Lower coast gazette., 1909-12-18
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will have an increase Of $50, OG0 in its
revenues this season and the prospects
for an increase in the salaries Of the
public school teachers are quite bright.
The Louisiana delegation in Wash
ingtDn is making q strong fight with
Secretary OF the Navy Meyer for the
retention in active service of the New
Orleans Navy Yard.
ME thermometer fell thirty-eight
degrees in New Orleans on Tuesday,
December Z.
The National Good Roads Associa-
ton will hold its next annual meeting
in New Orleans this coming April.
The Will Of the late Isidore Newman
distributes $54, 800 among New Orleans
public and charitable institutions, Au-
dubon Park being the largest bene-
ficiary, receiving $25. 900. To the Jew
ish Widows and Orphans Home and
the Isidore Newman Manual Training
School he left each $4,000; TO Touro m
tirmary 5000; to the Young Mems
Hebrew Association, Young Mems
Christian Association, Tulane Uni;er-
sity, Horne for Incurables, Jewish Hos
pital for Consumptives in Denver, Dr..
krauskopf for Farm School in Phila-
delphia, the Jewish poor at Kaiser
lantern, Germany and the Louisiana
Anti-TuberculOsis League, each 81, 900.
To the Atlanta Orphans Home, Or
gained Charity, The Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat Hospital, Women's Dis
pensary, German Protestant Home,
Kinsley House and St. Vincent's Or
phan Asylum, each $500. To News
boys Home, Seamen's Bethel, Little
Sisters of the Poor, House Of Good
Shepherd, Lepers' Home, Chinchuba
Deaf and Dumb Institute, State Blind
Asylum, State Deaf and Dumb Asylum,
and the Lafon Home for Old Folks
(colored) each $3.50.
The estate Of Isidore Newman was
assessed at $1O,555 as an inheritance
TAX on worcestershire property.
The convention Of Louisiana State
Librarians was held in New Orleans
Friday and Saturday Of Last week, the
sessions being held at Tulane and New
comb Colleges and the New Orleans
Public Library. The organization of
these librarians into an association was
effected by Chalmers Hadley, secre-
tary Of the American Library Associa-
ton.
Two deaths occurred in New Orleans
in one day as the result of street ac-
ridents, II from a street car and the
other a wagon, Capt. Tobias Burke and
David Doyle being the victims.
The New Orleans Parking Commits
sion has secured a site for a tree nur-
seSy on the tract bounded by Broad,
White. Clio and McIpomene streets,
consisting Of eight acres. Edward
Haker, former superintendent Of Au-
cubcn Park, Wi. be appointed superin-
tendent OF the tree nursery.
Hon. John A. Wogan, who was ap-
pointed by President Taft to be the
head OF the census work in the district
of Orleans, has opened an Office at sos
Gravier Street and has selected his
chief Clerk in tie person Of Lew Ayril.
The New Orleans Post Office will be
made a distributing point for pos
Office supplies, such as postage stamps,
stamped enyelops, etc, in a territory
that will probably cover Louisiana,
Texas, Alabama, mississippi and Flor.
ida.
The Board of Administrators Of the
New Orleans Charity Hospital is ap'
parently keeping religion out of the
hospital" by combining the privileges tt
the Catholic religion.
The New Orleans Sewerage ane
water Board will cut off all con
nections with the old city water main:
after December 81 and all persons get
ting city water must be connected W
with the new water system.
A peculiar death recently occurred il
New Orleans in the cast of Miss Mar
garet Fusch, who stuck a splinter il
her toe on October first, and APPARENT.
entirely recovered from the accident
but early in December lockjaw set in
from which she died on December 10
1t is reported that Minnesota capita
will finance the big cement and Goa
company that proposes establishing
headquarters in New Orleans and op
Grating a barge line between New Or
leans and Alabama points through
the Warrior River, Lake Borgn'
Canal and the Mississippi River
The capital Of the new company fnanc
ing the Mobile Portland Cement ant
Coal Co. is three millions of dollars.
Mrs. VIM. ]. Bryan passed througI
New Orleans on her way to join he
husband for q trip to South America
where Mr.. Bryan is scheduled to lecture
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