the donaldsonville chief (donaldsonville, la.) 1911 …...office, 308 opelousas street, opposite the...
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DTONALDS- hINVLEA WIDE-AWAKE HOME NEWSPAPER---PUBLISHED EV Y SATURDAY---SUBSORIPTION PRICE, $2 A YEAR
OLME L. DONALDSONVILLE LA., STURDAY, JULY 29, 1911.
pROFESSIONAL AI ND GLVINESDRY GOODS, GROCERIES, ETC.
t- KLINE, corner Crescent Place and
C. Houmas street, dealer in dry goods.notions, boots and shoes, groceries, pro-visions, corn, oats and bran. 'Phone 152.
PHYSICIANS
, K. SIIS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.. Office in Houmas street, between
Iberville street and Crescent Place. Tele-
phone 90.
I. T. H. HANSON, PHYSICIAN. Of-fice: Railroad avenue, between Clai-
borne and Opelousas streets. 'Phone 240.
B. J. D. HANSON, PHYSICIAN. Of-/ flice and residence: Lessard street,
between Nicholls avenue and Ibervill.. eet. Telephone 54.
OCULISTS
r~l. T. J. I)IMITIIY, OCULIST. Of-1J fice on Sundays at Cobb's Hotel,Donaldsonville, 11 a. m. to 4 p. m. NewOrleans office, 714-718 Audubon Building,Ito 5 p. m.
ATTORNEYS AND NOTARIESSJ. VEGA, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND
. NOTARY PUBLIC. Office with R. Mc-
Culloh, corner Railroad and Nicholls ave-
nues. Telephone 313.
-ONDRAN, GUION & MARCHAND.AIrORNEYS AT LAW AND NOTARIES PUBLIC.
Office in Nicholls avenue, opposite court-house. Prompt attention paid to collec-tons and civil business. Telephone 133
EDlHUND MAURIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
. NOrARY PUBLIC AND JUSTICE OF PEACE.Office, 308 Opelousas street, opposite theDonaldsonville High School. The office otjustice of the peace will in no way inter-fere with my practice in district courts orjustice courts other than the one overwhich I preside. Telephone 3-2.
c ALEB C. WEBER, ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office in Rail-road avenue, opposite the DonaldsonvilleHigh School. Telephone 109-2.
- h)ealer in -
ScraD Iron
FOR SALEClarifiers, evaporators,strike pans and valvesComplete 5-foot mill,six rollers and outfitComplete 4-foot mill,3 rollers and outfitSteam condensers and
pumps, good as newSPulleys and pipes, etc
The NichollssF. ROGGE, Prop.
Corner Mississippi and St. Patrick Sts.
A Popular Resort forGentlemen
A thorough and select line of Wires,Liquors and Cigars at the bar. Ice-
cold Beer always on draught
Pool and Billiard Hall ini
Connection -A private room for meetings and so-
cial gatherings. Courteous treat.ment to our patrons.
SIF YOU WANT .
Life InsuranceIt will pay you to see L. W. WAR-RICK before taking out a policywith anyone, as he represents thePACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE INSUR-ANCE COMPANY.
Read Their Famous DisabilityClause:
"Should the insured become totallyand Permanently disabled throughaccident or other cause at any time.the premium payments cease andthe insured receives the faceatnount of the policy in ten equalannuol installments."
teWARRICK, 125 Lessard St.,ALDSONVILLE, LA.
AsN HEA!.TH TO iOHER AND CHILD.- INSLOW'S SOoTHINO S Rtrp has been
Onetr SIXTY YEARS b ,511LL.IONS OfRS for their CIIIL)RjN WtHILE}:.iNG, with PERFECT SUCCESS. Itji s Othe CHILD, SOFTENS the 0GUtIS,XIbSPAIN ; CURES WI:ND COLIC, a,!,,1
.mtremedy for DIIARRHCEA. It i. a:.armless. Be sure and ask for "'tY, s.O Soothing yvru;p," and take no oithe,4V•c-ve cents a bottle.
of2. adquarters
Sherlock Holmes at his best has aformidable rival in the cool, clear-
headed Britz who proves theinnocence of a beautiful young
woman charged with thegreatest diamond rob-
If . bery ever knownyou in New York,like A after a seriesDetective of thrillingStory that Is adventures.a ContinuousPreformance ofAbsorbing Interest
read the new serial by A
Marcin Barberthat will appear in thispaper.
