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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-04

My curiosity was excited. Till now l
had seen absolutely no sign of any attempt
to help matters; but now, here was activity.
These two hundred men in the anti-deIuvian
work-boat represented the power and
influence of the United States government
and its determination to dam the Mississippi
as far as possible and save the low lands
from being perpetually under water
| went on board the ark. 1t was floating
along with scarcely a ripple in its wake.
Yes, there must have been a couple of hun
dred men aboard, for they were sitting
around IN groups, some half asleep, others
surveying the bottom of the river in q
dreamy way. Printed regulations informed
me that there must be no smoking or drink
ing on the ark. looked, expecting to find
still another card stating that no work was
allowed. Two or three men were appa-
rently officers, but none were in uniform.
All were of the laboring class, probably
pretty much like the sort we have in some
cities on the public works, who enjoy petty
sinecures,
For few minutes l stood with them
looking at the river. 1t is very restful to
keep looking at the Mississippi, and, lest
| should fall asleep, l returned to the
Monroe.
Vicksburg was next. The town is stu
ated on high hill, and is safe; but the ap-
proaches were all under water. Where,
BEFORE, were lauu ana trees only the tops or
the trees were now visible. At Vicksburg
they told me surprising thing.
This is a far moro serious flood than last
year." said the citizens, but not so serious
by good deal as six years ago. That was
famous floodr
Floods on the Mississippi are merely COM
parative. Being regular, the people there
are accustomed TO them. A floodless year
would excite wonder.
Above Arkansas City is the great Raleigh
crevasse, which, from a break of 400 feet
wide, has reached 1000 feet. Hundred of
laborers were busy piling up sacks in the
middle of the river. as l imagined. They
made no more impression on the crevasse
than pebble dropped in Lake Michigan.
AT Arkansas City | saw nothing but
wooden block houses 1t was more like an
Indian camp than white mans city, and
the buildings were rather on the model of
cowboy huts than dwellings for civilized
men and women.
''Its useless to build expensive houses
here" said one OF the residents by way of
explanation, because they might be swept
away in few months time"
Hearing this could not wonder at the
carelessness regarding the levees.
At Baton Rouge the nearest part of th e
shore was flooded. The location was higher,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-04
ISSISSIPPI.

To many people the cost of stone levees
would seem an insuperable obj sction. Con-
gressmen and the CONSTITUENCIES they repre-
sent might possibly shudder at the expense.
But they should remember that it would be
an expenditure that would not have to be
annually repeated, as is now the case with
appropriations for the Mississippi. The
country might go on for the next fifty
years, as it is now doing, spending money
in futile effort to check this
great river and keep 1t within bounds, and
millions will have been thrown away
whereas an expenditure for substantial
work such as have suggested would not
have to be repeated perhaps in century.
In half that time, under the present system,
twice the amount would be spent that is
needed to make the country that is now
periodically devastated, a safe and prosper
GUS part of the union.
1t mlght help matters if congress, in dis
cussing this subject, were to give preference
TO the opinions of those who had no particu-
lar interest in the retention of the present
system and to invite the cooperation of
famous engineers who have had experience
with similar problems in other parts of the
world, in order that opinions might be
compared and an intelligent conclusion
reached. There is an enormous tract of
land contiguous to the Mississippi that needs
irrigation. The adoption of system of
canals and reservoirs, with locks similar to
those in use abroad, would enrich this terri
tory and make it one OF the finest sections
of the union. c. DE GRIMM.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-04
FIRE AK MARRIAGE FAILS.
Unhappiness Follows a County Fair
Wedding of Strangers.
From, the st. Louis Globe Democrat.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
MoBERLY, Mo-, April 4.-Lawrence
Murry,a coal miner of Randolph county,
and Hattie Clark, a school teacher of
Hutchinson, Kan, who were married at
the county fair in this city last August be-
fore 5000 people, The attraction being OF
such u nature that it drew the largest crowd
ever assembled on any one day at the Ran
dolph county fair. are about to be legally
separated.
