Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-07-31
EMBARGO ON,
THE FREIGHT
This Drastic Action Causes Business
Men UneasineSs.
MANY PLACES DO 1T.
Number of Towns Will Not Permit
Merchandise of Any Kind From
Crescent City to Enter
Their Limits.

New Orleans, July 31.-The most dis
quietinig news in the yellow fever sit
uation Saturday was evidence of the
panic increasing in smaller towns OF
Louisiana and Mississippi and that a
disposition was growing to revive dis
when some country towns even re-
fused to receive ice or hardware from
New Orleans. Columbia, La, bars all
kinds of merchandise except hardware.
Utica, Miss. will not receive freight of
any kind. Osyka, Miss. will take no
fruit or vegetables. Jackson, La.
wants no household articles from New
Orleans. Several towns in Tennessee
and along the Mississippi Valley road
In Mississippi refuse to allow express
matter of any hind to be put off. Fort
Gibson, Miss, will not take bread no.
be shipped from this city. Some Texas
towns are asking that the malls be
fumigated. If movement of the quar-
-antine of freight spreads. New Orleans
will suffer more seriously than from
the fever itself. Up to Saturday there
had been no local apprehension of a
dangerous epidemic, and II Is believed
that if the boards of health In other
states lived up rigidly to the agree
ment not to place any restrictions upon
transportation of freight there would
be only slight reduction in business
and the chief Inconvenience would be
In the inability of country people to
come here and of New Orleans people
TO go into southern towns and cities.
Anticipating guarantees, most of the
business houses, with the discovery of
the fever, wired their drummers not to
come to town. but remain I'm their ter
ritory, SO they might travel freely and
send in orders as usual during the
prevalence of sickness; but IL an en-
barge is put on freight now New Or
leans drummers will find their useful
ness at an end and New Orleans nat
ural business win be diverted to other
points.
The history of the case of yellow fe-
yer reported at Lumberton. Miss. the
first in that state. had not been traced,
up TO Saturday night. but It was not
considered improbable the victim Is
one of the many. Italians who fed from
~ = H.esss ~ ficts here Very
probably cases win develop at other
points, though the danger is constant
ly lessening. because so tight is the
Gordon drawn around New Orleans
now. at least SO far as emergency of
Italians is concerned, that II is doubt
full if any more will be able to leave the
city. Lumberton is on the Ship Island
road and il would not have been diff
cult for Italian from here to have gone
that point DIR. Wasdin of the marine
hospital service is I'm charge of the
Lumberton case. which has been
screened and isolated and is being
scientifically treated. It is not consid-
cred probable there be any spread
there, and Ship Island trains will con-
tinue to run TO Gulfport
Cleaning campaign continues to be
carried on with great energy, and every
cart to hire I'm the city have been re-
questioned by the public works de-
partment and citizens committees
Tons of street cleanings are being
transported to the rear and hundreds
of barrels of lime are being used in an
effort TO purify the streets. cutters and
back yards The masses of the people
think disinfectants serve a double pur-
pose-that of killing germs and that of
putting fever bearing mosquitoes out
of the way.
The Era club. one of the chief wo-
mems organizations of the city. have
volunteered its services to DIR. Beverly
Warner proposing to hold parlor meet
ing daily In order that the women of
the city may be instructed I'm the cru
sade against the mosquitoes and best
methods of Kidding I'm the city of them
Much sympathy is felt here for Mem
phis, which has been compelled &c
quarantine New Orleans against her
will. on the first report of fever that
cit sent a representative here. who put
himself close touch with the situation
and saw no necessity for quarantine
and the health authorities would doubt
less have kept their promise not 10 bar
New Orleans refugees IL imposition OF
guarantees by other cities against
Memphis had not forced them to act
in self-defense.
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