The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-09-12
MAN
WRITES Of
ATLANTA
c. n. Porter Praises the Hospitality
Which Grs8ts All Visitors in
the Great Georgia
Capitol.
Atlanta. Ca Sept 9, 1905.

Atlanta, Ca, Sept 9, lyO5.
/ Editor Pensacola Journal:
After four Gays eager waiting and
watching for my home paper, / was
today reC0mpenSed for my long period
o. waiting by receiving four copies
covering dates from 9Th to Sth inclu-
siye for which please accept many
thanks. They being the first familiar
objects that have greeted my gaze
since I babe adieu TO the friends as
sembled At the station on the day o.
my departure, you may more easily
imagine than I can describe now very
welcome their advent The cheerful
hopeful tone chat peryadcs each copy,
easily designates that rare spirit OF
fCrtitude which can smile n the face
Of adversely and meet its frOwns with
out a tremOr.
May the gallant struggle now on be
tween the defenders Of PensacOla's
health and that hydra, whose pres
ence in any city or hamlet, fills its
population with panic. disrupts and
uepOpulates homes. stops the wheels
OF factories and transportation, oh.
structs and closes the channels Of
commerce, result in a victory for the
former so complete, that the latter
viii never intrude its pestiferous pres
ence there again.
There Is not a shadow of doubt but
that this visitation can be made the
last of its kind with which Pensacola
will ever be afflicted. My short stay
here In Atlanta has impressed me
with the absolute certainty that vel.
low fever can be banished forever
from Pensacola and she can enjoy
the same immunity from its dreaded
appearance as does this grand and
noble city.
Atlanta recognizes what an inesti.
mable asset sanitation is to a city
and as a result those who come here
as refugees, are accorded the same
hospitality as those who come from
nOn-infected districts, on business or
pleasure trips. The calmness which
she displays and the cordially she eN.
tends to the refugees from infected
districts, that come in by train loads,
have made an impression on me that |
can never Outlive. The serenity with
which she throws open her doors anC
lavishes her hospitality upon those
who fee from the yellow peril and
seek shelter within her gates, pre-
sents a spectacle Of lofty courage and
heroic granduer that words are Who'll
y inadequate TO express.
As to Alabama n
Only those who have had the honor
Of riCing through the grand glorious
and chivalrOus state Of dear old Ala.
hama, in a locked coach, with a large
detachment Of guards on duty to see
that lOcked-in prisoners did not force
open the doors, climb through the
transOms, jump out Of the windows, !
nor scratch through the floor, or by |
any chance place their defled feet on |
her sacred soil, while the train carry /
ing its cargo of contamination was
at a high rate Of speed /
through her mRtchless domain-only /
those can conceive the magnitude OF I
chivalry, and the incompar, /
able courage and confidence of her
people In the immunity which her. per. /
feet cleanliness insures.
When New Orleans and Pensacola /
have the perfect sanitation land they /
viii some day. that the Queen City OF /
the South has they will enjoy the /
same immunity from yellow fever and
Madam StegOmyia will lose much of
her present nOtOriety. More anon.
c. u. PORTER