The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-13
FRYER STOPS WORK 0NLEYEES
RESULT OFOUARANTINE AGAINST
NEW ORLEANS.
Over 100 New Cases Yesterday. with Nine
Deaths-States borrowing Money TO
Fight tho Plaguo-Post ORice Depart
ment Calls . Halt On Stubborn Towns.

Ftght tho PleGu0-ROot OMC0 DEPART
ment Gallo Halt On Stubborn Towns.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. l3.-one hundred
and twenty-five new cases Of yellow fever
~ers found to-day and nine deaths 90
CURED.
DR.. l. 8. White again gave notice to-day
ina, doctors must report all cases of fever,
no matter how mild the type, a. no 70
,tncuons are placed on the families Of PSF
sons sick with yellow fever. Thlrs was,
be said, no excuse for not reporti1E them.
Formerly when q case occurred In p house
the family was kept isolated there and .
great panic resulted. Now there is perfect
latitude allowed.
Mississippi and Texas have followed the
example Of Louisiana In borrowing money
for quarantine purposes. A majority Of
the members OF the Louisiana Legislature.
having been consulted by Gov. Blanchard
nv telegraph, decided that they would vote
for the appropriation OF $iOO 900 for crushing
out the yellow fever at the next regular
session, which meets In May. This guaranty
being deemed sufficient by the banks
which act as fiscal agents Of the State,
the first allowance Of $40, 900 was forwarded
to New Orleans to-day, and II will be sent In
like sums as long as needed.
Gov Vardaman Of Mississippi to day
sent circular letter to members Of tho
Mississippi Legislature asking II they are
willing to vote a $4,000 appropriation at
the next session to defray the expenses
Of the present quarantine against Louisiana.
In Texas Gov. Lanham, without going
through these formalities, has borrowed
$4,000 for DR.. Tabor, the Texas health
officer, and turned it over to him. Tho
Texas quarantine fund was almost ex-
hausted when the present epidemic began.
and Dr. Tabor has been In great straits
for lack of funds.
The Louisiana State Board Of Engineers
calls attention TO another case that has re-
suited from the ultra rigid quarantines now
the cotton crop by cutting Oh communica-
ton with New Orleans and preventing farm
ers from getting the paris green poison
60 necessary at this time Of the year for the
destruction OF the cotton caterpillars, but
thew have practically stopped all the work Of
building and repairing the levees, which is
usually carried on during the summer and
fall The State engineers are cooped UP in
New Orleans and admission has been refused
TO any of the river parishes. and 1t is impos-
oflaborers to do levee work. Necessary work
has been postponed and II the fever con-
tnues late there is great danger Of overflow
In the event of high water.
The United States Engineers Office In
\ this city has been temporarily removed to
yicksburg 80 as to he as little interrupted
In its work as possible by the guarantees,
but the change has been Of but little assist
ance as there are so many close quarantines
An attempt will be made to get the Govern
ment engineering feet of four vessels out
inspection OF the leyees
Half dozen more Louisiana towns and
parishes surren dered to-day to the Louisiana
State board Of health on the quarant tine
issue, among them La Fayette. which
Intercourse parishes in the State. and
Pointe Coupee. which has become oonverted
to the mosquito theory. Notifications
were made in the case Of Gueydan. Jeaner-
cite and other points. Gueydan got It's
it has been without Ice and other neoessi-
ties.
The Post Once Department has decided
that the railroads must carry the mails
and tender them TO a town. II they are
and the salary Of the postmaster will cease
This is expected to call halt on the stu
pidity of some Of the scared towns. Yer
million parish. which is shut out OF Its mails
by the guarantees Of some Of the inter-
vening parishes. has established by popular
subscription a private mail route which
will get letters and mails through.
The railroads, which have suffered heavy
losses, have declined to prosecute the health
boards. although advised to do 10 by the
that the greatest hardship they suffer from
l. the sudden clapping on OF guarantees
without notice. A carload will be; taken
to some place where there Is no Quarantine,
but when it reaches there 1t Is announced
that quarantine has just been declared.
no oiopa fn h0pr ri NJ hoQ lth took
action in case Of this kind to-day over
carload Of freight sent to Labadieville,
In Assumption parish. An attempt was
made to hold it up at that point, but by
antine was broken and the freight delivered.
In the future no attention will be paid to
such n,,arnntines
In Mississippi there has been some loosen:
Ing up, but there arc occasional fanatical
outbreaks and quarantine wars. Brandon
has quarantined against Florence because
the latter permits trains OF the Gulf and
Ship Island Railroad to stop there, while
Wahalak has quarantined against Mobile
because she permits banana vessels to iano
at her wharves. At Utica the quarantine
is so stringent and the laws 80 severe that
the town marshal bas resigned, declaring
II impossible to enforce them.
The three Italians who have been seen
In yawl il, the Mississippi, and who are
boat because one Of them was sick with
fever continue to keep the. quarantine
guards on the Arkansas and Mississippi
banks in a state Of wild excitement lest
they might land on these banks. Yeeter-
day they were observed from Helena by
means OF telescope and seen to land on
q towhead, or sand island. In the middle OF
the river. where they are reported TO be
digging presumably a grave. This mas
doubled the excitement and panic OF the
guards The castaways are apparently
trying to get to Memphis or some large
town where they can be sent to deten-
ton camp -,
The Union Sulphur Company. which
operates the works at Sulphur City, La,
the largest in the world, has given car,
load of sulfur for disinfecting purposes and
will give as much more as may be needed.
The Standard Oil Company has rendered
free oil and the use OF its tank wagons for
oiing cisterns, ponds and cutters Likely TO
demand for disinfectants tomorrow, when,
on the advice Of the citizens committee,
every householder will disinfect his premises
with sulfur to kill mosquitoes.
Dr. John Guiteras. head OF the Cuban
quarantine service. who Is investigating
The yellow fever situation, declares that
Cuba will not remove its quarantine againstt
G Gulf coast OF the United States Until
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