ttzmszzss f-F-Tzrv, r-. ,& - $fiPnixn -SEND YOUR ADLETS EARLY For The Sunday Dispatch, in ,Order That They May Be Prop erly Classified. SEND YOUR ADLETS EARLY lor The Snnday Dispatch, in Order That They May Be Prop erly Classified. fas.. Jl . w-.y k B&Amfrli me ?J w Mm?' FORTY SEVENTH TEAR SLOW PROGRESS OF IRE SCOURGE IN Only One Case of True Cholera Found in the Big City Yesterday. THEKE ABE SUSPECTS, BUT NOT ANY ALARM. One of the Victims Said to Be in a Very Fair Way of Cheating the Undertaker. ANOTHER PLAGUE SHIP STOPS AT QUARANTINE. The Bohemia Brings News of EleTen Buri als at Sea and Discharges Some Sick Folk on IrriTaL No Positive Clew ss to How the Disease Entered the City The Health Board Working Energetically The Infected Houses Closely Guarded Some Sug gestions That Should Be Committed to Memory The President Asked to Promptly Suspend Immigration at All Points Good News Prom the Lower Bay No Fresh Outbreak on the Ship3 That Have Been Fumigated. :frECUXi TH.XORAM to the dispatch. New York, Sept. 16. One new case of cholera and 30 cases of plain stomach ache were reported to the Board of Health to day. The case believed to be genuine cholera was that of Edward Hoppe, of 1625 Madi son avenue Hoppe was a carpenter at 1625 Madison avenue. Hoppe had suffered from dysentery for nearly a week, but recovered several days ago, although he was not able to resume work. He was taken ill again "Wednesday and died at 2:30 o'clock the following morning. The case was re ported to the Board of Health and the stomach and intestines are now in posses sion of Dr. Boberts, who will make a bac teriological examination. Health Officer White u in charge of the house, and he will permit no one to leave or enter Hoppe's apartments. It is said that Hoppe wni ad dicted to drink. The Disease Not WnMng Headway. Mary Connerty will probably recover. At 10 o'clock to-night it was reported she had rallied considerably during the afternoon, and if she lived through the night she would get well. Though the disease has made no headway, the Board of Health was in almost con tinuous session to-day, and 25 additional doctors were appointed medical inspectors. The board at its meeting in the afternoon issued a circular addressed to the "superintendents of ferries, depots, manu factories, excursion boats, steamers, wharves, piers, docks," eta, requesting that they provide temporary places for iso lation for those who may be taken suddenly ilL It was discovered to-day that the seven cases of cholera which occurred had practically tied up the police force of the board. There are only 21 policemen in the sanitary squad, and it requires three to watch each house. It was decided to ask the Police Department to make each fiouse where the disease has occurred, or where it may occur in the future, a separate house to be guarded by regular officers. Christine Vortag, Bosa Kohut, Sarah Schnitzler and Lena Schnitz ler, the four girls who came in the Fries land and who are suspected of having brought the cholera to the Levinger family, are all well, but have been taken to the Willard Parker Hospital as suspects, and they will be watched there. Suspicious Cases Being Investigated. Dr. JLaboucher reported this .morning that an Italian had died in Sullivan street under suspicious circumstances last night The man was taken with vomiting and diarrhcea and died in two hours. The doctor thinks it was a case of cholera. The case will be investigated. A Health Department bulletin reports that the bacteriological examination of the intestinal contents from the body of Char lotte Beck, who died September 13, has re Tealed the presence of the spirillum of Asiatic cholera. The woman had been sick but a few hours and from the first it was be lieved that her death was caused by genuine cholera. So far the Board of Health has been unable to trace the origin of the cholera cases that have occurred in the city. The large number of Italians who live under the wharves at the dumps where street cleaning refuse is unloaded prepara tory to being put on scows and sort over the stuff in a hunt for rags and valuables, are being scattered by the police to-day. There was a small-sized rebellion when the officers started in on the raid. Want Immigration Completely Suspended. In response to the judgment of a confer ence of the Health and Police Boards and the Tax Department and Commissioner of Public Works, Mayor Grant to-night wrote President Harrison requesting him to pro claim a complete suspension of immigra tion to ports of the United States until all danger of cholera is passed. The following resolution was passed bv the Board of Health, It was offered by Medical Commissioner Bryant: Whereas, tlio-presence of cholera In this city and Its relation to diarrhceal diseases makes it extremely important that all diar rheal discharges ho at once disinfected, as nianv cases of cholera take the form of mild diarrhcea, but the discharge, in those cases are as dangerous as from the severer types of the disease: therefore, Resolved, That physicians rnd nurses are roipectfully requested to see that this recom mendation is promptly carried out, as in this menuanon js promptly curnuu uui, asmcais i -way tho great danger of spreading Infection j m from unsuspected cases of 'cholera will he greatly lessened. Ask Ladies to Co-Operate. Mr. Troutman, President of the Ladies Health Protective Association, and Mr. Fendler, the Secretary, made a complaint about a slaughter house in Foriy-fourth and Forty-fifth streets. They said the odor there was offensive and the building was not properly looked after. President Wil son told them that there had been com plaint against the same place and it was be ing investigated. He also told them that the department wanted the Ladies' Health Protective Association to co-operate with the board. Bichard Watson Gilder also called. As the President of the New York Kindergar ten Association, he suggested steps (to be taken for the safety of the children in the association schools.