Show STEAMSHIP COMPANYS PERIL Tie B HnmbirgAmerican Indirectly Responsible Respon-sible for Bringinsr Cholera to NeW York tSpeclal to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch CHICAGO Sept 13The western manager man-ager of the HamburgAmerican Packet company C Ram is alarmed over the calamity that threatens this particular transAtlantic line He today admitted that he was glad the responsibility did not rest with him and that he was in Chicago and not in New York He had hoard that the cry in New York was to burn the com panys boats and drive the agents from the city and he was alarmed for the future of his employers business and apprehensive of the result of the GermanAmerican corporations cor-porations deplorable misfortune as he termed it We did all we could to insure the safety of the emigrants and the American people We did not know we carried infection on I the Scandia said he The company knew cholera was raging I in Hamburg did it lOU was asked Yes Was not that enough No the physicians said it was not among the emigrants but had been carried from Paris Is it not likely the physicians were glad I to pet the emigrants out of Hamburg 1 hI had not thought of that nor do I hink i it likely Have you any other boats en route fo American ports 1 i Yes but only one the Bohemia carries emigrants There are on board 6S2 steerage I steer-age passengers Tho boat left on Aug 30 I three dajs after the Scandia sailed Is it not a fact that the plague was then I raging among all classes in Hamburg and to carry passengers to America wus certain I I cer-tain to spread the disease It is true that the scourge was then at I its height but it was the only thing we I could do We would have had to keep the emigrants in Hamburg at our own expense and it was safer for them to maka the voyage I voy-age than to remain in tho city Tho eastern people will not take that for an excuse was suggested I know that aud 1 dont wonder Still all our passengers were examined and pronounced pro-nounced healthy Wo are losing a great amount of money by this and our company has oeen extremely unfortunate Is it not a fact that Hamburg was really the only infected pert mat but one case of cholora has been discovered In 1 London another in Liverpool and tbat the Hamburg Ham-burg lino was really the only steamboat company that carried infection across the Atlantic ocean 1 That is practically true yet we have done the best we could and it is our misfortune mis-fortune people as well as that of the American |