The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-05-30
DoNALDsoNV1IIE "A SATURDAY, 50 sos
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Sanders Making Good the Gangs Prom
ises-Building Work Making Rapid
Progress-Amateur Nights at
Nickel Theatres.
New OrIeans I,s Nav 7S


Special Correspondence of The Chief.
Ice cream and refreshment stands
are doing rushing business all over
the city, and even West End is doing
great deal better than it deserves,
owing to the uniformly hot weather we
nave been enjoying or otherwise for
the past few days. 'Tis an i'll wind
that blows no one good, and when the
coal man suffers the ice man gets his.
inning, but the common people lose
both going and coming and we might
as we'll smile and be pleasant, buy
ourselves a few palm leaf fans, screen
our cisterns, and between the brew
cries and the lemonade stands we may
manage to pull through until next
| overcoat time. The bundle bee now
! sings his lay, the bullfrog croaks his
medley, the little children guzzle pop
and other things more deadly. The
| mercury is on the rise with business at
the level; the good old summer time
is here and it's hotter than the-dick-
ems. The Chief offers a free round
trip from New Orleans to AIgiers
| to the working girl who submits the
best original musical composition to
fl the foregoing. Contest closes to-
night at $50. Each contestant will be
required to produce certificate show
Ing that she has paid her subscription
regularly for the four years preceding
this lssue. Vote early and often.
Governor Sanders is at least max
| ing determined effort to keep some
of those numerous election promises
| dangled before the eyes Of the faithful
before the election. It's case of doing
something for rybody and be salts
fed with what you get, but none but
my people" are going to hold any
thing if Jared knows his business.
which he thinks he does. Blanchar IS
appointees have been ingloriously
ousted to make way for friends of the
/ gang, and many OF the boys who have
been cleaning the substance from two
jobs at one and the same time have
been notified that they will have to
struggle along with one or the other
and give another friend a chance to
get his nose in the trough. It's a fine
schemefor the gang if the jobs hold out,
and at such time as this is the only
course left open. The only fault with
it is that those who have been kicked
out are Demoer ats, too, and represent
a strong opposition which gave the
regulars an interesting run during the
state primary. These chaps are
strengthening their clique and are
going to swoop down harder than ever
when the next opportunity presents it,
self. have already predicted that
the gang is OVERRIDING Jhings which
will lead eventually to its undoing,
and the turning OF the lane is nearer
than many may imagine.
The customs inspectors at this port
/ gave their first annual banquet at the
| Old Hickory restaurant last Thursday
night, and the occasion was marked
as one of the most successful of the
year. Hons. Henry Mccall and L. E.
Bentley, collector ard special deputy
collector of customs, were present and
responded to toasts, as did also a
number of other heads of departments
in the customs service.
Work on the new Commercial Hotel
in Royal street is progressing rapidly
and there will be at least one more
modern structure to house the visit.
ors to the city next winter. 1t is re.
ported that the Audubon Hotel, the
excavating work of which has beer
finished, is being held up pending &C,
tion on the anti-race track fight nov
being made before the legislature, an6
for some reason the construction il
not advancing. The race track fol
lowers are making capital of the sit
uation to a great extent and such ar
guments will have tremendou:
weight, particularly in the city. Til,
new courthouse is being rapidly com
pleted, The Carnegie public Hbrar,
will be occupied by the END of th
summer and the public is expectantl,
awaiting operations to commence OF
the new postofice. Add to these the nes
, water publication plant at Carrollton
and New Orleans has no reason t.
, complain of the public improvement
the city is adding to itself.
) White City still leads in the amuse
I ment line with its weekly offerings {
: light opera, but the nickel theatre
whose names are legion draw va:
number of five-cent pieces from th
: pleasure. seeking popn1ace. "Amateu
z nights are holding forth twice a wee
at some of these places, while ever
: manager who has sufficient energy /
9 hustle in five or six youthful Thesp
+ ans with sufficient courage to face tt
{ probability of awful obloquy fro
the ubiquitous "hook, has at leass OF
> night a week for these free and cas-.
I have-a-go time performances. The
II have proven profitable and ais
highly entertaining to the many WI
!. attend.
Z Beginning June /, the Canal sire
,e stores will close at S o. M, instead !,
h 6 O'Clock, and at p. ID. on Saturda a,
\ fSNr +.