The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1898-04-09
QUARANTiNE'S BAN.
lf Enforced Many REFUGEES from
Cuba Would be Denied
Admission

Washington. ID. c.. April 5-In re-
sponse to representations received from
ten. Lee the treasury depa rtment has
telegraEhed DIR. Brunner, the quarantine
officer at Havana, directing him to permit
all Americans who desire to do so to leave
havana without certificates OF examina-
tion. On the arrival of vessel at the
+ iorlda coast with Americans from Gu
pa, IN examination will be made and the
vessel Will be held until it is determined
that there is no disease on board
Havana. March 31.-Until this year. af-
Ter getting clean bill of health from the
United States sanitary service here. the
American could put off his departure
northward TO May 10. But ovin. to the
ravages of yellow fever last year the
southern tier of states, Florida particular
ly. decided upon advancing the date of
possible departure to April l.
More rigit! laws were never imagined
than those of Florida, and it is a question
or being willing to undergo quarantine,
fumlgatlOn and all the rest Of it at Tor
tugas-no steamer will take you and run
the risk of long delay and costly diSinfec
ton. the Olivette of the Plant line hav-
ing departed for far Northern waters and
changed her port of call from Havana to
Halifax. the Mascotte alone is left as a
regular Key West boat, and she will re-
fuse all passengers unless they have be-
come immune by a ten years residence in
yellow fever countries, or have had the
dread disease.
Steamers clearing here for Florida
ports must not only have an immune cap
tain and crew, but must be of steel or
iron and are not allowed to pass a single
night in Cuban port. You can go to
New York without all these restrictions
facing you. but the correspondents do not
want to reach Key West via New York,
but unless the quarantine laws are modi-
hed tas everyone hopes they will be in
these critical tines they have no re-
course.
On Monday one correspondent had an
interesting bulletin concerning cabinet
action in Washington. received from the
New York office. The officers on the Fern
had been promised that they should share
the correspondents news from home
when received. Accordingly a night trip
was made to the little Yankee vessel in
the harbor and the cablegram read to the
officers. Scarcely had Capt. Cowles of
the Fern read the bulletin above referred
to ere he asked PERMISSION to send it for
ward to the men to read. and the cheers
that greeted the announcement that the
cabinet would not stand any more mon
key business. as one of the lads put it.
were enough to startle the surly sentinel
on the Spanish cruiser Nizcaya's forecas-
tie, not far away.
1t takes a good deal to excite one in
Havana. The climate is cnervating and
newspaper men grow lazy. listless. skep-
teal. OF course training and a sense of
duty serves to rouse when need arises
but brains, nerves. muscles, all relax
when effort is over, and no one reared in
Northern temperatures is at his best here.
except. maybe. by spurts. However. the
weather has been ahnormally plcasa Mt
thus far and many IA shivering denizen
of the upper states would gladly try the
genial so in the shade which is the noon
day portion of the Havanese and his Wis
itOra.