The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-09-23
BUSINESS AND YELLOW FEVER.
The Hotel Keepers Of the City Gaiaers-Ths
Wholesale Merchants Losers.

Tho yellow fever in the Southwest has
seriously affected business in this city. there
being apparently only ono class likely 10 bU
ganors. aud they are the hotel proprietOrs.
Thousands of Suuthcrncrs are staying In the
various hotels and ilrst-class boarding houses (;
but the hotel registers do not indicate the fact.
fcw persons arriving from u fever district
register correctly. and hundreds OF men coming
direct from New Orleans put down us from
North Carolina. and many from Boston. They
fear that they will be refused accommodation IL
they write the truth; and tho hotel managers
carefully avoid having New Orleans or Memphis
appear on tho books fearing that guests might
4 SuN reporter visited several OF the leading
hotels yesterday and injured ut the clerks
whether they had many guests from tho South.
The ~. Nrhulns had u great many Southcrners.
but none from Tho affected district Most of
our people, said the chief clerk. came North
before the fever spread and have been staying
at the watering places. Now they are afraid To-
20 home. aud will no doubt remain in the city
until the frost comes The prupricturs OF the
Southern Hotel told the same story. They had
a very large nulubor o' guests waiting for tho
plague 10 subsde but they were al IN the North
before the i0ver broke out. In the Mntropnlitnn,
Fifth Av0nuo, Windsor aud Gicnham Hotels
substantially the snue q ing was said An en-.
ployec III the New York Transfer Company said
there WIS. about two works hgo, a rush OF travel.
lers from the South and thut the company had
carried ap immense amount OF baggage tu tile
southern cities. But" said he. you can't
llnd man from New Orleans in any hotel.
Why. people urc So scared of yellow fever ChAt
they will leave n house ~ once II they think
there Is "A man near them from New Orleans. SO
none OF the hotels have any gur-tr from there.
The disturbance OF business South l. felt 80.
vercly by merchants here. and the sales will
fall s,,oral millions below the average. Not u
case OF goods ihas been shipped to New
Orleans or Memphis within sin weeks. Goods
purchased prior 20 the breaking cat -! ia" fever
remain here. Many 81 the dealers ordering
have died. 1t il understood that this week the
shipmeut OF goods will be u"rulitted 10 Mem
uhis Many buyers are hero from til" South,
waiting; but they say that all business ia New
Orleans H. dead for the time being. nnd TINT the
requirements Of the fall trade will be very lin.
tied.
Among others suffering in business from the
effects OF fever are life insurance companies.
Those doing an extensive southern business
are the Now York, Equitable. Gobc. and knick-
erbock"r. The Mutual has comparatively few
risks there. That company did propose to push
the Southern business. but. ~ the risk Is great.
decided TO add one per cent. to the regular pre-
MUM. This aroused indignation. and the Mu-
tunl failed to secure much business III Lonisi
ana. The extent OF tho losses of the New York
and Equitable cannot be- usscortuined. but the
entire claim against New York colnpanis Is
very large. tho fever having carried Oh many
persons well to do. and who had made proyis-
ion for their families Ia that way.