The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-26
MAY RIDE IN PULLMANS Sleeping Cars Now Open to Certain Passengers. QUARANTINE IS MODIFIED Persons Leaving Large Cities
 ofState are Favored. But After TraveIine in Cars With Rsf-
 ugses, They AIust Net Return to Alabama in Seven

All passengers from Montgomery. Mo- bile and Birmingham who expect to spend seven days out of Alabama will hereafter be given the privilege or boarding refugee sleepers.
 This modification of a quarantine regulation of the State which has been carefully enforced in the past was made yesterday by State Health, Officer w. H. Sanders. The order was s'fssued yes terday afternoon and copies were sent to the quarantine supervisors stationed at Mobile, Montgomery and Blrming- ham.
 To none more than the railroads will this news be welcome. It means re- newal of through passenger traftic in It's normal volumes along all railroad lines originating in Alabama. Tho mandate of the State Board of Health from the very beginning of the quar- antine has shut down on all people, tr- respective of caste or vocation, who de- sired to enter through Pullman cars in any part of the State. It has operated to enter through Pullman cars in any part of the State. 1t has operated to cut down travel out of the State no It, tie as there arc more people than one believes who would yield pleasure and sometimes business trips rather than endure day coaches to the States bor- ders.
 DEs SamdeEb 1AtAs.
 '"The order goes Into effect at once allowing entrance into the refugee sleepers," said pr. Sanders yesterday. People, must say, are getting mighty spoiled these days. When the state Board decided to lock up the refugee sleepers and coaches and send them through the State without opening them we never contemplated that 1t would be made out a cause of great EsEf that anmn people do not care to ride on trains un- less they can occupy a sleeper right at the start. never thought until the railroad passenger men complained that there would be any considerable num- Der of people who would mind taking day coach to some point on the State line or just beyond before getting on the Pullman cars This was my judg- ment especially in view of the fact that there was a chance of Infection if they went into the sleepers at all. Then, besides, I anticipated that If any ap- preciable amount of traffic would be thrown out of the sleepers to the loss of the roads they would supply extra cars at Mobile and the other cities. Since there really appears, though to be a general complaint of losses to the railroads on this account I have de- cided to open up the sleepers to the main cities of the State. Mobile, Mont gomery and Birmingham.
 As to Smaller Cities.
 Dr.. Sanders said that he did not believe there could be many people left in the State by this order who could complain of discrimination fin favor of the cities. If there are through passengers from the smaller towns who desire to ride in sleepers they will have to take day coaches to either Montgomery, Mobile or Birmingham in order to get their berths They may also wait until the State line Is reached and then avail themselves of the privilege. 1t all de- pending upon whether they are nearer to the cities named than convenient point on the border just beyond
 There was little to relinquish by pr. Sanders in the way of preserving re- strictions on persons liable to tnfec- ton by making the new concession to through passengers and the railroads. The only risk incident thereto Is open ing the cars just three times while in the State. This is estimated to be very small and no uneasiness will be felt, it is believed, by the most skeptical on the yellow fever question.
 Work fin North Alabama.
 Quarantine Supervisor w. B. Mar shall, of the Birmingham circuit, was fn Montgomery yesterday in confer ence with Dr. Sanders to get some de- tailed instructions about the work in the Northern part of the State. There was some talk of reducing the force of twenty men under Supervisor Mar shall but after a long discussion tt was nroven that this number of assistants was practically indispensable to main- tain efhcient vigilance. Mir. Marshall has two men who are watching s'hobo' traffic in the Western section coming