The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-01-27
Institution of this kind. brighter and

Institution of this kind. brighter and
more intellectual men with a greater fund
of all around learning could not be select
ed. Their managerial ability is marvel
lous. and the new Jesuit Church in West
Sixteenth Street is a brilliant proof there
Of This magnificent temple is built in
bright, CHEEKY Renaissance style cost
them but two hundred and fly thousand
dollars, a figure which astonishes nearly
every professional man. Now the only
debt resting on this building is $4,000, Il
sum which can be easily removed. The
order did not proceed to take an lmpor-
t;,ht steP until they had the money to do
II With. and the result is that as the
church progressed they were not crowded
WITH e'nbalrassments. Did all religious
congregations build their churcnes III this
way. We would rave fewer oppressive
mortgages eating the life blood out of
those would be affairs, and we would be
| spared the no. exactly pleasant feeling of
seeing clutches transformed into theaties.
lodging houses and stables. The rector of
the Jesuit Charch and President II he
College IN this city is Faiher J'r;sIee; a
Yale n'an who adopted the Catholic faith
some years after taxing his degree. His
ben OF mind IS purely scientific. and his
knowledge OF physics and acquaintance
with learned men III that branch of science
is wide.
John Kelly. the Tammany Ch:eftain has
been out OF that i.ind OF politics which
pays for nearly two years. He has not
grown very poor however during his ret;lc
mcnt- His architect has just iilet! plars
Tor a row OF new apartment houses up
to";' which aic to cost when completed
over one hundred Thousand dollars. II is
the fashion at present to give names to
new buildings, and thus Mr.. Kelly's cara
vansaries will probably be termed The
M1S"am." Mr. Kelly ought to be able to
charge vesy high ieEis for apartments in
his new houses, for every Tammany office
holder as we'll as office seeker will be glad
10 pa. Il little premium, Or 1t good one TOO,
for that matter. for the privilege of being
III the Sachem's tent.
Business at present is very dull, and the
clothing Srade. which is the largest indus
Try IN the city and the second largest in
lne country IS affected most OF all: From
what l am told several houses Will be
Obliged to go to the wall before the Spring
trade opens 1t is the ~ruinous cOmpeti-
ton which is killing them. All this I'M
menae advertising and the giving away Of
prlzt, IN the shape of pianos. billiard ia
oies. buggles and other things SO far from
helping them is only running them deeper
into the mnd- The candy trade, however,
although langrishing somewhat from nat
ural after-1he holiday causes is the most
prosperous Of any. Novelties of some iiads
are constantly being gotten up. Ofcourse
III al these things the name is everything,
and some houses employ a man for the
sole purpose of i~nventing new names. The
latest i'll this line is a penny article made
OF the same paste of which gum drops are
composed. They are round and fiat in
shape. l was much amused at the appro-
priateness of the name. They are called
Freddy Goddard Flats"
l am in receipt from the Secretary of the
Coney Island Jockey Club, of the entries
for the stakes to b. run for during the com
ing Spring and Autumn race meetings.
Large us the Dumber was last year, this
years nominations exceeded those of last
year by more than one hundred. Thus. de
spite the fears that racing would lose in
qualify this year what it would gain in i'm
creased race meetings, are dispeiled. Bet
ting too is likely to be allowed under re-
as the two bills introduced in
the Legislature are, l am Informed almost
to be passed.