The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1900, Page 2

(L) THE SA FAMOUS $URGEON DR. G. F. SHRADY FREDERICK SHRA- itor and writ- arrived at the Pal- or a brief visit to | thority on sanitary | gerly consulted by th autnorities dur- | sidered an au- re_than forty | 2 in New York City in | d revolutionary stock schools and | end daily papers, he has written nu- | ber of Commerce, was invited to address us articles on soclal, hyglenic and | the gathering and he said: “I fully in- ific topics for their columns. He has | dorse every sentiment expressed by the dent of the New York Patho- | gentlemen who preceded me. 1 was pres- 1y, of the American Medical | ent with the Board of Health some time Association _and the Practition- | ago when the matter of a house to house ty of New York, and {s a mem- | investigation in Chinatown was discussed. e American and New York Acad- | At that time I was in favor of such a on the damage to ouwr commerce and in- THE STATE BOARD| dusiries by the establishment of a quar- | antine It is so evident that such a -4 of Healt | course would bring heavy ioss that I o2 t Healt | 1 of SOy Fet warn and bes of you to consider the mat- aportant session at | ter carefuily before you take definite ac- ent Jocal merchants If a quarantine re placed on San of isco this community would feel its the Southern pporturii- | € ot for one month nor six months, . { the plague add ‘to whai had alrendy been said, but ugh discussion the | he sug bubonie plague vieti e matter to the | should be derstanding that ! #’ X path férred the ted in pestho 1 the u v be quar- e 16 a r of precau- ger o 1e plague nor as an admis- He sald to s here, bt as a measure w !“n]v i o ker,. John F. | plague in 1 ompson of the Frult opinfon of Dr Uni C. Stubbs, Willi ologi it his opin he Heaith Boa Tealth Board ied in its ef- t ad disease. Gives Advice. t Cr then ley called . the Health Officer is opinion on the pursue. was loth he The the e what tl if the eiti as wo to the au- ]’lh:{n“‘( i time alloted | S000C5.4” 1 ‘ and Yt we | the city and had ad )-day : mingle with the whites. He thought bet v a quarantine | tor precautions could be taken. In r.‘rl\b s account to a q on of Dr. C ey. the of the ¢ t 'would he best Health Officer agre o_confine the Celestials to one district Mr. Baker of the firm of Baker & Ham- Iton added his voice to the requests made by preceding speakers that a quarantine called upon, not see how aranti the utsi ne n the ts ou city should not be established Tudin Dr. oun was then called upon and < X told ¢ orders issued by his superior S ) to employ pectors and station them at r 1 the houses as ' the denots and prevent Chinese from leav- . no longer exist ing the city unless having first been in y cculated. He was carrying out the in- but was enjoined at y the Federal courts. “At the present time, Dr. Kinyoun, you noon ves danger our commercial ope_the board will be A tic are powerle Dr. Crowley. t score of merchants, | T no power except to talk,” said 1 onal men entered, the | the doctor, with a smile. m_ ar ssion became highly = A& rted to know why China- trafic m _ Sproy freight | town quarantined. He thought, iger of the Bouthern Pacific, if the ermitted it. it should be car- was i to address the bo i in | ried out. “Owing to_the fact that there . has been plagye in San Francisco™ said ie 23 Dr. Crowley, “and there was free i = ot Sees Danger Ahead. Course with Ghinatown we thought it ssion, Mr. Chairman, y that that resolution world that the € in San Francisco.” errupted the speaker to did not think it did. but g, said “Technically arantine, as a mat here. 1 would represent in part h n the guestion as a would be easier to prevent the Celestials going to other counties.” “You will nrevent rupted Thomase. “*You are not a Ck the doctor replied “Then I'll b a poor white at the end bf the season {f this quarantine goes on.” There having arisen feeling among that a ians be called s traveling,” inter- Mr. Thomas, nese. a some of the merchants present i consulting board of ph) * here because we are face | in before any action was taken in the ;nm. serious and tremend- Henderson of Sacramento - f that sort there was no need of a 1e | consulting board. He =aid if the local ry of I1th Board needed advice the State “m“]h:"g Board would come to its assistaffce. Dr. (il be a | penderson won the approval of all pres- be upon | he said that he was in faver of small space of China- g so that afternoon. quarantining town, and doi to the o s this | Mr. Stubbs felt hurt that the impre: hant who has $i0 000 o | sion had gone h that the merohants vt il | had impeded the work of the Health .offi- : B cers, Hc e asked Dr. Kinyoun < et 48 L whether he ha >n hampvered in his . work and that leman replied that he o i had not: that he was actively engaged the discharge of his duty until the de- n was handed down by the Cireuit t enjoining him from proceeding fur- wiil cause great injury ave Spoken