Lower coast gazette., 1909-10-23
The Future of the Back
>.LeVee.

THE future OF the back le'ee =,
district seems no'longer a matter -
# doubt. The enthusiastic meet =
ne of the Board of Commission :,
rs for the East Bank Levee Dis :.
;rict held at the Courthouse on y
has settled the matter. :
A meeting. had been adver- :
Used for. that. date and it was !
generally made known that the !
question Of rebuilding the back I
|evee would be considered at this
session of the Board. As a con-
whereof, an out-pour'
ing of citizens and taxpayers,
such as has seldom gathered at
a meeting of this character,
turned out to bear testimony to
the deep concern they felt in
the matter.
Long before the hour schedul-
ed for the meeting, the back
levee was inspected by a
party composed Of Major Frank
M. Kerr, Chief of the Board OF
State Engineers, Jos. Monget,
Asst. Engineer, President Aaron
Davis, Secretary Emile Schayot,
Attorney John Dymond, Jr.,
Judge R. Emmett Hingle and
Representative Simon Leopold.
The trip was made for the pur-
pose of affording to Major Kerr
an opportunity to view in person
the serious damage wrought by
the storm, although a previous
inspection had been made some
weeks ago by Engineer Monget.
The party used the trim launch
of Mr.. Oliver S. Livaudais, re-
turning after several hours full
ly cognizant Of the awful condi-
tons existing along almost the
entire line of levee. Both Major
Kerr and Mr.. Monget expressed
themselves as being satisfied
that the injury had not been ex-
aggerated in the reports first
sent out.
At 1;3O p. m. the meeting room
was more than comfortably filled
with people, nearly all Of whom
resided within the district. Every
one had in mind a common cause.
the erection of another back
levee and this spirit. was evi
denced by the unanimity Of opin
ion and harmony which pre-
vailed. 70 - -. . 90
The reading Of the minutes an
other routine matters dispose
, Of, the Secretary read a yer
4 able and elaborate report SUI
-. mitted to the Board by Assistar
' Engineer Monget, showing tn
extent of the injury as a resu
of the recent preliminary surve
). made by him. His report Shove
8 in detail the wash, breaks an
all data in connection with tt
injury done. Mr.. Monget SUI
y gested that it would require a.
proximately $4,000 cubic yar'
It of dirt to repair the damage al
Re thai all sectio'
'e be raised two feet above Il
4 grade such as existed at Point
Re ala Hache before the storm al
at that the levee's slope be chang
er from ESQ to l to 8 to l slope.
It. The President then stated tn
We the main object of the meeti
d. was to devise ways and mea
an for the levee's reconstruct
and called upon Mr.. John [
he mond, Jr., the Attorney for t
Board, to express the the vie
OF of the Board on the questi'
a Mr.. Dymond. in eloquent tern
lal and voicing the sentiment
no everyone present, address
as Major Kerr and Mr.. Mong
ate laying before them, as repres
Ter tatives of the State Board Of
ate gineers, the urgent necessity
nat financial assistance from the 9
IN side. He paid a fitting trib
be to the interest the State Boa
fh and in the past more particuls
'rts Major Kerr, had taken in
to welfare of the Back Levee, 1
ock called upon them now in the
ple's hour of EXTREMIST neces
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