The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-09-27
Carencro Versus Lafayette.

Carencro Versus Lafayette.
(Communicated.)
To The Advertiser:
] Inn naturally interested in
the various discussions going on
about me in the world, here and
elsewhere, and am DESTROYS of
removing any erroneous impress
si0ns people may have regarding
me.
In The Lafayette Gazette of
Sept. is, I have read the follow
ing news item and comments:
CARENcRo REFUSES FREIGHT.
The authorities of CarencrO last
Wednesday notified the wholesale
Merchants Grocer Company that they
would accept no nor freight from La
fayette. An order which had been
filed was countermanded and notice
served that no goods would be re-
ceived. If anything has been demon
strated during the present yellow
fever epidemic it is that freight cannot
possibly convey the disease. Goods
are received by Texas. Mississippi
and other states direct from New Or
leans without fumigation or detention.
As we'll might the people of Carencro
refuse to accept their mail matter that
passes through or originates in fever
infected towns. Letters and papers
are probably often sent by people suf-
fering from yellow to CarencrO and
yet Uncle Sam delivers the matter
with no fear of transmitting the dis
ease.
In The Gazette of the 23rd. in.
slant is published the following
criticism of the above remarks:
Editor Lafayette Gazette.
Dear Sir:
I notice in the last issue of your
paper an article headed, "Carencro
Refuses Freight" in which you init
mate that the people of Carencro are
. Get Of ignorant blockheads who
don't know the Stegomyis Fascista
from the Musca Domejticus.
Now II you wish TO argue this ques-
ton why do you not state the facts of
the case? You say that it has been
proven during this fever trouble that
freight can be carried without danger
between infected and non-infected
points. l agree with you, and go q
step farther and say that this fact was
proven beyond the possibility of q
doubt by DR.. Reed in Havana several
years ago. Then why does Carencro
object to taking in freight from Lafa-
yette? Simply because she in COM
mon with Lafayette and other towns
has IN ordinance which provides that
al freight coming from infected points
shall bear the Marine Hospital seal
showing that said freight has been
thoroughly disinfected.
Did not your town adopt such an
ordinance? Did she not send . man
10 Av0ndale to see that this ordinance
wa complied with? If your people
wish to send freight to Csrencro con-
vince ~ people that you are taking
every precaution to prevent mosquit-
oes from being sent with this freight.
Yours truly,
Gro. r. LESLEY.
Now, as one having authority,
! wish to speak the final word in
this controversy. The world
has ct last learned that / am the
only means of transmitting vel
low iever, and ;...at it is impos-
sible for me to do SO only un.
der certain well defined con-
ditions. As I am of very do
mestic habits / do not ordinarily
spend my time in or around .
wholesale grocery establishment,
especially il my system is in
fected with the poison from the
blood Of . yellow fever patient.
II, however, by some accident I
happen to be in such . place tits
not impossible for me to slip into
: near by box car being loaded
With boxes and barrels Of gro
ceries destined for q distant