The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-19
SYSTEM UNDER FIRE
COUNCIL TO CONSIDER REGIsTRA.
 TION AT DEPOT.
Refugees from MississippI Coast Are Fleeing North and Alabama
 Quarantine Agents Are
 Watchful of Them.

Montgomery's system of registration quarantine which has been more or less under fire since its installation, will again be up for trial when the Council gets together Monday night. In om- cial circles 1t Is regarded as extremely ! improbable that 1t will be changed. notwithstanding the attacks made up- on 1t.
 Acting Mayor Mcintyre stands for the system which has been both so praised and so condemned. The Act ing Mayor and the other Aldermen who favor it are not contending that 1t Is a perfect system, nor are they willing to admit that the train style of quar- antine is a perfect system. The regis tration system Is held to be as effec- tive as a train quarantine. by its friends, as well as moro compact and easier worked. The matter of saving to the city in money Is considerable. although all the city officials are ready to declare that the cost of the quar-
 antine in such a time is not to be con- sidered.
 The complaints against tho registra- tion are made by the travelling public. The incoming passengers register the most complaint about the system. They complain at having to line up at the gate and wait while a number of pas sengers are being registered by the of- fcers. On tho other hand the local au- | thorities assert that all quarantines are inconvenient to the travelling pub 1 lie. They say that in all times of epi- denies people who travel must expect inconvenience.
 The city quarantine as may be judged, is at this time a matter of con- | siderable interest and the subject of | no end of discussion. The present sys- tenn was brought under fire by a reso- | R A-t o,.1t | van was the author which condemned 1 the present method and declared for a | city quarantine officer on all local | trains. The resolution went to the | Special Quarantine Committee, which Is composed of three Aldermen, two mem- bers of the Board of Health and a rep | resentative business man of the city. | This committee will consider the Sul- I livan resolution today or Monday and the Council will Monday night either
 kill or continue the present system. The continued hold that the epidemic | has had upon New Orleans. the way it | has spread Tn the environment of the city in some of the Louisiana parishe es | and in one or two of the Mississippi coast towns has caused the authorities
 to consider deeply the quarantine ques- | tion.
 In the past day or so the refugee travel out of New Orleans and the vii cinity seems to have rapidly increased. | The increase Is due, perhaps, to the large number of cases which are re- ported each day in New Orleans and l the discovery of yellow fever on the
 Mississippi coast. Many of tho people of moderate circumstances who have
 been waiting anxiously for the epidem- ic to be checked have become alarmed and are leaving. In other parishes of Louisiana where the disease has ap- peared many people are leaving and as a result the northbound trains are well filed
 The refugees. while they are not per- | mitted to leave the cars. when they have to await connections in Montgom- cry, are not harshly or cruelty treated. The windows are not shut down and coffee and sandwiches are passed in to 1 all the passengers who have the price. These refugee cars arc rushed clear l through the State before the doors are | unlocked and the passengers are al- lowed to leave the train.
 Quite a number of Alabama people | who were on the Gulf coast when yell l low fever was discovered there by Dr. | Sanders and Dr Mohr of the Alabama Health Board, passed through Mont gomery yesterday en route to Atlanta. They will return to their homos when
 the period of detention has passed.