The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-06
The News of Selma

night saw Dr. Gay and explained the matter to him. - ter Turner said that when the quaran- tine was first put on he was requested to furnish quarantine officials with passes and that the first one to call was asked how far he wanted to go. He
 replied to the county line. A pass to Snow Hill. which is just across the county line. was given him, as there said that he had not been requested to
 give the quarantine officers passes to any given point, but the conductors demands that they made and to pass
 them anywhere they wanted to go All
 though the pass that Officer Philen had only read between Selma and Snow Hiii he had been going through to
 Flomaton and he was sure that no one
 had ever questioned him as to his pass.
 MT. Turner said that yesterday morn
 ing Officer Philen came to him at his office just before the train left and
 told him that Dr. Gay wanted him to
 go to Flomaton and asked him to ex- tend his pass 10 Flomaton. In reply
 he told Phllen that he could get a pass anywhere that I)r. Gay requested and tried to reach Dr. Gay over the tcle- phone, but could not find him. Both got on the train and ne was under the Impression that Philen had gone on to Flomaton until yester lay afternoon
 when Philen held up the train at Snow cross the Dallas County line until he had examined the passengers. Mir. Turner said that he told the conduc- tor to hold the train until the examina-
 Quarantine officer PhiIen makes an altogether different statement in re- gard to the matter He said that on
 the train he was notified by the con- ductor that his pass was only good as
 far as Snow Hill. but that the conduc-
 tor told him that he could go on to tor would be taking him to Flomaton
 st the rick of his position, he decided to get of at Snow Hill. After the that probably something might arise and to keep Dr. Gay from telegraphing
 him at Flomaton he informed him how matters stood.
 He says that before he got off of the
 train he asked the conductor to in form the conductor Of the up train | that he was at Snow Hill and that he
 would have to examine the passengers
 before the train entered Dallas County. MT. Philen also says that when he
 stopped the train MT. Turner acted very insulting towards him, which he
 would have resented if he had been in a different position, and that during his examination of the passengers that
 MT, Turner interfered several times
 with him.
 Committees Met.
 In accordance to a resolution passed
 at meeting of Mayor Atkins. mem bers of the Board of Health and ctti-
 Eens held Thursday afternoon. a meet
 ing of the committees appointed to fight the mosquitoes in the different wards of the city was held in the council room of the city hall this morning at 10 o'clock Nearly all of the members of the committees from the different wards were present and
 a good deal of enthusiasm was evinced by those present
 The meeting was called to order by Mayor Atkins and a temporary organi- zation was perfected. Another meet ing will be held on Tuesday, when the organization will be made permanent The chatrmen of the committee of each ward was given authority to fill all vacancies and those present were sworn in as auxiliary sanitary officers Special badges will be printed and will be given to the members of the various nownoittees. who will work un-