The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-05-03
LOCKPORT NEWS.
LoCkPokT La, April 80, 1890.

we nave notlcec Ill your paper d
the 26tl, inst. i'll answer to our com
municntlon in your issue of the 10Th
inst. and are glad to see the other side
of the question SO ably defended, al
though we still remain Of the same
opinion as before.
VIZ again beg to repeat that the do
nation of l $50, was made to Lii
fourche Parish for the express purpose
of being used at once to protect peo-
pie from overflow, which words in our
case meant protection from 4 crew
asse. Your correspondent says:
at is sometimes a misfortune that opin-
ions do not accord with facts. Here is the
communication notifying the president of
the Police Jury that a donation was made"
There follows She letter from Mr..
A. w. Crandell, in which said cores
pendent underlines the following
wordsn For Protection Of Lerees. /
have secured that money for the peo-
pie" These last three words are not
underlined, leaving the reader to I'M
derstand that the money Is given only
to protect til. ~,evees, if standing we
suppose, and that the people may pro-
tect themselves as best they can, when
a break occurs.
With all due respect to unknown
opponent we cannot agree with him
that Mr.. Crandell gave the money
solely for the purpose of keeping in
good order standing ~levees, with the
idea that it should not apply to crew
asses. Surely it is not the way the
company is at this very moment act
ing at all the vas along the Mis-
sissippi, and why itshould have meant
in our case, only protection before dis
aster and not after, we are still un-
able to comprehend.
To take another point OF view let US
ask your able correspondent: Has
not the Police Jury Oh many previous
occasions applied our tax money to
close crevasses? They were surely
according to precedent bound to use
all efforts and funds at hand to close
the St. Mary's crevasse. Must one
third of Lafourche s1ffer because their
misfOrtunes are some sort of protec-
ton to the other two thirdsi And
right here comes the very plain reason
why some, and the majority unhap-
PLY, did not want the st. Mary's ere
vase closed, and we can do no better
than to cite your wi correspondents
words, who thus ''lets the cat out of the
bag"
There are . great many people in this par
ish who have very arm opinions that tia
closing OF st. Mary evasse at that tine
would have caused further calamities.
is decided to let those that suffer 60
OH suffering to prevent an imaginary
risk to those who are "a yet uuharm-
ed.
Did the people at Plattenville aud
Labadieville stop to consider what
might happen from their action be-
fore closing their crevasse, and did
they hesitate to avert a present cal
amity for fear of some future onesf
As to the financial part of the letter
limiting that we must not be so badly
of since we have not drawn a cent OF
the $500 allowed us, your corespon-
dent should have reflected that a com
mittee has charge of tire approval OF
all bills incurred, and he will soon
find out when this committee makes
its final report that very little, if any,
of that appropriation will be left,
after paying all expenses at the Gre
vase.
We are sorry to have to chronicle
an accident which happened to the
| chief painter of St. Sauveur church
last week, we mean, Mr.. Baux the ar
fist. While painting one of the
columns, he SO unfortunately fell
from the platform, about 4 feet high,
as to break his right leg just below
the knee, and will no doubt be laid up
for some time to come.
The work is however still going on
uuder the able supervision of Mr.. J,
A. Trone Of your city. Carpentering
work has been stopped, but We hope
however that it will shortly be re-
sumed.
Each sugar planter, in order to pro-
tect his crops, is seeing carefully to
his levees protecting the e a of the
fields against back water, and each
one seems confident that the losses
will not increase, the more SO hat the
crevasse water shows a falling ten
dency. The bayou here has fallen
about Is inches since our last report.
LAFOURCHE.