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WAKEMAJTS WANDERINGS
INCIDENTS OF FOREIGN TRAVEL
AND OBoERVATION-ZUI.
Some of the Humorous Aspects cf For
eign Travel—Doleful Havana Somecs
A Wild Bull and the Folite Vaquero.
End.ess Variety of Ludicrous Situa
tions Aboard the Ocean Llnors—Grim,
Quaint and Unconscious Humor in
Scotland.
(Covu right.)
London, March 13.—if foreign travel has
its sad and pathetic coloring it is still often
enlivened with many diverting situations.
Amusing incidents and genuinely humorous
Aspects.
Hut few rays of this genial sunshine fall
upon the face of sunny Cuba. To the mind 1
And heart of the traveler it remains a sort I
of terrazo deloroso in perspective. Save
for its matchless tropical beauty and the
languorous beauty of its women, it remains
plaintively in the memory; altogether som-
ber in tone and oolor. The observation will
bold true of travel in all countries where
folk are of the swarthy Latin language.
From many visits to the beautiful island I
can recall no more than three situations
where the foreign spectator might be be
guiled into mirthful emotions; and these
possessed the quality of ridiculousness
rather than honor.
One of these I witnessed repeatedly late
At night. It Is the outgrowth of surveillance
of parents over daughters. It Is the solitary
midnight serenade. Time after time, on re
turning to mv hotel from divers wander
ings at night in the Cuban capital, have I
passed these love-stricken youths, stationed
opposite the homes of their inamoratas in
All manner of agonized attitudes, strum
ming dew-muffled notes upon ancient guit
ars, and lifting their voices in passionate,
though doleful, petitions to the night, the
moon, the stars, and all the saints, to aid
them in reaching the ears and Hearts of
tbeir adoradus. Tbo favonte, indeed, al
most the universal, baliad sung by these
love-lorn Cuban youths is “La Luna," of
which I reoall one stanza:
Mis penas y rais fatigas.
Ya no se puedon contas,
B alcaozan unas a oiras
Como las olas del mar.
Luna, belli* protectora,
No me nlegues tu fulgar;
Voy en busca de un tosoro—
Voy en busca de mi auior!
My sorrows and languors,
Unmeasurable portion,
They follow each other
As waves of the ocean.
Sweet Luna, protectress,
Deny not effulgence;
Fur a treasure l'in searching—
My dear love’s indulgence 1
Nobody pays any attention to those who
thus pour out their fouls upon the night.
The parents who are used to it, simply turn
in their beds with thanks to the saints that
their doors are massive and the windows
are of iron bars. Belated passers cast sym
pathetic glances at the lone troubadours,
remembering their own dismal eiTorts in
the past. Even the neighbors keep silence;
and not a rock or haady household imple
ment is shot, as from some shadowy cata
pult on disturbing mission through the
bosky midnight air. For hours of this sort
of lugubrious vigil no reward is sought or
expected. But if the flutter of a daiuty
baud, or the shimmer of delicate laces, is
for au instant caught at the balcony of the
fair one’s alcoba, then is the minstrel lover
in an ecstaev of delight.
On one occasion I came upon two of these
amorous Romeos, singing and playing in a
sort of desperate rivalry beneath one bal
ooDy. It was truly a dilemma both for the
adorado and her lovers. The latter wore
both singing ‘‘La Luna,” oae in a frenzied
falsetto, the other in a barytone, hoarse
from jealous passion. A polite guardia
civil finally relieved the dramatic tension
of the situation by carrying away one at
a time to a near bodega, thus preventing
a t agedy, securing his own fill of wine,
and in a kind of relay giving each smitten
troubadour a fair and equitable chance at
the moon. I
Another situation, illustrating Cuban
sociological peculiarities, was found in a
railway trip across the island. One of the
passengers, an old senora, sneezed. In
stantly, and reverently, a score of passen
gers responded: “Dios te guard la!” (“God
guard thee!”) She sneezed again. This
time the concerted ejaculation was: "Ma
ria!” She sneezed the third time. This
was followed by a chorus of voioes with:
"Jose!” It is a universal Cuban custom,
and in its motive reminds forcibly of the
quite {as usual German custom, wheu one
sneezes to express kindly ooncern by re
sponding with the unctious and expressive,
“GesuDdheiti”
Again, a young fellow, passing a mother
and radiantly beautiful daughter on his way
out of the oar, doffed his hat, stood straight
and tall before the couple he bad never be
fore seen, and with the dignity of a verita
ble Don Quixote said in Spanish; "Old
woman, keep that daughter of heavenly
beauty for the one before you!” Then he
strode away and nobody assaulted him.
The aged senora responded pleasantly; “ I
will faithfully keep her!” Fossibly the fair
■enora’s fan moved a little more rapidly at
the compliment. But nobody thought
amiss of the episode, or for that matter any
thing at all about it,save myself.
At one time myself and friends wore trav
eling on horsebaek the almost impassable
country roads of the southern coast, in the
vicinity of Trinidad. Along in the after
noon we suddenly heard a great rustling,
galloping and hallooing some distance in
advance. Our wise ponies instantly grew
restive, and showed alarm. We baited for
a moment; the yeomen listened; and di
rectly cried out excitedly;
‘‘Ah, biene un toro bravo!” ("Here comes
a wild bull!”) The words were not out of
fall month before his feet struck the ground.
Whipping out his machete be cut with in
credible speed a way through the hedge. It
was not a moment too soon. Thundering
around a sharp cornes in the road oarne a
wild bull, his pursuing rider yelling: “Ten
gan ouidado oon el toro!” ("Look out for
tbs bull!”) The brute oatching sight of our
group oborged madly upon us, and it would
have surprised your anise-seed fox hunters
to have seen the vaulting through and over
that hedge as the gleaming horns whisked
by our ponies twinkling heels: while, true
under all circumstances to the universal
principle of Cuban politeness, the vanishing
vaquero turned in his saddle, removed his
hat, and with the bow of a oourtier sang
out after our fiying squad:
“Rerdonemeu, amigos: pero he tenido el
diahlo con este toro!” (“Your pardon, my
friends: but I am having a devil of a time
with this bull!”)
The going to and coming from Europe on
the great ocean liners provide an endless
variety o i ludicrous incidents; because on
every stermer passengers to a large propor
tion ure new to the peculiar and irrevocable
eltuatiou: formality can 1-y uo moans be un
interruptedly sDetained; individuals, char
acter aud station are brought into close,
sharp and most striking contrasts; and all
social distinctions are liable at any moment
to total obliteration in the common and
often grotesque misery of seasickness.
