The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-16
STATE BORROWS MONEY
RANK PROVIDES es,125 TO MEET
 QUARANTINE DEFICIT.
Several Cftisens in Hecognisiee oh UT sanaern,s Service Join the Gcv- ernor fn Endorsing
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 A note for ss,125 signed by Governot Jelks, State Health Oficer ". n: San ders State Auditor J. M. iCarmicnae. Dr. w. M. wilkerson, President oi tne Montgomery County Medica SoS'e.y' City Attorney c. P. McintyTe' rn Griei, W. R. Brassell, B. H: Srown vas made to the Merchants and Plant ers- Farley National Bank yesteraay morning and a loan for that amount was secured in order to pay the last oi the States quarantine expenses. If is not often that private citizens come as promptly to the rescue or the State in an emergency as oio " fentIemen yesterday. It but indicates their. spirit of gratitude for the protec- lion to the state that has been guar arteed by the efiicient quarantine sys- fem that has been conducted Tor near iy three months by State Health Omcer Sanders and his corps of able assist- ants. Not citizen was approacned for his signature to the note yesterday who refused to make security for the necessary Ioan
 This money will be checked out to the men who were on the last pay roll of the State in the quarantine service. The removal of the State quarantine last week from Pensacola dismissed all the KudT0ST IEOHl tno UhPAOy Oh tAAS State Health Board and their compen- satioh was due then and there. Yet they were patient then as they have been patient all the year because pr. Sanders and the members of the State Health Board have been hard put to it for the necessary funds to keep up the bars against yellow fever all the sea son. This was recognized all through the service and the men who have been put to some inconvenience by delays in payment of their wages have taken the situation gracefully and performed good work.
 The loan that was made yesterday raises the expenses of the quarantine of Alabama to $40,000. This covers all the expenditures from July 22 to Mo- yennber 12, which were the beginning and the end of the restrictions of ev- cry nature and compass. This amount, 1t will be seen, exactly doubles the States appropriations that have been available for fighting the yellow jack invasion. These are the appropriations for the fiscal years ending September sl0,000 annually. This is regarded as entirely inadequate.
 Some time ago, 1t will be recalled, Governor Jelks to help out the Health Board in It's straits, applied to the quarantine expenses all the remainder or nfS contingent Iunu, amounting to nearly $2,000. On top of all this, to complete the $40,0Go of total expenses. the appropriation for the year ending September 30. 1907, has been anticipat- ed and a previous loan was advanced for $10.000.
 Observant citizens remarked yester- day that the people of Alabama should be satisfied with the vigilance of Ala ban1a's quarantine forces and th@ money spent for 1t, when it Is known that the State of Mississippi spent over three times that amount and suf- fered immense commercial losses on account of the fever which percolated into the State and stayed there for sev- eral weeks, Is very small.
 Not only has the Alabama Health Board been on the aggressive fin the fight just closed but in the person of Dr. Sanders 1t has played arduously on the defense. Whenever. for petty req sons, a city or town in Alabama was put under quarantine by another c,ty within or without the State he worked hard to get 1t removed. He went to those places and appealed in person to the authorities for moderation.