for further in
| spection. The inspectors next went on
! beard the steamer Gailia. small Cunardel
! chiefly devoted to carrying immigrants
! which left Liverpool ON August %, pro
| TO the outbreak of cholera there
| The GaIiia carried DDS cabin passenger
| and $50 third-class. Among her third
class passengers were 275 Russian Jew
and 40 Poles. The health officers founC
| nine children suffering from measles anS
two with chicken-pox. The officers taei
went to the Circassia and Teutonic, and
finding that all precautions had beer
takea, he allowed them 30 proceed TO fhsi
| docks.
A report from quarantine station az
p. 10. states that the resnits OF the exam
ination OF the soiled linen OF the Moravia'
passengers failed to reveai the presence .
cholera bacteria. No more cholera ship
are expected till the arrival OF the Nor
mandie with 4u) immigrants from Ham