- He wanted to know, too, if it would be best to close the schools in the neighborhood of the houses where cholera cases existed. He was told that the children would probably be safer in the schools than anywhere else, provided the children who lived in the infected houses were excluded. There has been considerable talk about alleged lax quarantine methods. The opinion has been expressed that all the oc cupants of each house where a case of cholera appears should be guarded. Mr. Wilson and Medical Commissioner Bryant were asked by your reporter whether this would make the quarantine any more effective. They each said that it would be an unnecessary precaution, and added that even if it should be desirable there was no law under which it could be done. Not Spread by the Butcher. Butcher Charles Schmidt, of 579 Second avenue, who supplied meat to the family in which Mary Conerty was a servant, has not bought bis meat from Schwarzchild & Sulz berger, the wholesale butchers of Forty fifth street and First avenue, since last January. Schmidt produced all his bills yesterday to prove that he buys all his meat from another establish ment.and Mrs. Finn, the keeper of the Knitfl!nr Tic n-li.-a Mn.- . .. M..1..J says she has bought all her meat from Sclunidt This does away with the sup posed connection between the facts that Schmidt supplied Mrs. Finn with meat and the immigrants .from the Friesland lived in the Levinger house with some of Schwarz child's workmen. Sulzberger said he had not had a complaint from any customer, and that several had called to say that they ti ere entirely satisfied with the way his establishment was cared for. The Board of Health Inspector on guard at the Levinger house on the next block to Schwarzchild & Sulzberger, said that the slaughter houses were in good condition. Out of nearly a thousand men employed there not one person is sick. He thinks it is clearly established that the Hungarian immigrant girls gave the disease to Lev inger's baby, but does not believe it went any further. ANOTHER PEST SHIP. The- Bohemia Arries at Quarantine With Cholera Cases on Board Eleven Deaths Daring the Voyage Names and Ages of the Victims Good Reports From, the Lower Bay More Delay for the Nor mannia Passengers. New York, Sept 16. Special There was much relief at Quarantine when the Bohemia, the last immigrant ship coming from Hamburg, reported only 11 deaths aboard on the voyage. Her surgeon At tributes them to inflammation of the stom ach and bowels, but Dr. Walser, who in spected the ship yesteraay afternoon, be lieves that the disease was unquestionably cholera. Four of the passengers were re moved as patients to Swinburne Island this morning by Dr. Byron. The Bohemia sailed from Hamburg on September 3 with ten cabin, 661 steerage passengers and a crew of 72 men. That day Sarah Dietzler, 25 years old, became ill. She died after three days' illness. On the 4th her child was taken ill and died on Thurs day,.Jhe last day that the ship was out All the patients died alter an illness of from one to five days. All but two of them were children under 8 years. Of the four patients removed to Swinburne Island one was stricken on Wednesday, two on Thursday and one yesterday morn ing before Dr. Byron visited the steamship. Thirty-seven of the sick recovered at sea. Df. Walser was in formed by the Bohemia's surgeon that the ship, like the Scandia, had beed disintected abroad with carbolic acid. Dr. Walser eaid that he has no confidence in the efficacy of carbolic acid to destroy cholera germs. The cabin passengers on the Bo hemia are Fritz Trott, Frederick Kren necke, Mrs. Bertha Krennecke, Charles Hartung, Mrs. Horten Hesse 'and family, Samuel Bernhardt and son. Official List of the Dead. Dr. Walser's report of his inspection ot the Bohemia gives this list of the'dead: Taken Afro. Dietzler, Sara 25 Dietzler, Pecho 6 Wesel, Kivte 25 Ratlomsk, Donga.... 2 Bass, Schindil IK Friedman, Soul 5 Lavodwick, Junkc.. 1 Veis9burp, Moses... 4 LIpson, Judel S Mandelskorn, Leiv. 8 llandelskorn.Tuubo 5 sick. Died Sept. 3 Sept 6 Sept Sept. Sent Sept Sept Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept Sept 12 Sept 15 Sept. 15 Sept 13 Sept. 12 Sept. 14 Sept 14 The four sent to the hospital to-day were: Age. Taken sick. Feingalk, May 6 Sept H Bass. Cliaya. 