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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-08-29

nartuaut vas ST which has been Increased to
1o 65 this owing the loss of operating the plant during
the one wear period ended May 3lst, l9l4
While it is expected that the installation Of water pur
icaon plant will greatly increase the use OF City Water
ada 70 the Of the plant the Trustees must bear
mind that the floating Indebtedness OF TINS department
the increase this Indebtedness should be hludated
of this department. greater economy should
obtain in the operation of the Plant.
Respectfully submitted,
J. p. SUBERI}IEILE
Trustee of Finance
New IBERIA La. Aug. a 1914
Hon. Board of Trustees, City of New Iberia, La
Centlemen-I beg to herewith submit the financial con-
dton of the New Southern Drainage District
lows
1913 received from former Treasurer 81 ,21.56
Refund from General Fund 1,OOOO0
Refund from General Fund 3O1.21
1914, January 29th, Deposit ......~-.... 100000
June 23rd Deposit Observation-Disclosures. 100000
Summary Of Checks Issued
Expense of Attorney to New Orleans ne
Thomas Suit $500
Salary of Secretary to 615-l3 900
Paid on Attorneys fees Thomas sui 10000
Auditor of Accounts GLIB $500
Printing Brief Thomas suit 1000
Loan % City, General Fund 100000
Note due A. g. Thomas 9l45O
Bal Attorneys Fees Thomas suit 10000
Judgment, Thomas suit 2513.4S
Trip to New Orleans Thomas suit 1915
Removing trees from Canal 3S.4O
Deposit of Sinking Fund 100000
Interest Bonds 100000
Charge slip showing loan 20 General F'and 3Ol.2l
Balance shown by Bank 6-3O-14 23.43
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-08-29

Sl25O.5l OK
Since last report there been installed the following
street lights One 100 p Main Swain One 100 c. p
Banks and Madison One 100 c. Albert Banks 100
c. P Albert and Alley One 100 G. P julia between Madison
and Hacker; One 100 c. P. Hacker Julia and IBERIA
There has been installed 10 water taps in the
period
Thirty meters installed and fourteen returned.
Three hundred and fOryve calls answered to repairs
water and lights during the months of April May and June
VITAL STATISTICS
There has been recorded in my office &c births and
deaths.
In concluding this quarterly report make mention of
following not to msead the public appear to msre
resent the actual operation of the Water Light Plant
have charged the salary allowed by the Charter en-
re to the plant for the that have almost all
my time to the Plant andthe extensions of water MAINS
street lights placing of the 90 it. poles Main street. in
stating 100 r. w. Dynamo in Plant starting the work on
new Fire Alarm System ordered by the Board recently pa
ing OF two self controlling water roughs Streets moving
poles for the side walks get curb
line
er portion OF time during the of these
and have not made entry against the City feeling
tent to allow the plant to stand this charge charged
any portion of time department under head
OF Public Properties Department
~ SO when state in my report the operation of thsI
Water Light Plant that the expenses approximate
SO state not to be in conflict with the report Depart
ment OF FINANCE whose duties to tabuate figures
show actual operation expenses line improvements extensions
and accounts chargeable the different departments
IS my desire to be explicit and show the operation Of
the plant it. fair to the City New Iberia as the
New bera Electric Light Water Plant patrons showing
the amount OF fuel used the wages paid ca
ton and incidental repairs.
In conclusion have to report that my department has
been conducted with view of keeping within the appropr
ton allowed by your Honorable Board
Respectfully yours
LAWRENCE F. VILLERMIN, |
Trustee of Public Property
New IBERIA August "a 1914.
ANNUAL REPORT OF WATER AND LIGHT PLANT.
Months Water Light Rev Operation City Service Profit
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-08-29

$9572.77 $957277
Respectfully submitted,
j. P SUBERBIEIKE,
Treasurer
New iberia, La, Aug. "a I914
To the Honorable Board of Trustees City of New IBERIA La
Gentemen-In accordance with the provisions of the
City Charter beg lsave submit TINS report showing
the operations of the departments for the quarter ending
Juoe 3Oth 1914.
ELECTRIC LIGHT & WATER PLANT
The and approximate running expenses of the
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-08-29