Two or three meals at farthest sponge tho
banquet airs from the oabin tables. The
ship’s commander, bland as a bartender in
port, ha- hidden himself from view. Tho
purser's window is shut as if hermetically
sealed. Tho ship’s doctor has retired be
hind the strictest interpretation nf h urs
6Dd rules. The chief and assistant stewards,
to whom your great feo has already gone
for a choice seat ut tho table, refuse to
recognize you. Your room steward eyos
you with a look of sharp suspicion and close
analysis. Will you give him much trouble,
and will you feo generously’ com prise bis
uttermost interest. Rut be will permit no
early familiarity. The stewardess flaunts
her white-capped head, plainly saying,
“There are characters h’on this ’ere vessel
aside my h’own to sustain, sir!” The
I boatswains, whose frizzled, fatherly faces
I oa the tirst day gave promise of sea yarns
' an i ocean lore reve.ations, are as stolid as
i bronzes or l rass.
The sergeants-at-arms and deck stewards
walk around you, look you up and down,
: over and urouud, fore and aft, starboard
and port, as if to remind you that deck
rules aro deck law, sir. The ball beys,
those little dried up old commodores of the
passages, library and lavatories, regard you
from beneath beetling brows as with sav
i age advance protests against possible re
quests for favors. Wander where you may
oa your steamer’s decks o. within her
splendid cabius, you Cud but savagery,
seltlsh preoccupation and despair.
And how it levels the proud and great!
Look at thorn sprawling in tbeir chairs,
hundreds cf them, under the lee-awmngs,
hope, pride, scorn, hauteur, all, down like
the flush of the shriveled flowers below.
That pompous old fellow who can draw bis
check for a cool million, and who, onshore,
reckons himself a boy of 40, you know, is
stretched there like a drunkard, holding his
two sets of false teeth in h:s nerveless hand
with the most familiar abandon. He recks
not those who see; he sees not those who
reck. Hen is a grand dame, as easy a sub
ject of study, Her wig is displaced: the
powder at i dor have been sponged from
one side c br face by some attentive stew
ardess, he e, flounces and silks are dis
heveled he is snoring, diversified by snorts
and paluteal staccatos.
See this erst peerless New York belle!
Paint, powder and bilgewater are blended
in a dirty French gray upon her leathery
countenance. The fog has deposited a
clammy rime upon this. Strands of her
now waveiess hair aro fluttering stickily
within her open mouth. Her eyes seem to
have gone back into her head an inch and
are closed beneath dirty yellow lids. Amid
this wreck of beauty there is one bit of
color. It is in her pinky, pointed nose. It
would have paralyzed her to have worn a
“5-cent bathing hat at sea. So from under
the edge of her sls hat her sea-blistered
nose rare and red like some hectic bea
con light looming above drear, dank, dolor
ous isles. In a few days more the long
abused cuticle will peal from this little nose
in tenacious swirls and ourls. an las she
steps upon the staging at Liveiqiool the rude
customs inspectors w ill pron ounce her an
”H’American h’ojeck.’’
A voluble lady, sitting in her deck-clair
and undergoing the premonitory qualms of
mal-de-mer, remarks to the unhappy group
about her:
“If 1 get teisick like the rest of these peo
ple, 1 shall just give up my reason alto
gether, so I shall.”
Whereupon a bluff old party awakens
from his stupor long enough to retort, spite
fully:
“Judging from my own experience, you
wi.l give up far more than that, madanie!’’
On the other side of the repes, where the
steerage passengers are herded like cattle,
you will see them walking the deck as if
at wager, with occasional quick recourse to
the side rail for relief. They are immeas
urably brighter, sunnier and lighter
hearted in their misery than the more Oorn
fortable cabin passengers. While tbqy are
pounding merrily about deck you may ap
proach and sympathetically accost au emi
grant with:
“Well, my boy, how do you find yourself
this morning ?"
“Me health’s all right, yer honor,” (a
plunge to the side rail), is the sturdy re
joinder. Then with a twmkle in his blood
shot eyes, “but, faith, me ticket’s steerage!”
The ocean liner is never without Its fer
ret, who is sometims a divinity student,
“broadening his range of observation and
studyfrequent y the young reporter hon
estly desirous of acquiring everything pos
sible to be learned on shipboard In six days’
effort; and often a female who has broken
loo:e in search of a “career.” These hu
man iuterrogationpoints usually have gold
r. rained eyeglasses, invulnerable assurance,
and note books, whioh are drawn upon vio
tims with the celerity of deadly weapons.
They are abroad for information and they
get it Cornering the ship’s commander on
the subject of seasickness, they fin i:
“Dear sir, or madam, l have followed the
sea for twenty-lire years, and have put
more in it than I ever took out of it!”
From grim old travelers they learn:
"This Is my 140th passage, sir, or madam.
Though I have taken every meal on ship
board, I have frequently missed them!”
Irrepressible they still are when the sea
and the storm pound the waves and the fog
upon the distracted passengers while cross
ing the Newfoundland banks, and there is
not life enough lett in the objects in the deck
chairs to quioken oven profane response.
It is then they espy a solitary being, on
its legs, in blue and gold, away out forward.
They sidle, slip and slide up to it. The
being proves to be a ship’s officer—first,
Beoond, third, or somewhere along the line.
But it is alive, has hearty jowls, a big
paunch, and hoping these bespeak geniality,
they timidly address it.
"Hsg pardon, officer, but are these fogs
always to bo found here on the banks?"
The being is a blue, gold and bronze
statue for a long, long time. Finally, as
they despair and are about to turu away,
its red head suddenly turns quarter round,
and they involuntarily listen for its click.
Then its cavernous, coral mouth expends
frightfully while the being roars:
"’Ow the bloody’ell do H’l know? H’l
doant bide ’eere!”
Up in Scotland the grimness and quaint
ness of humor in speech and anecdote, rather
than in rejoinder or situation, is to the trav
eler an endless ripple of Hunsbine across
the stern features of Scotia’s folk and land.
At Galashiels, of a Sunday morning, I
came upon two lads savagely disputing
where tbeir I est interests should lead them
to Sunday school. The lesser of the two, a
bard-headed little fellow, closed the contro
versy and set the pace with:
“Coom awa; coom awa. It’s maist for
nathing we’ll get at the Free Kirk!”
