The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-01

bounding at me. It is not necessary
to dwell upon the attacks made upon
me by the press. / have been called
everything, and accused of almost
everything, but 1 can point to the great
city of New York, and say there is no
cholera, and what's more, don't think
there will be.
ITO return to the first question. The
state legislature appropriated 100000,
sum it deemed necessary to put lioff-
man and Swinburnc islands in excellent
condition. The crematory for the dead,
the apparatus for disinfccting by steam
and other things on the islands, the re-
firing health officer declared to be in
fairly good condition. A small tug that
carried only sixty pounds of steam I'M
der the heaviest pressure was all | had
TO board ships. BY the bye, l should
say, there was sufficient space on Hoff-
man island to accommodate 500 steer
age passengers. The Immigration Com
missioners took charge of minor dis
eases, and the patients were sent 20
North Brother island. Smallpox pa
tients are taken off at Quarantine and
removed by boat. But there was no
boat for this purpose, and | went to tho
legislature and secured an appropria-
ton to build Il boat, because the small
tug had needed repairing. When the
cholora came to this port last fall 1 had
no boat except the chartered one. had
been in Office only five days when in
formation reached me that typhus fever
had developed in New York. The ship
or ships came in under my precedcssor.
Immediately ordered that all Rus
sian and continental baggage com
ing into this port should be
disinfected. The Baron Hirsch fund had
caused hegra from Russia to this
country. and the danger of disease COM
ing was greatly increased. In 1.-THE
meantime sent "a man to Europe to
notify the medical examiners of the
various ports and to report to me.
began TO make photographic map
from his reports and the reports l read
in the papers, and l soon became sus-
picious that cholera existed in Ham
burg, and had existed since the 18th of
August. ! at once notified the Secre-
tary of State. Then began to disin-
feet by steam. When the Moravia came
in August 80, with cholera on board, l
received all kinds of suggestions as to
what should be done. These sugges-
tions were so Numerically different
that | resolved TO carry out my own
ideas. The President issued his twenty
days quarantine proclamation, and
naturally, decided to resist it, because
believed then, and believe now. that
reasonable detention is sufficient
twcEty-day quarantine means a
practical suspension of commerce on
the seas. The press began to jump on
me vigorously for resisting, and I con-
cludcd to carry out the Presidents
proclamation
did not Charles Foster Secretary Of
the Treasury, come over and take
hand in quarantine matters?'
YES: his visit and his interference
were merely to create little political
capital for his party. | resisted him
somewhat, and he claimed that i re
fused to use Camp Low. In order 10 do
something to get the passengers off the
Norinannia l communicated with the
Secretary of the Navy, and he put the
New Hampshire, an almost useless shell
of boat, at my disposal. The press
began TO write up the cholera in such a
glowing and sensational way that bus
mess was seriously hurt in the city
Other cities qunrantined against New
York, and something took place that
hardly think the press in Gotham would
care to publish. l am informed that
men representing large business inter
tests got together and notified the pa
pers that if the cholera scare was con-
tinued they would cease to advertise in