The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-01-12
NEW ORLEANS PROGRESS
Continued from First Page.

DfGAuGSef 5OHOt oSS'
water and clean streets municipal
sanitatton) is a city's best investment,
giving quickest, largest and surest
returns. Then, and only then, we can
Justly lay claim to the title OF the
winter capital of America. There
are ways and means to accomplish
this, and we of the Progressive Union
must lend our best aid.
Mr.. Godchaux closed by thanking
the members for his reelection as
president, promising renewed activity
in the cause of the city's advancement
in the new year, pledging himself to
kee pthe streets clean in front of his
residence and store, and to urgehis
neighbors to do likewise.
The report of Secretary Trezevant
merits reproduction in full, for it was
all valuable, timely and interesting,
but our limited space will permit only
the subioined salient extracts from
the Times Democrats summary OF the
| document:
Embodied in the report submitted
| by Secretary M. B. Trezevent were
many statistics which bore evidence OF
the fact that New Orleans had grown
remarkably during the last year. 1t
also contained number OF recon-
| mend ations that are considered to be
we'll worth considering, and, all in
all, this document offered one of the
most interesting topics of discussion
presented. Among many other evil
dences of growth in all respects, Mr..
Trezevant showed:
That New Orleans bank clearings
had for the first time passed the bill
lion-dollar mark, being S57, 480, 343
greater than the clearings for 1905.
That the postal receipts here showed
a gain of 1872, 02S.82 over the, year
before.
That the total value of exports and
imports at this poiat had exceeded
5000. 600, 900.
That realty values had made astound'
| ing advances, and that one of the fea.
lures of the real estate conditions had
been the reclamation and draining OF
| swamp lands hitherto considered val
ueless.
/ That during the first ten months Of
1906 New Orleans received 29,500, 00(
eaa;-a. a e. g 1n 800
DusheIs % gfalL, . as dInso 20, UOO, OoOs
the amount received during the same
period in 1906.
The exports of wheat and oats
showed big increases for 1905.
That in rice another gratifying in
crease was shown, the shipments up to
Oct. 81, 1906, being 538, 900, as against
BIG, 900 shipped up to the same time in
1905.
That tobacco shipments aggreg ated
30, 1853 hogsheads, as against 1892
hogsheads in the year previous.
That coffee imports showed phe-
nomenal gaia, the imports to June 80,
1906, amounting to 213,O06, $50 pounds,
an unprecedented increase in every
particular.
And that the imports of bananas
| reached 10, 600, 900 punches, an increase
of 5000, 900 punches over the previous
year, while cocoanut imports in
creased from 35,000,0o0 to 10000, 900.
With regard to municipal improve
ments, Mr.. Trezevant touched on the
| completion of the municipal asphalt
repair plant and the Improvement in
street cleaning. There was still much
to be done on the streets, however, and
the cutters were even yet badly in need
of attention. The progress on the un-
derground sewerage system and the
activity in building in New Orleans
was referred to. It was shown that
during 1906 nearly $12,000,00 had
been expended on building improve
ments. A number of large building
projects are spoken of in the report.
The unprecedented activity in the payment
of poll taxes for 1906 was dwelt upon
/ and attention was called to the fact
that the courthouse commission is
ready to go ahead with the building
of the new 81, 900, 900 courthouse.
Under the head of port improve.
ments, Mr.. Trezevant called attention
to the work of the board of port com.
missioners in the building of the fine
new wharves and steel sheds along the
river front; to the activity of the belt
commission in completing the Rbeli
railroad system; to the advent OF the
Louisiana Railway and Navigation
Company, which Is coming into New
Orleans over it's own tracks; to the
placing In commission of the South
ern Pacific Company's big steamship
| Momus, built for the New Orleans
Havana trade; to the big work of the
New Orleans Terminal Company a
Ch almette to the fact that the levees
of Louisiana are all in excellent CON
dition; to the governments improve
i ment work at Southwest Pass, which
will be opened for navigation by the
largest ships afoat in about eighteen
months, and to the generally favora
BILE conditions existing at the mouth o.
the Mississippi.
The Progressive Unions part in ths
fight for New Orleans fair share o.
the trade with Panama was given con
| siderable space in Mr.. Trezevant'.