The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-31
HARD TIMES COME
Distress Is Beginning to Appear
in New Orleans.
Quarantine Has Thrown Many
Out of Employment.
FRUIT TRADE STOPS.
CargOes Are Being Diverted to
Mobile by All Lines.
Suffering Is Mostly Confined to
the Italians.
FRUIT TRADE STOPS.

New Orleans, July 31.-Much dis |
tress is beginning to appear among |
the Italian population, growing out of
the practical expulsion of the fruit
business from Louisiana, on account
of quarantines and relief work is one
of the tasks which the Italian societies
and citizens committees will now
have to address themselves to. While
the six day detention order of the
board of health lasts, it is expected
that all the lines which have been
operating steamers will divert their
ships to Mobile, and this will have the
effect of throwing couple of thou
sand laborers, many of them Italians,
out of employment.
The average Italian here has half a
dozen in his family and some times
the children number ten or more. and
with the many to feed, the head of
the family cannot long remain in idle
ness without having to appeal to pub
lie charity. Under the circumstances
these Italians who are not in the Iever
district, are asking that they be given
employment by the health authorities
in the sanitary and other work now
going on in order that they may not
become public charges.
A meeting of Italians has been
held and permanent organization
formed. A campaign of relief and of
education into the hygienic require
ments has been decided on. It was
also resolved to follow the advice tele-
graphed by Ambassador Mayer des
Planches and to address all Italians in
| the city verbally and by circular ask
| ing them to pay ready obedience to
| the regulations imposed by the health
authorities. Several thousand dollars
has been raised for relief and other
work. All the societies have de-
| cided to abandon the banquets and
other entertainments they had planned
and apply the funds set aside for these
purposes in helping their countrymen
/ in the present emergency.
The health authorities are very
| much. encouraged by the excellent
work thatris being done at the emerg-
ency hospital, and they believe that
/ when the results of treatment given
readily consent to have their patients
sent there.
While the feeling here is constantly
growing more hopeful there is no
panicky feeling in the country dis
| tricts of Louisiana and Mississippi.
| Local business houses are beginning to
feel the effects of the scare. They
| are receiving letters from the travelling
men telling of the cancellation of or
| ders in Mississippi and elsewhere be-
| cause of the reluctance of the coun-
try people to patronize stores which
receive goods from infected districts.
In this connection there is some criti-
/ ciSn of Governor Vardanan because
of a telegram in which he commended
Mississippi merchants in refusing to
take freight from this city. Steps
have been taken to disinfect all
freight cars destined for points where
the fever theory is not accepted.
Quarantines everywhere are being
drawn tighter. Even gasoline is ap-
parently barred from Vicksburg.
off from the world. The shotgun
quarantines are extending. Guards
and inspectors are multiplying and
making travel increasingly difficult.
A Number of New Cases.
Little change was apparent in the
yellow fever situation here today. A
number of new cases were unoff1cially
reported to the board of health. The
campaign in the interest of cistern
screening continues and hundreds OF
gallons of oil are being placed in gut
ters and water receptacles. A large
majority of new cases and deaths con-
tinue to occur in the old affected area
below Canal street. The health au-
thorities, while freely admitting the
situation to be serious. believe that the
disease can be controlled, the opppor-
tunities for new infection growing
fewer as the area of screened cisterns
increases.
Must Rush Trans Through.
Mobile, Ala, July 31.-The city OF
Laurel, Miss, has notified the officials
of the Mobile, Jacksonville and Kansas
City railroad that it must send it's trains
through that place at the rate of 81
miles an hour owing to fever contagion
Hattiesburg, Miss, has sent word thai
no tickets must be sold to Hattiesburs
at any point.
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