Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-09

while the agents, whose place 1t 10 to see
the passengers cared f or, say nothing
Hopes for Relief Disappointed.
DR.. Jenkins has made strenuous exertions
to obtain place to put the we'll passengers,
but up to the present he has been un-
successful. To-day he thought that he had
everything arranged. On his return from
the Lower Bay, where he had been with ex.
Surgeon General Hamilton to visit the site OF
the proposed encampment, DR.. Jenkins an
nounced to the reporters that all arrange
ments had been made. Everything appeared
to be plain sailing, but q gentleman whose
friends were on the steamer had shown the
correspondent of the Associated Press a
telegram to Austin Corbin from Secre-
tsry Tracy, of the Navy, stating that the
use of Sandy Hook had been refused.
On seeing DR.. jenkins shortly after he
had gone to his Office and had opened his
correspondence, he asked him if 1t was true,
and after slight hesitation, DR.. jenkins
handed him the following telegram, dated
New York:
DR.. Jenkins-I am exceedingly sorry to get
q dispatch from the War Department. saying
Treasury the use OF sandy Hook for the
cabin passengers, or course. this Dioons s
saz :'spPs Rsrs on our had part the
would have peen at Sandy Hook
this evening. large force Is easapgeG, IN
and it Is quite too bad that we cannot bring
relief in the form proposed. l am sure.
however, that the energy and gooo Juag-
until now, win relieve the very uncomforta-
BILE, II not perilous condition OF the gooo
people. AUSTIN CoRBIN.
He Would Annex Fire Island.
Jenkins said he had asked Governor
Flower to annex Fire island, which was
private property, and let him put the cabin
passengers ashore at once; and he thought
1t might be possible to do 80 and hate an
appraisement of its value made later. He
had received reply from Governor Flower
with reference to his telegram asking for
vessel to put the cabin passengers in. Tho
Governor had replied that he was to rent, If
possible, and to purchase, if necessary, and
he thought that things would be straight
ened out
1t was reported at the Maritime Exchange
that cholera had appeared In Mexico. A
csblegram from Vera Cruz was received
the British steamship May were at that port
sick aboard the vessel The steamer had
put into Vera Cruz in distress,
Captain Smith, her commander, being seri-
ously handicapped in his work BY the ILL
ness of his officers The last previous re-
port the Maritime Exchange had Of the
May was that she sailed from Mobile early
last month from a Mexican port. The May
is tramp steamer, and is owned in London.
r. C. Kerins the Missouri member of
the National Republican Committee, who
was said by some reports to have gone on
board the Normannia to see his wife, re-
ported to be on board, and permitted
to leave the vessel again, to-day
denied the truth of the report He
said: "I don't know where this report
originated, but L hope to be able to run
Down the originator. The fact is, have
not been within ], 200 miles of New York
narbor, until I started to come here to ar
range last night, for three or four weeks
My wife has never been on board the Nor
MAMMA, nor have any of my relatives been
N Europe this year"