The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-12
HANDLING TIE FREIGHTs.

| through freight rates via JacAso 1ville have
been withdrawn. Freignts for jackson
| vile, the Tampa and Koy West line, the
st. Johns river st. Augustine and other
points south of Jacksonville, will be
shipped TO Palatka at Palatka rates, but
bills of lading or rctes beyond that point
cannot be given. Freights for all points on
and via the South florida railroad will be
! forwarded by the way Of Gainesville Mr..
! Hardee says that the Savannah, Florida
and Western will do all in its power to
keep up the supplies for Florida, but it will
have to route their business BY longer lines.
aud he Is arranging TO send treighus via
| Gainesville, Palntka. and other unQuaran-
| tined points. Mr.. Hardee said that be has
been notified that the Jacksonville, Tampa
and Key West road will rua q mail train
| south from jacksonville
There has been no suspension of the West
| India fast mail The steamship Mascotte,
Of the Plant line, still plies weekly between
Tampa and Havana, but tie Olivette is
running between Boston and Bar Harbor,
and doing a good business. There have
been no cases Of fever brought over from
Cuba. and the sanitary regulations have
been such on the Mascolte, and precautions
have been taken by fumigatIon of the mails,
etc., that no cases Of importation have been
reported.
THE MAILS TURNED BACK.
Postmaster Lamar was in consultation
with Health Officer Drummer last night, in
curing what steps had been taken to fumi-
gate the mails Capt. Lamar ordered the
southern mail Of yesterday morning and on
the midday train back to Waycross for
fumigatlon. He had received no instruc
tons, he said last night, from the postal
authorities at Washington. He added that,
If necessary, he could improvise a fumigat-
ing station in an hours time near the city
to facilitate the receipt and delivery of the
malls. He only knew from the kilograms
received by the health officer and the
press that the mails were to be fumi-
gated at Waycross, and at present he
had no means of knowing whether the
mails he received had been fumigated, but
he presumed that he would be notified
hereafter.
Robert w. Green, mailing clerk, who has
charge OF that department of the mails,
said that no southern mails were received
yesterday, but that Inspector Mike Hanley
had accompanied the mail brought by the
No. g and No. IL fast West India mails
back to Waycross, and he expected them
here this morning.
DELAYS BY FUMIGATIoN. A
He was inclined to the opinion that the
fumigation of the mails hereafter will not
delay them beyond six or eight hours. A
over the mails to the baggagemasters of
north-bound trains Mr. Green says
that Fridays mails were not fumigated.
as the fever had not then been declared
epidemic at Jacksonville. but hereafter
they will be fumigated, and no danger in
this direction need be apprehended.
de said further that the southern mail
coming this way is not so large as either
the northern or western mail to Savannah,
hut the mail UOfnor aNnth sa
greater than the mail going from here
westward. Three malls are received from
the south: Morning, midday and night and
when the fumigation is systematized the
delay will not exceed eight hours, and Mr..
Waring, assistant postmaster, thinks 1t
may not exceed six hours.
INSPECTING THE CITY.
Alderman Reid, acting chairman of the
health and cemetery committee Of the
council, finished an inspection of the city
yesterday, and his inspection was especially
rigid OF the Old Fort, where the last cpl
demic originated, Yamacraw, Robertsville
and the southern section of the city. He
said last night that ne found the localities
where he had any reason to suspect a lack
OF sanitation to be in most favorable con-
dition. He was three days making the in
spection. He also visited Smithville, in the
southeastern suburbs, and found it in fair
condition, and he was especially compli-
mentary to j. o. Smith, who he said, de-
serves especial mention for the vol
untary sanitary work he has done
in that section. Alderman Reid
said that he has invariably requested that
complaints of unsanitary places should be
reported to him, and that there have been
complaints made which led to prompt at
tention and abatement He expressed re-
greet that the mayor had differed with him
as to the cutting down and carting off of
the shrubbery and rank vegetation of the
old cemetery on South Broad street.
THE OLD CEMETERY.
That 1t is a most unsanitary and I'M
slightly spot in the heart of the city, all ad-
init, and the demand has been pressing that
it should be pruned and the weeds and
rank shrubbery carted off. The fact
that the suns rays do not reach
through the dense foliage was the
strongest argument for the denudng
o. the cemetery of all save the
heavier trees. 1t was thought, however, by
the mayor and heath officer that in the
event that the debris could not all be carted
away at once, the condition would be
worse, so the work was suspended, and the
cemetery was disinfected by liberal sprink-
hngs Of lime.
Health Officer Drummer was asked If any
special attention is being paid to Yama-
craw, tue Old Fort, and other like localities,
He said that for the past two or three DAYS
his duties had been so pressing that he has
not been continuing the system of street
sprlnkling with a solution Of the bi-chloride
OF mercury, which he inaugurated in Yama-
craw, but that 1t will be renewed wherever
deemed necessary, and he intended to give
some personal instructions as TO the best
methods of using it.
WHERE TO GET DIsINFECrANrs.
No one need be at loss for disinfectants.
as they may be obtained of Clerk Rebarer
at the City exchange on application.
Platt's chloride and a solution of carbolic
acid are In bottles, ready for use, and any
one can avail themselves Of either solution
to disinfect their premises. The directions
for using either solution are prime on the
bottle, and are simple enough Tho bottle
is to be well shaken and the fluid sprinkled
about the premises and poured in water
closets For privies copperas is recon
mended, and the best method of applying 1t
is to dissolve the copperas in warm
water and pour the solution
in the vault. The most thorough
dsinfectant for a house is to burn Ii
chloride Of mercury on an iron surface,
keeping the doors and windows closed, but
as this is destructive of all germ life, no
living thing should 10 left in the building,
and il should be well aired and ventilated
afterward and not occupied for ten or
twelve hours after the ftimigation.