I To+ol S127
/ Loss Licenses and Checks returned unpaid .. 942
| 1927 7246l
| DISBURSEMENTS:
General Fund Disbursements per audit S|oollUl
Amount paid n l. Southern Drainage Dist. ooOoo
Amount paid y. |. & n. R. R. Co. - Mill Tax 62o W
Amount paid Southwest Trac Power Co. Mill Tax 4o59 -
Loans refunded to n l. Southern Drainage District 3Olzo
| E,ro,oor Danos;ts Refunded ...... 27S %
Amount of loaned Light Water Power Pit 1l435
/ cash on1 C,sb JtamS on hand ....... 6S537
| Cash in Bank .$27 1881 1,30471 z9ofo.oz
lotai .h ,, o;pa, state
of City now divided in comparison with the
cost under the former Administration namely:
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
Old Administration Commission Form
$12OCOO Mayors Salary $lSOOUp
13OOOO Police 100000
10000 Street Supervisor ooo.W
13OOOO Board Of Health 10000
s77oooo Total $5S2OOO
*Ony $2 20 of this appropriation has thus far been ex
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PROPERTY
$12OOOO Trustee of Public Property $l8OO0o
Superintendent of Planr-)
10000 Salary Clerk of Council (onehalf
$4,000 Wages paid at Power Plant o4bOOc
s663ooo Total $726OOO
Increase in of operating this Department during
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
$49495 Trustee of Finance (Tax COLI $loOOOo
10000 Plant Bookkeeper
5000 Clerk of the Council (Oneialf)
Collector |2OOV
144OO See. n. I. Sou. Drainage District
464O3 Assessor
$32129s $252ooo
Saving during the year in this Department Of $692.9S
In addition the savings above mentioned, Of ap-
proximatey $1SOOGO will be saved from the items of Incl
dentals City Engineering and Coroner.
call attention to the fact that license colec
tons 1914 which practically all collected will fall
approximately 100000 Of the amount estimated in
Budget and the advance figures furnished by the
Assessor total of City property will not
than So 000OO thus decreasing revenues from
81 100000 1t will therefore be to
City expenditures during the balance OF this at
least 100000 keep within the figures of Budget
Of expenditures
Respectfully submitted
J. P. SUBERBIELLE,
- Trustee Of Finance.
New Iberia La, Aug. "a, 1914
To the Hon. Board of Trustees City of New Iberia.
Gentlemen-In compliance with the requirement of the
City Charter beg leave submit herewith statement of the
operation of the Light Power and Water Plant from June
O1c41 foIln
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-08-29

T ss I;co,ses and Cbecls returned unnaid w 6942
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-08-29

To the Hon. Board of Trustees City of New Iberia.
Gentlemen-n compliance with the requirement OF the
City Charter beg leave submit herewith statement of the
operation of the Light Power and Water Plant from June
to MAY 3lSt 1914 follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

dearly loved his joke. but when the Bur-
| ton Holmes pattern took his turn in the
| seat next-Io,
She opened vanity box. looked in its
| mirror and dabbed some powder on her
nose
The other women who were looking
and listening, and the pattern young man
who was looking and talking, ignored
| the powder dabbing with matter-of-
! courseness that implied it to be SO com
| mon a proceeding not to be worth
noticing. So that was all there Was to
| that.
] At least, it would have been all if it
hadn't been for the people in the orches-
ira, and the opposite galleries, and the
| standing room onliers, banked against
| the aisle acroSs-and one musician who
passed the good work along to his broth
ers of the brasseS and the drums. 1t had
! been rather a long wait between curtains,
| and everybody in the house-always al
lowing for 'exceptions-was staring at the
boxes to pass the time.
And the smart set woman accommodate
ingly helped them out.
One orchestra person, for instance.
whose own nose was hopeleSsly beyond
the resuscitations of powder rags, said
to her companion-who probably wouldn't
like to be deScribed-that she considered
that any woman who would sit in a box
before house full of people and
openly
But never mind. There are some re-
marks that can never be quoted so long
as New Year resolutions hold good.
AS the Navy Yard car curves around
the Capitol at the church corner on its
way downtown you can glimpse a dreary
street with tombstone yard for chief
view.
Yesterday the street was deserted ex-
cept for a horse stretched on the cobbles
in the rigid abandonment of DEATH
1t was common brown horse that had
worked out its youth and strength and
life, as those long-ago brown men who
dragged the stones to make Egypt's
strength and life and then died and were
forgotten-as the horse had died and
would be forgotten as soon as some boss,
perhaps, had finished blaming some
driver.
The few people in the car noticed the
dead laborer, and a man said to the
woman with him:
There's the end of one poor stiff"
He said it with offhand kindness, and
with the finality of one who knows, and
yet
If Balaam's ass earned pasturage in
the Elysian fields because of voice for
which he. as an animal, deserved no
credit, or, to change from the orientahz-
ing of the Koran to the Scripture of the
Bible:
Did not He say that every laborer is
worthy of his hire?
And, as the horse on the cobbles by the
tombstone yard had labored with no re-
turn reward in this world
Oh, well, what's the use. One can only
ask the same old question that living
humanity has always asked the dead:
whittier goest thou?''
And, answer, there is none.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

