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with this educational feature of the quarantine work. This illustration 

 represents but one feature of the same, and it is a great pleasure to state 

 that both the officials of the different companies and also the officers of 

 the several ships have heartily joined in this attempt at proselytism. 



Inspecting Steerage Baggage. 



Here we get a little closer to that indescribable mass of baggage you 

 saw in the last picture. A Customs officer is given a certain number 

 ■ot passengers— a Quarantine officer goes with him. The owner opens 

 each package, spreads out its contents, dutiable goods are assessed, 

 contraband fruits are confiscated, pass tags are issued, and in due time 

 the whole seance is over. 



Lockers. 



Searching the ship and its store rooms for contraband fruits and 

 vegetables is the next work for quarantine inspectors. It will be well 

 to grasp the fact at this time that neither the Federal nor State govern- 

 ments can legislate against the high seas. The exigencies of passenger 

 traffic demand a food supply, and there is no apparent legal way of fixing 

 the kinds of material to be used for food. The steamship officials take 

 on board what experience has led them to expect will be needed, but the 

 state law clearly sets forth what they shall not have on board when they 

 enter within its lines of jurisdiction. Stringent orders have been issued 

 by the directors of these lines to all commanders and pursers to see that 

 all remnants of contraband fruit and vegetables are thrown overboard 

 before the harbor is entered. As a rule these instructions are enforced, 

 Init it is in the final act that violation sometimes occurs. It invariably 

 occurs that the actual throwing overboard of this material devolves upon 

 a Chinaman. There are probably 250 Chinamen in the crew of this 

 ship, and the temptation is great to appropriate and secrete some of this 

 material. Fortunately, none of these Chinamen are allowed to leave 

 the vessel. The stolen material is hidden down between decks, and if 

 any escapes the search there is no danger of its getting on deck, much 

 less on shore. A bad feature of some of these ships is the open work 

 vegetable lockers on deck, the same as shown here on the screen. The 

 inspectors have evidently found some remnants of contraband material 

 and are looking for actual maggots. Here is the point: the material 

 found will be promptly destroyed, but if larvae of fruit fly is found the 

 locker must be fumigated with live steam. 



Gangway. 



Here is the check and key to the inspection of the ship. Once the 

 passengers and their belongings are on shore, all coming and going to 

 and from the ship to the dock must pass through this port. There is no 

 other way available. A Federal watchman is on duty night and day. 

 They all have orders not to pass any horticultural material without a 

 state pass, and to destroy the pass tag in each and every instance. Not 

 alone the parcels he may have with him, but the person of every indi- 



