The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-10-16
ADOPT the Franklin Plan-St. Lam
dry, Acadia and Calcasien
Withdraw
From the Meeting-Lafayette Dele
oates Vote With Those from
New Iberia and St.
Martin.


the purpose of taking ''uniform and
decisive action on the plan formu-
lated by the health conference
lately held at Franklin, to reopen
railroad traffic along safe lines"
The meeting was held in the
spacious dining hall of the Star and
Crescent Hotel, which Capt. Hahn
had placed at the disposal of the
ARRANGEMENT committee for the
holding of the conference.
At about O'Clock DR.. Mudd,
president of the Lafayette Board,
called the convention to order.
DR.. G. A. Martin acted as secre-
tary.
A motion was made and carried
that Dr.. Mudd be made permanent
chairman. and Drs. Liable and
Martin secretaries of the meeting.
The various parishes were repre-
sented by the following delegates:
Iberia-Drs. A. Duperier, Clar-
ence Person, G. p. Minvelle, $.
Sandoz, Messrs. Jno. Fisher, y. A.
Patin, w. r. Burke. Julius Dreyfus,
A. B. Romero, A. D. Foster G..
Provost, H. B. Hewes, Shelby
Saunders.
St. Martin-Drs. A. DeLaurea',
p. Sillan, d. DuPerier, L. }. Laooe,
Arthur Guilbeau, Mr.. Albert
1evert.
St. Landry-Fred Mouton, E. v.
Barry. Dr.. e. S. Barry. V. H. ST.
bile, Mayor G.. J. Thompson, DR..
VIM. Thompson, p. Jacobs, J. w.
Callahan, inc. T. Nixon, r. La
Aeur.
Lafayette-Drs. Mudd, Hopkins,
I. D. Trahan, To}son, Girard,
Martin, F. w. Courtney, A. r..
Trahan and Francez, Messrs. J.. ].
Davidson, G.. G. Brown, NJ. Bill
laud, Jr. and D. A. Dimitry.
Acadia-Drs. NJ. l.. HofPauir
and r. Webb, Messrs. w. E. Law
son, p. J. ChaPpuis and L. $.
Scott.
Messrs: a'i L. A. Hill. c. P. Nartin,
A. d. Lyons, G. w. Ryan, J. c..
LeBleu, VIM. Dunn, Joseph Pitre,
w. A. Vincent, Adolphe Myer.
Mayor Caffery welcomed the
delegates in short speech. He
urged uniform action, and expressed
the hope that the conference would
adopt plan of quarantine which
would afford protection without
paralyzing trade. The mayor deli
vered a very sensible address which
was we'll received by the assembly,
DIR. Liable, of St. Martinville,
read the recommendations of the
Franklin conference, stating that
this plan was in operation.
DR.. Duperier, being called upon,
made a very practical talk on the
working and efficacy of what is
known as the Franklin plan. DIR.
Duperier expressed the opinion that
this plan as it is now operated is
absolutely safe and reliable.
DR.. Liable said that his parish
had railway communication under
the restrictions of the Franklin plan
and he had no doubt of its eff
cheney.
At the suggestion of DR.. Mayer
it was decided to have the railroad
company run its trains through in
fected points at the rate of twenty
miles per hour.
Mayor Chappius, of Crowley,
stated the Acadia authorities had
certainly mlSCOuSttueu TIC osea"Au6
of the call and they were unaltera-
bly, opposed to opening commuai-
cation with New Orleans under any
circumstances. He stated, how
ever, that he held different views on
the subject, but he was there to
carry out the will of his people.
Although DIR. Mayer had pre-
scented q plan that differed in some
particulars from the Franklin plan,
he made the speech of the evening
in favor of a scientific quarantine
as against what he termed 'sthe
barbarous, i,ahuman" methods of
the shotgun quarantine.
DR.. Liable was of the opinion
chat the time to act had come and