2d Sept. 15 Ilandneck, Lea 26 Sept 15 Grossmann, Sussel 18 Sept 16 All Well on the Quarantine Ships. Dr. Nash was left aboard to superintend fumigation and disinfection. Of the other ships Dr.Walser reported: Heligoland Supplied with bi-chlorido and ordered disinfection of forecastle and wash ing of clothing. Jloravia All is well. One case nf men.slfs. Scandia All well. Disimection and wash ing continued. Normannia Baggage removed and disin fected under the direction of Dr. Sanborn. Wyoming All well. Bugia Vessel thoroughly cleaned and dis infected. One consumptive patient on board too wCak to be removed. , The cabin passengers on board the New Hampshire are extremely well satisfied. Vessel supplied with everything that is needed and there is every facility for com fort for from 200 to 400 persons. The transfer of the steerage passengers of the Normannia from Hoffman Island to Camp Low, which was to have been made to-day, was postponed until to-morrow, as Dr. Jenkins was notified by Surgeon Gen eral Hamilton that the supplies had been delayed on account of the impossibility of obtaining them by railroad. The Norman nia herself may come to upper quarantine to-morrow and unload her cargo upon light ers. The crew will have to do the work, for stevedores sent from New York would be subject to several days' quarantine. The Wieland's cargo will have to be 'unloaded in the same way. Dr. Jenkins will not al low her to go to her dock. Frightened by a Pittsburg Rumor. Pabkersbubg, W. Va., Sept 16. 'pedal People began boiling water here to-day. on account of the order issued by the Board of Health concerning the drink ing of river water. A dispatch sent here last night from Pittsburg, stating that a case of cholera developed there, caused great ex citement The Board of Health issued Giriugeafc oruers immediately, xne City IS being thoroughly clcaced. PITTSBURG, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. THE RORNUaU ' , PRISONERS FREE The Cepheus Takes Tliem 1 From Eire Island at Last and Lands Them All ON THE HOBOKEft PIEB. Their Craft Runs Aground En R oule, But Is Soon Released. Friends Greet the Passengers as They Land A Mutiny Among the Servants Soldiers Enjoying Themselves on the Island and Loth to Leave Local Ob stacles Delay the Occupation of Sandy Hook by Steamship Immigrants At' torney General Miller Says Federal Authorities Have Full Power to Ex tend Local Quarantine or Prohibit Im migration Altogether. rSPECIAt. TELEGRAM TO THE PlSPATCIt. 1 Fibe Island, N. Y., Sept. 16. An early start was made by the Normannia's passengers this morning, and their long de tention ended in a general jollity, cheers, musio and good feeling. After the concert and meeting in the hotel last evening many of the passengers visited the camp ot the Thirteenth Begiment west of the hotel, where the soldiers gave an entertainment which lasted long after taps. The various amusements kept the hotel premises in a lively wideanake condition until a late hour, but promptly at 4 o'clock the passengers began turning out in the gray dawn in response to bugle calls and gongbeatings, and by 5 o'clock the big din ing room was filled with hungry brcakfast ers. Soon after the steamer Bipple took off the first load to the Cepheus in the channel, and before 8 o'clock the third and last load had left the landing. Drs. Seward and Andrews went in charge of the passengers on the Cepheus. It was 9 o'clock when the steamer got under way with Pilot Wicks on the bridge. The Cepheus Runs Aground. The passengers gave a goodby cheer for the Surf Hotel. There was a strong flood tide running, and as the Cepheus mado the attempt to make the north turn in the nar row channel off Oak Island lighthouse, about half a mile inside the bar, the tide swept her on a sand point running up from Oak Island. .The Dispatch correspondent at once 'went off to the ' steamer in a catboat and found the passengers in a jocose rather than a discouraged mood. "I've won my bet," one passenger .called out "I knew this Cepheus eouid not get us to New York without some accident or delay." By 11 o'clock the rising tide floated the steamer and she soon crossed the bar safely and laid her course for Sandy Hook. As soon as tho Bipple returned from her last trip to the Cepheus she was boarded by about CO Normannians, who. had decided to take their chances at Babylon and make the trip to New York by rail. Most of these were first cabin passengers who live in New York City. The vessel was afterward released from its position and steamed toward its pier in Hoboken. The Cepheus Lands Her.Passengers. There were thousands of men and women on the pier when the Cepheus hove in sight The vessel was soon tied up, and as the passengers ran down the gang plank they were welcomed by friends in waiting. Among those who came in on the train were D. L Fischer, of Hanover College; W. L. Fischer, of Chicago; F. W. White Newman, of the "World's Fair Committee; BB. Steele, Atlanta. Dr. Vought went with this company to certify to the Suffolk county authorities that the Bipple brought no infected per sons, A detail of 14 men from the Thir teenth Begiment camp here also went on the Bipple to Babylon. There was no trouble in landing the passengers after Dr. Vought had given them clean bills of health. There has been riot and ruction in the kitchen and dining rooms ot the Surf Hotel since the cooks and waiters sent here from the Hoffman House arrived Sunday night The trouble was started by a raid on the wine room, which resulted "in a plentiful supply of champagne in the servants' quarters. . The Mutineers Tired in a Body. The trouble culminated