I witnessed a fisherman’s bride leaving
her old home for the new, at Oban. A
sharp-tongued neighbor gave her this grisly
Uod-Bpeed:
“Joan, buck-tooth tho’ ye are. ye are
are weel busked and kisted (well-dressed
and provided); but the deil is na waur
fuurd (uglier than th’ auld-beik that owns
ye!"
The advent of the doctor when anew
baby arrives In lowly homes —as the physi
cian usually brings currant-bannocks, or
buns, called “curnie-banmes,” with which
to divert the attention of tbs ohildren—is a
supreme occasion in child-life experience.
"Hoot!” I heard a wee lasse of Edin
burgh old-town relating to her big-eyed
comrades in the shadows of a narrow cloee,
“th’ doohter broebt us anew bairn tb’
mornin’! An’ a muokle guid dochter he is.”
Then after a long and impressive silence:
“An’ he brocht a curnie-baunie—an’—an’ a
sponge, tae!"
Hiding along the Carlisle and Glasgow
road in an old trap driven by a serious
youth named Andrew, the horse shied,
kicked the dashboard in pieces, stopped
stock-still, and turned and looked at An
drew.
“Puir beastie! puir beastie!” said Andrew
soothingly. Then hedismouuted and plucked
a tuft of grass which he gave to the ani
mal, with tho ruminative remark: “We’li
gie’t a bite o’ girse (grass) t’ pit it (the vi
ciousness) oot o’ its held!”
Any intelligent traveler could fill a mirth
ful volume with these quaint sayings within
his own hearing. A crofter who pulled me
out ot a stream into whioh I had unwit
tingly fallen, closed the narration to his
friends of his gallant rescue with: “O, ay, I
brocht the uuooo yonkee o’er ;the heckle
pinssairly!” A Highland guidewife pre
dicted my difficulties in climbing Ben Nevis
by remarking, “Ye’ll need pit a stnot heart
tae th’ sty brae ,” while a canny and cynical
old bookseller of Perth, when ridiculing me
for my limited knowledge of the Scottish
people, gave his own countrymen theex
quisite bit of satire of, “Ye’ll ne’er rightly
ken Scoatchmon till ye ken him fora mon
that keops the Sawbath—an’ail else he cau
lay his twa hands oopon!”
Edgar L. Wakkman.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1893---SIXTEEN PAGES.
TO KEEP OUT CHOLERA,
TALK V/I7H Ilia 1-.EALT3 OFFICER
OF NEW YORK
Dr. Jenkins Telia hie flans—Does Not
Believe the Cholera Will Spread
Here Next Summer—Watching the
European Ports— Difficulties of Last
Year That Have Been Overcome.
(CopurijlU.t
New York, March 25. —1 t is id!e to deny
that a large proportion of the people In
America, and especially thoae who reside
along the Atlantic seaboard, are fearful of
a cholera epidemic in this country next
summer. While at this moment there is no
reason to believe that we shall ha ve a cholera
siege such as raged in Europe last year, the
more conservative business people, phy
sicians and thoughtful men of New York
are apprehensive that the warm weather
will bring the dread scourge to our shores.
If cholera should be brought from Europe
to America next summer it is more apt to
gain a foothold In New York city than any
other place, for the other seaboard cities
can be protected much easier than can
New York. Consequently the health
authorities of this port have already
begun active preparations to prevent it*
spread in this city, and indeed they ore tak
ing steps to prevent it coining here at all.
The man. more than any otuer, who will
have this great work lu charge, is Dr. Will
iam T. Jenkins, health officer of this port,
and who was last year subjected to such se
vere criticism for bis treatment of the pas
sengers who came from Europe in cholera
ships. I was seated next to Dr, Jenkins at
dinner the other night and had an oppor
tunity to talk with him about the matter.
Borne days later I visited him in his home
ou Staten Island, overlooking the quaran
tine station and the lower bay. He dis
closed the plans he has adopted to keep
cholera out of the city, and the difference
between meeting au emergency now
and twelve months ago. The doctor,
by name, is known all over the
civilized world. Mothers in Europe
frighten their babies by telling them they
will be sent to New York in a ship and Dr.
Jenkins will put them on an island. Yet
the health officer is a mild-mannered man,
a native of Mississippi, has side whiskers
and is about medium in hight. He has the
quick movemeuts of a yankee, a habit that
he acquired when he was a coroner of
Gotham. He has been described as an au
tocrat by those detained in quarantine, but
uo man has more personal friends, as was
proved by the great banquet given in his
honor recently. He Is a brother-in-law of
Klchard Croker, and receives a salary of
$12,50) a year.
“Dcctor, if obolera should rage in Europe
next summer, are you fully prepared tokeey
it out by quarantine?” 1 asked.
“Yes,” was the reply, “I believe loan
keep it out of this port. But before I tell
you whar has been done since cholera came
here last fall, it Is necessary to recapitulate
a little. It must be remembered tbat up to
two years ago. the health officer received
his pay in fees. I suppose these fees often
amounted to $75,000 per annum. The re
publicans, owing to the fact tbat tho state
Ben ate had to confirm the appointment of
the health officer, managed to keep in one
of their political faith for a dozen years,
although a democratic governor bad lima
and again nominated a health officer. Quar
antine was in the hands of republicans for
many years. They never talked
about national supervision and
uniform regulations during that
time. Now all the employes are
paid by the state except those on Hoffman
and Swinburne islands, who are appointed
by the quarantine commissioners and pa.d
with the fees collected at this port. After
the Are destroyed the quarantine at Staple
ton, 8. 1., it was decided to build on the
two islands named, at a oust of $2,000,000.
In 1887 obolera was brought to this port in
a vessel from Italy, and that stirred up the
local authorities. A oommlttee ol the
Academy of Medicine, in response to a com
munication from the president of the New
York board of health, met Nov. 15,1887.
Mayor Hewitt instructed tho committee
to make a thorough and early investigation
of the quarantine establishment and to point
out its defects in order to bring it up to
the highest ideal standard of modern science
and medical knowledge. To estimate the
amount to be appropriated by the state, in
order to complete necessary improvements
and generally to suggest whether the city
of New York should provide any but tem
porary hospitals in case there should beau
outbreak of cholera in our midst. They
visited quarantine and made a report in
January , 1888, but never suggested the ex
tension of facilities for meeting an* emer
gency.”
“When you took ebargo of quarantine as
health officer did you imagine you would
be as well known throughout the country
as you are now?”
