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 THE BOOK OF 
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 INTRODUCTION 
 
 HE BOOK OF LOUISIANA IS INTENDED 
 TO BE A BOOK OF READY UTILITY 
 FOR THE NEWSPAPER EDITORS 
 AND ARTISTS. IT IS ISSUED AS A 
 PRACTICAL PUBLICATION TO MEET THE 
 NEWSPAPER DEMANDS FOR ILLUSTRA- 
 TIONS. NEWSPAPERS ARE USING ILLUS- 
 TRATIONS TODAY MORE THAN THEY EVER 
 HAVE AND THE REASON MORE PICTURES 
 ARE NOT USED IS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT 
 AVAILABLE. THE PURPOSE OF THIS WORK 
 IS TO MAKE AVAILABLE, TO THE PRINCI- 
 PAL NEWSPAPER PUBLICATIONS OF THE 
 UNITED STATES, LATE PICTURES AND COR- 
 RECT AND RELIABLE DATA OF SOME OF 
 THE MEN PROMINENT IN THE COMMER- 
 CIAL, PROFESSIONAL, OFFICIAL, POLITICAL 
 AND SOCIAL ACTI\ ITIES IN THE STATE OF 
 LOUISIANA.
 
 OUISIANA only recently realized her greatness aiul is rapidly coming forward as one of the 
 great states, commercially, industrially and agricidtiirally, of the Union. It is keeping pace with 
 the progress of its great metropolis, New Orleans. The name Louisiana was first applied by 
 La Salle in 1083, when he referred to the vast territory watered by the Mississippi and its 
 tributaries which he thus dedicated to King Louis XIV of l-'rance. In l.')28 Xarvaez led an 
 ex])cdition from Cuba into h'lorida. Defeated by the Indians he retreated to the coast only to 
 find that liis ships were gone. He and his associates built some rude crafts. After several days 
 sailing they passed a great river, the swirling waters of which scattered their boats and Narvaez was never 
 heard of again. Tliree of the crude boats reached Texas, and after having been detained six years by the 
 Indians, several of the survivors, led by de Vacla, reached a Si)anish settlement in Mexico. 
 
 b'leven years later De Soto sailed from Cuba with a large force and landed on the coast <>i Tampa 
 Bay, determined to conquer the territory already exi)lored by Narvaez. The expedition failed and De 
 Sotii died, lie was buried in the trunk of a tree. 
 
 In the latter part of the seventeenth century France was badly in need of money and turned to its 
 colonies. Iberville was sent in 1698 to settle the state. .'\n able seaman, inured to the hardships of tlie 
 life of a pioneer by liis experiences in Canada, he was in every way iitted for the great task which had 
 been allotted to him. With four shi|)S and 200 emigrants he crossed the .Xtlantic and after touching at 
 San Domingo and I'ensacola, at wliich point lie fmiiid the Si)aniards already establislied, anchored in 
 Mobile Bay. 
 
 After cruising among the islands along the coast, he reached the mouth of the Mississippi on March 
 2, 1699, and for the first time since La Salle's visit, the solemn notes of the Te Deuni sounded throu,gh 
 the dismal swamps. Iberville ascended the Mississippi as far as the Red River and returned by the same 
 route to tlie mouth of Bayou I\Ianchac, where he, accompanied by tiirec coinpanions and an Indian guide, 
 left the others to continue their way by river, and entered Bayou Manchac, tlience through Lakes Maure- 
 pas, Ponchartrain and Borgne, to Mississippi Sound and Mobile Bay which he thus reached before the 
 river party. 
 
 As he had found no spot on the river free from the annual overflow, he erected a fort on the east 
 side of Biloxi Bay (named after an Indian tribe), where is now Ocean Springs and called it Biloxi. Iber- 
 ville left Louisiana to take part in the War of the Spanish Succession and left his younger brother, Bien- 
 ville, in charge. A settlement was made on Mobile Bay to which the capital was removed. Sickness and 
 lack of funds retarded the development of the colony. 
 
 Meantime Louis XV became tired of the burden of Louisiana, wdiich had failed to produce as he had 
 expected and he sold the concession of the colony with exclusive control of the trade as far north as Illinois, 
 to Anthony Crozat, a wealthi' Paris banker, who was to give the king a share in the precious stones and 
 wealthy metals. Cadillac was appointed governor by the proprietor and Bienville was named lieutenant 
 governor. 
 
 A trading post was established at Natchitoches and a few other places and trading was vainly sought 
 with Me-xico. Cadillac declared war against the powerful Natchez Indians for having murdered some 
 Frenchmen and sent Bienville with a small force against them. He succeeded by strategy in decoying 
 some of the leaders into his hands and forced them to accept his terrns. De I'F.pinay now became governor 
 but insofar as the trading was concerned had no better success than Cadillac. As Crozat had parted with 
 a large part of his fortune in an encleavor to make money out of Louisiana he decided to restore the king's 
 gift by resigning the charter. 
 
 In 1717 the French company chartered a company to take over Louisiana. .-Kt the head of the com- 
 pany was John Law, a Scotchman, who by his bold financial schemes, had dazzled the regent Due D'Or- 
 leans and obtained great influences in the management of the government's finances. The company received 
 a 2.5-year charter and promised during that jieriod to send over to Louisiana over 6,000 white persons and 
 3,000 .African slaves. There were at that time seven hundred whites in Louisiana. Law's great insi.ght into 
 the condition of the country was displayed by his advertising among the people of the. lowlands of Lurope 
 for emigrants to Louisiana; he established a band of these Germans on his own land grant in Arkansas. 
 Bienville was reinstated governor and immediately made plans for a settlement on the Mississippi River. 
 Iberville had proven the land on the left bank of the river. South of Bayou Manchac, to be a real 
 island, surrounded by the waters of the Mississippi, Baj^ou Manchac, the three lakes and the Gulf of Mex- 
 ico. Bienville chose for the site of his settlement an elevation on this island one hundred and ten miles 
 from the river's mouth, between the head of Bayou St. John and the river. This location presented many 
 advantages over the surrounding country; the land was higher, it was accessible by two waterways, by the 
 Mississippi and by the lakes and Bayou St. John; it was well known to the Indians of that district as the 
 home of the Houma Indians; hence it could be made into a fine trading post. It was here that New Orleans 
 was established. 
 
 When Law's great bank in Paris failed the poor Germans who had been located on the banks of the 
 Arkansas managed to reach New Orleans and begged Bienville to send them back to their homes. He per- 
 suaded them to settle along the river just above the city. Thus was formed the nucleus of the German set- 
 tlement on the banks of the Mississippi wdiich is, to this day, called the German coast. 
 
 In 17:i6 Bienville believed it was necessary to defeat the Chickasaws, the harborers of the Natchez 
 warriors, if peace were to be restored in Louisiana. He marched against them in northern Mississippi. 
 Through English help they were able to defeat Bienville's army, taking many captives; these unfortunates 
 were burned by the Indians as Bienville withdrew the remnants of his army. He fitted out another expedi- 
 tion which was even more overwhelmingly defeated. Repulsed by the Indians and worn out by the trials 
 and hardships of the colony, the Father of Louisiana asked to be recalled. His request was granted and 
 Marquis de Vaudreuil was named to succeed him. 
 
 De Vaudreuil's rule was a period of development. The levees, so necessary for the good of the coun- 
 try were continued and improved. In 1737, Jean Louis, a poor sailor laid the foundation at New Orleans 
 of what afterward was developed into the present great Charity Hospital.
 
 Cotton was introduced in Louisiana in 1740. As a slave could not pick more than six pounds a day, 
 it was not extensively grown until after Whitney had invented the Kin, when, with the gin, the negro might 
 clean a thousand pounds a day. 
 
 The Jesuits brought in sugar cane in ir.'il from San Domingo and cultivated it on their plantation. 
 A few years later Dubrcuil devoted a large plantation to the cultivation of sugar cane, building thereon the 
 first sugar mill in Louisiana: his plantation was located on a tract which is now Esplanade Avenue, a fash- 
 ionable residential thoroughfare in New Orleans today. 
 
 The method of granulating was then unknown; the sugar produced was hard, sticky, gluey; tafia, a 
 drink resembling rum was made from it. The export of this sugar to France was attempted in 1703, but 
 was given up because a large part of it would leak from the barrels in transit. 
 
 One of the great obstacles to |)rogrcss at this time was the unstable condition of the currency, which 
 was changed three times during this period; finally the king and the council of state of France interferrcd 
 and put a stop to the cliangcs in currency. Lack of money also militated against the advancement of the 
 colony. The monopoly system by which the government gave or sold to an inclividual or company the sole 
 right to operate an industry, was of course detrimental to the interest of the coiuUry. The Louisiana gov- 
 ernment not only supported monopolies, but even arbitrarily regulated prices at which produce, such as 
 tobacco and rice should be sold. The people had no voice in the government; frecpiently laws were framed 
 for Louisiana by persons in France wlio had no knowledge of conditions in Louisiana. 
 
 France and England, during these years were ajjproaching their final struggle for commercial, naval 
 and colonial supremacy. Rivals in b'.uropc, India and America, the two nations, for over half a century, 
 had kept the world of that day in a constant state of war. In North America, France had established her 
 power in Canada and Louisiana, and by a system of forts extending from the mouth of the St. Lawrence 
 to that of the Mississippi, had sought to make her position invulnerable; her last step in that direction had 
 been the erection of Fort Duquesne at the junction of the .Mlegheney and Monongahela rivers where they 
 unite to form the Ohio river. Tliis position at the head of the Ohio River might be said to be the key to 
 the whole system of French forts. 
 
 The English had established their control on the .Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida. The Virgin- 
 ians realized the importance of Fort Duquesne and sent Major George Washington to dislodge the French. 
 He failed and a British army led by Rraddock against it in IT.").") met with a crushing defeat. The war that 
 then began is known in Europe as the Seven Years War. 
 
 The Louisiana province was governed by a superior council composed originally of two members, 
 namely, the governor and commissary. Gradually the membership of this council was extended to twelve. 
 The council was the supreme legislature and judiciary body in the colony. 
 
 The years of Spanish control of Louisiana are touched upon in detail in tlu- history of New Orleans 
 in this volume, so we will now pass on to October, 17y5, when Spain and the United States concluded the 
 Treaty of Madrid. New Orleans was opened to Americans as a point of deposit for three years, free of 
 duty or charge on produce, except a reasonable price for storage rent. This agreement afterward led to 
 a misunderstanding whicli nearly caused a breach between the United .States and Spain and it was an open 
 secret that had not President Adams' term expired he would have attempted to force Spain to evacuate 
 Louisiana. 
 