this morning at breakfast in a general mutiny, and Manager Wall after breakfast ordered the whole force to pack up and leave the island. The servants packed their grips, but could not leave, as the captain of the' Bipple, when he returned here this evening, declined to take the discharged employes to Babylon until to-morrow. The employes are under guard to-night and are in a very turbulent mood. t When the cottages and rooms were vacated this morning, a swarm of the, hotel servants and some men from the militia camp swarmed through the premises on a grand looting tour. The police were all down on the bay front The press cottage suffered most, as s its occupants had not taken their baggaee awav. When the police were informed of this, thev recov ered from a kitchen servant and a colored servant belonging to the militia camp a portion of the property, but the press men will suffer considerable loss. ' The Soldiers Want to Remain. No word has yet been received here indi cating to Captain Cochran, in command of Fire Island camp, how long he is to remain. He thinks thr.t if no more passengers are ordered here before next week, the Gover nor will allow the troops to return to Brook lyn to-morrow. The soldiers generally are in no hurry to go home. The camp is charmingly located, the weather is perfect, the surf and still-water bathing gives the boys lots of fun, and the wreck ol the hotel steamer landing affords forage of more tempting kind. Already a cask containing several hundred bottles of beer has been recovered from the bay by the soldiers, and wagon loads of canned and preserved provisions are being hauled into camp by the wreckers. The boys say the collapse of the landing with its load of hotel supplies, was a dis pensation of Providence in their behalf to compensate them for their hard lot in Buf falo. It is reported here to-night that Gov ernor Flower will arrive here to-morrow on a tour of inspection. More Delay at Sandy Hook. A dispatch Jrom Camp Low, Sandy Hook, says thefirst day of martial rule began by the marines being marched down to fhe beach for bathing. Every one expected that the camp would be opened this morn ing, and according to advices last night 800 immigrants were to have been received here from Hoffman Island, but General Hamilton's plans have been frustrated by the opposition of the local authorities of Middletown, who have quarantined the lines of the Central Bail road ot New Jersey running into the camp, and have cut Off the supplies of disen fectants. Owing to this and the opposition ot the State officers of New Jersey, the railroad company's officials in New- York yesterday refused to acceot for shipment the consign ment of lime, and this morning Dr. Hamil ton telegraphed Dr. Hunt, the Secretary of the Board of Health, of New Jersey, that the camp will not be'opened for the recep tion of passengers to-day. ' A CARELESS PATROL. Reporters Have Great Dlfllcnlty In Find In? tho Police Tug, nnd Approach Within 150 Yards of the Normannia Unobserved Tho Quarantine Easily Ignored. New York, Sept. 16. It would appear from the following story that the patrolling of the bay with a view to prevent anyone approaching the pefct ships is anything but what it should - be. A correspond ent of the Associated Press went down the bay" at a late hour last night and took a look at the quarantine fleet of steamers at distance. At 11:30 o'clock he was anxious to know if the Bohemia had "arrived, and without endeav oring to break any quarantine regulations he determined to look tor the police patrol boat and ask them the question. He approached within 200 or 300 yards of where the ships were lying and blew his whistle several time. Getting no reply and not seeing any patrol boat, he steamed on down to the receiving boat station for the pilots at the entrance to the channel On his return, about 3 o'clock he again tried to hail the patrol and sighted her about a mile ahead, lying aste'rn of the Carlton police ship, to which she was made fast by rope. He again whistled several times and kept on steaming toward her. When within 100 yards he stopped and again whistled. Beceiving no answer to his repeated signals, he told the captain of thetug to creep up slowly toward her, which was done, and repeated endeavors were made to obtain an answer from the tug, which was now seen to be the H. B. Hewson. When the Associated Press correspondent was within about 15 yards ot the patrol tug, an officer came out and asked what was wanted, but retired without grant ing the desired information. The visiting tugmen went up alongside, and one of the crew of the Uewson gave him the desired information. The rest of the patrol wero lying in tho state room below, with their uniforms and boots off, fast aslesp. There would not have been the slightest difficulty of getting alongside any ot the quarantined ships at that hour, and, in fact, when looking for the patrol the correspondent of the Asso ciated Press was within at least 150 yrrds of the Normannia. CnOLER. IN CUBA. No One Is Allowed to Intimate Tliat It Has Appeared There, Though. Key West, Fla., Sept. 16. Special It is said here that one or two cases of cholera have occurred in Havana. While no positive statement has been made to that effect, that is easily accounted for by the fact that the Spanish