The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-13
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
of q Bracing and Busy AuturaR
DR.. Warner on ahe Race Qaes-
tion-Currsnt Events In
the Metropolis

tsGn-EurrenG Events IL
the Metropolis
New Orleans. La, oot. 10, lsaa.
STAFF Correspondents of The Chfaa.
I am surs that the poet who called
the autumn time s'the gaddest oi the
year. was late getting back TO town
from his vacation. Signing winds
and falling leaves play very llssls
part in the autumn scheme Of shinga
here, and in reality, this is she very
time when the city begins 10 sit up
and take notice. The atreets ara ~
throng with fall shoppers; the store
windows are gay with charming new
| goods and modish bonnats; she
| theatres have thrown wide their doors
| and the voice OF the matinee Girl ID
heard in the land. The good old.
fashioned country autumn that the
poet wrote about can't even eemD OUT
in the parks and have free play ther9
to get In some OF It's melancholy
effects, for these lovely Fairgrounds
are kept as scrupulously spick aud
span as ever, and the trees from which
the red and brown and golden leaves
are gaily falling do not offer sven the
] remotest suggestion OF sadness, bns
hold out branches daily crossing
barer which seem to be saying, ike
the cateh-phrase in the ad department
OF your morning paper: stch shfs
space next springln Even SO does
the very vegetation seem TO be imbueA
WITH the general push and get-thsrs
spirit of metropolitan environments
The spell of bracing weather which
came to Us right of the ico thia wsaas
certainly made things hum in busia
ness way, and lent such 3 piquAns
delieiousnsss TO the desr old burg
that one was parforcs compelled to his
gtraighbWBy down town and moss
, about in the delightful atmosphere o.
the overaowIng shops, and, happens
ing to be . woman, try On every hab
in every millinery shop on both sldsS
Of the finest street In the world. The
saddest Of the year? ?'-well, may b.;
but somewhere in region more thsn
forty-ive minutes from Canal steeet!
Rev. DR.. Beverley w arner delivered
an impressive address On the rses
question al Trinity Church lest Suns
day. Dr..W arner spoke OF the recenk
riots which occurred In Atlanta, and
urged the organization Of white mxh
to destroy the low dives OF ths city
| and to insure safety and prosacsion
to all innocent persons, whits or
black, IN any emergency that naY
arise.
| Last Sunday Archbishop Blens
paid his frss visit TO ths youngest
parish in the diocese, st0ur Lady os
Lonrdes,n y Of which Father Kavsnagh
is pastor. There was 8 solemn high
mass in the morning, and In the svs-
ming bis graee was tendsred recap-
tion In the parish hall at which he
delivered an address. a welI.are
ranged program was carried ons.
At smoker given by she Nav Or
leans Progressive Union Monday
night, plans for the future develop.
ment Of the city Nere discussed hy
inearly 800 representative citizens. 4
free university, mora factories and
other industries were urged, and
stirring speeches we're made By prom.
inent men.
| Bids for the construction OF the
public library building which 10 10
/ be erected on she Masonic loo ii Lee
Circle we're opened at nesting ol
the finance committee of she city eonn.
Gil last Monday. Three firms sab
mitted offers.
4 Miss Sophie B. Wright'a free night
school for working boys end girls
J began its eighteenth ssss Mondsy
night with an enrolment Of 500 pupils.
Il The Barnum & Bailey circus wal
at the Fair Grounds Saturday and
Sunday, and the performanes attracted
I many thousands OF children OF al aIzss
and ages, those OF larger growth ana
D masnrer years being in eonsiderabis
majority. 3. q.