 ' At this time the United States began to realize that it should ,ic(|uire Louisiana for the development 
 of the western section. Negotiations were opened which in ISOu resulted in the United .States purchasing 
 the entire Louisiana territory from Napoleon. 
 
 An enabling act was passed February 20, 1811, to form Orleans into a state and it was admitted into 
 the Union in 1812. The French element was so strong that the constitution of the state permitted members 
 to debate either in French or F^nglish, and the dividing line in politics was usually between the iwo. with 
 temporary alliances of other elements. 
 
 The organization of the Whig Party, tlie cardinal tenet of which was protection, which helped sugar, 
 turned Louisiana into one of the strongest Whig states in the South, she twice voting for Whig Presidents. 
 The slavery issued after 1860 made it more strongly Democratic and it finally went for secession. New 
 Orleans was captured by the Federal troops .April 2,"), and the state government whose seat had been trans- 
 ferred from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, was again moved, this time to Opelousas. During the rest of 
 the war the territory held by the Federals was recognized as the legitimate state government, though under 
 a military government and was allowed to send delegates to Congress. 
 
 On July 30. 1866, an attempt of the negro leaders to hold a constitutional convention in New Orleans 
 and secure the admission of the blacks to the franchise, resulted in many of the delegates being killed by 
 the whites. The most important chapter in the state's subsequent political history was the passing of the 
 "Grandfather's Clause" in 18118, which reduced the negro registration to a nominal figure and made negro 
 dominanoe impossible as long as that section of the state •constitution stands. 
 
 The history of New Orleans and Louisiana are so closely related and interwoven that to .go more into 
 the chronological events in the state would be a mere repetition of the recital of the history of New Orleans 
 in this volume. 
 
 Louisiana today has a population of about 1.500,000. Its largest city is New Orleans. Other places 
 of importance are Shreveport, Raton Rouge, Monroe, Lake Charles. .Alexandria and New Iberia. 
 
 Of the 28,000,000 acres of land in the state about 3,">00.00n are in cultivation. Sooner of later 9,000,- 
 000 acres of swamp lands, which afford the richest of crops when planted, will be reclaimed. This work 
 is now in progress in various parts of the state. 
 
 Sugar is Louisiana's greatest crop. It produces three-fourths of all the cane grown in the LInited 
 States and twice as much as its nearest competitor, Georgia. 
 
 Corn is rapidly taking a leading position among the crops of Louisiana. Nearly 2,000.000 acres are 
 in cultivation. St. Landry Parish leads with an acreage of 100,000. 
 
 Rice is one of the state's important crops and Perique tobacco is raised in parts of the state. 
 
 Louisiana is the second largest lumber producing state, the annual output being over $.">0.000,000. 
 
 The state has inexhaustible deposits of salt, sulphur, oil, natural gas. 
 
 Louisiana was the fifth state admitted to the LTnion. Its extreme length is a little over 300 miles 
 and its extreme width 240 miles. It has an area of 48.706 square miles. The area of the state in actual land 
 is 45,309 square miles: 3,397 of water which includes 637 in rivers and 2,700 in lakes. 
 
 The Mississippi river' splits Louisiana into two sections, with 37.000 square miles on the west bank. 
 For the most part the river flows through alluvial soils of low elevation which require the protection of 
 levees.
 
 MARTIN BEHRMAN, Mayor of New Orleans, born in New York City in the year 1S64. 
 was appointpti Assi^ssnr of Fifth District for a term of four years. beinK reappointed for 
 another term of four years, subsequently was chosen President of Board of Assessors, after 
 which he was selected Clerk to City Council for a term of four years. In April 1904. was 
 elected State Auditor and was elected Mayor of New Orleans December. 1904, re-elected in 
 1908 and again in 1912. Member of School Board 1S92 to 1896 and for eight years was 
 Chairman Democratic Central Committee for First Congressional District. Delegate-at-large 
 to National Democratic Convention 1908 and again in 1912. Is a memDer of Knights of 
 Columbus, Knights of Honor, Y. M. G. Club, French Opera, Choctaw, Chess, Checkers and 
 Whist. Southern Yacht, Druids, Woodmen of World, German Benevolent Association, and 
 ElkF Club. Post B.. T. P. A.. The Jovian Order, Surf Club. Was married in 1887 to Miss 
 Julia Collins and from this issue there are two children, William Stanley and Mary Helen 
 Behrman.
 
 -W ORLICAXS, iiiiw "the second port of the United States," lias hist none of llie romance and 
 picturcsqiieness with which it lias been associated for more tliaii a century. l)nt it has quit boast- 
 mg of its dreamy cliarni and is concentrating its activities upon lieinjj recognized as one of the 
 f,'reat commercial centers of the world. New Orleans is today second only to New York in 
 imports and exports; it has the Rreatest port and terminal facilities in the United States: it enjoys 
 an ideal climate; its sewerane and drainaije system is so perfect that it has been studied by 
 the engineers of several F.uropean capitals, including I'aris and Berlin; it is the healthiest city 
 in the United States as city, state and Federal statistics will testify; its water supply is tlie purest in the 
 world; it is a new New Orleans wdiere ancient rookeries built by the l"rench and Spanish have given way 
 to sky-scrapers, huge business blocks, palatial residences and modern apartment houses; it is well lighted 
 and splendidly paved; its l.jO or more schools, 100 of which are operated by the municipality, rank with 
 the most efficient in the country; and in the decade wdiich began in liMO. it has made greater progress than 
 any other city in the United States, wdiich at this stage of the world's history means the world. 
 
 New Orleans is situated in the soulli central part of the United States, 2i» degrees, 56 minutes, .59 
 seconds North Latitude. 90 degrees, 41 minutes. 94 seconds West Longitude. It is a little more than 110 
 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, but nevertheless it is a seajjort as it is located on the widest and deepest 
 part of the great Mississippi River which .-ulmits of the passage of the greatest ocean-going vessels up to front 
 doors of the city. In fact. New Orleans has one of the greatest harbors in the world. There are about 
 30 miles of up-to-date wharves, including about 14 miles of steel and concrete storage sheds which are 
 equipped with modern loading and unloading machinery and which serve shi|)s from all marts of the world. 
 
 The biggest of the United States battleships come into the port of New Orleans. Hut by no means 
 does the deep part of the Mississippi River end at New Orleans. Great oil ships are now- going as far 
 north as Baton Rouge, more than 120 miles above New Orleans, where the Standar<l Oil Company has one 
 of its most important distributing centers. 
 
 New Orleans and tlie rest of the Mississippi \'alley has never full\ ntili/ed the value of the Missis- 
 sippi River, but there is an awakening in that direction and indications are tliat within the next ten years 
 the river will be ranked in commercial and industrial importance with the .ccniibined trunk lines which send 
 a net work down into the valley from all parts of the United States and even from the great wheat fields 
 of Canada. The river and its tributaries, command nearly 18.000 miles of navigable waters, all of which pour 
 into the Gulf of Mexico, which is part and parcel of the .\tiantic Ocean .ind by wliich the f'anama Canal, 
 the passage way for oriental commerce, is reached. 
 
 The City of New Orleans takes in all of the Parisli f>f Orleans. It lia.-- an area of 19(i square miles, 
 being second only to New York in size. New Orleans is almost suroimded by water which tends to make 
 the city cool and comfortable even during the liottest season of the year, (^n one side is the Mississippi 
 River and on tlie other is Lake T'ontchartrain. a body of water twenty-six miles wide and nearly as long. 
 Here and there in the vicinity of the city are other lakes of considerable size. 
 
 New Orleans was founded in ITLS by Je.iii Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville, or more properly it 
 was laid out by Bienville's right-hand man Sieur le Blond de Tour, who with hfty picked men cleared the 
 undergrowth and laid out the city. We are told by Richey and Kean that de la Tour arranged the settle- 
 ment in the shape of a rectangle facing tlie river and in the middle marked ofif a stpiare to be used as a 
 Place d'Armes; to the rear of this was to be the church, school and government house. Barracks and a 
 few lints were erected, and to this crude settlement Bienville gave the name of La Nonvelle C)rlcans in honor 
 of the Regent, the Due d'Orleans. 
 
 Even when New Orleans was founded. Bienxille wished to make it the capital of the province but 
 those, who with him were representing France, which then claimed possession of tlie territory, were opposed. 
 They said it could not be safely reached by large vessels. In 1722. Bienville had his chief engineer. Pau.ger, 
 examine the months of the Mississippi River; he reported eighteen feet of water in Southeast Pass, and 
 suggesteir that if dikes were built alon.g this pass and the others closed, the current, would by its own power, 
 keep sand out of this pass. It was upon this suggestion. 150 years or more later, tliat h'ads constructed 
 the jetties. 
 
 Pauger had one of his great ships taken througli the pass of Balize and .after receiving the report 
 of the trip, the others yielded to Bienville and made New Orleans the capital of the territory. At that time 
 the city consisted of "about 100 disorderly, barrack-like buildings, but Pere Charlevoix who visited it and 
 recorded his impressions foresaw a great future for the city and declared that its location was superior to 
 that of Paris or Rome. "One day," he wrote, "and that day may not be far distant. Ne'w Orleans may be 
 an opulent city and the metropolis of a great and rich colony." 
 
 It was under the administration of Bienville tli.il slaves were intrcxluced. iiiMre tlian 500 bein.g brcui.ght 
 to the city from Africa. 
 
 Bienville was succeeded by Gov. Perrier. who acconiplishe<l many improvements in New Orleans. 
 His first important undertaking was the building of a levee in front of the city. It was eighteen feet wide 
 and 900 feet long and w^as continued ei.ghteen miles above and eighteen miles below the city. The inhabi- 
 tants furnished the slaves to do the work and the government provided the slaves with food. To protect 
 the city from Indians, stockades with eight small forts were Iniilt. It was at this time that the first sani- 
 tary measure was taken. Gov. Perrier called it "ventilating tlie city." He cleared the forest between the city 
 proper and Lake Pontchartrain and liad other wurk in mind, but lack of funds prevented the carrying out 
 of the whole project. 
 
