The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-12
70 DISCUSS THE QUARANTINE.
COTTON EXCHANGE AND BOARD OF
TRADE TO HOLD A JOINT
MEETING.

The Present Quarantine Regulations
Considered Arbitrary and Injuri-
Gus to the Commerce of the Port
and a Protest Likely to He Made
Against the Systematic Shipping
People Want to BE Put on the Same
Footing as New Orleans and other
Competing Ports Where the Re
quirements Are Less Stringent.
Mayor Myers UphOIds the Position
Taken by the Sanitary Board.
A joint meeting of the board of trade
and the cotton exchange will be held at
the cotton exchange at noon to-day to
consider the subject of quarantine re-
strictions and their effect upon the COM
merce of the port.
The meeting is called by President
Purse of the board of trade, acting in con-
junction with President Williamson of the
cotton exchange, a petition signed by a
number of business men having been pre-
scented to them yesterday requesting that
such a meeting be called.
The meeting is likely to be an interest
ing one. Statements will be made show
ing why Savannah is at a disadvantage
RO-
rigid quarantine restrictions and the rea-
sonableness of these restrictions will be
discussed. The meeting is the result of
long standing differences between the
shipping interests and the sanitary board.
The shipping men have protested for a
long time that the health officer, to whom
they ascribe the very stringent quaran-
tine regulations in force at this port, is
fr1fr 1,a
rigid enforcement of these regulations.
Several recent incidents where vessels
were delayed for an unusual length of
time at quarantine have operated to bring
matters to a head. The brokers having
found the sanitary board deaf to their
appeals have decided to take public &C
ton and call upon the commercial inter
ests OF the city to aid them in their de-
mands for the same announcement
granted to commerce at other ports.
At New Orleans, which is certainly
more exposed in every way than Savan-
nah," said ship broker to a Morning
News reporter yesterday, vessels are
allowed to come up to the city without
fumigation after Nov. Is, while at Sa-
vannah the same stringent regulations
are enforced winter and summer and
vessel which has visited ports to the
pected port is treated in tue same man
ner as one coming directly from a port
where yellow fever is known to exist"
The sanitary board held a special meet
ing yesterday afternoon to consider the
request of Richardson & Barnard that
the British steamship Hesperides, which
arrived at quarantine yesterday morning
from Boston, be allowed to come up to
the city at once. The Hesperides sailed
from Havana Nov. IA and arrived in Bos-
ton Nov. n, where she remained until
Dec. 6. The permission asked was re-
fused by the health officer when the re-
guest was first made yesterday morning,
but it was decided to refer the matter to
a meeting of the sanitary board. The
board decided to permit the vessel to come
up to the city to-day The request of the
same firm Tuesday that the Spanish
steamship Bonita be allowed to come up
to the city without delay was refused
she having been recently at Porto Rico.
The Austrian steamship line which
was recently established as an experiment
between Savannah and Trieste and Ven
ice, has been transferred to New Orleans
on account of the quarantine regulations
at this port.
Mayor Myers was seen and said that
he did not consider the quarantine regu-
lations unnecessarily restrictive
There is certainly no intention on the
part of the members of the sanitary
board said he, ito hamper the commerce
of the port They are all business men,
and DESTROYS of advancing the interests
of the city. The shipbrokers are willing
to take good many risks which we cam
not afford to have the city take. 1t is
true that we might grant every request
they might make and have no trouble for
a year or more, but when an epidemic did
occur it would set the city back ten years
Our regulations are the same as those
tenn, and there is nothing unnecessarily
harsh about them"