The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-28

Employees and provisions ,......... o p 50 50
Insurance .......................'... -VO W
$L672.5O
This arbitrary method has killed all
4 summer business effectually, and it must
remain so until some relief is afforded.
Loss Of trade, failure to meet our prom
4 ises. all combined with the absolute finan-
cial loss. make it absolutely impossible to
continue the coffee trade under these re-
strictions. Since the first of March last
4 year not a cargo has been imported, when
4 there would have been six 90 come into
this port. Yours respectfully,
Joseph ID. Weed.
Mr. Weed is now president Of the Sa-
vannah Bank and Trust Company, but at
the time this letter was written he was
a direct importer of coffee.
The restrictions upon commerce spoken
of were first instituted upon the AIssis-
sippi river in 1879 by the national board of
health, to prevent the introduction of vel
low fever; but it did appear that year and
ragged al Memphis and other places. This
=. strict quarantine was kept up by the ma
uonal board until it expired and has been
Kept up IN southern ports ever since by the
marine hospital service, wherever it has
had the power to exercise IL. 1t has ruined
the summer commerce everywhere, New
. Orleans excepted, because in that city
NtANS h0u 81 ltlllCdiEu steam as a OlSlDIeCI-
ant and only detain vessels at quarantine
from two to five days
Mr. Weeds predictions We're correct
Our summer trade has not revived and
therefore, the quarantine officer has had
few occasions to detain vessels from south
ern ports. And, besides, vessels coming
from suspected ports are not allowed to
come to quarantine at all, but are sent to
the marine hospital service quarantine At
SaDelO without avon loFror I,oorlol -. a.. =
quarantine officer as will be seen by the
following letter:
Savannah, Ga, Aug. %, 1Sg6.-Dr. j. c.
Lehardy, Savannah, Ca: Dear Sir-My
attention being called to your recent ar
ucle' and the criticisms on same. about
quarantine, and the great disadvantage
me present system works to the mort ~
savannah, l feel 1t my duty to put you in
possession of what information 1 have
salhered from personal experience. and
nope that 1t may assist you in directing
lhe attention Of those most Interested in
.He welfare and prosperity of your city.
~ some less expensive method which
must eventually be adopted, unless you
expect the shipping Of this port to grow
less year by year, instead of increasing.
sailed from Santos. in Brazil. on the
l'tH gay OF last May, chartered to load
largo at Savannah. The weather was
Coid when left there, and, while there
was some sickness in that port. none of
my crew We're sick while there or after
tg@'Iils there When 1 arrived at Ty-
zee instead of being allowed TO come 10
savannah quarantine station. nv vessel
"@s ordered to Sapelo and detained there
seventeen % days, at a loss to the vessel
- aoout $L@O, as will be shown bv the
IIono"lng memorandum:
I-Aua Plotage, about ...........S 125 m
Seyer, eowdge about. 125 90
,eeh days detention at 5000
20 Jay '................ ..........,.. 1.538 30
4 Tba soo total .................$1,7S 8 80
~ Ne $500 per day is the value put upon
~ ,iIne OF the vessel by the owners and
NJ SHarterers, and of course covers the
IN u the men. rations, wear and tear
No, iT vessel loss of time, etc, and is
Vs., n rate considering the size of the
ISL, I,ZO tons, carrying a crew of nine
zen I'D men. When the vessel was char
c. we expected to be detained at the
d. '-aH quarantine about three to five
H. ana 10 make my estimate of the
~ gAactly correct that amount should
-ueted from the above memorandum
ma. lhese facts it will be easily seen
No. u such burdens continue to be put
- vessels coming here. It will only he a
question Of time when none will come e,-
~, ~ higher rates if they can get
-7"Ls from other and less extensive
for My vessel has been running steadily
lhe past four years in the South
t5 '.7 ian trade, carrying cargoes all over
"ord' and have never had an ex-
,'5'i9e IN quarantine that approximates
''7 ABOVE. Yours very truly.
G. z. Utley, Master,
ms bfltish Bark lamar r. Marshall
ms letter speaks for itself
e- 'l.lu yet Dr. Graham acknowledges that
rs,- 'essels have been detained for a
nearly half that time" (ninety
cass but that they are seldom detained
Lo1rteen days. The important fact