The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-08
GORDON IS DRAWN TIGHT Details of Pensacola l! Quarantine. LUMBER NEWS DILEMMA
 Mill EmplOyeS Allowed to Enter Alabama.
 Saw Miil in Alabama Employees Resi-
 dents of Florida, Who Undergo Rigid Daily Inspection by State Health officers.

Daily the cordon against Pensacola and Escambia County Fla, is being drawn tighter. It is joint and harmo- nious work divided between the State guards and men of the villages and counties on the border.
 Typical of the extreme vigilance along the Alabama line is the instance of the workmen at the Alger-Sullivan lumber and timber plant at Century, Fla. This Is big industry, reputed the largest in the South. The set clement of the workmen Is more on the Alabama side of the line than on the other and were they subjected strictly to the quarantine regulations they would lose their homes as long as yellow fever continues in Pensa- colo.
 State Health Officer W. H. Sanders, IS he has done in other contingencies of like importance, allows these employees of the mill to go back home after their work is completed. They are carefully inspected, though by State officers and 1t Is a sure thing that nobody Is snug glod in from infected points by this slight concession. Still, to indicate the spirit of self preservation which Is ruling the county officers on the border, when this privilege was first accorded the lumbermen strong obtec- tions were encountered. The mill was threatened with loss of most of It's men by local authorities of Escambia Coun- ty and surrounding villages interven~ ed. The affair has been finally ad- justed, however. and everybody in the Southern part of the State Is convinced of the safety of the plan in which all men are required to give an account of themselves before they cross the line even though clothed in their working overa1ls, for they are turned back if 1t is known they visit any other place than the site of their work.
 One of the States inspectors who has been working a train of the Alabama and Florida division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad reported yes- terday that the State quarantine in Southeastern Alabama is heavily sup piemented by local guards there. State officers are continually running across town and county guards on the trains, which proves that very little is left undone to protect the State against in- lection from Pensacola. The State of- tcer who came to Montgomery yester- day. told of stringent quarantines being conducted by the towns of Geneva, Andalusia, F1orala and other villages on the railroad. Villages separated from railroads have their eyes open to all itineraries from the direction of Florida who come in by dirt roads.
 Inspected Re1ay Camp.
 Dr. Sanders left Montgomery yester- day for Flomaton where he inspected for the second time the relay camp there for train crews out of Pensacola. The system there is reduced to great simplicity by the fact of there being only one train in twenty-four hours coming to the junction from Pensacola All attaches of this train are changed at Flomaton before coming further Into Alabama, including even the mail and express clerks. The refugee coaches are required to go on through the case of the through coaches from New Orleans.
 In the matter of State officers CO., operating with representatives of city and county quarantines on board trains, Dr. Sanders has long ago advised his men to act with discretion. He has Instructed the trainmen In the service to work the trains as If no other quarantine officers were on them. They are not allowed even to follow in the wake of city or county men and thus facilitate the taking of passengers af- ndavits, All affidavIts given the State are required to be distinct from those taken by the municipal or other of- ficers.
 An amusing incident was reported to Acting Mayor c. P. Mcintyre yesterday as having occurred between a State and a Montgomery officer. They were on board train coming into the city when the city man started to enter a refugee coach, not knowing that the coach was for refugees exclusively.
 Where are you going?' asked the State officer.
 Into this car." replied the city man.
 well, you can go ahead into the car if you want to but if you do I'll see that you don't get out again until you hit ground outside the State" : %."..
 From that hour the man of the city service was wiser and has, in deference to State authority and from a motive of self preservation. abstained from entering refugee coaches.
 This should be taken, however. to show perfect harmony between the municipal and the State systems of quarantine. The city authorities, SO far as has been heard, have the utmost respect for the State system and there - -