The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-09
HIM up. The sailor was so drunk that he could

him up. The sailor was so drunk that he could
| scarcely stand.
not want you to fool around my head"
After this no one attempted to do
| anything for him in medical or
him. He asked for cup OF milk and was
refused, on the plea that there was no milk. A
monkey belonging to one of the ships crew
and know OF my own knowledge that there
doctor.
Rowan arrived in San Francisco without
having his wounds examined or attended to in
any way, save for what / did for him in cut
ting the hair about the laceration of his scalp.
he got no extra food or care, and was forced to
suDslst on steerage fare, which was not fit for q
dog. For three days we had nothing in the
shape OF meat but rotten corned beef, which
was tasted by only few. The smell of it was
70 sea eight years and have never seen such
food put up for men to eat before.
LOUIS RoETTIcHER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9Th
day of June, AID. 1895. JAMES NJ. ELLIS,
Notary Public in and for the City and Comfy
OF San Francisco, State of California.
The sworn statement of G. A. Bertram,
gwen as follows, corroborates the charges
OF criminal neglect and brutality on board
the San Juan, flying the American flag:
says:
was passenger on the Pacific Mail steam
snip san Juan on her last trip up the coast
G Gnsing taken steerage passage at San JOSE
uuatemala, Tor San Francisco, Cal. At the
poTG OF Gan Jose man named Thompson took
q steerage passage on the San Juan, also bound
1 Tosa Gan an francisco. Seven days out from San
was Mexican fever. No one came to offer to do
anything for him. One day he dropped on the
d dech IN spasm, and we told him to see the
Iedi down III another spasm at the door.
III me e DOCTOR saw MIN, and sent man to battle
ms ms race In ammonia, This did not seem to
help him, and he was left alone stretched out
on me deck with his hat for pillow After
Time ne came to and crawled back to the steer
age, Wnere he lay for four days without medi-
cal attendance or other care, with the excep-
slon OF that bestowed by myself. He was per
Iectiy helpless, and took him q cup of tea
Twice ~, oay. Th1s was all that he could keep
serious that myself and two other passengers
went TO the captain. We told him that the
removed.
The captain said that he had no place to put
MIN, but that he would see what could be done
Win the DOCTOR. Soon after DR.. Robertson
came INTO the Storage. He was sober on this
occasion, which was sub ject of remark among
In sne passengers. have seen him under the in
ana sometimes very drunk.
de said that the man could not and should
10, De removed. l answered that the man was
aylIng and should be taken to the hospital. I
said to him that, although steerage passengers.
we were human beings and demanded human
treatment from the officers of the ship. The
same night the sick man was removed to the
hospital and died short time after the shin
arrived in San Francisco
During his illness he got no extra food or
med1cai attendance of any kind or description
In common with other Storage passengers.
ne was entitled to the rotten beef with which
the rest OF us were served, but he could eat
nothing. Complaints were frequently made
by the passengers to the chief cook, who
always promised to give us more wholesome
food: have crossed the Atlantic seven times
but have never seen before on land or sea
such rotten food set before human beings as
was served to the steerage passengers on the
San Juan during her last trip up the coast
@. A. BERTRAM.
subscribed and sworn to before me this 9Th
Gay OF June, A. ID. 1895. JAMES NJ. ELLIS
Notary Public in and for the City and County
OF San Francisco, State of California.
Samuel Cohen's affidavit confirms these
depositions. 1t is given as follows:
says: ~, -,
was passenger on the San Juan on her last
trip TO san Francisco. / took passage at New
York In the Storage. During the trip got
acquainted with man named Thompson, who
was i'll. He received no medical attendance
from the doctor of the ship. We were fed on
rotten beef such as not fit for dog. I
often saw Dr.. Robertson drunk. SAM COHEN
SUBSCRIBED and sworn to before me this 9Th
day of June, 1895. JAMES NJ. ELLIS,
Notary Public in and for the City and County
of San Francisco, State of California.