The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
FOR GREATER NEW ORLEANS.

| FOR GREATER NEW ORLEANS.
Crescent City Catches Spirit of I'm
dustrial Activity.
Enterprise, in which the element
Of printers ink plays most impor-
liant role, is the foundation of Amer
ica's marvellous prosperity. The men
of New Orleans have caught the spir-
1t of broader endeavof, and On every
hand there is abundant evidence OF
this fact. New Orleans is the metro
polls of the South, the gateway to
the Panama Canal, and the seaport
Of the Mississippi Valley. 1t is meet,
therefore, that the business men OF
that City should take leading part
in the programme of development,
expansion and preparation for the
great impetus to trade and commerce
that has come with the awakening
OF the South and that will come with
1 the opening of the Panama Canal.
In anticipation of bigger things, New
/ Orleans has spent many millions of
dollars in installing the most modern
and complete municipality owned
sewerage, drainage and pure water
system on the American continent, in
constructing publicly owned freight
wharves and monster steel freight
sheds, in building municipality own.
ed belt railroad for the expeditions
and inexpensive handling of domes-
tic and foreign freight, in paving
and lighting her streets and in other
/ ways improving the facilities and OPP
portunities enjoyed by her business
men and in defending and upbuilding
/ ole - h0 %o,.
Capital of America"
Within the past two or three years
many modern skyscrapers have re-
placed old buildings there, while
modern hotels, theatres and public
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 six
or seven stories. Since then tests have
shown a strata Of rock. hard clay
and twenty or twenty five feet
below the surface and now New Or
leans boasts tall buildings with two
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
large enough to contain all the ships
in the world without over crowding.
The government has recently opened
forty foot channel through the pass
es to the Gulf, thus accommodating
the deepest draft vessels afloat.
With the opening of the Panama
Canal, the opening of all the year
navigable channels from Chicago,
Pittsburg and other cities on the tri-
butaries to the Mississippi river, the
completion OF the great railroad sys-
TENS now under construction, the in
auguration of new steamship lines
plans for which have already been
drawn up, the influx of an untaxed
foreign and northern investment
capital which will follow the adop-
ton of constitutional amendment
to be voted on in November next, and
the development of Mississippi VAL
ley imports and exports by way Of
the Mississippi River, New Orleans
Will grow in population and impor-
lance probably. more rapidly. than
any other city in the Union Logi-
cally it should be the second city in
the United States. 1t has the huge
and unequalled advantage of water
transportation to and from forty
states and an open channel to the
sea, thence to all the ports of the
world.
A modern cotton warehouse public
ly owned and conducted solely for
the purpose Of protecting the bale
from excessive charges and unneces-
sary damage, is to be erected at New
orleans. 1t Is to have a storage ca
pacity of 100000 bales all of which
Will be handled by machinery, an
electric hook finally dropping the bale
into its proper place in the hold of
the ship in which it is to go abroad.
In SO far as the social side of New
Orleans City life is concerned, far
reaching improvements are taking
place. The carnival! French town,
the opera and all that the old City
Is famous for, will remain intact, but
suburban residences will soon spring
up and country homes within the cor
porate limits of the City will soon
open the eyes of the Urban residents
generally. Even now some very large
portion of the City are being drained,
raised and subdivided, and in the
not distant future magnificent homes
hover gardens and lawns away from
the crowded thoroughfares and yet
within five miles of Canal street will
mark another great step in the ad-
vancement of~New Orleans.
The object of the advertising COM
G nf
of commerce, but there is little dam
ger that bigger business enterprises
will rob New Orleans social life of
the joys that long ago brought fame
to that half French, half American
town at the mouth of the Mississippi.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Don't be afraid of fear.