“I had no premonition or what I should
have to endure. Health Officer Smith, my
predecessor, said to me when 1 succeeded
him: ‘Uneasy is the head that wesr9 a
crown.’ He stated the case mildly. W hen
ever I have to speak words of encourage
ment to my successor, 1 shall say I found
my position a living hades, with small
devils houndiug at mo. Is is not necessary
to dwell upon the attacks made upon me by
the press. I have been called everything,
and accused of almost everything, but I
can point to the groat city of New York
and say there is no cholera, and what’s
more, I don’t think there will be ’’
“To return to the first question. The
state legislature appropriated $200,000, a
sum it deemed necessary to put Hoffman
and Swinburne islands in excellent condi
tion. The crematory for the dead, tho ap
paratus for disinfecting by steam and other
things on the islands, the retiring health
officer declared to be in fairly good condi
tion. A small tug that carried only sixty
pounds of steam uuder tbo heaviest pressure
was all I had to board ships. By the by,
I should say there was sufficient space on
Hoffman Island to accommodate 800 steer
ngs passengers. The immigration commis
sioners took charge of minor diseases, and
the patients were sent to North Brother
island. Small-pox patients are taken off
at quarantine and removed by boat.
But there was no boat for this purpose,
And I went to the legislature and se
cured an appropriation to build a boat, and
in the meantime I chartered a boat, because
the small tug I had needed repairing. When
tho cholera came to this port last fall I had
no boat except the chartered one. I had
been in office only live days when informa
tion reached me that typhus fever had de
veloped in New York. The ship, or ships,
came in under my predecessor. I imme
diately ordered that all Russian and conti
nental baggage coming into this port should
bs disinfected. The Baron Hirsoh fund had
causod a hegira from Russia to this country,
and the danger of disease oomiog was
greatly increased. In the meantime I sent
a man to Europe to notify the medical ex
aminers of the various porta and to report
to me. I began to make a bydrographio
map from his reports and the reports 1 read
in the papers, aud I Boon became suspi
cious tbat cholera existed in Hamburg, and
bad existed since Aug. 18. I at
once notified the Beoretary of State. Then
I began to disinfect by steam. When the
Moravia came in, Aug. 30, with cholera on
board, 1 received all kinds of suggestions
as to what should be done. These sugges
tions were so diametrically different tbat 1
resolved to carry out my own ideas. The
President issued his twenty days’ quaran
tine proclamation, and naturally, I decided
to resist It, because I believed then, and I
believe now, that a reasonable detention is
sufficient. A twenty-day quarantine means
a practical suspension of commerce on the
seas. The press began to jump on mo vig
orously for resisting, and I oonoludal to
carry out the President's proclamation."
“Did not Charles Foster, Secretary of
tho Treasury, come over and take a band
in quarantine matters!”
“Yes; his visit and bis interference were
merely to create a little political capital for
bis party. I resisted him somewhat, and
he claimed that I refused to use Camp Low,
In order to do something to get the passen
gers off the Normanma I communicated
with the Secrotary of the Navy, and be put
the New Hatnnsbire, au almost useless
shell of a boat, at my disposal. The press
1 egan to write up tho cholera in such a
glowing and sensational way that business
was seriously hurt hi the city. < Jther cities
quarantined against New York, and some
thing took place tt.at I hardly think the
press in Gotham wou!d care to publish. I
am informed that men representing large
business interests got together and notified
tbe papers tbat if the cholera scare was con
tinued they would cease to advertise in said
papers. That had a magical
effect in one way. The papers
ceased to harp ou the obolera aud
proceeded to attack me. I be
came the victim. How much of politics
t bi-rs was m tbe matter I am unable to sav.
Why, long before the Ncrmannia attempted
to land at l ire Island a reliable man in
formed me that he heard a prominent re
publican official say we would not be allowed
to land. How he knew it 1 have not learned,
I have a suspicion that it was part of a
game to land them on Camp Low. The
pilot at the Fire Island light house never
attempted to take the Cepheus, containing
the passengers, over tbe bar, although it is
well-known the boat could have gone over
tbe bar. Ido not mind saying that if the
passengers were not permitted to land at
Fire Island I would have landed them in
New York, because I feit certain that none
of the passengers were infected after ail tho
precautions had been taken.
"After the live cargo in the steerage is
cared for the danger of disease among the
cabin passengers is almost reduoed to a
minimum, lly tbe wav of parenthesis I will
add that a terrible bue and cry was raised
by on editor on the Normanma because 500
people were on board the Cepheus. The
truth is, the Cepheus is licensed to carry
1,1500 paes-ngars. But after the dinner
given to me by my fellow citizens I cer
tainly feel tbat the attacks made upon me
did not keep tbe unbiased from seeing that
I at least did my duty as best I could with
the means at my command.”
“Are you better prepare! now than be
fore to keep the cholera out?”
"Yes; I have not been idle a moment
since last fall, and, though cholera should
be epidemic in all the big European ports,
I believe I can keep it out. No such con
dition as existed when tbe plague ships
arrived last fall will exist again. Pre
cautions have been taken in more ways
than one. After the cholera patients are
discharaged, I made some recommendations
toward rendering a more efficient service at
the port of embarkation. Indifference and
neglect at the port of emt a: katiou are no
doubt responsible for tbe cholera on ship
board. This year greater precautions than
ever will be taken in the big seaport towns
in Europe, and the danger will be corre
sp ndingly decreased. Then, at a confer
ence of medical men on the subject, 1 sug
gested certain changes in Hoffman Island,
and the quarantine commissioners
also made some suggestions. It
was decided to extend tbe fa
cilities ou Hoffman Island and put addi
tional buildings on it. I also suggested a
fireproof building on Swinburne Island. It
should be about midway of the island and
three stories high. This suggestion was
adopted. I also recommended a floating
hospital, aud tba plans have already been
drawn. However, there was some objec
tion to it, and tbe determination of seme
was to retain the old hospitals as they are
on Swinburne Island, and recommend Fire
Island in case of an emergency, whioh the
deoision of Judge Cullen makes possible,
nntll we can construct a hotel on Hoffman
Island, by extending it, if it is decided to
do so. The facilities therefore available at
present are far the accommodation of 800
passengers on Hoffman Island and 700 on
Swinburne Island. And on Fire Island 500
oan easily be aocommodated.