Government ex ercises a very strict censorship over the Cuban press, and the papers would not dare to make such a statement until it is officially an nounced, but they have intimated strongly recently. The Plant Steamship Line is act ing very cautiously ac,d now refuses to carry anypassengsrs or rrrtghtr from Cuba. A cablegram received here this morning states that 36 passengers who had already boarded ship yesterday,were compelled to return ou shore, and no freight whatever was taken aboard. The Cuban papers demand that a military cordon be established at all the points on the island, and that gunboats be furnished to patrol the coast, and that ships arriving there from foreign ports be sent to the Isl and of Mariel, the quarantine station, which is about 36 miles from Havana, tor proper detention and fumigation. Late Havana papers report that the steamship Imperial,' which lately arrived there from Hamburg isr now lying at anchor in the harbor, and is thought to have cholera on board. STRANDED IN CANADA. The Stream of Immigration From Europe Dammed Up in Quebec Ottawa, Out., Sept 16. The Govern ment has been apprised of the arrival at Quebec of a number of immigrants from Europe with through tickets for the United States. The railway companies absolutely refuse to allow the immigrants to board the trains, and the immigrants are simply stranded in the provincial capital. They want to take possession ot the Fed eral immigration buildings, but the Gov ernment requires these buildings for Cana dian immigrants. Hence the foreign-bound arrivals are thrown on their own resources. The 'difficulty will, it is thought, only be solved by the steamship companies taking these people back to "Europe. STRICKEN HAMBURG. Tho Scourge Again Increasing According to the Official Reports. Hamburg, Sept 16. The cholera is again increasing here. The official figures of yesterday 'give 222 new. cases and 9S deaths. This is 18 new cases in excess of those reported for Wednesday, and an in crease of 17 deaths. One hundred and sixty-eight of the new patients were removed to the hospitals. Fifty-three bodies of cholera victims were taken from the hospitals and placed in the mortuaries to await burial. Boosters Preparing Their Quarantine. Indianapolis, Sept 16. The Indiana Board of Health is now in session, prepar ing instructions which will empower the county and city boards to quarantine against all trains coming from New York. A system of train inspection is already going on, and has been since yesterday morning. THE LAUD OF JOHNSTOWN FLOODS Inundations in China and Japan Cause the Usual Great Loss or Life. Sax Francisco, Sept 16. Serious floods occurred in north China early in August, resulting'in considerable loss of life and property. 'The steamers found thePeiho river almost impassable, owing to the vol ume of the freshet Great damage was done on the Upper Yangtze. H. M. S. Firebrand, which arrive d at Hong Kpfag, July 31, experienced a typhoon in Takow harbor and narrowly escaped be ing driven ashore. Junks in the harbor were wrecked and much damage done. The American ship North American, which left Kobe, Japan, July 22, was totally wrecked iu the Kit channel during the gale, and the crew were rescaed with difficulty. An island steamer foundered July 23 in the Sarima Sea and only four of the crew and passengers were saved. . Three hundred persons were killed and 90 wounded in a recent gale in the-Tokushima district, in Japan. Twenty thousand acres of land were devastated by inundations, and 42,000 houses destroyed." QUAINT PHILOSOPHY in proso and poetry by Nixon Waterman, the popular writer of Chicago, a feature of THE DIS-. PATCH to-morrow. 1892 - rTWELVE . PAGES. WARRANT OUT FOR-MR, PECK, New York's Lahor Gtommis sioner Charged With De stroying Tapers USED IN HIS STATISTICS. He Eides a High Horse When Called on by a Quizzical Committee. E. Ellory Anderson and Hla Fellow In- vestigators Greeted Coolly The Com missioner Positively Befuse3 to Have Anything1 to Do With Mr. Anderson A Boyish Badinage Indulged In B. Ellery Called No Gentleman, and He Retorts That Mr. Peck Is the Same A Rapid Cross-Fire of Words The Wlshed-For Papers Not Forthcoming, and the Charge Is Made That Peck Burned Them He Denies the Accusa tion, but Will Be Given a Chance in Court to Prove His Innocence. ' rsrrciAt. iiLibiia to the nisrATcn.i Albany, N. Y., Sept. 16. Lf the allega tions of his accusers are true, Labor Com missioner Charles F. Peck is of the opinion that it is be3t when going into a fight to burn the bridges behind him. This after noon, between 2 and 3 o'clock, the special committee appointed by the National Dem ocratic Committee, and consisting of Nelson Smith, Chairman of Tammany's General Committee; E. Ellery JVndersonf J. Schoenof and . F. McSweeney, waited upon Labor Commissioner Peck and made a formal request for permission to examine tho original blanks from which he made up his report on tariff and wages. The ill-feeling existing between Messrs. Peck and Anderson was intensified because of Peck's knowledge that Anderson's co laborer, Norton Chase, was even then busy with District Attorney James W. Eatori getting out a warrant for his arrest on the charge of having destroyed public docu ments, to-wit: The very papers from the manufacturers that they were striving to