New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1904-07-23
THE CHRISTENING OF DREDDE
BOAT.

Thursday a number of our bushes
men took the Abbeville & Frankli
train for Sterling Plantation wher
they disembarked and took privat
conveyanCes for the site of the Bayo
Carlin Drainage Canal, where til
great dredge boat just completed vii
soon commence to dig the immens
canal ordered by the Board of Com
missioners of that district. Arrive,
on the ground about $50 people hat
assembled in the woods having mad,
complete arrangements for the christ
ening of the great dredge boat Mr.
| Porteus r. Burke in a short speecl
opened the meeting, congratulatint
| the people and the Board on their pro
gress and enterprise which sought tc
transform wilderness into q paradise,
a forest primeval into land of fields
of wavings corn and cane.
Father J. Girault de la Corgnais.
of Patoutville following in speech
in French replete with good advice,
encouragement, progress, civilization. a
speech replete with the most uplifting
sentiments. The crowd then adjourn
ed to the boat when the interesting
ceremony of christening was performed
by Father Girault. Hon. Porteous
Burke, being God father and Miss 81.
donia Boutte, God mother Upon being
questioned by Father Girault as to the
name to be given the boat their answer
was Happy Tobe'' and 1t was so de-
clared and Gods blessing invoked on
IL and all the people assembled Hon.
lobe Boutte then advanced to the bow
of the boat and broke bottle of
Nuns extra dry Champagne. which
terminated the ceremony. The crowd
then repaired to the groves again,
where a sumptuous repast was served
that was enjoyed to the full by all
present, such toothsome viands seldom
reach the palates of the dCwntrodden
and oppressed denizens of our towns
who are the victims of the "cook Ia.
dies Of senegambian extraction. The
menu cooked in the woods la bar.
beche, was as follows, chicken and
Gumbo, salads, roast mutton,
roast pig, stewed chicken, roast veal,
turkey, calf's head, relishes, sweet
peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, bread
and rice, only as Creoles can cook IL.
Plenty of Anheuser" to wash il
Town. For an hour the crowd with
sppetites whetted by the cool ride en-
|oyed these good things prepared by
he ladies Of the neighborhood. To
Mesdames Gustave Broussard, Homer
Dubois, Philogene Broussard, Albert
belong the credit of this
,ountiful and elegant dinner. They
we're ably seconded by Messrs. Gustave
3rousard, Johnnie Boutte, II. Patout,
ohilogene Broussard and Lewis An
,ers. The boat which was the cause |
Il all this festivity, measures 20 feet
II length 70 feet beam and Of Z feet
'old equipped with 80 horsepower
'oilers and 30 horse power engines also
8 horse power swinging engines, 80
Get boom. most powerful machine
or lifting out the soil from the canal,
he cost Is about $l0,0 Mr.. Robt.
Angers has been the competent and in
engineer who has superin.
ended the work which has required
he rented help of eight or ten skilled
len to consummate. The contractors
re Captains Anglers and T. J. Upton.
is expected the boat will be in act
1
We operation in 30 days and will keep
h constant activity for the next eiKh-
zen months or two years in making a
foot canal which shall have depth
9 feet. average. draining thousands
acres Of the most fertile land in tn
'nited States. At $50 p. m. Mr.. lobe
Quite called all aboard and those
elonging to New Iberia boarded their
'ur mule sleeper" and reached the
ferling station were they boarded
ne Franklin & Abbeville Railroad at
p m. The train was In charge of
u. A. q. LobdelI. general passenger
I'd freight agent, with big Sam Car
= for conductor. whose affability and