The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-01-12
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Inauguration of the Carnival Seasons Fes-
tiVities-A Budget of City News-Larg-
est PostOfface Business on Record.
Naru nrlnan L. d snnr


n The Carnival season is upon US, It's
formal inauguration being marked by
the ball of the Twelfth Night Revelers
which occurred at the French opera
house Monday night. Mardi Gras this
i year will fall on February IL, and up
to that time the spirit of gayety and
, revelry will hold full sway and the
balls OF the various carnival organi-
, cations will constitute brilliant events
In the social world. 1t is rnmored th at
this years. professions will be even
more beautiful than ever, which is in
, deed dazzling prospect when one
remembers the glories of the pageants
| that have gone before. From now on
/ there will be much mirth' and merry.
making in the old town till Lententide
with it's forty-day engagement stalks
into the limelight and the spirit of
carnival is forced to make it's exit
from the stage of events in this corner
OF the world. Apropos of exits-in
other words, .sskiddoo,' and all that
sort of thing-I heard some one get
off this rather clever parody on '.Why
Don't You Try?" the other afternoon:
They were sitting in the parlor,
She was bored as she could be,
When the clock upon the mantel
Loudly chimsd out ''2Sf'
Said the maiden to the fellow,
4 Don't You know a thing or two9
Trx rkxyhH a, "
1t means skiddoo-it means skiddoog
"Why Don't You Try'' that on the
biggest bore you know?
The year 1906 was declared by the
retail dealers OF this city to have been
one Of unprecedented prosperity and
activity.
A double bill including I'll PsgIi-
acct" was rendered at the French
opera house by the San Carlo Opera
Company last Friday evening for the
benefit of the Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat Hospital.
The New Orleans Terminal Company
last week commenced the work of CUT
ting through the levee at the Chalmette
slip to connect the basin with the river.
The schoolship Stein OF the German
navy, carrying sixty cadets besides its
officers and crew, numbering alto
gether about 475, arrived in port last
Sunday. The sailors and officers at
tended services in a body at the Milan
Street Evangelical Church.
The st. Bernard parish liquor Ii.
cense has been raised fifty dollars.
The remains of John T. Moore, Jr.,
the well-known young sugar planter
who died last Friday on his Waubun
plantation in Terrebonne parish, were
brought to New Orleans and laid to
rest in Metsirie cemetery.
At a meeting of New Orleans Coun-
Gil No. ia. Knights OF Columbus, 1t
was announced that the money needed
to pay for the site at ST. Charles ave.
nue. and Lee Circle had been secured
and the property would be turned over
to the Columbian Realty Company In
few days. The site was purchased
for sl7 900. The knights are planning
to erect thoroughly modern home.
The calendar year of 1906 showed q
total valuation Of exports and imports
through the port OF New Orleans Of
more than $500, ,0OO, 600. The increase
over the year before was s32, ,2O3, ,095.
Bids have been asked for the sale of
ferry privilege in the third district,
from the head of BARRACKS street on
the left bank of the river to the head
of Olivier street on the right bank.
Steamships will have to pay from
thirty to fifty per cent more for tug
service during 1907 than heretofore as
result of the forming OF combination
by the large steamship towage interests
of New Orleans.
The annual meeting of the Phi Chi
Medical Fraternity closed Thursday
evening of last week, and DIR. Thomas
Spec Jones, of Clinton, was nnani.
mously elected grand presiding senior
of the fraternity. Baltimore was cno-
sen as the next place of meeting.
Work was begun on the parochial
school for the parish of st. Francis
Assist, and 1t is planned to have the
ready for use in short while.
It will cost when complete $18, 1856, of
which S11. 900 still remains to be raised.
The Chaille property in Tchoupisou-
las street was purchased last week for
30, 900 by the Parker Blake Company,
wholesale druggists, who contemplate
erecting handsome new building on
;he site.
The New Orleans postofice receipts
Tor the calendar year 1906, as shown
by the report of Postmaster T. j..
exceeded $500, 900, an in
,rease of s92, ,028 over the figures for
he preceding year. The business for
1906 vas the largest ever done by the
office. Capt. Woodward is making an
.ffort to obtain permission from the
department. at Washington TO restore
rec mail delivery to those sections OF
streets and districts from which it was
AIKEN of Jan. /, because of lack OF
proper sidewalks and crossings.
The work Of demolishing the build.
ngs on the site of the new postoflce