A smart set woman was entertaining
a box party-musical comedy-Monday
night.
She was wholesome of figure, with a
cleverly conserved throat line and one
OF those satisfactory heads that can
stand simplicity of hair fixing. Her
dress was a filmy white something all
over sparkles, and there was a corsage
rose-giant specimen of the millineribus
makiana-that wanted to flare a vivid
crimson. but thought it more stylish to
smolder the latest dull red. Every wom-
an knows.
For company there were other smart
set women with more or less conserved
throat lines; an exceedingly full dress
man. Of an age that-if Nature had her
innings-ought to be doing the home Cir
Gle act With slippers and cigar; another
who suggested a student lamp-midnight
oil variety-turned human; and third
The third was youngish and dis
tinguished smart setter who looked as
if Mother Nature had said to herself
while creating him: III cut this one out
by my Burton Holmes pattern
And il was SO done.
While rather a small box party. it
was awfuliy stylish, and nothing could
have been classier than the concerted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

total quantity imported since 1910 is
practically 100000 bushels. The total
production in the United States during
that period was more than 4.0oo.0 900
bushels, or an average of approximately
800, O0e, 200 bushels per annum.
The average import price of potatoes
imported has ranged from II cents per
bushel. In 1909. to $1.0s. in 1907. and
LOS. in 1911, the average price in 1912
the year of the largest importations
being 81 cents per bushel, and in 1918
"a cents per bushel. The average ex-
port price has ranged from 81 cents
her bnshel to S1.14, the average farm
tprice according to the figures of the
Department Of Agriculture. having
ranged from 43 cents in 1900 to 81
cents in 1911 and So cents in 1913.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
VALUE OF POTATO CROP.
$685. 600 900 in 1918 Record, Ex.
cept for One Year.

The potato crop Of the United States
in 1913 had q farm value Of $32s. 00o. 900,
according to statistics made pubic yester-
day by the bureau Of foreign and do
mestic commerce. With the excep-
ton of 1911. this was larger than for
any earlier year. The statistics show
that the largest importation OF potatoes
in any single year occurred in the fiscal
year 1912, when the total quantity I'M
ported was 13.76o.00o bushels. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
IMPORTATION OF BULBS
MAY NOT Be NECESSARY
Government Successfully Expert
ments in Producing Hyacinths
and Similar Plants.

Something more than one million dol
lars worth of so-called Dutch bulbs"
for propagating hyachinths. tulips and
narcissus are imported to this coun-
try each year from Europe. according
to the statistics of the Department of
Agriculture. The magnitude of this
industry led the department some years
ago to start a series of experiments to
see whether the business could not be
successfully conducted in this country
and the money kept at home.
In pursuance of this investigation
bulb garden was started at Bellingham
Wash. and it has been shown that
bulbs just as good, and in some cases
better, than the imported ones can be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

ciss,is can be propagated successfully is
regarded as important. Heretofore this
has been settled English industry and
as much as 5000 has been paid for a
single promising bulb by some of the
English enthusiasts. This Is value that
ranks with some of the prices paid for
bulbs during the tulip craze in Holland.
Altogether the department is very well
growing experiment and expects 1t to re-
suit in establishing a new commercial
industry in such parts OF the country as
are adapted by soil and climate to the
work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON D. c. JANUARY H. 1e4-PARr