“In oase of extreme need, Mr. Dulger,
who has buildings on tbe island, will give
them up, and that will make room for a few
hundred more. A good many improve
ments have been made in Hoffman Island
and Swinburne Island. New boilers have
been put in tbe plant and other tbiugs
necessary have been added. We have now
three boats—viz., one for the transfer of
passengers, one for boarding vessels and one
for tbe transportation of tbe eick. If neoes
ssry we can charter several boats. So, you
see, as far as facilities for detaining tbe
quarantined are concerned, the state has
places to souse, fumigate or disinfect, feed
aud, when fatalities occur, to cremate. ”
"What about Camp Low.”
“That belongs to the United States and
will accommodate 500 steerage passengers.
Before using Camp Low 1 would have to
receive an order from the Secretary of the
Treasury. But with the system of double
quarantine—that is, at the port of embarka
tion aud here—tbe danger of cholera get
ting luto New York is reduced to a mini
mum. In fact, it is almost impossible for it
to get in. Several steamship lines last sea
son tried the double quarantine system and
the result was, not a single case was brought
over. The measures taken at the port of
embarkation will not only De rigid, but the
sanitary arrangements in the ships will be
almost perfect. A careful supervision of
the passengers, of the crew and the cargo,
proper food, good water, excellent ventila
tion of the vessels, and a sharp eye
on the sanitary condition of the
vessel before loaded—all of which our
state law requires in a bill of health
will go a long way toward keep
ing out the dreadful scourge. Anyway,
the law and its striot enforcement will pie
vent the bringing of the disease in cuch a
wholesale fashion as last autumn. Of course
this includes complete isolation of a patient
on the vessel at sea. Now, it follows that
with such careful supervision at the em
barkation port, and medical supervision in
transit, and detention here, we have a double
quarantine, and we are doubly secure. Iu
the belief that these wiso precautions should
be taken and the law of tbe state should be
enforced, I sent a man to Hamburg last
January to see that the regulations men
tioned are not violated, but carried out to
the letter. The Ward Line of steamers to
South America oarry out the double quar
antine in regard to yellow fever, and have
found it au excellent system. It will go a
long way toward keeping oontagious dis
ease: out of port."
“Do you think tbe steamship companies
will hamper you in your work?"
“The steamship companies have to meet
heavy losses by quarantine and pay heavy
expenses, aud they are not going to ruu any
risks. The heavy loss to the Hainburg-
American Paokct Company iu tbe Nor
mannis case has been a lesson which other
ooinpanies will profit by. Besides, when a
ship once becomes famous os a cholera ship,
it practically ends its career. Tbe law says
that the expense of the detention and the
taking care of the passengers shall fall upon
the steamship companies. No steamship
line will run vessels for glory. All of these
solid faots will help to lessen the obanoe of
the introduction of cholera into this port."
“Do vou think tbe recent quarantine bill
passed by congress will hamper you any in
keeping out obolera?”
‘ ‘No, it will not interfere with me at all.
The national government can control the
consuls at the ports of embarka
tion, and it can do much good in that way.
The idea of having a uniform quarantine
law Is preposterous in many respects. No
two ports can be regulated alike and the
conditions are entirely different. There are
cities in the United States where diseases of
a certain kind are epidemic. The same
regulations for those cities would not do for
New York. lam satisfied with the quaran
tine laws of this state. They represent the
cumulative experience of over 100 years,
and duriDg that long period nothing has
ever occurred to call forth legislation by the
national government, except the episode
of last autumn. For tweive years past
tbe republicans have had control of quarau
tiue, and somehow they did not
ory out for a national quarantine. I was
asked by the congressional committee
whether 1 would like to have entire charge
of the national quarantine. It seems ridic
ulous that any one for a moment could
imagine that I desired more responsibility,
or that I was indifferent to the solemn and
sacred duties imposed upou me as health
officer. Why, what more natural than that
I should do all in iny power to keep out
cholera, to prevent my fellow citizens from
being stricken with tbe seburge, and to
pre-erve the property of the city. A single
spark of humanity would dictate such a
course, leaving out the question of main
taining a reputation for etiiciencv and faith
fulness in the discharge of duty.”
“Can the quarantine commissioners
hamper or Interfere with you in any way I”
“No, for section 13 artiole 11 of th#
quarantine law of 1892 says that the health
officer, in the presence of immediate danger
shall have the power to appoint assistants,
nurses and men generally to take charge.
I am held responsible, and to hamper me
in any way would not help the
quarantine service. The state,
however, can oope with the
quarantine problem, and I do not see any
need for alarm, I confess that I do not
fear the introduction of cholera the coming
summer or fail. A rigid double quaran
tine will, in my judgment, keep it out.”
This is perhaps tho most reassuring news
the people of America have had on the
cholera question. Dr. Jenkins, in the above
interview, seemed to feel confident that be
could successfully wrestle with the plague
should it come here. If he does not succeed
the country will be in a pretty bad predioa
rnent. Foster Coates.
FIXING BABY’S HAIR.
STYLISH COIFFURES FOR CHIL
DREN MADE TO ORDER.
What Soma Mothers Do—LUtls Tots
as Foils for Maternal Good Looks.
( Copyrioht , 1893.)
New York, March 25.— The small, im
perious maiden was going to the hairdresser.
She skipped excitedly beside her placid
bonne, her round face all aglow over the
prospect dear to every feminine heart,
whether It has beaten three years or three
score, of an hour with a professional beauti
fier of nature’s own handiwork.
“Pleathe remind her to be careful of my
longeth curl,” she chatted, “beoauthe
mamma tbaid I might have tbe Eitbie I.eth
lie cut, you know, aud I couldn’t afford to
let my pet curl be clipped much.”
And tho brow of fashion’s little slave of
seven snmmers clouded, as clouds every
other woman’s in tho iaud, over the awful
whys and wherefores, the dangerous though
delicious possibilities of her mistress’ next
move and its all important consequences
upon herself.
"Fashions in dressiug children’s heir!
Bless my soul, of course there are,” said a
hearty “maiame,” who was enough a
yankee to take &u. ble Fronch name when
she went lnt > the business of dressmaking.
“It’s a mortal shame to put sued ideas
into the youngsters’ heads, too, as their
mothers and their nurses and their com
panions do," she continued, her New Eng
land priDOlples triumphing over her pro
fessional instincts.
“Those ohildren ought to be in school
studying arithmetic, with their hair in two
braids down their baolts, instead of in
boudoire getting fitted to coiffures to suit
their style ana their mothers’ outfits in
clothes.
