The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01
CITIZENS TO AID IN WORK
 - Committee Discusses Sani- tary Measures. WILL MEET AGAIN TODAY -~--@-~~~ Strange Pedestrians Cannot
 Enter City by Roads. .-eu An Organized Enort ts Assist Mont- wszaery Authorities im Keeping
 Infection Away From AIs-
 bmaa's Capital Caty.
WILL MEET AGAIN TODAY

DDSCu OL tn0 aAOCIluCh Ot th0 GttS eAsA twenty-one citizens organised last night in the council chamber and started out to do something to pre- vent yellow fever from reaching Mont- gomery.
 The committee win meet again to- day at noon and under the terms of a resolution offered by Alderman the V ward committees viii select from it's five members a chairman who will keep in touch with the city Sanitary a9S sae of ths cou1
 1t was further decided at the meet ing last nigh,t that m the greaafest rec dss, sns coming in of pedestrians by the dirt eommittee, passed a resolution offered write. circular letter to. the most County requesting them to report to strangers walking along the road tow A'U Dfscassed srosqusso Theory.
 devoted to the discussion of the mos yellow fever. Acting Mayor Mcintyre nation bearing upon the mosquito ths- ory spoke at length upon 1t. An interesting discourse upon the LranblQlGBlOn or lnIGCttOn S1 IHOSQ0h- pr. watkins declared that t was no Iqonger q theory. It was a fixed ger. tainty. He took occasion to say that be no quarantine of any sort. Guar. antines were matters of customs and habits that had come down from other this tsI time I was to aiiay the fear of the people.
 Alderman ID. Maddox. who is chair Council. The following citizens. were made members of the committee with the aldermen: P. Meertisf, w; B. Ian, J. H. Pearson, B. M. Washburn, R. p: Lutz. Dr. |; L.; watkins, H.. B. Weathers. T: e. Foster, 4. D. Porter Bibb. j. A. billiard. R. P. Dex- ter, Thomas Howe and W. M. Blakey.
 Chairman Maddox announced that he would h appolntt, " Black sserst1Ss rs1,sx the roll and announced that a quorum of its members were present.
 Information Was Wanted.
 W. B. Davidson wanted informa- and what it was expected to do. In a parliamentary way, and in other words; his question was What are we
 E. Meertief suggested that before the committee could proceed with any sanitary work in an intelligent way 1t should find out first what the city was doing.
 three citizens, members of each ward committed, should select chairman who should confer and keep in touch with the Sanitary Department and the chairman of the Sanitary Commit tee of the Council who was also chair man of the Special Sanitary Commit tee.
 MT. Davidson was of the opinion 1t was presented was an uHwise one, in that 1t practically cut the ward While he was on his feet MT. David son took occasion to ask if the city would back the committee up In what 1t proposed to do, and he asked f-ths
 Before the. Ruth motion was: dis posed of Chairman Maddox invited the tee Mr. Mcintyre spoke at length upon the quarantine the State was maintaining, tho sanitary work of the the city was doing in reference to a quarantine he said vas being done up- on the advice of the members of the with the results of the latest scientific research. He had. with members of the Montgomery Board of Health, in. found that 1t was as efficient as any quarantine could be. He informed the members. of the committee that the tween the State line and all infected out of New Orleans or. any other in to Montgomery. For one thing the State quarantine was moro effective than city quarantine could be be- city would not have. If a man would lie to State quarantine officer to get in he would certainly lie to city quarantine officer.
 It has been suggested to him that the presence of two sets of quarantine of- hcers on the same train would result in confusion and perhaps in careiessness-
 Confidence fin the State.
 "So far as I am personally concern ed." said Mir. Mcintyre, T feel confident of the efficiency of the State quaran-
 He pointed out that Mobile, Selma. and other cities of the State, even Bir- mingham. were relying on the State quarantine entirely.
 As for the sanitary work of the city, Mir. Mcintyre said that since yellow fever had been discovered in New Or leans, the force of sanitary inspectors of Montgomery had been doubled. He had not the slightest doubt that right now Montgomery was cleaner than at any time in it's history. The city au- thOritles, aD0ve eVeFyLnlnB elSes nau been endeavoring to impress upon. the people that 1t was the mosquito which was responsible for yellow fever and that if the mosquitoes were destroyed in Mosz6gomery, 1t would be impossible for yellow fever to live in this city. The committee could render invaluable ser vice by looking up and reporting tho breeding places of mosquitoes. He pointed out that the inspectors had found no less than nine cisterns on the south half of the Capitol square, which had recently been purchased by the
 Mir. Mcintyre said that the fear of fever, the panic and the excited quaran- tines had come from other years. If Montgomery should be so unfortunate as to develop another imported case of yellow fever. even if a few cases should not doubt that Montgomery could easily control the situation and stamp out the
 when the Acting Mayor had finished, Alderman Ruth called attention to his motion and insisted that a ward chair man, a head to the subordinate commit tee was necessary.
 nal motion was so amended as to in- eIude the five members of the commit tee from each ward; In this form, the committee adopted the motion.
 Mir Davidson, saying that he was act- ing upon a suggestion of F. P, Chaffee asked that the city furnish some reli- able citizen in each ward with a gallon of kerosene oil which was to be poured sewers directly after rain, to prevent fhe breeding of moSquitoes,
 The Acting Mayor told the committee that this work was already being care- fully done by the sanitary inspectors of the city.