New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-23

THE CITY HALL


Department Of improvements.
This department has taken advantage O
the last few days Of fair weather to built
plank walks leading to the levee on Canal
Common, Gravier and Poydras streets
Lateral drains ON each of these streets
have also been opened, and from the mos,
elevated portions of the levee the drainage
has been reversed, so that the flow of rain
water will be in the direction of the river.
This method of reversing the drainage by
the City Surveyor will have the effect of
preventing the accumulation of water on
the batture, which has been hitherto pre-
vented from flowing toward the swamp in
consequence of being damned up BY the
two parallel tracks of the Pontchartrain
and New Orleans, Mobile and Texas
railroads.
The rain water having an unrestricted
flow, and the levee rapidly drying off after
shower, the amount of shells required will
not be so great inasmuch as the passage of
drays with heavy loads will not cut up the
batture into unsightly holes and ruts, as has
heretofore been the case in seasons of heavy
rains.
Drainage.
A dredgeb0at is now at work near the
City Park. on this side of the Metairie
ridge, in the canal back of Bienville street,
which has been deepened and dredged out q
distance of 1900 feet. The boat is now in Or
leans street, near the park. This, with the
dredging now going on in the Harrison ave-
nue. canal, will complete the draining of the
park and make its entire area sufficiently
high, without filing in. From the Bayou
St. John to the GENTLY road the Canal
Marigny has another dredgebOat, which has
already progressed 1850 feet and is pushing
ahead rapidly. All Of these canals are being
made from forty-five to fifty feet wide and
twelve feet deep.
The Upper Protection Levee.
The canal that runs parallel to the old
Jefferson railroad, and out Of which the ma
terial is taken to form the upper protection
levee, together with the canal running from
the Metairie ridge toward the lake. meet.
ing in the centre, have progressed at the
two ends abouttwo thousand feet, and when
completed will form continuous drain for
the upper portion Of the city, and relieve
that portion below Julia street from the
rain water, which has heretofore found an
outlet to the lake through the canal border
ing the new shellroad. There is dredqe-
boat at each end of this main canal, which
is to be dredged sixty-tive feet wide and If
teen feet deep to the lake.
Department of Finance.
The supplemental rolls of April, May,
June, July and August, which include the
balance due on salaries Of teachers, rents
and the salaries of portresses are being paid
in cash at the City Hall. The money comes
out of the State appropriation for the quarter
ending September 80. The amount received
is 5,OS3. and the sum required to pay these
rolls is $33,4 ,467. The balance left will be de-
voted to the payment of the September
rolls, and the city will probably make up the
difference in bonds
Department of Police.
Some people have a horror Of dogs, and
imagine every innocent cur they see run
ming and gamboling in the street to be
W ltu EdUlcS, run iiittO. NC CUR
often becomes the victim of this nervous
ness. and dies innocently for having exhib
tied an evidence Of his happy state Of mind
by playing in the street.
A highly respectable member Of the legal
profession, who seems to have horror of
the canine tribe, yesterday called on the
Mayor and laid before him some facts rela-
tive to the large number of ours running at
large in the streets, and the alarming preva-
eace of hydrophobia. He suggests that |
An ordinance be adopted requiring the
owners of dogs to muzzle their animals be- |
fore permitting them to go at large, and in |
the police to kill all dogs not so
nuzzled. The matter has been referred to |
he Adm, q; ;strator of Police