The Washington herald., 1910-10-29
AT THE HOTELS

Il read with sstonishment the remark.
able statements made by Mr. George II.
Brock, who claims to have lived In New
Orleans and is now a resident Of san
Francisco. said f. D. Armstrong. rep-
resenting the Worlds Panama EXPOSE
ton Company. at the New Ebbltt House
last night In justice TO New Orleans.
would Ike 10 say that Mr. Brock has
evidently never taken the trouble TO ae-
quite the slightest idea OF the conditions
that really exist in my city He tells the
public that the water used in that CITY Is
! filthy when every well-infOrmed person
knows that New Orleans has Installed AZ
an expense OF something Ike $. so 11l
inc most modern and extensive filtration
plant In the world. The drinking water
lof New Orleans has been pronounced By
the best chemists in the United states 10
be absolutely pure
/ ITO give an idea Of the modern New
orleans, would Ike 10 say that from
/ 1897 70 1873, inclusive. We have spsnt on
/ sewerage, water. and drainage systems
SlsD0,O01. We spent for street paving
and subsurface drainage 100000. upon
public buildings S2.5000Gl has been ex-
pended. OF levee improvements on the
/ twenty miles OF river front 100000. on
wharyes and docks S2.50le0. on a public
/ belt road 10000, making a total OF S35.-
/ "p"e Within the next five years ST.
{ 1000 more viii be spent making a total
/ expenditure before 1915 OF $69. 1000
/ The existing hotel accommodations
were sufficient 10 care comf0z tabIy for
upward OF 5000 shriners and their friends
| last spring, and there is ample time in
which 10 build all the hotel space that an
| exposition would make necessary.
In order 70 set al rest any idea that
| New Orleans intends 10 hold q summer
/ exposition after Congress makes the
award. / would ike 10 say that the date
/ for the opening has been fixed for Sep
/ TENDER and the closing Tor day. Weather
| statistics will easily show the climatic
! conditions existing during those months.
/ New Orleans bases her claims 70 the ex-
position upon business principles whiCn
tell every business man that the logical
point is the point closest 70 the people
/ Within 100 miles Of New Orleans there
I are 81. GO J00 people and within that same
distance Of san Francisco there are but
/ 100000 New Orleans Is but so miles
I from the center OF the population Of the
( United States san Francisco is 2.500 miles
]
/ days from Panama, and san Fran
cisco is twenty-one days. New Orleans
+ Is within twenty-five hours ride OF ,le
/ bulk OF he factories OF the United States
/ and san Francisco averages more than
/ three days. New Orleans can bring the
( buyers from South and Central America,
and the factory districts can divert the
/ trade from Europe"
DR.. Cecil Kerr. Of London, who is 81
/ the shoreham. IN speaking OF English
/ babies. said last night,
/ Physicians are constantly finding chill
dren. mere babies simply victims "
/ nerves. Dyspepuc little people. who num-
. Der their age by months. are another
familiar problem 10 the hospital doctors
/ When babies grow languid and show a
/ lack OF tone. the old-fashi0ned remedies
are OF no avail
The fact is. the stress Of modern con-
( ditions is having an injurious effect on
inianuie constitutions. Our children are
I blase and wOTld-woTn little men and
women before they are well out Of tire
nursery. Parents, who forget, or perhaps
DO not know that e child's brain has not
been properly formed till the end q the
seventh year, permit their little ones %
lead lives fun of excitement With tie
/ children Of the rich the retiring hour
! has been changed from % 10 o'clock.
. Parents have discovered the prec0cious
. children amusing, and therefore like 20
have them appear in The drawing-room
al night.
The vices as we'll as the diseases Of
the groWn-ups have appeared IL our too
. enterprising babies. 4 member OF the
Woman Cooperative Guild IS responsible
for the statement that babies have de-
veloped a decided fondness for whisky
! SO pronounced, indeed, that attendants az
the warehouses. where dePraved babies
are 10 be found in the largest number
have the utmost difficulty in inducing
Il them 20 take food unless 70 tastes Of
whisky This infanule failing Is a IA
lnilisr feature in the poorer districts OF
London
The whisky baby. OF. as II IS gem
orally known In England or London. the
gin baby. is well known 20 US. Nurses
al creches and workhouse inhTmaTies al
ways have great difficulty IN making
these babies take ordinary uilk. They
miss the gin which nuts them 10 sieep