Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-11
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cited and Untruthful Belaire Editor
Says-Other Ohio Papers.
No new cases Of smallpox were re-
/ ported to the city health authorities yes
terday, and if we set aside the case in
the rear of No. 1S5 Sixteenth street,
| reported Monday as a suspect, but the
status of which has not been definitely
! settled, there has been nothing new
since ten o'clock Sunday evening. The
Health Officer naturally feels much en-
| couraged over the fact, and last night
voiced his satisfaction TO reporter for
! the Register when he said:
Il have nothing new 10 report to-day,
| and J am inclined 10 the belief that We
shall have no more new cases for a
week or so. 1 regard the situation as
| very satisfactory. All the cases are
| progressing well, with possibly one ex-
cepuon, and the vaccination suggestions
are being very generally followed. I
heard or TWO or three suspicious cases
to-day and Investigated them fully and
IN every case l found no trace of the
disease. The Sixteenth street case is
sull puzzle the characteristic small
poX symptoms being absent but l shall
| allow no cessation of precautions until
] am entirely satisfied. One flag will
be taken down tomorrow Regarding
vaccination, l wish the Register would
say that it will be done only at my
office at the City Hall, and not at my
private office"
BeHaire enforced its quarantine Or
der yesterday, and Martins Ferry did
IL IN a healf-hearted way up 10 six
o'clock last evening, when the regula-
tlons We're made more stringent.
Bridgeport decided last night TO take no
action, which will probably cause that
I town 10 incur the displeasure of Mar
TINS Ferry, where a new case Of small
poX developed yesterday. Bridgeport
Will watch people moving over from
Wheeling, however. Moundsville and
Little Washington also adopted Quaran-
tine regulations yesterday, and several
amusing incidents occurred during the
day in cases were citizens of prOmi-
hence ran into difficulties in the at
tempt TO visit the Marshall county me-
trOpOlis on business. In every case
they were turned back, the B. & o. de-
clining 70 sell tickets. The action OF
these towns created a good deal of
amusement as well as annoyance In
this city, but il is not probable that the
embargo viii be maintained for any
very considerable space of time. The
case of Martins Ferry IS particularly
childish and unnecessary, and the ac-
ti0n OF that town. as well as Bellaire,
will impose unnecessary hardships upon
their own people. AS an example of
the sort of rank falseh0od the people
of the neighbOring towns are being fed
upon, the following is taken from last
nights Bellaire Tribune:
The extent OF it has been persistent
~ underestimate, and even now when
steps are being taken to quarantine
the infected houses, the public is tod
that there are but twenty-eight cases,
when there can be counted that num-
Der of tagged houses upon a single
square
No more bald-headed falsehood than
the above ever appeared in print fact
which must have been known 10 the
Bellaire editor, if he took any pains at
all TO ascertain the truth. The public
has not been told there ARE but twen-
ty-eight cases here, because there are
only twenty-three in the whole city,
fact stated in the Register yesterday
morning. Ii the Bellaire editor count
ey twenty-eight flags "on one square,
he must have had his powers Of OBJ
servation multiplied by at least four.
tt is this sort of rot which has in
fuenced the action of health authOri-
ties in surrounding towns The Bell
aire editor should lose no time in nor-
fving his readers that he was at least
mistaken. and then tender an apology
TO Wheeling. If he does not anything
he may print hereafter, on any topic,
will be taken cum grano sails.
Then We have the Martins Ferry
Times. the editor of which was moved
TO say last evening:
That the Wheeling papers have be-
trayed their trust and sacrificed the
lives OF their people IN the interest OF
mammOn is too apparent TO require
argument
OF course. this editor can prove this
assertion. or he would have remained
silent. Let him stand up and be sworn
as 10 his knowledge OF the facts, differ
emf from what has been stated in the
Wheeling papers.
But in the same Martins Ferry
Times. we ind a statement that the
quarantine against Wheeling, which
was TO have gone into effect
at 6 a. NJ, as an extra
ordinary measure. necessary for the
safety of the people, was suspended for
twelve hours. in the interests of bust
ness men over there. Within those
twelve hours Martins Ferry developed
Z. new. case of smallpox Now, one Of
two things must be true: if the quaran-
tine was necessary for the safety of the
people of Martins Ferry, to suspend II
for twelve. or even one hour, was
crime lin the interests OF mammon;'
or. if it could be suspended for twelve
hours in the interests of the business
men. there could have been no neces-
sitv for il in the first place, and il
could Just as we'll be suspended for
twelve DAYS. in the interests Of the peo-
pie. The Martins Ferry Times and the
health authorities of that place can
think over this at leisure.
Next we have the Steubenville
Gazette which is good enough 10 insin-
uate that the Wheeling papers sup
pressed the smallpox news until the
State Fair was over. There were no
new cases of smallpox in Wheeling dur
ing the State Fair, with the exception
of one on Friday. the closing day Of the
Fair. and that was promptly reported
and published. During Fair week
there were not over three or four cases
in the city, all cOnvalescent.
Verify. the members OF the editorial
,-.ofn,,inr ~, the Ohin side of the river