New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-15

already one-tAird of the work has bee1
completed This is q very importan
announcement, and if our merchant
and real estate owners will lay asid
or while their speculations and ren
| collections, and make a tour of in
spection, they viii be at once amazed an,
delighted amazed at the extent ant
character of the work done, and delighted
at the necessary benefits which must &C
crue to business and to property. The,
will find the protection levee or wall
from the upper limits Of Carrollton to thu
lake, completed, save such little finishing
as is necessary to make the roadway OF
Its top smooth and pleasant drive. They
Will find, also, that wide and deep reser
voir canal has been dug along this levee
from the lake nearly to the rear of the
Dublin avenue draining machine, and
that it is now possible to drive out Wash
ington avenue, through Seventeenth
street and north line, to the upper protec-
ton levee, and thence uninterruptedly to
the lake, along one of the most beautiful
earthroads in the country. Men are now
at work putting on this road top dress
ing of Metairie ridge sand, which will
make it a more pleasant drive than the
shellroad in dry weather.
The section of the lake protection levee
exte nding from the New canal to the up
perline levee is very nearly completed;
and those who have not visited the lake
recently will be pleased to know that the
presi dent of the drainage company has
recently, at his own exp nse, caused
trees and plants to be set out along the
levee, which in course of time will make
it a most charming retreat from the heat
and dust Of the city.
The roadway along the Orleans canal
from. the City Park to the lake is in ex-
cellent order, and like that along the up
per canal, is receiving the top dressing of
SIX inches Of ridge sand. A large portion
OF this road is delightfully."- smooth, and as
drive for exercising horses much to be
preferred to shellroad. In a few
months New Orleans will be enabled to
boast of what she has so long and so sadly
needed-several extended and delightful
drives.
The dredge boats are almost all ac-
lively at work. One is now engaged in
upper protection canal, a short distance
rom the Carrollton avenue draining ma
chine, and will work around the machine
INTO Claiborne canal, which is the reser-
7oir canal of the Fourth and Sixth Dis
riots, and is now nearly choked with mud
md bushes. Another dredge is engaged
completing the upper section Of the lake
evee, and one is about cutting her way
trough the shellroad on the New canal,
ust above the Carrollton avenue bridge,
nto the canal along Washington avenue
hellroad, which canal will be widened |
nd deepened. The dredge that COM
leted the Orleans canal is undergoing
ONE slight repairs, preparatory to pro-
eeding down to Peoples avenue, which
the lower line, or east protection leyee.
n this canal dredge and derrick are
ow at work, having advanced four thou
and feet from the lake shore We have
My noticed portion of the work which
as been done, but enough to give gen.
raj idea Of the whole, and to show that
he people are receiving an equivalent for
leir drainage taxes.
While examining these works. which
re Under the control of the Hon. James
evils, Administrator of Improvements,
lie Bureau Of Drainage being under the
amediate charge of the City Surveyor,
:. Ell. Bell, we were agreeably surprised
an evidence Of enterprise on the part of
me OF our solid men, which had quite
capped us before. This is no less than
e construction OF double track narrow
.uge railroad to the lake from the corner
Canal and Basin streets. Some one
inbred and fifty laoorers are vigorously I
work on this road between the CITY
.rk and the lake terminus at Spanish |
ut, mouth of Bayou st. John, and in !
out fifteen days the roadbed will be t
AIDED from the fort to the EIetairie ridge.
of cypress ties are scattered t
ong the route ready to be put down, and i
is road will be completed and in running | '
der by the first or middle of June.
This is the first attempt to construct G
Nd of this character in this city, and the d
aspects are that it will be complete f
ccess. Some idea may be had of the f
onomy Of this road when we state that T
} capital of the company is only 5000, 900, o
d the total expenses of construction and
uipment will only be $4,000. The
tive power employed will be the Rem.
ton steam dummy, which is said to be p
, most admirable and economical motor n
, invented for street cars. The engine tt
Of the compound double cylinder type, a
4 is located under the front platform. al
the boiler, inclosed in cylindrical ii
me of ash and black walnut, does not cl
'upy any considerable room on the b
Mt platform. The cars will be several re
longer than those now in use here, | e,
in every other respect will closely fc
emble them. The trip from the city il
he lake will be made in about twenty
nutes, and, unless we are mistaken, this 81
d will tend greatly to popularize the "