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The Lower Coast Gazette
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
THE LOWER COAST GAZETTE CO.
F. C. MEVERS, President; S. B. MEVERS, Secretary.
POINTE-A-LA-HACHE, LOUISIANA.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
PLAQUEMINES PARISH POLICE JURY,
PLAQUEMINES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD,
PI.AQITEMINES PARISH EAST BANK LEVEE DISTRICT,
GRAND PRAIRIE LEVEE DISTRICT,
LAKE BORGNE BASIN LEVEE DISTRICT.
BUaAs LEVEE DISTRICT
TERMs: $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE;
Entered at the Pointe-a-la-Hache, Post Office as second class
mail matter
SATURDAY MAY 1, 1909.
A Gardeners' Association.
The secret of tbe success of the banana industry from the
tropical gulf ports into New Orleans is based upon the wonderful
facilities now afforded to banana shippers in the way of distribut
ing the bananas to such markets up the country as may need them
most, or are not overstocked. Ship loads of bananas entering
. New Orleans are now discharged under sheds and moved across a
 few feet and loaded into railway ears as rapidly as discharged, and
these cars are dispatched up the country to certain leading centers,
where orders will be telegraphed for the diversion ofthe cars to
whatever special market it may be desired to send them. A gen
eration ago all of the coffee coming into the United States from
Brazil, amounting then to some three million bags, was transported
in sailing vessels, carrying from 3,000 to 5,000 bags of coffee each.
These sailing vessels were generally instructed to call for orders
at St. Thomas, in the Danish West Indias. Vessels so calling
woyld be instructed to proceed to New Orleans, Baltimore, Phila
delphia, or New York, as the circumstances might indicate. Fifty
carloads of bananas reaching Cairo, Illinois, could readily be di
verted therefrom to St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, or to anyone
of the large up river towns all the way up to St. Paul and Minne
apolis-or tobe sent directly through to Chicago, Cincinnatti, Louis
vile or Cleveland, as the demand might indicate.
For many years there has been a Gardners' Association in
New Orleans, and, learning as the gardeners have by bitter ex
perience, that with any glut of supplies, their own market went
all to pieces, they have in a manner similar to the banana im
porters and the coffee importers, elaborated a system of distribu
tion very similar to that of the banana men and even more widely
spread, as New Orleans sends no bananas to New York City as
yet, and still has recently been shipping lettuce by the carload to
that city. This good work done by the Gardners' Association in
dicates what a well organized, willing and intelligent body of men
can do when they are disposed to make the effort.
We believe that now is an oppertune time for the gardnerers
of the parish ofPlaquemines to organize an association, perhaps
with one single organization and several branches, one each in the
lydling garden" centers and, in this way, be able to bring out clear
before all of those interested the advantages and disadvantages
of any of the methods or features of the business that may seem
susceptible of improvement.
It has been found for many years that those in any industry
' who do their work the best generally find plenty of work to do.
In other words, if our gardeners turn out the best lettuce, the best
netimbers, the best radishes, the best strawberries, or the best of
: any garden product that' is available, they will soon build up a de
matand for more than they can turn out. Consumers become very
piticil and are very appreciative of good things wherever they
San b~founml Qne difficulty that environs us in the parish of
y jineA a tne tact that while we have greater advantages in
ir 4y of snshine, rainfall and semi-triopical weather conditions
Ephlerally, still 'we have but a comparatively narrow strip of avail-i
bl.n had on each side of the river and our parish extends for
ibEt a hundred miles on each side of the river throughout this
S~rrw strip, the river practically dividing the parish into two
Ssepaeraste parts, as its great width and depth and its con
Aoduring stormy weather aresuch as to render it somewhat
 qlt to bring close relations between the residents of the two
te of the river.
