Evening star., 1905-11-05

ing boats. This bore somewhat hardly on
certain gentlemen who owned club houses
in the vicinity of the Rigolets and who
were accustomed to engage in fishing in
the waters under quarantine. One gen
teman upon being stopped by a patrol
boat and having the regulations explained
to him, stated that he desired to do every
thing required ~ the quarantine authori-
ties and all that he wanted was to be per-
mitted to fish where he could catch some
fish" and to go where the fish were biting.
He was permitted to fish under the super
vision of the officer.
The most serious situation that developed
was on the chartered boat Grace. The
cook, an Italian, had been hired with the
boat and proved a most valuable man until
his enthusiasm was cooled by what to him
appeared to be imperfections in the rations
supplied for his The supplies fur
nished the boat, 1t is stated, were of such
a poor quality and sent In such a careless
manner that he almost refused to cook
them. Out of four dozen eggs supplied
three dozen were bad, the Italian cheese
that he had ordered turned out to be Amer
lean cheese and the claret wine that lie
had made requisition for was ruthlessy
stricken off the list. He informed the lieu
tenant in charge that he would stand no
more of this "humbugging.' and that he
must get another cook. The fact that he
was successfully molliied is an instance
of the tact and discretion that the officers
of the revenue cutter service have dis
played throughout the patrol.
To facilitate the movements of loaded
barges, relay anchOrages were established.
Louisiana towboat would bring a barge
that had been fumigated to relay and drop
her, whereupon she would be picked up by
a Mississippi towboat and carried to her
destination.
One case of yellow fever developed in
the patrol fleet. Fireman Berg of the Wi
mona was taken with yellow fever Septem-
Der l. He was promptly moved ashore and
the ship thoroughly fumigated. He recov-
cred and no more cases occurred in the
| tn, fAa Iov1r
tirely disregarded any danger Of infection.
to such an extent that he on one occasion
accompanied a yellow fever patient in an
automobile to the hospital and visited the
patients in the hospital on several occa-
sions. The efficiency infused into the quar-
antine patrol by Capt. Ross is best attested
by the fact that not one case of yellow
fever has been reported to have entered by
water and no single complaint or protest
has been raised against its management.
X
Apart from the Mississippi sound patrol.
efficient service has been rendered in the
harbor of Pensacola by Lieut.. G. c. Alex
ander, U. s. R. C. S., who commanding
| the Penrose and number of launches hired
by the marine hospital service, has had en-
tire charge of the enforcement of the quar-
antine regulations intended to prevent the
spread of yellow fever from Pensacola by
water He has allowed no communication
whatever between the ships at anchor and
the shore except upon written permits
He has issued 3s5 of these permits and re-
manded ffty-eight vessels to the quarantine
station.
When the patrol was thoroughly estab-
lished and working smoothly. Capt. Ross
turned over the immediate command of the
Mississippi sound patrol to Lieut. S. P. Ed
monds, commanding the Winona, and re-
turned to Washington.
In addition to the Mississippi quarantine
the large vessels of the outer line have eff
fectiyely protected Mobile from the intro
duction of the fever by sea.
Daily reports of the operations of all of
the vessels have been made to the depart
ment at Washington. An indication of the
lack of the usual comforts of ship life is
found in the statement of one officer that
his reports were a day behind because he
had no pen or ink with which to formu-
late them. The quarantine was raised at
@ pm october 23
The following officers of the service par
ticipated in the patrol:
Seminole-Captain. ]. II. Quinan: nrsr
lieutenant. B. If. Chiswell: cadet, LIE Roy
Reinburg; chief engineer. w. E. Maccoun:
second assistant engineer, f. H. Young
Forward-Captain, II. Il. Broadbent; drst