St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1915-04-17
RAILROAD OFFICIALS
HIGHLY ENTERTAINED
Texas & Pacific Men Given Taste OF
Opelousas Hospitality.
CoURTBOuILLoN SERVED AT
PRETTY ELKs HOME
Successful Get-To- Gether Meeting
at Which DIR. Mayer Presided
Held at Elks Home Thursday.

One of the most successful and
jolliest get-to-gether meetings ever
held in Louisiana, between citizens
land railroad officials, took place at
the Elks Home in this city on last
Thursday night. The official fam
lilly of the Texas & Pacific railroad,
successors of the late o. G. & N. E.,
composed Of the following: j. =.
Taussin, general superintendent of
Dallas; N. Nj. Leach, general traffic
manager, New Orleans; |. N. Griffin,
general freight agent, Dallas; H. w.
Bechtell, division freight agent
New Orleans; ]. d. Webb, travelling
freight agent; ]. L. Thatcher, sec
retary to general traffic manager,
New Orleans; Frank Patillo, secre-
tary to general superintendent,
Dallas and F. Adams, division en-
gineer, Alexandria, spent Thursday
in this city. The party was royalty
entertained at the Elks Home, where
some thirty citizens gathered to
give these railroad officials a taste
OF real Southern hospitality. Fish
contribution, la galore, was
served, interspread with wine and
fried fish, and jolly good heart-io-
heart talks.
DR.. Fred. J. Mayer, pronounced
by the railroad officials, as the best
POSTMASTER ever seen, presided. In
his eloquent and jovial talks 1T.
Mayer praised the surroundilg
country, for its beauty, its fertility
and wonderful undeveloped re-
sources. He pointed out that with
the cooperation of the Texas &
Pacific st. Landry could be develop
ed into the best agricultural coun--
try in the Union. Mayor Loeb wei
coined the officials to the city. after
which Hon. John w. Lewis addres..-
ed words of welcome for The par
fish. Those present were remind
ed of the sacrifices made by the
brave and gallant Father ot the.
Opelousas Gulf & Northeastern
Railway" the late Thomas II. Lew
| is.
j. e. Tussig, |. N. Griffin, Fl. ~.
Bechtell, ]. D. Webb and f. Adams,
of the Working Department or
the Texas & Pacific spoke on the
lines OF cooperation between the
railroad and its patrons, white N.
M. Leach, popular and jovial super
intendent Of the Ornamental De
partment" kept the banqueteers
laughing for several minutes, with
many of his railroad jokes Sew
eral citizens of Opelousas were
called upon to assure the railroad
officials that st. Landry would
heartily cooperate with the L, &c
P. railroad and that both would de-
rive untold benefits by working in
harmony with one another.
Thanks were extended to the Of
ficials for having retained Messrs.
Flanders and Jordon inOpelousas,
where these two gentlemen have
become real citizens.
The banquet broke up at about
eleven O'Clock, the officials having
enjoyed to their hearts content the
hospitality of Opelousas and those
present being satisfied that the Tex
as & Pacific will always remember
old ST. Landry.
Before the O'Gee was taken over
by the Texas and Pacific there ex-
listed two-line rate to points on
the Texas & Pacific, now that the
O'Gee is the property of the Texas
& Pacific the merchants of st. Lam
dry and Acadia will be saved thou
sands of dollars annually on freight
due to the fact that only one-line
rates are now in force.