The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-25
ST. LOUIS NEWS.
HHE TWENTY" SEW ENTH ANNUAL CON
vRNTH0N OF THE AMERICAN ASST
CITATION F0R THE ADVANCEMENT
sBH EF1KENEE


OFF SCIENCE.
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bu3 From Fever-Else Nurses at Grenada
FRcatEt of "a FireEman-A R0tesi Ct. hnHss
lawyer Commits suicide.
gsypeeial Correspondence of the Democrat
ST. LOUIS, August %, 1878.
The twenty-seventh annual convention of
ypE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD
yANUEMENT OF SCIENCE
ss now being held in st. Louis. The attend
ssnce Ii not so large as the Nashville meeting
last year was honored with. but it includes
NEARLY all Of the officers and other lending
members Of the association. Prof. Simon
Newcomb, Of the United States Naval 0hserv-
sttory, opened tho convention as retiring pres
5deut OF the association yesterday morning,
and then introduced his successor, Prof. y. G.
Marsh, Of Yale College. Aprayer was offered
nv the Rev. DR.. Sonneschein, rabbi Of the
3swish Temple here, and then short addresses
of welcome TO The association were delivered
atl the name Of the city and tho st. Louis
Academy of Science by Mayor Overstoa and
pruf. w. T. Harris, In the afternoon the as
ISOLATION was divided up into sections for the
examination and discussion of the sixty odd
papers prepared for presentation before the
association. To-day the real work OF the
convention commences. The meetings are
5teId at Washington University. instead of at
Armory Hall, as was at first intended. The
chanel OF the university Is used for the gen
eraI meetings Of tho association. aud the
recitation rooms for the meetings Of sections
and committees This Is the first time that
the association has ever met in st. Louis, and
our people are trying to make good Impress
ION on them. At the instance of
THE ACADEMY or SCIENCE.
: d number of local committees were appointed
some time ago Tor the purpose of raising
funds and providing entertainments fUr the
association. The committee have raised
some $1,000 by subscriptions aud are now pre-
pared to entertain the savants in q very cred
Etable manner. After listening to two scien-
aitfc addresses at Washington University yes
fprday evening. the members of the associa-
fior1 or about hundred Of them, were taken
10 Schnaider's Garden and treated to a grand
concert given by several German singing
societies under the direction Of Hans Balatka
To-mo1row afternoon they are to enjoy o car
riage drive to the suburbs, visiting Forest
Park. Tower Grove Park, Shaw's Garden and
Che Fair Grounds. Saturday is to be devoted
70 an excursion on the st. Louis, Iron Noun
tain and Southern Railroad to the iron
regions Of the State. Sunday there will be a
steamboat excursion on the river, which will
embrace d visit to the waterworks. Next
Wednesday, the closing day Of the st. Louis
convention. O. visit will be made to the CheI-
fenham silver reduction works in the forenoon
and q visit to the CahOkia Mounds, across the
Tiver, In the afternoon One OF the mounds,
never yet opened, will be dug up and explored
by the scientists. Wednesday evening an
excursion train, composed of members OF the
association, will leave for Colorado A visit
to the Chamber of Commerce will also be
made by the association before the close of
the convention.
Among the papers to be read before the
association Is one by
THOMAS A. EDISON,
iihe inventor OF the phonograph, telephone.
etc. Mr.. Edison was elected q member of tho
association yesterday. His lecture is TO be
con the use Of the tasimeter for measuring
the heat Of the stars and of the SUMS corona
Entomo ological Commission, has five papers
TO present. and Prof. Marsh, the evoutOnist,
two Lectures will also be delivered by four
of the lady members Of the association.
not be quite SO large-a fact due to the yellow
fever scare--as WAS hoped, the convention is,
nevertheless, bound to be a success in other
respects. It s hardly necessary to say that
the reports of New York papers that
YELLOW FEVER
prevails In st. Louis are untrue. The few
cases that we have here all came from the
South. The hotels are crowded with South
erners, driven to st. Louis by the yellow
fever scare, but none Of The regular
boarders have left the hotels that |
III III hard Of on account of It, Some of the
be received II they gave their right addresses,
and SO registered from Northern cities, but
their fears were groundless. One case Of yell
low fever was found at the Lacede Hotel
Gwo or three days, ago, and removed
left the hotel on account of it, and
every one there must have heard of
1T. The newspapers have done all they could
to prevent a "scare' here. Instead Of hunt
ing up cases of yellow fever for publication,
as they did cases of sunstroke during the
late heated term-the reporters have ignored
the subject Of yellow fever almost wholly in
their locals" The Board Of Health and
Merchants Exchange passed resolutions to
ever contracted in St. Louis in the whole
history of the city, and of course the papers
published these resolutions and gave them as
wide circulation as possible. or the ten or
twelve cases OF fever that we have had here,
and every one of which was contracted in the
South, only four, believe, have proven fatal,
and the rest are all likely to recover. [ re-
gret to say that while secure herself from the
ravages OF the plague. st. Louis has not done
more than she has for her sister cities Of the
South.
CONTRIBUTIONS
from individual members of the Merchants
Exchange aggregate not quite $1,000, but a
proposition was made yesterday and it will
probably be eadopted, to add $4,000 to the amount
from the treasury Of the Exchange, making
$4,000 in all. The Hebrew Young Mems So
oiety has raised $1,000 among its members,
and the Daily Times has a subscription fund
of $500. More money ought to be raised in
St Louis for such a cause, and believe will
be IL the fever continues to spread, One Of
our St. Louis newspaper men, a re-
porter of the Evening Post, has gone to
Grenada, Miss. to write up the fever for the
New York Herald. He arrived there last Sun
day, and has been sending two or three col
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