The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-16
A CASE NEAR HAzLEHURsT.
Surgeon Carter Announces That 1t is
Yellow Fever.

DR.. Drummer received a telegram from
/ Surgeon Carter yesterday saying that Leg
I gctt. the Jesup refugee who was reported
to DR.. Drummer, has yellow fever. Leg
gett is at a farm house twenty miles
| northwest Of Hazlehurst. DR.. Carter said
| that all practicable precautions had been
taken 10 prevent any further spread Of
! the disease at that point.
There is little apprehension here on
/ account of the LeggetJ case, being so far
from the railroad that there is no likeli-
hood of infection being brought in this
| direction
DR. Drummer was made very wrathy
yesterday by information brought him
that the agent of the Sam road at
Lyons has been making statements
that yellow fever existed at Sa-
vannah and advising merchants
of that place not to buy goods here. The
information was given by Mr.. l. ).
Schwarzbaum, who said he heard the agent
at Lyons tell a merchant of that place
that there was yellow fever at Savannah
and warn him not to buy here. Mr..
Schwarzbaum did not remember the
agents name.
DR. Drummer addressed a letter at once
to the agent of the Sam road at Lyons,
in which he informed him that his state
ment was "a deliberate and malicious lie"
DR.. Drummer has also written the officials
of the road requesting the discharge OF
the agent.
DR.. Paul Won Seydentz, who was re-
Gently stationed at Atlanta as an agent
of the marine hospital service, was pas
senger yesterday on the VIM. Lawrence
for Baltimore. Dr. Won Sevdentz was
relieved of duty at Atlanta the latter part
of last month and ordered to send on his
accounts to Washington.
DR. Won Seydentz career was not par
ticularly brilliant in Georgia, though he
excited a good deal of criticism. When
he first arrived in Atlanta from New
Orleans representing himself as a govern
ment expert, his peculiar actions attracted
attention and the newspapers
wrote him up as fake;
to discover little later that he was
really what he claimed to be. DR.. Won
Seydentz had a horror of newspaper men
and they repaid him with interest. About
two weeks ago he boarded the Central
railroad train for Savannah refusing to
get a health certificate. He went along
smoothly enough until he reached Mel
drim, where the Savannah inspector
boards the train. A health certificate
was demanded of him and he was told he
could not proceed without one.
He stormed in broken English and de-
clared he was in the marine hospital ser
vice But that did not work with the in
spector, and he dropped the foreign doc
tor off at the little station,
When the inspector reached Savannah
he reported the case to DR.. Drummer. He
Immediately wired Surgeon General
Wyman telling him that the old doctor
was there, and asking who he was and if
he was in the service.
In a short while a telegram came from
the surgeon general, saying that Won Sey-
dentz had been in Atlanta. 1t concluded
by requesting DIR. Drummer if he saw him
to tell him that he was discharged from
further service and ordering him to re-
turn to New Orleans and send in his ac-
counts
DR. Drummer began to look for the old
man, but he had disappeared from Mel
drim and no trace of him could be found.
A few days ago DR.. Drummer learned
that he had secured horse ald buggy
and had come to Savannah. He sent
word about the message from the surgeon
general, but the old doctor insisted that
he was in the service and would not re-
gard discharge.
Dr. Won Seydentz stopped while in Sa-
vannah with his friend DIR. knorr on
Twelfth street. He is supposed to be on
his way to Washington to see the surgeon
general in person about his discharge.