 It has been New Orleans' .good fortune lor nearly two centuries to have good educational institu- 
 tions. Fven as far back as 1727. the L^rsuline nuns established a convent in the city. They were first located 
 at Gov. Bienville's former home, until their convent at Chartres and Ursuline Streets was ccmipleted in 1730. 
 This building is the oldest in the United States west of the Alleghenies, and the girls schools conducted by 
 the nuns was the first to be opened in the United .States.
 
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 \\'e arc told that in ITIiO the fity cxtfiidcil from liicnville to Ursuline Streets and from the river to 
 I)aui>lutie Street. It was still a crude settlement at thai time. Greased paper or linen was used in the win- 
 dows instead of glass and torches or ill-smelling myrtle-wa.x candles furnished the artilicial liKht. However, 
 despite all of their crudities the inhabitants of New Orleans endeavored as much as possible to dress like the 
 people of Paris and carried out all of the French habits and customs even to cafe an lait for breakfast. At 
 this period the city had a population of 7,000. There were .i.OOO I'-rench. Germans and Canadians and the 
 rest were negro slaves. 
 
 About lT:iO Bienville was recalled to this country to take charge of ilie colony and once more he ruled 
 the destinies of the city. 
 
 It was Ml 1T:!2 that the insurrection of the negro slaves took place in New Orleans. The blacks had 
 been trained by their white owners to handle firearms and to tight so as to assist in driving off the Indians. 
 After they had become ijrolicient warriors, the negroes themselves revolted. The insurrection was not sup- 
 pressed until the leaders had been pvit to death — the women on the gallows and the men on the wheel. The 
 heads of the men were placed on posts at each end of the town so that it would serve as a warning to 
 those contemplating revolt in the future. 
 
 During the next thirty years New Orleans made very little |)rogress but managed to hold its own in the 
 face of many trials and vicissitudes of a new born country. In ITOS. Louis XV gave that part of Louisiana 
 which included New Orleans to his cousin, Charles 111 of Spain, but during the next four years the city was 
 still under the control of those officials who had been appointed by the hrench government. In the mean- 
 time the citizens had been dismayed by the announcement of the contemplated change of governments and 
 Jean Millet, one of the wealthiest merchants had been sent to l-Vance to pray that the New Orleans be taken 
 back into French control. 
 
 h'our years after Sjjain had nominally gained control of Louisiana, Don .-Xntouio de Ulloa was sent over 
 to take charge of the province. He was a weak and vacillating official and after he arrived removed neither 
 the FVench officials or the French flag. For a while the province had a joint French and Spanish govern- 
 ment. It is related of him that he absented himself from New Orleans for seven months during which time 
 he remained at the mouth of the Mississippi River waiting for his "Peruvian bride." In October, 1768, 
 Noyan and Villere and a sturdy little band, took cliarge of the city and forced Ulloa to fTee for safety to a 
 Spanish vessel in the harbor. This little .group formed the plan of making a republic of all the American 
 colonies but were unable to carry it through. 
 
 Spain became alarmed at the boldness of New Orleans' citizens and sent to Louisiana Don Alexander 
 O'Reilly, who brought nearly 4,000 Spanish troops on a fleet of 24 vessels. lie soon crushed the spirit of 
 revolt. It had been promised that if some of the leaders of the revolt against Ulloa would remain they would 
 be forgiven, but they were |)layed false. Some of them were shot and most of the others were imprisoned. 
 We learn from Richey and Kean that when O'Reilly came to New Orleans the British controlled the 
 trade. This was soon stopped by Fnglish ships being denied entrance into the pfirt. In 1778 Gov. Galvcz 
 who had succeeded O'Reilly, permitted trade with France and the Thirteen .American Colonies. 
 
 During the latter part of the century, in 17.SS and in 1794, New Orleans suffered two disastrous fires. 
 That part of the city not destroyed in the first blaze was either wiped out or damaged in the second confla- 
 gration. A new city was bviilt. the movement being led by Baron de Carondelet, wdio urged that tile roofs 
 be used instead of inflamm.iblc shingles. Many of these tile roofed houses built at this ])eriod still are stand- 
 ing. 
 
 It was in 1796 that steps were taken to drain the city. Carondelet Canal and the Old Basin were built 
 and the city was connected with Bayou St. John and Lake Pontchartrain. 
 
 In March, 1805. New Orleans was incorporated as a city, the province in the meantime having come 
 into tlie possession of the L^nited States by purchase from the French Government. The people in electing 
 alderman in 180.5, exercised their suffrage for the first time. 
 
 On January 10, the first steam-propelled vessel that ever plied the waters of the Mississippi River arrived 
 at New Orleans. It was called the "New Orleans" and was built by Nicholas 1. Roosevelt, one of the ances- 
 tors of President T'leodore Roosevelt. The "New Orleans" was constructed five years after Fulton had in- 
 vented the steamboat. 
 
 One of the most interesting events in .\merican history was the battle of New Orleans which occurred 
 on the plains of Chalmette about five miles below the business section of modern New Orleans. On Decem- 
 ber 1, 1814, .\ndrew Jackson, leading the Lhiited States forces arrived to defend the city against an impending 
 attack by the British led by Sir Edward Pakenham. The British army was almost annihilated when the battle 
 took place, January 8, ISl.i. Because of the delay in transmitting news it was not known to the combatants 
 that a treaty of peace had been signed between the United States and Great Britain almost two weeks before 
 the battle of New Orleans was fought. In fact, it was not until March 17 that news of the treaty had been 
 received. 
 
 In 1815, the population of New Orleans was about 33,000; by 1820, it had increased to 40.000. 
 The first railroad was completed in New Orleans in 1830. It ran out Elj-sian Fields Avenue and con- 
 nected New Orleans with Milnebur,g. This road is still in operation and is said to be the oldest in the 
 United States. It still runs under its old perpetual charter and is owned by the Louisville and Nashville 
 Railroad. 
 
 Gas street lamps were first used in New ( )rleaiis in 183:!. and continued in service for more than 
 fifty years. 
 
 Orleanians and New Orleans took a prominent part in the war between the States. When the clash 
 came the city sent 5,000 of her best soldiers to the defense of the northern line of the Confederacy. On April 
 25, 1862, the city was captured by .\dmiral Farragut, who entered port by coming up the river with a fleet of 
 43 vessels. Gen. Ben Butler, with 15,000 soldiers, took charge of the city May 1, 1862. His regime is one of 
 the bitterest chapters in the history of the city and was condemned by northerners as well as southerners. He 
 was removed before he had served a year as military commander of New Orleans. 
 
 One of the most stirring incidents in the history of New Orleans took place September 14, 1874. The 
 "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags," who had come into power in the reconstruction period following the close 
 of the war, had been in control of the city and had committed numerous al)uses and outrages. The citizens 
 of New Orleans formed a league for the expulsion of the carpetbag government. It was called the "White 
 League." In order to frustrate the plan for driving out the scalawags an order was issued which forbade a 
 citizen to keep a firearm even in his home. It was learned by the "Metropolitan Police," which was the name 
 of the organization through which the carjietbaggers exercised their will, that a cargo of ammunition for the
 
 
 
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 White LeaRue was due. The Motiopohtati Police formed at the fool of Canal Street September 14, with 
 mounted cannon to prevent the landinR of the arms and ammunition. The White League moved out a side 
 street and came around until they faced the iMetropohtan I'olice. A skirmish followed which resulted in the 
 Metropolitan Police lleemK after having lost many of their forces. The White League had lost Hi of their 
 number. In memory of the men who lost their lives, tlie league erected a monument at the foot of Canal 
 Street, wlurc ii still stands. By a series of successes the White League restored the league to the control of 
 the city. 
 
 A Cotton Centenni,-il I'^.xixisition was 1k-I<1 in New Orleans in 1K84 to celebrate ihc liundredtli anniver- 
 sary of the lirst exportation of cotton. The exposition was a brilliant success. 
 
 The present aim of the city is toward munici|)al ownership of public utilities. Tlie city owns its own 
 waterworks and has under consideration a plan to build its own electric lighting and gas plants. 
 
 New Orleans has grown more in the last 15 years than it did in the previous .^0, and the steady, sub- 
 stantial growtli is now at its height. The completion of the Panama Canal contributed something to the im- 
 petus which lias sent the city ahead, but more than all has been the realization f)f the value of the land sur- 
 rounding the city. and its products, .\iiotlior factor has been the development of the Latin-.Ainerican trade. 
 New Orleans, more than any other city in the world, has benefitted by the great luiropean war. Germany and 
 l'"rance have had a toe-hold on the commerce of the semi-tropics, but most of tliat trade has come to the 
 United States and particularly to New Orleans. 
 
 Nearly all of the city's modern buildings have been built iii the last lifteen years, liefore the drainage 
 system was completed it was difficult to obtain foundation for a large building except at a prohibitive cost. 
 VVith the perfecting of the drainage has come the sky-scraper until at present the city's sky-line is as impres- 
 sive as that of any city of the same size in the country. There are probalilv ^.'-'i buildings, ten or more 
 stories in height. 
 
 In the last five years New Orleans has made great progress in extending its residential suburbs. Lake 
 View, which lies between the cemetery section and Lake Pontchartrain, has been cleared and drained and is 
 now rapidly dexeloping. Gentilly Terrace and a half dozen other tracts are also being rapidly developed. 
 New Orleans li.is plenty of room to stretch itself and even if the population were three million, there would 
 scarcely be any excuse for anything like a congested residential district. 
 
 On the opposite side of the main section of the city, facing the Mississippi River, the United States gov- 
 ernment has spent three or four million dollars in establishing a big naval station with a navy yard and 
 floating dry docks; and also an immigration station where Uncle Sam receives and passes upon the eligibility 
 of every person seeking to enter his domain. 
 
 One of the greatset engineering feats in the world, insofar as agriculnn ,-il jirogress is being concerned, 
 is being undertaken — and it may be counted as a success — in the Jefferson-Pla<|uemines district, contiguous 
 to New Orleans. In this section, George .\. Hero, an engineer, wdio owns a large part of the property, has 
 built the largest drainage jiump in the world which is at work night and day reclaiming; 40.non acres of the 
 most fertile lands in the country. This project compares in magnitude with anything ever tried in Holland. 
 L. C. Spencer is one of the leading spirits in the reclamation movements and owns one of the largest orange 
 orchards in the state. It is situated in the heart of tlie reclaimed section. 
 
