The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1906-08-25
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JACK. THE DREAMER.
Sees the Future as an Expe
rlence of the Past.

spend four bits for round trip
ticket for her to the l.aGtte club
house excursion, She would he
no party to lJ-rrut trolley
ride to Spanish Lake Park.
Now, amt that hard luck
That's what feller gets for gong
it alone.
Welt, had to do something
to drive away the blues, so fe'l
in with a crowd Of boys ana
went grabbing We got row
boat and pulled down the Ieche
To the head OF the n. |. South
ern Canal: there landed under
the spreading trees and prepared
for our sport. The tide was
running ont of the canal pretty
strong at the time and the crabs
were Indifferent to our bait. so
we waited Ill the turn of the
tide. The flow seaward gradually
slackenel till the waters seemed
to be still: then a gradual swell
inc sent the waters up stream
with an ever increasing force,
bringing hundreds of the hungry
denizcns Of the sea, who were
ready TO sacrifice their LIBERTY
for a square meal.
Some how, or O'her, that day
seemed to be thoughtful
possibly the result of the treat
ment from my exbest girl
but just the same, ! marveled
at the action Of the waters in the
old Teche, which had for ceptu
ries before uniformly directed
its current down stream towards
the sea. Now, at the head Of
this canal its current was divided,
and it's waters were flowing para
both ways at once in
the Techc.
My basket being filed with
crabs, aud wanting a little exer-
else, three of us got into our
boat and rowed down the canal,
against the incoming tide, past
the railroad bridges to the point
where the city" sanitary sewer
age cmptled into the canal.
Boys, as we are, we could not
but wonder at the neutralizing
effects Of a strong current of
water. Here, a large sewer
pipe was pouring large stream
Of water, polluted with the SAM
tary sewerage Of the city, into
the canal. 1t was gathered at
once into the current and rushed
onward to such dllution that
it was rendered perfectly in
offensive. A few yards from the
mouth OF the sewer the waters
Of the canal gave no evidence
Of the presence of sewerage,
How different this would be should
the current be stopped for any
considerable time?
We returned to the shade
of our oak and had our lunch,
p,cn.c style, before drifting home
ward on the bosom of the tide.
The metamOIphosis of the
Teche is a wonder. A very few
years ago it was sluggish
stream Of but little interest as
a feature of pleasure to home
people. It's traffic was almost
entirely coltined to barging of
freight to the railroad transfers
and the towing o. logs to the
then three mills. Its waters
we're 50 often offensive, being
polluted by the washings from
factories along its banks, that
he pleasure seeker gave no
thought to the Teche an means
If amusement. The cutting of
Jhe canal into the Teche has
changed many of these conditions.
The sluggish stream IS now one
Of good stiff currents every day.
In times of freshets the water
comes rushing down from up
he country in the same manner
vs. Of yore, but when the canal
s reached, the latter being mar
'ower than theTeche, a part, only,
If the II BOD finds it's way to the
'ea through the canal, the rest go
ng on down the original channel.
Ia times Of drought the tidal
lctiOn is great and is benefit