The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-11
QUESTIONED AT CITY GATE Quarantine Regulations in
 Operation. HISTORY OF VISITORS Montgomery Inspectors at
 Railway Station. Actipg Mayor wen Pleased With Site nation and Perfect Health Condi- tions-some Towns Have
 Raised Embargo.

| where will you stop while in the l city?" | If you are a passenger coming into Montgomery you will have to answer all those questions. They will be asked you by a man at the uSion rail- way station. There will be two Of him | when you get there. both of them' however, doing the same sort of work They will be standing at the only exit gate now open at the passenger sta ton. The inquisitor will have his back | against the narrow opening of the gate and he will stand with a pad to take | down your answers
 | Up against the gate on the other side | & Montgomery policeman will be stand | ing. He is there for emergencies | principally, and for ornamentation in- | cidentaIly. If you should become too naughty with the inquisitor. or if you should refuse to tell anything about your past, present or future, the inquis- | itor who is neither a mind reader nor ] fortune teller, and who has been put there to keep yellow, fever refugees out of the city will call the policeman | Inside the gate and direct him to do something with you.
 Strangers to Be Watched. On the other hand when you have answered the questions and had your answer totted down by the man with l the pad you may pick up your bag and pass through the gate safe and un- | harmed. When the two inquisitors fin- | ish their twelve hours round of duty they will take their pads to the City Sanitary Department where your an- swers and the answers of everybody | else who came in that day will be set down in a big book, where they will be scanned and conned by the city au- thorities. If there has been anything
 suspicious in your bearing. in your | route. or in the places you have been in the past ten days the inquisitors will note it In your answers. even be- fore he reports 1t to the Sanitary De- partment, in which case you may be very propably called upon by a po- 1 liceman and asked impertinent ques- | tons.
 This is the way Montgomery's new
 quarantine Is working. It began in
 the City Council early yesterday morn-
 ing. There Is at the passenger station
 day shift" and a night shift" of l quarantine officers The day shift is
 composed of Albert billiard and George Stewart Mr. billiard, who was noti-
 fled of his appointment shortly after
 the meeting of the Council Wednesday morning. He was joined a little later by George Stewart, and together they held the fort ,I;tu 6 o'clock D. m. At that time Berto Johnson and | Charles Kenneworth went on duty.
 They did the questioning of all pas- | sengers who came in on the night | trains.
 This Is the way the city quarantine at the passenger station will be run from now on. For the first day of it's
 institution the municipal quarantine worked smoothly and without friction. Today and on all following days until
 the yellow fever in New Orleans is a
 thing of the past, every passenger who
 comes Into the union railway station
 on a train will have to answer the list
 of questions and in that way give a short history of himself. Supervision of Trains. The new municipal quarantine con- templates also a supervision of all local passenger and all freight trains. The city will have to look out for people who may try to get into Montgomery
 from an infected point on a local pas senger train. or the more lowly freight train. To do this the city is going to have some agents who will keep an eye on switches and railroad yards. These agents will look particularly af-
 ter the places where freight trains stop and where local trains slow up in
 order that. should any refugee pas
 
 fore 1t gets to the shed, he will be
 picked up and made to give an account of himself by a quarantine officer or
 policeman.
 To assist in this work particularly, Acting Mayor Mcintyre yesterday named five additional quarantine off, cers. They are E. M Riley, Robert Graham. Joe Barker, Toombs Eber- hardt and ". K. Harwell. The work of
 the sanitary inspectors who may be
 set to watch the railroads will be
 helped along by the police department
 The mounted men. the bicycle patrol men and the patrolmen whose beats are
 located near the switches and rail road yards. will be directed to keep a look out for wandering strangers who may be attempting to dodge into Mont gomery.
 In the meanwhile the Sanitary De- partment is continuing its appointed work of inspecting all the premises in Montgomery. of flushing all the New CTS. fumigating all the cellars and oil ing all the standing water. The sani- tary 1T spectors have inspected more than 5000 premises in Montgomery. They are now going over the same work second time. The second round will probably be completed by the middle of next week. On the sec ond trip the inspectors are looking es- pecially for standing water This time they want to drain or have oiled every pool in the city.
 City's Splendid Condition.
 The oldest Of the sanitary officers unite in saying that Montgomery at the present time is cleaner than ever before in their memory. More clean ing up has been done this summer than in any previous summer. The city is naturally drained, built as 1t is upon a series of hills. and fin addition to this 1t has a splendid system of both sani- tary and storm water sewers
 The health of the city is excellent. The monotonous report from the sani- tary department is mot a suspicious case of illness in the city" The Board of Health some days ago discontinued the practice of issuing bulletins and nothing has come up to cause 1t to re- sume the issuance of bulletins. There is no situation here that demands the conferences and the consultation of the members of the Board of Health.
 Columbus. Miss. has heretofore had a quarantine on against Montgomery. because of its one imported case of vel low fever. Acting Mayor Mcintyre yesterday received n message from the Mayor ofthat city asking him as to the situation in Montgomery. In reply the Acting Mayor sent him the following telegram;
 "Montgomery Ala AuR 10