The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-16
F. Davis is convalescing fast at st. Luke's

Miss Feb Buchanan, at the Lafayette
house, is able to write letters.
Patrick Fallon will soon be up.
Frank Donovan is dangerously ill.
Supt. Dillon is getting along nicely, and
feels as If he will shortly be able to come
out.
Mrs. j. Scofield is nearly well.
Fanny Verper is able to walk about a
little.
Magdalen Spapen is able to sit up.
J. j. Hooker is resting comfortably, and
strong hopes are felt that he will recover.
CoURTED THE FEVER.
s. F. Simmons, the fireman, brought on
his illness by driving nearly fifty miles last
Sunday in the hot sun.
Miss f. B. Moore will recover.
The sensationalistS have had her dead a
number of times.
Argus Zulcey and w. H. Sheppard will
shortly recover.
Miss Annie Robinson is more cheerful to-
day.
L. Gonzalez and Mr.. Frendenthal say
they will soon be able to go to work again.
The above cheering intelligence will do
much to allay the unstrung nerves of the
frightened.
The yellow fever which has invaded the
town is certainly of d very mild type.
So far the news of to-day is so good and
reassuring that the people are plucking up
courage and looking for the speedy ending
of this cruel war.
THE AUXILIARY COMMITTEE.
A regular meeting of the executive COM
nlittee of the Jacksonville auxiliary sani-
tary association was held at 10 o'clock this
morning at the board of trade rooms. j.
M. Schumacher of the finance committee
reported that an appeal to the clhzenS OF
In s.. .L,,k L,aI
published, and that he had received already
several remittances.
H. A. L'Engle chairman of the sanitary
committee, reported 321 men, nineteen fore
men and thirty-siX carts already employed,
and that forty or fifty men would be put on
at noon. The work in this department is
being gradually systematized, and the de-
partment is now in good working order.
Judge Lotion NJ. Jones was elected chairman
of the relief committee. He reported that
the committee was rapidly organizing and
would soon be in systematic running order.
SHUTTING OUT SOUTH FLORIDA.
The question of the advisability of quar-
antining points in South Florida was fully
discussed by Messrs. McQuaid, Schumacher,
Owen and others. A resolution was adopted
asking the conference committee to con-
slider the matter and report at the
meeting tomorrow If possible. Several
other matters Of minor Importance
were reported to the conference committee,
tie most important of which was the inves-
tigation of the Stopping of the delivery of
the mails by letter carriers by the postmas-
ter.
kilograms were received from Congress
man Davidson, promising assistance in the
senate, Other kilograms were read prom
iSinO aid etc and ware haartilV chaerad
AID FROM THE CITY COUNCIL.
The city council has voted SO, 900 for the
relief committee and passed the following
Resolved, That the city council of the city OF
Jacksonville appropriate $4,000, now in the
treasury, to the credit of the sinking fund for
the benefit of the relief committee. apd asserts
that in its opinion the epidemic now upon us
should be resisted by the use, If necessary, OF
every dollar at our command.
A telegram from birmingham, Ala, to a
gentleman in the city, this morning, wanted
to know how many were dying here daily
with fever. The answer was:
None; more fools than fever here.
GoLDER's DEATH.
Three good physicians stated to-day that
they very much doubted whether Colder
died of yellow fever. One said that in his
opinion the man, in his feebleness, was
scared to death.
In South Jacksonville yesterday Charlie:
Mccoy and Miss Mary Williams were
quietly married by Rev. Mr. White.
The Knights of Pythias, knights of Labor
Masons and the Knights of Honor of this
city have organized for work, and propose
to take care of their sick members or any
one of a members family. Committee:
have been appointed and they are ready for
work.
HARD WORKED DOCTORS.
The hardest worked men in Jacksonville
to-day are Dr. Neal Mitchell and Dr. J. NJ
Fairlie and DIR. J. G. Kenworthy. The lat
ter was reported sick yesterday, but he wa:
not. He says that he has no time to be sick
The weather is cooler tonight than last
on account of a heavy rain which
fell at noon, and the doctors feel better
pleased. The doctors propose issuing a re
vised list of the genuine yellow fever cases
as soon as it is known that even small
portion of these cases are of that type Il
is said upon reliable authority, that not
over ten cases will be found to have beer
real yellow fever.
DELAYED MAILS.
Supt. Turner has ordered that all mai
from Florida shall be concentrated at the
fumigation station near Waycross, GA.
and be thoroughly fumigated and for.
warded. A delay of from forty-eight to
seventy-two hours is thus caused The
Times Union is unable to get its edition
through the mails on time, and this action
of the postoffice department is also seri-
ously embarrassing to the business
community. The Times Union de-
mands that fumigating station
be established in this city, thus obviating
the delay, Editorially it will say to-mor-
row: 1.-The railway mail service that has
been SO notoriously inefficient in Florida for
the asst year or two. has utterly failed to
be equal to the present emergency. Our
mails are sent as usual, but many packages
have been returned on several routes. The
department has refused, we learn, to au-
thorize our postmaster to fumigate mails
near here, where no delay would be occas-
ioned by the process, and whero the ex-
pense attached to it would be merely nomi-
nal.
ALLEGED POOR SERVICE.
"1'his is another outrageous instance OF
the poor managemnnt of our service in this
part of the union. We put ourselves on
record as protesting in behalf Of the people
of a large portion Of the state against the
inefficient manner in which they have been
served for more than year
pas. Whoever is responsible for
the failure to establish a fumigating