The morning call., 1895-02-23
LAWLOR HAULED
over THE GOALS.
EDITOR BRADBURY SAYS THE
QUARANTINE OFFICER NEG
LECTED HIS DUTY.
THE SYDNEY AT THE DOCK
WHY THE YELLOW FLAG DID Nor
FLY-THE PILOT WAS ASHORE
ALL THE TINE.

The Pacific Mail steamer City of Sydney
emerged from quarantine yesterday morn
ing and for the second time since her voy-
age from Panama tied up at the Mail dock.
Among the first passengers ashore were
Editor John Bradbury and his charming
young wife. Bradbury, it will be remem-
bered, boarded the Sydney at an early
hour Sunday morning to meet his mother
two sisters and brothers, who were passen-
gers from Mazatlan. He was put on board
by the Custom-house tug Hartley and ex-
pected to land at the Mail dock later in
the day. The steamer went to the dock
between and s in the morning, but as
Quarantine Officer Lawlor had not yet in
spected the vessel nobody was allowed to
go ashore. DR.. Lawlor went aboard shortly
after the steamer locked and Captain
Johnston told him that a coal-pasSer
named James Brophy had been put ashore
at Acapulco with the smallpox. On hear
ing this Lawlor' Immediately ordered the
sydney INTO quarantine and raised storm
on account OF the presence of Bradbury
aboard.
The steamer was towed down to the
north quarantine station and next day the
Los Angeles editor was Joined by his wife,
who found life ashore intolerable without
her husband. A neat little scheme had
been concocted by Mrs. Bradbury to get
her husband off the quarantined steamer
but 1T failed on account of the plans being
delayed.
The tug Millen Griffith was sent out on
Monday with mail, papers and stores for
the passengers and a small boat was sup
posed to go out to the steamer at the same
time. Mr.. Bradbury had been informed
by note of the programme, and while
everybody else on board was on the port
side of the steamer looking at the tug he
was on the starboard side looking for the
boat. The little boat failed to materialize
and the scheme fell through. 1t was fully
twenty minutes before the Custom house
officers detected the ruse, and had the boat
been on time Bradbury could have made
his escape without difficulty.
DIR. Lawlor is entirely to blame in this
matter" said Mr.. Bradbury yesterday
morning Had he attended to business
there would have been no trouble. He was
too lazy to get up and board the steamer
and sent some one else in his stead. He
sent word to Captain Johnston If there was
no sickness on board the vessel to proceed
to the dock after daybreak. There was no
attempt to sneak up to the dock, as has
been said. The captain merely obeyed the
orders of the quarantine officer. The idea
of the Sydney flying the yellow flag is
peculiar to say the least. 1t was 80
o'clock in the morning when the steamer
came in, and pitch dark at that so that no
one COulQ nave seen a yellow nag naQ Jlero
been one flying. DR.. Lawlor has made a
great fuss about my being on board, but
there was nothing to stop me from coming
ashore at the Mail dock had | been so dis
posed. The pilot who brought the Sydney
in went ashore unmolested, and he has
been ashore ever since: Why didn't Law
Tor send him back? He knew all about his
leaving the vessel. When / found that |
was in for the quarantine l sent for my
wife and she Joined me the next day. We
| had very nice time and passed the DAYS
very pleasantly, enjoying the good things
on board"
Captain Johnston of the Sydney feels
! hurt at the action OF Quarantine Officer
| Lawlor, and thinks that official should
have defended him before the Board of
Health.
"No one knows better than DIR. Lawlor,"
said the captain, that | am the last one
| in the world to attempt an evasion of the
quarantine laws. The only time before
| this that | was ever in quarantine was
two years ago this coming April. At that
time we were handling the United States
mails, and the first American port we
touched coming north was San Diego. On
that trip we were thirty-four hours from
San Diego to this port, and twelve hours
before we arrived case OF smallpox broke
out. When the CuStom-house boat came
| alongside [ asked the inspectors not to
come aboard but to return to the barge Of
flee and telephone for DR.. Lawlor The
quarantine officer came out to the steamer,
examined the case and ordered us into
quarantine. If | wished to evade the
quarantine laws could have easily run up
to the wharf and landed my passengers, as
[ had a perfect right to do, coming as
said, from coast port. But 1 deferred to
the desires of the company to keep within
the strict letter of the quarantine regula-
| tons.
"When l came in here Sunday had no
flag flying as had no authority to set up
the Yellow Jack. | had no disease on
board and had clean bills of health from
four different ports, the ship having been
thoroughly fumigated at Acapulco. Since
l have been in quarantine have consulted
all the authorities at hand and have not