 By special act of the Legislature, the ahlermanic form of the city's government was changed to a com- 
 mission plan of municipal government. The commission is composed of a mayor and four commissioners. 
 The latter are in charge of the departments of public fi nances, iniblic safety, public utilities and public prop- 
 erties, respectively. The distinctive features of the New Orleans cmiiniission fcpriii of government is its initia- 
 tive, referendum and recall. 
 
 The New Orleans drainage system is the most comprehensive of any city in the country. It consists 
 of about 30 miles of main low level canals from which the water is pumped; and of about 20 miles of high 
 outfall canals into which the water is pumped. The latter discharge into Lake Pontchartrain by means of an 
 artilkial slope. When it is comjileted the total capacity of the drainage pumps will be 7,000.000.000 gallons a 
 day. At present the drainage is emptied into Lake Pontchartrain. but ultimately it will lu> pumiied into Lake 
 Borgne. 
 
 The city has spent more than $20,000,000 on its sewerage and water system and by I'.llT wmII have spent 
 about .$4,000,000 additional. The completion of the water system and the practical completion of drainage 
 has made this city the healthiest in the Lhiited States. Fevers of all kinds have been driven fiut and malarial 
 infection has ceased to e.xist. 
 
 New Orleans is the only ratless city in the United States. A few years ago several cases of bubonic 
 plague were discovered in New Orleans, having been brought to the city by rats off ships sailing from infected 
 ports. 
 
 The LTnited States had helped San Francisco to make a ri,ght against disease-carrying rats and the 
 forces wdiich had helped to light tlie rodent in that city were sent here. The rat was exterminated and the 
 city has spent eight million dollars in exterminating the pest and the carrying of bubonic plague is no longer 
 possible. Every Inmse has been or will be made rat-proof. .-\n idea of the civic pride which prevails in 
 New Orleans may be given by the citin.g of the fact that 14,000 owners of houses have, mortgaged their 
 liroperties in order to comply with the rat-proohng re.gulations. 
 
 New Orleans has a dozen hospitals and is well able to care for the sick and injured of the city and 
 state. Its Charity Hospital, which has a capacity of about 2,000 patients, frecpiently contains sufferers brought 
 to the city from as many as si.x surroundin.g states. 
 
 -All of New Orleans 30 lines of street cars are operated by the New Orleans Street Railway Company, 
 which formed as a holding company, has bought out all of its subsidiaries. There are more than 200 miles of 
 single track and more than 600 motor cars. There is a suburban line — the Orleans and Kenner — which oper- 
 ates 12 miles into the country through a fastly-growing section. Several hundred "jitneys" also help to 
 transport Orleaniaiis from one part of the city to the other. The city is scattered over a vast area and 
 means of transportation are generously patronized. 
 
 New Orleans has direct water transportation as far as St. Paul. Kansas City. Pittsburg and Chicago 
 in their several directions and deep-sea trade routes to all parts of the world. 
 
 The New- Orleans harbor is admirable. The water is from 20 to 30 feet deep alongside the wharves and 
 200 feet in midstreatn. The narrowest part of the river at New Orleans is 2,000 feet wide. 
 
 The wharves and docks are under control of the Board of Port Commissioners, an or,ganization ap- 
 pointed by the governor, which has supreme iiower over the area it controls. 
 
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 One of the city's (jrcat utilities is its public belt which handles more than l.j.OOO freight cars over its 
 lines every month. The belt serves as kind of clcariuR house for all the railroads and enables shippers to 
 obtain the quickest possible service both in receiviuR and sendiuf,' i.ut freight It also forms a valuable link 
 to the shipping facilities. 
 
 The city is connected with i.akc I'ontchartrain by two canals which bring lake boats up into the heart 
 of the city. It is now planned t" l)nil(l .i canal which will connect Lake Pontchartrain with the Mississippi 
 River. 
 
 In regard to tlu' city's commerce the following data has been gleaned from Richey and Kean's history: 
 
 New Orleans is the second port in the United States, being outranked only by New York. The com- 
 bined value of exports and imports for last year total more than $:!0(),00(),()nn. Practically every state in 
 the Mississi|)pi Valley sends some of its produce through the port of New Orleans. Corn, wdieat and other 
 grains come from the Central states. The Southern states, especially Louisiana. Mississippi and Arkansas, 
 send cotton seed jjroducts. oil, cake and meal. Oklahoma and Texas sup))ly some cotton. 
 
 As a lumber i)ort New Orleans stands hrst among Aniercian cities. In the heart of the cypress regions, 
 it exports both Imnber and manufactured articles. The Southern yellow i)ine and naval stores obtained from 
 it, |)ass through New Orleans en route to luirope, Asia and Africa and .South .\merica. Nearly all of the 
 staves used in harvesting the wine crop of Lurope are supplied by this port, while quantities of oak. walnut 
 and poplar, as logs or lumber, are distributed to all parts of the world: linseed jiroducts from Minnesota; 
 tobacco from Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana; iron from Alabama: farm machinery from Illinois. 
 Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin; boots, shoes and miscellaneous products from the vast area cfmnected with 
 New Orleans by a network of waterways and railroads, swell the export trade. 
 
 The principal articles of import are coiTee, sugar, sisal grass, burlaps, bananas, nitrate of soda, mineral 
 oil, creosote oil, mahogany logs, drugs and chemicals, fertilizers, molasses, ferro-mangannese, sugar beet seed, 
 fruits and nuts, manufacturers of fibers, and manufacturers of iron and steel. Lach of these items exceed 
 a half million dollars in value. 
 
 From far-away India, British ships bring burlaps, which is fourth in value on the list of imports and 
 a coarser kind of bagging made from the pieces of jute unlit for bmlap. I'.ritish liners carry salt, ferro- 
 mangannese, which is used in making Hessamer steel, and textiles from the world-famed looms of h'ngland, 
 besides articles of every description. Fuller's earth, sometimes carried in ballast, is brought in great quan- 
 tities; it is used for bleaching and cleansing cloth and for liltering oils. Most of it goes t" the cottonseed 
 and linseed oil mills. 
 
 One of the curious paradoxes of commerce, is that the same British shi]) whicli brought s,()()() .sacks of 
 salt from Liverpool, carried to Liverpool on her return voyage, .J.OOO sacks of Louisiana salt. Unexcelled 
 wines and liquors, the secret of whose manufacture is jealously guarded, cheese from France, Holland and 
 Switzerland, the like of which cannot be made in this country; olive oil from southern France, Italy and 
 Spain; currents from Patras, Greece; lemons and even garlic from Italy, are unloaded upon New Orleans 
 wharves. 
 
 Divers minerals, such as marbles from Italy, magnesia from .\ustria and ferro-mangannese fnun 
 Luxemburg, are imported. Every kind of manufactured article from France, fine china, porcelains and 
 toilet articles from France; plate glass and baskets from Belgium; toys and trinkets of every description 
 from Germany in normal times, are brought to New Orleans to be distributed all over the United States. 
 
 The value of coffee imported at New Orleans exceeds that of any other one article, being nearly forty 
 million dollars. Three British lines bring nine-tenths of the coffee to New Orleans from Brazil. These 
 same ships take cargoes from New Orleans to European ports. 
 
 New Orleans is the cotton center of the country. Recently a gigantic cotton warehouse has been 
 erected in which the staple will be stored by planters who wdsh to borrow money on it when the market is 
 low and then redeem it when the value of the staple has gone up. The annual capacity of the warehouse 
 which is under state control is 2,ono,n{)() bales and it is planned to make it 4,000.000 when the need arises, 
 which it is expected will be in a very short time. 
 
 New Orleans has four sugar refineries, the Chalmette, which is operated by the .American Refining 
 Company, being the largest in the world. It has an annual capacity of 600,000 tons. 
 
 New Orleans is important as a manufacturing center, having nearly 000 factories, employing about 
 78,000 wage-earners, and producing about $100,000,000 worth of manufactured articles of all kinds. 
 
 One of the social features of New Orleans winter life is the carnival season which extends from 
 Twelfth Night until the beginning of Lent and which has its climax on Mardi Gras, "fat Tuesday" or the 
 eve of Ash Wednesday. During the final week of the carnival there are numerous costly pageants which 
 are witnessed by thousands upon thousands of visitors wdio come from all parts of the United .States to 
 participate in the balls and other incidents of the season of- merriment. 
 
 New Orleans calls itself the "Winter Capital of .Xmerica." It is glad to welcome the visitor wdio is 
 seeking merely entertainment and provides numerous theatres, the French opera, the races, scores of restau- 
 rants, the best hotels in America and hundreds of other attractions. But the city does not wish to be known 
 as a play-ground. Twenty years ago an Orleanian traveling over the United States would tell his new friends 
 to come to New Orleans and he would give him a gin fizz of rare quality or an especially fine cocktail or 
 perhaps an absinthe. Now it is different. The traveling Orleanian boasts of his banks with its billion dollar 
 clearings every year; of his city being "the second port:" of his city as a manufacturing center; of its schools 
 and universities; of its fine street car systems: its public cotton warehouse; its sewerage and water systems; 
 its libraries and its parks; of its exports and imports; of its fine harbor and port facilities; of the 11 railroads 
 which center there: of the scores of lines of steamships which come from all jiarts of the globe; of its 
 immense wholesale and jobbing concerns; of its paved streets and modern buildings, and of its thousand 
 and one things which he confidently believes will make it greater than New York one of these days. 
 
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 THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS 
 
 Tlic l''i-fncli pimu'ers cliosc for the site of the City of New Orleans a most advantageous KCgraphical 
 locatimi at a ii'iiiii nii the Mississippi River 110 miles from the Gnlf of Mexico, where a deep water harbor 
 may be develoi)e(i on both sides of nearly 200 miles of stream. The river, forminK a letter "S" around the 
 city proper, establishes a jjhysical crescent which gave the city the appellation "Crescent City." 
 
 Until 11)01 the facilities of the Port of New Orleans were provided by private interests throngh lease of 
 the river frontage. The wharves were temporary structures; there were no sheds; there was no machinery, 
 and charges assessed against vessels were considered excessive. 
 
 In 18i)(i, the Hoard of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans was created by .\ct of the Legis- 
 lature — the Commissioners, live in number, being appointed by the Governor of the Stale, and serving with- 
 out compensation, Hy tlie original act, and successive legislation, this Hoard exercises great autliority. and, 
 in the interest of the connuerce of the port, may expropriate property, build and operate wharves, sheds, ware- 
 houses and other facilities essential to the ocean and river shipping of the port. 
 
