The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-02-02
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
A Youthful Lipguist-"Cheer Up. Mary..n'
Now Orleans Wants Square Deal.
Cotton-Mill Combine-Death

oA NAAJOf h0DerE SCFOnBs
New Orleans. La, Jan. 80, 1867.
staff Correspondents of The Chief.
A young friend OF mine-twelve
years young, she is-has q great par
tiality for using big words. Ere.
quently she attributes TO word a
meaning to which it is entirely foreign,
with the result that her conyers alton
often borders on the grotesque. The
other day she said to me: ''Miss Ella,
only temperate men call on you, doa't
they?'' | was amazed, to say the least.
well, | hope so, Ethel. !" ! replied,
what makes you say that?' "Be-
cause, she continued, "I'ye always
noticed that when young ladies are tall
like you they have temperate men to
call on them" Ny amazement didn't
show any signs of lessening. Ethel, =
said I. "what do you think temper
ate means?n "Why medium.sized,
OF course" returned Ethel, promptly.
Every body is singing, whistling and
humming Cheer Up, Mary q catchy
bit OF melody that scored a tremendous
hit at the Orphenm last week. The
vaudeville artist who sang it did one
of the most original stunts / have
ever seen: he virtually compelled the
audience to join in the merry chorus
of the song by much fun-making and
persistent coaxing, and finally left the
stage altogether while the Orpheum
audience was in the midst of the
swinging chorus, which they continued
to sing to its melodious finish. That
man could make hit out of any old
tune.
Albert Godchaux, president of the
New Orleans Progressive Union, sent
50O-word telegram to President
Roosevelt putting forth the claims of
New Orleans for consideration In
Panama Canal matters, and particu-
larly in the distribution of orders and
acquisitions for goods consumed on
the isthmus. Mr.. Godchaux asked
for a "sQuare deal, = and as the pres
ident believes in that for every man,
he can't well refuse it to this big city.
w. H. Williams, traffic manager of
the Merchant and Manufacturers
Association of Pittsburg. one of the
most powerful financial organizations
in the country, in q communication to
James w. Porch, president of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Import and Export
Association, fully indorsed the move
ment to secure subsidized guilt steam
ship line to the east coast of South
America.
At the annual meeting of Chapter
No. II, Daughters of the Confederacy,
held in Memorial Hall Monday after
noon, Mrs. Geo. 81. Tichenor was
unanimously elected president. The
vote for first vice president resulted
In tie between Miss Sophie Wright
and Mrs. D. A. S. Vaught, Miss
Wright gracefully retiring In favor of
her opponent.
The Lane-M Maginnis and Mississippi
Cotton Mills consolidated into the
Textile Mills Corporation with an au-
thorized capital of $1,000, 900, making
one OF the largest plants in the coun.
try. s. Odenheimer is at the head Of
the new corporate
An unusual ceremony was celebrated
at the Sacred Heart Convent in St.
Philip street last Sunday morning,
when mass was sung in the Syrian
language by Rev. Joseph X. Yazbek.
Proprietors of hotels and fashion
able boarding houses here have de-
c1ared that indications seem to point
TO a record breaking crowd for the
carnival this year.
Last Friday night the Scottish Club
OF New Orleans appropriately OBJ
served the one hundred and twenty
eighth anniversary Of the birth Of
Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
Colonel Andres R. Blakely. who
passed the sixty-sixth milestone of his
career last Thursday, was presented
with handsome loving cup In re-
membrance of the occasion by the en-
ployees of the st. Charles Hotel.
Major Robert Strong, general agent
OF the Texas and Pacific Railway
Company and one Of the veteran EN-
rioyees of that railroad, died here on
the oath instant, after q brief illness.
The singing OF Nine. Lillian Nor
dica, who made her debut with the
San Carlo Opera Company in la
Gioconda" Saturday evening, was
greatly disappointing to the large and
fashionable audience that filed the
old French opera house.
A handsome oil painting of Mrs.
Caroline Meriwether Goodlett, founder
OF the order OF the United Daughters
of the Confederaey. was presented TO
Memorial Hall with appropriate cere-
monies by New Orleans Chapter No.
u, United Daughters OF the Confed-
eracy. e. B.
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T,eyyv sseasis.