The ninth and tenth wards of our parish constitute quite a
t:d.ing district and are at the same time quite a populous com
aunlty snd it ought not to be diffcult to organize quite an effee- I
tive association there. The Jesuits' Bend country is looming up
't~~p y as a garden district, the old familiar fields of sugar cane
ad rice disappearing under the increasing attractiveness of !et
;. geand e~ucmbers. Jesuits' Bend could furnish the material
i an excellent Gardeners' Asaociation. In the second ward we
ia ourselves upon having the most attractive gardening com.rn
Sin the parish and it ought to be very possible to organize '
~as qIt~i on of gardeners there. Further than .this, we have
Sthat with the excellent example set by Sheriff Mevers in his
uigardening ventures, that right at our parish seat there t
i lop lja rapidly increasing business in the production of
J without saying that it is absolutely essential that the
Smust be well done to make it profitabld and it must be
or our people cannot be induced to go into it. e
n, apart from its attractive, scientific side, is very much t
w "Ioof pIain, bard work. Those who are intelligent and in'
ar the I n es that can bedepended upon to make garden
uccess.e Without these two qualities it is practically impos~
SWe presept these ideas to our readers, hoping that they t
,slder them carefully and adopt them if they can see their
clea t ti that end, On the West side of the river a monthly
mightbe held at Home Place, or at Bumrs, ard if a Gar. t
Aspo, stIoi would be started, there would be many people
from the other side of the river to these monthly meet- a
h t experience of one person related at these meetings be. I
t knqwledge and safeguard of all, Errors made and hon.,
Irtdn p eventsa thy roIn oing the same o , and
S and honetly reported make a way for others a
a s oeould Wres ,
ef.rtin this way is the verS cheapest method of 9
idonpation extSant, It was said many years ago
wnll.wi, arp his own experience only, has a dear
W n ei oth * to make every atmsake'known to man
ks Me do ake, if caretully reported in publie
will means others ro m falling into the samne errs ti
l a: .Wont smme of our gardening friends write
ieGaestt up.n th.. important subject.
Rfrigeratod Transportation.
~g icttlf~ ~ W~u~s known as Parkopolls, being 4
rnij thaibited tates. The hogs were ja
~ter month a arctfltel refrigeration and a
~ nv 4of things. A very few years a
ppkhsfat in Texas and an almost in- ,
wss fenwjln l the fiet that the beef would' fr
Up to within recent years, and we presume even now, it has been
a problem with hog raisers in North Louisiana, where the hog crop
iis a very important incident of general agriculture, to make sure
of weather sufficiently cold to warrant the killing of hogs with
some certainty of saving the meat by the ordinary methods of pre
servation. In fact, at some agricultural meetings it has been
urged that packing houses should be encouraged as they, equipped
now with artificial refrigeration, would make hog raising a much
more certain business, furnishing a certain market for hogs, their
methods insuring the saving of the hog products, while the domes
tic methods now current sometimes fail in this state.
As the center of hog production proceeded westward, Chicago
became the chief packing center and there artificial refrigeration
was introduced very early in the sixties, and the enormous de
velopment of the packing industry at Chicago, Omaha and Kansas
City has been largely based upon artificial refrigeration and cold
storage.
At about the same time that refrigeration and cold storage
were commanding attention and were generally adopted in Chi
cago, the same idea was applied to the preservation of fruits. We
recall the fact that one of the early cold storage establishments
was located at Wheeling, West Virginia, and among its advantages
was the fact that apples could be bought at a very low price when
the market was glutted and could be held in cold storage and pre
served for many months, when the best temperatures for such
perservation were known. That phase of the business has been
developed enormously and here in Louisiana, when we use up our
own orange crop, we are fed on California oranges and other fruits
for many months, the California fruits being made available the
year around because of their facilities in the way of cold storage.
We are not familiar with the method of handling bananas, as
to whether or not they are shipped in refrigerator cars, but our
Louisiana produce, such as lettuce, cucumbers, radishes, straw.
berries, etc., are shipped in refrigerator cars and these cars start
with their ice bins full of ice and are always iced once and some
times twice while in transit. The low temperature thus secured
are a wonderful preservative, so far as the vegetables are con
cerned and, in fact, one of our leading shippers told us recently
that in filling a car with vegetables for shipment to Chicago, or
any other distant point, with a full refrigerating outfit, if any
damage occurred, it was in the top layer of barrels or hampers,
the middle and lower tiers always being the best. Of -course, we
all know that cold air sinks to the bottom of any container and any
warm air that may develop rises to the top. The New Orleans
Gardeners' Association has had this matter well in hand for some
years and practically all the shipments of Louisiana garden truck
going North, goes in refrigerator cars.
