El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-19

be brought right TO the War house
or store Of the consumer alcf-- the
II miles OF this track At a cost Of
only s. Further on ! viii show you
something Of the enormous reduc-
tions which are made by the ware
houses and by the big cotton and
grain Adjustments right under Our
feet
E,ncrOaehinE On the SwaniRs.
But first let us take look oIer
New Orleans II extends for miles
back from the river which here runs
in a great crescent about the heart
OF the city. The buildings cover al
most as mich ground as Cniacgo-
They are spread out over a great nat
plain. the most Of them lying be
tween the river and Lake Pontchar-
train. The city is gradually crawl
ing toward the lake The swamps
are being redeemed. and within 2
short time there viii be il-mlle
boulevard running along the en-
bankment Of that magnificent body
The city Of New Orleans is more
beautiful from an airplane than most
other American municipalities II
has but few skyscrapers, and the
main thorou-hfares. some OF Whicn
are more than 200 feet wide, have a
+ broal strip Of green in the center
; through which the electric cars run
I The res dence section has many pestu
tifuI gardens filled with date palms
AND other tropical trees. and II IS
only in the old French quarter that
the houses are crowded along mar
row streets. with galleries running
from block 10 book
Has Elaborate Drainage Canal System
Today. New orleans is like the city
! founded upon a rock It IS oone
dry as far as the ground upon which
lit stands is concerned. Its people
have an immense drainage system.
tconsiSting of more than 30 miles OF
main IOw-leVel canals, into Whlch the
! water -uns from 4 network OF tiles
] 50 distributed that a fOur-inch rain
fa1 such as would drown most other
/ cities. disappears almost as soon as IL
] d-ons The level OF the city Is Sucn
( that the water has TO be pumped out
Of the canals into other high-leEel
canals. which carry II OH INTO Lehs
Pontchartrain- There are 20 miles
Of such canals. and there are seven
e-reat humping stations which lift the
eater M into them. When the ad-
! 5ftiora1 D1rmps now being construct
"a are installed, the total dralnase
capacity Will be more tnan seven
billion gallons per day
! THE Sewerage system IS entlrelN
] generate from the drainage system.
There are altogether 90 miies VI
Z s+reefs and the sewage runs under
these. By gravity 10 pumping sta-
tons. out OF Whlch II = uisoiisi = ~
into the river
New WaterwOrks Wonderful
THO new city waterworks are
equally wonderful The eisterns nave
6isappeared. and New Orleans now
baS great water and filtration
nIaDr which covers 20 acres and de-
livers the best Cf water 10 the peo-
- At a cost to the city OF about
- -.enfs Der thousand gallons The
p-sfer mains are 541 miles long anc
ltbo consumption OF water IS more
han "a GOO. Gee gallons day THESE
tbTea systems OF water. drainage and
Severance have cost about 5e,eoe,vvy
mn tbev have cut down the death
80 IRON, more than twenty-sever
nor tbonsand to less than twenty PEI
tbonssTd The death rate OF whites
lie Ir,re-- than that OF almost any otn-
- citS- Of the world. It is only i
of Il per thousand -..
Co1ouerS Rats and Mosquitoes
All this is in striking contrast VIII
lfha Nev- orleans Of the past Inc
S-eiloy- fever and the bubOnic plague
49, been eliminated. and the city
has been made as safe and healthy
fsr aDV- in the world The cisterns
T-hicb bred the yellow fever mos
oui.oes have been destroyed, ana 90
es0 G00 has been spent in rat-proof'
ing 10000 buildings II IS the "a
as Won know, thai carries the bu-
: bonfc plague. In all, more than l.
100000 rats have been trapped ahu
killed. and today every vessel thai
I lands at the wharyes must have RAT