WATCH FORTHE OPENINGINSTALLMENT I
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! Prompt Service Free Delivery
Every MerchantHas His Peculiarity About Conducting Business JOur great desire is to provide for our custom-ers the VERY BEST in the way of C
Fresh Crisp Edibles a
to be had, and give our customers the bene-fit of close figures. Everything new in the a
grocery line is represented in our stock. aLet us have a share of your trade. sLet us add you to our GROWING LIST of cSATISFIED CUSTOMERS
Chas. Maurin, The Leading Grocer a
j Mis}.issippi Street , .
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'Listen to Our Coal TalkOur yard is the only one in Donaldsonville sellingstrictly PITTSBURG L.UMP COAL. Notwith-standilng the scarcity of Pittsburg Coal, prices will
remain the same as last season.
ASCENSION COAL COMPANY, LimitedJ. J. LAFARGUE, Agent
OIVFIC;• AND YARD, Miississippi Street , Telephone 146-2
GO•N TOT B~UILD? Or Repair Your Residene t
r orOuthouses?
If so we have a well-assorted stock ofCypress Lumber to select from, Getour prices and save money.
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.ASCNON , LUIER YARD .Wilbert Sons L and S Company, Props
SN IO LU YARD C M ODELL, ManegerDI)ONALDSONVILLE, LA.
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MODEL MUNIuIPL ABATTOI.Admirable System % Inspecting and
Handling Food =Animals in Suc-cessful Operati at Paris, Texas.
Following are extracts froman illustrated artic in Ice and Re-frigeration for Oct er, 1910, whichwere promised in st week's Chiefto be laid before o readers today:
What is said to the first muni-cipal abattoir and uction plant inthe United States R completed andstarted at Paris, Te s, in December,1909. Prior to th eonstruction ofthis municipal abat r there were anumber of private slaughterhousesin and around the cy, most of themrudely constructed, ocated on low,damp ground; usua the only wateravailable was from shallow wells orpools. Everything a!ut them was ex-tremely insanitary' The municipalofficers sought to ,prove the con-ditions, but the sla•hterhouses be-ng outside the to, were beyond
their immediate juri~dicticn. Effortswere made to induie the severalbutchers to combine or form a stockcompany to build •ad operate amodern 'plant under city inspection,but business rivalr prevented theconsummation of thl plan, Finally,under the leadersh$ of Mayor E.I. McQuistion, a bRd issue to ob-tain the necessary-funds was au-thorized by popular -yte, and the cityofficials promptly e cted the plantshown in the accompanying views.The accepted plans.i!ere those madeby Wannenwetsch &o., Buffalo, N.Y., who also furnihed the outfitfor the rendering pl tt.
The abattoir is 1oeted on one of Ithe principal streets near the cor-,orate limits of -e town, with
Swelling houses on ,ll sides of it,ne of them within 4:00 feet of thelant. The buildings are constructed 1)f wood and corrupted iron withhe exception of r s, foundationscnd floors, the latte- being of con- i:rete. The reducti1, killing and {:ooling rooms are alb two stories in Iceight, while the eline room, of- I
ice and dressing r dbms are one iLtor'y."If the plant were to be recon-
tructed,"says Mayor^McQuistion.,"we Iwould build the col` storage and I
hill rooms out of' ick or cement Iand would remov r reduction I
,om to a distancey t least fifty
mmediately adjie o the build-ng are stock ph latform scales.nd the necessar n-ways to prop- 1rly facilitate the handling of ani-nals for slaughter. The plant- is iarge enough to take care of about l
ifty head of cattle per day of tenlonrs, but in addition to cattle, hogsad sheep are also slaughtered.
The city does not purchase anynimals or sell any meat; it merelylaughters, under proper sanitaryonditions, the animals that are of-ered by the local butchers or othersho wish to avail themselves of theacilities offered. The use of thelunicipal plant is not made directly
ompulsory, but by ordinance it isrovided that all animals must be
laughtered in some plant which has11 the various sanitary precautionsnd equipment maintained at thelunjcipal plant., As a result, all lo- a
al slaughtering is done at the tunicipal abattoir. t
The killing room is well lightednd perfectly screened. All doorsave vestibules and are double 1creened. The floors are concrete,arefully laid to grade and the en-ire surface troweli finished. Bell iaps are provided at the low pointsid each equipped with a water seal cnd all connected with the city sew- crs. Overhead is a complete systemf steel tracks and traveling trol- 0
ys so laid out as to facilitate in nvery possible way the handling of a11 the animals from the knock down aen out to the inspector's rail and tito the chill room. fJa the killing room are nph scald-
ing vat and thd inspector's tablesupon which the viscera are all laidfor inspection before being removedto the rendering room. Provision isalso made here for catching and con-serving the blood, it being an im-portant ingredient in the productof the reduction plant. The equip-ment of this room also includesknives, scrapers, skewers, hand-hoists and such other implements asare usually found in the ordinaryslaughterhouses.
