The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-06
AN EXODUS FROM HAVANA
OYER ONE THOUSAND AMERICANS
 MAY LEAVE TO-DAY,

Three Government Vessels in the Harbor
 to Care for This Number-At Washing
 ton Constant Communication is Kept Up
 With General Lee-Fear of an Outbreak
 News from Key West.
 Washington, April 5.-A constant communication is kept up with Gen eral Lee in fear of an outbreak. It is thought that over one thousand Amer jeans will be eager to leave Havana tomorrow. To care for this crowd there are the Fern, the Bache and the Mangrove, all government vessels, and the passenger steamers Olivette and Mascotte. Whether any armed vessels from the Key West squadron will be at hand tomorrow when the exodus begins could not be learned. but it was said at the White house that 'all Americans would be well cared for.'
 Havana, April 5.-The Bache and the Mangrove arrived this morning from Key West to take to Key West the American citizens who wish to leave the island. It now appears that the yellow fever prohibitions are mod flied in Florida only so far as the Americans are concerned The Oli- vette may not come here Thursday, as had been expected. All depends upon whether those who wish to go prove numerous enough to require more boats than the Bache, the Blake and the Mascotte. The arrival of these vessels and of the modification of the quarantine regulations were not gen. orally known in Havana to-day, but when they are known the ships will be crowded. Dr. Brunners office wit messed to-day the same large attend ance as yesterday of people eager to
 be vaccinated or to be examined for health certificates.
 A good deal of uncertainty prevails here even in official circles. Of course accurate news as to the relations be-
 tween Washington and Madrid would naturally be obtained first in the Unit
 ed States or in Spain, but it does seem
 as if it ought to be possible to learn
 definitely even in Havana concerning the notifications of the quarantine laws made by Surgeon General Wy man, if indeed any have been made be- yond the removal of the yellow fever prohibition from American citizens in Cuba who desire to return to the Unit ed States.
 A dispatch sent by Dr. Brunner, head of the sanitary service, to Sur ot yNaSIiy y,c before noon yesterday had not been
 answered at noon to-day. Dr. Brunner had suggested a quarantine camp at Port Tampa for such Cubans as should
 want to go north and says that all the arrangements for setting up a large camp at short notice were perfected
 last year. It is impossible for him to
 pass upon the hundreds of cases that
 come before him of people eager to go
 and under apprehensions keenly felt, even though imaginary. The Bache
 and the Mangrove are small and ca- pablo of taking only a tithe of those who are desirous to go. The Plant line will not send extra boats unless as- sured of full complement of passen- gers who would be allowed to land on reaching Florida. This matter of quar-
 antine is very real and repressing in the minds and hearts of hundreds here, l taking precedence over everything else. There is strong feeling against a | further delay of definite settlement, as the crisis might come when modified tions would be too late or when all rules would be so relaxed that a real | danger of spreading contagion in the | United States would present itself.