The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-12
FRACTIOUS REFUGEES
QUARANTINE AGENTS MUST ExER-
 CIsE PATIENCE AND TACT.
Incidents Called From Daily Work of Men Who Are Protecting Citi- zens--Ban on Floridn h
 Effective.

lndiVlduals went Tar beyond that or previous days since the quarantine has been established.
 Refugees fumed and fretted. ex- postulated and execrated, but of no avail because they met with unchangea- ble regulations and the inscrutable gaze of the guards who are charged with the enforcement of the law. Wo- men and men were alike full of objec- tions to the embargo and protected against 1t. Still thoy were forced to ply on through the State and stay out the detention period of seven days. <
 Notable among the feverish refugees of yesterday was J. Cosmisky, a com mercial salesman. MT. Cosminsky wanted to stop in Montgomery as he came in on Louisville and Nashville passenger train No. yesterday morn ing He left Mobile and was fair enough to say he had been in Florida within the last seven days.
 It was huff sed' with Officer Bor- dreaux who was quizzing him. The travelling man was told he could not set foot on the soil of good Montgom- cry He believed it was a fairy tale, 1t seems. for he did not object to the injunction of the officer, but bided his time for the train to arrive here. When 1t arrived he took hold of his suit case and got of the train, starting for the gate. The eye of the officer did not lift from the man and once in the station he was pointed out to Super visor Walter Brassell.
 Mir. Brassell. long famous as the human mosquito bar, has become of late a bar to humans without the mosquito. He Is now preoccupied with the perpetual task of excluding night 1 and day those unfortunates who hail from the land of fever. The State needs him for this purpose and he is doing the barring business in a pretty good way
 Mr Cosminsky lifted an eyebrow or two when the Brassell person took him in tow.
 You can't stay in Montgomery" said | the latter laconically.
 T can't see just why" replied the ! travelling man. Mir Cosm!nsky did not seem enlight- | ened when told It. was a case of quar- | antine He started on. 1t Is said, and | then things came to the point. Mir. Brassell asked him if he was going | to obey the law by going out of the | State or not and met with some more argument. The man at the same time nonchalantly seated himself in the sta tion room.
 l A few minutes later 1t was time for | the trains to depart for Atlanta and l Bfrmin B0am MT. COSIllHShy appear gu | absorbed over his fate. The super visor went up to him and told him 1t | was his third and last chance to com | ply with the law and asked if he had bought his ticket out of the State. MT. Cosminsky said he had not bought his ticket and intimated that the supervisor could not so manipulate things as to coerce him to buy ticket He found I out that the officer conceded this much I 1~ AoH hnx n send him on through the State.
 You will have to pay my fare. that's one thing dead sure, sir,' reJoined the drummer.
 "You are right there" answered MT BrasselI. but you should know in ad- dition that when we pay your fare we choose the direction you are to speed
 away. It Is now up to you to say
 whether you will buy your ticket right now and go north or east or whether
 you will ride free and go back to the
 Mississippi coast You have a minute
 to make up your mind"
 There was no more bantering and 6 few seconds after this short tete-a-tett
 the ticket agent was seen to hand
 across the marble a full grown ticket
 to Chicago. Mir. Cosminsky will spenC
 sevon days out of the State or the Ala
 bama system is not what 1t Is reputed
 to be. "f
 Negro refugees arc not of the bick-
 ering sort. The quarantine haters arc
 more dependent upon their swift feet
 than any form of argument or woe-be'
 gone tales One of them peered fur
 lively from a window of the inbound
 Louisville and Nashville train yester'
 day morning about 6 o'clock and wher the train pulled under the shed at th' union station State Officer II. c. Rot
 ton thought he saw black streak ex
 tending from the window of the coacf
 to the ground outside. He was no
 mistaken for another glance told hin that the negro who looked so Wtstfu
 q minute earlier had leaped througl
 the window and was then vaulting thu
 picket fence next the river with thu
 agility of a Yale athlete. Officer. Rot
 ton Jumped forward in pursuit and be fore Q hundred yards were gone ovel
 he had collected the negro's hand
 trunk in one arm and had the negro
 himself in the collar. Back to thu
 coach the negro was taken and with out a murmur was put in his former
 seat and was watched until he got ou
 of the State.
 The scene caused not a little excite ment and fun in the station shed anC the refugees were the chief spectators Another amusing instance was tha
 of a prominent married woman O Montgomery who came to the city las night from Biloxi where she and
 party of other Montgomerians haC spent several days Not fully aware
 of the quarantine against the Missis
 sippi coast the woman essayed to ge off the train. She evidently did no know that she was a transient prison 1 CT in the class of a refugee and wa! i even then locked up in the regular refugee coach with through passen gers from New Orleans and Pensacola Of the number there were twenty -nint and twenty of them were from Pensa'
 cola.
 The woman was indignant at no being able to get out of the coach bu temporized somewhat when her hus band appeared on the platform of the
 coach and exhorted her to resume hel
 seat and submit to the regulation
 which compelled her to go on out oi the State. She was about to take SC rlous exception with her patriotic hus-
 band when the bell rang for the trair
 to start. The party went on through
 to Tennessee where they will spend
 their seven days.
 These inc [ ants are cited to show the undiscriminating feature of tho states ] quarantine They also demonstrate th' fact that more people every day art being won over to the side of the law and the inevitable. Greater trouble might have awaited these officers Il they allowed the leakages such a' ] threatened the State yesterday and las night. They are but samples of wha'
 the men have to contend with daily They are sworn to do their duty b1