Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-08-11

could be brought here from New York
for about half cent per pound more
than that brought here from, New Or
leans. He believed the people of Pine
Bluff should be willing to pay this ex-
ira half cent, for the time being, I'M
til all danger from the yellow fever
should have passed.
Dr. Blankenship contendad that
there was no use in paying this extra
half a cent, so long as the sugar could
be obtained from New Orleans, ship
ped as it was, under the immediate
supervision of the United States
health officers. He saw no danger
whatever in importing such goods in
to the state A motion was offered
to permit such freight into the city.
The question was never brought to a
vote, for it was lost in the endless
discussion that followed
Capt Lavat, who seemed to take
some exceptions to the mayors state
ment that the state quarantine was
farce, arose and made request that
the local officials appoint an officer to
accompany him back to the state line
and make a personal investigation of
the manner in which the state quaran
tine was being conducted
DR.. Gallagher said there was no use
in all this quibbling with the state
officials. He believed the state quar-
antine a good thing. and was in favor
of maintaining it; but while this was
true. it was also true that Pine Bluff
should look out for herself. We had
the right to quarantine if we choose
to do SO, and we proposed to exercise
that right. So what was the use in
quibbling about it. Let us maintain
our present quarantine without modi
fications, and let the matter go at
that 1t was the duty Of the Pine
Bluff board of health to look out for
the interests Of Pine Bluff and that
was what, for one. he proposed to do.
oranges, lemons and bananas were to
be permitted to enter the city by ex
press, declaring that such goods had
entered the city recently. The mayor
said they would not be. but said that
lemons were a commodity that the
city had to have.
Mr.. Mum, prominent wholesaler
of the city became engaged in small
sized tilt with the mayor over the
question of sugar from New Orleans
but it resulted in nothing.
Capt. Levat hereupon arose. in re-
Spouse to direct question as to his
object in being here, and stated that
that object had been misunderstood.
He was not here to advise the local
board to raise the quarantine, but to
solicit the local boards cooperation
ir maintaining, if anything. a more
rigid quarantine against the infected
points. He was DESTROYS that the
state and local officials should work in
harmony in the matter of keeping the
yellow fever out of the state of Ar
kansas.
1t was then that that typical South
ern gentleman, J. H. Talbot, arose
and in an eloquent but informal talk
apologized to the captain of the Ar
kansas state guard for the seeming
discourtesy with which he had been
treated by the board. He declared
that no discourtesy had been intend
ed; the board had only engaged in a
discussion that it felt to be necessary.
should feel that he was among gentle
men-southern gentlemen, at that
and he doubtless knew what that
term implied. If certain things had
been said that seemed rather harsh
OF unnecessary he was sure that it
was not intended as any reflection up
or the very efficient and faithful SER
vice which he felt sure that the pa
triotic boys of the Arkansas state
guard were rendering to the state in
this time OF need; and he begged that
the captain feel that he was not ONLY
among gentlemen but among friends
friends who would go to any honor
able length in support of the troops in