The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-16
C0RNERING THE FEVER.
FLORIDA'S PLAGUE KEPT UNDER
CLOSE GUARD.

and the Railroads Reducing Theil
Forces-The Mails Beginning to AT
rive from Waycross-Supt. Turner
Explains the FumigatiOn System -
All Florida Mails Under Quarantine
Jacksonville Mayor Says No Help
is Needed Yet-What the Savannah
Health Authorities are Doing.
The very general quarantine existing
along the lines of the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway and ct the infected
points in Florida, in connection with the
rigid quarantine of the Pensacola and At
lantic road at Chattahoochee, is beginning
to be felt in a withdrawal of trains and a
Suspension Of employees
Supt Fleming said Yesterday that no
passenger trains arrive at or depart from
Chattahoochee over the Savannah, Florida
and Western. Freight trains so there and
turn around and come back No freight
goes beyond Chattah1ocaee, and none is re-
ceived for points in West Florida beyond
Chattahoochee. TIE Savannah, Florida
and Western has now no connection with
CEattahoOcbee. PsSse ger trains go 10
Bainbridge Junction and nave 10 90 around
by the Florida Railway and Navigation
company's line 70 Gainesville.
Capt Fleming sad that i've or six trains
have been withdrawn from the Savannah,
Florida and Western freight and passenger
and engineers, conductors and train hands
have been laid of.
REDUCING The FORCES.
The force il jacksonville has been very
materially reduced, further reductions
will be made as demanded along the line of
L.. i ~. Il
of the road have occurred at Jacksonville.
An employees camp was established at Dius-
more, fourteen miles out of Jacksonville
Sunday night. The employees of the South
ern express company, the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway, and the
Jacksonville street railway, come out to
Dinsmore every night and 60 in every
morning. A telegraphic station is at Dins-
more. A force of men run trains from
Jacksonville TO Dinsmore, and crew takes
out trains from Dinsmore TO Waycross,
All merchandise and freight business for
Jacksonville and down in Florida goes by
the way of Dupont and Gainesville. Gaines
vile is said to be as high, or higher, than
Savannah, in good sanitary condition, and
no danger Of fever is apprehended there.
GALATIANS SHOTGUN QUARANTINE.
Both north and south bound trains stopped
at Callahan yesterday, and the quarantined
box cars were picked up there. Supt. Flem-
ang is indignant because the trains have been
lnterfered with there. The company, he
SAID, owns the right Of way and proposed
to use it, Tickets will be sold to Callahan,
and hereafter trains will stop there TO put
passengers off If the authorities refuse to
allow the passengers to alight, the trains
will stop out of town and put them off, or
take them to Jacksonville if the fare is paid
to that point. There Is no falling off in the
volume of kilograms which the present con-
dition Of affairs has brought about
Traffic Manager c. d. Owens was at his
desk yesterday after a hasty visit to his
family, who are summering on the Hudson.
lie said that he did not reach New York
until Friday about the time the news ar
rived there announcing that the fever had
been declared epidemic in Jacksonville.
LITTLE TALKED OF NORTH.
He heard it very little discussed while in
the north. His stay in New York was only
for few hours, wen he left to visit his
family. He remained with them Saturday
and Sunday and left Monday for home. The
only fever excitement he beard of in New
York was the Blaine fever, which broke
out while he was in New York. He saw
200 men with brass band escort Blaine,
and sa ~ the Maine man get in his carriage
TO start out on the big parade. Col. Owens
SuAAhAiAes oiif ttAih- Oub
during his absence, and an alleged inter
view with him in an Atlanta paper, he
thinks, required a very wide scope of
imagination on the part OF the reporter,
and afforded Col Owens a hearty laugh |
over the sweeping review of the political
field he is alleged to have made, and the
roSeate party horoscope he is quoted as hav-
ing cast. Il am a railroad man and not a
politician" he said 10 a MORNING News
reporter. He does not anticipate any
danger in Savannah from the prevalence Of
fever at Jacksonville, and his views are
generally shared by all the observing
officials Of the road.
sPoTTINO REFUGEES.
The four inspectors on the Central road
Travelled between Macon and Savannah yes
terday on all trains going north and coming
south, and also on the shOohy train TO and
from Millen. All parties suspected of
coming from north or west bound trains on
the line Of the Savannah, Florida and West
tern railway, the Brunswick and Western
or the East tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
from Florida are to be turned over to the
inspectors at either the Central junction. or
Southover junction if transferred, and com
PEELED to go back. Strict inquiries are made
at Macon, and the same vigilance is exer-
ci5ed at Millen to guard against any sus-
poets coming via Augusta
In the city yesterday the house to house
inspection begun Monday was continued
by special police inspectors, and lime and
other disinfectants were thrown in the
yards and vaults throughout the city. in
some instances the work Of the day previous
being done over where it was thought that
greater attention was required
THE WORK OF DISTINCTION.
Health Officer Drummer has ordered an
other shipment of the bi-chloride of mer-
curry for street sprinkling in such localities
as Yamacraw, Frogtown, Robertsville and
the Old Fort, and 1t is expected to renew
and extend this system of disinfection.
The atmospheric conditions continue to
be most favora lie. The nights are cool
and pleasant, and the breeze comes up from
the sea about 10 o'clock ia the forenoon and
continues throughout the day, temperluR
the afternoon heat. There is very little
humidity in the atmosphere, and the heat
is not oppressive. The health of the city is
good, and the mortality rate, which has all
along been materially lower than 70 the
first seven corresponding months of last
year, has not thus far this month risen
above the death rate for the first half of
the month of August, 1887.
CLOSING OF THE WELLS.
The work OF dismantling the surface
wells is still going on, and Supt. A, N.
Miller of the water works said last night |
that twenty of the condemned wells have |
thus far been dismantled and that the |
work will continue until all foul wells have |