Just one week from the time they were
married Hattie hurry left on very urgent
business for Hutchinson, where she said she
had an estate, which would be settled imne-
diately after her return there. She prom
ised to return with money enough to set
them up in business, the fair ass citation
and several business men of the city having
already presented the newly welded couple
with a complete set of furniture and
considerable provisions to start them
on the way of married felicity
in most substantial manner. Two
weeks had elapsed when Lawrence received
lengthy letter from Hattie, stating that
she had arrived, and expressing a fond de-
sire to return as soon as matters there
could be righted. She cautio ned him not
to mention the wedding in his letters to her,
and above all things to address all com
munications to Miss Hattie Clark for if her
guardian found out that she had changed
her name the money she was 10 get fiom
the estate would De kept from her, and the
object Of her errand there would be of no
avail,
Time passed on, and no more word came
from the dashing young school teacher from
Kansas until few days ago, and that came
in response to message of inquiry written
by the husband to prominent parties in
Hutchinson, asking them of her where
abouts, and if she was held there by her
friends. The reply came to Lawreace that
his wife had denied all knowledge of the
wedding, and that shortly after her arrival
in Hutchinson from Moberly she began to
spend her money lavishly on herself, pur-
chasing silks and satins, and becoming one
of the most fashionable young school teach.
ers in that whole country. When her
money ran out she left Hutchinson and
went to Rice county, Kansas, and obtained
position In a country school as teacher.
She left there very unceremoniously and
went back to Hutchinson, and soon left
Kansas for pastures new.
hurry will ask for divorce at once
hurry and Miss Clark were married by
Judge G. II. Burkhart of this judicial dis
trict and prominent citizens of Moberly
and Omaha, Neb., escorted them to the
grand stand, while Martin Golden's silver
cornet band played wedding march.
They had never seen each other until the
afternoon they were married, the bride
elect arriving on the Wabash at 2:45 %. m.
the groom meeting her at the train They
got each others address through a Chicago
paper and for nearly year kept up a cor
respondence and finally exchanged their
pictures.
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and therefore not so dangerous as that of
Arkansas City and some other points we
passed. On reaching New Orleans We
found the water very hign. Ga the eastern
side of the city there is nothing but wooden
houses, like those found at West Memphis,
which were entirely under water, the roofs
alone being visible. But West Memphis is
FLOOD town" and prepares for the annual
deluge. New Orleans, for large and really
fine city, Is comparatively defenseless. The
foods unsettle business every year and
phenomenal rise in the river breeds semi
panic.
1t would be idle to pretend to give as the
result Of personal observation on such
trip any estimate OF the damage inflicted by
these floods IL Is beyond calculation.
Nothing that l cln write can convey an
adequate picture OF the extent OF that vast
inland sea formed by the river when it
overleaps its bounds. and filing up the
valleys, hides levees, towns and villages in
common inundation. Yet one thing is
painfully apparent. These floods are ben
eft to the contractors and to a
certain class Of people who don't
live there and have no prop
erty at stake, but who make money by
them. They accept the annual overflow as
regular source of revenue, just as the
newspapers of the south watch for it as a
piece Of news that may be depended upon,
sooner or later in the season. And this
raises the inquiry why these annual del
uges should not be turned from being a
cause of misery. devastation and suffering,
in o means If enrichlng and blessing the
great section Of nearly 10000 square miles,
which is more or less injuriously affected
by them.
The Mississippi is not the only big river
in the world. There are the Nile, which is
doing every year just what tho Mississippi
1rTxa . - ~ 4.
The Rhine, from Cologne to Roti erdam. is
in overflow annually at certain seasons, but
its waters spread to bless and not to destroy
the country. Instead Of giving escape to
the water, as thew do with the Rhine,
the south closes up the Missis :
sppi by means Of levees, and gives
it no room to extend. A big river like the
Mississippi, growing by rains and for other
reasons, inevitably becomes 50 strong at
times that no system of levees can confine
it. On the Rhine there is along each side a
system of canals and locks for relieving the
channel of the superfluous water. These
are used to irrigate the surrounding coun-
try, and the more the Rhine grows the
greater is the fertility and prosperity Of
the country
Reservoirs should be constructed along
the Mississippi. Iron and stone levees
should be built at the dangerous points
where the present levees are annually
threatenei and where the water rises higher
than the ground. Sacks of earth and sand
are merely makeshifts that are useless to
withstand a current such as that which
sweeps through the lower valley every
season.
