The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-24
STORY OF THE PLAGUE.
Mrs. Potter Talks Interestingly on the
Black Death.
From the San Francisco Examiner.

From the San Francisco Examiner.
Mrs. James Brown Potter and Kyrle
Bellew arrived from an extended trip in
the Orient on the steamer Peru last even
ing. They are at the Baldwin hotel,
where they will remain during their stay
in this city
Mrs. Potter and Mr.. Bellew look re-
markably well after their long-and
especially during the latter part-ex-
tremely tiresome journey around the
world. They experienced some trouble
on account of the plague that Is now de-
regulating Hong Kong and Yokohama,
and were introduced to all the latest fads
in the disinfectant lines. The Japanese
officials are adopting every suggestion Of
fered by local residents, thoy say, and
foreign ships are seized with a rapidity
that is simply appalling. Among the
latest means employed by the artless Japs
to rid people and ships of disease is to
walk about the deck of the vessel with
toy watering pot filed with a strong per-
fume which they sprinkle on everything
they wish to disinfect.
Human beings are not let off so easily"
remarked Mr.. Bellew, chill passing over
his classic features as sad reminder of
quarantine. They simply saturate you
with native smelling salts that is posi-
[ lively sitting, The mode Of conveyance
| used during the operation is, to say the
/ least, anomalous.
"A little mite of a fellow scarcely over
two or three feet high walks up to you,
dragging an enormous sword, which ex-
| tends some distance behind him. In his
I hand he carries an atomizer, such as ladies
|, and BARRIERS use. This he places close to
| Your face and commences TO squirt
There are some pleasanter sensations on
| earth. When the stuff runs down your
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! than described. On several occasions
could scarcely contain myself and it was
only the deadly weapons that made me
submit 10 the indignity of the squirt.
! Mrs. Potter was rather amused at the
actions of the Japanese, especially of the
/ government officials, who she declares
/ are positively funny in the manner in
which they copy all the latest phases of
| western political tactics. Concerning the
/ terrible plague that is now depopulating
Hong Kong, she had much TO say.
Dreadful does not begin to describe
| this terrible disease, which could have
/ been so easily avoided" she remarked.
You see, it is tho outcome of a veritable
/ reign of filth Dirt is the germ of the de-
/ stroyer, and it will be some time before
/ the country will be able TO shake it Off
/ In Hong Kong the sanitary arrangements
| are something awful.
"To give you an idea. The coolies and
/ chair bearers live in rooms not more than
/ four feet square In this apartment en-
/ tire families reside. They never think of
/ cleaning the room. When the dirt on the
! floor forms crust a piece of mating is
/ laid over it. In some houses during the
/ work Of cleaning rs much as twenty three
I pieces Of mating were found on the
/ noors.
"The way the English soldiers have
I been working TO change the aspect of the
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/ praise. The pity OF the thing has been
! their recklessness. They were given 40
I cents day extra pay, and whisky, TO 20
and fight the disease. Some Of the houses
Z visited We're SO revolving that the hardy
troopers were unable to get within sew
/ eral feet Of them. Generally, when they
I went Ia 10 dig out the dirt and dsiufect
/ the premises. in the midst OF the muck
I ana filth the occupants were found play
T ing fan-tau. Capt Nessey. one of the
/ brightest and most courageous men in the
I service, was stricken with the plague
2 during mission OF relief, aud died. Low
i son, COWie and other leading doctors OF
I China admit their inability 10 cope with
Y the disease They say IL Is something new
4 and quite beyond them"
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