The Washington times., 1905-08-19
NOTED FATHER DEAD
SHE TRIES SUICIDE
Beautiful French Girl At
tempts to Drown Herself.
SHE NURSED PATIENT ALONE
Dr.. Leach's Arsenic Cure Fails to
Interest New Orleans
Doctors.
SHE NURSED PATIENT ALONE

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. l9.-Of all
the stories told OF tie fever scourge
now sweeping the city none is' so pa
thetic as that Of Mile. Aldal 2 beauti-
ful French girl, eighteen years old, who
was caught and restrained when about
TO throw herself into the river
The girl was found hasf-uncbnscious
over the body of her father, Prof.
Pierre Aldal, who for i've years was the
musical director in the French Opera
House, and who died a victim of the
plague
tor five days Mile. Aidal herself had
nursed her father When he died sue
had not strength to so 10 a neighbor for
assistance.
Kept Sickness Secret.
No one knew that the professor had
been stricken. The daughter held him
close in their apartment lest the health
department might tear them apart lie
was her only hope in the world, and
when he was gone she gathered
strength only that she might try 10 knI
herself.
Net the least important Of the deyeiop-
ments in the yellow fever situation is the
refusal so far of the Orleans Parish
Medical Society to appoint a committee
Of physicians to supervise and report on
the test on the value of the arsenious
acid to prevent fever. as proposed By
Dr. Re ginaId B. Leach, Of st. Paul. The
society says that Leach only has a the
ory, and they 90 not wish to have any
thing 20 do with il. A meeting Of citi-
zens was held, when the society was
asked to appoint committee.
Outsiders Might Come.
-. l--.,,
tee Of physicians from some outside
medical society might come here and
make the test in the interest OF hui
nantty. Sidney Story Is chairman Of the
citizens committee petitioning the local
doctors. Leach does not claim To have
anything but a theory.
The campaign OF education has as
sunled so definite q form that lecturers
have been appointed and places Of meet
Ings arranged. The women have worked
up this campaign, and Mrs ". J.
Behan is the chairman of the federated
Women's organizations having the mat
ter in hand. Tickets Of admission must
be had, but they viii be given TO any
one who applies.
Italians Chased Out.
Forty-five Italians arrived in the city
last night. having been chased out of
Daker and Zacharie, La, proving that
Italians viii have a hard time trying
&c migrate from New Orleans TO the
country towns in search of work as cot
ton pickers or on the sugar plantations.
as is usual for them to do at this sea-
son of the year. There is bound 10 be
some suffering among these people, as
they cannot get work in the city. be-
cause the banana trade has been en-
tireIy annihilated for the present
New Cases Reported.
There were about 20 more new cases
reported in the country parishes yester-
Gay. and in the city 62 cases and 9
deaths were reported. DR.. Thomas Stark
reports from Thododaux that the con-
dition at Leeville. Lafourche parish, is
not bad, as most of the cases are dengue
fever. The population of LeevilIe is
about 1000. 1t is an oyster fishery on
the gulf coast Mosquitoes there are
about as numerous as they well could
be anywhere.
Preparations are being made for the
general sulphur fumigasion beginning at
t. o clock tomorrow morning. One trou-
be in the movement IS The announce
ment by prominent piano niauufac-
turer that sulphur viii ruin pianos.
Altogether there have been 1,2S2 cases
of fever and 1S3 deaths from the disease
il, tha city