The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-09-05

/ ica's maryelo1s perIty. The me,
it Of broader and on ever
hand there lltt evidence 0
this fact. New 3l ns is the metro
polls of the So5l the gateway t,
the Panama E and the seapor
of the MissisS liey. Il Is meet
/ therefore business men O
that City sh03 ~ q leading par
in the progE development
expansion2AI AI3 b q ffhtiOn for th,
great inp< kU le and commerc
Id anticipat ti0l III bigger things. New
Orleans has spent many millions o
dollars in installing the most moderl
and complete municipality owne;
sewerage, drainage and pure waite
system on the American continent, il
constructing publicly owned freigh
wharves and monster steel freigh
sheds, in building a municipality own
ed belt railroad for the expedition.
and inexpensive handling of domes
tic and foreign freight, in paving
and lighting her streets and in othel
ways improving the facilities and op
portunities enjoyed by her bushes:
men and in defending and upbuildins
her claim to the title The Winter
Capital of America. z
Within the past two or three year:
many modern skyscrapers have re
placed old buildings there, while
modern hotels, theatres and publ,
buildings in numbers have gone up
A decade ago architects held to the
idea that foundations could not be
laid in New Orleans strong enough
to hold building higher than si1
or seven stories. Since then tests have
shown strata of rock, hard ella,
and twenty or twenty five fee
below the surface and now New Or
leans boasts tall buildings with tive
or three cellars under the GROUND
Just as other cities do, while the new
drainage system has already remov'
ed the moisture from the soil with
the result that one must now dig
just as deeply at New Orleans before
striking water as at other cities.
The harbor at New Orleans is one
of the greatest In the world and is
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a forty foot channel through the pass.
es to the Gulf. thus accommodating
the deepest draft vessels afioat
With the opening of the Panama
Canal. the opening of all the year
navigable channels from Chicago
h,,ts !. $3.50 aau o.usl Sl..cs W lne ~.
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Orleans City life is concerned, far