The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-22
wONTGoMERY is FEVER MAD.
.,.R.NA,s CAPITAL UPsETS THE
MAIL SERVICE.

Postal Delivery Permitted From
,v Observation-Disclosures Does
N.t Relieve Their Fears-POstal
forks Held Up by shot Guns-NIaiI
rumiantiOn System-PhOtOgraph
wade TO Look Like the Principals
IN I,nching Party-LOve Letters
mat Lose the scent of the Violet
and Rose.
,.arta Ga. Sept. 21.-The yellow fever
anil the quarantine regulations incident
p,aved havoc with the mails, and
7.o+a as the headquarters of the dis
.-, affected. is receiving the brunt of
-,. Generalization
some Improvement was made in the
.iration to-day, however. superintend-
Terrell of the railway mail service
.,. that a new crew of six men has been
.,red 10 work the second relay between
.-srl5a and Hurricane Bayou. The new
-.r came from the neighborhood of Way
-ess and Brunswick and are taken from
.-. Brunswick and Albany run of
.. brunswick and Western railroad, the
s-rhy.ue and Columbus run of the Cen
.-sf and the Waycross and Montgomery
..r of he Alabama Midland. These men
r-..rtel for duty this morning in Opeli-
Ba.
The condition of affairs is little bet
,.r" said Maj. Terrell to-day. THAT is to
e.v our system of relays seems to work
III right. and the mails to New orleans
-r5uble. The Montgomery mail is al
most discontinued and the people there
oosi.iveIv refuse to receive anything in the
shape Of letter or express packages. The
rsoDle are frightened out of their wits in
that town, and are causing more trouble
than all the other infected points com
bne5. We can't land mail from any
point and all the Montgomery mail that
New orleans sends out comes right on
through 10 Atlanta without stopping"
Two clerks. who went out from Atlanta
Yesterday before the relay system was
adopted found their car cut off from
montgomery, at a way station and no way
tor them to go either forward or back
ward When they got off to go to sup
per at the country hotel, they were held
up by a guard with a shotgun and order
I'D back to their car. Supper was brought
tp them and with supper a note telling
them to shut up their windows and doors
and stay in the car on penalty of being
shot The clerks did so, and were picked
I'D by the train coming through this morn
irg and landed here in safety.
A carload of mail for Montgomery from
points in the fever infected district was
to- 80
been refused admission to the Alabama
capital 1 was fumigated here at the
Mitchell street crossing of the Central
railroad and another effort will be made
to cross the dead line and deliver it to
ii destination. If the Montgomery people
srill insist upon not allowing anything to
enter their town, even after having under
gone a thorough and careful investigation
and flmigation, it is not likely that Uncle
sam will trihe with them any more and
the result viii be that the town will be
practically removed from the postal map
The postal clerks who perform the disin-
tectng process are armed with paddles
studded with short sharp nails and they
per-orate all letters, papers and pack
ages. When the mail is thoroughly pad
died. the car is closed and the fumigat-
lls machine lighted. This is allowed to
burn for about an hour or so and then
The mail is redstributed. The orders are
eAphcu and every piece of mail has to
be thoroughly perforated, so big fat love
letters and packages that contain photo
graphs of fair maidens suffer the same
fate as the rest of the mail and many
fellows are liable to receive their best
eir.s pictures with their eyes gone or
faces studded with holes
one package bearing the trademark of
New Orleans photographer met dire
l1l fate this morning in the fumigation
yellow fever cannot be risked to save
photosraphs, however, and all young la
dies and young men who contemplate
sending their pictures away had better
wait until Montgomery gets over her fever
scare.