If we had meetings of our gardeners,whereall of these matters
could be discussed, we believe that the results would be found to
be eminently satisfactory.
The Recency of The Advent of Some Vegetables.
Hume, in his histroy of England, states that until the end of
the reign of Henry VIII, carrots, turnips and other edible roots
were not produced in England. The few of them that were used
were imported and the state papers contain numerous references
to the dispatch of messengers to the continent for rare vegetables
and salads to grace the table at important royal banquets. Cu
cumbers were also unknown until the 16th century and celery
owes its introduction in England to the French Marshall Taillard,
who was imprisoned in England after his defeat by Marlborough.
The parish of Plaquemines is now doing its part in supplying
the world with cucumbers, or at least the Western world, and we
are inclined to think that as rapidly as our Italians cani; adopt thenm
selves to the vagaries of our climate they will learn how to produce
tomatoes here as successfully as they are produced in Italy, where
the production of them is now'so great that they became a staple
food article there even before they were used in this country. It
is said that the first tomatoes ever used by the public in the United
States were used at a banquet in the Astor House, New York, in
1820. On the Lower Cbast the growth of tomatoes is very prolific,
but app~ently the vines need to be kept up off the ground by
some trellis work. This is no more difficult of doing than is the
culture of pole beans, which require similai care. If some of our
enterprisipg pgardeners on the Lower Coast would experiment in
tomato culture to some extent we are'enclined to believe that they
could remedy the difficulties that have thus far prevented that in
dustry from developing as rapidly as the cnCtmhber industry.
Tow-Boat Eagle Turns Turtle.
The tow-boat Eagle, belonging to the
" Louisiana Petrolium Company, turned
turtle and drowned eight of her crew.
The Eagle left New Orleans with a
barge of oil to be delivered to pamer
on and White, contractors, who are at
present engaged in building the Plaque.
mines East Bank back levee. Beginning
her journey down the griver on Satur.
day last, about 6 p. m., the Eagle tied
up at Nestor Canal, discharged the
cargo of oil, and then staraed to. steim
the stiff current on her way back to
the city, having the barge, partially
flled with oil, secured to the bow by
raceet tow chains.' When abreast of
Pointe Celeste, at about 4 a. m, po
Sunday, she attempted to cross the
river to the point marked by the Gov.
emplent light, and in to doing, one of
the chaina'parted, and with the utmost
sudenpess nmribfund themselves.in the
river, dased by the cold water and
fropl hurts from pieces of timber,
broken doors and windows that were
thrown when the Eagle foundered.
It seems, from all accounts, that a
steam pipe must have exploded when
the boet went down; screams were
then beard.by the people on shore'
Those who ed to the rescue, in
answer to cries: for help, -were,
Louis Chapov , Colin Chapove, Adrien
Pollegall, M Lightel, Louis Duplegsis
and Nerval Gogare; with opiyplroues
and one skij these men swshed out into
the darkdess, tosave. Those whowere
saved were found clingin to piees of
wreckage. Window casings, doors and
trpa s were caught by the men in
their attept to save themseelyes
The crew of the Eagle were all, good
soimiers, but the catastrophe happen
ed so suddenly that n the darkness of
the hour that preceds the dawn, it was
difficult to get hold. of anything that
would serve as a life, preserver. The
watr wpuas cold as lee .and being
numbed thereby, theijen were- unable
tostrike ot.
The Eagle foundered, but the barge,
fter drifting about tweity-four miles a
frther down, was pleked up by the R.
W. Wilamo, the powerfal tow ,boeat of
the Coyle Company, nd tot back to 4
the cty.