BF the Dot 1| Dr. Henderson told why he introduced icularly be se it is so evi- the original resolution which brought on : be great suf- the discussion. Andrew Carrigan took oc- ) you that this to say that the merchants were not gue does not | 0Pposed to the Board of Health, He also the community in qus nted 10 know why Chinatown could is doubt that it exists, I be quarantined. ~ He said that the ise the st care, Be- | merchants would contribute funds for the employment_of s iocal police forc short | ing a_cordon s whole industrial com- brigade if the ble of keey- und the Irving cott_followed with a infected district, speech. in which he indorsed every word | Dr. Blunt of Texas added a ray of sun. uttered by Mr. Sproule. told of his shine by saving: “Put on a strong quar- trip into the country on last Friday with |antine on Chinatown, allow no citizens to gentlemen and the dis- | €0 in or out and he would advise ralsing arose over the quarantining | the quarantine In thirty daye.’ ssic the city. He said there were all lasses represen and all tind the seane | Merchants Want to Aid. feeling that the plague had either spent} Dr. C. A. Ruggles of Stockton advised its force or never existed. “If it has |3 h o' house investigat Ha gail spent its force,” he said. “‘what is the use | all chattels found in the Chinese quarters of this quarantine He also beweed the | that might breed germs should be de- board to give the matter serious consid- |Stroved. He ald he was in favor of eration. | quarantining Chinatown. Mr. Stubbs as Dr. Crowley took a hand in the discus-|ed that the Health Board fake the mess sion af this point to state that the State | chants into its confidence. John Fv Mer- Board wanted the opinjons of all present, | rill of Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson said but wanted it understood that the mem- | that the merchants had been for years bers of that body had the interests of the | in the “dumps™ and are getting out of it State at heart: so much so that it had | and they should not be injured:in busi. telegraphed to Texas, requesting that the | hess by a quarantine. He said it would quarantine be taken off. | Gighten the word, Mr. Merrill aid the e : { merchants would help the board in Business Will Be Paralyzed. | efforts to stay the spread of disease. bat John C. Stubbs. third vice president of | appealed to the State Board not to have the Southern Pacific, then delivered a|an out of town quarantine. strong speech on the subject. At the out- H?r[m“ ‘!U&"‘";I“ d"f the local Board of set he called attention to the Widspread | fic periom e, ubon. and told what his fellow members had don v report which was spread & short while | the plague. He regretred to oo ""L‘,fi £ ago of the arrival in New York harbor | junctions tied the hands of the board and of a ship loaded with coffee from an in- | ihat the press had unjustly ehar fected South American port; how it was } the Health Board had g«;;iY up tfié'dsfifl‘?é smuggled to Chicago despite the efforts | for the purpose of getting a larger appro- to prevent it landing by health om::erul priation to pay salaries to political fa- and Ih('“duraSEP( ll‘lf a :Ides l'!eld l;:leclé‘!on vorites. |in the Windy City through the inking | Dr. Crowley positively stated 0f the coffee. He said if the State Board | L . e local board would have to tak im- of Health took any such action as Wwas | mediately. In order to consldgrug:iflclo'g. contempiated the news would be heralded | sider the resolution, he called upon Di wiroughout the country and other States | Henderson, who introduced it. The lattey would follow the precedent set by Texas | moved to reconsider the resolution, which and bar thefr ports to the products erl was done. That left the way open for this State. | & new course, and Dr. Ruggles moved He dwelt on the fact that Louisiana | that the local board be requested to put New York M. D. from | 1 Surgeons, | me year he | € meda, for Bellevue Hos- entered the n he went rapidly considered an thority on sur there . Sy iy he has been surgeon of St. Franci Sors &l New York: consulting surgeon of the | vk Cancer Hospital of the Cojum. | Hospital, New York: of the Feg oiits | Hospital, New ¥ of the Ho curables. Forana: r ey fe Y., and sar Hospital, Pou surgeon at the 3 | New York, and afterward saw active ser- | vice at the front. Dr. Shrady attended seneral Grent durk: his last jliness a | by his skill greatly Hghtened tho suiter | er's closir~ houre. During the final ;. | ess of Emperor Frederick he s ool stantly consulted .y Sir Morell Macken. | zie. In the case of President Garfield he acted on behalf of tne staff as surgical pathologist to make a report to the pro- fession 2nd the public on the results of he autopsy. In his own surgical prac-{ w. e he is very conservative. but when ietermined on an operation performs it with bol. Dr, s and precision. Bhrady ely to medical journals. He was al vears editor of the American