Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-07-30
THREE DEATHS AND
TWENTY NEW CASES
Is the Report of Fever Situa.
ton in New Orleans.
QUARANTINE INJuRINe BUSINESS
Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi,
Orders a Strict Quarantine of All
Towns in His State Against New Or
Ieans-OnIy Slight Spread of Fever.

ANCH O4lSduo, July G9'- OAlCldl AC-
port of the city board of health to the
state board of 20 new cases and three
deaths, making a total of 227 cases
and AZ deaths to date, indicate a very
slight spread of the yellow fever here
and to show all cases traceable to the
original infection Eighteen of the
new cases are Italians, one an Amer
lea, one a Frenchman and one German
All but five are below Canal street, and
most of them in the French market
section. One of those above Canal is
the engineer of the steamship Cregan.
a case reported from Central Ameri-
ca, three others are Italians who
came out of the lower district and the
fifth is young lawyer whose infec-
tion is doubtless traceable to the fact
that his daily duties carried, him to
the civil district court The court
is located next to the historic Cabildo
within stones throw of the French
market. Two of the three reported
deaths are of Italians. There is still
no report Of New cases from outlying
infection.
The most disquieting news in the
yellow fever situation today is the ev-
idence that panic is increasing in the
smaller towns of Louisiana and Missis-
sippi, and that a disposition is grow
ing to revive the disastrous CONNER
cial quarantines of 1897, when some
of the country towns even refused to
receive ice or hardware from New Or
leans. Columbia, La, bars all kins
of merchandise except hardware. Uti-
ca, Miss, will not receive freight of
no fruit or vegetables. Jackson, La,
wants no household articles from New
Orleans. Several towns in Tennessee
and others along the Mississippi Val
ley road in Mississippi refuse to allow
express matter of any kind to be put
off; Port Gibson, will not take bread
nor anything wrapped in burlap that
may be shipped from this city. Some
of the Texas towns are asking that
the mails be fumigated.
Quarantine Hurts Business.
II the movement to quarantine
freight spreads, New Orleans will suf-
fer much more seriously than from
the fever itself.
. Up to the present there has been
no local apprehension of a dangerous
epidemic and it was believed that il
the boards of health in other states
not to place any restrictions upon the
transportation of freight there would
be only a slight reduction Of business
and the chief inconvenience would be
in the ability of country people to
come here and of New Orleans people
to go int othe southern towns and
cities.
Anticipating quarantines, most of the
business houses with the discovery of
the fever, wired their drummers not
to come to town, but to remain in
their territory SO that they might
travel freely and send in their orders
as usual during the prevalence Of the
sickness, but if there is an embargo
put on freight now, New Orleans drum.
mers will find their usefulness at an
end and New Orleans natural busi-
ness will be diverted to other points.
The depopulation of the Mississippi
Gulf coast towns of summer visitors
from New Orleans continues owing to
Governor Vardaman's determination.
that these towns shall have no com.
munications with New Orleans. The
governor said that he would not bulge
from his position if every man, wo;
man and child on the coast personal.
ly appealed to him. He said leaving
out the cost in human life, an epidem.
ic of the fever on the coast would
mean $20,00O,O00 in depreciation OF
real estate value alone. 1t will be
better, said the governor, "for the citi.
zens of these towns to be bottled up
and eat mullet and crabs and escape
the yellow fever, than to get all the
revenue they can out of the refugees
and have one case of yellow fever
among them.
Much Sympathy for Memphis.
Much sympathy is felt here for the
City of Memhis, which has been com
PEELED to quarantine New Orleans
against her will. On the first report OF
the fever that city sent representa-.
tive here who put himself in close
touch with the situation aud saw no
necessity for quarantine, and the
health authorizes would doubtless have
kept their promise not to bar New
Orleans refugees if the imposition OF
quarantines by other cities against
Memphis had not forced them to act
in self-defense.
Some inconvenience has been felt
by the Chattanooga quarantine. Many
we!l-to-do people here were sending
of The season, but the putting up OF
the bars at Chattanooga will divert
New Orleans travel from that point.
The board of health repeated today
Its announcement that the destruction
of bedding and household property has
no place in its campaign and that nc
such waste of property will be at
tempted. In former epidemics here
millions of dollars worth of household
property was destroyed in the effqr
to exterminate the supposed germ o.
yellow fever.
Quarantine RigidIy Enforced.