“Sometimes the maids clip and brush and
curl tbe hair, but on great occasions, when
mamma drives downtown or goes to oburch
with her daughter, the hairdresser comes to
tbe house and gives the swell young lady a
shampoo and all the rest of it before she
ourls her hair for the hat which is to be
worn.”
Then tbe yankee madam gave a few Irate
details concerning the modes for tiny tots
who know them and shriek bitterly when
foiled in lilliputian pints to snare in tbeir
own particular manner the unhappy Faunt
leroy, the toddling tar or the barelegged
boy disguised as a Scottish chieftain who
lives next door. Good little girls in Sun
day school books have their hair soaped
down their neokg aud tied thebe with blue
ribbon, but tbe knowing little girls of
Gotham scorn such simplioity. They ar
range their tresses in a wild tangled pro
fusion of curls with a very artful natural
ness. Tbe baby of 3 is suDmitted by
an ambitious mamma to the curling
process; she kneels in her crib and
says, “Now I lay me," under curl papers,
and the next morning she is displayed
with a fringe of baby bair hanging squarely
around her neok and falliug prettily over
her obeeks. The Gothamite child never has
straight locks, though they may be banged
from ear to ear. The hot iron has crinkled
the strands where the silk and kid avail Dot.
When the babe has grown to Bor 9 years
she lets her lengthened hair flow down her
back and over her shoulders in large, loose,
shaking ringlets of tbe Elsie Leslie, Lord
Fauntieroy and Princess in the Tower
style.
It is now that fond and silly mothers
bleach tbeir offsprings’ hair until It looks
like Marie Tempest’s wig. This they con
sider a necessary step before they cau perch
the velvet Gainsborough hat upon the
dainty toy whioh they delight in dressing,
as the toy used to delight in dreatlDg her
doll.
Tbe dark, Italian like young mother
bloudmes her daughter’s hair and dresses
her in a quaint, old world, Reynolds or
renaissance costume, and the two make a
dashing picture in the park.
There are no ribbons, no combs, no knots
until the child is 13 or 14 years old. The
hairdresser gives her closest attention to
this simple, natural coiffure, however, and
by processes used on older heads keeps the
flying locks smooth, soft and glossy.
When the girl reaches the dignity of bar
teens, her aw kward form is clothed in the
exquisite site and woolen mixed goods, the
wash silks, the lace and ribbon and frip
peries whioh all the world is wearing, and
her much abused hair is done in a Margue
rite braid.
This coiffure is the most satisfactory of
any prior to the debutante’s knot. A light
fringe on tho forehead is cut down around
the ear.:, then the hair is parted and crimped
and a few long strands are left to fall at
tbeir own will, while tbe rest are gathered
▼ery loosely to the base of tbe neck, where
they are braided. The biaid is not tied, but
the ends are the inevitable curl. Occasion
ally toey are turned under and fastened
with a tortoise pin.
By this time she is beyond the reach of
her mother’s vanities, but her own are so
well developed that she gives her own or
ders to her menials, having carefully based
them upon studies before the mirror.
“Tbe fact is," were tbe yankee hairdress
er's last words, “there ain’t any children in
New York."
In former times, says the Ouiaberger Zeituno,
it was the custom in many German towns to
manufacture sausages of enormous length,
and carry them ou festive occasions in solemn
procession through the streets. Oa New Year’s
day Id Ijsß a giant sausage 1118 ells in length was
carried in tr.umph by forty-eight persons. But
in 1583 it took ninety-one persons to carry a sau
sage 593 ells long and weighing ill pound:.
The chronicler of the per oil says: “The butch
ers' men were all neet'.y attired m while
blouses. Tbe tirst man wound one end of the
sausage Feveral times round his neck, with a
oortiou of it hanging down in front, the rest
followed at equal distances carrying the trophy
on their shoulders, and the last one bad the
other e.id wound round his neck like the man at
the head of the procession.” In the year lliOl
we are told that tne sausage attained a length
of 1,1)05 ells, 1.0 of which were presented to
their serene highnesses at the castle. All this
happened iu Konigsberg. In Til i the Emperor
Matthias regaled the princes of the house of
Austria with a tournament, at which the butch
ers of Vienna gave a representation of a peas
ants’ wedding, and paraded the streets with a
sausage measuring 93!) ells.
These was considerable discussion in Paris
over M. Taino’s religious predilections immedi
ately after his death. He was brought up a
Catholic, and during the last years of his life
was on friendly relations with Mgr. d’Hulst. the
ecclesiastical deputy. But bis funeral was o in
ducted in a Protestant church. lie attended
the services of a “t ree Evangelical” clergyman,
in whom his daughter Genevieve bad become
interested, and found him an ecceptablo spirit
ual adviser. It is possible tnat he actually be
came a member of tbe Evangelical communion.
His residence in England, too, would incline him
no doubt, toward Protestantism, s> that, like
Renah, Talne was perhaps A Catholic only by
accident of birth.
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
THE QUEER CONTRIVANCES OF
THE SCENIC ARTISTS.
Palntinsr Pictures on Stilts—A Boston
Publisher on “Oblivion”—Tha Two
Orphans—“ Progressive fcnffalo BUI."
Consul General Collins.
tCovunabt.i
New York , Marob,2s. —One of the oddest
of metropolitan industries or arts—some
times it’s one, sometimes the other—is that
of the scenio artist.
Time was when the scene painter was an
important adjunct of every theater's behind
scenes. He’s there still, but bis business has
dwindled away to that of a mere repairer of
other men’s work, as a rule.
Don’t lay it to tbe interstate commerce
law, though. Theater men are sometimes
inclined to make that euaotment a universal
scapegoat.
No, the old-fasbioned scenio painter began
to be out of fashion when cumbrous and
elaborate Betting came in. Space is sold
and rented by tbe square foot now, and
there’s no longer room for the scenio painter
to do his word in the narrow quarters pro
vided for him at tbe back of tbe stage.
Space the new style of scenic paintiDg de
mauds, and so many of tbe best known
painters have set up huge studios in tlie sub
urbs where land is cheap and they can dash
around to tbeir heart's content, besides
backing off to look at tbeir work without
danger of stepping on a stage hand’s toes.
Haney Merry nad his scenio etudios Noe. 1
and 2, near the entrance of Prospeot
park, in Brooklya. No. lis simply an or
dinary frame house gutted luto odu big
room. No. 2 It a huge barn of a place
propped up against tbe sea winds with long
timbers. At least one of those great studios
is very attractive In external appearance—
that of L. W. Seavey away up on Walton
avenue. It is borne as well as paiut room—
here Sea voy lives with his wife and pretty
daughter—and its huge bulk is broken with
jutting angles, old windows and tall chim
neys.