Med- ical Times, and in 1866, when the Med- Record was founded, was chosen editor- in-chief, having served as such for more than thirty years. Re-rond!nx to Invita- Uons from vartous leading literary maga- | no_danger of it being carried to outside has always contributed ex- | for | had requested the railroad not to seil | a guarantine around Chinatown and pro- tickets ~ to poor whites, negroes and | tect the sanitary condition of San Fran- Aslatfcs, as they would not be permitted | cisco. The motion was carried. Dr. Crow- to enter that State. H® asked the board | iey then turned to Dr. Williamson and to be careful and sald that anvthing done | Dr. Bazet and said: “Gentlémen, vou should be founded on unquestionable | must have Chinatown quarantined this facts. If there is danger, he said, it was | évening and I think it will be proper 1o the duty of the board to prevent it. He | drew attention to the fact that the Chin- | ese had been circulating among the people during the past fifteen days and vet thera had not been a spread of the dread mal- ady. He sald not enough evidence of plague existed for the board to call down a paralyzation of the States’ industries. He contended that if the resolutions wera passed such a dire result would certainly ollow. If there was evidence that plague ex- isted, he =ald. the gentlemen present, who represented varied interests in the com- munity, would not fail to come to the | assistance of the Health Board. He thought they felt as he did that there was have the merchants present at your meet- ing to-night.” — - FEDERAL COURTS3Z i BLOCK THE WAY NITED STATES Circult Judge Morrow read his opinion yester- day morning in the matter of the petition of Wong Wai for a writ of injunction to restrain the Board of Health of San Francisco and Federal Quarantine Officer Jinyoun from inocu- lating Chinese and Japanese with Haff- kine prophylactic fluid, and from prevent. ing them from leaving the city. After re- citing the aliegations and the prayer of the petition, Judge Morrow said: To the order to show cause no return has heen made as required by the rules of practice in equity cases, but in lieu thereof the de- fendants have produced a copy of a resolution adopted by the Board of Health on May 13: “‘Resolved, That it b the sense of this board that bubonie plogue exists in the city and county of San Francisco, and that all neces- sary eteps already taken for the prevention of spread be continued, together with such dditional measures as may be re . The defendant, J. J. Klnyvun,mfl::dlcllnl ports or States. He reiterated that the board should take careful action, as a quarantine would tie the city up for months. Once started it would take much longer to release the quarantine. To prove his assertion that the plague scare = doing irreparable injury to the State. Mr. Stubbs read the headings from edi- torlale and articles printed all over the country. Attorney Thomas, who was also present. pointedly asked &t this juncturec -1f | Plague exisied. why did the Health Board alicw the Chinese to leave the city?" His interrogation remained unanswered.” Quarantine Means Heavy Loss. Charies Nelsen, president of the Cham. | | Megicines, of the New York State | movement and stated that if the police ety and other professional | force was not sufficient to call out ihe " associations. | c.ate militta and if they were not suffi- - cient we had plenty of United States g T have learned with pleasure that | QUARANTINE BY cessful house to house Investigation | been made. Gentlemen, wh dwei? | condition or restricts quarantine officer of the United States at the port of San Francisco, in response to the order, has produced a telegram from the Secretary of the Treasury requesting the inspection of :H Aslatics before being allowed to leave the y. Injunction the Proper Remedy. The court is of the opinion that injunction is the proper remedy. The cause of action is not merely that the complamant is deprived ©of his personal liberty, but a number of others similarly eituated are being deprived hy _(he defendants of their right to travel from San Francisco to cther parts of the State in the pursuit of lawful business. and this right it is alleged, has a pecuninry value to the com- plainant in excess of the amount reguired to glve this court Jurladletion of the case. The permission to travel, being by the acts of the defendants coupled with an alleged unlawful " 4¢ i "the province of the court to inguire into the facts and re- move the restriction if found unlawful. This {15 undoubtedly the principle involved in the | cott; | | numerovs cases where courts have granted in- junctions io relsve parties from the restric ons and pec ; Injuries infilcted by boy- Tock-out G op the Dill is {nsuffici €éxception must be overruled. Powers of the Board of Health. 