The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-01-31
Good News at Last.

GOOD News at Last.
/ The report of the army engineers
/ togeAer with their recommendation
on tin intercoastal canal, have beer
prese2Rd to congress, and it is like
ly I'd whole scheme will be ap
| proved Congress has never yet turn
ed dow appropriations for improve
ment o waterways where the engi
neers pfesent approved recommenda
tions. The whole route from Florida
to the Rio Grande is embraced in
the report, but the part that concerns
us most is the connection of Bayou
| Techc with the coast country and the
route between Morgan City and New
Orleans, and here is the news as it
comes from Washington:
THE board of engineers gives es-
Inmates upon a canal five feet deep
and forty-five feet wide, seven feet
deep and seVenty-fiye feet wide. and
nine fee. deep and one hundred feet
| wide. The cost is estimated at Sc
| 632, ,oO0 for the five-feot canal, s15,-
| 23,0o6' for seveu-foot canal and
23,7S6,OO0 for nine-foot canal. The
engineers recommend d five-foot
canal for the two ends and a seven
foot canal for the center section
from New Orleans to the Sabine,
which would cost 4,7t2,Oo0.
wherever rights-ofsWay are secur-
ed for a five-foot channel, the right
of-Way is to be of sufficient width
to allow the future enlargement of
the channel to nine feet deep and
100 feet wide, if congress should au-
thorize such an enlargement.
The report carries with it the aD-
prevail Of the New Orleans Nj organ
City section by whatever route may
be found most feasible.
The most interesting part of the
report to Louisiana is the section
devoted to the proposed waterway
from New Orleans to tie Sabine
river. The engineers have divided
this portion of the proposed canal
into three parts, for further recon-
mendatlon, as foIIoWs.4
'@Ihe first part extends from the
Mississippi river to Bayou Teche.
For a channel five feet deep and
forty feet wide $4,000 is. asked:
seven feet deep and seventy-fiye
feet wide, 1855, 500, and for a chan
mel nine feet deep and one hundred
feet wide s2,242,s0O is needed. The
engineers recommend a seyen-foot
channel
The second pat, extending from
the Techc TO the Mermentau, for
fye-foot channel would cost s477 1926:
seven foot, s1,S69,000, and nine-foot
channel, s2,81O,oO0. The engineers
recommend the Hanson Canal route
IN this sections with the CentervilIe
route as an alternative. The seven
foot depth is recommended in this
section. Franklin Waschman.
Ida N. 1TarbeIT on The Subject Of
Drink.
In the January American Magazine,
Ida NJ. Tarben writes a fascinating
account of the work OF the Court of
Domestic Relations in Chicago
court devoted to the work of settling
cases that arise out Of marital trou-
bles. On the subject of drink as a
cause Of such troubles, Miss Tarbel
says:
The havoc that drink plays in |
domestic troubles has never been sex-
aggerated. It is by far the most fer
tile cause of separation. Last year |
Judge Gemmil1 put system into |
operation by which he hoped to de-
termine approximately the cause of !
family separation. The conclusion |
was that in 46 out of every 100 cases
it is due to excessive drinking.
THE Encouragement lies in the
fact that in the case of excessive |
it leaves nothing in the |
man which can be deeply touched |
The stomach may hold out indefinite |
ly, the character never does. The |
man gradually loses all need of re-
spect for himself and for others. He I
becomes a shameless hanger-on. He
lies fluently and habitually to his best
friends. He tricks and cheats them
with unconcern. There is little or no
help for such cases while they are
at large"