All animals slaughtered receivefinal inspection and are stamped andtagged while upon the inspector's railin the killing room. They are nextmoved on overhead trolleys into thechill room, which is immediately ad-jacent. here they rtomuin abouttwelve hours at a te'mperature ofpractically 40 degrees F., after whichthe carcasses are removed into therefrigerating room proper, to awaitthe demand of the meat cutter. Thewalls, ccilings and floors of boththe chill and cooler rooms are in-sulated with waterproof Lith boardlaid in cement.
Above both chill room and coolerare bunker rooms or coil lofts forthe direct expansion piping whichtakes up the heat rising from themeat hung on the rails in the roomslbelow. The drip from these pipeswhen frost melts off is caught inpans and trapped out of the building.Dry refrigeration is thus assured,and Mayor McQuistion writes: "Nocarcass ever comes out dark orslimy."
The rendering room is' at the ex-
Silliman College for GirlsClinton, La.
An endowed institution of high standard, located in;a beautifulhill country. Three handsome Buildings and large, wll shadedCampus. Electric lights, steam heat, splendid water supply and sani-tary bath rooms.
It offers full classical, scientific and literary courseqA th specialadvantages in music, art, expression and stenography. A- diplomaentitles holder to first grade teacher's certificate in thepiglic schoolsof Louisiana.We emphasize noble and refined Christian womanhood. Individual attentionis given to each student's needs by thorough teachers, and we msintiin a stridstandard of requirements.Free scholarships are granted a limited number who need financial assistance.Some students pay half expenses by taking duties.Silliman College is positively unexcelled in its careful anr ainstakingadministration.
Sixtieth year begins Sept. 13th, 1911. Write at once for beautifully illus.trated catalogue.
H. H. Brownlee, President, Clinton, La.
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111- treme opposite end of the plant from
the cooler and is back of the boilerd and engine rooms. It is equippeds with a Wannenwetsch rendering ma-1 chine, a grease tank, overhead
k tracks, and the necessary hand anda steam hoists. All the offal in the1, killing room and all dead stock from
e in and around the city are put intothe tank in this room. After a
.charge is put in the tank is hermet-- ically sealed and not opened until
-the finished products are taken out,:y after three to six hours treatment,
t by which time they are practicallyodorless. The gases and odors thate are not condensed and trapped intor. the sewer are passed under.the fire
t box and boiler and are consumedthere. The products of the rendering
f plant are tallow and tankage. Thetallow is sold at from five to fiven and a halt cents a pound and isreadily purchased by laundrymen andsoapmakers. The tankage is worth1 by chemical analysis as a fertilizerz $23.50 a ton. In many places chops,
s and grain are mixed with it and itis then sold as chicken feed. Theowner of the animals receives thehide, all the tallow adhering to thecarcass, as well as the rough fatfrom the offal. The remaining fatadhering to the offal recovered in therendering tank goes to the city. Noe effort is made to utilize any other1 by-products, such as hoofs for. glue,bristles from hogs, tail switches of1 cattle, ete,
- The refrigerating plant is equipped
-rated at about'ten tons refrigeratingcapacity per day of twenty-four
- hours.A thorough system of inspection
is maintained by the city, the chieft inspector being a graduate veterin-arian who has had a special courseof instruction under skilled govern-ment inspectors. Two inspectionsare made, first the ante-mortem,second the pest-mortem. The first
,is made in the stock pens, the sec-ond in the killing room, the latterincluding not alone inspection ofthe carcass, but also a careful in-spection of the viscera together withthe lungs and liver. The rules ofinspection are the same as are usedby the United States government in-spectors in tlbe packing houses. Ifanimals are rejected on live inspec-tion the owners are notified and theanimals are at once removed fromthe pens. If the rejection is de-termined upon in the killing roomthe carcass is tanked and the owneris allowed what it is worth in tal-low and tankage. The inspector isthe ranking employe and makes dailyreports to the city secretary, whokeeps the accounts. In addition tothe inspector the regular employes in-clude an engineer, two slaughterers,one driver and one deadstock man.
"It was not the design of ourplant to make money," says themayor, "but it was thought best tomake it' self-sustaining; accordinglyafter two months' experience we de-termined, that we would charge $1.25for each beef, and seventy-five centsfor each calf, hog, sheep or goat.These charges cover the two in-spections, slaughtering, five days'cold storage, and delivery on thehook in the meat cutters' shop. Ifany carcass is left -in the refrigerat-ing rooms longer than five days acharge of ten cents per day is made. 1
'"We have demonstrated to the Isatisfaction of every butchr that wecan hang a carcass on the hook inhis shop cheaper than he can, andfurther that there is no sort oflegitimate comparison between our Isystem and the one he formerly em-ployed.
