New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-30
ORLEANS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 1871.
THE CITY HALL.

THE CITY HALL.
Mayor Flanders was yesterday engage
in preparing report touching the questio
whether or not yellow fever has existed i
: this city during the present season. 1t will b
accompanied with the opinions Of di,
tinguished practitioners and forwarded :
the governor Of Texas.
Department Of improvements.
address itself to the serious consideration
Of Administrator Cockrem and the othe
members Of the Council, will be the pro
viding Of suitable machinery for the drain
age canals of the city. The work which il
being done now ON these canals will re
Quire machinery which can scoop up watel
to the depth Of twelve or fifteen feet, anG
for this purpose the ordinary water wheels
will be inadequate, and can no longer b<
profitably employed, except, perhaps, a.
auxiliaries, those only which already exist
The Surveyor, Mr. Bell, thinks, in fact
that they even can be dispensed with, but
that powerful pumping apparatus will be
indispensably necessary at the terminus OF
these canals near the lake shore.
We make this timely mention in order
that the fOundrymen and other mechanics
| of this city may direct their attention to
this subject, and make preparations to do
some, if not all the work which has to be
done to perfect the drainage and in order
to turn the vast amount of capital invested
in their hands to q profitable account.
BY the way, it occurs to rs also, that the
WaterwOrks commissioners recently ap-
pointed by the Council might give the
matter their consideration, and report on
this subject as well as on the WaterwOrks
improvements.
sink in the Levee At Clouet Street.
The lcvee still continues to sink opposite
Clouet street. making altogether nugatory
any effort to repair the wharf at that point
for the present. Abundance of timber and
machinery to drive it has been at the caves.
on the large steamship wharf, near Monte
gut and Clouet streets, and in front of the
Liverpool warehouse, but, in consequence
of the bank still Gliding in, it is considered
unsafe to attempt any construction at pres
sent. City Surveyor Bell informs us that
the wharf will be extended at the upper
end, so as to preserve wharf front of six
hundred feet, which was its length when
the cave took place.
Shantics ON the Levee.
A petition, signed by the property owners
on Canal and Front streets as far as Char
tres street, has been presented to the Couh.
Gil, for the removal Of all the sheds, booths,
shanties and other buildings erected ut the
head Of Canal street. especially those within
the square bounded by Front, Wells, Cross
man and Canal streets. The petitioners urge
that these buildings are in contravention of
law; that it is contrary to ordinance to be
found in LeOvys Digest, section one hun.
dred and twenty seven, to erect any build
Jugs within this locality unless they be of
brick and covered with slate. They urge,
also, several other grounds.
similar petition is also in preparation
to be signed by the presidents of all the
insurance companies.
Drainage.
pushing steadily ahead, and is now within
two squares, or about six hundred feet of
the City Park. In two more weeks it will
cut through the railroad track which leads
from the Bayon st. John to the ridge ceme-
teries, and bridge will have to be built at
the crossing. Thence, the canal will de-
fleet to the right short distance beyond
the ''Oaks," and, proceeding onward, will
with the canal on Taylor avenue,
in the rear of the park. The effect of these
canals will be to drain the
marshy portions Of the park, and render its
filing up unnecessary. And so We are
promised. at no distant day, high and dry
pleasure ground in the rear of the city. and
The cry is ''Still onward I"
Department Of Assessments.
The Administrator of Assessments, Mr.. |
BOnzano, is now engaged in drawing up the |
new license ordinance for the coming wear, |
and it behOoves those who might feel ag-
yrieved by some Of it's provisions to present
heir objections while there is time to cor
'ect them.
Department of Police.
The Administrator of Police, Colonel
Lewis, is engaged in preparing an ordi-
lance relative to the storing of inflammable
ills.
1t is asserted that oils of this character
which can not be stored in other cities ex-
ept under restrictions, are brought here to
'e stored by the owners, and shipped off
vhen sold. Colonel Lewis thinks that this
3 the cause of frequent fires in this city, and
le is determined to prepare measures for
he prevention of such calimities. as far as
Ossible.
Attorneys' Fees in the Drainage Suits.
In the letter of Mr.. J. Q. A. Fell owes to
layor Flanders, published in the REpBB-
IcAN of the twenty fourth instant, there is
n important omission. Mr. Fellowes
eglected to mention that the five suits
rising out of the pretensions of the Ship
sland Canal Company have all been ap-
ealed, and are yet undecided. When these
uits again come up for argument, it is not
Improbable that claims for additional fees
lay be made, and the overcharge OF $4,000,
lready settled by the payment of $4,000,
lay be supplemented by like exorbitant
emands.
There are other accounts connected with
MS business which call for the sleepless
igilance of the three commissioners having
hem in charge.