St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-09-09
MASS MEETING At AB|TA SPRINGS
UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSES THE BRIDGE
The Handsome Pavilion Decorated With Products OF ST.
'Tammany Parish, Flowers and Bunting.
Over Thousand People Brave the Rain and Turn Out to
Show Their Interest and Patriotism.
Speakers Heartily Appauded and Resolutions Of ndorse-
ment are Passed Unanimously

not think it could be accomplished:
That he did not know single ofnclal
of the Belt Line that looked upon
1.-THE matter seriously.
He said that he had proposed a
plan for building the bridge that ne
| thought would be accepted at the
meeting of the committee in OCTOBER
That plan provides for capital OF
ls5.OOO,OOO, or 100000 shares at $50
each, payable 10 per cent cash and
s1.5O per month, with free passage
over the bridge to the amount OF
the stock subscribed. There will
also be charter provision against dis
crimination. That the mayors OF
ICcvingt6n, Vaudeville and ADlta
would be exofficio members OF the
board of directors. He said that the
huying of stock would be co-opera-
tive to the extent that lumber, plllng
or construction material of any kind
that could be used in building the
bridge would be accepted in payment
fof stock.
GEO. KOEPP, JR.
Mr.. Koepp said that New Orleans
needed the bridge worse than 81.
Tammany parish. She needed the
water. the ozone the haven OF safety
in times of sickness and epidemics.
st. Tammany people had always been
friendly toward New Orleans and had
thrown her doors wide open to New
Orleans people in times of distress,
even in such troublous times as those
of 1878 and 1902. In return her
,,:people had built homes in Mississip-
nj, who had closed her doors to them
and held them in detention camps.
That now was the time for New Or
leans to redeem herself by building
this bridge. 1t would in sense be
her salvation. Her exclusive policy
was losing trade for her. Her cotton
was being lost to Galveston, her
lumber to Gulfport, and the Louisl-
ana Rice Growers Association was
| now using every effort to prevent
rice from being shipped to New Or
leans. That this condition was due
/. to the exclusiveness of New Orleans
and her disregard of every interest
! in the State except her own. TO
prosper, she must learn that her in
terests are interviewer with every
other interest in the State. That to
become a great city she must not
only do things for herself, but she
must be a force within the state for
the development and prosperity of
every portion of it. She had an op-
portunity in the building of this
bridge to weave sympathetic bond
as well as to launch business pro-
ject that would be one of the great
est upbuilders for the city.
He said that the rich man could
always provide for himself. What
was needed was an opportunity for
the poor man to place himself in a
position to be of benefit to the State
That it was difficult for man OF
moderate means to get money at q
New Orleans bank. That the pro-
ceedings were SO costly as to be pro-
hibitive, and that the country banks
were following the bad example set
That is was monkey see, monke.
do" 1t was the time for New Or.
leans to accept her mission as a great
city and to become a worker for the
prosperity of the whole State ano
net a drainer of it's resources into
her own Golfers to be spent abroad
and for the building of homes il
other States. The building of thi:
bridge would be a stepping stone tt
her future greatness. a..
DIR. E. E. BARCLAY.
DR.. E. e. Barclay, of the New Or
leans Item, made an excellent talk
but it was SO interspersed will
poetry and anecdotes that it would
be diffiuclt to give its sense withou
. reporting it in whole.
He announced his regrets tina
Mayor Behrman was prevented from
being present by death in his family
Elc said that the mayor was a B. b.
which meant that he was a "Bi,
Rooster" He said that every bridg
enthusiast should wear a "B. B.
!, button, for it also meant ..Bridg
) Booster Mr.. Barclay said that W
J would get the bridge if we wen
!, after it.
) captain Millar then presented th
, following resolutions, which wer
read by Mr.. Garland and unanimous
! ly adopted:
E RESOLUTIONS.
> Whereas the parish Of St. Tam
5 many recognizes that in the buildin
OF bridge across Lake Pontchar
train there will have been accom-
e plished one of the greatest under
takings ever attempted for the settle
o ment of lands and the investment q
; capital in the state; and,
Y Whereas, Louisiana, having with
in her borders the greatest city Z
g the South, and having resources ur
| surpassed by any state in the Unior