1 "However practical and beneficialour present plant and system hasproved to be, it is still susceptibleto further development. We expectlater to require the inspection andslaughter of chickens and other fowlssold or offered for sale in the localmarket, to be conducted under oursupervision. We expect also to grindsausage and render lard and tallowat our plant.
"The plant cost complete $10,000. 1Our estimated population is 15,000.While the 'plant is small, it hasevery facility for producing pure andwholesome food that is possessed bythe largest packing house iu thecountry. Our capacity is ample forpresent ieeds, blL the time mustcome ie a very few years when itmust be increased."
Chronic Sore Eyes 1are easily cured with Sutherland's IEagle Eye Salve. It is painless and Iharmless and guaranteed. 25c, a box.Sold everywhere.
Sons of American ftRvolution Lookingfor New iMimbers.
The Louisiana St3iety of the Sonsof the American teivolution desiresto hear from Louisianians who areeligible for member~lhip or who areable to trace their family gene-alogy to an ancestor--who took partas a soldier, seaman or as a civilofficer during the Ievolutionary Waror who in any wdt aided in estab-lishing this great reiublic which hasbecome a sheltering haven for theoppressed and liberty-loving peoplefrom all the civilited countries ofthe world. The pas•ing of the pres-ent generation will carry away withit valuable informatia regarding ourancestors; facts known to those nowliving and facts that would be re-quired before the thlldren or grand-children of the lriient generationcould gain admisfiou in such so-ciety. It is incumbhit upon everyeligible American to ibcome enrolledwith the thousands •in the nationalsociety.
Eligible Americans are welcome tojoin and the officers *f the society,Edward Rightor, Ne Orleans, pres-ident, and T. D. Dixnitry, secretary,will gladly furnish any needed as-sistance or advice '-toll who desireit in tracing their genealogy. Thenational government 'ad most of theoriginal 13 states " 4 furnish allnecessary informatfT regarding theservices of an ance in the Revo-lutionary Army up r oper applica-tion, and tra f te Family
Louisiana Society cilar y desiresto hear from th lineal male de-scendants whose. ancestors fought un-der Don Bernard de Galvez in hiscampaign against the British in 1779and 1780.
Middle-Aged Man Meets Father ForFirst Time.
William Walker, aged 52 years, afarmer of Mount Pleasant, Pa., re-cently met his father, John A.Walker. aged 72 years, of La Porte,Ind., for the first ti-me in his life,to his knowledge, at the bier ofCharles A. Walker, the brother ofJohn A.
Over fifty-one years ago John A.Walker left Mount Pleasant, leavingbehind his young wife and four-months-old son. He went to LaPorte, Ind., and, for more thantwenty-five years was marshal ofthat city. He remarried, as did hiswife, who mourned him as dead.
Learning of the death of hisbrother,Walker went to Mount Pleas-ant. He talked with his son forsome time at the side of the cof-fin before their identity was es-tablished. The father greeted theson warmly, but refused to say whathad caused him to desert his fam-ily over a half century ago. Thefirst Mrs. Walker still lives, but hersecond husband is dead. Walkersays he will return to Indiana.
Abe Martin SaysTh' feller that's interested in his
work don't care what time 'tis.Sprayin' won't kill a humbug.Ignorance gives a feller away
quicker than a celluloid collar.It's no trouble t' do a fine credit
business.Nine times out o' ten a unpop-
ular man is a feller that 'tends tohis own business.
Nobuddy ever runs out o' debt.You never hear o' any girls quar-
relin' over a model young man.Miss Germ Williams recipe for
knotted spaghetty is receivin' muchfavorable comment.
Th' feller that orders scrambledeggs would take a chance on any-thing.
Constable Newt Plum's marrieddaughter has moved int' a one storycottage 'cause she's afeerd o' porch
climbers.
Alligators Shipped to California.Five hundred alligators, valued at
something over $4,000, were shippedfrom New Orleans Tuesday by Wil-liam E. Voelkel & Son. The sau-rians filled two cars and were con-signed to the California AlligatorF'arm at Los Angeles. They meas-ured from a few inches in length to
more than fifteen feet, and theirngc's were said to range from oneyear to more than a hundred.
i-Toward Harris, advertising mana-ger of the alligator farm, is makingthe trip with the alligators. He saidthe saurians are bred on the farmfor commercial purposes, principallyfor their hides.
