The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-10

Acting Mayor C.FP. Mcintyre per- petrated another positive veto yester- day. And the readers of The Adver- tiser, as a consequence, are deprived of an opportunity of reading an interview with William Minnihett on Who I Am. Where l Came From, and How it Feels to Have Yellow Fever"
 A well organized and well equipped expedition from The Advertiser was on the point of entering a carriage yester- day and driving to the Emergency Hos pital to secure a photograph and an in terview with the gentleman who travels about with yellow fever germs conceal ed on his person. The Acting Mayor put his veto on the expedition and there will be no interview with Minnihett until the city of Montgomery is ready to ship him away well and cured.
 The Acting Mayor looked coldly and disapprovingly upon the members of the expedition through his glasses. Tt cant be done," he said. You . fellows will have to postpone 1t until some other time. Suppose you went out there and were bitten by a stegomyia which had accidentally feasted off Min nihette, and suppose you came back in | Montgomery and developed yellow fe- yer? I don't know what would happen to you all, but I have faint idea of what would happen to me for permit 
 ing of the people now. I'd have to move out of Montgomery and I really like Montgomery No. MT. Minnihett will have to remain uninterviewed for the present"
 The staff photographer took his cigarette out of his mouth and said, "Daggone."
 The staff correspondent looked up and saw visions of "a peach of a news story" vanishing in the sun-lit atmos- phere. It was G great story to have to lose 1t, Here was the most talked of and the most written of man in Ala bama, but oe the real facts which con- cerned him little or nothing was posi- lively known except that he has hf d yellow fever. Here was a man whose visit to Montgomery some local statis- ticians had figured out had cost the city at least S100,000, and nobody knew anything about him. Here was q man whose presence in/the city affected It's destiny more than any other man had affected it, and nobody could tell with certainty where he was from or what he had been doing. Here was a man who had come into Alabama ignored and unknown. and yet in a few hours he was getting more free advertising g than Corners campaign against the rail roads. And all in all, besides, the primal fact that he was getting well of
 
 tery as the man who struck Billy Pat terson. What a chance for news story!
 The staff correspondent echoed the heartfelt "daggone" of the staff photog- rapher The staff correspondent took the Acting Mayor by the lapel of the coat and argued with him confidentially. He went over the strong points of the mosquito theory and averred solemnly that there was just about one chance In a thousand for the Interviewing expe- dition to encounter a blood-thirsty stegomyia. It was shown to the Acting Mayor that MT. Minnihett had been thoroughly screened. the mosquitoes had been fought away from the hospi- tai, and that there was about as much chance 10 catch yellow fever as there was that the Montgomery ball team would win the Southern League pen nsnt.
 That's ali right, but you couldn't convince, the people of Montgomery on that point. And I'm not taking any chances on having another case of yell low fever in Montgomery. The acting Mayor was positive. --* z:
 But I'll tell you what I'll do," con tinued the Acting Mayor in a burst of generosity. I'll let you fellows go out and get the interview and send