The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-06-20
A V|CAR|OUS QUARANTINE
CITY OF COLUMBIA ANCHORED
OUTSIDE.
Has on Board the Honolulu Passengers
of the Nippon Maru-The Latter Has
Gone on.

The steamship City of Columbia left
the Pacific Mail wharf at 10 o'clock this
morning in command of Pilot Sanders
She was towed out by the Government
tug Eleu, and anchored Just Eva of the
entrance to the channel. She was then
ready to go into quarantine. She was
well provisioned and, had a full COM
plement of officers and men in all the
departments, deck, engineers and stew
ards. While she is in quarantine she
will be under command of Pilot Macau-
ley who was on the Nippon Maru.
Her chief officer will be r. Lawton She
will keep up steam and is prepared for
any contingencies.
AS soon as she came to anchor the
work of transferring the Honolulu pass
engers from the Nippon Maru to the
Columbia began. There are eight cabin
passengers. and 227 steerage passengers
of the latter eight are Chinese and 211
Japanese. The cabin passengers are
! Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. F. Wichman, DR.. w.
| T. Monsarrat, Mr. and Mrs. ]. Asata,
LOTUS M. lie Champion, d. Newman
and S. Jebb Scott.
Pilot Sanders as soon as the Colum-
bia came to anchor, returned to shore
as did all others who are not to re-
main in quarantine.
| The work of transferring the passen-
gers from the Nippon Maru to the City
| of Columbia was not completed until
|
es and the mail for the Nippon Maru
| left the Pacific Mail wharf at IL o'clock
| and sometime this afternoon the Nip
J pon Maru will sail for San Francisco,
| carrying with her the $50 tons of freight
she brought for this port.
! The reason why the quarantine sta
! ton was not used is that there are
many rats there and rats are said to a
J potent means of spreading the conta-
gion of the .bubonic plague
All sorts of stories have been in cir
| culation to the effect that persons from
| the shore have gone aboard the Nippon
| Maru and then been allowed to come
ashore again. 1t is officially stated at
the office of the Board of Health that
| the only persons authorized by the
board to go abroad and then return are
the physicians fthe board, and this, it
is claimed from the necessities of the
case.
| Jack McVeigh, the only other agent
| OF the board who went aboard, is In
quarantine. Pilot Macauley is in quar-
antine. President of the Board of
Health Cooper did not go aboard the
Nippon, but carried on his communica-
tions With Captain Allen of the Nippon
from the deck of the Government tug,
the captain coming down the gang
plank to get nearer on a level with
| President Cooper and Mr.. Suhr of H.
Hackfeld g. Company, who accompani-
ed him. The ships papers necessary to
be brought ashore at this port to enable
her to enter and clear at the Custom
house We're fumigated before leaving
| the ship. Archie A. Gilfillan who had
charge of coaling and providing stores
for the Nippon Maru, says that neither
he nor any of his men went aboard the
quarantined vessel. The coal was tax,
| en- out on scows, as We're the stores and
mail. The coal beavers on the scows
handed up the filled baskets and the
ships crew took care of it from that
point. The Board of Health had agents
on each scow to see that no one from
the scow went aboard the ship and no
one from the ship came on the scow.
Even the orders for stores for the ship
were not given in writing, but orally
over the rail.
1t is said by persons who claim to
have been near the Nippon Maru in
small craft on Sunday that some of
those who went out on the Government
tug shook hands with acquaintance on
board and that in one instance a person
from the shore went on the deck of the
Il Nippon and then. came ashore again.
The officials of the Board of Health,
however, claim that they have no
knowledge of this whatever.
Great pressure is being brought to
bear to have the cabin passengers sent
to the quarantine station instead of to
the City of Columbia. The matter has
not yet been decided.