The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-12
WILL SAY FAREWELL
MINHINNETT MAY LEAVE TODAY
 FOR ATLANTA.
The City's Stringent Quarantine is Being Rigidly Enforced and Some Towns Have Raised
 Their EmbargOes.

The first step towards severing the connection of F. A. Minhinnett with the city of Montgomery, connection which has cost the city a fortune, to say the least, was made yesterday when Acting Mayor C. ,uSs F Mcintyre tyre for the man who has just recovered from yellow fever.
 The pass-will undoubtedly be issued by the authorities of the Western over that road to visit relatives in Atlanta. The city authorities expect to receive the pass tomorrow In which event Minhinnett will leave for the Georgia city tomorrow evening. In all events Minhinnett will shake the dust of Montgomery from his feet by Mon day. at which all of Montgomery will heave sigh of relief.
 he Is genuinely sorry that he has cost the city so much trouble and money: He wants it understood that he did not have the fever in this city out of wants the people to know that he would not have had it if he could have helped. He wants to remind people who are inclined to ciriticize costly to Montgomery 1t was not par ticularly pleasant to him.
 In the meanwhile no more sickness of suspicious nature has appeard ln the CIty. UT. JOnu TulteIdS, tHC famous yellow fever expert who vis- ited the city yesterday declared that conditions were excellent here and he saw no reason why Montgomery should fear the fever any more than any other town with excellent sanitary con- ditions this far from New Orleans should fear 1t.
 The members of the Board of Health are keeping in close touch with local health conditions but they have found Inc af o1a ho would Ia m or suspicion.
 The new municipal quarantine at the union railway passenger station Is working smoothly and admirably. The volume of the first day. It is indica ted by the registration that the peo- pie of the smaller towns of the State have lost all fear of the situation in Montgomery if they ever had any, for scores of them each day register and men who are doing the work of reg istration are Albert billiard and George Stewart and the night work is in charge of Charles Kenneworth and charging that some of the incoming passengers through a queer sense of wait their turn with the registrars have tried to slip through the gates at the baggage room and the mailing room in the depot. The officers have reported this matter to the Acting Mayor and the recorder. They have announced that if any person is caught at this he will be fined $50 for vio- lating the quarantine laws of the city. The police department has been in structed to look out for the violators and some arrests may be loked for.
 The special sanitary officers who are to look after irresponsible visitors who may come in on local passenger or fraiRhf fratnQ wnrk VastardQV These officers are paying special at tention to the Day Street crossing. At this crossing all trains coming into the city from the South and West stop because of the location there of a semaphore switch. It is therefore a great place for hoboes.
 Two quarantine officers will be sta-- tioned there all the time, day and night. Two other officers will spend their time in the railroad yards north of the city looking for wanderers and will probably be done today. to place a man at the Highland Park station on the Central of Georgia Railway. This officers will board the train at to the McDonough street crossing In this way he Is expected to catch all visitors who may want to come into the city without going to the passen- ger station.
 Certain changes were made yester- day in the sanitary officers appoitned by Acting Mayor Mcintyre Thursday to do quarantine duty. The corrected list of the new officers Is as follows: |S E. Eberhardt. s. B. Kent, E. M. Riley. w. K. Harwell and A. s. Jones.
 Mrs. Webber. proprietor of the Cliff ton House yesterday made demand upon the city of Montgomery that she be paid the reward of $100 for dis towering and reporting the presence of Ia refugee from New Orleans. The in- cident, upon which she bases her claim for the reward occurred last week.
 Marion yesterday raised its quaran- tine against Montgomery. Mayor w. A. S. Haynie of that town yesterday wired news of that action to Acting Mayor Mcintyre.
 The thriving and intelligent cities of Prattville and Birmingham, however, are obdurate and refuse to lift their