New-York tribune., 1908-09-24
CHOLERA IN PALACES |
TERROR IN THE CAPITAL.
Disease Gaining IN st. Petersburg
Cases at Peterhof.

ST Petersburg Sept 23-The number of cases
of Asiatic cholera in this city increased to-day,
and the disease has invaded the aristocratic
precincts of st. Petersburg. II has even reached
the Winter Palace. one case having been dis
covered in the servants quarters there. Prepa-
rations being made at the palace in the ex-
pectation that the Emperor and Empress would
spend part of the coming season in the capital
Other cases have been discovered in the palace
of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievtch the
Tauride Palace and the palace of Prince Alex
ander Oldenburg, a cousin of the Emperor, and
in the Imperial Opera House
number of diplomats and persons prou1i
nent in society have hurried their departure
abroad, but the exodus has been checked by the
prospect of being held in quarantine at the
frontier
That panic prevails is illustrated by the fact
that many persons have ordered their newspa-
pers discontinued during the epidemic. A grand
duchess living abroad, who is one of these,
plained that she feared contagion through the
mails.
In order to test the efficacy of vaccination in
cholera cases several graduate students at the
University of st. Petersburg permitted them
selves to be vaccinated. and afterward drank
solution containing cholera germs.
Twenty-four cases have been reported In the
town of Peterhof. The imperial family is ex-
pected soon to return to the Peterhof Palace
from its cruise in Finnish waters.
Among the cases reported in st. Petersburg
to-day is that of NJ. Nechiporenko, court coun-
cillor, who stricken while entertaining a
party of guests. Two prominent merchants, sew
eraI officials in the various ministries and other
members of the better classes in Ine capital are
suffering from the disease.
The report for the twenty-four hours ending
at Sbo nd
This is an increase of nineteen cases and de-
crease of eighteen deaths, compared with Tues
days statistics.
The disease has broken out among the cadets
at the Pavlovsk Military Academy. one of the
most important higher military schools in the
empire. Forty students have been sent to hos
pitaIs, and two deaths have been announced.
Several attendants at the academy also have
been stricken. The academy has been closed
and the remaining cadets have been sent into
camp at Krasnoe Selo.
A servant in the Second Military School has
developed the cholera, and measures are being
taken to prevent an outbreak in this institution.
The disease was conveyed to these two schools
in the rations served out to the students.
The accumulation Of corpses at the grave
yards continues to increase There were ninety
two unburied bodies at the Preobrazhenskoe
Cemetery this morning and the regular mortu
ary train brought down 146 more The sections
are able to bury only 12O bodies day.
The authorities have stopped navigation on
the Catherine Canal. a winding, stagnant ditch
which runs several miles into the heart of the
city.
The municipal authorities, realizing that there
undoubtedly will be renewal Of the outbreak
in the spring, have appropriated s125.00 for the
construction of four cholera hospitals with
capacity Of two thousand beds