3 of article X of the City Char- designating {he powers of the Board of Health, was read by the court. Con- tinuf =+ In our < ;t and the parol er things, that dinances, 'rules be adopted by the and enforce- in the city among o e all ying conditic =m necess t oned In the sectio n i v v of isors, ry legisla- hall be by able pro- in the city charter for the nece providing rnles cnd regulations to stcure proper sanitary conditions in the city and for the protection of the blie health, but we are not advised that the Board of Supervisors has talken any action whatever in that direction, and the resolution of tha Board of Heelth furnighed to the urt fails to discloss the method it Has adopted for that purpose under the conditions it has declared to exist. the ob- | ry legislation | <;f B B e e R R I SR SR = = We need not, however, dwell upon the | manifest lack of legislative authority to enable the Board of Health to deal with this important subzect. It is suf- ficient for the present purpose to mention the fact as one of the fea- tures of the situation to be consid- ered in connection with the regula- tions which the complainant alleges have been imposed upon him and other Chinese residents of the city by the defendants. Tllegal Discrimination Proved. in v is well knc of these people are domiciled within th designated as the Ch qua ne I there are a great many s th. San that a large number wn area rthe- city engaged in vario nts | strictions have barn any o Chinese residents ia pa 2e part of the city to the other, nor has house or section of the city been declared infected or uneanitary. There is, therefore, no fact established by the Toard of Supervis or by 1 | | | | the Board of Health from which an inference might be drawn that any ticutars class of persons, or persons occupying a particular dis- trict, were liable to develop, or in danger of daveloping, the plague. The restriction is that no Chinese person shall depart from the city without being inoculated with the serum called the Haffkine Prophvlactic. The has a population of about 000, but the restriction does not apply to any of the inhabitants o an Chinese or Asiat and abitants other than Chinese or e permitted to depart from and re- city with being subject to the imposed upon the Chinese Inhab- culation nts. This restriction, unreasonably against other Chinese res it is alleged, discriminates the complainant and confines them within the territorial lin t the city and county and deprives them of thelr liberty, causing them great and irreparable loss and injury. Regulations Should Be Reasonabla. The conditions of great city present public health. comfort and convenience. Under guch circumstances officers charged with the duties pértaining to this department of the al government should be clothed with trequently | unexpected emergencies affecting the | | | | | | sufficient authority to deal with the conditions | in @ prompt and effective manner. Measures of this character, having a uniform operation and reasonably adapted to the purpose of pro- tecting the health and preserving the welfa of the inhabitants of a city, are nstantl. upheld by the courts as valld mets of legisl: tion, however inconvenient they may prove t be, and a wide discretion has also been sanc tioned in their execution. But when the mu- nicipal authority has megleeted to provide | suitable rules and regulations upon the sub- | ject, and the officers are left to adopt such methods as they may deem proper for the oc- casion, their acts are open to judicial review and may be examined in every detail to deter- mine whether individual rights have been re- spected in accordance with constitutional re quirements. quire discussion. extended to acts of the legislative and city or- dinances for the purpose of determining whether they are appropriate to the end In view., Personal Rights Are Sacred. In the recent case' of Blue ve. Beach, N._E. §, the Supreme Court of Indiana had under consideration a law of the State and an ordinance of the city of Terre Haute. prohibit- ing persons from attending the public schools who had not been vaecinated. The court sus- tained the validity of the measure, but in ar- riving at that conclusion it states very clearly the principles and limitations embodied in such lexislation. Tt savs: As a general proposition, whatever lawe or 56 regulations are necessary to protect the pub- | lic health and secure public comfort is a legislative question, and appropriate measures intended and calculated to accomblish these ends are not subject to judicial review. But nevertheless such measures or means have some relation to the end in view, for, under the mere guise of the police power, per- sonal rights and those pertaining to private property will not be permitted to be arbitra- rily invaded by the legislative department, and coneequently its determination is x:nl i l!l. but * Kets’ of the Hoard Unjustifiable. In the light of these well-established prin- ciples the action of the dofendants as described in_the blll of complaint cannot be justified. The reguiations they have adopted appear to be without