The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-31
THOUSANDS IDLE
IN new ORLEANS
Deprived Of Means to Livelihood,
Italians Of Fruit Industry
Are Menaced.
Panic in the Country Around the
Fever Stricken City Is In
creasing.

New Orleans, July 31.-Destitution,
and it's accompanying proneness to yell
low-fever attack, are the new dangers
leans.
Deprived Of their means of liveli-
hood, thousands of Italians who are en-
ployed in the New Orleans fruit in
dustry are casting about for a way out
Of their difficulties and chance to
avert the shortening Of their food sup
ply, which would render them more sus-
ceptible to the germs Of the dreaded
scourge.
today. A number Of new cases were
unoffcially reported to the board Of
| health.
The campaign in the interest Of els
! tern screening continues and hundreds
Of gallons Of oil are being placed in
| cutters and water receptacles. The
| large majority Of new cases and deaths
below Canal street, only four Of yester-
days twenty seven new cases being
above Canal street.
The health authorities, while freely
admitting the situation to be serious
| believe that the disease can be con.
trolled, the opportunities for new in.
lection growing fewer as the area OF
! screened c1sterns increases.
Distress Among Italians.
While the six-day detention order of
the board of health lasts, it is expected
that all the lines which have been oper-
t, ating fruit steamers into New Orleans
will divert their ships to Mobile. and
this will have the effect Of throwing
1000 laborers, many of them Italians
out Of employment. The average ltal
ian here has half dozen in his family
and sometimes the children number ten
:. or more With so many mouths to feed
1 the head Of the family cannot long re
main in idleness without an appeal to
public charity. These Italians, who are
not in the fever district, are asking
that they be given employment by the
, health authorities in the sanitary and
other workSnow going on.
A meeting Of representative Italians
has been held and permanent organi
cation formed. A campaign Of relief
and Of education in the hygienic re,
!, quirements Of the situation has been de
cided on. : -
The health authorities are very mucl
encouraged by the excellent work tha'
is being done at the Emergency hospita
and they believe that when the result
families will readily consent to hav.
their patients sent there.
Panic in Interior.
While the feeling here is constantl
growing more hopeful, there is appal
! emily no abatement of the excitemen
and panicky feeling in the country dis
tricts Of Louisiana and Mississippi. LIZ
. cal business houses are beginning t
: feel the effects Of the scare. They al
= receiving letters from the travelin
. men telling Of the cancellation Of O.
> ders in Mississippi and elsewhere b
:. cause Of the reluctance of the countr
people to 7patroni1e stores which r
J ceive goods from infected districts.
In this connection there is some cri
= icism Of Governor Vardaman becaus
! Of telegram sent by him in which
merchants in refusing to take freigl
; from this city. 10 meet these cond
3: tions, business houses are sending OF
8 thousands Of pamphlets giving the r.
s suits Of the scientific experiments
S Cuba and in Vera Cruz and expression
!. by medical men of their firm faith
!. the theory that alone by the stegomyi
. is yellow fever transmitted. Steps ais
. have been taken to disinfect all freigl
3 cars destined for points where the f
. yer theory is not accepted
I. guarantees everywhere are bein
+. drawn tighter. Even gasolene is appa
F. emily barred from Vicksburg. A nun
|. Der Of the towns in Louisiana and Mi
d. sissippi are cutting themselves off fro
]. the world and the shotgun quarantin,
!. are being extended. Guards and il
& spectorS are multiplying and maxim
travel increasingly difficult.