for the experiment. The locality was
not chosen until the records of the
weather bureau and the examination Of
the bureau of soils had shown it to be
apparently well adapted to the work
Then attract of ten acres was obtained
by the chamber Of commerce there and
rented to the department for decade at
an annual rental Of 81. The results &C
cording to the department have been
very gratifying and hundreds Of thou
sands Of flowers are grown each year.
Machinery Cheapens Production.
The use of machinery in planting and
harvesting the bulbs and in preparing
them for propagation has ben tried and
the general results have tended to
cheaper production. The fact that mar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

produced in this country. One rea%
son why the experiment has been SO
long maturing is that it takes from
hvesto seventy years to completely de-
velop the new bulbs.
Satisfied With Results.
DR.. H. P. Dorset of the department
has returned from a visit to the gov
eminent bulb garden. He is well sat
Used with the result of the work. The
department is not yet ready to recon-
mend Americans to take up bulb grow
ing on a commercial scale, but it feels
that the possibility of the work here
has been demonstrated
There was a great deal of interest IN
the selection of the Puget sound region
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
Body of Judge Barnes Arrives.

NEW YORK, January 1o.-The body OF
Judge Charles Albert Barnes of Jack
sonville, III, was brought here today on
the liner Baltic. accompanied by the
widow. Judge Barnes died of pneumonia
at Cheltenham. England. December %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
Idaho Progressives Lay Plans.

BOISE, Idaho, January 1o.-The pro-
gressive state central committee passed
resolution today to put a full state and
congressional ticket in the field for this
years election and to make nominations
for every office from United States sena-
tor to constable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
NORFOLK NAVY YARD
NEEDS NEW DRY DOCK
Rear Admiral Stanford Asks That
100000 Be Appropriated
for the Purpose.

Plans for Transforming the Norfolk
navy yard, where the navy's policy now
is to dock as many of the largest YES
sells as possible, has been laid before Con-
sress by Rear Admiral Stanford. chief of
yards and docks who has advised the
House naval affairs committee that the
most important improvement needed at
Norfolk is an additional three-million-
dollar dry dock of the largest dimensions
and at the earliest possible time
At the same time. Admiral Stanford,
carefully avoiding any recommendations
at variance with the departments policy
as to the Norfolk yard, declared that
the Norfolk navy yard is not an eco
nomical yard for operation because of
its Anticipated character"
A Center for Mobilization.
Continuing he said: IF it is to be an
important base it certainly will warrant
not only an expenditure for an additional
dock. but also a good. liberal expenditure
for additional public work facilities in
connection with the dock.
There is now but one dry dock there
capable of taking all the present ships
of the navy. and even this dock in time
may be Inadequate The most frequent
notifications of the fleet are in Hampton
roads. and large ships ordinarily as
signed to other yards must pass this point
proceeding to and from the gulf or the
West Indies. In view of this central To-
cation and the use of Hampton roads
as base of operations. there is greater
possibility of unforeseen repairs being
required there for vessels. than at any
other coast point.
Narrow River a Handicap.
While an additional large dry dock
would increase the docking facilities it
would not constitute a reserve, since the
present docking facilities are inadequate
An additional dock at Norfolk also would
afford relief to other yards.
The exact location of that dock has
not been determined. The inspection
board is preparing tentative scheme for
the development of tract, including, in
cidentally, location for the proposed
new dock, but its recommendations have
not been submitted to the department.
The width of the Elizabeth river channel
renders the handling of large vessels in
convenient and difficult. Additional build
ings probably would be required. and also
additional paving and extension of the
distributing systems to obtain the best
results
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
EAVORS HIGHER RANK
FOR OFFICERS OF NAVY
Paymaster General Cowie Supports
the Recommendations of Sec
rotary Daniels.

