Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-04
No News Regarded as Good News
by the Authorities Here.
ONLY ONE DEATH At HAMPTON
Health Officer Woodward Keeping
Local Situation Well in Hand.
w II A 7 L S S a 1 ID

The lack OF news from Phoebus and the
National Soldiers Home at Hampton to-
day was the encouraging feature of the
day at the headquarters OF the marine hos
| pital service in the Butler building. Sur
geon General Wyman had received no re-
| port from either of these places up to
noon.
From 1000 to 1900 tents will be erected
| at the home today tomorrow, that
| the wards of the home may be emptied 10
permit of thorough fumIgation. Wherever
a soldier has been taken with yellow fever
and removed to the hospital his bedding
| and everything Immediately connected with
| him has been fumigated. but until the
wards in the home are emptied the most
| thorough diSinfectiOn cannot be had.
The Troops to Go North.
The United States transport Mcclellan
| is expected to reach Fort Monroe late this
| afternoon to take aboard the troops now
stationed there and convey them to Plum
| Island, Long Island sound. The steamer
/ sailed from New Nork last night and ought
| to make the run to Fort Monroe easily by
| this evening.
| Hampton Indian school.
In response to an inquiry as to the situa-
| tion and needs at the Indian School at
| Hampton, Va, the following dispatch
| received today by the commissioner Of In
| dian affairs:
Rigid quarantine for and against us. All
| Indians except eleven boys are in the north.
| They are efficient and faithful in the gen.
| eral guard duties. Am authorized to say
| that the possibility of infection Is remote
| The school has total enrolment Of LIS
| pupils, and the news that all but eleven OF
| them are away and out Of the fever district
| relieves the apprehensions of the authori-
| ties here.
ChapIain's Offer.
Chaplain Morrison of the Texas has VOL
| unteered to go to the National Soldiers
Home at Hampton if the authorities there
| care to avail themselves Of his services
| during the prevalence of the epidemic. The
| Navy Department has transmitted the
| chaplains offer to the governor of the
| home.
| Situation in This City.
| While the quarantine established by the
| District Commissioners against the Hamp-
| ton Home and the town OF Phoebus, Va. is
| being rigidly maintained by DR. Wm. &.
| Woodward, the District health officer,
| nothing has yet occurred to lead the health
| officer to change his opinion that there is
| little, if any, real ground for alarm on the
part of the people of the District. A large
| number of people from Richmond are still
| passing through Washington. and 1t is
| probable that many OF them have resided
| much nearer the infected points than Rich
| mond. But the great majority of those ar
| riving in the city from the south simply
| pass through for northern points, those re-
| naming here being carefully observed by
| the inspectors of the health department.
and their history for the past week or SO
| being well investigated. There are about
| twenty-five persons under observation here.
| having come from the vicinity of the
| infected points, but they are in good
| health, and are not believed to be at all
dangerous
James Lomax an old soldier who left
| the Hampton Home the 2o,h of last month,
| is reported to be residing with relatives on
| the New Cut road, about two miles beyond
Suitland, Md, and DIR. Woodward today
| notified the Maryland authorities OF that
| fact. The man is said TO have been in
Washington yesterday. He is said to be in
! good health ana. while DR. Woodward
| will keep him under obse rvation should
| he again come here, the health officer does
| not apprehend any danger Of the old sol
| dier's visits,
Mails in Virginia.
| The Post Office Department reports that
1.-THE mails are now being dispatched into
| the quarantined points the Virginia
| peninsula twice daily and all mails sent out
from there is being thoroughly fumigated.
An Gnfounded Report.
| The sisters in charge Of Providence Hos
ptal said this mcrning that there
| truth in the report printed in a morning
paper that a patient in the hospital has
| yellow fever symptoms. a former saloon
keeper, known Dot Riley, was taken
| sick yesterday, and the report printed this
| morning had him suppoied yellow
| fever patient. 1t Is stated that Riley had
| been drinking, and mis- high temperature
yesterday was the result of an ordinary at
| tack of bilioUsness.
One Death at the Home.
Special Dispatch The Evening Star
NEWPORT NEWS. Va, August 4.-One
death at Soldiers Home today. No new