The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-03-28
Clean the Streets.
To the Editor of The Gazette:

~ thS AuitoI VI i TIC
Will you kindly allow me space in your
valuable paper to- make a few remarks en-
the above question.
l see by the New Orleans press that
among the overwhelming crowds of visitors
from the north there are great many CAPT
talists and tourists looking for South I'm
homes. Some want farming lands and
others want to settle with their families in
some of our cities or towns. One small
group in company of Col. Willis Wood, J.
X. Grow, w. s. Bloomfield and ID. J. Dean,
of Kansas City, recently visited the Crescent
City, and Mr.. Dean says in an interview:
New Orleans is a wonderfully interest
ing city, but the streets should b.. improved
''It is thy first visit to the city, and the
first thing that attracted my attention upon
leaving the station was the condition OF the
streets. New Orleans is destined to he one
of the creates, cities in the United States in
few years, but one of tine first requisites
for a great and prosperous city is clean
streets, and the sooner they get to work on
them the better. They are actually rePul.
sve a stranger who has been accustomed
to good pavemen's and clean streets. and l
hope they will be improved. l have just
come from the City of Mexico, which is
one of the clearest and pref lest cities in tie
between the capital and New Orleans in
many respects, but the streets is not one OF
them.'
Another distinguished traveller and home
seeker, when writing home to his friends,
says: 81 left New Orleans for Texas on
the S. Z. X. X. can't say that l was very
favorably impressed with the country until
/ got New iberia, where the train
stops only a few moments, and the town
being some distance from the station can't
say much about it. The next stoppi ng place
was Lafayette where stopped twenty
minutes for luncheon. The country be-
tween New Iberia and Lafayette is perfectly
delightful think it is one of the finest
farming countries l ever saw. Lafayette
has the incest station grounds on the road
between New Orleans and Texas. AT the
left as yon go in, there IS lovely garden
of three Or four acres, where you can see
growing (n"w in February all kinds of
beautiful shubbery, flowers, and vegetables
While waiting for the train 1 walked a
rod or two up the street crossing. l looked
up and down the street and the RAILROAD
track. | must say that was very much
surprised and disappointed to see such dirty,
filthy streets. The bitches each side of
the street were filed with stagnant water
from SIX to eight inches deep, oil l empty
beer kegs, broken bottles, meat and fruit
cans, waste paper and the sweeping from
the stores and shops. 1 looked up the rail-
road track short distance. and saw what
supposed to be their regular dumping
ground for the garbage out of their back
yards. If what I fair SAMPLE of
the rest of the town, I could not be hired
to settle there with my fanlily.''
The streets are index 10 tn: progress
first lhinrs thar 4
stranger looks az. cannot understand
why our Council shCuih allow streets to
get in such a horrl and filthy state, eSpeci-
ally around the station when many
strangers are travelling through in search
of Southern homes.
We have laws to prohibit the pc OPP f: ON
throwing any kind of rubi,is., in the sire It.
If we have not, ought l., hav:. Why
dom, the Council that the Law, arr
forced. There are fCu: of them living
within a stones thlOw Of the fi.thics; streets
in town. There is excuse for any town
that has good drainage as this has for
having stagnant water standing in the
bitches breeding con,agion for two three
months o- until the sun drys it up. There
is good drainage from the railroad down
to the Patterson ditch and if the bitches
properly cleaned out and kept clean the
water would never stand in tn I'm.
Glorious.
Aprl-fnol your best friend by taking her
TO hear the best Quartette Club that ever
came to Louisiana: Auditorium next w ed
nesday.
Easter egg hunt At the Parkerson Park,
Easter Monday, April IS, at 5 o'clock in
the afternoon. The Episcopal la:lies have
it in charge and cordially invite the public.
The Mendelssohn Club next Wednesday
evening at the Auditorium.
The Gazette would again call the attention
of its readers to the announcement that
Prof. John II. Ficklen, of Tulane Univer