The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-30
STEAMERS LEAVE
 WITHOUT CATTLE
SyIvania Was Last Loaded Ves-
 sell to Sail from Boston
GOVERNMENT WORKED UP
Or. Salmon, Chief of Bureau of Ani- nal Industry, Will Begin Im- medlately to Stamp Out Foot
 and Mouth Disease.

Boston. November 29.-The Cunard line steamer sylvania. which will be the last vessel to leave Boston with cattle for Ia British port. until the embargo against their shipment on account of the prevail ence of the foot and mouth disease in New England is raised, hauled into the stream about o'clock tonight and will sal! for Liverpool tomorrow morning with 664 cattle and 750 sheep on board. The vessel cannot reach Liverpool before De- cember when the order of the English heard of agriculture forbidding the land ing in Great Britain from New England ports goes into effect. but 1t is said that the Boston agent of the line has received assurances from the company's head offices in England will satisfy him that the sylvanias cargo can be landed in Liverpool.
 1 The nteamer Columbia and the Saga rhore, both for Liverpool, will sail to- morrow, but neither will carry any eat 1 tie. The stock which was to have been taken by the latter vessel Is at the War town stock yards and elsewhere around 1 Boston and will be slaughtered for the o- cal market as it comes from Canada and the west, where the disease does not exist
 Dr. Austin Peters. chief of the state cattle bureau, said today he would grant permits for exportation Of cattle from l New York to Massachusetts.
 A Ray of Hope.
 This statement. which seemed to indi- cate that western cattle might be shipped through Boston, has given steamship people a. ray of hope, but if cattle cannot be shipped from this port, the agents of some of the transatlantic lines may send their steamers to St. Johns or Hali- fax as they say the expense of sending the vessels to New York, Baltimore, Phil adelphia or Newport News to load cattle, would be great.
 In Providence the Rhode Island state board of agriculture adopted resolutions prohibiting absolutely any traffic in cat 1 tie in that state or between that and l other states, if deemed necessary by the executive committee.
 From Bridgeford, Me, Secretary Deer i ing of the Maine Cattle commission, re- ports that his advices from all sections Of ] the state show no indications of the pres ence of the foot and mouth disease among l Maine cattle.
 Dr. r. w. Huntington, the government cattle inspector at Portland, has received no instructions to stop the shipment of cattle from Portland to England beyond the notices that have appeared in the daily papers.
 The cattle commissioners of Vermont discovered three infected herds at Ches- ] ter Vt. today
 pr. Salmon Takes Charge.
 Washington November 29.-In pursu- ance of the purpose of the agricultural department to spare no effort In the ex- l termination of the foot and mouth dis ease prevailing among live stock in the New England states, Dr. Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal industry, decid- ed today to go to Boston and take charge of the campaign in person.
 Discussing the question, pr. salmon said that the department had received due notice of the action of Great Britain in quarantining against the New England ports, but that the departmohts decision ! had been influenced more by desire to i protect the remainder of our own coun- try than by any fear of losing our ex- | port trade. He added that the action Of Great Britain could not be construed as at all hostile the conditions apparently ttistifving it. The opinion also was ex- pressed that so long as there Is no gen i eral quarantine the exports would not be materially affected, the expectation be- ing that the trade which has heretofore l left New England ports will find outlet l through other cities.
 The department today decided to allow stock to go through the quarantined states without slaughter, provided the cars containing them are sealed by gov ernment inspectors at the stockyards be- fore reaching the infected region and the seals remain undisturbed.
 No Menace to Beef Industry. Chicago. November 29.-Arthur c. Leo- nard general manager of the Union Stock Yards and Transit company, says there is very little menace to the beef industry or live stock exports of this country or to the foreign consumption and trade in i the quarantine declared by Secretary Will i son against the cattle in the New Eng i land states.
 The only particular result, so far as af- fecting the live stock situation is con cerned is the closing of the New England ports to the shipments of western live stock and changing the points of export to other ports.