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

Question OF freight rates, both rail- ana
steamship. Scarcely week passes
but the Progressive Union receives
communications from its members as
we'll as others who complain of the
excessive rates on various commod1-
ties charged New Orleans shippers as
against the rates of other cities in this
and other territory. / would recon-
mend that the members of the Pro-
gressive Union and the merchants of
New Orleans seriously consider the
ability of employing an expert
enced and energetic freight transpor-
tation man, one thoroughly yersed in
rates and rate-making. whose sole
duty it would be to point out discrep-
ancies to the board of directors and
have the Progressive Union see that
the proper charges are made.
"I would also strongly recommend
and urge a change in the plan OF
raising revenue for the Progressive
Union. The $12 charged is fair
enough tax in so far as the individual
member is concerned, but when it
comes to immense and wealthy COR
/ porations, it is entirely inadequate
and out of proportion. Imagine a
miIion-dollar corporation, benefiting
by the exploitation of New Orleans
through the Progressive Union, pay
/ e.. ~ 81 nc
Union should have fund OF not less
than $3.50, per annum, and | would
strongly urge that ways and means
committee be added, to be composed
of not more than three members, to
devise the proper method to pursue
and to raise the fund. feel assured
it can be done
81 would also strongly recommend
that the Progressive Union attach to
it hotel and accommod alton bureau
for the rooming of visitors. Every
year, at every convention, we see these
bureaus started hurricdly and imcom-
pletely and of merely mushroom
growth. We stand badly in need of a
permanent bureau to take charge OF
the rooming and accommod ations for
visitors to all conventions, fairs or
public functions where out-of-town
people are due to attend. This matter
is we'll worth the serious eonsidera-
ton of the Progressive Union.
"The newspapers have been won
derful aid to US and much of our work
would have been nulliied but for the
liberality of the local press. The same
may in a arsas f,7sfd degree by said
of the outside press, for they have
been able to use large part OF the
matter sent them. The greatest outside
exploitation enjoyed by New Orleans,
however, comes through that greatest
and most accurate of all news gather
ing agencies Associated Press.
The manager here, w. Fl. Blakeslee,
is young man keenly alive to news
and thoroughly ambitious for New
Orleans. It is my pleasure to send
him copies of all articles written for
the local press, and wherever the story
is of sufficient news value or import
ance, the wires OF the Associated
Press carry New Orleans news to mill
lions of readers.
commercially, financially, socially,
artistically, the past twelve months
have been of phenomenal pros
perity for the city-thousands OF
strangers have come to tarry a while,
and come again, and from all sides
I hear reports of confidence and de-
velopment. Not only must we expand
| the city industrialiy, but we must not
overlook her more aesthetic but none
the less important side. What with
her commercial growth, her financial
prosperity, increasing population,
business optimism, her great railroads
and steamship lines; her immense
manufactures. her improving civic
appearance, her new hotels, her race
courses, her lake resorts, her theaters,
her French Opera, her climate, her
geological garden, her restaurants oil
world renown, her Mardi Gras, her
hospitality and her people, New Or
leans should become, as predicted by
Frank Putnam, formerly of Ridge
ways, nov of the New England. Maya.
zine, the winter capital of America. =
During the evening short addresses
were made by L. E. Bentley, G. II.
Terriberry, Sam Blum, G. F. Nosler,
r. McWiIliams, J. M. Pagaud, DR..
Robert Knapp, Edward Burrows,
Joseph Kohn, Bernard Shields, W.
P. Luck, Emile Dieth, Henry Ledou2
and Fl. W. Nathan, all of these gen.
tlemen speaking on various phases Of
the subjects embraced in President
Godch aux's remarks and Secretary
Trezevant's report.
County Assessor Waylaid.
j. w, Coulter of Leslie, S. D.. assessor Of
Stanley county relates the following: 81 was