The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-23

pronounced the finest in the world. 1t has
been copied by all the leading cities of this
| and other countries
The brightest feature of the day was that
no deaths occurred. Tonight most of the
patients were reported as doing well.
| Trouble in two cases was reported III
| the effort to enforce the quarantine regllla-
| tons This morning down town one man
| tried to escape from the infected quarter,
was chased and arrested. and after being
arraigncd in court and frightening every
| body present was sent back TO his home.
| This evening report was received that Il
| man appeared in front of one of the IN
| fected houses up town armed with II shot
gun and had torn down the yellow flag
and taken possession Of the premises. A
| squad of police was sent to the scene.
At its session this afternoon the board Of
health decided to send an appeal to Gov
| ernOr Foster. asking him to supply the
board $4,000 from the surplus fund Of the
state to assist the board in prosecuting its
fight against the fever. The governor
was also asked to issue orders for tents
and other camp supplies to be used at the
camp of detention. Today after con
ference of the health and city authorities
:he Oakland Driving park was selected ms
the site for the camp of detention. 1t Is
situated in the rear Of the city and was ton
dered to the officials by the Crescen: City
Jockey club A large force of men were
Immediately put to work and it is expect
cd that by tomorrow the camp Will be
ready to receive two or three hundred poo
pie from the Italian quarter. Any. people
who live in infected houses who desire may
70 TO this camp and be cared for. Govern
or Foster this afternoon instructed Gen.
Glynn to provide 200 tents, blankets, cots
and other necessary articles for the nse
of the refugees. and Gen. .Glynn has ar
ranged to have those articles sent to the
camp tomorrow morning.
Today the board of health decided to
send a list of infected houses daily 10
pants and other manufactures in order TO
enable the proprietors to discriminate IN
the employment of and to lay off any other
employes who may live in neighborhoods
where infection exists.
The board also decided to send immu-
nized washwomen and servants to all of
the families who have sickness in their
homes and who are unable to pay for Str-
wants themselves. The New Orleans and
Western road, which has a large settle
ment at Port Chalmette. ordered ply
stefan there to inspect the plant and cot
tages of employees and to at once put
sanitary measures into effect
Fifty eight people slept at FontainDleau,
the 1pupTdl uplcHtlOH camp, itHt niEht' ~
day additional refugees arrived there from
Mobile Tomorrow the camp will be pre-
pared to receive 50 additional guests, and
by Thursday the surgeons in charge say
they will have room and accommodations
for 800 people, besides those already quar-
tered there The Louisville and Nashville
is providing free transportation for all
who wish to 20 to the camp. Today q.
III. Whyte. Il newspaper correspondent,
was taken i'll at Fontainbleau and was re-
moved to an isolated point one mile from
Fontainbleau There are no new cases n
Ocean Springs up to evening, and several
OF the old patients are discharged.
Miss May Chinn died Il: Biloxi this
afternoon.
All mails are now being sent from the
infected districts with as much regularity
as is possible with the reduced railroad
facilities.
DR.. Holt reported to the board of
health today that all his cases were
traceable to Ocean Springs. One of them
written by a woman in a room whore
her child was sick at Ocean Springs. The
letter had apparently not been disin-
fccted.
Only one of DR. Hollis patients is
ill-Clinton $. Dixon. This
evening THE board of health ordered all
the houses occupied by DR.. Hollis pa
ticntr to be fumigated The public cir
culating library in New Orleans was
closed today at the suggestion Of the
board of health. Two private schools
that haye refused to close in accordance
with the suggestion of the board will be
proceeded against legally.