The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-13
GUARANTEED AT MELDRIM.
UNEXPECTED ENDING OF A WE'D
DING JOURNEY.


nent Savannah Physician Gone to
the Infected District to Obtain
Exact Information of the Situation
There For thc Guidance of the Lo-
cal Authorities.
A bridal tour with sudden termination
of Meldrim is the experience of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Glenn Grady who were mar
ried in New Orleans Saturday. An an
nouncement of the marriage was published
in yesterdays Morning News, and it was
stated that Mr.. and Mrs. Grady would
leave at once for Savannah. Mr.. ]. f.
Grady, father of the groom, was present
at the marriage, and was to accompany
the couple to Savannah.
About 8 o'clock last night Chief of Po-
lice McDermott received telegram from
Montgomery. Ala. announcing that two
gentlemen and a lady from New Orleans
had been transferred through the quar-
antine at Montgomery to the Georgia and
Alabama train to arrive in Savannah
last night. Chief McDermott promptly
communicated by telephone with Health
officer LeHardy who directed him to noti-
fly the conductor Of the incoming train to
notify his passengers from New Orleans to
leave the train at Meldrim as they would
not be allowed to enter the city. DIR. Le-
Hardy informed Chief McDermott that no
quarantine having been declared by Sa-
vannah against New Orleans, the pas
sengers could not be compelled to leave
the train and therefore the notice to them
could only he in the nature of request,
compliance with which would save them
selves trouble should they enter the city.
Chief McDermott then called up the
train dispatcher at the Central depot and
informing him of the circumstances, re-
quested him to notify the conductor of
the Georgia and Alabama train to request
the passengers from New Orleans to leave
the train at Meldrim, which the dispatcher
| agreed to do.
There was no time to lose, but the dis
| patch caught the conductor of the train
| at Meldrim. Detectives Scully and Shea
who met the train at the depot, were in
formed by the conductor that the passen-
gers in question had left the train without
! trouble. They were also informed that
the passengers in question were Mr.. Glenn
Grady and his bride, and Mr.. Grady's IA
! Their.
DR.. LeHardy, in speaking of the occur
| renee to Morning News reporter last
night, said that the matter would be in
| Vestigated this morning. 1t might be nee
| essary, he said, to detain the parties five
days and to fumigate their baggage and
clothing. However, if the party were
| equipped with health certificates, he said
and could show conclusively that they
had not been exposed to the infection it
might be that they would be admitted
without the exercise of these precautions
existence of the fever in New Orleans
when they went there, and being aware Of
the feeling in Savannah on this subject
they have doubtless exercised every pre-
caution, both for their own protection as
well as to facilitate their return TO Sa-
vannah.
Savannah will receive reports the most
accurate directly from the outlying posts
of the yellow fever sections, and from
those nearest points which have quaran-
tined against the places in which the fe-
yer has already appeared.
A prominent Savannah physician a vel
low fever expert and an immune, has been
sent to that section by the city authorities
for the purpose of making a full and care
full investigation, and he will notify Mayor
Meldrim and the sanitary board at once
of any developments. He left Savannah
Saturday night with official letters to the
mayors Of Montgomery, Mobile, New Or
leans, and all other points which it was
considered he would have to visit for the
purpose of making thorough investiga-
ton. He carried letters also to other Off
Gals, and it is pretty certain that he will
be afforded every facility for gathering the
information desired.
The circumstances upon which this
trip is made are such that if he should
wire to Savannah Institute a quarantine
at once and no more, the quarantine
would be instituted, and it would be made
a rigid one from the start
| The gentleman in question spent yester-
day in Montgomery, and will probably re-
main there to-day. Montgomery is the
point about which the Savannah authori-
ties have been most anxious, since parties
from Ocean Springs went there after the
fever mad appeared at that resort but be-
lore II mad been declared epidemic For
that reason it was expected that he would
spend some time in that city for the pur-
pose of finding out just what the situation
there is. From Montgomery he will prob
ably go TO Mobile, and then to New Or
leans. but the investigation of the nearest
points to the district in which the disease
has not yet appeared is considered most
important.
No communication was received from
him yesterday. Since ne has thorough
knowledge of the yellow fever, having
been through several epidemios, and hav-
ing been a patient himself the work he
for him is left entirely to his own iudg-
ment, and prompt action viii be taken up
on his advice. The object IS to find ont
at the earliest moment theaGact of the
existence of the fever In any of those
points in Alabama which are now con-
Quoting rigid guarantees, should it appear
in them. In case it did Savannah would
not wait for it to be declared epidemic.
but would institute the quarantine against
them at once. This trip is being made
as a precautionary measure just as other
steps are being taken on the idea that ian
ounce Of prevention is worth a pound of
cure"
Savannah's representative went wen
prepared, not only with letters, but as
wen from a personal standpoint. He was
aware of the fact that should he 90 40
New Orleans he would be detained at
some camp on his return trip for the re-
CURED period Of ten days. He carried old
clothes with him, and prepared himself
in ether ways so that his trip may be
made a thoroughly successful one from
every standpoint. For sufficient reasons
his name is for the present Withheld.
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