How does an artist manage to get such
big pictures in proportion? By dividing
the canvas into a great number of squares
first. Tbeb upon a canvas of ordinary size
divided into similar squares he draws bis
picture in oil or water colors. Square by
square it can then be transferred from the
smaller surface to the larger, the painter
making use of stagings aud swinging seats
to get at his work.
THE TWO ORPHANB.
Somebody nicknamed them “the two
orphans,” I don’t know why, hut the title
sticks. Probably they’re not orphans at
all. If there is a papa or mamma, how
ever. and a big brother, no one has ever
seen them. But when the weather is fine
the sisters appear and pass in lonely parade
up or down the ’way. The are twins, ap
parently, aud almost indistinguishable.
Their hats are of correct shape, their shoes
new and glossy, tbeir gloves unsoiled, thoir
capes modiih, yat there is an indefinite air
country breeding about them rnd tbe coun
try rosas are yet iu their cheeks.
There is something inexpressibly lonely
in tbe life of these girls, as I imagine it.
They are from some country home. They
do not know tbat it is not here, ns there,
quite the custom for young women to
promenade the business street unattended
and purposeless. Probably there is a tatber
absorbed in business, perhaps heedless of
them. They know no way to gain the
friendship and acquaintance of women of
their owu age. Except toe church there ie
no way, uml the church is not always to be
relied upon. Iu many of them tbe social
atmosphere is Labradorean.
Men can make acquaintance while light
ing a cigar—ln business, ina hundred ways.
But the city life of a lonely woman is
a frightful thing. You see it in tbe hotels
and boarding homes every where. Some
times its baneful fruits appear in melan
choly scandals.
There ie no place so merciless as a great
city. I hope the two orphans who look good
and true as they are pretty, will find a way
to its steely heart.
LIKE THE LILIES.
Like the lilies of the field, whioh toil not
neither do they spin aDd more especially
like the tiger lily thereof, are the ultra
cravats of tha fin do siacle. We have had
the blue of heaven—always standard, by
the way—and the green of waving grain in
spring and all wonderful colors. This year
came the tiger lily ties— do, they are more
like a frog’s bslly-no I know not what they
most resemble. But upon a white ground
they show such wonderful floral displays of
pink and yellow vine and blos-om.
Ah! I have it. They are really more like
an old-fashioned Paisley shawl in design
and tints than anything else, except very
much lighter in tone. A wiudowfnl of
them looks like a garden of delicate fair
tinted posies.
CONSUL GENERAL COLLINS.
No Irish-Amerisan who oould possibly
have been named wouid be so much persona
grata at the oourt of St. James as Consul
General Patrlok A. Collins. Of course,
Mr. Collina’ offiolal duties are commercial,
not diplomatic, but bis social relations with
London will be by no means unimportant
either to himself or the nation.
Collins is a keen and shrewd man, a
statesman and a leader. He was a decided
power in congress, and in Massachusetts has
always trained with the tariff reformers.
By the;way, there is more or less 10.-vo ced
grumbling going on among democrats be
cause Massachusetts got so many plums out
of the cabinet pudding.
BITS OF OLD NEW YORK,
There are little eddies in the rush uptown
ward of New York.
Tbe Goelet house—the Goelet farm some
imaginative people call it—stands at the
eorder of Broadway and Nineteenth street,
a melancholy spectacle. It is uninhabited,
the broads walks grass grown; the stable in
tbe rear has scarce a whole pane of glass
left. Property worth vast sums of money
has been unused here for many a year,
lying directly between Union and Madison
squares.
On East Twenty-seventh street is another
eddy in the tide, a block of little old bouses
sot away back from the street, recalling the
days wbeu these were the suburbs and the
city lay below.
About aud above Washington square lies
tbe most interesting region in old New
York, dear to artists especially and to "lit
erary fellers.” Chelsea village remains a
delicious bit of tbe ancient town, though
Greenwich, its neighbor to the south, has
been almost entirely overbuilt by the whole
sale grocery and market trades.
But it is not in tne great middle eeotlon of
the city that bits of the old do most abound.
Away to the north one must go for that
now, and to some of the loss lively streets of
the east side.
“progressive buffalo bill."
Since Buffalo Bill was honored by royal
approval and recognition ou tba other side
of the water his sooiai standing iu this
country has been simply unassailable. Of
oouree tbe climax of that success was
reached at an absurd dinner party at a swell
house in West Chester, when Cody was the
guest of boocr ana one of only three
men present, and when each of the young
women present had tbe honor of sitting
through one course by bis tide, then moving
ou aud giving way to anotber.
New York laughed at this, as it does at
everything, and dubbed it a “Progressive
Buffalo Bill party.”
Cody is a fine fellow and as near flattery
proof as any man can be. That experience
would iiuvo made au ordinary mortal too
big to live.
OOTHAM GENERALITIES.
Room rent for office use is $1 a square
foot per year arouod Madison square. Down
town it is much dearer.
Since I wrote about Gen. Grant's red hair
aud heard iu war time I’ve come across a
r, 3inti! ’K ”7 ■*)• recent!-.- de< caved
m Phil! -.. tea ,x, wi.t.*! u ,/re "
great general on tbe battle Held with" Vi.'*
ana sanguineous 10-k-. a “ r 7
Ulk of Newspaper row hai been ‘he
Recorder's sudden teir m j n th * us *
“to leu”
aud th© like. Th© paper happened in
prizes for he first advertisers „„„
correctly paste togeth r a puzzle and
a smaii “ad” upon it. As so mas the dear
public found it out arts began t • come in ££
the page, some apparently advertising (Z
things they didn't want at, ail m order to
have a chance at the prize. It will take
Mosser Antonio Comstock a long tme to
Yorkers. ,|>or, *’ : * out of the Ne w
The omnia yet living-John Stephenson
wbo introduced horse car; in New York
and now they are on the poi it of giving
way to other forms of surface conveyed
Imagine any large American city of to dav
trying to get along with tbe transit faeffil
ties New-Vork had in Stephenson’s ho
hood. George Francis TrMu. too is arL
minder of the old days before the citizef
had put tram-cars upou London streets in
the face of much opposition
Though some of tho New York paners
keep up a show of hostility to the world’s
fair, there’s no question that popular inter
est iu it here is keen. New York fought
foi-, or rather fought fairlv tor it "as
tairly beaten, and that’s all there waste it.
