New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-27
PLAGUE STOPS RAILWAYS
scoIIroe Cuts OF All Roads Ex-
cept Two from Picking.
MISSIONARIES FACE PEST
s.versl Diplomats Hurriedly
Leave Picking, but American
Minister Stays at His Post.

Minister stays al AIS Hos''
u, Glowing 70 tho prevalence |
- nlsrue railway rafnc in North /
-. has ceased practically. except from
..-..--r.in 10 Pe<ing and between this
- end Hankow. \ special train VIII
gig so-r,, a dozen Trans-Siberian passen-
"'-7 ,vr ousrantined al Shan Hai-kwa
- -in end the service on Tho Chinese
.bo,-s Tien-Tsin for the present. The
l.e g roads are conveying no Chinese
.,,v medically certified foreigners.
W so,.,-ios ~ the German line from Tten-
e., pykow has been suspended. and
- prospect that further suspensions VIII
~ announced Is causing many foreigners
r.,,i,r fo arrange for a hasty departure
from the cry.
-.,so leaving include Louis Einstein.
--,,,~v or the American Legation. and
.,be- diplomats and their wives. Mr.. and
a.. rinsfein arranged some time ago 70
..ss holiday and they have advanced
40 5srs Of their departure
=. deciding 10 leave the capital the
...s.-o- hungarian Minister. Herr Won
,,...-,.relti. has surrendered tho deanship
!, The Diplomatic corps to sir j. NJ. Jor-
40, tho British Minister.
modified plan for the general quaran-
200 NJ tho legation quarter has been
- mon and will become effective
=, tho conditions IN the CITY require ~.
~ me legations haze taken in a three
-.,,tbs supply or rations and fuel. Most
:, he Westeruers. including the mission
lies arc sending their scholars from the
f,frs SION
ties are continuing their duties.
TIE American Minister, W. j. Calhoun.
,rsre5 the missionaries q refuge at the
American legation. but this was declined
-, bo+r the American and British workers,
no did not wish TO have their activities
p-,ited Nt~ Calhoun has received several
,sblecrarls from relatives I'm the United
s,stes urz0e him 10 leave this city. but ne
Intends 70 remain. realizing that while the
disease is deadly Il IS not contracted eX-
cen, By closs infection. which is prac-
..-suv impossible within the legation area
The ubyeirians believe that the germ
all ne exterminatcd with the approach Of
4ar-1 weather. as II Is evident that II is
n trA tvpe thar fourishes in winter.
Vsre has been received OF the death
,-o7, the .a-74e ~ another physician at
vort4en. The victim was Dr. Jackson
Presbyterian missionary. aged twenty-siN
ware TIE fact ~ his death in spite &C
incubation has increased the anxiety of
women here whose husbands have gone to
re front.
A Chinese physician i'm Noukden Is con
valescent his recovery being the only ono
IN one hundred cases.
The special equipment Of the doctors IS
generally proving q safeguard. They wear
gloves and bind the neck. ankles and
wrists and cover their hands and faces.
breathing through q lint air sieve. which
is saturated with solution Of carbol'c
acid.
Repo-ts from Hardin state that tho
Chinese authorities have given the medical
men permission 10 burn three sections n
the Chinese city. The government is send
ing more troops 10 make The Gordon about
the affected districts more efficient
pa~s. Jan. 2f-Dr. Yor~ir. Vho dis
covered the rliorobe ~ the Chinese plague,
pr5 Dr.. BroqueL formerly assistant di-
sector OF the Pasteu- Institute at Saigon,
ec'r ~ whom are now in Paris. have been
hastily ordered 10 China 10 fight the pest
On behalf Of France.
Apart from the physicians connected win
~ legations in Peking and few japanese
doctors. who are mainly In the port cities
most II the Western trained medical men
within the region already touched by The
r,srus I'm North China are connected with
80 various foreign missions OF North
&c CfS-
can rospital az Chefoo. with French
doctor
In Peki0e the missionary hospitals are
rs follows. The Board or Foreign Missions
O. the Presbyterian Church (New York;
-vo hospitals and Il dispensary; the Boari
@ Foreign Missions Or the Methodist Ep1-
coral Church New York;. hospital fa'
ren and tho Womau's Foreign Missionary
Society ~ The Methodist Episcopal 'hurG D
New York; a hospital Tor women, tte
American Board Of Commissioners for For
o-r Missions Boston. q dispensary; IT,
London Missionary Society london a
disne7gs~v There Is also a Union Maii-
csl School connected with these various
hospital where Competent Chinese phJFi-
cans have reen trained.
There are thi-tv-seveu hospitals and rhir-
ty-Ave dfynen-aries under tho direction Of
MISSIONARY physicians in Pe-Chi-Li and
s-ar-Trrr. the two provinces Just 70 the
so1-r ~ Naucruria. where the plague has
Already appeared on tho basis Of available
reports there are fifty American mission
sv physicians In the two provinces, Of
whom i1entv-six are men and twentF-foUr
s-s women. and nineteen British OF Ger
nan physicians. sixteen men and three
vomer-a total of siXt>-uine. Tho prov
noes have "a combined population Of about
10000