 The llrst Board which took charge of the facilities in 1901 were somewhat liandicappe<l through having 
 no other available fund than revenues produced by charges upon shipping. .After a few years, however, the 
 Legislature authorized the Board to issue bonds, and, with the proceeds of these bonds, wharves and sheds 
 were constructed. In 1!)14, other bonds were issued for construction of a cotton warehouse; in r.)l."> lor a 
 grain elevator, and, in I'.iKi, an Industrial Canal and (jther warehouses may follow. 
 
 The State of Louisiana, having preserved the harbor frontage of New Orleans as a public heritage, and 
 legislation permitting the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans to float bond issues bearing 
 the underlying responsibility of a Sovereign State, the Board will plan continued and adequate development 
 of the port's facilities and construct and conduct such facilities as will enable commerce U> use these facili- 
 ties and serve the trade tributary to New Orleans safe from the checks and restraints often incident to 
 private monopoly of the terminal facilities. 
 
 In pursuance of a broad policy of linanciug, 'the Board authorized an issue of $2.'), 000. 000 of bonds to 
 be sold, as occasion may require and as our revenues may justify, for the ultimate development of the port to 
 its highest usefulness. These bonds may be issued only in the event the net income of the Board for the 
 preceding \2 months shall have been at least I'A times the annual interest charge ui)on such additional 
 bonds. Our bonds have been passed upon by lawyers of national re|)Ulalion. and the local bankers have 
 co-operated with and aided materially in floating the bonds. 
 
 Early in 11)14, the Board decided to make exhaustive investigations looking to revision of the system 
 of charges which was considered faulty — as a relic of earlier days. Four-fifths of the tonnage of ships which 
 come to New Orleans use the public wharves, about 50'a exclusively, while one-third of the shipping uses 
 both the public wharves and other facilities. This matter was made the subject of an exliaustive report to 
 the Board, which contains among many other things, an interesting comparison of port charges with other 
 parts and a discussion of the entire theory. It was developed that New Orleans was more expensive from 
 the ship's standpoint than its competitive neighbors, Galveston and Mobile, but that when the ship and the 
 cargo were both considered, New Orleans imposed less charges upon commerce. It was also ascertained 
 that tliere was a striking difference in the dispatch rate at which vessels load and unload cargo, and it was 
 recommended that steps be taken to bring all shipping to efficient use of the wharves, cutting down the time 
 of occupancy and increasing the number of ships that can be accommodated. It was recommended in this 
 report that the past system which |)laced the entire charges against the ships, based on the ship's size, should 
 be sui)ersede<i by a system which, while continuing to charge the ship also charged steamship .agents a rental 
 for the area devoted to their preferential or exclusive use, and which also charged tolls upon the cargo mov- 
 ing to or from ships. This new system went into effect on November l.'ith and it may be of interest to say 
 that the railroads have agmed to absorb the cliarge fixed a.gainst the goods thus obviating any chan.ge in 
 the transportation costs to the shipper or the consignee. 
 
 The developed river line of the harbor extends approximately 1.") miles, but there are 11.4 miles of river 
 frontage under the control of our Board. The river, in this distajice, is from one-half to three-fourths of a 
 mile in width and varies in depth from 40 feet to lOO feet at the wharf lines to a maximum depth of 188 
 feet in mid-stream. 
 
 This developed harbor has a water area in excess of eleven square miles. 
 
 Throughout the harbor there is ample depth for all requirements of commerce e.xcept that during very 
 low water a limited amount of dredging may be required at certain wharves. There is also ample space for 
 all vessels now using the harbor to lie at anchor in the stream and as the current is uniform in its direction, 
 no swinging on the anchors is encountered nor has any case of a vessel drag,ging her anchor, except in the 
 recent hurricane, been noted, the effect of storms being slight as compared with exposed coast harbors. 
 
 Over five miles of fully developed frontage operated by the Board is occupied by about 4,000,000 
 S(|uare feet of wharves, two-thirds of which area is covered by steel sheds. 
 
 It is a matter of universal experience in any business that complete etjuipment for the conduct of the 
 business means, other things being equal, enormous strides over precious results without adequate equip- 
 ment. Until recently a port was considered as completely equipped when furinshed with wharves and land- 
 ings, now all the handling appliances used in industrial businesses, such as cranes, runways and power 
 trucks are found in port operation. 
 
 In a report on "Transportatiiui by Water in the United States," Honorable Herbert Knox Smith, Com- 
 missioner of Corporations. United States Department of Commerce and Labor, said: "Two ports only. New 
 Orleans and San Francisco, are noteworthy for their high degree of public ownership, control, efficiency and 
 ci|uipment. At New Orleans the active water front is admirably equip])ed and controlled by a State Board: 
 most of the wharves and sheds are open to general traffic, and a municipal board operates ten miles of belt 
 railroad, giving co-ordination between the waterway, local industries and trunk line railroads." 
 
 There is a yard trackage for about 2.000 cars and the plant is capable cjf handling between 2,000,000 and 
 2..')0(),0()0 bales of cotton per annum. Within the terminal is nearly live miles of overhead and floor level con- 
 crete runways for the accomiuodation of electrically operated trucks or trains for conveying cotton through 
 the plant. Within the compartments there will be electric cranes and specially invented appliances for pull- 
 ing, pushing and grappling which are truly remarkable in the extent to which they render service exceeding 
 any device previmisly employed. 
 
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 'I'lic tenniiial hiiildiriKS cover an area approximately 50 acres. fiicliulinj< the trackage adjacent to the 
 plant, the tutal area covered is approximately 100 acres. The wharves arc two-story, reinforced concrete, 
 2,000 feet in length and ISO feet in width. The lower story is 10 feet 8 inches and the npper story 15 feet 
 8 inclu's in height. The warehouses are six in number, and, with the wharf sheds, have a normal capacity 
 of more than 450,000 bales, with an emergency capacity of (500,000 bales. 
 
 This comijleted plant gives New Orleans a most modern warehouse system adapted to storage, handling 
 and shipping of agricultural commodities. It is estimated that tlie rerluction in the cost of handling and 
 storage of cotton through the oi)eration of these warehouses and terminal over past costs "t^'ill amount to 
 api^roximately 40'^. and the rates of insurance will be rt-duced lo approxintately one-fourth the expense hereto- 
 fore. 
 
 ])uring the year ended June 30, 1915, the volume of grain handled at the Port of New Orleans was over 
 50.000.000 bushels, and. during a part of this year, railroad-owned elevators were unable to satisfactorily han- 
 dle ihe traffic. 
 
 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THF PORT OF NEW ORLEANS 
 
 No. 1. ERNEST M. LOEB, President: Is prominent as 
 dealer in iind nianut'iuturer of niac-hinery. Horn Houston, 
 Texas, .January lit, 1 StiT. Mr. Loeb early in life became 
 identified with the muihinery business, in which ho is an 
 expert, organizing a niai-hine selling deparTment for Schwartz 
 Supply Co.. subsequently becoming a partner and is now sole 
 owner of that business. Mr. Loeb was married .Jan. 6, 1897. 
 to Miss Elka Freeman, and from this marriage there are 
 four children, Claire K., Freeman K., Ernest M., Jr.. and 
 Kobert E. Loeb. 
 
 No. 2. WILLIAM OTIS HUDSON, President Marine 
 Oil Co.. son of U. U. and Sarah (Guess! Hudson, was born 
 at Augusta, Ga., May 5, 1865, and after an education re- 
 ceived in the public schools of his native state, began life 
 in the mechanical department of the Southern Railway at 
 Atlanta, Ga., and afterwards was locomotive engineer on 
 S. F. & W. R. R., then accepting employment with the 
 Standard Oil Co. as traveling salesman, being transferred 
 to New Orleans in 1S98 ; has served as Lieutenant command- 
 ing Division E., Louisiana Naval Brigade and is a member 
 of the Board of Commissioners for the Port of Orleans. Is 
 Vice-President of the City Bank & Trust Company. Presi- 
 dent Satelite Oil Company and President Marine Oil Com- 
 pany, organizing the latter Company in 1902. Was mar- 
 ried Oct. 6, 1S90. to Miss Ellen Douglass Baber. and from 
 this union there is one child .Tames M. Hudson. 
 
 No. 3. CHARLES D. O'CONNOR, son of Tlimiuis and 
 Ellen ( Fitzsininions ) O'Connor was born at New Orleans, 
 La. July 17, 1864, was educated in the public schools of his 
 native city and attended Soule's Business College. Under 
 the old alderman ic form of government, served for twelve 
 years as a member of the City Council of New Orleans, and 
 is the organizer of O'Connor Company. Ltd. Is also propri- 
 etor of the American Laundry, and a Director of City Bank 
 & Trust Co. and a member of the Board of Commissioners 
 for the Port of Orleans, known as the Dock Board. 
 
 Mr. O'Connor was married Oct. 5. 1898 to Mi;s Camille 
 Bertel and from this marriage there are two children Camille 
 and Mildred A. 
 
 Is a prominent factor in the business world of the city 
 of New Orleans. 
 
 No. 4. JEFF D. HARDIN. Sr., burn .\cw Orh'ans. La.. 
 August 10, l85fJ, early in life entered into the commercial 
 world by going into the receiving and forwarding and com- 
 mission business at New Orleans and in representing the 
 Western Produce interests, which business has been continued 
 up to date. Was elected in 1905 a member of Board of Com- 
 missioners, Port of Orleans, and served continuously to 1914: 
 being rc-appointed in 1915 and still serving. Director on 
 Board of Trade for some ten years, serving also as its Vice- 
 President and President. Member of Association of Com- 
 merce since its organization, and member Joint Traffic Bu- 
 reau. President Episcopal Church Club of Louisiana. Ves- 
 tryman Trinity Church for 15 years. Trustee Episcopal Chil- 
 dren's Home and Chairman Finance Committee of that Insti- 
 tution. Delegate Alternate Council to the National Chamber 
 of Commerce. 
 
 No. r). RUDOLF S. HECHT, Vice-President of the 
 Ilibernia Bank & Trust Co., has been the financial advisor 
 of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans for 
 a number of years and it was through his efforts that the 
 Board was able to finance the construction of the new Cotton 
 Warehouse and the Grain Elevator. Mr. Hecht was appointed 
 a member of the Board during Governor Hall's administration 
 in recognition of the valuable services he had rendered the 
 Board as a citizen and as a banker, and he is now acting 
 Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board. Besides 
 hi?i banking connections, Mr. Hecht is prominently identified 
 with a number of important local commertial enterprises. 
 
