The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
D0DGED TIE FEVER
CRAWFORD LIVINGSTON HAD A
LIVELY TIME IN THE SOUTH
ERN STATES.
IA SHOTGUN" QUARANTINE
is NOT THE PLEASANTEST THING
IN THE WORLD TO
MEET.
And Found Business Conditions
There Vastly Improved Over
the Recent Past.

Crawford Livingston returned home
yesterday from a six weeks trip
through the South and East. He left
in August to take his son, Crawford
Livingston Jr., to Vossburg, Miss, for
the benefit of his health, the young
man being sufferer from Bright'S
disease, but after month at that re-
sort they were induced to come North,
their friends becoming solicitous as to
their safety owing to the close proX-
unity to them of the yellow fever cpl
| demic. Mr.. Livingston, the younger,
is now at French Lick Springs, Ind.
and his many friends will be pleased to
learn that he is on the road to recov-
cry.
Mr. Livingstone is not only a close
observer, but he is thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with the South, having spent a
number of winters in it's balmy cline,
hence his observations of the yellow
fever epidemic and its sad results, as
| told by him to a G o b e reporter last
evening. will be read with great inter-
est Said he:
Ocean Springs Miss. is one of the most
delightful place on the gulf and one of the
most heathful; as such its reputation has
grown until it has become one of the most
popular resorts in the South. Early in
+ August, however. an epidemic struck the
place and at first it thought to be
dengue fever-what is called a break-bone
fever in the West; a type of malaria-but it
soon became apparent that it was the dread
ed yellow Jack, although in mild form.
1t was undoubtedly brought into the coun-
try by Cuban refugees, for yellow fever is
epidemic in the island the year round Six
hundred of the one thousand inhabitants Of
ha MI
only thirty or forty have died. After it had
run several weeks, the resident physician,
DR.. Bragg, who, by the way, is warm
personal friend of mine, became so worn cut
and completely exhausted by the constant
call for his services that he became i'll him
self and was obliged to leave A prominent
young physician, from New Orleans, took
his place, but was struck down by the disease
and died within q few days.
1.-The press reports of the spread and NOR
tally Of the disease seem 10 have been kept
down instead of being oVer-colored,' ven
tured the reporter.
That is probably true and would be
perfectly natural answered Mr. Livingston
i>'AIl excitement of that kind prostrates bust
ness and physicians who are known 20 be
attending yellow fever cases naturally are
but human after all. and when prominent
patient or personal friend is taken i'll, he is
10th to have him guaranteed But while
physicians are but human as said, they are
very noble lot of men and that was never
so impressed upon me as there, where they
!
gladly. There are other heroes besides
soldiers.
LAS said before, the fever this year does
not seem to be so fatal as previously, al
though in New Orleans the mortality is
about 10 per cent, the same as in 1878. The
people are alarmed and as the disease is
spreading only by personal contact, every
effort is being made to restrict it by quar-
antine, even to going to extremes, literally
a shotgun quarantine man passing
along the road towards town will be halted
by an armed sentry and notified that he
cannot proceed farther i'll that direction. 1t
seems cruel, doesn't it. but they believe that
self preservation is the first law of nature.
''Vossburg is a small railway station about
three hours ride from New Orleans, and
has twenty-five to thirty inhabitants. but was
quarantined in this manner, as nearly all the
towns in the South. We were at the hotel
at the springs mile and half from town.
and the hotel declared a quarantine against
Vossburg. There were no cases OF fever
there, but the peculiarly Of the disease 10
that it may be raging in one town, while
another place two or three miles away Is
entirely free from it, thanks to the shot gun
quarantine.
The people themselves do not seem to be so
panic stricken individually collectively.
The fever was the principal topic Of CONVERSE