The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-07

| OF this city threatens to drive away to other
| American ports. In letter from tho head OF
| the Boston Health Department TO the Boston
| agents OF the Prince Line OF steamships. one OF
whose cofrec-adcn ships from tho plague
| infected port OF Santos. Brazil. the Roman
| Prince. Is now tied UP In the harbor OF New
York by Col Murphys manifesto. Here Is the
! letter:
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
OLD COURT House.
Nssm., 4, G. Lombard I soas: ,. 49,, o,,..,,,na ,..
| DEAR SiRs: In answer to your questions, we
| pr. Doty. Health Oficero New York. a. having
| bcep dsinfected. would be allowed to dock and
| land ut thus port without further treatment
II such vessel and cargo should arrive here
| from Santos at the present time We should
auarantine. and then permit the docking Of
| the vessel and landing oi cargo. Yours very
| truly. SAMUEL H. DURGIS. Chairman.
This letter. sent over from Boston yesterday
to the Prince Lines agents here. tho John c.
| Seager Company, INN ediately made Itself felt
on the Cofreo Exchange. where a clique OF hull
operators have been coming money out Of tho
plague scare. Tho bull boom collapsed. prices
falling ten TO fifteen points. The break was
! helped along by the news from Europe that.
| In the expectation that Santos coffee. barred
! from this country. would DO thrown on the
| Havro ard Hamburg markets. there would be
! an oversupply abroad. Spectators who have
been holding their coffee. bought at normal
! prices before the scare was raised. unoadod
good part Of their holdings and pocketed their
profits. Tho Boston news wa, at first dis
| credited. and some o.! the spectators held on
to their coffee in tho face Of the falling market
Immediately upon the receipt Of the Boston
| Health DEPARTMENTS invitation to land New
! York 9 coffee IN Boston. the shipping M with
Ss ss a. uF IN s9 barrier h d ns In 6 He
PPro3nse EyGhnn ,S 6y,l,!ng ftinGiEWR's from
RnsTsas arcn:s. and the John C. scaecr Com
paHy called n their lawyers and came t" the con-
q snI tha a S6rtS Of sSn,os coro
here. they had n right to deliver It to the con-
sans hapsa PT%Esit op'R Tor po the S %
New York, that they might not BE- forced TO
Prnco's agents seat out a litter last night 10
them e order the coffee sent to Boston In the
Con .agrwx tho conditions now. existing in
the port OF New York. ny reason OF the action
cargo q this ship to DO landed in NSw York,
Neutrality-suspicious. tina; she arrived 70 b"lpG
gaerantiae and SSins thcToashiy disn;
Custom 'f House at e ysS 2 Tn'es at s
ls and ha yin IN view no the h Sc,Ss
apart from the delay ,whciH SsSins inevitable.
we consider II would b. for the interest oi the
cargo to have the Roman Prince proceed to
The agents say that they VIII otherwise
cherGe dsmGrr3gc a. he rate t o. $50 ,S day oo-
through, which the buk OF the American i'm
r0rt Of the worlds. coffee. su3,"o0v1O year.
for 1888. complied by h st, G. Wake. super
iptendePt Of !es New Y 52 CGree, Exsshange
ported by the United state: Las, year. 5;oh5.o32
to '4 ' ,S Nv fST rev only 0
234aC5 bales. md the other 10000 went TO
sShSs BoSe9n &C." SoSs
thousand bales went 10 other ports than New
York In the pas, i've ysars ae9nj s 20 lro
When the Murphy Cosby. York embargo was
the on pose tSa nafe q Poi! a oas
Doty and former Health ,oficer Jenkins tina,
hasrtcaR citiss xSaiil iSlq$S Ssw IPrSs e. *
eaSG Up aH' nSET and i0 last 1sn ESs
exactly suro that the cargocs, OF the lshgusTT;
the Roman Prince and I9s Geaeh"a asfs
Health Bo1rd would do on SATURDAY; when e., ,hs
board, CO... Murphy set down .he hearing for
saturday morning Mt ~ o'clock. in respoInse to
Van WIZ W." and Col, Murphy, CO. MSrphy al:o
presented 70 the board At it's weekly meeting
for permission 10 lind tho IIaeusa,s cargo, Col
Murphy SAIL that the whole question could be
gone over at the Saturday hearing. lie thought
the trouble would bs settled then. But the
Tayor's cargo. he said. would never DO .ner-
sell had not materiahzed. Col, Murphy sent
word to Assistant BAN tary Superintendent
Ferncy at Staten Island that he might " TIL
draw his armed forces from thn beach at
Clifton. All through Tuesday night Col, Muir:
lonires, on tho beach 70 resist the Invasion oi
tina rats which, Col. Murphy asserted. would
come from the Lassell But not rat nrpcnred:
| On the subject OF rats the Health Onlcor OF
the Port rerorts that the three or four dead
rats found IN the hold OF the fumiGated ]. W.
fact. since the scare was raised the bacter Iolo-
Plague. The only thing the experts have
found, after digent search. is evidence that
there might have been germs.
So far as tho J. W,,Taylor's cargo In con-
Gsrned' The agents ore stu ~, in GrIHnSS sdl
OF coffee yesterday noon. but a police boat was
on hand 70 see that the coffee wasn't moved.
Busk IS J"vons had not decided last night
| whether they would charter ship to take this
cargo to Boston. A storm IN the hny would
quickly settle tho Taylor's coffee. The Taylor
wiz sail for Queenstown In ballast. The three
Hospital are all but we'll They smile
at the plague scare. Tho Lasscll; which
was run down by the Friesand on Tuesday
was patched up yesterday SO that she could be
pumped out. About half her cargo IL water
soaked. The cargo f. being dLscharRed 10
damaged that she will hayo TO put In dry dock
hero or abandon Tho Quarantine ruling Ia
that no ship from Santos can be dockea hc.e.
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