Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-24
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La, died last week. The mayor was
As years old and in 1910 was elected
without opposition. He placed the
city's finances on a solid foundation
during his administration, which fol-
lowed his good work as fire chief of
Baton Rouge. He led the fight against
the floods of last year and succeeded
in triumphing over the Mississippi at
it's maddest moments. His administra-
tion was marked by his inseparable
progressive spirit and by his success
at doing the things best that were best
for Baton Rouge. He looked up al
ways to that dizzy height of progress
and fame that he believed belonged to
Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge regrets his
death and the State regrets 1t most
sincerely.
The Orleans Levee Board offers
Lambour & Noel, lumber millmen Of
New Orleans, $4,000 for the portion
of their property needed for larger
levee purposes, and Lambou & Noel
refuse the offer, asking for over $780,
900 more than the offered amount.
The lumber millmen's case has been
the headliner at every meeting of the
Levee Board for over a month or more.
and the small offer has always been re-
jected and the stout offer of the mill
men without any inclination Of q com.
promise been s%trenuously urged. The
large prices paid by the former board
for the land they needed is really the
cause of the millmen's stubbornness
now, who can by increasing the posi-
BILE worth of the land be assured of ar
irving at a figure which is justified by
the amount of wealth that land could
produce in a thousands different ideal
ways but does not produce now and
will probably not produce in the fu-
ture. The possible value of any land
can scarcely be arrived at. One Of the
inflaters of land values is the de-
mand or need for it. This is the in
flater in this case. But while individu-
al needs may justify the owner In ask
ing Of that individual. Sahatever price
he might be liable to pay, public needs
cannot be treated in the same fashion.
The food protection Of all the rest Of
the people devolves upon the levee
boards. And when men hold up neces-
sary action only because one man or
one set of men oppose action because
of mercenary reasons, an injustice is
done this other larger part of the
people and the official delay is i'm
peachable.
The Pons case, the %contesting of the
right of one daughter and a lawyer
to manage the affairs of an imbecile
and old woman, worth over 4 $1,000,
excluding from the participation in the
financial profit all OF the other daugh-
ers and descendants, is interesting
many people in the State and taking
must of the courts time and much of
the first page space in the New Or
leans evening papers. 1t has been a
regular front page asset and it there
fore must be interesting. This old,
imbecile woman was the c%ourt-forced
heir to a large Savoie estate which
she did not work for or peacefully in
herit. After much litigation similar
to the legal fights now, she secured
this vast fortune and has since en-
joyed it up to now, when she is q
physical and mental wreck. Her chill
dren resent the right of management
being in the hands Of a lawyer and
the daughter who resides with the old
woman, and up to now, after much le-
gally allowed delays in the shape Of
%injunctfons, ETC., the contesting chill
dren have been successful in the Skin
mishes.
Baton Rouge adopted the commits.
sion form of government by a vote of
Az to 80. The election was not con-
tested and the 472 votes cast for the
change represent the Az unbiased
opinion Of Az cleft to themselves"
voters The 80 votes cast against
the change likewise represent the
reasoned out" product of 80 thinking
men. And the whole vote exemplifies
the genuineness of the desire Of peo-
pie to enact reforms and their ability
at getting the desired when no ulteri-
or pressure is brought to bear upon
them.
The Realty Realization Company, Of
Chicago, exploiters Of a 45,OO0-acre
tract in st. Bernard, whose local at
torney is ExGov. ]. Y. Sanders, has
been placed in the hands or a receiver
by its creditors, who allege liabilities
Of 100000 and assets Of $750,00e.
Abnormally large salaries are charged
with having been paid the officials.
It's assets on the books were inflated.
The Newlasdsa. River Regulation
Bill, which proposes the erecting Of
strong levees and the building of re-
%servoirs and spillways and reforest-