New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-24
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| The Goddess of Health had statue to her
| memory erected by Perieles, because she cured
an attentive and skillful Street Commissioner,
who, being busy in aqueduct works, was taken
i'll before his services could safely be spared to
the Commonwealth.
1t was by no aid from above or abroad that
Rome made the shell road which she called her
Appian Way land Esop laughed at the WAGNER
who prayed by the roadside to Jupiter for
assistance, instead of putting his own shoulder
to the wheel OF his cart, stuck in a rut.
1t was the man whom Percles wanted it is
| the man whom we want now; and We call aloud
for him to present himself
Nature has been sngularly prodgal to New
Orleans, in giving her river which has its
sources in the Rocky Mountains, and conveys
to her lap on the Gulf Of Mexico the products
of all zones, in best preservation. This river
is one of the largest in the world Its waters
arc ever in healthy motion and when the
current sweeps them by our city, they are
sweet, wholesome, cool, and, in any stage,
more than abundant for all purposes With
alllthis body of water, our streets are always
more uncomtortably dusty than is Pennsylvania
avenue in March. And afording, as it does,
all means Of publication and drainage, it is
allowed to roll on to the sea in waste, while we
sit and eat by the black, bubbling gutter side,
wasting patience in words of complaint, and in
haling communicating miasma.
We want man-a man who shall apply these
great resources, building no petty mound Of
reservoir, holding no more water than punch
hotv1 apH Ina1iuU in,
streams, at so much for pint, but one who
will, by means of sy phon or other artistic and
scientific application, give water to all WHO
thirst and would be clean The Romans took
their Tiber and made bath houses for an en-
pire, and held them SO sacred that no citizen
was liable to arrest while within their precincts
The Englishman boasts that his house is his
castle; and the citizen of Louisiana is free
from the sheriff's arm after the sun has set
but the Roman protection was of better worth
than either.
The Mississippi, unlike all other rivers, gives
away from her resources, asking no return in
tributaries No stream runs into her bed for
hundreds of miles above our home, but she
passing along upon ridge, throws away dozens
of bayous, navigable to all wealth of product
Even in the very lowest water, the surface of
her current is higher than Claiborne street, and
the inclined plane from the Levee to the Lake is
quite enough for efficient drainage
Water rapidly absorbs gases evolved by de-
composition: this property renders it of more
service when the quantity of gas is moderate
but where.it is considerable, the water is ran.
idly saturated, and then is found to give off and
to diuse the gas ON the side as it is absorbed
on the other We have right here at hand, even at
Bouligny, within half hours ride from the CITY.
a pottery which could supply Now0rleans with
pipes of red clay glazed upon the inside, which
being placed under the cutters, with insertion
tubes from every house, would make NewOrleans
the eleanest, and therefore the healthiest CITY
in the world
The Mississippi for motor, and the swamp in
the rear for a reservoir and absorbent, and in
two or three years the whole of those lands which
are now a waste and hindrance would be
blossoming with the rose instead of the thistle
The great waters of this river roll by our
door-steps now, as useless to health and comfort
as steam was to commerce before Watt took il
from the tea-kettle and gave it to Fulton for
power,