With the Rhone the situation is similar to
that along the Rhine. Indeed, all the large
rivers, when they begin to swell. are turned
into means of prosperity instead of being
a source of danger and disaster to the coun-
tries through which they flow.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-04
AJOURNEY ON THEFL0OD
DE GRIMMs STORY OF a RIDE ON
THE SWOLLEN MISSISSIPPI

From Memphis TO New Orleans the
River a Vast and Almost Unbroken
sea-Levees. landings and Even
Towns submerged-Inspec Who
Knew the Rivers Bottom, But Not
Its surssce-An Aquatic Population
Come in Skiffs for WhisHy-Poor
Negroes in the Low Grounds-Noah's
Ark Encountered of Vicksburg-
How River Repairers Work-People
Who Profit by the Flood - Some
Timely Suggestions.
(CopUright.)
MEMPHIS, May 3-One morning lately,
at a time when the great food in the Mis-
sissippi was supposed to have reached its
highest point, / went from Memphis to
New Orleans on a voyage Of investigation.
The Valley Line railroad does not run near
enough to the river to afford good view,
and besides, wished to take a trip leis-
urely, SO l went by the Anchor Line
steamer City of Monroe, taking passage
at Memphis, where l was introduced to the
captain. Since the war these boats have
not been a medium of transportation for
travellers, and their ample decks and state
rooms, where people were wont formerly to
take rest and enjoy themselves en- route, are
now turned into freight depots; therefore
the boats have to stop at every small land
ing. Still they are elegantly and some
even magnifcently fitted up.
Besides myself there were only two or
three passengers, and perhaps five persons
in all sat down to dinner. The first day we
had United States commissioner on board,
Capt. Young, inspector OF the Mississippi
river breakwater and crevasses. This is
commission whose members seem to have
sinecure, except when there is flood on
the river or something wrong with the
crevasses. In the absence of floods time
must hang heavily on their hands. This
particular commissioner was very lntelli-
gent gentleman and was soon at home on the
Monroe. He went up to the pilot house and
hardly moved from there during the entire
trip-or rather on that part of it on which
he accompanied u.s. A number of times
went I'D there and found him chatting
pleasantly with the captain and pilot. When
we stopped at a point that didn't happen to
be entirely submerged, he looked out of the
window of the pilot house and officially
surveyed the river. He had to stop at
every so-called landing, but as it was I'M
possible to land goods at these points, the
majority of them being submerged and
only trees OF housetops visible, we did not
try to APPROACH. In most cases the water
had encrcached fully half mile on the
shore
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shore.

But even the placid resident of the Missis-
sippi Valley, accustomed as he is to floods,
has enterprise at times when there is
worthy object in view. At many of these
overfiowed landings, | was surprised to see
people coming TO meet us in boats and small
skiffs, mere cookie shells they looked to be
on the great sheet of water. They wanted
to get the goods that had been consigned to
them. 1t occurred to me that they must be
suffering and were after the barrels of flour
we had on board the Monroe, or, perhaps.
it was the bales of hay they wanted
to feed their cattle. But
soon discovered that it was neither of these
very neoe isary commodities which this
aquatic population had ventured out for.
What they wanted was whisky. In almost
every instance the bold boatsman rowed
off with liquid consignment in barrel
and likewise happy smile. The Mssis-
sippi might rise or fall, and the signal Office
might 70 on predicting foods as big as that
which floated old Noah, it was a matter of
indifference since they had got their
whisky.
At the time of which write the food was
already two weeks old. Looking out on the
river, my first impression was that the over
flow was so vast that it was impossible to
form any idea of the damage sustained
When everything is under water it is mere
guess work to say what has happened I'M
derneath. Most Of the houses along the
route had already disappeared and for long
distances even the shore was invisible.
Here" said the captain of the Mon
roe. pointing down at the broad. IN
broken body of water, like an inland
sea, sis one of the broken crevasses."
He was not jesting. We could have
sailed over the tops of them without going
aground. had to take the information on
faith alone.
There, over yonder, is a levee," he con-
tinued, pointing out on the river.
Still nothing in sight, save the CLASSY
surface of the Mississippi. One sheet of
water, submerging everything, was all that
Isaw.
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holding the hand of the supposed dead person
to strong light, if living a scarlet tinge is seen
where the fingers touch showing that the blood
continues TO circulate, there being no scarlet
when the subject is really dead.
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