The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-22
DIR. LIE HARDY REPLIES.
He Answers the Criticisms of the
nrunsMick Times.

4A~94tli CiliNeI LS1aIjS TOT statements
made by him after his return from Bruins
wick where he went with the purpose
Of inspecting the quarantine station there,
but in which purpose he was disappointed.
/ The Brunswickians did not seem TO ike
| Or. LeHardys remarks upon the trip as
| published in the Morning News after his
return home and hence the comments of
the Times
Or. LeHardy's attention was called dur
ing last week to the Times editorial and
he prepared reply which ne has mailed
the Times for publication in to-day issue.
The reply is of interest to those who read
DIT. LeHaFdy's first interview after return
ing from Brunswick. 1t is as follows:
Editor Brunswick Times-I hope you
VII allow me a reply TO articles published
in your last Sundays issue, and that you
viii place before your readers, $50 on
Sunday, as it is my desire to let then
know the reason why / was and / am SUN
| outraged at the manner in which the
health officer of sister city has been
treated by an acting sssist-
ant surgeon OF the marine
! hospital service, now representing
Brunswick at her local quarantine station,
But a few weeks ago the health officer cf
the city of New York pad US visit ana
was invited to inspect our quarantine sta
ton, and in company with some of tue
members of the sanitary board, lie vas
shown all over The grounds and buildings.
With him l went to Charleston, S. G., and
we were Invited by the health office,
| strct dlscipliuarian a gentleman Vf the
old school-to visit and inspect their
| beautifully kept quarantine grounds,
across the bay in company with some oil
the most venerable members Of their
| board of health. Here, the quarantine Of
ficer not only received us with the coulte-
/ sy of a southern gentleman, but after
showing US in detail. the buildings and
| apparatus, had a delightful luncheon
ready for US, before taking us back 20 the
city.
The Charleston and the Savannah quar-
antine stations are as healthy during the
| quarantine season s they are at any
other time, and If there be no infected
vessel in process of disinfection At the
station there is certainly no reason why
| officials should not be allowed TO visit
them, in summer as well as in winter.
About the middle of July DR.. F. NJ. Car
rington, past assistant surgeon marine
hospital service, came here on a tour of
inspection. The moment his business was
made known invited HIM
I
and placed our quarantine tug at his dis
pOsal. l invited Assistant Surgeon Oak
ley, NJ. II. s., stationed in the city, to
accompany us, and l took them down,
showed them all the buildings and appa-
ratus, brought them back TO the city and
again placed the tug at the disposal of
the surgeon next day to enable him to
complete his Investigations. our station
is about fifteen miles from the city.
few days later l visited the government
quarantine station at Sapelo, spent the
night there and next morning was
shown over the plant by Surgeon Nydeg
ger in charge. There is among gentlemen
to the manner born. whether - they are
/ quarantine officers or have other pursuits
in life, a natural feeling of courtesy that
never leaves them. Had your quarantine
/ station been infected or an infected YES
! sci been discharging infected ballast
| there, which was not the case, that alone
| could have excused your acting assistant
NJ. II. S. surgeon for his behavior to-
| ward me. es
! So much for DR.. r. E. l.. Burford as
/ to the number of vessels in port any one,
/ familiar with the shipping business at
/ brunswick must have seen at a glance
| that the Devil was in it, The reporter
/ was furnished with the names of vessels
/ which the NJ. H. S. public health reports
| published iasnhaVing been disinfected or
! held at your quarantine from June the
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! also placed in HIS hands. Evidently he
did not make use Of them. but corrected
| his errors in the next issue.
| CA printers error changed the word
made" I'm Dr. LeHardy's statement to
the word ready" which entirely altered
| the meaning, making it appear that num-
! Der of vessels which he named were
! ready to discharge" when as a matter
| of fact, some of these vessels had already
discharged and left the port.-Ed)
1t took six minutes for the Thecka
| to run from your last wharf to the quar-
autine station and unless the dust Of
| brunswick increased her speed from ten
to twenty miles an hour, your miles are
very short miles; but whether the dis
! lance be two or four miles, your station
! is dangerously close to your city Not
only can the Infection of yellow fever
spread along the shore on the water, but
sailors can leave the station whenever
they can get a boat to carry them spend
| the night in town and be back by day
break. Up to a few days ago there were
| three sailors in Chatham county Jail who
had been arrested in Brunswick for leav-
ing their vessel at Sapelo quarantine and
! rowing TO your thriving city!
do not doubt your assertion that there
/ exists a creek between the quarantine
station and the limits of your city but II
must certainly make UP In depth what
It lacks in width, for 1 surely failed to
] discover II, ana surely yellow JACK Will
/ hnd no difficulty in stepping over It, even
| il he should forget his seven-eagues
/ boots.
! It seems by the heading of his editorial
! that the editor Of the Times belongs TO
/ ATTITUDES far higher than ours. and that he
| did not occupy his present high post. dur
/ ing the days OF trial Of our dear sister city
/ IN 1891. otherwise he would never call me
| an enemy TO Brunswick! Those who re-
/ manned at their post cannot forget the
treatment they received at the hands OF
the marine hospital service, during the
I scare" dubbed with the name OF yellow
| fever Epidemic when they were held as
prisoners. reduced TO pauperism and fed
| upon public charity. and they must re-
/ member the fight made by me 60 remove
| from their bosom the serpent which Is still
| preylrg upon their rights as citizens OF
! the Empire state.
As TO the heading and remarks made
\ about my friend, Maj. Hardco Il would
/ have been much better had the editor OF
/ the Times kept them at home The major
| knew the "odUr Of marsh mud long be-