The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-01-12
MANAGERIAL CHANGES.

New Years Assignments and Exchanges
on some of the Sugar Plantations of
Ascension and Adjacent Parishes.
The beginning of a new year always
witnesses some movement TO and fro
on the part Of plantation managers
and their assistants, and more than
the average number of changes seem
to be taking place this season in As
cension and adjoining parishes.
Among the most notable are those
that have transpired on the Evan Hall
plantation of the Mccall Brothers
Planting and Manufacturing Com
pany, one of the largest and finest
sugar estates in this section. J. Ar
thur Melancon, who has been in the
saddle as a tenant and field manager
at Evan Hall for the past twenty-four
years, has resigned and removed With
his family to Faubourg LaPipe, Don
aldsonvilIe's eastern suburb, where
they are presently occupying the Es-
neault residence, but will shortly take
possession of L. j. Brun's neat cot
tage in the same locality. Mr.. Melan-
cons talented young sons, Richard
and Mavor Melancon. are filing
responsible positions in this eommu-
nifty and bid fair TO become prominent
among it's useful and reputable citi-
zens. Richard is official stenogra-
pher for the district court, while Mavor
has recently gone from the service of
the Belle Alliance Company to that OF
Bernard Lemann & Brother, Donald
sonyille's leading mercantile and plant
ing firm, as clerk and stenographer.
Both are exceptionally bright, indus
trious and capable young men, whose
fine characters speak well for their
extraction and training.
The place vacated at Evan Hall by
Mr.. Melancon will be filed by ]. c..
Fernandez, heretofore employed on
Mrs. ]. S. Webster's plantations,
primarily at Terre Haute in St. John
and more recently at Point Houmas
in Ascension. Col. Richard Mccall
will retain the general superintend-
ency of Evan Hall, and Mr.. Fernan-
dez is to be assisted in the direction
of the field work by Emile Leblanc,
who retains the place he has efficiently
filed for several seasons. No an
nouncement has yet been made OF the
employmento of a successor to Manager
Fernandez at Point Houmas.
F. N. eros, heretofore Manager l..
NJ. St. Martins assistant on Mccall
& Legendre's McManor plantation,
has gone across the river to take
charge of the field work on G. D. Con
dran's Linwood place, succeeding
Geo. W. Grisamore, who died some
months ago, and Wallace W. Barron,
a popular and capable cultivator and
handler of labor, succeeds Fir. eros
as assistant on McManor.
No changes in the man agerial forces
have taken place on Germania, ST.
Emma, Palo Alto, Peytavin, Belle
Terre or Souvenir, but some have oc-
Cured or are in contemplation at
Belle Helene and some OF the Miles
Company's places which have not yet
been recorded in these columns.
There has been a general shake-up
at S. Prejean's Half Way plantation,
in upper Assumption. Manager Hon
ore Ayraud, Mr.. Prejean's son-in-law,
resigned and removed to Donaldson
vile, where he and his family are
now domiciled in the cottage formerly
occupied by Mrs. II. w. Barton and
family, who have recently removed to
New Orleans. Mr.. Ayraud came to
town to assume the proprietary man
agement of the saloon at the corner of
Mississippi and Lessard streets, for
merly conducted by his uncle, Sam
Ayraud, and henceforth to be known
as Ayraud's Cafe. Louis Leblanc,
eldest son of the late J. Elphege
Leblanc, has relinquished the position
of assistant at Half-W ay to take
similar place on o. B. Danjean's
Richbend plantation, in St. James
parish, and the vacancies at Half ay
have been filled by the employment of
W allace Prejean, son of the owner.
as man ager, and S. E. Alleman, son of
Judge s. L. Alleman, as assistant.
Louis Duhon, formerly of Ascen-
sion and well-known in this section of
the sugar belt as a good planter and
manager, goes from Gen. W. j. Be-
hans Alhambra plantation, near
Whitecastle, where he has been en-
ployed as assistant manager, to fill
the same position on Maurice Han
Ions Eureka plantation, near Bayou
Goula.
May Live 100 Years.
The chances for living full century are ex-
cellent in the case of Mrs. Jennie Duncan. of