Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-29
YELLOW FEVER CAUSES
 PANIC IN SMALL TOWN
The Commercial Quarantines That Existed In 1897 May Be Again Resorted to - If so New Orlean. Will Be Cat Off From Intercourse With All ,he Country Towns and Villages

New Orleans, July 29.-The most dlsquieting news in the yellow fever situation to-day is the evidence that Panic is increasing in the smaller
 towns of Louisiana and Mississippi and
 that disposition is growing to revive
 the disastrous commercial quarantineS of 1897, when some of the country
 towns even refused to receive ice or hardware from New Orleans. Colum- bia La bars all kinds of merchandise except hardware
 The history of the case of yellow fever at Lumberton, Miss. in the first ln that state has not yet been traced but 1t is not considered improbable mat the victim is one of the many Italians who fled from the French Market district here. A surgeon of the Marine hospital service Is in charge or the Lumberton case. which has been screened and isolated. It is not be lieved there will be any spread there ana the ship Island trains will con- tlnue to run to gulf ports.
 The cleaning campaign continues to De carried on with great energy and every cart to hire dn the city has been requisfdoned by the Public works de- partment ard the citizens committee.
 The Era club, one of the chief wo- mans organizations of the city has volunteered it's services to Dr Beverly warner proposing to hold parlor meet ings daily in order that the women of the city may be instructed in the cru sade against the Mosquito and the them.
 The depopulation of the Mississippi gulf towns of Summer visitors from New Orleans continues owing to Gov ernor Vardaman's determination that these towns shall have no communica- ton with New Orleans.
 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 Ten nessee and other along the Mississippi valley road in Mississippi refuse to allow express matter of any kind to be put of; Port Gibson will not take bread or anything wrapped in burlap that may be shipped from this city. Some of the Texas towns are asking that the mails be fumigated. If the movement to quarantine freight spreads New Orleans will suffer more seriously than from the fever itself. Up to the present there has been no local apprehension of dangerous epidemic and it was believed that if the boards of health in other states lived up rigidly to their agreement not to place any restrictions upon the transportation of freight there would be only slight reduction of business and the chief inconvenience would be the inability of the country people to come here. and of New Orleans to 20 into the southern towns and cities. Anticipating the quarantines. most of the business houses notified their agents not to come to town but to re- main fin their territory so that they might travel freely and send in their orders as usual during the prevalence of the sickness. but if there is an em- bargo put on freight now, New Or leans travelling salesmen will find their usefulness at an end and New Orleans natural business will be di- verted to other points.