Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-21
MUCH FEELING.
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vice consul's assiduous attentions TO
his family at his country house the
American consulate need guarding in
your opinion, although he was present
and it was not guarded an hour ago. I
have no objection to your detailing a
force. for the sole purpose of guarding,
but the party must have no firearms
and nothing more offensive than clubs
or slaves for this function.
~ find your working party was this
morning helping Mr.. CroSswell clean
his store. Crosswell was delighted
that the work was done without cost.
Ii your excellency should remain long
vate owners would be glad of the, serv-
ices of the navy to save expense.
1T is no longer question of humani-
ty. All the dead died days ago, and
the work OF giving them burial Is
merely one of convenience. 5.
II would be glad to accept delivery
of the safe which. il IL alleged. thieves
had possession or The American vice
consul has no knowledge OF it, the
store Is close 10 u sentry post, and the
officer of the post processes Ignorance
OF the incident
II believe the police surveillance Of
the city is adequate for the protection
of private property l may remind
your excellency that not long ago It
was discovered that thieves had lodged
in and pilaged the residenee of some
New York millionaire during his alb
sencc in The summer, but this would
not have justified British admiral
landing an armed party and assisting
the New York police
| Rear Admiral Davis said that he
deeply regretted the governors atti-
! tude He wns still convinced that the
governor was unequal to the task of re-
/ lieving distress and that this was evil
dent from the fact that the American
field hospital had attended many sick
and woundedE Eand others were con
stantly arrlvMg. having been unable
10 gain admission TO the government
hospital
The American hospital was estab-
I
Of the Jesuits, on Thursday, under the
American flag and in charge of Fleet
Surgeon Ames and Surgeon Norton of
the bottleshlp Missouri aud aided by
sisters of charity. The hospital re-
ceived more than fifty sufferers, in
cluding persons with fractured bones
and skulls, eases of blood poison which
had resulted from neglect OF wounds,
etc.
Governor Swettenham's attitude to-
ward a friendly American officers as
sistance is greatly deplored by many
of the residents of Kingston, some of
them even suggesting that the govern
or be petitioned to resign. His action
is construed by some as inspired by re-
sentiment of President Roosevelt's at
titude toward jamaican negroes OH
the Panama canal. Others ridicule the
governors objection to the landing of
American sailors armed or not armed.
The insecurity of the city is evidenced
by the attempt on Friday night by six
negroes to waylay midshipman from
the Missouri, who drew his revolver
and put his assailants to flight.
The streets of the burned district
still reek with the stencil of decaying
bodies The burned ruins were iliumi-
mated only by the baleful glow of the
corpse fires lining the roadways.
Many bodies We're recovered through
the aid of vuItures, which perch In
fiocks on the ruins beneath which their
prey is buried. 'As fast as they are I'M
covered the bodies are thrown on the
funeral pyr'es and slowly consumed.
The total known dead is about 450,
and 1t is believed there are at least $50
persons who have not been account
ed for.
The filthy condition of the camps on
the parade grounds and raee course,
where thousands of persons are hud-
died under improvsed tents roofed
over and sheathed with palm leaves.
causes grave apprehension of an out
break OF typhoid fever
The work of clearing the streets OF
Kingston of debris and recovering the
corpses Of the victims of the earths
quake and confagration Is proceeding
J rapidly.
The southwestern norton OF Kings