legislative authority; but. assuming that they have the sanction of a general authority under the resolution of May 18, 1300, still they cannot be sustained. They are mot based upon any established distinction in the conditions that are supposed to attend this plague, or the persang exposed to ite contagion, but they are oldiy directed against the Asiatic or Mongol- ian race as a class, without regard to the pre- vious condition, habits or exposure to disease, | or residence of the individual; and the only Justification offered for this discrimination was a_suggestico made by counsel for the defend- ants in the course of the argument that this particular race is more liable to the plague than any other. No evidence has, however, been offered to support this claim,” and it is pot known to be a fact. This explanation must therefore be dismitsed as unsatisfactory. Inoculation Not a Preventive. There is however, a further and a more seri- ous objection to these regulations adopted by the defendants. It apoears from the instructions of Dr. Wal- ter Wyman, the supervising surgeon general of the Marine Hospital service, that the Haffkine ctic is not designed as a preventivi on has been exposed to the disease. ntrary, jts administration under such a condition of the human system is declared 1o be dangerous to life. It is administered for the purpose of preventing contagion from expos- ure after inoculation, and for that alone. person about to-enter an infected place shouid therefore secure this treatment, but a pergon departing from an infected place should not be € treated. For the latter contingency Dr. Wyman prescribes another and very different reinedy, namely, inocalation Wwith the Yersin It therefore appears that the ad- ministration of Haffkine prophylac- tic to Chinese persons departing from San Francisco has no relation to the public health of the inhabitants of this city and cannot be sustained by any suck claim on the part of its Board of Health. Scope of the Federal Authority. The defendant, J. J. Kinyoun, as Quarantin Officer of the Urited States at the nore of o Francisco, justifies his action upon the aughor- ity of the telegram received by him from Dr, Wyman, dated May 21, 1900, and {t is contended that the instructions contained in this telegram are based unon the provisions of the act of March 23 189 (26 Sta 31). It will be observed that the statute is open to tion of the interpretation that the promul rules and regulations to prevent the spread of the diseases named in the stattute is made to depend upon the fact that it has been made to Appear to the satlsfaction of the President that al must | Al This proposition is too clear to re- | Indeed. the inquiry has been | FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 29. 1900 SUN'S ECLIPSE VIEWED THROUGH. GIANT LENSES | | | | | SOLAR ECLIPSE AS SEEN IN THIS Photographed for The Call by Thors. ASHINGTON, May 28.—Advices | received at the val Observa- | tory {rom its points in the South favorable weather prev: observing e su eclipse that he contact occurred very close to | schedule time, and that the programme arranged was Three par servatory in cne ried out without a hitch. | were sent out from the ob- | viz.: One to Pinehurst, N. C., | of Professor Aaron N. Skinner: cne to Barnesville, Ga., in charge of Pro- tessor Milton Updegraff; and one to Gri fin, Ga.. in_charge of Professor Sti J. Brown. Superintendent C. H. Davis of | the observatory was in communication | with these officials by telegraph, and dur- ing the day he re ed the following ad- | vice PINEHURS ar skys and fa- | vorable, perm ful_observations of | the ecl nteen instruments suc- cessfully operated. Contact occurred very close | redicted ti Corona very fine. Mercury star visible. A. N.'SKINNER. Professor Updegraff. at Barnesyille, Ga., | and Professor Brown. at Griffin, Ga., merely reported that their observations | were successful. Professor Lord’s Discoveries. | ATLANTA, Ga., May 28.—In every sec- tion of the Southern States to-day over | which the belt of totality of the sun's| eclipse extended the weather was ideal | for the observation of this remarkable phenomenon. In the southern portion of Alabama there was some hazine: but | other than this the astronomers and | scientists who located their observatories | in North and South Carolina, Georgia, | Alabama and Louisiana report that the | weather could not have been more aus- picious for the study of the sun’s eclipse and to secure splendid photographs of the details attending the passage of the great orbs. ‘The most notable feature of the day was the discovery by Professor Lord of the Ohio_State University, who belleves he obtained results that tend to prove that the mysterious matter which forms the corona Is to be found also in the solar prominences, and the existence of pro- tuberances on the sun as reported by Professor Pickering of Harvard. What constitutes the gaseous element surround- ing the sun, however, has not been deter- | mined, and if any astronomer has solved this problem he has not committed him- self to-night. BARNESVILLE, Ga., May 25.