The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1905-09-02
CURRENT NEWS FROM
CITY OF new ORLEANS.
Specisi Correspondence Sea Coast
Echo.

/ New Orleans, La, Sept. 1, 1905.
STEAMSHIP BUSINESS BOOMING.
/ The Southern Pacific Steamship Co
is soon to double its line between New
Orleans and New York and between
New Orleans and Havana, running two
ships weekly each way over each line
instead of one as heretofore. Three
big passenger and freight ships are nov
being built at New Port News, and
General Passenger Agent Anderson has
announced the offer OF purse OF money
for the most attractive names suggested
for these vessels, the names to be strictly
American and Americans only to COM
pete, the competition to close Septem-
Der 20. The service will be started on
the double weekly sailings as soon as
possible.
oUARANTINEs AND BUSINESS.
An executive official of the Hibernia
Bank and Trust Co. has called attention
to the fact that the bank clearings at
New Orleans during August show an
actual increase over the same month
last year, which, together with the re-
markab1e strength of local investment
securities and the buoyancy of local
real estate, reflect very little evidence
of the depressing effects on business of
the rigid qnarantines against New Or
leans. New Orleans bankers and capi-
talists are confident that within sixty
days the financial and commercial af-
fairs of New Orleans will again be on
healthy basis.
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES KILLING
MOSQUITOES,
The life insurance companies do not
now run from yellow fever as they did
in the days before the manner in which
the disease is transmitted was thoroughly
understood. These big institutions,
which are vitality interested in the
health of every community, are now in
the thlckest of the fight against the
mosquito, and many of them have sub
scribed liberal sums for this purpose,
one of them, the Pacific Mutual Life,
having sent it's check to the Citizens
Committee for a cool $500. Their
medical advisers assert that when the
striped-legged mosquito has been ex-
terminated, comparatively easy feat
when properly gone about, there then
can be no such thing as an epidemic OF
yellow fever, and the life insurance
companies are working to this end.
HEALTH VIGILANCE COMMITTEE ORGANIZED.
Prominent men OF New Orleans have
organized the New Orleans Health As
sociation, the object OF which is to put
New Orleans into perfect and perma-
nent sanitary condition, exterminate the
fever-bearing mosquito, see that all
good sanitary and health laws are prop
erly and rigidly enforced, and secure the
passage of such additional sanitary
laws as may be needed TO successfully
cope with conditions as they exist today.
1t is said that an ample fund will be
raised for the purpose. The organiza-
tion is to be permanent, and vigorous
campaign will be started at once.
THE YELLOW FEVER SITUATION.
While Surgeon ]. H. Whyte, the Ma
rine Hospital officer in charge at New
Orleans, will not say that the fever will
be absolutely suppressed before frost,
he unhesitatingly asserts that the splen-
did work being done in the destruction
of the mosquito has held the spread of
the disease in check, and absolutely
prevented destructive epidemic such
as that of 1878. With the cooperation
of the citizens in fumigating all houses
in which there are mosquitoes, DR..
Whyte says the spread of the disease
will be stopped here. Non -immunes
living in the screened hospitals where
yellow fever patients are treated have
not taken the disease, though thrown in
constant contact with it,