St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-11-08
OPELOUSAS, LA. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER s, 1913

i Does DR.. Shaw remember thar
Opelousas NEVER sees heavy
traffic, except when Barnum &
Bailey comes to town. Has he
ever watched the light residen.
tiaf' traffic on the sheet asphalt
or bitulithic pavements on st
Charles Avenue, on the same
class of pavements in the Tight
traffic" retail store districts Of
/ Canal Street, or on the same
payements on the principal
streets Of Beaumont, Birming-
ham or Dallas. and then COM
pared it id his impartial minds
Ieye with what he considers the
heavy" traffic Of the Opelousas
retail store district in which it is
proposed TO lay sheet pavement? ?
Why, the traffic in this section
of Opelousas is feather to what
these people consider light or
residential traffic, it is like
st. Charles Avenue traffic COM
pared to that on Poydras Street,
and even if we moved Fall crops
| all year long and persuaded the
retail stores to swap places with
the Compress, Ice Factory, Lum-
Der Yards, Brick Works, and
Jack Moresi's Cane Mill, we
would still have no heavy traffic
such as these people speak of.
And if we take UP the small
towns like ours, Crowley, Lau-
rel, and others, what do we find?
Opelousas isSover 100 years old,
with its principal traffic existing
first here, then two decades later
in another section, then in an
other, then a little bit every
where. Is it fair to consider
this as heavy traffic. such as even
a little new town like Crowley
with all it's business on one mod
ern straight thoroughfare calls
heavy?
- iT4ytI~is r. 1.1.s
But the Jlgls up. IL looks nke
we have just got to take the
medicine prescribed by DR.. Shaw,
creosoted wood block, the only
pavement ne cared TO INQUIRE
gether now, and pray for heavy
trafhc, light rams, and that the
Yankee Robinson Clrcus Will re-
lease gkianonla, Ian 20 US 20
rei1eve Mike OF Jne Jop q oIreeI
Commissioner Wnen t1at Droncno
pavement commences 60 DUCK.
Now, snail we descend 60 II.
SnaWs attacks az magyar Loep;
not adoressed ~ ann, DuI aimee
direct az. the Eea! !Ior oI lia.s pa
per! NO, we WlA treas TINS por-
ton OF MS letter with the silence
It deserves. he aimed at US,
thinking the Mayer was penlnd
us. Ihe snot Went clear tnrougn
u.s., without touchlng 2 vital part,
and might nave paralyzed the
Mayor had ne Deen Denlna US.
But ne WASH {, SO II dldn MT
hln1, and ne mas therefore no
criminal charge 70 make unless
It be shooting at with intent 10
Murder, put mlssed;
Ine Editor WKOiE r y = =
WORD IN the article OF Oet. aotn
which hurt the Alderman s Ieel-
lngs, and the Mayor dld not even
offer saggestloo1ns or adylce con
cernlng IL. Inc merits OF Jne
controversy lie only between us
ana Dr. onaW, ana ne nlls a. an
innocent, Il amused, pys1andef'
When ne tfles 70 ger the mayor.
Nothing IN tne aftlcle Dr.
Shaw complains OF was written
with the INTENTION OF pelng un-
just to hlm, TO MS poftlcal oetrl-
ment or otnerWlse, nor can M II
ever 40 MN an .n}ustlce. Il Dr.
Shaw IS rlgn5, It Ine Wood Dlock
pavement Wnlcn ne Iorces On US
IS a success, as we sincereiy nope
lt VIII pc now 1nat u appears ~
pe many aecided Ina. we niusI
nave II, Inen tne olailon ar.l:.e
noldlng MN q, responslpis Iur i.s
SolecLlOn Will prove That dll Lie