The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-06-06
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Morning World suspends Publication.
Memorial Day Fittingly Observed.
Record Breaking Receipts
at Custonhouse.
Naw Orleans. La. June 4. 1903.

TO view the adoption Of such a meas
nre. The element which favors the
continuance OF the annual swindle at
the local tracks were of course quick
tn voice their disgust and to cry out
something or other about ''blue laws
and 'skilling the town. The profess
sional reformers, on the other hand
those who make a specially of finding
out long list of things which others do
and they don't and which must there
fore be wrong were jubilant aud may
be said to have fairly chortled witty
gIee. The average sober minded citizen
however, felt differently from either.
While there is undoubtedly strong
sentiment against race track gambling
among the substantial portion of the
local populace, 1t does not arise from
any quickened sense of morality nor
pleasures of any class of citizens. It
IS founded rather on plain matter of
fact business principles. Does racing
pay? Does it help the city or the peo.
pie therein? The agitation raised by
the issue has caused this question to
be probed to the bottom and the an
swer from the most of the business
men and property owners is, no. II it
was believed that the abolition OF
racing would injure the commercial
interests of the city instead OF helping
them, the fate of any such bill as the
one now pending would have been
sealed long ere this, if it had been
brought up at all. We are not given
to morbid sentimentali5y down here,
and there is about as much Of a
chance for so,called ssblue laWsn to
get a hold in this southern metropolis
as of the Ancient Order of Htbernians
laying the corner stone of d Masonic
temple. Racing has been weighed
in the balance by fair, impartial
judges and found wanting. It has
been killed, not by the reformers, but
| by its own devotees. And the state
and city are winners for the first time.
The Morning World, after a brief
but eventful career, has passed into
the great beyond. Tuesday evening
Judge Saunders, of the federal court,
ordered that the publication be dis
continued and the plant sold to satisfy
the claims of the creditors, SO that the
familiar s'red-head" was conspicu-
ously absent from the homes of the
subscribers Wednesd ay morning.
After toiling assiduousIy, lodging a
police inspectors bullets, annihiIabine
all medical quacks at one fell swoop,
"investig gating" Avery's Island and
4 carrying out other routine work toe
numerous to mention, Toe Leveque Is
campaign militant is ended The
World may rise again, but never
with Leyeque's hand to guide it. The
sincerity of his efforts are unques.
toned, but he has proven too forcefu
for the handling of an infant news.
paper enterprise. It requires strength
TO fight, and newspaper strength re-
Equires time to build up. It is made VI
of a thoroughly established confidence
on the part of it's patrons. This con
6dence can never be obtained on sucf
short acquaintance and for this rea
son the World had done better to eui
tivate friends at the start instead o
constantly seeking out a new host o
enemies to conquer. [ believe, how
ever, that its influence was general,
for good and it is with regret that
learned of it's unfortunate ending
Let US at least remember it as a nobl
enterprise, #conscientiously and hope
fully undertaken, which has fallen i
trying TO maintain the ideals wit
which it started out, and also remem
Der that this in itself constitutes sue
cess.
The Elks have announced a gran
Elksfest to be given on June 1914 6
, the City Park race rack. for the Pun
pose of raising funds for the ordel
Whatever this lodge has done befol
it has done we'll and there is no doul
but that the approaching festival wi
! equal any entertainment they hay
ever devised for the public. Away
{ leaders in charity and public ente
t prise, it is certain that the money wi
E be devoted to good cause, and it
: to be hoped that the festn proves
q great financial success.
Confederate memorial day was o.
: served Wednesday, June 3. by Il
I different organizations of veterans al
! allied societies. SaIutes were fired
a detachment from Batteries A and
J. of the Louisiana Field Artillery al
r many floral tributes were placed up,
d the graves OF the departed heroes
q honor OF the memory Of the cause
If which they gave their efforts.
y The receipts at the local eusto
Il house for Tuesday. June2. aggfega at
t t, over 1881 600, breaking all previo
i. n records for one day. by about s25,
4 4 The most Of the amount was paid
of for two shiploaas of German b
n. sugar from Hamburg, which are D
4 dischargipg. KRATs
Baseball tomorrow.