The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
VEIL OF DEATH DRAWN OVER
SCOURGED CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.

SlUDkUED lilI VI NV OolCRNo'
The yellow fever situation in New
Orleans grows worse. The number OF
new cases is not large, they are scatter
ed over a much larger section of the
city, and the danger is correspOndingly
increased Never before in the history
of New Orleans have its citizens been
SO thoroughly aroused. Prominent
business men can be seen cleaning out
their own cutters. The people are
screening their cisterns from one end
of the city 10 another. The entire
fight is being carried on by the people
of New Orleans.
New Orleans is shut off, so far as all
practical purposes are concerned, TO
the outside world Friday night the
State Board Of Health quarantined the
entire State of Louisiana against the
City of New Orleans. Governor Varda-
sissippi to act as guards along the
State lire to keep out people from the
infected districts of Louisiana Prac-
tically everything but the through mail
trains have been taken off by the rail
roads. Many towns will not allow the
transmission of money by express.
In the face of the strictest regula-
tons many are still fleeing from their
homes in the poor districts. only to be
driven back by bayonets and shot
guns when they reach State lines. The
postoffice department, acting on the
, mosquito theory, will not fumigate the
mails sent from the city. The fruit in
dustry is rapidly nearing paralysis. rs
Chicago. st. Louis, and other points
are cutting down orders. They fear
that the scOurSe may be carried North
on the fruit trains. River commerce
is at standstill and ocean shipping is
greatly checked by quarantine regula-
tons against the port of New Orleans.
Banana ships from Honduras are not
venturing to make port.
\ sensation was sprung in quaran-
Governor Vardaman of Mississippi,
| whose severe criticisms of the New
| Orleans health authorities threaten to
| involve him in q personal controversy
with the Governor of Louisiana. Gov
ernor Vardaman ordered Colonel Wy
att, inspector general of the MISSISSIPPI
ri National Guard. to mobilize the
State troops on the Louisiana lines rs
quarantine guards. The State of Mis-
| sissippi has refused to allerv passen-
| New Orleans.
| The people in the yellow fever zone
are to be congratulated upon the forti-
| tude and hopefulness with which they
| even inveterate optimism, however,
can ignore the fact that the SITUATE
at New Orleans is by no means en-
couraging. Facts have to be faced
The most serious feature of the situa-
ton is the admitted spread of the dis
ease beyond the circumscribed locality
to which it was at first confined. Sc
| long as no cases developed outside OF
| the Italian quarter there was reason
| to accept the assurances of the medi-
cal and sanitary experts that the fever
would be isolated and stamped out
| The development of new foci of infec
ton tremendously increases the diff
cultieS of the problem. 1t also weak.
ems the public morale, which is as pow
erful factor as the merely medical
phase of the matter.
Nor is the uneasiness confined tC
the city of New Orleans. The ex
pressed suspicion that the infection
has been carried up the river and per
haps over to Mississippi sound is cal
culated TO excite apprehension in the
minds of people all over the yellow
fever zone, and these apprehensions
are finding expression in the estab
lishment of guarantees.
Yet if experience at Havana count:
for anything yellow fever can be me-
and conquered. For three centurie.
the Cuban capital was breeding place
for the infection. Our Gulf State.
were constantly quarantining agains
that port. The fever was epidemic
there. United States army sanitary
experts went to work and so altered
the aspect of affairs that instead o.
American ports quarantining agains
Havana that city is now quarantinin:
against American ports. What wa,
done in Havana ought to be feasible
in New Orleans.
There is, at any rate, complete co
operation between the city, State ant
Federal health agencies which ar
fighting the fever at New Orleans. Tn
best scientific ability of this or an,
other country is engaged in the figh.