The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
ANOTHER ENEMY HEARD FROM.

various dFIlCleS III L HE LINES, Will
the particulars of DIR. lie Hardy's re-
cert visit to Brunswick. With pre-
sumption that, even for an official Sa-
MAMMALIAN, was remarkable, he in
formed Surgeon Burford, by post,
that he was coming; coming without
warrant or permit "a privilege not al
lowed the chief officials of the service)
to inspect the Brunswick quarantine.
To man like Surgeon Burford, with
the clear and unequivocal chart of his
duties before him, no exception to an
iron clad rule could be made, even for
the benefit of such superior person
age as the health officer of Savannah.
Therefore when the foot of the Theckla
announced the arrival of the unbidden
investigator, DR.. Burford could not be
expected to set the heel of disregard
upon the letter of his law and greet
with open arms one who came without
authority. 1t was plainly within the
scope of his duties to inform the Wis
itOr courteOusly, but firmly, that he
could not land on the quarantine bluff
without suffering the same penalty
provided for humber persons, naked
of official vesture and lower in the
scale of humanity than a Savannah
physician.
This Surgeon Burford did; and ''the
blow almost killed" the doctor, 1t was
then that Brunswick, and its quaran-
tine, and its quarantine doctor, and
its every thlng else of public interest
whatsoever, became extremely dis
tasteful to the health officer; it was
not until then that he realized that q
meeting with DR.. BurfOrd, which had
been by him hitherto SO eagerly
sought, Was so full of danger, and de-
cided in his wrath that "the Bruins
wick quarantine officer had no busl-
ness to board the Theckla."
1t would be easy to imagine the per-
turbation of DR.. lie Hardy's feelings
under these unexpected circumstances
but he has saved us the necessity of
mental inquiry by proclaiming it in
print. al considered it an outrage
he says, "that the health officer of Sa-
vannah, who had come all the way for
that purpose, should be refused admit
lance into the quarantine station at
Brunswick" Think of it! Such an
lndignIty were enough to cause the
dest-mannered student of quaran-
tine etiquette to fume with hectic rage.
We can fancy the disappointed en-
bOdiment of hygienic law Indignantly
addressing the surgeon, the station
and the great national service under
which they operate: Quarantine
rules were made for ordinary lndivId-
uals, but not for LIE Hardy. No, sir,
by the great Bacillus, not bit of it,
sir!"
1t must be said, in perusing the doc
tors observations further, that he re-
quires a considerable amount of time
in which to go through the operation
of sitting down. He says: 81 had
hardly taken my seat, when, to my as
constituent, we had already reached
the wharves of the city of Brunswick
less than mile from the quarantine
station-both on the same side of the
river"
THE TIMES dislikes to believe that
| tue uedlIu OHlCeT Oh savannah would
>wilfuliy misstate the facts; and is IN
! clined to ascribe his wide shoe at the
target of Truth in this instance to the
disturbed and provoked mental state
in which the interview with DR.. Bur
ford had plunged him. Every person
who has rOwed, sailed or steamed
from the quarantine station to the
city proper, and who was not at the
time a temporary paranoiac, knows
that the above statement most un-
warrantably reduces. the real dis
lance. From the quarantine to the
wharf where DIR. LeHardy landed is
fully three miles. From the southern
most extremity of Brunswick's wharf
frontage to the station is fully two
miles. In addition, deep creek in