At the time that 'every 0alabl boat I
'oreraft went ut t. the ,wreek, Mr. I
Joha 8 . i ngle, who live at upper l
Poiate-a.la.Hache, opposite Pointe Ce
leste, realising, th~t after the sur
vivors reached shore they would need
further assistance, saddled his horse as
quickly as possible and went to notify
the Sheriff of the disaster. The men
were taken to Pointesa-la.Hache, where
they were given clothing!and made: as
comfortable as the means at hand
would permit. The lost were;
Captain George. George, Master of
the Eagle, Algiers.
Richard Le Blanc, mate,. Donaldson
ville, La.
Charles Martin, firemqn,, Gretna.
Charles Goodbub,. secondengmeer,
Philadelphia.
Gannie Coleman, negrodeckbhnd.
Alexander Moore, cabin boy.
Florence Morgan, negro chamber
maid.
Unknown negro.deck band, picked up
on Lower Coast.
The rescaed were;
* Daniel O'riscoll, pilot of the Eagle,
McDonognville.
Raymond Carite, chief engineer, New
George E. Lankford, clerk and oil gau
ger.
Michael Driscoll, watchman of the
Eagle.
Anthony Hubert, White deck hand.
Lewis Phillips, white deck hand.
Robert Brotwn white burner lan.
Abraham Johnso;, 4 eo cook.
The importance of a really important
man doesn't show on the, surface.
A Hypocrite.
Frank Conway, j geniel conductor on
the Santa Fe, who olwtys has a rich
irsih story, iresponsible for this:
"Casey,'; said Mu$hey, as they
.tet at Grogan's ploce, 'do you know
that Oi'm after thinkin' that Clancey
is ablasted hypocrite?"
"Oi dunno'"' says Casey, as he
scratehed the lace curtain under his
chin. "Clanoey works every day on th'
section, keeps his family an' pays his
debts an' makes his duties. What
more tod ye be after p~kin' av aman."
estly anywi`d Mauiahy, "01 have it
O adeldable autthority that Clncey
mn eth' Forty Hoars Devotion an,
thin wint an' voted th' raypublican
ticket."-Daily Dejporat, El Reno Ok
PARISH NEWS.
e Venice.
h Messrs. Ernest Alberti and Benji
Biaggini were the guests of the Misses
Bernard.
A game of ball was played Sun
Lday between the single and married
men. By permission of the single boys
r Mr. Alberti joined the married men's
. team. Everyone enjoyed the game,
the young ladies rooted for the married
men. Our official members were E.
U Alberti, catcher, B. Biaggini, score
I man and Jos. Oscar Buras, umpire.
The score was 5 to 6 in favor of the
a single men.
On Thursday,, April 22, Mr. Leroy
entertained his friends with a launch
ride to Buras, with the intention of
e meeting our friend James Wilkinson,
- but were dissapointed. Mr. Leroy,s
e hospitality was highly appreciated.
g Mr. and Mrs. de Armas Jr. are the
S guests of Mrs. Eugene de Armas.
Mrs. Jos. Clark and daughters, Irene,
Doris and little Magdalene, visited Mrs.
Aug. Buras, Sunday.
Mr. Fred Conaway, of New Orleans,
is visiting here. Miss Gertrude Con
r away, returned to her home in Port
a Eads, after spending several days here.
Ste. Sophie.
Mrs. Wies of Montecello, visited in
Phoenix last Monday. Several persons
r from this locality attended the wake at
Mrs. Dragons place last Monday eve
t ning.
Hon. S. Leopold went to the city to
attend the wedding of Dr. M. David
Haspel Wednesday evening. Miss
- Alice Dobson of this place and Miss
? Marguerite Hill of Monsecour, visited
p the Ste. Sophie schools Wednesday
afternoon. Mr. Kelley and Mr. Fair
bank, were here Friday on business
concerning a dredge.
Mr. Oscar Wies of Monticello came
I Saturday morning on business. Rice
S planting and replanting still continues,
e with very favorable weather.
t Mr, Alva Hingle was in our town
Sunday morning. Mr. Foster Dobson,
visited Monsecour Sunday afternoon.
She brothers Leopold, went to the
city for the day last Sunday, returning
Sunday evening.
