The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-22

Of Orleans, the tools of the trade by which
we live. These bouders of porphyry-these cubes
Of granite, are the diamonds of our Goconda-these
finty streets, are the fields where we reap the har
vests which give food to our children. A6 our
wharves are annually received the bulky articles
Of the produce of and in payment for them,
come back the rich products of the old world.
The exports and imports annually run up in the
neighborhood of S200,0O0,O00 In the transporta-
ton Of these articles from boats and ships, to the
warehouses and the presses, and thence again to
ships and boats, and in the profits which arise from
this interchange, grow up the revenues of New
Orleans.
Whatever may be expended on the wharves and
Streets is paid, not by the city, but by the COM
merce which centers here. The item for drayage,
is one which planters and farmers always grumble
about.
SQUARE STONE.
1t is urged that the Administration has not paved
with the square granite. But it was at first an ex-
pertinent; its great expense rendered prudence ne
cessary time required to test the durability of
the new granite plank. 1t has succeeded, and al
ready they have commenced the new system.
Tchoupitoulas street costs only $4,000!
Credit is claimed for Mr.. ]. H. Caldwell as the
first proposer of the granite pavement. We do not
see how this fact could affect the Recordership !.
but an examination of the Journal of the Council
shows that L. U. Gaiennie on Nov. Is, 1885, intro
duced the first ordinance in regard to the subject
The paving Of the streets is let out to the lowest
bidder, and the work is received by the City Sur
veyor. Mr.Dunbar is the favorite of the Opposition
and the Delta says he has retained his situation in
an;te nf the nreeent Administration
The Batture has absorbed about one million of
dollars but arrangement will shortly be made
by which large portion of this will be restored.
In 1896, the boats and ships were all moored be-
low Canal street. Camp street, as high as Poy-
dras, the only street which did not travel bare
foot.
The assessed value of the property in the Second
Municipality in 1886, was Sc, 100000; in 1919,
$39,000,000.
HEALTH.
As to the health of the city and the effect of legis
ation we quote from the address Just published by
the Opposition. 1t will be remembered they were
in power from April 1916 to April 1s4s:
Gin 1876, the city comparatively elean and conse-
quenty the city in healthy condition In lS47 the
(which had previously been thrown the river to be de-
s Thus lie yrads d 81 melons, s psass
ofvegetable aud thousands Of various things which contain
CUTTERS finally generated peence which carried off some
co %e d o i off aad sack he 5
evee, and the quantity of loose cobs and grain the
eyee iementng with the mud in the of that year.
suffered by the various cleaning contractors add
the deeeous atmosphere and remain in the cutters the
BY he rains from the river towards the rear
Ctzens-your aldermen allowed the streetcleaning con-
Think Of the injury such Council oscssioned Upwards
Of four SdPs died By The the
the funeral sSPenses q only half that NUMBER imagine to
city think OF the destruction to the trade of the city, by the
flight from o. STRANGERS VINO enriched other and distant
"Recolect. that the following summer of l84 similar
that of 1S4 and if anything far by the neglect of
ever done BY the Mayor Recorder or Aldermen to
the evils and compel the contractors to fulfil their dutie
On July l, 184s, the present Council passed a
series of ordinances ordering all the filth to be
thrown into the river, as formerly
During the year 1s47, the number of our floating
population was greatly reduced by the Mexican
War which attracted all that class.
In 1S4S, on the contrary, the city was filled by
the returned volunteers Yet the ravages of the
pestilence were much more severe in 1S47, as the
bills of mortality show.
In 1913, the yellow fever was not epidemic, anc
but few cases occurred.
SCHOOLS.
The schools have cost great deal Of money
no one objects to that expenditure. In fact it il
said that Mr.. Caldwell is the particular friend o
the schools, and this certainly does bear thu
office of Recorder, because he is the Superintend
ent of the Board of Education, and as such is the
head of the Public Schools
At the last session of the Legislature he re,
ported against giving to the Municipality $34,97
to be expended in building school-houses. And
this, when ii before the Legislature that there
\ were 2204 children without school-houses. He
recommended that the money should be appro-
| priated to the payment of the Municipality debt
The facts were, that the State had received this
| amount, the difference of interest between the
bonds it had lent the Municipality and those it hat
| received. Resources for the payment of the debt
being ample, the House was willing to give back
| to the Municipality this difference Of interest
which amounts to that sum. As it paws some
$4,000 more for the School Fund to the State
than it receives, it was thought fair to approprat,
| the money for school-houses. Here is the repor
| Of Mr.. Caldwell;
A majority of the Committee on Public Education
fully in the appropriation Of sS4s17 6 for the benefit
mend bst lie said sum shall be used in taking up State BON
issued for the benefit of the Municipality, and extinguhir
EO ia
| Bonds under The act OF 1919. Isaac II, PRESTON,
| JAMES II. CALDWELL,
BYTHEL HAYNES.
TAXATION.
The double taxation of 1S49 is no new thin
The new Council imposed double tax in ls4
And yet the Municipality was sued on every sid
and its property sacrificed at Sheriff's sale
The notes of ]. H. Caldwell, for $4,000, S
cured by mortgage and vendors lien, were boug
by him for $4,000. Other sacrifices of a simil
runous character were made. The works on Il
Municipal Hall were suspended, and the contra
tors received $4,000 damages for this breach
! contract
During the twelve years that the present admin
istratiOn have been in power, not single suit w
ever commenced for the collection Of debt.
i The double tax of this year was necessary
| meet the expenses consequent on the crevass