 No. 6. TILEY SCOVAL McCHESNEY, Treasurer and 
 Assistant Secretary: Mr. McChesney was born New Orleans, 
 La.. January 16. 1871, and has been identified with the work 
 of the Dock Board since 1SS7. Was elected as Treasurer 
 and Assistant Secretary in 1907. Is a painstaking official and 
 the right man in the right place. 
 
 Mr. McChesney married Miss Stella Marie Theriot Jan. 
 4, 1894. at New Orleans, and from this marriage there are 
 five children, Charles, Thelma Louise, Nola Mary. Estelle 
 Theriot and Lucille Hagan. 
 
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 OSCAR DOWLING. M. D.. President Louisiana State Board of Health, a son of Rev- 
 erend Angus and Laura L. (Boswell) Bowling, was born near Montgomery (Ala.) October 
 29, 1866 ; educated at Athens College, was graduated with degree of M. D., class of '88 from 
 Vanderbilt University and University of Nashville. 1892. Dr. Dowling later took up post- 
 graduate work in New York, Chicago and New Orlean.^ polyclinics; New York Eye and Ear 
 Infirmary, and clinics in London, Berlin, Paris and Mexico City. House Surgeon 1896-97, 
 Sr. resident Surgeon 1897-98 ; assistant to surgeon in charge 1896-98, Eye, Ear. Nose and 
 Throat Hospital, New Orleans: oculist and auriat State Charity Hospital. Shreveport. La., also" 
 various Railway Companies. Specialist in treatment of eye, ear, nose and throat. Member of 
 firm of Dowling & Scales. Shreveport. Member Louisiana State Board of Health 1906-08. 
 and appointed President of that body Sept., 1910. Opened a most unique "clean-up" cam- 
 paign embracing the entire State in November. 1910. and toured the State in a special train 
 with health exhibit, inspecting food and water supplies of communities : 1910-15 visited 
 many leading cities with train. North and East and West to the Pacific Slope. Married 
 1915, Mrs. Lula Tindall George. 
 
 Trustee of A. M. A.. President Southern Medical Assoeiation. 1915 ; Director Am. Public 
 Health Ass'n ; 2nd Vice-Pres. of National Oral Hygiene Ass'n ; 1st Vice-Pres. Southern 
 Sociological Congress: Chairman Malaria Commission, National Drainage Congress; Associate 
 Editor Southern Medical Journal. Tri-State Med. Ass'n, ( Pre^^. 1905-061; Louisiana State 
 Med. Society. (Pres. 1907-08); Southern Med. Ass'n. (Sec.-Treas. 1907-10); Shreveport 
 Med. Society, (Pres. 1908-09) ; Physicians and Surgeons Club, (Pres. 1909-101. Founder 
 and editor Medical Recorder, changed to Journal Southern Medical Association. 1908 ; mem- 
 ber La. State Game Commission. (1908-10); Vice-Pres. La. State Fair Association. 1910; 
 and Director since its organization. Member Navy League, 1st Lieutenant Medical Reserve 
 Corps, U. S. Army. 
 
 In the social life of Louisiana, belongs to the following clubs: Columbia, Athletic, 
 Elks, "Ananias." Chamber of Commerce. Country Club. Shreveport. Press Club. Pi.kwick. 
 Boston. Chess. Checkers and WTiist. Choctaw, Louisiana. Southern Yacht. Country Club, 
 Association of Commerce, of New Orleans. Has contributed liberally to following medical 
 journals: The Southern Medical. American Journal Public Health, Ohio State Journal, Minn. 
 State Journal, Texas State Journal. Journal Am. Med. Ass'n., Journal of Law and Crim- 
 inology, etc. 
 
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 HUGH McCLOSKEY, son of John and Catherine McCloskey. business man and man 
 of affairs, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, In the year ISS.?. After an education in the 
 public and private schools of Londoudtrry. he Immigrated to the United States m the year 
 1871 ; beginning his business career as a clerk with the wholesale gro.:ery firm of Schwa- 
 bacher & Hirsh, subsequently becoming Interested in that concern. In 1879, he withdrew 
 from that company and organized the firm of McCloskey & Henderson which was later suc- 
 ceeded by the firm of McCloskey Brothers, of which latter firm he is senior member. 
 
 In 1908, Mr. McCloskey became President of the New Orleans Railway & Light Com- 
 panv, from which position he resigned In 1913 to accept the Presidency of the American 
 Cities Company, which position he now occupies. He is Vice-President of the Hihernia 
 Bank & Trust Company and Vice-President of the D. H. Holmes Company. He was Chair- 
 man of the Committee which was responsible tor the creation and organization of the Board 
 of Commissioners for the Port of New Orleans, known as the Dock Board ; and served as 
 President of that important body for twelve vears. He was also one of the organizers of 
 the Board of Trade at New Orleans, and served as its President for three years. _ 
 
 In the social life of New Orleans, Mr. McCloskey takes a prominent part. He is a 
 member of the Boston, Pickwick, Chess, Checkers and Whist, Country, and Southern \acht 
 Clubs. 
 
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 MARK LEIGH ALEXANDER, a son of James T. and Fannie iLedyard) Alexander, 
 was born August 15. l.Sli'J. at Meeklenberg County. Virginia. On tlie paternal side. his. 
 grandmother was a daughter of Governor Turner of North Carolina, while a grandfather. 
 Mark Ale.\ander. represented Virginia in Congress of the United States for sixteen years. 
 After his edueation in the common school, commenced in the business world as a clerk in 
 the hardware store of A. Baldwin & Co.. of New Orleans. La., subsequently being a traveling 
 salesman for 15 years for some of the largest hardware houses in the South. Engaged in the 
 real estate and insurance business at Alexandria in general exploitation work and Secretary 
 of Chamber of Commerce of that citv. Is a member of the Benevolent & Protective Order of 
 Elks and member of Chess. Checkers and Whist Club, the Press Club, the Round Table Club. 
 Yacht Club, and of Association of Commerce of New Orleans. 
 
 Is a member of National Geographic Society and of Louisiana Historical Society : Vice- 
 President of Americ-an Fisheries Society. Louisiana Forestry Association. National Asso- 
 ciation Fish & Game Commissioners, and National Association Conservation Commissioners. 
 Is President of the National Association Fisheries Commissioners and member Executive 
 Board of National Conservation Congress and of Executive Council of the Department of 
 Breeding and Preserving of American Game Protective Association, and is now President 
 of the Conservation Commission of Louisiana. 
 
 Was married on June 12. 1888, at Alexandria to Miss Nellie Luckett of Rapides Parish, 
 Louisiana, and from this issue there are three children. Ethel, Constance and Mark Leigh, 
 Jr.. Alexander. 
 
 19
 
 PURNELL MITCHELL MILNER, Attorney, son of Dr. Uriel Richardson and Serena 
 (Pnrnell) M liner, whose ancestors came from England and Ireland. On the maternal side 
 the Purnells settled at Snowhill, iMaryland. where Walton Purnell. great grandfather, was 
 born in 171;^; family niovid to Virginia, thence Tennessee, thence Alabama. Dr. William 
 Purnell. son of Walton, born July 1, 1771, married Elizabeth Dillon November 21. 1799. 
 The Dillons came from Ballanasloe, County of Galway, Ireland. On the paternal side his 
 great-great grandfather, John Milner. settled in Oglethorpe County, Ga. Uriel Richardson ' 
 Milner. father of the subject of this sketch, born in 1824, was a son ot John Ballard Milner 
 and Ada Calloway. 
 
 After receiving a common school education in the public and private schools of his 
 native city, attended University ot Louisiana, following which he attended Tulane Law- 
 School, graduating in class of 1892: was connected with the office of General Counsel for 
 New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad for fourteen years in the practice of law, making a 
 specialty of contract, insurance, surety and casualty business, becoming General Counsel 
 in Louisiana ot Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland and representing that Company as 
 such since 1894 ; represents also since 189fi, the Maryland Casualty Company. Formed a 
 law partnership in 1906 with H. Gibhs Morgan, which partnership dissolved in 1909. 
 
 Member of American Bar Association. United Sons of Veterans. Louisiana Bar Asso- 
 ciation, National Geographic Society, Medalist Glendy Burke Literary Society : President 
 Louisiana State Good Roads Association and of New Orleans Gulf Coast Good Roads Asso- 
 ciation and is on the Executive Committee ot the Jackson Highway Association : Vice-President 
 of "Old Spanish Trail," Member of Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Young 
 Men's Gymnastic Club, New Orleans Country Club. Boston Club. Southern Yacht Club and 
 of Carnival Organizations: life member of St. Johns Rowing Club. The subject of this 
 sketch has in his possession a family Bible with entries showing dates of the year 1713 : 
 the book itself being one hundred and twelve years old : also has in his possession a Masonic 
 pin, handed down from generation to generation, which is one hundred and six years old. 
 
 Married Miss Marie Louise Morgan January 5, 1S99, at New Orleans, La., and from 
 this issue there are two children. Louise and Ula. 
 
 20
 
 GEORGE H. DAVIS, of Kord, Bacon & Davis, New York, New Orleans, and San Fran- 
 cisco, was born Oswego, N. Y. in the year 1863, and after graduating from the Oswego 
 Normal School, entered Cornell University, graduating as Mechanical Engineer class of 1892. 
 with degree of M. E.. and after a year of practical engineering work as foreman and super- 
 intendent of construction of various electric railway companies became superintendent of 
 construction of the Steinway Railway Company in New York in 189.3-9-1. and in 1894-95 
 came to New Orleans as superintendent of construction of the Orleans Railroad Company, 
 in the employ of F'ord & Bacon, and entered the firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis in 1S95. As 
 a member of this firm, in conjunction with other members, planned the construction and 
 re-construction of the Canal ii Claiborne R. R., the New Orleans & Carrollton R. R.. the 
 New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad. Light & Power Co.. the N. O. Railway. Light & Power 
 Co.. and other electric light properties of New Orleans ; also designed and constructed other 
 railway and light companies in Birmingham. Memphis. Knoxville. Little Rock, Houston. 
 Nashville, Atlanta. Washington ( D. O, Kansas City and San Francisco. Served as Presi- 
 dent American Cities Co.. 1911 to 1913; and in the social world is a member of Railroad, 
 Cornell and Engineers Clubs of New York, and of the Boston, Pickwick, Country. Y. M. 
 G. C. Press. Southern Yacht, Round Table and Motor League Clubs of New Orleans. 
 Member also American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
 neers, American Electric Railway Ass'n. American Gas Institute. Louisiana Engineering 
 Society, National Rivers & Harbors Congress, Tulane Society of Economics. N. O. Associa- 
 tion of Commerce and Chamber of Commerce of U. S., Washington. D. C. Married Septem- 
 ber 29, 1S9S, Miss Katherine McGrath, and from this marriage there are two children. 
 Philip M. and Putnam Davis. 
 