—Amid a perfect arrangement of detail, with good weather conditions and with no hind- rances or defects to prevent success, the varying phases of the solar eclipse were observed by the Government astronomers at the United States Observing Station here to-day. The photographic work was unusually ~ successful, five cameras in- | tory tents. it having been feared | w : ! : i 3 1 t ! : 3 CITY. cluding twenty exposures, all ! ® i O 0640060004000 00 400000 00606000-004040+0 of which AR R s are believed to be good. the large plioto- heliograph producing three perfect rega- tives and one flas ity ended. tation here, expressed herself as entirely =atisfied with the da | work. Lick Expedition Successful. THOMASTON, Ga., May 2% The clipse observations here were conducted der perfect conditions. the totality be- 3 seconds. Not a cloud was visible anywhere near the corona. but to the west fleecy flecks were discerned. Standing some distance off from the cc rona’s outside rim. a brilliant star was distinctly visible. The effect at ¥ t the stream of people would jar the e affect the delicate instruments. Pro mpbell of the Lick eclipse expedition at his observatory at 5 o'clock and every man was in his place an hour b fore the first contact was noted. negative, just as total- Professor Milton Updegraff, | | director of the the time of complete obscuration was that of a deep twilight. i _The astronomers began work at 5 o'clock. A squad of De heriffs guarded the appre to the obse Professor Campbell gave the following | ranged | assembled. | shadow over the disk was remarkab | | AR R TR TR + 4+ EFFECT ONTHE NATIVES & v 4 LONDON, May 2.—The Stand- 4 ard has the following from Algiers: ““This eclipse was observed by more Europeans than any other in the century. The natives, at the total- ity, all howled, while on the re- turn of the light their veiling was something terrific. resembling ap- plause, more violent and noisy than anything ever heard among Euro- peans.” Q4444444444+ 4004444444440 eight seconds outside exposures with in- termediate exposures for intermediate places.” Rediscovers Planet Eros. DENVER, May While Professor H. A. Howe was waiting this morning about 2 o'clock in the Chamberlain Observatory for the sun to arise and the cclipse to begin he made one of the most impor observations of the year, the rediscov of the planet Eros. This timy planet, which was discovered only two years ago at the Berlin Observatory, has b lookea for since last September, the time when, according fo calculations, it should emerge from behind the sun. Astronomers all over the world have been scanning tha skies for it_but without success. Profes- sor Howe discovered the planet near t first point of Aries. According to Professor Howe's observa tions of the eclipse the first contact o curred at 5 o’clock 4 minutes 22.6 seconds, and the last contact at 7 o'clock 37 min- utes and 34.9 seconds. This showed an error in the calculations of the nautical almanac, which gave the time of the fir: contact as 5 o'clock 44 minutes and %.1 seconds and the last contact at 7 o' clock 39 minutes and 38 seconds. MADRID, May 2%.—Great interest w manifested 'in the eclipse. A number of excursion trains were run to Argamasilla, Elch, Navalmor: and Plasencia As- tronomers from all counfries of Europe M. Flammarion France and Sir Joseph Norman Lock Great Britain. The Infanta Isabel to Argamarilla to view the eclipse enormous crowd of sight-seers o the different points of vantage. flux was so great at Plasencia that ms had to sleep in the raflway cars. B sunshine and a cloudless sky pri everywhere. The British astronom to take photographs ev seconds. M. Flammarion estimate some time must elapse before t represented er ry ten that lete results of the observatio be now i LONDON, May 28.—The conditions in London for observations of the sun's eclipse_were good to-day. The day was somewhat cloudy. but at 2:47 p the sun shone out brightly, and the circu clear-cut. The sun was intermittent scured, but the observers had ample time to obtain valuable results. As Seen in Algiers. ALGTERS, May 28.