The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-05
Crescent City'S Message
 to President.
SITUATION CONTROLLABLE
Believed Action Will Restore
 Confidence.
Yesterdny's Record was Surprise to Many, Larger Number of New Cases Having Been Ex-
 pected to Appear.

New Orleans La, Aug. 4.-Following le the record up to 6 D. m;
 New cases. 43; total cases'to date. 475; deaths. 5; deaths to date. ss; new sub- foci, 10; total sub -foci, 76.
 The record for the day Is a surprise as many confidently locked for a larger number of new cases, in view of yes- terday's large report. There is a larger proportion of non-foreign names in to- days list than has appeared yet. and that Is the only phase of the report which causes any uneasiness, for 1t shows that the disease Is making its appearance among the other elements of the community.
 Dr. c. Milo Brady. the travelling in- Spector of the State Board of Health, re- ports another case in Jefferson Parish. opposite New Orleans. one mile below Amesville. It is an Italian on the Bell plantation. The two Italians near Wag gaman, and the two on Wills Wood plantation, all in Jefferson, are reported dead. Up to this hour the Board of Health has received no reports of other cases in the State.
 The arbitrary action of the parish of Rapides in stopping all traffic through the parish, has been amended, and through trains on the Texas and Pa cifc will be allowed to continue. It is expected that Calcasieu Parish will also rescind It's action on the same lines, and enable the Southern Pacific to resume its through service.
 Acting Assistant Surgeon Maylie of the Marine Hospital service, reported by wire today from Echo, the Texas quarantine station, that he had escorted twenty people who had been in the Avondale detention camp and turned them over to the Texas authorities. They were allowed to go through.
 The camp near Harahan, on the I1h nois Central and Mississippi Valley Roads, has been named Camp Wyman, in honor of the Surgeon General. and has been opened for travellers. The camp at Fontainbleau will be ready by Monday.
 Government Invoked.
 With no intention of admitting the fever situationssto be beyond control, but in the hope of reviving confidence here and elsewhere in the South. off, cial and business interests decided to- day to send d request to President Roosevelt to have the United States Government assume full charge of the struggle now in progress to wipe out yellow fever from New Orleans and Louisiana. Public sentiment approves the action taken. The expectation is that within the next two days Surgeon General Wyman, with all the resources of the Government. will be enlisted ac- lively in the campaign. .+-.
 The action taken was the result of a meeting held late today at the Cotton Exchange. President A. Brittin pre- sided There were present Mayor Behrman, Chairman Janvier of the citizens committee, President Souchon of the State Board of Health, President Kohnke of the City Board of Health, representatives of each of the ex- changes and commercial bodies, Sur geon White of the Marine Hospital ser vice. and a number of representative citizens. In conferences which preced- ed the meeting, President Souchon and Kohnke had given to Mayor Behrman their cordial assent to the proposed &C., tion.
 All of those present participated in the discussion It was the consensus Of opinion that while the situation had gown serious it was not hopeless That view was concured in by Dr. White. At the same time it was believed that if Government control was resolved upon there would be an immediate restora- ton of confidence throuhout Louisiana and the other States in the South where there has been criticism of the local authorities for not sooner mak- ing public the existence of the fever. It was also the belief of those present that Surgeon General Wyman will be d New Orleans thoroughly equipped for the handling of yellow fever situation because of their experience in Cuba, Mexico, and at different points in the United States, and that the Government will have facilities for enforcing a scientific campaign not possessed by the local authorities. -@-
 Many Are Frightened. .-@
 When the local officials first took charge of the situation It was confi- dently hoped that the fever could be stamped out with reasonable delay. but the progress has not been as ex- pected and so frightened have become inc people in the South over the in crease in the number of cases that New orleans is threatened with a serious paralysis of her trade by reason of the radical quarantines that are now being instituted. +
 At the conclusion of the meeting 1t was announced that the following res olution offered by MT. Janvier, had been adopted, MT E. NJ. Farrar alone voting in the negative.
 Resolved, That this meeting indorse the proposition to ask the United States Government to take control of the vel low fever situation in New Orleans and Louisiana and the Governor of the State and the Mayor of the city be requested 10 take immediate steps to carry this proposition into effect; and that the hearty cooperation or the state ana cItv governments, State and city health hoard. the New Orleans Medical Soci- ety and of the people generally be pledged in such action as may be taken by the Government.
 Immediately after the meeting ad- tourned a telegram signed by the Mayor and other interests represented at the meeting was addressed to Governor g Blanchard telling him of the action 2 taken and furnishing him with copy of the resolution. The Governor was asked to forward A request to President Roosevelt directing the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Ser vice to take charge a once. Prompt action was urged upon the Governor.
 The announcement of the action taken at first created some alarm in the city. growing out of the fear that it meant that the situation had grown entirely beyond control but that alarm was all layed when it became known that the authorities had acted simply from the belief that prompt action now in turn ing over the direction of the affairs 10 the Marine Hospital Service, in whom there is supreme confidence here. would almost certaInl yavert an epidemic. Dr. Rhlta an1 his ataff who have been