 21
 
 PAUL CAPDEVIELLE, born January 15. 1842. at New Orleans, La., was educated 
 in the Jesuits College of his native city, graduating in 1S61, immediately going into the 
 service of the Confederacy, later graduating in law from the Tulane University, practiced 
 law at New Orleans, giving up this practice later to devote his time to increasing business 
 affairs, being President of the Merchants Insurance Company for some thirteen years. Was 
 appointed member of State School Board in 1S77, subsequently being appointed member of 
 New Orleans Levee Board ; elected Mayor of New Orleans in 1899. serving until 1904. 
 when he was appointed Auditor of Public Accounts by Governor Blanchard. being elected 
 to succeed himself in 1908 and again in 1912 and 1916. now serving his fourth term. 
 
 In 1902. was decorated by French Government with Cross of Legion of Honor, and in 
 same year King Oscar of Sweden conferred on him another honor, seldom shown an American, 
 being the Cross of Commander of the Order of Saint Olaff ; also had conferred by United 
 Daughters of Confederacy another Cross of Honor, and in 1904 the St. Louis University 
 conferred on Mr. Capdevielle the degree of LL. D. ; is a member of St. Vincent de Paul 
 Society, of the Sodality of the Virgin. Knights of Columbus. Elks and other orders. Was 
 married in ISTS to Miss Marie Emma Larue, and from this issue there are six children, as 
 follows: Paul, Jr., Auguste, Yvonne. Christian. PMith and James. 
 
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 HAROLD, W. NEWMAN, rcminussinner ol Puhll. Safety 01 New Uriciuis. was liDin at 
 New Orleans. La.. October 2. 1,S72. and is a son of Morris W. and Rebecca (Weil} Newman; 
 after receiving an education in the public and private schools of his native city, graduated 
 from Tulane University with degree of A. U. and LL. B. 
 
 Following his graduation, entered into the practice of law, being thus engaged for twelve 
 years, then becoming a member of the Arm of M. \V. Newman & Sons, investment brokers. 
 New Orleans. La., and was elected in October of 1912 Commissioner of Public Safety. New 
 Orleans. La., for four years ; also served as First Vice-President of Safety First Federation 
 of America. 
 
 24
 
 JOHN CHRISTIE BARR, Presbyterian Minister, a son of Thomas and Grace (Pearce) 
 Barr. was born in Xmv Orleans. La., October 27, 1872; after attending for a brief period at 
 a Parochial School in the Third Presbyterian Church, attended a private school at Port 
 Eads, returning later and attending a private school condutted by Mrs. James I. Bard of 
 New Orleans, following which attended McDonogh School No. 10 of New Orleans, then the 
 Boys' High School, graduating as Valedictorian, class of '89 ; later attended Tulane Univer- 
 sity, graduating with degree of B. S., class of '93, and on receiving fellowship. Inok a post- 
 graduate course, receiving the M. A. degree in 1895; subsequently graduating from South- 
 western Presbyterian University with degree of B. D. : later receiving honorary degree of 
 D. D. from same school. Member of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. The first call received by 
 Dr. Barr came from St. Francis Street Presbyterian Church at Mobile, but declining that 
 call, he came to New Orleans and served the Prytania Street Presbyterian Church. After 
 serving Prytania Street Church for six months, was called to the Lafayette Presbyterian 
 Church of New Orleans, of which church he still is pastor, having been ordained there on 
 February 27, 189S. Has been instrumental in the organization of Presbyterian Churches 
 at the following places in Louisiana: Gretna. Harvey, Westwego, Kentwood. Hammond. 
 Paradis, Bowie. Gheens, Delta Farms. Lafitte, Kenner, Bunkie, Algiers, etc. He is also a 
 meriiber of the Board of Directors of Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 Is the President of the Presbyterian Hospital of New Orleans, Is the author of an 
 interesting pamphlet, published by the National Reform Association (of which he is a 
 Vice-President) entitled "The Will of John McDonogh of New Orleans and the Public 
 Schools of America." Was married to Miss Anna Mabry of Clarksville. Tennessee, Feb- 
 ruary 5, 1901.
 
 CHARLES F. GELBKE. Physician and Surgeon, a son of Louis C. and Mary (Lanier) 
 Gelbke. was born OL-tober 11. 1S78. at Tangipahoa, La., and after an education received in 
 the public schools of Gretna and New Orleans and the Boy's High School, matriculated in 
 medical cour.se a't Tulane University, class of '97, graduating in 1900 with degree of Doctor 
 
 Is'a member of Louisiana State Board of Health, being on the Finance Committee, a 
 member of the Louisiana Medical Society. American Medii^al Association and other medical 
 societies: served as Coroner for a number of years and was the organizer and was the !• irst 
 President of .Jefferson Educational Association, is President Orange Lands Company, and 
 President Gretna Exchange & Savings Bank and interested in Loisel Model Farm Company 
 Belongs to the Benevolent Knights of America, is a member of the Druids, Lee Benevolent 
 Association, and is a Mason. 
 
 26
 
 WILLIAM M. WREN, was born February 28. 1S68. at Galvostou, Texa^. educated in 
 the pviblic schools, after school at the age of thirteen, started in life as a water boy in the 
 building and contracting business and worked and studied the various branches of building 
 and construction work generally until, steadily advancing, as Superintendent, he built the 
 Sewerage system at Chattanooga. Tenn., in 1887 ; after which as Superintendent of Con- 
 struction he built the first and largest power tunnel of Niagara Falls ; also as Superintendent, 
 put in the main sewers of the city of Niagara : going then to Buffalo, N. Y. as Superintendent 
 and building the largest grain elevator in that city, following which he went to Depew, N. Y. 
 and superintended the building of the sewerage system of that city; after which, returning 
 to New Orleans in 1896, was in charge of the brick work on the St. Louis Canal : having 
 charge later of the concreting and pile-driving of the Third Street Canal of New Orleans ; 
 launching out for himself in 1890, contracted for the pile-driving and concrete work for the 
 Nashville Avenue, Lower Line and Leonidas Streets, building also the foundation of most 
 of the naval station buildings of New Orleans ; starting then in the general contracting 
 business, built five pumping stations for the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans, one 
 of them being the first deep excavation, ^?> feet, that had ever been done in the city of New 
 Orleans. Built also the Valence Street wharf, the Kernigan wharf. Mandeville Street wharf. 
 Press Street wharf, completed the Pauline Street wharf, reconstructed the Chalmette slips 
 and closed the Hymelia crevasse ; just now completed the Lower Line and Leonidas Streets 
 canals. 
 
 27
 
 HARRY McEVOY BRENNAN, Attorney, a son ot Thomas Patri.k and -Mary Ellen 
 Brenuan, was born at Newport. Ky.. October 9. 1SS2- A graduate from Christian Brothers 
 College, class of Jift, degree of A. B.. and from Tulane Law School in 1902 with degree 
 of LL. B., class of 02, degree of A. M. being conferred by Christian Brothers College ia 
 1906. Admitted to practice in 1903 and handled claim of Conrad heirs, which caused 
 friction between Archbishop of New Orleans and Mr, Brennan in 1906. being a controversy 
 with the Catholic Church over funds of a certain religious institution of New Orleans. 
 Entered St. Mary's University to review theology and to enter the Catholic Priesthood, but 
 on account of unfriendly relations with ecclesiastical authorities Mr. Brennan was rejected 
 and subsequently ex-communicated. His defense in this matter is contained in his book 
 DeGrege, which is now in course of compilation. Is a Woodman of the World, and belongs 
 to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Shreveport and Knights 
 and Ladies of Honor. Is a Democrat in politics aud prominent candidate for Congress. 
 
 28
 
 L, LAZARO, of Washington, La., Physician. Planter, Congressman, was born in St. 
 Landry Parish, June 5, 1872; was educated in the schools of St. Landry Parish and St. 
 Isadore's College. New Orleans ; graduated in medicine in 1894, and has practiced medicine 
 for 21 years; is a member of the St. Landry Parish Medical Society, Louisiana Medical 
 Society, and the American Medical Society; served as a member and President of the St. 
 Landry Parish School Board for four years ; elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 1908 
 and 1912, both times without opposition ; now serving his second term in Congress from the 
 Seventh Congressional District of Louisiana, embracing the parishes of Acadia. Allen, 
 Beauregard. Calcasieu. Cameron, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis and St. Landry; is a Demo- 
 crat and takes an active interest in Congress in looking after the interests of his con- 
 stituency. Married Miss Mary Curley at Washington. Louisiana, in 1895. from which Issue 
 there are four children ; one boy. Ladislas, Jr.. and three girls. Mary. Elaine and Heloise.
 
 RICHARD K. BONEY, Farmer and Planter, son of Greene L. and Martha E. (Coikel 
 llonev, was born Ditober Hi. 1858, at Madison Parish. La. Graduated from the V. M. I.. 
 1878. educated in the law at the University of Virginia, he next graduated from the University 
 of Louisiana, class of 80 and practiced law in St. Paul for tour years, then removing to 
 South Bend, Wash., being engaged in the practice at that point tor six years, later remov- 
 ing to Spokane tor two years, returning to Louisiana in 189S to take charge of his fathers 
 and brothers' estates. Is a pioneer in the adoption of progressive methods in diversihed 
 farming, participated in organizing State agricultural associations and is now President 
 Lespedeza Growers' Association. Is a member of the State Board of Education. Geographic 
 Society, K. of P.. B. P. O. E., and a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason. 'Was mar- 
 ried to Miss Rena B. Cox, April 27, 1896, and from this issue there are three children, 
 two girls and a boy. 
 
