Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — FIRE ISLAND IS FIRM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FIRE ISLAND IS FIRM.

normannia passengers kept OFF BY FORCE. Gubernatorial Interference and Kloquent Pleading Ineffectual to Soften the Heart* of the Bax Meu—Naval Reserve Called Out. Ruled by a Hob. New York special: There have been exciting scenes at Fire Island, N. Y., owing to demonstrations by from 300 to 400 Bay men and others, led by Supervisor W. H. Young affd’ffx-Supervlsor John H. Vail of Islip Town, who took possession of the docks, armed with shotguns, oars, and other weapons, and twice resisted all attempts made to land passengers from the Cepheus. To go back to the beginning of the story, the Normannla’s cabin passengers, who had been for eight days oon-

lined ou a cholerastrioken ship, wore greeted on Saturday with the promised and long hoped for relief in the shape of the Stonlngton, to which vessel they were -transferred that evening. They slept in peace and satisfaction, for on Sun-

day i they were to go to Fire Island, which through Governor Flower had been secured, with all its houses and the Surf Hotel, for the accommodation of tho first and second cabin passengers of the ill-fated Norfaiannla: On Sunday morning it was discovered that tho Stoiilngton had no means for cooking, was of too deep a draught to cross the bar, and aoootding to statements she was old and too nnseaworthy to venture so far In the open ocean. Tosanrl llUlior mid Thither. Tho iron steamboat Ceuhous was then hired and the first ami second class oabin passengers started for the promised land. The weather was rough and many wore seasiok, but they oared little for that, happy in 'their escape from the prison-ship Normannia. After a voyage of about thirty-six mllos the captain weakened and said he was afraid to take tho Cepheus over the bar without a pilot. In consequence of fills the iron steamboat started back to the Horseshoe bend and the flrst-olass passengers wore onco more put on board the rickety old Stonlngton. The soc-

ond-cabln passengers were kept on board the Cepheus without bods or oven pillows on which to lay their heads. They were strewn about the settees and carpotod decks of Iho steamer. Eearly on Monday morning the captain of the Cepheus discovered that ho required coal and water, and oould not get to. Firs Island without them. Ho calmly steamed up to tho quarantine jotty and made fast alongside and sent word shortly after 4 to wake tho health officer up. After a hurried conference with Dr. Fergusson and Mr. Wall, Dr. Jenkins decided to water and o al hor at his own dook. This was done, and at about 10 o’clook the Cepheus onoe more started down tho bay to embark tho flratsaloqn pasAongers and take them to Fire Island. The trip was again a roungh one, but there was more than the elements to be met. Their Heart* Were Hard. A storm had been brewing around Babylon and Islip since the first rumor of Fire Island boing turned into a quarantine station had been heard. The Babylonians and their near neighbors cared not for the sufferings of their fel-low-countrymen and women; they did not care if they died of cholera, starved or Were drowned; all they thought of was the totally iraprobablo proposition of thoilr being attacked by the pestilence, owing to the propinquity of a nuhiber of ladies, gentlemen and children who nover had chqlera in their ipidst, who had lived for a fortnight on board a plague-stricken ship without being touched and who are returning to their own homes. I Tim Mol) In Control. The Governor begged and implored, Dr. Jenkins prayed these men to allow

the passengers to land. Telegram after telegram was flashed over the wiro, assuring the men of Islip and those of Babylon that they ""ran no risk. They were obdurate. They would not give in and the passengers of the Normannla

are now, on Monday night, lying in the inlet by Fire Island. The. passengers appointed a committee, with Senator McPherson as chairman, to confer with the mob. The latter refused to withdraw the injunction and so for to-night at least they can claim the victory, a victory over 471 helpless women and children and their equally unoffending husbands. Dr. Jenkins said to your correspondent it was not the armed mob he cared for, but the injunction issued by the Judge at the instance of the Babylonians. There was no infection on board, said Dr. Jenkins, and the conduct of the mob was abominable and an outrage. He would give them pratique as soon as possible, as they had already been forty-eight hours out of the Normannia. Gov. Flower had said that he would, as Governor, have obeyed the injunction of Judge Barnard, but if he had been in the position of the captain of the Cepheus he would have landed the passengers if he had had to do sixty days’ imprisonment for the act. It was suggested to Gov. Flower that the naval reserve should be called out to disperse the riotous bay men at Fire Island, and to do patrol duty In New York bay and the Great South bay.

The German capital maintains and pays an official bird-catcher. The catching of birds is prohibited, but the collections and educational institutions of the univerity require, for scientific purposes, birds, birds’ eggs, nests, eto., and the taxidprmist Lemm is the only person commissioned to furnish them within the precincts of Berlin and the districts of Teltowand Niederbamim. The Empress of Austria lately ordered that 56,000 rose trees should be planted around the statue of Heine, to be erected on her property at Corfu, on a rook over 2,000 feet above the level of the sea.

GOV. FLOWER.

MARINE TELEGRAPH STATION. FIRE ISLAND.

SENATOR M'PHERSON.