Our enemy: The common fly.
"Mother" of Memorial Day PassesAway.
A few days ago there passed intothe eternal life at the home of theEastern Star in Washington, D. C.,Mrs. Sue Landon Vaughn, the patri-otic daughter of the southland whois accredited with the conception ofthe beautiful custom of decoratingthe graves of Confederate soldiers.which inspired the idea of MemorialDay. Though dependent on theEastern Star order at the time ofher death. Mrs. Vaughn came of dis-tinguished ancestry, having been adescendant of John Adams, the sec-ond president of the United States.
At the, close of the war Mrs.Vaughn, who was then Miss Adams,and a most patriotic young woman,realizing that something should hbedone in memory of the brave deedsof those who had died for the LostCause, undertook the movementwhich swept the whole nationeventually and which resulted in thefounding of Memorial Day both in dthe south and in the north. Shewrote "The Appeal to the Daughtersof the Southland," in which shecalled on every southern woman tojoin in the decoration of graves ofConfederate soldiers on a gjven day.On April 26, 1865, she led a host ofsouthern women in decorating Con-federate graves in Vicksburg, whichcustom continued and became gen-eral, and three years later wasadopted in the north, May 30 beingchosen as Memorial Day. After allthe Confederate graves had beendecorated at Jackson, Mrs. Vaughnnoticed two graves which had nodecorations on them, and on beinginformed that they were graves ofUnion soldiers, 'she strewed on thema large bunch of roses which shecarried. Knowledge of her action sotouched the hearts of mothers inthe north that she received manyletters expressing deep appreciationand admiration of her spirit. It wasthen that Decoration Day had its in-ception in the north.
Miss Adams wedded Judge J. H.Vhughn, of San Francisco. Theirproperty was destroyed by the earth-quake, and the judge dying soon af-terwards she was left without meansand came to Washington, where shewas cared for by the home of theEastern Star.
A State Health Train.Louisiana's health train is a new
wrinkle in state advertising. Louisi-ana has a world of agricultural re-
has some mineral resources of- greatvalue, notably her sulphur wells. Shehas a large timber production. Whatshe needs now is northern capitaland energy. She knows that thenortherner looks with suspicion onher climate, believing it to be some-how unhealthy. Therefore, she sendsthe state's chief medical officer,equipped with a special train, upthrough the doubting north to spread,the good- news of Louisiana's health-fulness.
It is a piece of enterprise that de-serves the reward it seeks. Andin a broad sense, Louisiana's claimis true. We are not ready to saywhether northern men, or whitemen from anywhere, can work in thefields under a Louisiana sun in sum-mer time with impunity. But whenthe president of Louisiana's stateboard of health says that most ofthe diseases hitherto attributed toclimate are preventable, and can bebanished with little expense or dif-ficulty, he is telling the truth. Pan-ama and Cuba are two object les-sons which the world is slow tocomprehend. But they show thatperfect healthfulness can be main-
tained in much hotter and moisterclimates than that of Louisiana.What we would like to know now
is that in the smaller cities andcountry districts of Louisiana thelessons of tropical medicine had beentaken to heart and that the good
work of ridding the land of malariaand hookworm is well begun-RockyMountain (Col.) News.
The Calm Before the Storm.There is an unusual and unnaturalpolitical calm down in Ascension.
What does it mean? What does itpresignify? An impending storm?Would'nt surprise us a bit, forwhen old Ascension does wake up,shake herself and start in, there isgenerally something doing. Thereseems to be no lack of candidates,yet things down there are 'tarnalquiet, on the surface, at any rate.Yet with all these good, loyal fel-lows aspiring for office it wouldnaturally appear that there should besome kind of a ripple on the politicalwaters: Charley Maurin for senator;t. J. Chauvin for judge; "Old Sam"Bt. Martin, Ed. Hanson and LouisLandry for sheriff; several for as-sessor, equally as many for repre-sentative, etc., there certainly oughtLo, and undoubtedly will he some-thing stirring down there before veryiong.-Plaquemine Champion.
List of LettersRemaining in the postoffice at Don.sldsonville:
For the week ending July 29:George Blakesley, Jr., Nat Cheat-ham, Henry Freeman, Eliza Erwin,Firank Gomez, Freman Johnson,
Pauline Mariano, Alexander Menen-exz, Gus Morris, S. D. Oselen, Elias
Seal, Mildred Talbert.
When calling for these letters saysdvertised. If not called for in twoweeks they will be sent to the DeadLetter office at Washington, D. C.
J. J. LAFARGUE, Postmaster.