Last weeks items make me say that
Miss Marguerite Hill went to the city.
The statement shouldread "this place"
F instead of "the city." Whether the
fault is mine or the typesetters' I beg
to apologize to Miss Hill.
Buras.
A good game of base ball is antici
pated for Sunday, May 2, '09. Buras
La. vs. the Beavers, of New Orleans,
La.
The Locals will play the All Stars,
Sunday, May 9, and on Sunday, May 16,
will meet their old rivals, the Jesuit
Benders. All three of the above games
will be played on the Buras ground.
All wishing to see a good game of
ball, should not fail to attend.
Junior.
The large double cabin, situated on
the lower line of T. S. Wilkinspn's
Junior Plantation, was totally destroy
ed by fire Friday morning. The house
was occupied by Aristide Duplesis,
colored, and his family.
Pointea-la-Hache.
Among the many visitors to our pleas
ant little burg during the past week
were, Meessrs. Wmin. Tabony and Clem.
Lartigue. Mr. Tabony informed us that
the artichokes in his section of the
country are doing fine and that he has
made quite a large shipment during the
past week. Hon. Simon Leopold was
in town and paid us an agreeable call.
Frank C. Mevers Jr., visited his rel
atives in our town on Sunday. Wal
ter Andignac and Raoul Favret, were
v itors at the home of Mrs. S. Favret
on Sunday. Misses Lilly and Louise
Barry, two charming pnd accpmplished
young ladies of New Orleans, were the
guests of Mrs. F. C, Mevers on Sunday.
~eon T. Fontenelle and his little son
Herman, spent a very pleasant day in
New Orleans Sunday, returning the
same day.
The many friends of the Gazette
will learn with pleasure, thit Mrs.
Psmak Martin. who was conveyed to
the Hotel Dies in New Orleans some
weeks ago for medical treatment is
rapidly recovering.
Messara. Jos. Waltzer and C. Y. James,
were visitors in our town on Sunday.
Mr. Louis Jeanfrean was a visitor at
Pointe-a-la-Hache on Wednesday.
Hon. Dave Withan, paid us a pleas
ant call during the week.
Mr. James Wilkinson was attending 1
to legal business at the courthouse on I
Thursday, Mrs, R EI Hingle is spend-.
ing some time with her parents in New
Orleans. Judge R. E. Hingle, left for
St. Bernard parish on Thursday eve
ning to open court there on Friday
mnorning, Dist. Attorney Nlnez,
oqqd not attend court owing to the
serious illness of his father Sheriff E.
E. Nunes.
The Gazette force acknowledg with
thanks a large and beautiful bouquet
of sweet peas presented by Mrs. S.
Farret. Mrs. Favret has one 6f the
finest flower gardens in Pointe-a-la.
Hache.
Court Proceedings.
Court convened, Thursday, April 29,
1909, and the following cases were dis
posed of; State vs. RI M. White, sel
ling liquor without a license, arraigned
and plead notguilty.
State vs. Clous Bienieme, non pay
ment of road tax, plead guilty and sen
tenced to five days work on public
roads.
State va Willie Stewart, non pay
ment of road tax, plead guilty and sen:
tenced to five days work on public
rodad.
Free! Free! Free! Free! Free! Free!
Louis Leonhard & Son
LOUISA AND DAUPHINE STREETS.
Free Boat and Railroad Transportation.
Freight Prepaid. New Methods, New Ideas.
Come to New Orleans and return without
One Cent Of Expense To You.
On all purchases of $25.00 and over we will
pay both your freight charges and passage
way by either Railroad or Boat, between
BURAS AND NEW ORLEANS
Enabling you to get your goods to your
house absolutely free of any charges and
Visit New Orleans Without One Cent
of cost to you. We have one of the largest
and most complete lines of merchandise in
the city. We have separate and distinct
departments of :-: :-: :-: :.: :-: :.:
Clothing, Hats, Shoes, Mat
tings, Carpets and Shades,
Millinery, Dry Goods,
Fancy Goods and
Jewelry.
