The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-19
ROOSEVELT
 WILL COME Not Afraid Of Fever in
 New Orleans. EXCHANGE OF THLEGRAMs official Report from the Louisiana City. Number of Cases Is Especially Low for Monday and the Autherities
 Feel stin More En-
 ecuraged.
EXCHANGE OF TELEGRAMS

New orleans, Sept. 1s.-Ofacial re- port to 6 D. m., Monday:
 New cases, 34; total cases to date 2,so5; deaths. s; total deaths to date, 34i: new. foci. g.. cases under treat nlent. S11; cases discharged, 1858.
 The number of new eases is espe- cially low for Monday and is taken as an indication that the record for the next week or so will be particularly low glance at the map In the ma rine hospital headquarters where each new cases is marked every day shows that the disease is being rapidly erad- icated from the upper districts. and to consolidate some of the districts in that section of, the city. The sixteenth and seventeenth wards were consoli- dated in. the beginning but today the thirteenth and fourteenth wards were consolidated. Next week. the eleventh and twelfth wards will very likely be consolidated This plan enables him to reduce the expense 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 we'll known names in the list of new cases, but of the six deaths none of them is of prom thence.
 The country situation is still source
 
 of the infection fin new localities far removed from the known centers Of infection The diagnosis of yellow fever in Merre Rouge, Moorhouse par ish, near the Arkansas border, has been confirmed. and Dr. A. J. Thomas has been placed in charge by the State board. The situation near Bayoa Natchez, in Natchitotcnes parish, looks bad also, and the charges that there are more cases there than have been reported makes 1t worse. Another new point of infection is Leesviile, in Ver- non parish, near the Texas border. This has not yet ben ofiicialiy an- nounced though there Is no doubt about 1t. The patient died.
 other CauRtFy Reports.
 Other country reports weres Bayou Bouef. new eases Patterson, I new cases; Ta1iulah. 10 new eases. death; Kenuer. 8 new cases; St. Rose, 3 new cases; Terrebonne, 17 new cases, l death; Bayou NatcheE, new cases; St. Bernard parish, 3 new cases; Ever- green, AVoysiles parish, new cases; Lake Providence, g new cases, 2 deaths; Mississippi, .Vicksburg. cases. i death; Natchez, 2 cases; Hamburg, case.
 Today Mayor Behrman received a telegram from the President in re- gard to his forthcoming visit in Oc- tober, saying that he would come De- tober 2lth, as previously arranged, or would defer it to a later date. To- night the committee in charge of the matter, met and afterwards the fol- lowing telegram was sent:
 New Orleans, Sept. IS. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. President of
 the United States. Oyster Bay, N.
 have the. honor to acknowledge your telegram of this date. and at a meeting of the executive committee of citizens held this evening, at which Dr. | H. White in charge or United States Marine Hospital and Public Health de- partment here, was present, was re- duested to telegraph that we are ab- solutely convinced that there IS no risk attached to your visit on the date orrinaliy arranged, October 24th next, ana we willingly assume the respon- SfhiIitv. Knowing full well your de- sire to honor us, we cordially relterate our heartfelt invitation. As to the possibility of your entering Arkansas after leaving here, we are at present un- certain. but have wired Ihe anthoritles of that State, and will advise you shortly.
 Mayor of the City of New Orleans.
 .. President's Telegram.
 pysaident Roosevelt's telegram to Mayor Behrman announcing his inten- tto, to come here as planned on Octo- her s1. if the people of Louisiana and New orleans desired him to do so. sub feet only to the quarantine regulations of other States. is received as an addi- tionai indication of the Presidents sym nathy for the people of the State and city in their hght against the fever. There is no doubt of the widespread desire here to reciprocate the Presi- dents assistance. but Mayor Behrman wIil be unable to make reply until he has considered the whole subject of vel. Iou, fever duarantines. with the local committee in charge of the reception of the President, and with Governor blanchard. who is representing the state in the matter. pr. White. who Is fin charge of the fight here in behalf of the Rovernment, will no doubt be consulted. It Is the opinion of the authorities that the fever will practi- calJv have disappeared before the presfdent is due. but there is some doubt as to whether the adjolnin R States and the country parishes of Louisiana will be willing to lift the ouarantInes they have imposed until frost gives assurance that there Is no further danger of the transmission of the disease. Very probably fin the mat ter of the Presidential party all restrIc- tIous will be temporarily abated, but these are matters which can only be determined after Mayor Behrman and Tovernor Blanchard have addressed themselves to a careful inquiry into the whole situation.
 The expectation of the usual increase in cases and deaths on Monday over Sunday was again realized today, the deaths. though comparatively few in number, exceeding those for several days past. They were again found priucipalIy in the lower section Of the town and included no one Of promi- nenee in the community. The spell of good weather which prevailed for several days was broken today with freauent showers and. as rain Is helpfuI to mosauito breeding. the sanitary workers will have their labors con slderably added to-
 Hungry for Amusement.
 How anxious have been the paonI. sor anausenents is shown in the exnar,e an,.e of the two theatres here wbiet nave finally opened their doors. Roth have stock companies and are tharsgor nneoncerned with the quaranfInes The Grand opened on Saturday nirht ~itb every seat sold and all the stand