The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

ton at the hotel, and everybody laughed and
joked about the gfider and the many funny
incidents which occurred, as though there
was no particular danger. We should prob
ably not have left had we only ourselves to
consider, but the telegram from our friends
showed that they were alarmed for our safe
ty, and concluded that discretion was the
better Part of valor and started northward.
''All trains were crowded, but fortunately I
knew the superintendent of the road-the
Queen and Crescent-and he provided accom-
modations. We were compelled to recheck
our baggage at Meriden, and had to secure a
health certificate at Vossburg otherwise they
would not have allowed US to get off the train
at Meriden. We arrived at that place about
midnight, and l attempted to leave the car,
but stopped and told that l could not
get off. l said had to recheck my baggage;
then the guard asked ME If | had a health
certificate. l had and presented it, and after
the sentry had read it, 1 was allowed to leave
the train
MIR. Livingston preserved the certifi-
cate, that valuable document in the
emergency, as a souvenir of the trip.
1t reads:
Vossburg, Miss, Sept 81, 1s97-The bearer,
Mr.. Crawford Livingston, and his son, Craw-
ford Livingston Jr., have not been exposed to
any contagious or infectious diseases.
F. NJ. Mccormick NJ d.
ga few days later" continued Mr.. Living
ston. lit would have been impossible for us
to have left as there were no more through
trains running.
mobile has a population of Al, 600 but fully
10000 Of its people have fled. Practically all
the stores are closed and business is at
standstill. The physicians and drug clerks
are worked to death and there, at Ocean
Springs and Bilax the city is completely out
of drugs provisions and nurses.
':At VickSburg the people notified the rail-
road company to run its trains through with
out stopping, so as not to let any one off.
The company did run the trains through, but
slowly that passengers could get on or Off
and the people became so indignant taht they
tore up the tracks. At every depot in the
South notices are posted up warning the
agents not to sell tickets to the infected
places.
CDR. Richard member of the board OF
health of New Orleans, informed me that
the idea l advanced in the Northern
papers that fever starting so late in the
summer would not prove to be epidemic.
q mistake this is not later than the
other yellow fever epdemics started The
whole country is hoping and praying for a
but prevents their spread Last year the
first frost did not come until in December.
but the average time is along IN November,
and sometimes early as October. So you
see the epidemic has abundant time to spread
and tie seriousness of the situation cannot be
exaggerated
Mr.. Livingston spent week in New
York on his way home and reports that
the business conditions in the East are
greatly improved; in fact, they are bet
ter than they have been for several
years. The manufacturers are full of
orders and the jobbers are doing a big
| business. The theaters and hotels are
full. and everybody is apparently well
pleased. There is plenty of money there
for investment, in the Northwest, even
in the states which went silver" The
people there seem to think silver is a
dead issue, for they never speak Of it.