\ our true Gothamite doesn’t harbor -e.
sentments Life is too short.
Wbat is the average hight of a man in
this country! Probably greater than io any
other. One meets good-sized men in New
\ork constantly. Tii© biggest don’t H a
here, though, but oome from the south end
west. Makers of ready made clothing send
long legged trousers aud ooats of wido girth
to those regions. Everybody knows that
our women are regally tall.
The Chinese aren’t registering and photo
graphing themselves very unanimously y e t
What will be done about it when the tirns
limit baa expired? Will they all be Beat
back to China? Here’s an interest in *
query. a
The population of New York is increased
during the winter months by as manvas
5,000 patients undergoing operations' or
treatment in the hospitals and at the bouse*
of doctors. They oome and go, many get
well, some die under the knife, some linger
in hopeless invalidism. This Is one of the
tragedies of the great city.
David Wkchsleb,
LAUGHING FOR VOTES.
How Congressman Mercer cf Omaha
Got Elected.
From tbe ,Vio York Advertiser.
Washington, March 20.—Bryan, th#
breezy young orator from Nebraska, is
going to have a rival in the way of breezi
ness from his own state in the House neil
winter. Mercer, a young republican elected
in the democratic district of Omaha, is not
only breezy,but is decidedly cyclonic. He will
give neuralgia to about half the House tha
first time be passes through it, and he will
make friends with the other half ou tha
way back to tbe cloak room. If he hapjieus
to set the pace for any considerable number
of bis associates, and he is liable to, for ha
is contagious, tbe wheels of legislation will
go round fast enough to cause a hot box.
Be is a youug fellow with a frank, open
ccuntenanoe, bright eyos that will not keep
still, an athletic Ogure and a nervous eue.-gy
that affeots every one who comes iu contact
with him. He got elected to congress,
overcoming a demooratio majority in the
face ot the opposition of the republican
newspaper and a large faction of that party,
by making friends with every man ha met
on the street or elsewhere, aid at once re
questing hi* assistance in the canvass. Ila
did not stop to find out wbat a man’s poli
tics might be; what he wanted was tha
vote, and if he missed often, he often bit a
luoky ruu. He did not let even the ladies
escape bis canvass altogether, but whenever
he got half au opportunity enlisted the
young ladies in his causa to use their in
fluence with their swestDearts. One day ha
called up a friend on tbe telephone in a
gieat hurry. Tbe auswer came in a lady’s
voice.
“That is a mistake,” he said. “Excuse
me; central gave the wrong call,” and ha
was about to hang up tbe trumpet. Tnere
was something so dashy and prompt iu his
manner of speaking that it provoked a
laugh at the other end of the ’phone. Ha
caught tbe laugh just as he was about to
quit the ’phone.
“Hold on,” he said; “I like that laugh.
It has au honest ring to it. Excuse me,
miss, but I would like to know you. Thai
laugh catches me.” The laugh was re
peated.
Then he laughed.
“I’m in a rush,” ho said; “hut tell ma who
you are. A woman who can laugh like that
is worth knowing. I hec you are the bes:-
natured woman id Omaha.” But tba laugh
was all be could get from the other end of
tbe ’pbooe.
“Well, what’s the timber of your
’phone?” he asked.
There was another laugh and a number
was given. Quickly he looked over the list
in the telephone direotory and found the
lady was a doctor.
“ There, doctor,” he said, “I am glad to
know you. Good-by, for the preient,”
It was the female doctor's turn then to
be inquisitive. Bhe wanted to know his
name. “No,"he said, “I have tbo edgeou
you.”
Bhe insisted that he was real mean, and
laughed as shd said it. He oould not resist
the laugh, so he replied:
"I am the next congressman .rom this
district.”
“Aro you Mr. Mercer?"
“Yes, aud I am coming around to sen
you. I want you to circulate my cards and
do some work for me in the canvass. WUI
you be home In half an hour?”
The end of it was that Mercer went to see
the owner of tba laugh, taking with him
about 150 of his cards for distribution. He
credits her with getting a vote for every
cord.
THEY THINK IT FUNNY.
The Anti-crinoline Bill That New Yor!s
Leg slaters Laughod Over.
From tbe Feio York Tribune.
Albany, N. Y.. March 20.—The crino
line bill, which waß introduced in tha As
sembly a few weeks ago, was reported from
the committee on oommerce and navigation
to-night in an amended form, and read for
the information of the members present.
The amended bill is ss follows:
An act to prohibit the sale, loan or wearing of
hoopskirts or crinoline.
Tbe people of the state of New York. re P“r
seated in bSuate and Assembly, enact as lot
lows: . , it
Section 1. Thereafter be it enacted, Tnatit
shall be unlawful for any person to sell,
loan or furnish to any citizen of the state wiias
are known and called hoopskirts or crinoline
but any person may steal such article, aau i
not caught will not be punished.
Sec. 2, It shall be unlawful lor any person >
wear on their person what are commonly know
as hoopskirts or crinoline. .
Bec. 3. Tbe following places will be exempt**
from the general provisions of this act: f-e
York City—lmperial Music hall, Pytiiagc
hall and Walhall* hail; in Brooklyn—ttoc
Corner. Price’s hall. Tempera ice hall, jy*"
lander s academy: in F.rie County—Rhea v '
hardt's Music hall and in tbe Sixth Assem I */
district.
Seo. 4. It shall be unlawful for any **““•
facturer to ueo barb wiro in the construction
crinoline, the sad Darb wire article to be Iu "
nished free to mothers-ia-law. .
Sec. 8. Under the provisions of -his sc •
Thomas V. Costello of New York city [s ®P
pointed inspector of hoopskirts. ife si an n*
powed to appoint thirteen femalo s”® 1 ? 0 '
none of whom shall be under toe age or 1
more (bun 25. The salary of said ,
and searchers shall be the money derived ■
the sale of boopshlTtsconflscated by the sal- *
spector and scarch-wi. end said inspector si
file so annual rsi-orr with the board of govert
org of the Old Maid home.
Bx<\ 6. This act shall take effect at the same
time ae tbe Harvey claim bill.
The reading of tho bill created an im*
mense amount of laughter. The chamber
was crowded and soores of women who
were preueut joined heartily in the hilarity.
Gen. Scott Is said to have prided himself on
his knowledge of philology.