get hold of. A Warrant Oat for Peck's Arrest. By 6 o'clock Police Justice Gutmann had finished his examination of the witness pre sented by Mr. Chase, and secured subpoenas from among the clerks in Peck's office, and baJ issued a warrant for the Commissioner's arrest. It was not served immediately, and had not been up to 7:30 o'clock this even ing, when Commissioner Peck informed The Dispatch reporter he had not been arrested, although he bad heard of the war rant and had known what was going on in the enemy's camp all day. As to his hav ing destroyed the papers sought for so earn estly by the committee, he said it was false. Mr. Peck refused, however, to make any further statements till he had consulted with his counsel, Edward J. Meegan. The allegations of the prosecutiou in the application lor a warrant are that on Sun day night, September 11, Commissioner Peek did hand to Elbert Bodgers, a clerk in his office, a bundle of papers, and that said Bodgers handed them to the janitor of the apartment house, 25 South Hank street, one J. W. DenniBon, with the request that they be burned in the furnace; furthermore, that this wasdone, but that certain charred remnants were preserved, and these were exhibited to the Judge and subsequently identified by clerks in Peck's office as simi lar to those sent out to the manufacturers when he was collecting statistics of wages during the years 1890-189L Such an Act Is a Crime. District Attorney Eaton says ot the case that when the knowledge that a crime had been committed in this county, viz., the un lawful destruction of public papers, it was his duty to bring it before either the grand jury or a police justice. He chose the lat ter, and secured a warrant returnable to morrow at 10 o'clock a. M. "While all this was going on downtown, the special committee was busy plying Commissioner Peek with its exasperating queries. When the committee entered the office the Commissioner said: "Well, gentle men, what do you want?" , "Ob," said Chairman Smith, blandly, "we only came in to talk over matters." He then presented the letter from the National Democratic Committee appointing them, and said: "We underftand " you agreed to show us the original documents upon which your report is hased." Peck I am not responsible for what you understand. The tables and material going into my report are all on that table there, and you arc at liberty to examine them. Peck and Anderson Have It Hot Smith No, those communications re ferred to in your report. Peck I cannot do it, as I told your com mittee in the beginning. Ellery Anderson (interrupting) It's no use discussing with him. Bead the ques tions to him. Peck I don't want any discussion with you, at alt Anderson Perhaps you don't, and then perhaps you'll have to. Peck wasthen asked again if he would give the manufacturers' names, and replied: "For the fortieth or fiftieth time. 1 will again say no. VI will make transcripts of the tables and swear to their correctness as fast as I can get to it Beyond that, noth ing." Chairman Smith was then handed a list of 20 or more questions pi epared by Messrs. Anderson and Schoenof, the first of which was: "Will you state the value of the total products of each of the Industrie1) referred to in your report for the year 1890?" Peck That is covered by the first table of the report I have offered to give you. Beyond this he would not answer the questions, which were long and involved, lie became impatient as Chairman Smith continued to read the questions, and said: "I don't see by what right you come here to catechise me." Peck Declares Ho Is a Democrat. Smith Mr! Peck, ve come here In no hostile spirit We are all Democrats. Peck So am I a Democrat. I have never bolted a ticket nor consorted with bolters nor gone to a Bepublican convention. Ellery Anderson next wanted to read the questions to Peck and was thus received: "I don't want to hear from you. I don't want to recognize you." Anderson I am here on official business. Peck I don't ant any of your interier ence. Anderson Well, you'll get it Peck This seems very superfluous. I have said I would give most of this infor mation to the committee, and I never broke my promise. A colloquy betweenPeck and McSweeney -z : 1& i Em2bfaWidmr KOTHtmouGHfArrr af THE BA.BS ABE UP. was next interrupted by E. Ellery, who suggested that the questions had better be read, whether answered or not Beck turned on him with: "You won't get any. Anderson Thanks for your courtesy. You seem to have been well brought up. Peck I have been brought up not to snoop into other people's business. The reading ot the questions was inter rupted in this wav several more times, till Peck again refused flatlv to listen to Ander son, saying he would talk cheerfully with Mr. Smith. This caused Anderson to say: "Well, McSweeney, you and I are out" Anderson Objects to Personalities. Peek at once said: "McSweeney is not out, fori consider him a gentleman." E. Ellery looked fierce at Peck and said: "You had better leave personal allusions out" Peck I don't propose to take advice from you. I do not think it proper or decent for the National Committee to send persons here whom I have objected to. Now, let me ask some questions: Supposing my re port had shown a different result, would you have been here to investigate? Smith I don't