The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01
|NeW0rIeanS Reports Cause
 Confidence.
,R. WHITE Is ENCOURAGED
President ROoSevelt's Mes-
 sage of Sympathy.
Bushes. Circles in the Crescent city Are Buoy.at, and show Nc Enect of the Yellow Jacks bread
 Presence.

New Orledu9, Auks o4-~-~tStA%A84 t1- port to ?. m. Thursday:
 New cases. 41; total cases to date. 1919. Deaths, 6; total deaths to date. 277. New foci. 6.
 The report shows an encouraging tendency towards reduction in the figures, the number of foci being lower than any day for three weeks. Another doctor was stricken today, pr. Homer '. Dupuy, who resides on North Rampant Street Of the deaths, all but one are Italians. One death occurred in tho emergency hospital Ali were down town.
 The new emergency hospital on Ram part Street will be opened Monday II was given an official inspection today by pr. White and members of the Orr ieana Parish Medical Society. Most QG the eases in the hospital on Dumaine Street will be removed to the new in- stitution. Only the extreme cases VIII be left there.
 Passed Assistant Surgeon c. H. La- vinder has been ordered to Natchez to take charge there. and will IeAvs tn the morning. He has had command of the first ward, and will be succeedad py Passed Assistant Surgeon Gardiner.
 Surgeon von Ezdorf returned today from his trip to Leevflle. and auomiften a report which shows that while con- ditaons there have been improved un@ der the direction of the State Board pr Physicians. which is doing eveFythln@ possible for the stricken community there is nothing further 10 ba don@ but supply their needs and allow the dts ease to ruE its course through tha whole settlement. He says that ss per cent of the people there have already had the yellow fever, 2TS, Of which lVS are now under treatment. hn als0 found two cases at La Rose, thsrty-ny miles north of Leeville-
 The most interesting news From tn@ country was brought by Dr. Brady wh1' made a thorough inspection of the pRan@ | tatiOns between Houma and SchfieseFs | in Terre Bonne Parish. finding npWarda | of sixty cases scattered among tns
 Other eountrx reports wers; KennezI l nine cassE: Hans6n City. fwo saskst l oonaidsonvlIle. four cases Smoke hena | just north, two cases; Elizabeth piantA~ I ton, one case; Patterson, nve caAess Barrataria, one case; Lake Providence, two cases: st. Rose. four cases; Pecan Grove. four cases; Aiexandria, one case.
 Bunlxie. and an inspector will be sene there to investigate. Waveiand pianta- tion, near Patterson. four eases; Guit- mort reports three new cases. ana ohs death, Mrs. Lowery. No new caees were reported from Mississippi City, Natchez or vicksburg.
 The Presiaent'a Message.
 Evtdencing his deep sympathy with New Orleans, President Roosevelt to~ day sent a notable acknowledgements 10 Mayor Martin Behrman of q teissra1n applauding the Presidents services e huYnanity in restoring peace between inc warning nations in the Far East.
 Mayor Behrman wired the PresidenA on August 29:
 New Orleans hastens to give express sion to her profound admiration of your wonderful accomplishment. N mnss prove a source of lasting pride to all true hearted Americans to feel and td know that the whole civilized world ia having homage to the chieftain of ouk great country, from whose master mina ernanated an achievement in the cause of humanity which will rival any of the master strokes which ever have beens or ever will be, recorded In history.
 Tha president's reply follows;
 oyster Bay. N. r.. Aug. Sl, 1905.
 Hon. Martin Behrman. Mayor New
 Orleans. La:
 "NEo teIerram has touched me as deep ly as the telegram from you. showing that in the midst of her great trial New Orleans is 90 keenly alive 70 an knas afgects the interests of the world and fine honor of our own country. You have given at expression to the feelings of your brave and gallant people. for oulv those with lofty souls can. in the midst of their own grief, find time to think of others. I trust need not say how deep and constant my anxiety is for the welfare of your city and State.
 (sirned1 Theodore Roosevelt
 The new business year in New Orr leans. opening tomorrow. finds the yel- low fever situation SO well under con trol that business men and nnanctsra are looking forward to exceptional ac- tivity in all lines of industry when the fever Is finally stamped out and free intercourse resumed.
 The Bank CIeaFanGs.
 The annual statements printed here today show bank clearings for the year smonutInR to $953, 6.943.09. only Ss.- s01 .s54e7 under the total for the year ending August 31, 1904. The gain in 1904 over 1903, however, was $zo70oO,- 0OO an increase never previously ap- preached in the history of the city, 90 that in spite of the fever, the past years clearlngs have almost equaiiea the stupendous total of the year before. The banks show a million and q half increase in surplus. of &11.000,eO0 in loans, of $14.000.0O0 in deposits. and Of Sl5. .0O0. 900 in total resources.
 Almost complete recovery has been made by the stocks which stumped away upon the first rumors of yellow fever In July and real estate values have been absolutely unaffected. Pres- ident Chassaniol said the business Of the stock Exchange had been the larg- est in its history. The only exchange reporting a setback Is the Mechanics, Dealers and Lumbermen's, the Fever creating a scarcity of labor, in that who usually come from other parts were frightened away, and tho value of materials was enhanced oy the against steamocats. Nev srtheless. the permits for construction issued by the city engineers ofiice show an increase of S1.112St7 over the pre- ceding year
 All the favorable indications for a reEtoration of the full tide of busineas artivIty within a month are based on perfect confidence in Dr. Whites opin- ion that the fever is being controlled and that If there is adequate co-opora- .N.n nTaa |. FI..ma