The herald., 1912-03-07
IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
ACTION TAKEN MONDAY NIGHT
ON MANY SUBJECTS.
Mayor Behrman Replies to Telegram.

Mayor Behrman Replies to Telegram
At the regular monthly meeting o
the association Monday night man.
subjects were taken up and disposed
of, some OF which were the Nuisanc
Boat, telegraph Office for this district
intercoastal canal, school for lowe
coast, etc.
TO WAIT ON CAPT. HARDEE.
The entire membership of the assO
citation as a committee of one will cal
upon Capt. Hardee, City Engineer
some day during the week in the mat
ter of the changes recommended b!
the City Engineer to be made by thu
Southern Improvement and Ferry Co
Postals will be mailed to all member!
advising them when it will be conve
nient for Capt. Hardee to meet the
committee.
WELCOME NEW ENTERPRISE.
The following resolutions by Peter
S. Lawton were adopted, and the fol
lowing committee was appointed to
carry out the resolutions: p. S. Law
ton, ]. E. Huckins, Julius Bodenger,
F. c. Duvic, DR.. c. V. Kraft.
Whereas, This Association learns
through the public prints, that the
Grand Isle" Railroad has absorbed the
existing trolley line in this district,
which said reports say is to be extend
ed and improved; and
Whereas, Said railroad development,
which may mean a great deal for this
section, will probably necessitate the
acquisition by said Grand Isle Railroad
Company, of certain additional rights
and privileges from the City Council,
in order to render effective the neces-
sary plans for such proposed extension
and improvement; and
Whereas, This association, standing
as it does, for everything that tends
towards the upbuilding of this district
and section, bespeaks for said new
enterprise the cooperation of all of
our citizens, in facilitating its efforts
along every line in which it may be
legitimately encouraged; and
Whereas, If said Grand Isle Railroad
Company proposes, as stated by said
newspaper reports, to change its pres
ent route between Algiers and the
Belle Chase plantation, by using the
Cutoff road and the river route, in.
stead of the Prairie route as at pres.
ent, it will, by so doing, eliminate the
Objectionable rigid bridge which pres.
emily spans our new canal and which
said company is presently using for
the crossing of its trains; and
Whereas, the removal Of this bridge
would permit of a direct water connec-
ton between this town and the La
fourche and Teche country and with
uiRe great inter-coastal canal, for indef-
distances in Louisiana and Texas,
lch connection would mean more to
Ithis district than can even be approx
mated at this time, by our people;
therefore,
Be 1t Resolved, by the Algiers I'm
provement Association, that special en-
couragement be extended said railroad
company in the matter of promoting
the removal Of this serious obstruction
to the attainment of the invaluable &C.
QUESTION mentioned and which. in the
near future. would be urgently demand
ed by our citizens.
Be it further Resolved, that the
chair appoint a committee of five men,
bers of this association, who will con-
fer, without delay, with the manage
ment of said Grand Isle railroad, prof
ering said management any assistance
this association may be able to lend it.
in accordance with the spirit of the.
intentions herein expressed.
on INTER-COASTAL CANAL.
Mr.. Lawton then read the following
paper:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen: II
see by Mr.. Ransdell's recent telegram
explaining the present status of the
Morgan City-New Orleans branch of
the Inter-coastal Canal, that while the
local government engineers had con-
Guided a survey of said section of the
canal, some time back, it has never.
1heless been held up by the army en-
gineers at Washington, pending the
of their report on the north
I'm branch of the intercoastal which
s TO come down the Atlantic coast
rom Boston to the Mississippi river at
point just below this city. Accord.