The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1913-10-02
'NSPECTS PROPOSED
BELT LINE.


paid a visit to the territory
across the river which would directly
be benefited by the proposed public
utility. Commissioners T. +. Cunning
ham and John II. Murphy and Superin-
tendent a. S. Phelps, Secretary Fred
Joubent and Engineer f. X. Barnes
made up the visiting party. Commits
sioner James W. Porch was to have
been in the party, but was unavoidably
detained.
The visitors were welcomed by a
committee of citizens, headed by
Chairman Peter S. Lawton, of the belt
committee and President Joseph w.
LennoX, who assembled at the Canal
street ferry landing. Here a special
car was boarded and the crowd taken
down to the point on Patterson street,
between Vallette and Olivier, where it
is proposed to begin work on the con-
Meeting link that will join the South
ern Paciis and Grand Isle roads,
which are already connected in the
rear by a spur track at the junction
point in jefferson parish. The pro-
posed new line will be three-fourths
of a mile long.
Allghting here the inspection began
and the entire party walked over the
proposed route in Patterson street,
past the Algiers Sawmill, the Duvic
and the Carstens & Vezien ware
houses, the Algiers Manufacturing
Company, the Johnson Iron Works and
the New Orleans Dry Dock and Ship
Building plant, thence on the levee,
which the line will skirt from Patter-
son street to the Grand Isle yards.
Here the party boarded a special train,
on which they were taken to the con-
Meeting point of the two lines in JEFF
feson parish, after which they again
boarded the special on the electric
line and went to see the Brooklyn pas
ture and other factory sites on the
acknowledgements drainage pro
ject was had from the Newton street
viaduct The party dispersed at the
Canal street ferry landing.
Vice President and General Man.
ager Otto T. Maier of the New Orleans
Southern and Grand Isle Railroad, who
is also the directing head of the AL
giers street car system, was in the
welcoming party together with Super
intendent E. w. Burgis and Chief En-
gineer II. H. Gibson and the three Of
ficials saw to the comfort and pleasure
of the crowd during the trip. They
were untiring in their efforts and all
appreciated the service rendered.
Wilmer Johnson and Warren John
son of the Johnson Iron Works, whose
desire for switch track privileges for
their new modern plant under con
struction at Patterson and Seguir
streets, started the campaign for the
belt which is now being so vigorously
pushed, were also in the party. TIL,
tentative plant for the belt, which wa!
prepared by Warren Johnson, was ex
hibitcd and explained by him.
Among the others present were:
Frank Duvic, VIM. H. Ward, Rev. r
NJ. Brown, E. J. Mothe, Jules Boden
ger, A. Twickler, George Herbert, Jr.
Pat Hartnett, Henry Gumbel, Charles
J. Cieutat, E. F. Dyer, ]. J. Manson
Martin S. Mahoney, J. p. Vevien, Jas
Vaughan, ]. f. Renecky and A. SpitZ
faddan, Jr
/ The Belt Railroad committeemeI
= will prepare a report to the commits
sion and action will be taken on tn,
proposed belt when this has bee
done. 1t is not the idea to ask tina
the Belt Commission place a locomo
tive in Algiers, but simply to lay tn
tracks so that the Southern Pacifi
and Grand Isle roads can be facilitate
in handling the business of the big II
dustries and business establishment
in the Fifth District at present.
In the opinion of Mr.. Lawton, tn
. chairman of the committee, this ste
, is but a forerunner of greater thing
for Algiers, for after this plan ha
been successfully consummated, 1t
believed Algiers will enjoy a period {
industrial development surprising an
similar period in it's history. Nam
featuring plants will, no doubt, b
added to the resources the Fifth Di
trict can now boast of, and as ma
ural consequence there will be an il
crease in business, the demands {
which will have to be met by the e
tablishment of another protector
Meeting the belt in Algiers to that
the city by means Of a system {
barges.