The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-29

iHc stSius vi uiiHiFN III NOW otItduS hs Et-
CARDS yellow fever to be as follows;
During the twenty.four hours ending
Tuesday at . p m. there were: Cases OF
yellow fever. 10; deaths 3. total cases OF
yellow fever 10 date. i7e; total deaths
from yellow fever TO date n.
S. II. oniptant NJ D., President
Walter c. Flower, Mayor.
New Orleans. La. September 2S.--The
yellow fever situation here continues cx-
aspcratingly the same. a daily average of
eighteen 10 twenty cases and two deaths
has kept up. But while there is no sign
Of an epidemic the slow progress of the
disease puts obstacles daily In the way
OF the fretful merchant aud public. who
are anxious 10 again resume trade with
the surrounding country, The record to-
day was not unlike that OF many other
days In that IT showed death through
neglect OF the patient and Of twenty-cne
cases up to date having fatal terminal
ton. Tho facts are IN cositroyertable that
al least half died through neglect or lack
Of attention.
business Is showing feeble signs OF re-
vival and railroads are putting forward
superhumnn effor,s to secure modification
OF the quarantine regulations. nr. Oli-
plants trip ZIP the road tomorrow at the
invitation OF the Southern Pacific colnpany
with view IN securing modification Of
existing qusrantines Will se,tlc ONE way
or another, whether or not trade Ia TO stag
nate for several weeks longer or whether
1t DO partially to be resumed at once. The
trip will also scttle the question OF whether
or not New OtIeapa viii raise the bars
against Galveston and other TexaA TpinSs.
In the meantime the Crescent City finds H.
self incapable OF chipping pound OF
freight TO the Lone Star State. The result
Of ths. OF course " throwing out OF em-
ployment hurdrods and thousands Of peo-
pls here The railroads the manufactures.
the big Wholesale and retail stores have all
dispensed with the services of many OF
their employees until business again looks
up.
Now that the shotgun quarantine is be-
ing felt. The ihonters and hotels, more
than ever. ace Thermometer OF the in
jury that ~ being dane this city The
Academy vas 20 have opened Sunday
evening, but the Jsnnseen-T annchili COM
pany has had to take a shoot In another
direction for fear OF being bottled up here.
and the Sowing the Wind company has
also been compelled to cancel it's dates.
Tho Academy can not possibly open now
Inside OF three weeks The Grnu company
Is here at the Grand. and VIII continue to
play It's indefinite engagement. because It
can not get out. The hotels have done
away with all extra help and have cut OH
many o.! their hands, and every man. wo-
man and child Is living with rigid econo-
my. The condition Of affairs is due en-
iircly Ia the strict shotgun quarantines
that have been established In the country
when there Is no possible chance OF an
epidemic here. II Is probable that there
have left town some i0,QoV people, DUE
there are still here no fewer chan 215,00o,
end even those who were frightened a fort
night ago have come 10 realize that there
is no possible chance whatever for an
epidemic In September 1878. there were
between eighty and ninety people dying
OF yellow fever daily. Today the daily
average since the beginning OF the fever
here Il hardly changed.
This was the record ocday--Deathss
Louis Quisnel 140S Dante street; Miss
Emma Fleetwood. 72I Lowerltn.
New cases--Mrs D.. Fricke. 1924 Bar
onne, Jessie Wilkinson, 1920 jackson ave-
nue.: Sarah Dea. 1910 Dublin avenue; ].
W Brunswick. bis Miro; Miss Fannie
Hewitt. lT4S jackson; Louis Quisnel. 140a
Dante Mrs. j. NJ. Fleetwood. 727 Law
rim Sister Marcella, st. Vincent asylum.
Race and Magazine: Mrs. A. r. Wimber-
lev 17lS Prytana. -. Reisser 1921 North
Calves. ELI Mcconnell detention camp;
Eleanor Reams PHILLIP between Chippr-
wa and ST. Thomas; MIR. Lee and two