The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-26
Manhattan Shirts at
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amusements, and that the population would welcome the opening of the the atres. In this connection an effort Is being made to have Manager Frank of the New Orleans baseball club play the three closing games of the season on the local grounds. A monster petition is being signed by state and city officials. banks merchants and professional men for de- livery to Frank. There Is nothing to pre- vent the players of the New Orleans and Birmingham clubs from coming here in September and leaving New Orleans when the series is over There has been no pro- <fessional ball here for a month and the deprivation is especially severe in view of the fact that nothing now can pre- vent New Orleans from whining the pen nant.
 No Delay to Freight.
 Due to the fact that false impressions apparently exist elsewhere the Southern Pacific announced today that there was no delay whatever to through freight from any section to points west of the Mississippi river. All the roads make the same announcement with respect to through traffic, and there has been no di- version whatever of transatlantic ton mage. With the wiping out of the fever the Southern Pacific anticipates ar unusually heavy travel through this port to Cuba during the coming winter With that ex- pectation it has chartered the passenger steamer Prince Arthur of 2240 tons and built in Hull England, in 1S99 and will put the vessel In the Cuban trade in De- tober. The ship will carry ITS first-class 36 second-cabn and 24 steerage passen- gers.
 Practically all the local railroad men have remained on duty here from the first appearance of tSe fever through quarantines have seriously interferred with their labors. A number of them re- fused vacations and others who accept ed the offers are returning here. The ac- tion of all these railroad officials is re- garded most favorably in view of the fact that many of them are non-im- munes.
 Would Stop Colon Trade.
 Dr. J. N. Thomas, in charge of the quarantine station at the mouth of the river, made report to the state board of health today. Dr. Thomas said
 Fruit trade with Colon should be pro- hibited If 1t was stopped yellow fever could more easily be prevented from landing on southern coasts. Colon has always been a danger point. No fruit ship should ever be allowed to go to Colon and then come to any southern port. Leave out Coldn and there would be llt tie further danger of infection from fruit vessels
 Except for the cessation of the fruit traffic there has been little perceptiblo falling off in the number of vessels pass ing the quarantine station"
 Memphis Enters Vigorous Denial.
 Memphis, August 25-The Memphis board of health issued a statement to- night denying emphatically the presence of yellow fever in this city. The state ment was occasioned by d report from New Orleans stating that the United marine hospital service there had infor- nation which led them to believe that yellow fever existed in Memphis Dr. White it was said, had made a report of this character to Surgeon General Wy man at Washington.
 According to the New Orleans commu- nicaton, an Italian woman, Mrs. Guer- cio had developed, on August 20, case of yellow fever. two days after her ar rival in New Orleans. This woman. 1t was believed, had come direct from Mem phis.
 The Memphis board of health. in It's statement, says that Mrs. Guercio arrived here from New Orleans with other Ital- ians July 27. The party was kept un- der surveillance for ten days although no quarantine had then been establish ed No indications of fever developed
 The statement says Mrs. Guercio left Memphis two weeks ago and that If she had contracted fever here that the dis ease would have made it's appearance many days before it was discovered by New Orleans physicians.