—The eclipse w ser inder fine conditions. The wa the atmos nt. though not usually associated with Mediterranean. Observing parties were here from England. France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, the largest being the British, whose besi observations wers rth and | Regence. ssor | taken from the roof of the Hotel de la As the totality approached the effect was weird the sea When the Iz ple. the corona | signed statement: ally large and bri extending to Mer- “The sky was clear but nct very blue. | cury, shining with intense wt luster Rapidly approaching clouds from the|two degrees aw The shape of the co- southwest obscured the sun less than one | rona was almost - exactly that of t minute after totality. he programme. | eclipse of 1578 as seen in the United States which was almest wholly photographic | namely, two great wings, one oting work, was fully carried out exeept in the | almost vertical ipward and the her case of one spectroscope, whose clock re- | downward, both aJmost exactly on a soiar fused to work. The coronal streamers | equator. were somewhat similar to those observed | The photographic programme was com in India in 1893. There were two on the | pletely carried out by Professor Walter west of about equal intensity about a di M. Aunder of the Royal Observatory a tance equal to five or six diameters of the | Greenwich and his assistants. sun. The upper one of the two to th was much stronger than the lower and was observed out to about diameters. nearer the solar equator than in 1898, shadow bands were distinetly observed inclining from about 38 degrees west north to 33 degrees east of south, travel- ing northeast.” STATIO: of The streamers seemed to beinteresting observations The | bands, howeve HABOT OBSERVATORY ECLIPSE | . Siloam, Ga., May 28.—The ob- | servations here were a complete success. | dition observed the eclipse satisfact The a unfavora mospheric glare present to photographs of t streamers or _of the The b were obtained traveled jn the direction b and after the eclipse. t in cc lines, but in square spots like a flock of birds. OVAR. Portugal. May 23 was clear here to-day. The ~The weather Inglish expe- ril Professor Charles Burckhalter. observer | The duration of the totality was in charge, mives the following statement | three seconds. The thermometer drop; regarding his work: four degrees. The planet Mercury w “The sky was clear at this point and | plainly visible. Despite some clouds ex the full programme of the eleven photo- | lent negatives were ained of the eo- graph exposures were carried out. The rona. which differed little from that corona appeared strikingly like that of | served during the last eclipse in India the eclipse in India in 188. The Chabot| TRIPOLI, May 28.—The eclipse expedi- expedition has the only apparatus in the | tion under Professor Todd of Amherst world that will give short exposures on | College completed successful ebservationa the bright inner corona. while giving long | with twenty telescopes, including one of exposures on the faint part on the same | twenty-four inches. The corona was plate. The pictures taken vary from two | for fifty-two seconds and was an exact to twelve-hundredths of a second at the | duplicate of that of January. 1899. com- moon’s limb and four to eight seconds at the outer limit. two plates giving four to eight-hundredths inside and four and pletely confirming the ele n vears’ period of the corona va ation with the sun spots. The weather was splendid. the diseases exist in the particular State or Territory_where the regulations are to be en- forced. I this is the proper interpretation | there is the objection that it does not appear that the President has found that that plague exists in San Francisco or in California or, in- deed, anywhere else in the United States: nor | does it appear that the supervising surgeon gen- | [ eral kas so found, or that he has prescribed any | | regulations requiring the administration of Haff- | kine prophylactic under any conditions or to | parties seeking transportation from one place in | the State to another place in the same State, | or from one State to another. The only re- striction imposed by the surgeon general is that | transportation companies shall refuse transpor- | tation to Asiatics, unless provided with the | certificates of the defendant Kinyoun. What examination or treatmént is reequired to en- title a Chinese person to this certificate is not provided in the Instructions of the supervising surgeon general. The instructions are, there. fore, plainly insufficient in these essential par- | ticufars to justify the defendant Kinyoun. The Broad View. The regulations are directed against the Asiatic race exclusively and by name. There is no pretense that previous residence, habits, exposure to disease, methods of living or phys- | ical condition has anything to do with their classification as subject to the regulations. They are denied the privilege of traveling, and this privilege is denied to Chinese persons born in the United States, as well as to those born elsewhere. The court here quoted from the case of Ah Kow vs. Nunan, 5 Sawyer 52, on the queue-cutting ordinance: also from the case of Lee Sing, 43 Fed. 359, where an or- dlance was declared invalid tha' required Chinees to live in a certain part of the | city. Continuing the decision say observations of the court in these two are not entirely inapprooriate to the reg- ulations of the Board of Health and the Instruc- tlons of the supervising Surgeon general of the Marine Hospital service offered by the defend- ant as authority for the regulations they are now engaged In enforcing against the Chinese