The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-12-05

live. enthusiast good-1o oklag ant
effectively -work Ss body OF teach
ers as were thl FL assembled.
Arriving abou p. M, was just
in time to sha1| with Linden Dial
feres and Miss sy Dupre the nos
pitality Of Dr.. aRher's car, under
the excellent gu ce OF his sister
Miss Fisher, as ffeuse, and Miss
White, both tead rs in the Sulphur
schools-for a visit to the sulphur
mine.
| The road to the mine is the best
on earth, and we were out there be,
| fore a cat could wink. The mine it
self is invisible to the naked eye,
beina only hole which reaches
down to the lowest depths Of Tar
tarus, and into which they have to
keep pumping hot water and hot air
to keep the little sulphur demons
down there cool! But in the i'm
mediate range of vision stand about
seventeen million tons of solid sui
phur out on top of the earth like
dozen city blocks, enough for Muicl-
Der to have used in building Fan
demonium-When out of the earth,
fabric huge, It rose like an ex-
halation, with the sound OF duleet
symphonies and voices sweet.
If anybody thinks am merely try
ing to pretend that there is some
sulphur over there, let him figure on
the weight of a half dozen blocks of
sulphur measuring, say, 200 feet long,
so feet wide, and 40 feet high. "a
cubic foot of sulphur weighs about
125 pounds). And then if he finds
out that | have greatly exaggerated
it. what's the difference? Who
cares whether the ocean contains
billion gallons more or less? eYou
can get pound of sulphur at the
drugstore for ten cents-if you want
it; how would you like to have
slab the size Of the courthouse?
Shut up, Niger, sbefo' you make
me fall off O. this here mule!')
If Goleridge had happened along
here, we should have a poem starting
thus:
in Caleasieu did Kubla Khan
A stately Sulphur Dome decree,
Where sulph, the magic river, ran
Through cayerns measureless to man
Down to sulphur sea-
The t.du1cet symphonies and voices
sweet that sound during the ris-
ing of this magic sulphur dome in
Calcasieu are the voices of the chill
dren yet unborn that shall receive
the blessings of the ucation-the
Sulphur culture-that has already
begun to be prepared for them with
a part of the revenues that flow in
to the public treasury from the sui
phur mine. It is amazing TO one
who knows the past in Louisiana ed
lcation-With its long slow progress
Of toilsome steps-to see here the
miracle sprung up in a night, of
handsome modern buildings and
domestic science, manual
raining, industrial art, science lab
oratories, playground apparatus, in
dependent electric light, water and
power, able, energetic, enthusiastic
principal and teachers 15 il num-
oer), quiet, Wen-behaVed pupils, and
With united, cooperating patrons |
the village One has to
wipe his specs and stop, look and I
listen, before he is sure it's so.
The domestic science class and I
heir excellent teacher, Miss Hath
way, a graduate of the Ruston In
lustrial Institute, served delight
I'll meal to the forty or fifty teach
rs present, at 6 p. m; after which
here was time to meet everybody
nd see the buildings and equipment.
1t was gratifying to see quite a
,roup of Southwestern Industrial In
titute graduates among the Calca-
leu teachers present-including
Kisses Helen Wilson. Callie Wilder,
nd Letie Lyles in domestic science
apartments, and Linden Dalferes, a
914 graduate, already successful as
rincipal in a good tWo-room school
4 East Lake Charles. Miss Wilson
avs two of her canning club girls
ook prizes at the state fair at
hreveport. This is delivering a
urrent of pretty good voltage from
le Lafayette power station-and we
aall try to keep it up!
Holmes, thoroughly live wire
ON the Normal, is the general
works. in the shop, producing the
ght, heat, power, water, athletic en-
lusiasm, and a dozen other things.
White, j.. S. q. '09, is the prinei t
II and proper captain of the ship, *
J whom most of the credit is due. s.
amilton points with PRIDE TO the !
hole sulphuric situation, and awards +
and just praises to near
eVelSbody. 1t is in fact he 1im-
If who is SO worthily carrying for s
ard and interpreting the McNeese :
send in Calcasieu, and is making T
his own name an honorable place :
the story. :.
At s O'Clock the evening program ! !
IS unrolled to gpdly audience in y =
g auditorium, nonsisted of a
Is chorus, er march and :
ngr by class @gitt1e boys, a = =
ng by a QUARTET of pretty girls, =
speech Of welconS by the mayor, :,
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