St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-03-13
LOUISIANA PARTY RE-
TURNS FROM The TAFT
INAUGURATION.

lNHUuUAHIlUN
The Louisiana party, headed BY
Gov. Sanders, who attended the in
auguration Of President Taft in.
Washington, has returned home, ar
irving IN New Orleans at Z o'clock
morning.
Most Of the st. Landry party re-
turned home Monday. Sheriff Swords
and a few others remaining IN New
Orleans until Tuesday.
All report a most glorious time
but a costly one. The Yankees feeced
the Dixieites a la mode. An idea Of
the extent Of the highway robbery
practiced on the occasion of the in
auguration of a President Of the
United States can be CLEANED from
the following incidents, given in the
Times-Democrat
People who went TO the Taft in
a%uguration could never complain of
the Carnival prices ii New Orleans.
Here the visitor does have some show,
but IN Washington the chance comes
but once every four years, and the
hotel and restaurant keepers, the
lodging house and boarding house
keepers, the saloon men, the ehauf-
feurs and che cabmen certainly know
how to take advantage of that once
in four years opportunity. A few
examples will suffice to show that
Washington people are past adopts in
the art of extracting the dollars of
the visitors. One of the Louisiana
delegation inC Congress told the keeper
of second OF third class hotel that
if be could get reasonable rates he
would send some Louisiana visitors TO
the hotel, and be was told TO send
them on, and assured they would be
charged reasonably and given the
best Of Accommodations. a gentleman
from Algiers, his son and q friend
went TO this hotel, and were assigned
a plainly furnished room with double
bed and a cot in ii.
After dinner, an hour after they
had registered, the Algiers party de-
cided to ask the rate for their room,
and were told il would cost them $75
per day, $25 each, For the bare room.
The Algiers men turned the room
back on the hotel keeper, but were
forced to pay him S25, because nomi-
nally they had occupied the room an
hour, while ID reality they were in the
hotel dining room paying Sits for
ham and eggs and twice that sum for
single sirloin beefsteaks.
"0ne Louisiana man from the rice
section hailed an automobile TO take
himself and three ladies' out for d
tour Of the city. They had The car
about 1--WE hours, and when they got
back to the New Willard Hotel, about
dark, the Louisiana ma almost drop
ped dead when he was told his bill
was 5000. He protested that the bill
was not only extortion, but robbery,
and swore he would go TO Jail before
be paid il. a crowd gathered, and
things were becoming embarrassing
for the ladies, when Representative
Broussard hove ii sight. The situa.
ton was explained to him, and the
chauffeur drove the party and Mr.
Broussard to the garage. There
Dir. Broussard threatened prosecution
and the bill was compromised fol-
500. or about $50 per hour, and The
Louisiana man considered it was for.
tunate he met Mr.. Br0ussard.
ST. Landrians took q prominent
part in all the festivities Of the trip
Among the most enjoyable features
of the return trip was the institution
Of 81 GIoho Society. Much was re.
CURED Of the aspiring candidate fol
membership, the least among the re-
quisites being: The candidate must
have travelled not less than 1000
miles from bis home be must have
been received, either id public Of pri.
Vate audience, By a prince, potentate
or ruler; he must have experiences
the extremes of heat and cold; an5
proposition made BY an El Globe mus
be unintelIigibIe to che members d
the society as well as to himself.
El Globos disturbed the peace Of
the peaceful and added FIRE to the en-.
thusiasm o the exuberant. The higE
rulers, officers and distinguished mem.
bers are: Edward q. Parsons, sym.