The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-28
WERE NOT vISED BY DR.. STONE
CONSEQUENTLY THEIR CERTIFI-
GATES DID NOT PASS.

Recorder-The Application of the
RuIe an Extreme One-nObert Sap
pington Goes to Jail Instead of
Getting a Government Job.
MIR. J Randolph Anderson Of this city
ana Mr.. J. y. Sizer, who travels for the
National Tobacco Company, will face Re-
corder Hartri5ge this morning on the
charge of violating the quarantine regula-
tons Of the city. Their cases are inter-
esting as illustrating the extremes to
which quarantine can be carried.
Mr.. Anderson has spent the summer in
the northwest in company with his wife.
Returning to Geo gia recently, Mr.. and
Mrs. Anderson stopped at Marietta. Being
advised of the situation in this section on
account of the yellow fever scare, Mr..
Anderson, who desired to return to Sa-
vannah at once, wrote Health Oficer Lee
Hardy. asking what REQ uirements were
necessary for him to secure admittance to
savannah. Dr. LeHardy replied, instruc-
ting him to get health certificate in Mar
ietta, but not to stop in Atlanta. In case
he stopped in Atlanta he was instructed
to have his certificate yised by DR.. Stone
Mr.. Anderson obeyed these instructions
He secured certificate from a well-known
physician in Marietta, TO which he then
secured the Endorsement of the mayor of
the town, together with the stamp Of the
official seal.
Feeling confident that he was fully
equipped to meet the most rigid quaran-
tine regulations which might be in exist
ence here, Mr.. Anderson boarded the
Western and Atlantic sleeper at Marietta
Sunday night and came on to Savannah.
The train stopped nine minutes in the
car shed in Atlanta. 1t did not occur to
AIr. Anderson that during these nine min
utes he might be accommodating innumera-
BILE microbes which could only be removed
by the official wise Of DR.. Stone upon his
certificate.
The Western and Atlantic sleeper, which
was transferred to the Central train at
Atlanta, was switched off at Macon, and
Mr.. Anderson transferred himself to the
Savannah sleeper. He remained in bliss
full ignorance of any possible difficulty I'M
til aroused at Meldrim by Inspector Hab-
ersham. The inspector perused the certta-
cate. and finding that Mr.. Anderson had
come through Atlanta, informed him that
he should have had the certificate endors-
ed by Dr. Stone. Mr. Anderson explained
the situation and produced DR.. LeHardy's
letter of instruction, which he stated ne
had followed literally. The inspector was
not satisfied and told MIR. Anderson that
his certificate was not satisfactory.
lust here statements differ. The infor-
nation received by the sanitary board
from the inspector at Meldrim was that
Mr.. Anderson positively refused TO leave
the train, after being instructed to do So
Mr.. Anderson says that this IS an error.
The inspector diG not order him TO leave
the train, he says, but simply told him
that his certificate was unsatisfactory. He
supposed that the matter had been refer
red TO the sanitary board by the Inspector,
and was surprised when informed that he
had been reported TO the board as refusing
TO leave the train.
HAD the inspector told me that I could
not proceed upon that train" said Mr.. An
Gerson, Il would promptly have gotten off
and communicated with DR.. LeHardy by
wire. when / would doubtless have
received permission to come in, which
could have done by the Georgia and Ala
bama train with the loss of only an hour
and a half"
The other case was that of Mr. J. Y.
Sizer, the travelling representative in this
section of the National Tobacco company
The Morning News mentioned yesterday
that a drummer. with an Atlanta cerun-
cate not vised by DR.. Stone, had been put
off at AIeldrim Sunday afternoon. rms
was Mr.. Szer.
After being put off the train at Meldrim
Mr.. Sizer telegraphed a statement of his
case to DR.. Stone. A reply not arriving
by the time Of the arrival of the Georgia
and Alabama train, Mr.. Sizer took TINS
train and came on TO the city, leaving
word with the inspectors to telegraph the
On
Steer at once took hack and drove to DR..
TeHardy's house The doctor, however,
had already received the inspectors tele-
gram and had gone 10 the Pulaski to meet
Mr. Sizer Not finding him there, ne Ielt
word with the clerk for Mr.. Sizer TO can
at his Office in the morning, Whlch request
was complied with.
Mr. Sizer had an Atlanta certificate is
sued Sept. %. This was the day before
the sanitary board here decided to require
that certificates of all persons coming this
way from Atlanta should be Vlsed by Dr'
Stone Anyway, this would nave mace
no difference with Mr.. Sizer as he was then
bound, not for Savannah, but for Angus
Ia. sunday morning he left Augusta for
Savannah having first taken the precau-
ton to have his certificate stamped by the
ticket agent at the union depot, being IN
formed by the agent that TINS was all that
was necessary. When held up by the IN
d
that it was unreasonable to expect him to
20 back 20 Atlanta for the purpose OF hav-
ing his certificate vised by DR.. Stone, es-
pecially when he was in ignorance Of any
such requirement
Mr.. Sizer exhibited his Atlanta certih-
cate to a Morning News reporter. 1t con-
tanned an accurate description, giving age,
hight, weight, color of eyes, and so forth.
"They are very strict in issuing certil-
Gates in Atlanta" said Mr.. Sizer. In
order to get this l had to get two promi-
nent business men to so with me to the
health officer to identify and vouch for
me, and then the officer required the sig
nature Of one of the business men to the
certificate as Identifying me- Having
gone to all this trouble 1 thought I was
equipped to meet the quarantine officers
most anywhere"
Both gentlemen were before the SANTA
nv board yesterday and made their state
uents The board is determined to up
hold the quarantine regulations TO the full
est extent, and both being guilty of having
violated the quarantine regulations in COM
ing TO the city after being ordered not &c
do so, and before securing permission
cases were ordered entered against them
on the docket.