 30
 
 CLARENCE CHERRINGTON HENSON, Principal Isidore Newman Manual Training 
 School, boru in Jackson County, Ohio, .January 8, 1875, a son of James K. and Agatha 
 (Evans) Henson, was educated in the common schools of his native State, then at Ohio 
 University, graduating from the class of '99 with degree of A. B. ; graduate of Columbia 
 University, class of '04 with degree of M. A. Is now directing the affairs of the Isidore 
 Newman Manual Training School. New Orleans, La., with a membership of four hundred 
 pupils. Is a member of Beta Theta Phi. and a Master Mason. Was married to Miss 
 Blanche Nell Wilson August 23, 1905. at Portland. Oregon, and from this issue there is 
 one child. Clarence, four years of age, born at New Orleans, November 24, 1911. 
 
 31
 
 WHITMELL P. MARTIN, a .son of Kobert Campbell and Margaret (Littlejolm) Mar- 
 tin, was born in the Parish of Assumption August 12. 1S67. After an education obtained 
 in the public schools and under private tutors, he graduated from the Louisiana State 
 University, class of ISSS, with degree of B. S. Subsequently took a special course in sugar 
 chemistry, and filled the position of Professor of Chemistry in the Kentucky Military Insti- 
 tute at Frankfort. Ky., later taking up the study of law at the University of Virginia and 
 being admitted to the bar in 1891. After practicing his profession for a short time in 
 Assumption, he moved to Thibodaux. which place has since been his home; was Superin- 
 tendent of Public Education from 1894 to 1900: District Attorney from 1900 to 1907; 
 elected Judge of the Twentieth Judicial District in 1907 ; was married to Miss Amy Wil- 
 liamson, of DeSoto Parish, in 1906, and four children were born to them — Amy. Whitmell 
 Pugh, Jr. (who died at the age of 12 years, in May. 1914), Marshall Leigh, and Robert 
 Campbell. In 1912 Judge Martin was alternate delegate to the Baltimore convention that 
 nominated President AVoodrow Wilson and was an ardent supporter of Wilson, but when 
 the Underwood tariff bill, placing sugar on the free list, was passed, materially reducing 
 the duty upon other products of Louisiana, believing that the Democratic Party had violated 
 its traditions and platform pledges, and being of the opinion that a free-trade policy would 
 prove ruinous to the interests of Louisiana, he left the Democratic Party and joined the 
 Progressive Party. He was nominated by convention as the Progressive candidate for Con- 
 gress and defeated his Democratic opponent by 1.426 votes, being the first non-Democratic 
 Congressman to be sent from Louisiana in over 25 years.
 
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 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL THOMAS J. LEWIS, U. S. Army, retired, born New 
 Orleans, La., a son of General Jno. L. and Henrietta (Bahm) Lewis, who was Mayor of 
 New Orleans in l.s.54. was educated in the public schools of his native city, in the Louisiana 
 State University at Baton Rouge, received appointment at West Point at the hands of Con- 
 gressman Randall L. Gibson, 187.5 ; was graduated from West Point, June 13, 1879. and 
 promoted from a cadet to a Second Lieutenancy in the Second Cavalry; his military record 
 from that date being one of successive promotions and is as follows : Served on frontier 
 duty at Ft. Custer. Mon., and in the field, Oct. 21. 187S to May 24. ISSl ; Ft. Walla Walla, 
 Wash., and in the field, to Aug. 12. 1886; and Boise Barracks, Ida. 
 
 (Continued on page 62) 
 
 42
 
 JOSE R. CABRERA, Cuban Consul to the United States, was born at Havana. Cuba, 
 March 24. 1861, and after leaving the preparatory schools of his native city, graduated 
 from the University of Havana with degree of B. A. and B. L. Receiving his training for 
 the diplomatic corps first in looking after the interests of the Argentine Republic in 
 Havana (1S89-1902). Senor Cabrera represented also the Brazilian Government at Havana 
 from 1891 to 1902, and had further honors showered upon him in his selection as Consul 
 to the United States for the Cuban Government, with headquarters at New Orleans. In 
 the social lite. Mr. Cabrera is a member of the Yacht Club and Country Club of Havana 
 and a member of the Surf Club of New Orleans. Married Miss Francis Baker of Trinidad, 
 Cuba. August 25. 1892, and from this marriage there are four children. Anna Louise. Ophelia. 
 Mary and Joseph. Is a scholarly gentleman and man of affairs and is well equipped to look 
 after the affairs of his native country in the United States. 
 
 43
 
 THOMAS ROLAND HUGHES, son of W. B. and Ida (Jordan) Hughes, was born at 
 Shreveport La., January 4, ISTS. and was educated in the public schools of his native city 
 and at Spencer's Business College of New Orleans, and immediately after leaving school 
 entered into the emplovment of A. J. Ingersoll & Co. For the past twenty years, an 
 enthusiastic Democrat and always working indefatigably in the cause of Democracy, Mr. 
 Hughes was elected January 2.'j. 1916. to the important office of Sheriff of Caddo Parish. 
 In the fraternal world Is a member of the following lodges: Caddo Lodge Xo. Ir9, A. F. 
 & A. M., Shreveport Consistory: El-Karubah Temple, Shreveport Lodge Xo. 122 ; B. P._ O. fc . : 
 Caddo Lodge Xo. 147 K. of P. : Broad Ax Camp 16 W. O. W. : Moose Lodge Xo. 591 
 L, O. O. M. : Shreveport Leiderkarantz, Was married to Miss Millie A Pruitt, November 
 28 1S99 and from this marriage there is one child. Fay Thomas Hughes, born August 
 7. 1901. 
 
 44
 
 JOHN LEWIS DANTZLER, born in Mobile, Ala.. January 21st, 1860, is the son of 
 L. N, Dantzler and Eran (Griffin I Dantzler, was educated in the public schools of Moss 
 Point, Miss., graduate of Vanderbilt University, Class '80. graduate of Law Department of 
 University of Mississippi, Class of '83, and was Valedictorian of the class of that year, after 
 which, to get certain practical experience, worked for twelve months in the office of the 
 Clerk of Chancerv Court at Moss Point, Miss,, entering the practice of law at Moss Point 
 in partnership with Thomas S. Ford, under firm name of Ford and Dantzler, which partner- 
 ship existed for three years, then entering into the lumber business with L. N. Dantzler, 
 his father, of the L. N. Dantzler Lumber Company, being Secretary of that Company to date, 
 a period extending over twenty-flve years, living in Moss Point until 1912. when he removed 
 to New Orleans. 
 
 In the social life of New Orleans. Mr. Dantzler is a member of the following clubs : 
 Boston. Pickwick. Louisiana, Country Club. Motor League. Yacht Club. Phi Delta Theta 
 Fraternity; Is a Mason and Odd Fellow; President of the Standard Export Lumber Company, 
 New Orleans ; President Southern Paper Company, Moss Point, Miss. : President Griffin Land 
 Company, Moss Point, Miss.; President Ten Mile Lumber Company, Ten Mile, Miss.: Presi- 
 dent Native Lumber Company, Howison. Miss, ; President VanCleave Lumber Company, Moss 
 Point, Miss., and President Pascagoula-Moss Point Northern Railroad Company ; Vice-Pres. 
 Jordan River Lumber Company, Kiln. Miss. ; Vice-Pres. Pascagoula Towing Company. Pasca- 
 goula. Miss. ; Vice-Pres. Union Lumber Company. New Orleans, and Vice-Pres. Moss Point 
 Fertilizer Company. Moss Point, Miss. ; Director Forest Products Company, New Orleans : 
 Director New Amsterdam Casualty Company, and Director Bond Lumber Company. Bond. 
 Miss. 
 
 Married In May of 1S93 to Miss Nan Mayers, at Brandon. Miss., and from this issue 
 there are two children. Eran and Alonzo Mayers Dantzler. 
 
 45
 
 CLARENCE ADOLPH BURGHEIM, Physician. Surgeon, Nicaraguan Consul, a son 
 of Jacob and Henrietta Burglu-lm, was born at Columbus, Texas, .Tune 1, 18S0, and after 
 attending the public- and high schools of Texas and preparatory schools, attended the 
 University of Texas. 1900-01 ; following which he spent twelve years in Nicaragua, afterwards 
 returning' to the States, and taking a course at Tulane University, medical department, during 
 the years 1912-13-14-15, graduating and receiving diploma as a Doctor of Medicine on 
 June 2. 1915. 
 
 Serving first his native State as a private in the Emmett Rifles. Texas National Guard. 
 1897-98. subsequently saw service as Hospital Steward in U. S. Array 1899-1900. with Col. 
 Wm. C. Gorgas. Chief Surgeon Division of Cuba, then in Havana. Surgeon in San Pablo 
 Hospital. Blueflelds, Nicaragua, 1907-08. Surgeon with rank of Colonel in Nicaraguan 
 Army. 1909-10-11. 
 
 Is a member of the Academy of Science of New Orleans. Louisiana. National Geographic 
 Society, and of Kappa Psi Fraternity. Pi Chapter, a Mason and member of Round Table 
 Club of New Orleans and of Louisiana Historical Society. 
 
 Was married July 2. 1911. at Granada. Nicaragua, to Miss Carmen Charmorro B.. a 
 daughter of Secretary of State of Nicaragua. 
 
 46
 
 JAMES LONG WRIGHT, Prosidcnt Bankers Loan i Securities Company, was born at 
 Sherman. Texas, .January 9. 1SS2. and after an education in the public schools of Fort 
 Worth, including commercial and business courses, began the battle of life as an ofRce boy in 
 the Land Mortgage Bank of Texas, moved to Louisiana sixteen years ago. rising rapidly from 
 stenographer and bookkeeper to Manager of People's Independent Rice Milling Company, 
 Crowley, La., later serving as Secretary and Manager American Rice Brokerage Company, 
 of Crowley, was afterward Secretary World's Panama Exposition Company, and Secretary- 
 Treasurer Pan-Amercian Life Insurance Company from 1911 to 1916. 
 
 Mr. Wright was disbursing officer on the staffs of Governor Blanchard and Governor 
 Sanders and was quartermaster-general on the staff of Governor Hall. Is President of Fed- 
 eral Fruit & Cold Storage Company, and First 'Vice-Presjdent Reliance Homestead Associa- 
 tion, and in the social life of N'ew Orleans is a member of the following clubs: Chess. 
 Checkers and Whist. Pickwick, Country and Audubon Golf Clubs. Is a 32nd degree Scottish 
 Rite Mason, