The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-12
What conditionsl Atmospheric or sani-


added, too, that the sanitary conditions are
altogether moro favorable. II do not
believe If the fever should be imported here
that 1t would spread, but OF course it is best
TO he on the safe side, and maintain rigid
quarantine. If il should be brought
mere isolation, proper treatment
and fumlgation would. / think, cohfine it,
Tor, as l have said. the conditions are
| wholly different from the years when 1t be-
came epiiemic. The heaith of the city is
good, and there have been very few cases
OF bilious fever different condition of
affairs exists at Jacksonville. The death
rate has been large there, and they have all
along lad al undetlned type Of fever which
has now developed into yellow fever in an
epidemic form. These conditions do not
exist here. and see 10 occasion for alarm.
No; If you care to quote me, you may say
that l see no reason why we should have
the fever here in Savannah with proper
precautions. y
MAJ. BELKNAP'S IDEAS OF QUARANTINE.
General Manager .l&nap of the Central
railroad, who was at Montgomery in 1882
and in 1883, the years taat yellow fever was
epidemic first al Pensacola, and in the
latter year az Warrington, the navy yard
village SIX miles dowl the bay from Pensa-
coia, was seen last night and asked to give
his experience Of quarantine measures
1T is impoltic and impossible" he said,
10 50 quarantine any place as to prevent
escapes through comparatively secret chan
nesS' and hence endanger localities relying
on quarantine protection. IL Is safer and
more humane to provide chanrel by
which people may easily leave infected
places, and, under safeguards, reach dis
trlctS where danger from infection is pot
to be feared. With the knowledge that
they can get out at any time the temptation
to resort TO irregular methods disappears,
ana few, If any, object to the mild re-
stralnts necessarily put about their move
ments In the interest of public safety.
AN EFFECTIVE QUARANTINE.
I'm the epidemic Of 1882 at Pensacola, Fla,
and Of 1888 at the navy yard near the same
place, and at Brewton, Ala, on the line of
the Mobile and Montgomery railroad,
proposed method to the
board of health of Montgomery
and in conjunction with that very able
body | arranged the details as follows:
Pensacola is forty miles from Flomaton,
from which point the line runs south to
Mobile and north to Montgomery. A health
officer was stationed ut the junction and
a travelling officer put on each train.
Persons coming from Pensacola were re-
ceiyed by the officer at the junction and
turned over to the officer on the train. The
coaches that brought them TO the junction
did not go into Pensacola, but stopped about
five miles out, short train from the city
bringing them to this point.
KEPT IN THE CARS.
after being transferred to the officer on
the main line train they were isolated in
one car. They were prevented from alight-
ing at way stations by the train officer as
also by the local authorities, the town mar
shals meeting each train. Arriving at
Montgomery they were locked in the car
while at the depot and food given
them through the windows, and after as
short stop as possible, speeded northward.
was not feared, they could stop over the
usual quarantine period and then return
home
This was about the plan finally carried
out after some experiment, the principle be-
ing that the refugee should be under con-
slant supervision until he was In some safe
place, no reliance being placed in
certificates While slightly irksome, this plan
imposed no hardship on the refugees, and as
sured the safety, Of exposed towns. The
city council of Montgomery also offered
a reward, think. of 800 for each pers IN
caught in the city in violation of quaran-
tine ordinances.
THE ROADS GUARDED.
We also had our bridges through the
swamps guarded and all tramps stopped.
The "entente" between the city coun,
Gil, board of health and railroad
authorities was perfect and the work laid
out after consultation and thoroughly done
Freight cars from the infected district
when number had been caught, were al
first subjected to Immigration and disinfec-
ton, but afterward allowed to run through
i'll special trains, not stopping until arrival
at some safe point. This quarantine, as will
be seen. while rigid, gave the least possible
trouble. and diminished the chances of dan.
ger through irregular channels. and required
but comparatively small force, which,
of course, was chosen from the best posi-
BILE material. Its application to present ex-
isting conditions is too obvious to need ex-
PLANTATION. That the welfare of the citizens
of Savannah. and the prosperity of the CITY
demand that the fever should be kept with.
out its borders at all hazards, need not be
discussed"
BOOK AGENTS EXPERIENCE.
A book agents lot is not always a happy
one. The young man who was quarantined
on sidetrack in the Savannah, florida
and Western railway yards here Friday
and was sent north that afternoon, tried t.
locate in Charleston, but failed there, because
as he said here, he was not GAY" enough.
When he reached Ashley junction after
having been shipped all the way from Jack
sonville as suspect, he was by no means in
that placid and pleasant frame of mind that
is supposed to belong particularly to
book agents. AS soon as the Charleston
detectives found out that he came from
Jacksonville, they politely Informed
him that he would have to go far
ther north than Charleston. This reused
the young mans ire, and he began to anath-
ematiZe the bones of the ancestor of all
the book agents, coupling his anathemas
with the declaration, supplemented with
sundry expressive and forcible adjectives TO
the effect that, like the original Pixies Peak
tourist, he was going TO Charleston or burst
CHARLESTON OR BUST"
After exhausting their persuasive powers
the officers "yanked" him out of the train
on the platform, which constitutes the city
Of Ashley junction. The book ageut sat
down on his Blaine hat aud swore that he
would walk to Charleston But the detect
ives finally persuaded him that Whining
ton, n. G., was very attractive city, the
climate of which was particularly favor
able to book agents, and he finally consented
20 allow them to put him on the north
bound train. Michael Horner is a persist
ent man, like all book agents, and did not
go far on the north-bound train, but boarded
the down train at Otranto. The authorities
were notified and he was met as the train
was slowing into the depot was arrested
and held until the next train left and was
sent off again.
TITuyua pom rApnup