St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-11

prepared for them. He seem g 10 have
thought that he could deal with them
Oh the Old plan, so long used with
the poor emigrants. of letting them
stew in their own grease on
shipboard until it suited his convenience
to dump them OH Hoffman's island, and
that. if he let them stay on slilpboard
under any conditions without dragging
them to the island to herd with the
scum of the European labor markets,
they would have
Nothing to Complain OF.
Accordingly, although he was made
aware soon after sunrise Saturday
morning that there was cholera among
the 500 steerage passengers of the Nor
MAMMA, that the cabin passengers had
been up to That point proyidentially
exempt, he made not the slight
est attempt to separate the
plainly infected from the prob
ably uninfected and give the latter at
least fighting chance for their lives.
although this was duty he owed to the
community at large DO less than to
them, for the prompt separation of the
sick from the well is the first rule of
sanitary science
''Far from this, he anchored the YES
sci in the lower bay without any inspec-
ton of her either by himself or any of
his assistants, and it was not until Sun-
day afternoon. thirty-siX hours later,
that, under the urgent and finally angry
pressure Of the passengers, he brought
Il boat and removed the infected Occu-
pants OF the Steerage, l cannot give
you an adequate idea of what those
thirty-siX hours of suspense were to the
500 cabin passengers, who only became
fully aware OF the gravity of the situa-
ton after arriving in port. If we might
Judge from the Illustrated newspapers
you must have been
Avfully Frightened
in New York, although you maintained
that the city was unusually healthy.
and that there was not one case of
cholera among you. SO you may imagine
what 1t was to be separated by only a
plank from a seething mass of dirty,
I diseased, ill-fed, degraded human
lty. among whom the cholera
was already raging, and among
whom the dead were actually
lying unburied, and to find ones self in
crowd OF delicate women and children,
fatisued by the voyage and depressed to
the last degree by being suddenly ar
! rested under such awful circumstances
on the very threshold of their homes.
The cabin passengers of both sexes
have, however, | am bound to
remained perfectly cheerful and cour-
ageous. presenting curious contrast to
the panic which, according to the news
papers, prevailed in the city.
DIR. Jenkins attitude at this crisis
was very interesting. He paid us a
daily visit of few minutes for a chat
with the captain, and waived his adieus
to us as gaily as if he thought us
A Lot Of Lucky Dogs
for not being punished more severely.
What seems most to preoccupy him
was the intrusion of the World ON what
he thought 10 be the privacy of we'll
conducted quarantine. That paper
sent down tug on Saturday and Sun
day and Monday and bombarded us
With hideOus illustrations of our cOndi-
ton and offered to carry off letters or
kilograms.
''These visits were in many ways a
nuisance, and DR.. Jenkins objection to
them thought very reasonable. though
IL III became me to speak diSreSpect-
fully of them, Tor l was indebted to the
tug for conveying to my friends in New
York the first communication they
had from ME, in the shape
OF telegram dropped overheard
and picked out of the water by them.
wrote three letters, and sent three tel
egrams Saturday amt Sunday. but DR..
Jenkins postal arrangements were such
that, although he must have imagined
at least the deadly anxiety which pre-
vailed among our relatives OH shore on
receiving the news of our condition.,
none OF them were delivered before
Tuesday or Wednesday.
1.-The World printed good many of
the letters and telegrams committed to
1t Tor deliverance. The person who
Complained Most Bitterly
of this was DR.. jenkins. apparently on
the assumption that one of the rights
forfeited 10y citizen when placed in
quarantine was the right of public dis