Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-23
ALL ABOUT NOTHING.
A pompous Proclamation Followed by
a Quarantine for Advertising
Purposes Only
Mailer and Mayor John Henry Grown,
the Ancient and Hereditary
Encmy Of Small.Pcy.
Eaiion Greatneas, or tho DccEdonco OF e
Venerable Relic OF Texa journal
ssns OF Forty-Two.
Corrospondonco OF tho Ga1olte.

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tx, Feb. q. lit is rumored
here that the city council at a meet
ing Thursday evening quarantined
against fort Worth. Surely Il
IN mistake. The town was full OF
Fort WORTHLESS to-day. As none OF
them wore Mosques or lodged around
in back alleys at the sight OF a police
mans badge the presumption Is that they
were travelling under their right names.
The truth Is that so far this quarantine
business has been miserable farce; per-
4 haps a half dozen persons In all have been
flred OF the train by the quarantine Of
ilcer while dozens and dozens have
passed to and fro between the two towns
without any trorble whatever. i met
a squad OF six Fort Worth men
this evening who came over on
the Texas g. Pacific morning train one
Of them was questioned az TO his iden-
tity end convinced the officer that he
was uninfectedj the Others were not even
Intercepted az TO their homes or destlna-
tlon. a very slight investigation OF the
hotel registers will convince anyone that
travel Is not decreased the smallest per-
centage between the two places; the only
result OF all this hullabaloo OF 9xl2 proc
lhhtublouS hbu uuGlH ulhJplhlbJ ubNNi~
ances has been TO slightly Inconvenience
Fort Worth passengers. Some OF them
come over via the Santa Fe, others
by the Missouri Pacific from Denton,
others buy tickets to Scyene and Mes
quite, while others ride In on the old
route and simply smile as tile quarantine
officer passes by. The following para
graphs arc from the evening papers OF to-
day;
Herald; Why can't person come
from Fort Worth TO Dallas over tho Mis-
souri, Pacific road via Denton, or the
Gulf, Colorado s. Santa Fc via Cleburne2
The Texas & Pacific Is the only road that
has quarantine officer on IL. II there
Is necessity for quarantine this does
not look much like business.
Times; Having declared it, now Gu
forceit
NEwsoM's BONANZA.
This paragraph from the Herald Is
also significant;
afDr. M. M. Newsom gets salary Of
S250 per month from the city as quaran-
tine officer"
The Dallas council is now paying $3.50
per month 70 advertise Fort Worth as Il
quarantined town; TO actually quaran-
Zinc Fort Worth win cost II some
thing in the neighborhood OF $500 per
week, and the city government has too
much dread OF the taxpayers TO under
take the expense, unless the necessity OF
1t should become appareut--a condition
which does not exist at present, In the
opinion of a very large proportion of the
bestinformed people of the place.
AsTATHsAiAN AND ms HORNY.
But, you say, Dallas levied the quaran-
tine. My dear reader, you are mlstakoni
Maj John Henry Brown IL the dis.
tingulshed statesman who deserves nil the
credit (of the indirect cause
shall speak presently) true, there
were four councilmen who Joined him In
the measure, but as four other council
men opposed IL, they don't count. II
there Is one quality more than another
that shines out Respondent in the char
acter of Mai, John Henry, II Is
prudence; IL was suspected that nc was
chosen mayor because OF u rumor
that he peeps under the bed
every night before retiring, and
10 IL also said, although per-
sonklly ! cannot vouch Tor IL, that he
measures his whisky and water with n
spoon This remarkable quality crops
out In all the little mannerlsms and
actions 81 the major. ] had
day In fact may say II was peculiarly
interesting. The major lntlmated with
a warmth of manner, never to be forgot.
ten, that his opinions on all matters un-
der the sun were ready for digestion at
a moments notice. Then after discuss
Ing the subject OF quarantine at some
length, he suggested that reporters, like
the weather, were mighty uncertain, and
stated that II was his unvarylng custom
TO perniit nothing In o newspaper from
himself which did not bear
the genuine John Henry Brown
autograph. There are few things,
however, which he said that consider
no violation OF confidence to repeat. The
reporter asked II he considered twenty.
one cases of smallpox In city OF $4,000
Inhabitants an epidemic. Mai. Brown
did not, however "Fort Worth's cases
were scattered and that made differ.
cnce.n
"But why don't you quarantine against
San Antonio, which has nearly twice as
many cases rs Fort WorthGn
Mai. Brown had no information about
smallpox at San Antonio.
The reporter suggested that perhaps
the Morning News was not interested az
much in smallpox at San Antonio as IN
smallpox at Fort Worth,
Mai. Brown was silent lie did not
long remain no, however, when the re.
porter innocenny remarked that there
seemed TO be n good many Fort Worth
people in town.
"It's dishonorable, sir; yos sir, dis.
honorable, for man 70 leave IN infected
district and carry loptheome dlscas,
with him.
"Then you assume that every man whc
comes from Fort Worth leaves Az Ia.
fected olstrictYn
Eyes, sir,n with a doablc-pressar
emphasis.
Tux GAZETTE reporter having left Fort
Worth yesterday morning was somewhat
In dread ,of being jerkcd up and flned
800, but Mai. Brown generously for.
gave him. Fort Worth men should take
warming, however; somebody has TO bear
the cost OF this cruel war, and u the lord
high executioner gets his ere ON fai
Fort Worth pockot.bo0k ! fear the
sgilllotinc will Gall.
AS uiiE nusINEss MUN sEn ~.
IL one RAY believe his ears, the business
laep OF Dallas are almost solldly Disgust
cd with the situation. Right here Let mt
saw, ia Justice to them, that II they had
heeu consulted, quarantine would not
Aave hoen thought OF. Here are some
sample expressions, AID am assured. on
good authority, that they correctly rrpre-
sent the business men ot Dallas
Afr.Alex Sanger ~ Segret this qaalan.
tine very much. The buslpess men were
not consulted about it,and am sure that