The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-06-01

ATLANTA ii. xkDERED AGAIN..
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/ Malicious aid infamous Paragraph in
The Marie tsa Jonrnal-Charges
That Sihallpex Exists Here
Atlanta has nnperolas cases Of small
pox Be careful xWlienyou visit there
etfa Jo9faal 80
~ assertion 81 she N arietta j Journal
tlzefe isssnaalfpox IN Atlanta is
,intl n rlorethan that-it is ma
iieiQ1sl III The 6ify hastnever been
~ more heRIthful contiitfon than at
and 10 vigilan0 have been the
ilttary ~ ftlllel'fSof. health in the
I'M ths tflot a ease of smallpox
~ M tlzlN the cOxporate limits of Allan
tlaiita Gonktitution.
II The greas ana good Constitution
nsalses the charge Chat we1have ''slan-
I defed AtlahtasY and that we did so
t'naliciously What motive could we
b haveto de sowicked thing? There
is nothing to Be gained by it. If we
should iiiadvertently' do hurt to the
reputati6n.ufs Atlanta; we would take
as much pleasure IL correcting it for a
~ city as we would for a'citizen.
THE 'JouRNkL = statement that At
,lanta has smallpox was based on infor-
y NATION furnished US by as reliable and
fruthful gentleman as any one con-
nected with the great and good" Con-
stitution, This gentleman, in business
Z N ATLANTA, had good opportunity to
Know whereof he spoke He tells us
Ihat there were taken from the neigh
borhood OF o. A. Smiths Chemical
y Works some half dozen negroes, all
broken opt with smallpox, and they
were carried to the pest-hQuse by the
regular constituted authorities, and
the negroes are there now. Among
those moved to the pest-house were
Forrest Bryant's wife and child, Lee
a Foe, Nose Hammond, Holly Murray
and others On the day previous to the
removal of these smallpox patients, u
negro man, broken out with smallpox,
entered a store at the end of the street
car line in that part Of the city, and
ms presence created great excitement.
This gentleman and prominent citi-
zen with him tells, us that while they
were waiting for the street car that
two white men came with portfolios to
canvass for pictures, and they were
warned by those around that it would
be great risk for them to go from
house 10 house in that neighborhood
owing to the prevalence of smallpox,
and these meE boarded the cars and
went back into the city.
Now, the great and good" Constitu
tion will doubtless fall back on it's
statement that there is "no smallpox
within the corporate limits of the city 4"
This qualification of its sweeping denial
Is an artful dodge, an evasion, flimsy
suoterfuge, to cover up the true situa-
ton, for evidently that paper had
heard of these cases being "just outside
-. of the corporate limits" and, therefore
ossde bold to assert that there were
~ -, inside of the corporate limits -
notwt "a tSad@g the tact her street
cars, trsess, ttstfic and building extern
sion make the suburbs and Atlanta one
in all essentials, as much so as bees
working in and out of hive. But
when Atlanta gets to blowing and
Dragging about her immense growth
and population, and wants to swell the
HnitroS hn IAncnSt
all the suburbs as part of Atlanta
Yea, verify she believes then in EEK
pansion,' smallpox or no smallpox.
The pest-house, we are informed. ha,
its smallpox inmates, and the Constitu
ton had better go out and take tn,
census. Chief Lowry will not give al
affidavit that there are no smallpox pa
tients in the pest-house.
This and last week, posted at tn,
Atlanta Jail, is the following notice:
..'NoTICE.-Upon investigation,
] find several patients now con-
lined in the pest house with
small pox. To insure against
the disease spreading amongst
the prisoners, NO VISITORS will
be allowed in Jail until the pest
house has been cleared of all pa
TENTS. ]. w. helms, Sheriff"
Now, Sheriff helms says, upon in.
vestigation," he makes to the public
the above notice OF course, he did
not expect visit" from the "pest
house patients" for they are not al
lowed to leave the pest house until
they are well and then discharged but
evidently his apprehension was based
upon a well founded fear, ascertained
by an investigation, that visits from