know. I can't say. Peek What is your honest opinion? Smith Well, I suppose the other side would have been more interested and would have come. Peck They would have been treated worse than you. Mr. Schoenof here broke in saying: "But, Mr. Peck, I don't deny your figures, but your own opinion of them is unnecessary." Peck How came you in an interview to say I made no showing of the number of hands employed? How did you know it? I had made no report Another 3Ian 3Iade Pretty Angry. Anderson Let me explain, Peck I will not hear you. Anderson But Mr. Schoenof is not a native, and speaks somewhat imperfectly. This made Schoenof mad, and he declared to Anderson, in very thick English: "I can speak what I want to well enough to be un derstood, and I will speak for myself." The redoubtable Anderson sank back in his seat at this rebuff, and Peck said: "Mr. Schoenof is a much better American citi zen than some persons." This brought Anderson Iroai his oorner with his eyes flashing. "Why don't you name to whom you refer?" he exclaimed. Peck It's none of your business. Anderson Then I'm not included? Peck That's none of your business. At this Ellery grew very hot under the collar, but could think of nothing better to say than, "you are an impertinent puppy, Mr. Peck." Peck retorted ''I consider the source of the remark, but return the compliment" Chairman Smith, with his oil of glad ness and" good humor, came to the rescue here and engaged Peck's attention with a query as to whether he had really under taken to make any statement on the great issue between the two parties as to the effect of the tariff on wages. Peck testily replied: "All I said is in the summary published. Can't you find out?" The Commissioner Oets In Some Blows. Chairman Smith's humor was bomb-proof and he continued to try to soothe the ruffled temper of the Commissioner. Peck refused to be mollified and continued his onslaughts. He said he did not believe the 6,000 manu facturers who had answered his queries lied and he did not think it creditable for the National Committee to send men to exam ine his report who had prejudiced and dis credited ;it in advance. When they dis credited his figures they practically said that these manufacturers lie. Anderson attempted to answer Peck, but Commissioner Peck turned his back and held his ears, saying he would not listen to him. Thus the bickering went on for an hour, and then ended as it began, in Peck's agreeing to furnish a transcript of all tables and the like that were to go into his report, but refused to let them examine a single blank. He also offered to let each examine all the tables as they lay there in a mass, bnt Chairman Smith said he had rather be excused. The Commissioner ended by ask ing why Labor Commissioner Peel's report for Indiana, which reached the same result, had not been called down. This the Com missioner evaded by saying Peel was too far away. To Chairman Smitn Mr. Peck said he had always voted the Democratic ticket, and should do it this year, unless he was blackguarded out of it by the papers who championed Mr. Cleveland and hounded him. The warrant for Commissioner Peck's ar rest was issued under section 94 of the penal code, which makes'it a misdemeanor pun ishable by imprisonment for five years, or a fine of 5500, or both, for a public official to destroy the public papers of his office. Peck's defense will probably be that the papers he is alleged to have burned were private and confidential, as. this is what he has maintained all along. Mr. Peck said to-night: "The securing of these warrants ot arrest is the culmination of the fight made by Mugwumps and anti Hill Democrats on Governor Hill and his friends, and it is all they can expect hence forth from these quarters." RUSSIAN trade by Frank G. Carpenter in THE DISPATCH to-morrow. INDIANS THREATEN WAR. They Object to Their Children Being Sent to Schools in the East Kingman, Ariz., Sept 16. Bepresenta tives from five tribes of Indians met at Pine Springs two days ago to protest against the Government forcibly taking Indian children from their parents and sending them to Eastern schools. Many chiefs want to go on the war path; Utes, 1'ah Utes, AVallapais and Yava Subai tribes were represented at the council. Over 40 Wallanai families have gone into the mountains hundreds of miles from their old homes. They will resut all attempts to take their children to school. WORTH and his play for American dol lars by Mary Temple Bayard in THE DIS PATCH to-morrow. An Iron Hall Manifesto. iNDiANAroLis, Ind., Sept 16. A cir cular was issued to-night by the supreme officers of the reorganized Iron Hall, ap pealing to the membership to stand by them in their effort to have the receivership vacated and get control of the lunds of the old ofder. The Latest Trust In Sight Chicago, Sept 16. A deal is on foot for the organization of a corporation to control the manufacture of all water works ma chinery and pumping engines. V , f s s THBEE CENTS. LIVES SAVED RY i Large Decrease in Deaths as the Eesnlt of a General Cleaning Up Here. A FALSE ALARM STARTED. The Suspect Suffering From a Simple Billons Disorder. Thirteenth Ward'Citizens File a Protest Against the Location of a Cholera Hospital Bacteriological Examiners Appointed A Telegraphic Conference With the Secretary of the