The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-03
70 DISCUSS QUARANTINE.
5AvANNAH'S REPRESENTATIVES
AT AUGUSTA.

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MES Mayor Lester and DR.. Brunne
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Savannah, Florida and Western
Refugee Train Takes Thirty Eigh
People from Jacksonville - Mayo
Smith on the Situation in Florida
Sayannah's Quarantine.
Mayor Lester and Health Officer Drummer
of this city, Mayor Dunn Of Brunswick am
General Manager Haines of the Savannah
Florida and Western railway, left via
the Central railroad last night for Augusts
10 attend the conference called there to-day
by Gov. Gordon to consider the quarantine
against Jacks )nville.
Mayor Dunn arrived here from Bruins
wick yesterday noon. Bru lswick's quaran,
tine, he said, is as strict as it is possible for
1t to be, and there is no likelihood Of its
being modified. Brunswick" he said,
twill keep its quarantine on, state or no
state, governme 1t or no governme IT."
THE TRAIN FROM JACKSONVILLE.
General Manager Haines. of the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western railway, was seen
last night by q MORNING News reporter,
and was asked if he had heard from the
spec ial refugee train which left Jackson
vile for Atlanta yesterday
''We sent down an engine and
four coaches" Mr.. Haines said, "ani
provided for taking the train all
the way to Atlanta, and there
were but thirty-eight passengers. There
was bad management somewhere The
time was too short. The only notice the
people of Jacksonville had was in their
morning paper. There was no time for
preparation, and the fact must have been
known to but comparatively few persons.
Men cannot get their families ready on such
short notice, and, moreover, it was on Sun
day morning. giving them for that reason
less opportunity for preparation.
Mr.. Haines was asked if the government
would bear the expense of the train, and he
replied that it made no arrangements of
that kind.
RUN WITH LOCKED DOORS.
The train was run with locked doors over
the Savannah, Florida and Western, and
the Brunswick aud Western, via Albany,
and from thence over the Central to At
lanta.
Mr. Haines said he had not been informed
what is the real object of the consultation
at Augusta to-day. When he learned that
Mayor Smith of Jacksonville was in the
city, he expressed thu opinion that the jack
sonville mayor should have been invited to
the conference, but Mr.. Haines said that as
he was only an invited guest himself, he
could not extend the courtesy of an invita-
ton. AS far as he knows, only the
mayors of Savannah, Brunswick and Da-
rien and Surgeon General Hamilton were
invited to the conference, but the repre-
sentatives Of other railroads and other
cities may have been included in the invi-
tation.
MAYOR SMITH ON THE SITUATION.
Mayor Smith of jacksonville was seen
yesterday at the residence of Rev. T. H.
Blenus, pastor Of the Christian church, with
whom he is stopping on his way back to
Jacksonville from the mountains. Mayor
Smith left Jacksonville about six
weeks ago-before the fever outbreak-to
recuperate his health in North Carolina. He
would have left this morning, but he received
a telegram from Jacksonville yesterday
TO await letter addressed to him here. He
said that he presumes the letter is one of in-
structions for him to attend to some matter
connected with the epidemic before his re-
turn home. While still in feeble health, he
Is returning from a sense of duty. He
promised Acting Mayor Archibald that he
would return by Sept l, and he is now gong
to relieve him. Mayor Smith says thai
be does not expect to contract the fever.
He will spend his nights at Pablo
Beach, where he will not be subject to the
infected air of the city.
JAcKsoNvILLE's PRECAUTIONS.
Referring to the precautions taken early
In the season to avoid an epidemic, Mayor
Smith says that in April an extra sanitary
force was put upon the streets, and a house
to house inspection was established A
chief sanitary officer was elected at salary
of $1,000 per annum, extra garbage carts
were put on the streets, and the city chain
gang was added TO the sanitary force The
city was put in as good a sanitary condi-
tion, he says, as any city of the south, and
yet in the healthiest and clean
lest part OF the city the fever developed
before il did In the less sanitary localities.
Mayor Smith had ..been fully week In
the mountains after tie outbreak of the
fever before he learned of it. AS soon as
the information reached him, he cams down
where he could be in daily communication
by mail and telegraph, and impressed with
the duty which called him back, he started
home. He will leave Mrs. Smith with the
family of Rev. Mr.. Blenus. His son and
daughter are in the east.
Mayor Smith said he would liked to have
been at the conference at Augusta to-day,
but as 1T had been called by the governor,
he takes it that it is a state affair, and in
the absence of an invitation he did not feel
free to attend.
Referring 30 the criticisms against Surgeon
General Hamilton, Mayor Smith does not
indorse them, nor does he believe that the
conservative people of jacksonville, TIE
business men, entertain any such senti-
ments. He believes that the surgeon general
has been doing all that he can for the fever.
stricken city, and the precautions that he
may have taken, while they may appear
harsh to some, have been for the best.
THE SURGEON GENERAL SUSTAINED.
Mayor Smith says that the people OF
Florida must remember that it is not the
only state vitality interested, but that (icor-
gia, Alabama, South Carolina and North
Carolina, and some of the states in the
Mississippi valley have as much interest at
stake as Florida. Their safety and security
is something the surgeon general must
consider. Mayor Smith says that The
position taken by President Cleveland and
the senator's and representative from
Florida in sustaining the action of the
surgeon general, he believes, is approved by
the thoughtful citizens of Jacksonville.
The government, he says. may vel
have TO look after the support OF
the negro population Of jacksonville, which,
If it is to escape the general epidemic, wi
have TO be removed from the city, anC
cared for until the fever is stamped out
Jacksonville, Mayor Smith says, cannot
afford TO do it, and the colored population
is too poor to take care of itself.
MAYOR SMITHS POLICY.
Il will be Mayor Smiths policy, on BIZ
return 70 Jacksonville, TO continue the ex
fro sanitation and IN ppcouraora ha aw,J,,