The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
FROST ENCOURAGING ID NEW ORLEANS Pensacola Situation is Still
 Very Serious MORE MONEY IS AVAILABLE E Raising of Quarantnes Now Seems to Be a Question of But Few
 More Days-Frost Is
 General.
OFFICIAL RECORD TO 6 p. M.
At Pensacola.


 New Orleans. October 12.-With only fifteen new cases and two deaths, and
 steady reducing in the amount Of work
 necessary to bring about final eradica-
 tion of the fever in this city, local inter- est has passed from the fever question to the quarantine question, and hopes are high that it will not be long before the restrictions on travel which have ex- isted for three months, will be removed. Dr. White is in Mobile tonight, holding conference with the local authorities there, and Saturday he will meet the
 Mississippi authorities with the view of | discussing quarantines.
 A light frost appeared at nearly all Of
 the Mississippi coast towns, and far below Central Louisiana, but it did not quite reach New Orleans.
 A telegram from Tallulah tonight says that frost appeared there. Of the new cases, three are above Canal street. One of the deaths was close to the St. Bernard parish line, and the other was just below Canal street. Dr. l.. S. Seabary, the physician charged with failing to report a. case yellow fever was convicted before Recorder Mar mouget this afternoon after a hotly con tested trial and fined the limit, S2o. lie took an appeal. Another charge against
 him will be tried Wednesday.
 The five people from Rosetta, Miss,
 who spent six days in detention in the Emergency hospital, were discharged to. day without any illness having appeared among them. The two others from the same town who joined them the day fol-
 lowing, will be discharged tomorrow. Another new point of infection was re-
 ported fin the state today, one new case having been discovered in Franklin, St.
 Mary parish the home town of Senator Foster. The country reports were as foi- lows:
 Country Cases. Franklin l new case. | New Iberia, Il new cases. Near Plattenville, 1 new case. Patterson, new cases, l death. Tallulah, 3 new cases.
 Lake Providence, cases. death. The reports from Mississippi were as follows:
 Vicksburg, ? new cases. Natchez. , new cases.
 Mississippi City, new cases. Port Gibson, 4 new cases. Rosetta. 1 suspicious case. Frost is reported from Rosetta and Natchez
 Attention Turned to Frost News. Public attention today was riveted upon | the news which the wires brought from | the various parts of Louisiana and Mis- sissippi as to the appearance of frost because it meant an end to interrupted communication which is now the principal 1 element of annoyance in the yellow fever I situation.
 The news was of exceptionally favor | able character for while the frost line did not extend to New Orleans, which | it would have had to break all previous | records to do, it touched points as near
 as B miles north of New Orleans, Coving- | ton reporting a light fall. To the west
 along the line of the Southern Pacific 1t ran slightly north of New Orleans, Crow 1 ley. La, reporting temperature of 39
 and light deposit. On the Mississippi
 gulf coast, to the north and east of New Orleans there was a fall at Mis- | sissippi City, which has been infected | with fever and which is within a stones
 throw almost of Gulfport. North of the thirty mile line frost seems to have been | general in Louisiana and Mississippi, | light at some points and heavy at others. Alexandria reported the white mantle | thick enough to write letters in. there was heavy deposit at Zachery, i6 miles above Baton Rouge, and a good frost at
 Monroe and throughout the tier of parishes In north Louisiana. Aside from | the frost the temperature declined al-
 most to the freezing point in some sec | tions of Louisiana, with the effect un-
 doubtedy of killing or driving int, hiber- nation all mosquitoes that might have I existed in exposed places.
 Assumed to Be ProvidentlaI. The announcement of frost over SD large | a portion of the two states imma 1iately 1 infected with the fever and the fact that l 1t was heavy in Alabama. Tennessee, | Kentucky and Arkansas was interpreted as assuring an carly relaxation of quar- | antines throughout the south against points at which infection still exists. The
 visitation was generally assumed to be providential. The government records show that the average frost line does | not appear In the sections visited today 1 earlier than November 1. November I5 and December l. and coming so far in | advance of the average date with the 1 fever waning so rapidly there Is a dis position to believe that practically all | the uuara ntines will very shortly cease | to exist From various parts of the state | came assurances today that restrictions would be immediately modified or abau- doned The news that Kentucky. Illinois and Tennessee cities were removing ths,r ouarantines was chiefly interesting be- | cause it will put an end to the annoyance | to which travellers are subjected in hay i ing to submit health certificates, but | there was deep interest in the announce ment from Jackson. Miss. that the Mis- | sissipni ouarantnes were sure to be soon | relaxed
 Dr.. White in Mississippi. | Dr. White was not at his office today, - -