The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-22
PUNISHED HIS INsoLnN oE.
DR.. Hamilton Strikes an Oficer of the
Rugia.
From The Nel0 York Times.

DR.. Hamilton Strikes an Oficer of the
Rugia.
From the Nel0 York Times
CAMP Low. SANDY hook, Sept. 19.-This
camp now has l 100 persons In it. $50 hav-
ing arrived from Hoffman Island at 7:90 a.
m. Thirteen OF these were passengers by
| the Scandal who had been taken to Swim
burne Island and the rest were passengers
| by the Rugia. The sending of these Scandal
| passengers from the pest island was resented
| by DR.. Hamilton. 1t has been understood
| between DR.. Hamilton for the federal au-
thorities and DR.. Jenkins that no passengers
| who had been detained on Swinburne Island
a station for well people only aud to be used
as general clearing house for the infected
ships from European ports.
Instead of observing this understanding
official as IL was the sun had scarcely cast
its rays over Raritan bay this morning be-
fore the tug William Fletcher was throw
ing out her ropes at the Camp Low pier
with nearly 400 people aboard. A dirtier
lot Of mixed nstlonalities vas never landed
in America. Their tattered costumes showed
plainly that they were nearly destitute
lot. None OF them had had breakfast, and
all Of them were very hungry.
1t was 10 o'clock a. m. before their regis
bLANtOn Whd bcNun, duO LWO BhET6lS Oh OEbhQ,
barrel Of sliced roast beef, soup, and
water supplied all beautifully with food.
Fritz Portzeius, second officer OF the Rugla,
accompanied the ships passenge s. Instead
of advising his people TO remain quiet and
bide their time until breakfast could be
prepared, Portzelius walked up and down
the platform and in his varied dialect told
them that they were being maltreated by
the yankees, that there was plenty to eat in
the dining room, and that they should make
a rush for 1t and take it by force.
Several interpreters heard bis speech,
and DR.. Hamilton ordered Orderly Wilcox
TO arrest Portzelius, and a moment later he
was at DR.. Hamilton's door. In reply to
DIR. Hamilton's question as to what he meant
by his conduct, with the most brazen
etfronteTy he demanded that his people
should be fed and housed with the best IA
cilities in the camp, and jabberlngly told
the general that he represented Kaiser Will
helm Ill and his flag must be respected
DR.. Hamilton reached out aud planting
his open hand on Portzelius' jaw, said:
You upgrateful cur, shut up, or I'll put
you In irons at ouce.n
Portzelius, trembling like an aspen, en-
deavored to humble out something, but
DR.. Hamilton, with his fist under Portzelius'
nose, said:
"Shut up. and don't let me hear anything
from you during this quarantine"
That settled Port2ellus.
Charles LANCE, third officer Of the Nor
MAMMA, who accompanied her Storage pas
sengers, and Portzelius have been detained
with their ships at upper Quarantine, and
as a matter of course both men were sup
posed to be quarantined with their passsn-
gers during their detention here.
Both knew this perfectly well, but they
determined to violate all comfy, and this
afternoon the tug A. E. Stevens, hired by
the Hamburg Packet Company,
was sent down for LANCE and Portzelius,
and she snehked along the beach until near
the Camp Low pier. Portfolios and LANCE
were down near the point of the hook bath
ing as the tug came up. Dr. Hamilton was
on the pier as the Stevens was in the act of
throwing out her lines. and told the captain
that If he undertook TO land, not only he
and his crew would be placed under arrest
but his tug quarantined.
1--WE want Officers Lange and Portzelius,
and have q permit from Health Officer Jen-
kins to bring them to the city"
This is a federal camp" slowly replied
DR.. Hamilton. reddening with indignation,
land l don't care a d-n what orders you
have. Dom try to land"
And the tug put to sea.
About this time Lange and Portzelius,
bathing towels in hand. came up and in
sisted in boarding the tug. DR.. Hamilton
told them in a few words that il they at
tempted to do SO they would be put under
arrest, and that a further attempted in
fraction Of the quarantine rules would land
them in irons. The officers have been quies-
cent since.
DIR. Hamilton this afternoon had guard
house built and fitted up in a style that
would tickle the fancy of Supt Byrnes.
The stricEest order is to be preserved here
The strangers are delighted with their &C
commodations, which are better than many
of them ever had before,