The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-16
NO SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE.
QUARANTINE's INTERFERENCE
WITH TRAFFIC Is SLIGHT.

and r. Train Mt ClyO-When stop
ped Passengers Use the Wires
Right Avvay-COnductors Aiding
the Inspectors MateriaIIy-RniI-
road officials Secure Concessions
For Certain Passengers-The Day
With the Health Authorities.
The enforcement of the quarantine reg
ulations is not causing any delays in the
arrival of the passenger trains. There
is but little time lost when the trains are
stopped for the quarantine officers to go
through them. Not more than ten min
utes, it is said, at the treinmaster's Of
fee, are required for the examination of
the certificates at any time at Meldrm,
and usually not more than five or six min
Utes are lost.
The conductors render the quarantine Of
fcers every assistance they can in the ex-
animation. No reports have been receiv-
ed of passengers having been stopped on
the Contra, Plant system or the Georgia
and Alabama. The Florida Central and
Penlnsular has had three of its passengers
detained thus far. All of them were
stopped at Clyo and the telegraph wires
were Immediately brought into play. Tel
egrams kept going in rapid succession un-
til the passengers were allowed to resume
their journeys.
One of the detained passengers was A.
L. Patterson. an Augusta drummer, who
did not get away from Clyo until o'clock
yesterday morning, after having spent the
night and a greater part of the day before
that Z
in the morning. He is a citizen of
Barnwel, S. c., and last night efforts
were being made by the passenger people
to secure permission for him 70 pass the
quarantine lines.
As soon as the passengers without a GER
tifcate or of whom the conductors can
not give a good account, are told that
they must get off the train, their first ac-
ton is to put the wires to working. The
railroad officials here are telegraphed of
the circumstances and they do all they
can to satisfy the local authorities, who,
if the railroad men are successful, wire
the quarantine officer TO allow such par
ties TO come in. In the mean time the
party under detention is getting in his
work with the officer. He tries to show
him that he has not been in any infected
sively, he is allowed To proceed.
The conductors of the Florida Central
and Pennsular and Plant sys-
tenn are instructed to assist
the quarantine officers by ascertaining
where the passengers have been spending
their time of late. on the conductors state
ments that the passengers are all right,
even If they are unprovided with certifi-
Gates, they are allowed to enter the city.
The conductors are directed to be ex-
tremey careful in order that mistakes
may be avoided, but the officers must
accept their statements as to the late resi- j
dences of their passengers.
A concession was secured for their pas
sengers by the officials of the Plant sys-
TEN and Florida Central and Peninsular
from the sanitary board, though it is
only to be temporary, probably ending,
as will the acceptance of the conductors
testimony, to-day or tomorrow. This was
to have the officers allow passengers trav-
cling on tickets purchased from
points above Columbia, on the
Florida Central and Peninsular and
Charleston, on the Plant system 10 enter
the city. Certificates are not necessary in
these instances but, as stated, this ar
rangement is to be only temporary.
On the Plant system and the Florida
Central and Peninsuar the officers do not
have the trains detained while they go on
with their work. They board
| bound, at Jesup, and travel eleven
miles to Johnson Station, where they get
off and take the train returning to Jesup.
| The passengers not allowed to pass are to
| be put off at the same place where the
| officers leave the train. The south bound
| passenger trains on the Plant system are
! boarded at Vaudeville and the officers
/ come down to Montieth, examining the
| certificates on the way. The north bound
! trains of the Florida Central and PENN
| sular are boarded at Everett and left
| at White Oak or Woodbine and the South
! bound at Clio the officers getting off at
! Rincon. In case they require rest and de-
! sire to come on TO any station this side
| of Rincon, the conductors are instructed
| to allow them to do So The officials of
! the railroads are doing everything poss-
! ibe to facilitate the carrying out of the
! quarantine and a rigid conduct of it is
| expected
There is a number Of Savannahians
away at present who might be inconven-
! fenced by the quarantine restrictions on
| their return were it not for friends here.
| These are instances in which persons
| have left to spend only few days away
from Savannah. They cannot well secure
certificates where they are as knowledge
| of their whereabouts has not been mad
for a sufficiently long while. Friends at
| home. consequently, secured certificates
here 10 the effect that they have not
been in any infected locality. These are
then mailed 70 them
Residents of Guyton who do business in
the city are required 10 have health GER
tihcates in order to enable them to pass
the quarantine lines. Yesterday they were
allowed TO pass without detention, but
this will not last. Unless those not yet
provided with them get health certificates
they may find that their days labor will
begin when they strike Meldrim instead Of
In Savannah.