The times., 1898-10-28
wAR1Ne HAS YELLOW JACK.
The Sanitary Expert QunraHtfhed In
New York City.

Kew York City.
New York. Oct. 27.-Col George E.
Warang, jr. is sick with the yellow fever.
This is the official announcement of the
board of health. Col. WarinE is now
quarantined in his apartments con the
top floor of the Rutherford, four-story
apartment house at It's Secona =Avenue
With him are his wife, who is,a yellow
fever immune, from an attack of this
disease some years ago; his step-son,
John p. Yates, and a seryant.s 2.
T. On Tuesday Col Waring returned 20
this city on the Ward liner Yucatan, from
Havana, after a trip of several weeks on
an inspecting tour in the island OF Cuba,
with view to Governmental report on
the sanitary condition of the island. He
was passed at quarantine, and went to
his home, where his wife and son had
arrived from Litchfield Springs on Mon
day. On Tuesday afternoon the colonel
said he felt Ill and went to bed. He was
believed to be suffering from malaria. or
Cuban fever, which very much resembles
yellow fever in its early stage.
Two diagnosticians of the health de-
partment visited Col Waring today and
pronounced the case to be undoubtedly
yellow fever His case was at once iso-
lated The colonels family had tie op-
ton of moving out and suffering tenn
porary detention elsewhere, but preferred
to remain. No one except physician Is
now admitted to TIE apartment or allow
ed to go out. and one of the health de-
partment's forty inspectors sits on guard
outside the door, relieved every eight
hours by another.
There are six other families in the
In, aH n that of the ianitOr
All were notified of the case, but Were
told that there was no danger. So lar
none seems to be disturbed and no one
has left the apartment house to go else
| where.
This evening Dr. Steinseck, a phys
clan of the health department, removed
a bundle of clothing and personal effe,ts
which Col. Waring had with him in Cuba,
to be disinfected.
In regard to the case, Health Commis-
sioner jenkins said:
with yellow fever at this season in
New York an epidemic is out of the ques-
ton. and with ordinary precautions there
can be no spread of the disease. The col
onel Is getting on favorably and ! do not
consider his case dangerous.
Col. Warnings temperature at midnight
was 103.
The Yucatan, the steamer on which the
colonel returned from Cuba, has been
ordered disinfected.
The steerage and second class pas
sengers of the Yucatan were detained
until this afternoon, when they were al
lowed to proceed TO the city.
Col Waring was appointed on October z
as the head of the United States Com
mission 10 select camp sites in Cuba and
TO arrange for the sanitary Improvement
of the cities there. II has been reported
that the plan to be recommended to clean
out the harbor of Havana was tunnel
from the harbor, whose waters are foul
and sluggish, to the east under the Caba-
mas, so that the harbor might drain into
the west-to-east current that sweeps by
the north coast Of Cuba. Col. Warlng
made a special study of Havana. with
view to suggesting plans BY which that
city could be put in perfect sanitary con-
dition. He was TO have reported to Presi-
dent Mckinley today.
Col. Waring was born in Poundridge y.
Y, sixty-six years ago. He had a thor
ouGh training as an engineer. He went
TO the front in the civil war as major
and served as colonel of the Fourth Mis-
souri, Cavalry. He was street cleaning
commissioner of this city under Mayor
Strong. He is an authority on drainage,
and the inventor of drainage system
which bears his name