The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-06

is now under construction Is lntendeu lo supply a population of S0000O. more tnan double that of the city at present SIX teen millions of dollars are being expended on sewerage, water and darhlage but so strong is the public sentiment in faVor of the earliest practicable completion ol the work that steps are already pelhs taken to push measures before the coming session of the legislature, which Will en- able the board to capitalize its income further The three systems will be pushed into every populated area of the city.
 Dr. White paid a visit to Shrewsbury just above the city in Jefferson parish, today. Jefferson parish has desired the marine hospital service to take full charge of the situation in the parish on the out side of the river and the serVice mas decided to do so. There has been much sickness in this section but it's spread S considered to have been checked.
 Before returning to his office, pr. Whte visited the emergency hospital He san afterwards that there was absolutely ID means by which non-immune well per son could become infected In the hospital and that any one might visit there With out risk Half dozeyS or npre whte women have been taken Into the lnstltu- ton as patients and the arrangements are so perfect that not even the most tiiiiu or sensitive woman can be offended'
 Professor Rupert Royce of Liverpooi ana II. K, army today went by train to the infected points in St Bernard parish. They visit- ed Corinne and Terre Aux Boeufs ana made an inspection of conditions at notn places. They found that there has peenl comparatively little spread of the infec-' ton from these points.
 Forbid Passenger Traffic.
 While auarantines in Louisiana, Miss AIal ao not seriously l1- terferring now with freight, they apso- lutely prohibit passenger traffic without detention Some towns even refuse to rec ognize detention certificates. In conse- ouence of these regulations several thous- and commercial travellers are still ldle and business Is being principally carried on by mail.
 The railroads are making preparations to handle the cotton crop and to carry cotton seed to the oil mills throughout this section of the south. No serious hand icap to the movement of cotton is ap- prehended.
 Sugar Crop Not In Danger
 Sensational statements appearing else- where that the sugar plantations or Louisiana are deserted, that because they are unable to get laborers the planters
 will lose their crops and that thousands Of persons will be destitute by the destruc- ton of all the cane that has been grown, are stated here to be absolutely without any foundation. Before the season Of l cane cutting comes, all the quarantines 1 will have been raised and not stick or i it will be lost for lack of labor to cut It. Shipments of beds and other supplies for the emergency hospital at Kenner, l ten miles above New Orleans, at the l Junction of the Mississippi Valley and i Illinois Central railroads was made to- day. The hospital Is expected to be ready tomorrow and will have capacity of | forty. It will receive all the sick at Kenner. Hanson City and contiguous l points
 | The police and federal authorities threw house on Josephine street in quarantine | today. It was in the square with yell | low fever case. The occupants objected 1 to disinfection. however. When the lady of the house subsequently departed for
 market a eordon was thrown about 1t
 and both ingress and egress denied l Prominent Man In Jail. | Isolated instances of failure to screen | cisterns crop out, Judge Marmouget had l before him prominent man as an offend-
 CT today. He fined him the limit, s5O' or
 sixty days imprisonment.
 There ought not to he a cistern un- | screened in New Orleans today" said the court. "A man who fails in this duty now is most fragrant violator of the law. 1 No excuse he may offer will be listened 1 to in this court. l shall give each one | the extreme penalty"