The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-23
FIFTY SEVEN NEW CASES 7
 AND NINE DEATHS REPORTFy

 still remain unscreened, and the police have received orders to spare no one | who shows an indtspositfon to obey the | law. Failure to screen caused Hart Newman, former President of the New Orleans Baseball Club, and son of Isidore Newman, the millionaire bank CT, to spend a brief time in a cell to- | day MT. Newman is the head of the company which owns Athletic Park Some one discovered that there were ! three unscreened cisterns on the | grounds and made an affidavit against | him. When the police appeared in his 1 Carondolet Street ofice MT. Newman or dered them out and then barred the l doors. The policemen disappeared and | Mir. Newman went to police headquar- ters. When he reached there he was arrested and locked up. Later he was | released by Inspector Whitaker. MT. Newman was indignant at his arrest. He said he had made large contribu- l tions to the citizens fund, had paid to screen a large number of cisterns that he did not own in his ward and had simply forgotten about the cisterns at the park.
 | Advices received today Indicate that the United Fruit Company will make an effort to restore its full fruit ser vice when the present excitement over the fever ends. The company. through l to supply the entire Mississippi valley with fruit and it prefers to sumhit to whatever health regulations may be imposed here rather than attempt to | serve the trade through the Atlantic ports. Four steamers have now been built with refrigerator plants and all of the steamers will be thus equipped. All the new vessels built and building are to be of large capacity. The plants will enable them to keep the | fruit in perfect condition for eight days, so that there will be no diff culty in meeting new quarantine reg ulations here.
 l Some of the country towns are seek l ing to avoid clash with the State Board of Health in the matter of quarantine in a way calculated to be damaging to New Orleans. Lake Charles Is an instance. The fear of yellow fever is so great there that the people refuse to accept any freight whatever from here. Governor Blanch- ard and the State Board of Health having intimated an intention to take | extreme measures, the Lake Charles people are willing to modify the quar- | antine but have circulated petition which is being generally signed pledg- l ing all merchants there to refuse to make purchases here.
 Mayor Behrman's ornce Is over whelmed with letters, many from cranks but others from we'll meaning people, who offer specifics against yell low fever. Many of them are germt- Icides. The mayors reply to these betrss fought here on the principle that 1t can alone be transmitted by Imeans of the mosquito. Local skep- tics to the mosquito theory exist In considerable numbers but even these by force of law or otherwise have | h. &k.f .fs sxrAv. ciple for this campaign and are doing all in their power to assist the federal Authorities in destroying the agency for the propagation of the disease. When the campaign ends the mayor believes all the Skeptics will be be- lievers.
 An isolated case of yellow fever or bearing a close resemblance to 1t was reported in St. Tammany parish to- day. It has been screened and will be watched with some interest in the hope that 1t will be demonstrated again that in this section of Louisiana yell low fever will not last The case. is traceable to New Orleans.
 Nurses for Patterson.
 Additional nurses were sent to Pat terson and Riverside, both in St. Mary parish, today. The Southern Pacific again provided a speciaf car. At these two points exist the largest number of cases anywneFe OutSlQe or the limlIe of the city. but so excellent is the treatment that is being given them the fever continues to manifest itself in a type exceedingly mild.
 Among today's telegrams to the Mayor was one from the Democratic campaign manager, Thomas Taggart of Indianapolis. MT. Taggart wrote of large contributions of water from French Lick for the hospitals and for poor patients. The offer was accepted
 The management of the New Orleans baseball club does not expect that any 4 of the clubs in the Southern League . will have to take advantage of the pro- tection offered by the National Com been transferred to Atlanta and the Shreveport games to Chattanooga. If Is not anticipated that there will be any further interference with the new schedule. The New Orleans players are being kept on the rolls at their full salaries. in spite of the heavy loss-
 es that the management is suffering,
 and all of them will remain with the club until the season closes.
 Some surprise is expressed here at the
 announcement from Jackson that the
 fever at Mississippi City has been de-
 clared epidemic It Is not believed that
 the number of cases reported from l there IS SumC1enL to cause alarm ana
 owing to the mildness of the type the
 local authorities see no reason why it
 should not be kept in check. Mean
 time the appearance of the fever on the
 coast has not had the effect of bringing
 any New Orleans people summerinE
 there back to the city.
 Inquiry at the railroad ofiees and a,
 the offices of the maritime hospital ser
 vice show that comparatively few
 health certificates are now being Issued
 All of those who were alarmed over the
 situation and refused to run the risk of attack have now gone away and
 northbound travel Is now below nor
 nal
 pr. Juan Gulteras. the representa-
 tive here of the Cuban Board of Health , today investigated the case of Bernard
 Murphy, the fireman of the steamship Excelsior, who Is now In the marine hospital as a yellow fever patient. He
 saw the patient and Is doubtful about ] the diagnosis. He says 1t is possible ] that If the man has yellow fever that , he was infected in New Orleans. which would make 1t little over six days foI the period of incubation or that he wal bitten by an infected mosquito on tho steamship He does not believe that the man could have been infected ir Havana.
 CoIumbus's Quarantine Modified.
 Columbus. Ga. Aug. 22.-(special.)-
 Mayor Chappell modified this city'i quarantine regulations against Ms
 sissippi so as to apply only to points 1T
 that State within twenty miles of tho