Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-05
IS IT ONLY A SCARE?
PEOPLE SAID TO Bic RUNNING FROM
A BUGABOO.
NO YELLOT.JACK At HAMPTON HOME
So Maintains an Old Army Surgeon
M XVashingtOn-Hts Argument
Summer TruyeI on the Railroads
Observation-Disclosures Personals.

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. August i.-(spe-
ciaI)-"What did ! tell your said DR..
bradford a well-known Washington
physician. "There is no yellow-fever at
the Hampton Soldiers Home. Hardly
any new cases and not death In TWO
DAYS. and this among four thousand old
veterans who are susceptible TO maladias
OF all kinds, particularly in the summer.
they say now that they have the
'scounge' well in hand and that they
have checked it. Check? They had no
thing to check. II is nothing but terri
bly, bad scare. II actual yeliow-fever had
broken out al the Hampton home ten
dave ago there would have been hum
ureds OF cases there by this time, and
n large number OF deaths every day.
Everybody Is running away from a
bugaboo. Tie very name of yellow Jack
Is a holy terror. and people around Nor
folk VINO rec0llect the epidemic OF 1870
yre naturally frightened.
.Thls scare reminds me OF one In this
CITY about d year ago man died AT
hotel and a health officer declared tha1
ne was a victim OF Sellow-feVei' ana the
latter had the whole city IN stare oi
iurrnou Tor several days. AS was 1ouhu
NM afterwards, the man had died OF
snS,ignant fever. but al was not anything
Nike yellow-feves-
~ see they are about moving the troops
uOyaV from Fort Monroe. This precau-
uon ia absolutely unnecessary, ana u
A. a pity that the grand hotels al Ola
POINT he'd 20 be closed On account OF the
scare" .,o,1
DIR. Bradford Is an old and experienced
urmx physician, who has retired from
Sracs,,a and he insists now, as he aid
a wear ago, when the man died here OF
Suesed yelicw-fever, that the alleged
tallnw fever IS no such disease.
n g. TO be hoped he IS corrects and the
80, tba, the fever has not spread, and
fhst theye has not been a death in two
aays. seems 20 bear out his argument
PASSENGER TRAFFIC HEAVY.
Railroad officials report an eXtraordl-
nary amount Of summer excursion 'iaiiO
mis- season. More people are leaving q
have left tho city this summer IMAM LOT
the past fve or six years. When asheu
for an explanaticn Of the Increased vol
ume OF excursion business to-day, prom
inent official said that il was no doubt que
10 the fact that people have more money
than al any period during the nara tunes
of the past xix or seven years anu dio
taking advantage Of the unusually cheap
rates offered by the companies 10 enjoy
an outing. The summer resorts or the
mountains OF Virginia, Maryland. and
West Virginia have enjoyed and are stlll
enjoying an unusually heavy patronage.
Iarge numbers are spending their vaca-
tons I'm the Valley Of Virginia. The sea-
side resorts have not suffered by any
means. Many Of the trains leaving the
city for near by sections carry from one
20 fon extra ears 80 great is the exodus.
Bay Ridge has been the object point for
many eXcursl0nlsts who have but a day
or two to spend out OF the city at a
time. The yonow-feyer epidemic al
Hampton has not apparently frightened
Washirgtonians as there has been no
appreciable decrease in traffic within the
past few days.
PERSONAL
Nj, J. ID, Dardon, one OF the owners OF
me tnamhctiln Hotel. az old Point is
IN tte city. stopping at the Metropolitan.
lie relates many amusing stories Of at
tempts 90 escape from quarantine officials
IN the isgt week
iiill Carter and wife Ashland. Va:
vie. Va: Luburn Myers. Richmond: J.
~: Graves. Richmond: Mrs. A. ID. Hewitt,
Metropolitan.
POSTAL
Among the changes OF fourlh-ciass post
hAfttfs mace to-day are the following,
North caroina--cusiersnlis Moore