The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-16

railway, and the postofiice authorities cami
in for a liberal amount Of the fault finding
Supt B. N. Turner. chief of the fourth
division of the railway mail service, arrived
from Waycross yesterday afternoon, anC
from his statement, it appears that the noI
arrival Of the mails from South Georgia il
owing TO the oVer-zealousness of tbs
sanitary authorities in this city. Thest
mai were sent through regularly
TO Savannah, as they required no fumiga
ton, but they were immed ately returned
to Waycross, where they were put with the
/ quarantined mail This of course, made
il necessary TO submit them to fumigation
! Supt Turner reports that the facilities fol
! fumlgation as yet are very limited, and
! that IL takes about six hours TO fumigate
three pouches of letters.
| LETTING THE Grips OUT.
The letters have to be punched to let the
Grips out and the sulphur in and the
| only machine for doing that
| very important work is piece of a broken
! saw fastened to a stick The entire CORE
! spondence of the people of the state of
| Florida has to go through this saw pro-
! cess Supt Turner, however, expects 10
| have arrangements made 50 that to-day
! the fumigating department will have its
! capacity increased three-fold. There was a
carload of delayed mails at Waycross
| yesterday awaiting fumigation, and Chief
| Clerk Mansfield and his assistants will
have sll they can do for days to come.
Supt. Turner had a conference yesterday
with Mayor Lester in regard to the mails
from South Georgia, and it is probable that
they will come through all right to-day,
and hereafter there will be no delay. The
delay in the Florida mails caused by the
fumigation, when the work is more thor
oughly svstematiZed than il now is, will be
only few hours.
HOW THE FCMIGATING IS DONE.
The fumigating station is about two miles
south of Waycross, and consists Of three
cars, run out on a side track. One is a bag
gage car, the other United States postal
car and the third an ordinary box car, which
is the fumgating car proper. Two broad
shelves are improvised in the baggage car,
upon which the mail is emptied and
assorted. The letters are faced" up,
and a clerk punches each letter with
a sa w-tooth punch. The letters are then
taken to the fumigating box, which is one
end of the freight car psrtitioned off and
made as nearly air tight as possible.
Stretched across the car are wire shelves,
and upon these the letters are spread out
Under the shelves is placed an ordinary
cooking spider or kettle, in which the
sulphur is burned
When the shelves are filed with letters
the fire is started in the spider, and the box
is closed up After remaining for four
hours the box is opened. II then takes
about two hours for the fumes to rise so
that the letters can be removed. They are
then taken to the postal car and worked"
or, more properly, assorted, and returned
to the pouches The process is necessarily
slow, owing to the limited facilities
Chief Clerk Mansfield, with three assistants,
IS in charge Of the work, and, up to yester-
day, had only got of a small part of the
vast accumulation of mail that has been
piling up there from all directions since last
week. Friday. The postal authorities I'M
derstand fully the Inconvenience and loss
that business is suffering from the delayed
mails, and they are pushing them through
as rapidly as possible.
ALL OF FLORIDA GUARANTEED.
The postal quarantine is not only against
Jacksonville and points in South Florida,
but It is against the entire state. In the dis
arrangement of the train schedules, and the
confusion OF the first few DAYS, the mails
got badly mixed. Northern mail got mixed
with mail from the infected districts, and
in this way the work of fumigation
is increased. Among the newspaper
mail fnmigated Tuesday was
sack of New York newspapers that had
been refused by Brunswick and had been
sent along with the other returned mail to
Waycross.
The facilities of the postal department
are very inadequate for the rapid fumiga-
ton of the mails. In fact there are
no facilities except those temporarily
provided in emergencies like that which has
arisen in the past few days. Supt
Turner is working to get things in the best
possible shape, however He will return to
Waycross this morning aud from there he
Will go 10 Flomaton, Ala, forty miles west
of Pensacola, where he will establish station
for the fumigation of the West Florida
mails, which now have to be brought to
Waycross. Supt. Turner was in Baton
Rouge when he first heard of the fever in
Florida, and he started at once for here.
NO HELP NEEDED YET
The following is copy of the telegram
sent by President Solomons Of the Savan-
nah benevolent association to the mavor of
jacksonville, to which reference was made
in Tuesdays MORNING NEWS:
SAVANNAH, Aug. 10, 1888
The Mayor of Jacksonville, Fla:
The Benevolent association of Savannah is the
custodans of funds conhded to it for use in
epidemics, especially in epidemics of yellow
notify me that it is needed for the sick and
destitute of your city.
J. NJ. SoLoMoNs, President
Yesterday the following reply was re-
ceived:
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Aug. IS, 1888.
Joseph NJ. SOIomotts. President.
Many thanks am going TO try to pull through
without outside assistance. II we can't do il,
will draw upon you as per your kind advice.
j. W. ARCHIBALD. Acting Mayor.
BAD OYSTERS CONDEMNED.
The following correspondence passed yes
terday in reference TO the cOnlemning bv
the health officer of between II 900 and
$4,000 cans of oysters on Tuesday:
SAVANNAH, GA. Aug Is, 1888.
Dr. W. f. Drummer, Health Officer, Citu:
DEAR SIR--Ne note by this mornings News
and this afternoons Times that l. 900 cans of
stating that they we're the property of our firm.
This puts the matter before the public ia the
wrong light. Will you please correct this so
that il may appear Just as il really happened
viz The cans have been improperly processed
which caused them to swell and spoil You are
aware that we came forward voluntarily and
made the report to you ourselves. The quantity
was 2i7 cases of ~ cans each making IL $50
cans, instead Of 1900 as stated The oysters
are guaranteed TO us, and the manufacturers
are responsible for them. We remain, yours re-
specttully, etc, \. GUCKENHEIMER Il Son.
OFFICE HEALTH OFFICER.
SAVANNAH, GA. Aug, Is, 1888.
Messrs. GIckenheinter & So f., ctr:
GENTLEmES-l would like TO state that your
firm brought to the notice of the city authorities
the fact that your oysters were unfit for use,
that you acted promptly and deserve common.
pondence between the Gamers of said oysters
and your firm, and fully believe that IL the city
authorities had not been consulted that YOU
would have removed the Objectionable goods