State Board of Health Mayor Gourley Takes a Somber View of the Situation Cara to Ee Used in Drinking Water Cath olic Sisterhoods Volunteer to Provide Nurses Nearby Towns Excited. It pays to keep the city clean whether there is a cholera scourge knocking at the municipal doors or not. This is proven by the latest bulletins issued by the Bureau of Health. It shows that for the week ending September 10 the death rate of the city was 18.35 per 1,000 inhabitants per annum, on an estimated population of 255,000. This is a considerable drop from the figures of the previous week,dnring which the cholera scare caused a cleansing of the city to be inaugurated. That week the rate was 23 per 1,000 inhabitants per annum. Last week there were only 90 deaths, the pre vious week 113. The mortality among infants under 2 years of age was last week only 34, against a total of 63 during the week before. Ty phoid fever caused 5 deaths last week and 8 the previous week. There were ten deaths from contagious or infectious dis eases last week, of which diphtheria caused 6, whooping cough 3 and diphtheritio croup 1. Bright Prospects for the Fnture. If the death rate was so reduced by the cleaning up of streets, back yards and the homes ot the people in one week it would seem not expecting too much to reduce it one-half by carrying on the cleansing pro cess to a finish and keeping it there. That is what the city officials declare to be thsir intention, though from the number of nui sance reports received! by the Mayor, the Public Works Department and the Bureau of Health yesterday there is still much to accomplish. The StreetDepartment still has a force of 200 laborers at work cleaning streets and alleys and distributing disinfecting ma terials in all parts of the city where needed. The Bureau of Health with 19j sanitary in spectors is hunting up work for the others to do and at the same time inspecting pri vate property and compelling residents to clean up. With this power at work one would naturally expect the whole city to be made as clean as a kitchen floor in a frw days. But this force has been at work for nearly three weeks, and still there are many places in the 18,000 'acres of the city's area which they have not seen. Superintendent Baker Complained Against One noticeable featnre of the dozen or more complaints received by the Major yes terdav was that nearly everyone stated that the nuisance complained of had been previously reported to Superintendent Baker, of the Bureau of Health, who had paid no attention to it. The Mayor made no comment on this to Mr. Baker yesterday, but told him to order all nuisances abated and to enter suit against those failing to comply immediately, no matter who they may be. Another false alarm of cholera was raised in this city yesterday. The case wa3 re ported by a Dr. Lake, a specialist of Penu avenue, who had been called to attend a member of the Exposition band at his boarding house, No. 15 Third street la making his report the doctor said Be be lieved the case was cholera and that it the disease was prevalent in the city he would have no hesitation in issuing a certificate that this was a case of it When the report reached City Hall it caused a sensation. When it became known that the victim had only recently come from New York with Levy's band the excitement increased. The Alarm Soon Allayed. Chief Brown, as soon as he heard of it, ordered Drs. McCandless and Moyer to go down and examine the case. They soon settled all fears. There was not a symptom of cholera, the patient having only an at tack of bilious diarrhcea, produced by change of climate and water. The property holders up in the Thirteenth ward are kicking because the city intends to erect a temporary cholera hospital on the Municipal hospital lot One man called at the Mayor's office yesterday morn ing and brusquely informed His Honor that the hospital must not be built there; that he I lived nearby ana aia not aesire tne aiiease brought so near bis home, and that if the officials did not desist iu their purpose he would go into court and ask fo. an injunc tion. The Mayor became angry after talking to the man for a while, bat finally broke out "Where do you expect us to put the hospi tal? There is a property bought by the city for the specific purpose of caring for people suffering from contagious disease. IU lo cation is such that there Is as little risk to adjoining residents as there could be at any point within the city limits. I don't cara what you say or do, the cholera hospital will go there. Not Afraid of the Courts. 'Ton may go Into court if you wisb,that' the place for you to go, instead of coming; here, but the court will not interfere with us In this matter. Our judges have to much judgment for that, whatever the law might permit them to do." The visitor finally departed, declaring he would go into court for relief, and leaving, the Mayor somewhat stirred up. Chief Brown, when informed of the oc currence later, .was as indignant as the Mayor had been. "Why,"said he, "we could build cholera hospitals right on the streets if we deemed proper. The court could not Interfere. ' This is not a time for nonsense. All law-abidinir citizens should give us their co-operation. In the impending CHOLERA SCARES
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