The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-21
THE SITUATION
At THE CAPITAL
Shows a Marked Increase of
Fever Cases.
ONE DEATH, FIVE NEW CASES
Citizens Protest Against the Prevailing
Quarantine Regulations.
GOVERNOR OFFERS A PROPOSITION
Camp of Detention Near Montgomery
For Poor People.
oPELIKA's DOORS ARE WIDE OPEN
And the City Fun of Refugees-wm Ignore
the Governors Order-New Orleans
Reports Six Deaths and Sixty
New Cases For the Day.
Camp of Detention Near Montgomery
For Poor People.
oPELIKA's DOORS ARE WIDE OPEN
Special to The Age-Herald.

special TO line ASe-6eTdlu.
Montgomery, Oct 2O-One death, P. w.
White, lawyer, aged %, unmarried, and
five new cases: r. A. Kazian and wife,
who own and operate the Montgomery
Natatorium; Miss M. Anderson, III Clay
tom street; ]. r. Lemon, 116 Dickerson
street, and William Webb, eolored, 216
Dickerson street, were announced by the
board of health.
The precipitate flight of the people con-
tinues. Tne declina ton of Governor
Johnston to amend the state quarantine
SO as to permit refugees Lo stop in such
places in the state as will receive them,
while eminently fair and proper, is
disappointment to many here who have
not sufficient. means to pay fare beyond
the limits of the state and weeks
board after they get there. Atlanta and
Nashville are believed to have caught
1nOSL Ol TIE peOple uOic
Highland Park, most fashionable
suburb, similar TO Birminghams South
Highlands, has inaugurated a quaran-
time against Montgomery.
1T, however permits its own citizens
all of whom do business in Montgomery
to come into the city, provided they get
back home at 5 o'clock. AT that hour
the curfew bell is rung and all citizens
who are not Within the town limits at
the momcnt, must remain for ten days in
am uninfected locality before returning.
A post nnortem was held upon the
body of Mr.. White this afternoon under
the supervision of State Health officer
Saunders and it is given out unofficially
tonight that it revealed clear proof that
yellow fever was the cause of the death.
The following Letter was addressed to
Governor Johnston today by a committee
of citizens:
Montgomery, Ala. Oct TO- 1897.
10 Governor Joseph F. Johnston, Bir-
mingham, Ala:
The undersigned appointed a commit
tee ait a meeting of the citizens of Mont
gon1ery enter this, their solemn protest,
against the outlawry of citizens of Ala
bama, practiced under the present state
quarantine regulations, which, regard
less of the authority of local govern
ments, or the wishes of the people whom
they represent, or whether the presence
of refugees among them is a source of
danger, inexorably forbid persons in an
infected place from taking refuge any,
where within the borders of this ctate.
There are many places in North Ala
bana and elsewhere in the state, whose
sxperience for more than half a century
their midst to say nothing of the GER
tainty of early frost. which always pre-
vents danger of the spread of fever, and
these communities have opened wide
their doors, yet great numbers of men,
women and children. who have not
means to get out of the stee, are de-
barred from places of refuge nearer
home, and are compelled to remain in
the infected district to become, 1t may
be, victims of the disease.
The present state regulations are caus-
ang useless suffering and misery to
thousands whom it should be the highest
concern of the stat4 to protect and de-
fend, and the regulations work harsh
discrimination against the poorest and
most defenceless classes of our citizens.
The well-to-do may go beyond the state,
but und=r ITS regulations persons with
out means are condemned to remain
-where they are and to face the risk and
danger, although places in their own
state afford them safe and convenient
refuge.
What reason can be given why the cit
izens of Montgomery should not be per-
mitted to go to pieces within the state.
,iks Anniston, opelika and numerous To-