Each department by itself a store. We pay
freight charges on every purchase from $5.00
upward .. ............., ........
Louis Leonhard & Son
LOUISA AND DAUPHINE STREETS.
River News
Burrwood is making ice, real ice.
The plant began operation on Friday
last to test the machinery and every
thing proved satisfactory. Two tons
every 24 hours, is the output or in other
words, the capacity of the plant.
The machine shop is completed too
and everything is ready now, to start
the town on a boom.
The great need of Burrwood has al
ways been a hotel and this great ne
cessity, we understand, will soon be
overcome by the ever hustling citizen
and Judge of Burrwood, the Hon. Geo.
W. Delesdernier. We can but speak in
the highest terms of the Judge, who is
always on the "qui-vive" to promote
the interests of this parish.
Dame rumor has it, that our genial
friend, J. L. Hortenstein is contem
plating matrimony and that report is
based on the many sky blue envelopes
he receives through the mails and the
pink with blue borders, which he sends;
a further evidence that the report be
true, is his eagerness to have the work
on the new cottages begun. You have
started right "old boy," keep up your
nerve.
Parker Boras vs. Jno. Lynch, affi
davit slander, was the case called by
the court crier in Judge Geo. W. De
lesdernier's court on Friday, 23d inst.
Due to the very large attendance of
prominent citizens, the Judge convened
his court in the macnine shop.
The witnesses in the case were, Jno.
Morgan, Win. Cobden, Wm, Johnson,
Monroe Jackspn and John Dublin. The
evidence adduced was so Mitigating,
that the Judge felt that the dignity of
the court would be questioned were he
to render any other decision but "dis
charged."
Dr. P. D. Brown of Fort St. Philip,
reports his near transfer to Fort Sam
Houston, Houston Texas. The Dr. is
to be congratulated on his transfer to
the largest military post in the United
REWARDS
The following rewards are offered for the
recovery of the bodies from the ill fated
Tug-Boat Eagle
CHARLES MARTIN==
DESCRIPTION:--Age 18 years, weight
about 130 pounds, has "C. M." tatooed
on one arm. $50.00.
C. A. GOODBUB-
Age 48 years, hight 5 feet 5 inches. Iron
grey hair. $25.00.
FLORENCE MORGAN==
Colored Chambermaid, $25,00,
States-which shows his worth. This
bit of news will be received by his
many friends with regret, as the Dr.
was a jolly good fellow. He has our
best wishes.
Deputy U. S. marshall, B. F. Queen,
was in the lower end of the parish serv
ing subpoenas on citizens to serve as
jurors in the U. S. court in the expro
priation of lands for the U. S. Quar
antine, at Ou'rtntine. La.
Men are as anxious to speak well of
each other as women are not.
The Uses of Adversity.
"Grogan,"said the head of the de
partment store, eyeing him sharply,
"you've quit drinking, havn't you?"
"yes, sor," answered the red-headed
Hibernian who worked in the packing
department. "I hav'nt taken a drink av
annything sthronger th'n iced tay f'r
three monts."
"I am glad to hear it, Grogan. I'll
make it an object to you to stay quit.
But howdid you break yourself off the
habit?"
"Be hittin' me thumb nail wid a ham
mer whin I was packin a box o' goods."
"I don't see how that could cure
y9u."
"Well, Misther Barker, it was this
way. If I'd been sober, d'ye moind, I'd
niver have done it, but 1 wasn't. Whin
I whacked me thumb instead av the
nail I was thiryin' to dhrive it made a
black spot at the root av me thumb
nail I says to meself: Grogan, I'll pun
ish ye f'r thet. Ye shan't have adhrink
av ayther beer 'r whuskey until that
black spot has gone.
"Well, sor, it was two months befure
it had growed out to the ind o' me
thumb an' I cud cut it off, and be
thot time I'd lost all me appetite f'r
beer and whuskey.
"Thin I says to meself: Grogan, I'll
reward ye f'r thot.Ye,re a sober mon
now, and ye'll stay sober.' That's the
whole story, sor."- Youth's Companion.