The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-19
PRESIDENT WILL GO ID NEW ORLEANS City Repeats Earnest Invitation
 to Come GOOD RECORD FOR MONDAY pr. Sanders Reports There Is No Fe- yer at WhistIer-crescent City Theaters Are Well Pat
 ronized.
GOOD RECORD FOR MONDAY
FEVER SITUATION AT p. M

l | Deaths. ........ ........... l Total deaths to date. ......... 341 New foci | Cases under treatment. ..... Sll
 Cases discharged. d........... 1853
 New Orleans, September 1S.-President Roosevelt's telegram to Mayor Behrman announcing his intention to come here as planned on October "A, if the people or Louisiana and New Orleans desired him to do so, subject only to the quarantine regulations of other states is received as an additional indication of the Presi- dents sympathy with the people of the state and city in their fight against the fever
 It Is the opinion of the authorities that the fever will practically have disappear ed before the President is due, but there Is some doubt as to whether the adjoin- ing states and the country parishes or Louisiana will be willing to lift the quar- antine they have imposed until frost gives assurance that there is no further danger of the transmission of the disease. Very probably, in the matter of the presidential party all restrictions would be temporari- l. can only be determined after Mayor Behr- man and Governor Blanchard have ad- dressed themselves to careful inquiry into the whole situation.
 The expectation of the usual increase in cases and deaths on Monday over Sun day was again realized today, the deaths, though comparatively few in number. ex- ceeding those for several days past. They were again found principally in the lower section of town and included no one of prominence in the community. The spell of good weather which prevailed for sev- eral days was broken today with frequent showers and as rain is helpful to mos quito breeding the sanitary workers will have their labors considerably added to-
 Theaters We'll Patronlzed.
 How anxious have been the people for l amusements is shown in the experience of the two theatres here which have | finally opened their doors. Both have stock companies and are therefore un- 1 concerned with quarantines. The Grand opened on Saturday night with every seat sold and all the standing space occupied There was an audience equally as large at Sundays matinee and again on Sun day night. The Lyric opened yesterday with matinee and night performances | There was a Jam at both performances and people were again turned away at matinee today. The Orpheum, which Is owned by the Orpheum circuit, has finally scheduled its opening for Octo- Der 2, arrangements having been made to carry its troups west after they ap- pear here. The Tulane and Crescent play travelling companies which usually go from here to the Texas circuit west of the Mississippi. They have made no an- nouncement of their progress. The Italians are now cooperating with the marine hospital authorities and the local authorities in the offort to get labor to plantations. Annually hundreds of Italians leave here to work in the harvest fields of the west, returning in time to assist in taking off the cane and other crops. Efforts are to be made to route many of these into the sugar district without the districts of infection. Engage ments had also been made to receive large numbers of Italians for the coun- try but their arrival there was deferred when the fever broke out. Now the local Italians are trying to arrange for screen ed cars to take the immigrants into de- tention camps when they arrive that they may be forwarded to the planta- tion. Aside from the crop, the Louisiana plantations are constantly seeking labor for practically the year round, and any prolonged cutting off of the European
 
 To Settle Teamsters' Strike. Conferences proceeded throughout the day In the effort to settle the teamsters' strike which, If prolonged would mean serious loss. The cotton exchange has moved actively in the matter and public sentiment Is strong against a movement of strikers of any kind. Laborers have been influenced to make concession and in all probability Instructions to set tlement will soon be removed.
 Col. John P. Sullivan of the Elks order is boxing complete costume consist ing of a cistern hat, cheese cloth mantle, sash and scarf tin oil can and a stuffed stegomyia, and will forward 1t to Oyster Bay with the compliments of the local lodge.
 pr. Corput, who was in the city today, announced that the hospital has been established near Donaldsonvile.
 Improved conditions are reported in that section of the state
 Low Record for Monday.
 The number of new cases is especially low for Monday and Is taken as an ind- cation that the record for the next week or so will be particularly low. glance at the map in the marine hospital head quarters where each new case is marked every day, shows that the disease is being rapidly eradicated from the upper dis triets, and this being so, Dr. White is arranging to open up the districts in that sections of the city.
 The Sixteenth and Seventeenth wards were infected in the beginning but today the Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards were consolidated. Next week the Elev- enth and Twelfth wards will probably be consolidated. This plan enables him to reduce the expenses of operation ma terially, and as there is comparatively little fever in those districts, there is no danger in carrying it out
 There are several well known names In the list of new cases. but of the six deaths. none of them is of prominence.
 Country Cases.
 The country situation is still a source os concern, because of the appearance of the infection in new localities, far re- moved from the original centers of infec- tion. The diagonsis of yellow fever in Merrougse, Moorehouse parish, near the Arkansas border. has been confirmed. and Dr. A. J. Thomas has been placed in charge by the state board. The situa- ton near Bayou Natchez. In Natchitochez parish, Is bad, and the charge that there are mora caeea there than have been