inhabitants. It follows from these considerations that the defendants have failed ‘to justify their action in the premises, and that an injunction must issue as prayed for in the bill of complaint. Later in the day the restraining order was signed by the Judge and served on the defendants. HEALTH BOARD IS ASKED TO RESIGN ESOLUTIONS were presented by Supervisor McCarthy at last night’s meeting of the Board of Su- pervisors condemning the action of the Board of Health in regard to the al- leged epidemic of bubonic plague. The resolutions recite that it is the opinion of the board that on account of the re- peated and unwarranted declarations by the Health Board that such plague has existed and is existing that the mem- bers thereof should resign their office. In presenting his resolution McCarthy stated that he did so with the full beliet that there has not been one case of bu- bonic plague in the city. He said he was not a medical man, but the most reputa- ble physicians acknowledged that the plague was a very difficult dfuenle to diag- | nose. There had been two ¢ leged plague which were the facts. The resolution seasons of ai- unwarranted by » which was re- ferred to the Health and Hau ital Com- mittee, caye T ‘Whereas, The Board of Health has declared this city to be Infected with the bu plague; and ‘whereas, the Board of Health hag uj former occasions declared this city to be al urm! with bubonic plague, notwithstanding the fact that the most careful investigation has failed to show any state of affairs to justify or warrant such an assertion: and whereas. the history and records of the said plague show that If there were any cases in this city and | more particularly in ‘the Chinese Juarter at any of the times specified by the sald Boa Health the spread of the disease would rl:’l\?: by ihis time become so general that it would require neither microscopes, detectives nor medical stud. who never saw a case of the disease in their lives to discover the same: and whereas, the Board of Health in seeking to pro- hibit people of the ‘Chinese or Javaznese race from leaving this city without first showing a certificate of inoculation is an absurd discrim- ination In view of the fact that many persons of other nationalities are known to iive in or near the Chinese quarter who are just as liable to be infected, and that while seeking to keéep the Chinese and Japanese from leaving the city there has been no attempt to keep them from entering the city at will: and wher@as, the Board of Health has not in any manner con- | sulted or advised with this board in the prem es, but has left this board to get its informa- tion as best it may from unofficial sources; and whereas, the circulation of reports alleging that this city is plague-ridden works an injury to the community which can hardly be sti- | mated, and that at a time when the business men are trying to take advantage of a season of prosperity now open to us; therefore be it RESOLVED, That it is the opin- ion of this Board of Supervisors that there is not now and never was an epidemic of bubonic plague in this city, and that the members of the Board of Heclth, by their repeated and unwarranted declarations that such plague has existed and is exist- ing, although they have absolutely failed to substantiate their charge, have placed themselves in a position where they have forfeited the confi- dence of the people of this city and of this Board of Supervisors, and for that reason it is the opinion of this board that the members of the Board of Health should forthwith resign | their office, to the end that a new | board may be created which will have the confidence of this Board of Supervisors and of thg community at large, and should the members refuse to resign as above, the Mayor is hereby asked to use the powers con- ferred upon him by the charter, that the city may have a Board of Health | in which it can feel confidence. HEALTH BOARD WANTS QUARANTINE HE Board of Health last evening adopted a resolution introduced by Dr. Baum declaring that there had been nine deaths from bubonic plague in the district bounded by Broadway. ifornia, Stockton and Kearny streets, alco asking the Board of Supervisors to de: clare the district infeeted and to authorize the Board of Health to quarantine the same. This resolution was taken to the Board of Supervisors, and Wakefield Baker, who represented the merchants, of whom a large delegation were in attend: ance before the Board of Health, made statement urging prompt action to pr vent the State Board of Health from car- rying out its threat of quarantining against San Franeiseo. Supervisors Brandenstein, D'Ancona and McCarthy spoke. Without dissent it was voted to meet at 11 o'clock to-day to consider the matter, when the Board of Health, the attorneys who appeared before the Fed- eral court, the merchants and ail others concerned’ will appear’ upon invitation. 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