Legislation to provide for admirals
and vice admirals in the navy, with
permanent commissions and not mere
ly holding rank while actually serving
on sea duty in command of fleets or
squadrons, is urged in memoranda just
submitted by Paymaster General Cowie,
u. S. N, to the House committee on
naval affairs This recommendation
follows Secretary Daniels declaration
in favor of four vice admirals and the
reported probable attitude of the naval
committee in favor of temporary com
missioning of rear admirals in these
higher ranks.
This rumored attitude on the part of
the naval committee regarding a ques-
ton of such vital moment" wrote the
paymaster general. lis the source of
much apprehensive worry to govern
persons familiar with international af-
fairs. who in their well founded
knowledge very keenly appreciate the
necessity which demands the creation
of permanent higher flag rank in the
American navy.
Only Partial Relief.
"A law that would grant only tempo
rary commissions as admirals and vice
admirals would, at best, prove hardly
more than a halfway measure and
would almost entirely fail to bring
about just those national benefits and
advantages of position the obtaining
of which constitutes the motive of the
,, recommendation. Supreme command in
| concerted international activities de-
ponds not only upon relative grade
standings, regarded separately, but also
upon the seniority of commissions
| within grade.
1.-The perpetual RELOCATION of Amerf-
can commanders to inferior phases of
joint duties under foreign leadership
is something that is neither profitable
in practice nor pleasant to think upon
An admiral should command a fleet a
/ vice admiral should command a squad
| ron. a rear admiral should command
a division"
outranked by Small Powers.
| The paymaster general added that it
was opposed to all common sense, as
well as to the niceties of propriety, for
| a commander-in-ch chief to bear the same
rank and title as the subordinate di-
vision and squadron heads under his
| flag. The United States, he said, is
| the only naval power on earth that
! confides the command of a powerful
| battle fleet to a rear admiral and even
| the Chinese, Portuguese and Danish
| navies have vice admirals who take
| precedence over the commanders-in-
chief of the American Atlantic fleet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

It matters little what It is that you
want-whether q situation or q servant
want ad in The Star will reach the
person who will I'LL your need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
6 IT.
FOR GRIP, INFLUENZA,
COUGHS, SORE THROAT
col DS
SIXTY YEARS

In celebration of sixty years of
success we have published a new
and revised edition of DR.. Hum
phreys' Manual.
The description of disease and
the treatment of the sick with
Humphreys Remedies are clear
and simple.
TIL: design of the cover is
Noah's Ark in colors, from pic
ture especially painted by ia
nous artist, and intended to illus
trate the versatility of Hum
phreys' Remedies for man and
beast, Remedies for every living
thing"
For free copy, address Hum
phreys' Homeo. Med. Co., 15e
William ST., New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

amiab ility with which the men shifted
their society so as to divide it impair
TALLY between the ladies, which, confiden-
TALLY. is something of a stunt.
But none was so Discriminatory en-
tertaining as the woman with the salts
factory head-which shows the good ma
terial inside. To the student lamp man.
who doubtless ran to brains, she was
seriously interesting. and her laughably
humorous banter was just the right stuff
for the fat man, who anybody could see
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-01-23
Lee-JaCkson Day.

Lee Jackson day was celebrated
Monday afternoon by Confederate
Veterans and Shenandoah Chapter
Daughters OF Confederacy.
The faculty and students OF Massa.
nutten Academy and the Graded and
High School together with citizens of
the town taxed the hall to its fullest
extent.
The following interesting program
was rendered:
Prayer-Rev. J. A. McMurray.
Hymn-How Firm Foundation.
Paper-sWhat the Life of Lee means
to Us of To-day written by Miss
Paulina s. Windfeld, of Broadway
who is member of Shenandoah
Chapter Daughters of Confederacy
and read by Rev. G. B. Palmer, rec!
tor of the Episcopal Church.
Chorus 1.-THE Benny Blue Flag"
Poem 1.-THE Sunny South, +" written
by Mrs. M. L. Walton, of Shenan-
doah Chapter, U. D. c.
Chorus enting Tonight.
Reading-Ge1eral Lee at the Battle
of the Wilderness, Miss Gertrude
Pence.
Chorus-''Dixle."
Col. E. E. Stickley, Messrs. G. W.
Mlley and G. A. Boyer were appoint
ed to write resolutions on the death
of Maj. L. A. Cunningham, editor of
the Confederate Veteran.
Captain John II. Grabill comman-
der OF Shenandoah Camp on behalf
of the Veterans made few brief re-
marks, thanking the ladies of Shen-
andoah Chapter for their interest in
the Veterans and for the enjoyable
entertainments.
Rev. J. A. McMurray pronounced
the benediction.