The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-30
New Orleans Uncertain About
 Presidents Visit
MANY FRIENDS OPPOSE II
Laborers for Cane Fields and Oyster Canneries Are Arriving In Large Numbers, All Cars Be.
 Ing Screened.
FEVER SITUATION AT 6 p. M.

Deaths. -. -. .'' ooc Total deaths to date... ........ eoo New foci .. -. =. ......s.....' Cases under treatment. ..... 243 Cases discharged. ... ....... .Eo4o
 New orleans, September 29.-With the steady improvement in the yellow fever situation there Is expected to be gradual reduction beginning next week of the forces now employed under the auspices of the government In the strug- gle to eradicate the disease.
 When he came here and took charge pr White was assured that he might have every dollar that could be legitimateiy expended in carrying on the work. Ills estimate to the surgeon general at the time was that 1t would require from $looo to 5000 a day to cover expenses put when control actually passed into his hahos u was with the assurance of the cltizenS of New Orleans that a sufficient fund would be raised to permit him to spend A considerably larger amount. The fund of S15O.OO0 undertaken to be raised by the citizens has now been practically eoln- pleted and besides there has been at the disposal of the federal authorities the S50.OOO which the city appropriated and large proportion of the $100,0OO which the governor borrowed.
 There has been absolutely no stint at any time of the financial resources or hospital service and all the money avail able is at hand to continue the fight to finish. A large reduction of the fever patients and especially the fact that the section above Canal street has escaped with comparatively little infection Will make possible the early curtailment ana of the laboring forces. Every dollar paid out has been by check and vouchers and 1t is probable that so large an amount of money in work or this kind has never heretofore been dls- bursed with so little evidence of graft. A complete list of the contributions with in the nature of a history or the infection is to be preserved in pamph- let form at the conclusion of the work of the marine hospital service.
 Per centage Really Smaller.
 Some increase over the very low record of the preceding four days was shown in today's report of new cases, but In view of the fact that the population today Is very much larger than 1t was a month ago. the percentage of sickness Is consid- cred exceedingly small. The days deaths showed a decline and the few fatalities that are occurring at this time, consid- ering the extremes of weather September Is showing Is considered little less than remarkable.
 The first case of yellow fever to ap- pear in Gretna was reported today. The patient Is a negro. Gretna lies immedi- ately opposite New Orleans in Jefferson parish, Is town of $500 inhabitants and, except for barring four Italians when the infection was practically confined to that race, 1t has had wide open communication with New Orleans. several hundred of It's people having daily employment here. The town, however. screened and oiled and took precautions from the beginning and to that fact Is believed to owe it's im- munity heretofore.
 Surgeons Are Transferred.
 Orders direct from Washington trans ferred Passed Assistant Surgeon Green to Port Gibson today and caused a switch ing around of Dr. Whites forces here, Dr. Green having been in full charge of the first ward. pr. Guiteras, who went from Vicksburg to Port Gibson, advised the need of a surgeon at the later place, where considerable panic followed the an- nouncement of the fever As, however, there has been no rapid spread. sanity Is returning and 1t is believed that there will be little sickness at Port Gibson be- fore frost.
 Without having to go into a detention camp at all, four trained nurses went from here today direct to Hamburg Miss, where there has been sickness of a viru- lent type The Mississippi authorities wired to the Louisiana board that the nurses were needed badly and Secretary Patton promptly engaged the required number and every facility was offered them by Mississippi to reach their destin- atfon.
 hundred or more laborers are due to pass here tomorrow on their way to Sul- phur, La, where they are to work in the oyster canning factories They come from Baltimore and others are to follow them, agents of the Louisiana and Ms sissippi factories having been In the east to engage them The laborers Will not stop but pass through the city in screen cd cars and will be kept out of the zones of infection. Several hundred of these eanners, principally Bohemians come yearly from the east but more than usual difficulty has been experienced this year in drumming them up because of the fever. The movement of labor to the sugar plantations is also gathering strength and the planters are now hope full that ultimately they will be able to place in their fields all the help needed to harvest the cane crop.
 Presidents Visit Uncertain.
 The feeling of uncertainty regarding the visit of President Roosevelt still exists and there Is some apprehension that the decision of American public health asso- oiation to have committee communicate to the President it's sentiments of opposi- ton to the visit at this time may cause the cutting out of New Orleans from the present trip. Public opinion Is almost a unit in believing that the President per sonally has not a shred of fear in con nection with the trip and that with or without the element of danger he would like to come on his scheduled date. Any announcement that the visit has been de- ferred will be attributed to the pressure that apparently Is being brought upon him. growing out of ignorance of the actual conditions prevailing here. It is promised that decision will be given fin- ally on Monday. If the President decides to terminate his present trip at Mobile a strong effort Is to be made to have him come to Louisiana prior to the open- ing of Congress
 Dr. White on his trip to various towns morrow, will do whatever he can to
 Tighten quarantine conditions wherever he finds that they are not based on sound understanding of the means by which the fever can be transmitted. In the midst of his fight here, Dr. White has kept con- stantly in view the complaints of New
 Orleans and much of the moderation which followed the first quarantines was
 due to his efforts to bring the country people to see that while if was advisable to prohibit passenger communication. bus mess could be carried on practically with out any risk at all.