Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-28

port shows the total assessment of
Louisiana to have been increased by
half a million.
A big municipal scandal has been un-
covered in the Canadian city Of Mon
treal. where it has been discovered that
appointments on many of the city adj
ministrative forces have been regularly
for sale, besides millions of dollars have
been lost to the city by excessive prices
paid on contract work.
Peonage charges have been made in
Pennsylvania against two officials of
the Pressed Steel Car Co.
The automobile races held in Indian
apOlis, Indiana, last week resulted in
the death Of seven persons and several
others seriously injured and the final
declaring off of the races on account Of
the accident.
Walter Wellman's second attempt to
reach the North Pole by a dirigible
balloon has resulted in failure, the bal
loon having all accident after it had
travelled about thirty miles from its
starting point, the party succeeded in
landing safely, but the balloon was
totally destroyed by an explosion. The
expedition has been abandoned for
this year any way.
The official programme for the meet
ing of Presidents Taft and Diaz, as an
nounced by the Mexican Secretary of
State is that on October Is, Diaz will
arrive in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican
city on the border, just acros the Rio
Grande from Ell Paso; Taft will reach
Ell Paso about the same time; Diaz will
cross the Rio Grande in his train, meet
Taft and attend a banquet, where all
the speech making will be had; then
the two presidents will cross to Juarez,
; where another banquet will be attended
and more speech making.
The New Orleans Progressive Union
is asking for subscriptions to q fund Of
S25, 900 for the entertainment of the
delegates to the Lakes-to-Gulf Deep
Waterways Convention.
The opening of Aviation Week in
Rheims, France, on August e, saw six
eeroplanes in the air at once.
Mayor Martin Behrman of New Or
leans has returned from his summer
vacation, during which he visited eigh-
teen states, going out to the Pacific
coast.
The city Of Decatur, Illinois. has just
had a million dollar fire.
Jerome Meunier. one of the oldest
members Of the Louisiana Bar, died in
New Orleans last Sunday at the age of
eighty-four years.
Some Is, 600 acres of dried lake lands
in the parishes Of DeSoto, Caddo and
Red River will be developed into rice
lands.
St. Bernard.
We learn that the Friscoyille Land
Co. that own the land wherein is build
ing the new Friscoville suburb of New
Orleans, has just made a twenty-five
years. contract with a corporation or
ganized by Mr.. E. j. Westmoreland Of
New Orleans under the style Of the
Chalmette Cypress Co., to grant then
on a long lease, some twenty-five acres
of land in the rear Of the Louisiana
Southern Railroad on the noted LeBeau
property, which belongs to the Frisco.
vile Co. The Chalmette Cypress Co.
has been organized for the purpose Of
taking over the timber. interests pre-.
viously acquired by the Godchauxs anc
Mr.. Frank Williams and Others anC
they now propose to erect on the lands
they have leased from the F~riscovillt
Co. a large saw mill, which will employ
some three hundred men and for which
they believe they have an adequate
timber supply to keep the mill running
more than twenty years. MI. E.. j.
Westmoreland is the president of thu
new company, which includes a number
Of the leading lumber men Of the Soutl
and the company will have Offices il
New Orleans. 1t is understood tina
the work of erection will be taken W
at once and the establishment will b,
built in a first class manner through
out and it's cost is estimated at from
$3.50, 900 to $500, 900.
The Mobile Portland Cement AMI
Coal Co, is now reported to hav'
bought a tract of land below Chalmett'
for the purpose of erecting there dock
for the handling of coal and cement
the coal coming from the Warrior rive
basin in Alabama and the cement
which the company already manufac
lures to the extent Of a million barrel
annually, coming from their Alabam'
cement works. They intend to max
New Orleans their main distributing
point and to get their supplies to thei
new docks here through the LAX
Borgne Canal in barges from Alabama
Mr.. E. L. Russell, president Of tn
corporation, is the vice president of tn