Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-09-25
SCHOOLS TO OPEN
FIRST or OCTOBER
Striking Change in the Eel
low Fever Situation.
NsN onLEANs EpIroR IALKs


W onLEAMs EDITOR TALKS
tplsrss lbas ths Reports Sent Out
lpsm Ne City Hsvs Been Greatly
elssss- -auarantIns Regulations
elllnu Better.
Nef Orleans. Sept. 20 The wealth
tobtihusd to be fair here today.
Thore was no striking change in the
Notbs situation. Reports Of new cases
efe principally from old focl. The
FEDERAL authorities continue to be OPP
Hlnistie, and believe that tAe fever will
~ practically whipped out before Pres
'fnt Roosevelt arrives In the city
Three negro universities are operat-
~ here--4he Leland, the Straight md
|It Now Orleans. Many Of the mem
eFa of the faculties are from the east
md are now absent. Wee President
MAkIa, Of the Leland, received a let.
tF today from President Perkins. who
Is 81 Boston. saying that Il had been
decided to postpone the opening OF
4 three o. the universities until No.
8anlNsK fss.
Numleatnrp win be unusually busy
s Wesk. Oct. IL moving day,
has many changes. OF residence viii
te1llf auflng tie week, and the au-
hoflsiea are sryingto secure the dIsIn.
tqglicp Of - niany houses as possible.
eohoels 70 Open October 2.
HrlIevisg after : conferences with
~ white that the fever situation 10
nniet control, President Wilson will
tpommend TO the school board to-
l1hl that the public schools be open
Il. ga Oct q
zach school IL 10 be thoroughly dis.
hIacled a. the end OF each week. The
clpol In Tie heart Of the originally
Injected area win remain closed for
month perhAps.N>
The state health board officials. sur.
s5ing the situation. believe that the
sseF d being overcome In the state
hnd thai while there will probably be
aaaea Cor come time to come. there IL
ao danger Of further serious exten'
sion of the plague
Fuf several days no new cases were
1eporied n Lseville, where there are
only ts persons under treatment. some
scl The eases not being yellow fever,
The camps on Bayou BaratarIG are
reported 20 b entirely free Of fever.
Dor many weeks one Of the worst dis
.lflcss in the stAte lay along the Mis-
alsalppi valley road. for q distance OF
about 10 mllea from the city. Due to
tbs liberal use OF money and the siren
uoua exertlon OF the planters. tae
slckn~ss IN this sectioR. .hase en re-
.duced to q handful OF q -
With one exception. during the past
three days all the new eases at Tallu-
Tab are Of nsgFoes. and the situation
there is very greatly improved In the
'Naohtochea parish. where the disease
YEAS not for 1 Ions time recognized.
and n In now announced that there
have been a total o. ten ease sand
1nnf deaths
h IN ne town of Natchitoches. health
4pHioer. Mr.. HargrOVe. has been strick.
60 With serious fever TIE has been
active among the oases ~ bayou
Matches.
All the cases al DouN'dsonville have
been discharged as cured aud a. Port
barrow. near there, no new caSes are
exported, Several are under treat.
ment IN the Emergency hospital.
ouarantlns sltustion Better
TIE quarantine situation Is iuprov.
sos. Local shippers have been no,,.
BED that dry goods aud osAer frc.ga,
vim hs received ., all points In Louis
ana on the Kansas City Soutasrn VIA
Lake Carries. and the Louisiana Raj
nay and Navigation company anoanc
- that guarantees have been raised
nGaina dry gOoas along IT, route in
Aroyells Rapides. Vim ane NatebI
toehes parishes. Sta the ArkansAs
sPathoyp Nill tskS Irslght from all
lnss n lfnlsiana TaeFc "a Also az
80, traaia mnasI
~ 49, -
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