Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-17
THE FAIR TO GO ON.
Unless Cholera Sweeps the Country
the Worlds Columbian Expo
WILL BE HELD JUST AS INTENDED.
The Grand Army Encampment Will Also
Not Pe Postponed.
WASHINGTON FILLING UP RAPIDLY
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsrATcH.t

| W 'HohANHiO-Np Ocpts A-4esAH6SA'
of the Worlds Fair will not listen to the
proposition to postpone the National Expo
sitfon because of threatened cholera plague
Director General Davis is here to consult
the Secretary of the Treasury on the sub
Ject of taking proper precautions to pre-.
vent the introduction of cholera into the
United States by way of exhibits to the
great exposition. Secretary Foster, Assis'
tant Secretary Nettleton and General Davis
went over the subject together, and they
are confident that measures may be taken to
keep out the disease without interfering
with the fair
Fairwere willing to accept such restrictions
as the customs officers think best to impose,
and they will cheerfully cooperate with
the Treasury officials in seeing that the reg
ulations are carried out. Secretary Foster
said he thought there would be no need of
trouble about the proper fumigatlon and
disinfection of those exhibits coming from
infected or suspected districts, and the Gus
tom House officers will be duly notified on
the subject.
Big Reduction in Customs Receipts.
| At the Treasury Department the financial
\ returns from customs for the 10 days of the
present month show a falling off in the
custom receipts of something over S., ,000, 900
for a similar period last month. The
Treasury officials do not attribute the de-
crease to the cholera, although they con-
cede that the importations may have been
in q measure reduced by the epidemic in
! Europe. 1t was expected there would be a
| marked decrease in the receipts for the
| prasnn- month hecausp the revenues for
last month were unusually large.
Secretary Foster, of the Treasury Depart
| ment, says there is no longer any occasion
for an executive proclamation prohibiting
immigration. He is convinced that the
steamship companies will carry out their
promises to take no more immigrants or
| second-class passengers until further notice.
They have made formal declaration in
writing to that effect and they will carry it
out in good faith. Under the circumstances
there is no further necessity for amending
or enlarging the recent executive circulars
establishing the 20-day quarantine.
Present Regulations Considered Good.
The reports from New York to-day were
such as to inspire the Secretary with the
idea that the worst is about over in New
York, and he believes the present regula.
tions are sufficient to hold the disease in
received information this morning that the
Jersey Railroad had refused to carry sup
plies to Ft. Low at Sandy Hook. He i'm
mediately authorized the Government
authorities to make arrangements to send
the necessary supplies to the camp by
boat.
An attempt was made here to-day to
start sensation by circulating report that
two cases of cholera had been discovered in
this city. An investigation was promptly
made by Surgeon Wyman, of the Marine
Hospital Service, and Health Officer Ham
NETT, and they quickly pronounced the re-
port groundless
No thought is longer given to the scheme
of postponing the Grand Army Encamp-
ment, and even the announced purpose of
quarantining against persons from New
York City or any who pass through that
city has also been abandoned. The visitors
are pouring into the city. 1t is already ap-
parent that the Grand Army will be but
small part of the army that will invade the
capital before the day of the opening of the
encampment, and that the capacity for en-
tertainment will be taxed to the utmost
Camping Out May Be Necessary.
The low fares are bringing not only the
men folk but the women and children as
we'll, and already cry goes up on account
OF the difficulty of securing place to
sleep. Those for whom bed and board have
been secured are lucky, as without such
forethought they would possibly be forced
to camp out as a number of veterans did
last night.
One grizzled old fellow, who was all
through the war, and who has attended
every annual encampment of the Grand
Army, called at headquarters last evening,
weary with long trip and asked to be as
signed to a bunk in a tent or in the bar
racks. He was told that as he had not
applied for lodging before the free list was
exhausted he would have to shift for him.
self
"All right" said he, cheerfully. GIVE
done that before, and so here goes" In
the elegant rooms of the headquarters he |
opened his ancient gripsack, took out an
army blanket that looked as though it had |
seen service during and ever since the war, |
wrapped it about him, lay down on the |
floor, and was soon snoring. He was al |
lowed to sleep there till this morning.
Bound to See the Old Capital.
Any number of old boys have already |
been taken care OF at the police stations, as
they have neither money nor place where
to lay their heads. They are bound to see
the old town through which they marched
in grand review in '65, if they could rake to-
getner money enough TO pay tnelr fare one
way, trusting to the god of wars for couch +
and rations and to get them back home.
Most of the early arrivals, however, are of
the very comfortable class, and the thous-
ands OF impecunious who are always present
at these encampments are yet to come
So far the cholera scare does not seem to
have reached the visitors. They are too
busy sightseeing and tramping about the
great stretches of barracks and tents in the
parks to think of the possibility of in
fection. The thousands of tents in the
several parks make a wonderfully pictur
esque spectacle, and suggest to most of the
visitors more of the actuality of war than
they have ever seen. This evening
and tomorrow the last touches will be nut
on the decorations the unusually tasteful
stands and pavilions will be finished, and
all be complete for the final influx of
visitors on Sunday and Monday, with
nothing to mar the perfection of the ar
except the distressing illness of
Mrs. Harrison, which is now certain to
detain the President at Loon Lake, thus
disappointing tens of thousands, not the
least of whose anticipation in connection
with the encampment was that of shaking
hands with a real live President of the
United Stats.
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