Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-11
YELLOW FEVER ISSPREADING
officials Discouraged by Number of New
Gases and New Fooi.
FUNERAL OF ARCHBISHOP WILL Be PRIVATE
Authorities Fear that Assembly of
Great Crowd Might Tend
to spread the Epi-
demic.

TO spread the Epi-
demic.
NEW ORLEANS. Aug 1O.-omcial record |
up to D. m:
New cases ........................... IS !
Total cases to date .........................1il |
Total deaths to date .......................l2 |
New sub-foci Il |
Total sub-fOCi Isl
Cases under treatment ......................%S |
The situation does not look so good in the |
face of such steady augmentation in the |
number Of new cases and number of new |
sub-foci They seem to be popping up all |
over and the discouraging feature of to-
days report is that only nineteen of the |
sixty eight names are those of Italians.
quite number of new cases appear to be
secondary infection, sub-foci.
An exceedingly ugly center of infection
was unearthed in St Charles parish today
by Dr. Corpul of the marine hospital serv-
ice. Two days ago he unearthed six cases
on the Diamond plantation, and today he
found two more cases on that place and
seven cases on the Reserve plantation,
eleven miles further north. and one case
on the Sarpy plantation. It is believed that
more than thirty plantation employees have
tleft this group in the last week, but there
is no trace of them. nor will there be an
less infection should develop among them
at their places Of refuge. Two of the cases
in Reserve plantation died while DR.. Corpul
was there. This plantation belongs to the
Godchaux estate and Dir. Godchaux has
taken charge of the situation and will carry
out the instructions of the marine hospital
service.
Thirty Cases in Patterson.
Five new cases have developed in Patter-
son, in St. Marys parish, making thirty
cases in all there. While the infection was
taken there by Italians from the infected
district in New Orleans the disease has
spread among the residents and several
women and children are afflicted. Eight Of
! the patients are convalescent. In view of
| the opposition of some boarding houses to
entertaining any professional nurses,
home will be provided for them by DR..
| Warmers committee.
! DR.. White said today that while the work
Of thorough organization of his force is
! rapidly crystaizng, he will not be able to
| make an announcement of the details of
! his campaign until Sunday, one of the de-
! tails of his plan will, it is understood, be
an inspection not only of every house but
| Of every room in the city. In connection
| with his work DR.. White took occasion
| today to say he had had less interference
| from politicians in New Orleans than he
has ever met with before. He had talked
| over the situation with Mayor Behrman
! and the mayor had assured him that he
| could count absolutely on having per-
fectiy free hand while he was here.
strike Among Sanitary Workers.
! One of the curious incidents of the day
was an iucipient strike of employees of the
| Citizens Sanitary department. 1t occurred
| in the Thirteenth ward. Heretofore there
/ have been as many men applying for jobs
as could be taken care Of They were glad
! to work for $1.50 day. The Thirteenth
ward force, however. believed 1t saw an
| opportunity to obtain a raise" They
struck for 81. The citizens committee re-
fused to pay more and a new force was
engaged The city council at it's meeting
today authorized Mayor Behrman to borrow
$4,000 from the fiscal agents to assist in
meeting the present emergency. Ten thou
sand dollars is to be used i'm carrying on
! the street cleaning work in which the city
| is engaged and the other $4,000 is to go TO
the fund asked by the government. Though
| not quite $4,000 has been raised, all the
money is available that can be used by Dr.
White and his force for six weeks.
Funeral of Archbishop ChappeIIe.
In order that no unnecessary risks might
| be taken it was announced today, both by
Surgeon General White and Father Scotti
in charge of the arrangements, that the
funeral of the late Archbishop Chapelle
on Saturday at O'Clock in the morning
| will be private. DIR. White said IL was
fact accepted by the scientists that yell
low fever could not be transmitted by a
corpse, but 1t is considered that there
would be some element of danger i'm at
tracing to the cathedral an immense as
semblance of people from all sections of
the city The cathedral is located within
the originally infected district, within a
stones throw of the French market, and
there has been fever on all sides of II.
Today a solemn requiem mass was said
in honor of the dead archbishop. The ser
vices lasted for two hours with a large at
tendance, principally of people residing on
the lower side of Canal street. Thirty
priests participated and the church was
profusely decorated in white, black and
purp-e. The body rested on a bier in the
main aisle, and It was found that It was
sufficiently preserved to permit the re-
moval Of the metallic covering. Many
viewed the remains through the glass
After the service ended and the congre-
cation was dismissed, further visits TO the
church were discouraged. During the day
p Cardinal Gibbons telegra phed his condo
lence. Many messages from all over the
United States and from other parts of the
world were received.
Changes I'm Arrangements.
The arrangements for the funeral OF
Archbishop Chapelle We're changed again
tonight in view of the desire OF the ma.
rine hospital service to avert the gather
ing Of large crowd in the infected dis
trict, in the very center of which the
cathedral stands. The high mass will be
sung tomorrow morning, as was done to.
day and the remains viii be Immediately
: thereafter inferred in the crypt Of the
cathedral II will not be generally known
the hour has been changed so there will
be but few present at the fnal obsequies
Bishop Fitzgerald. the senior bishop OF
the diocese, who succeeds temporarily 10 the
administration OF the affairs OF the dio.
cese, cannot come here owing TO the
! quarantine. so he has appointed BishoT
! Rouxel administrator.
In endeavoring 10 trace the infection OF
the archbishop Il was learned today that
his gardener had been in about two week,
ago with fever, and II is now assumed
that II was the prevailing Illness AS the
man lived on the premises 1t is easy tc
account for the infection.
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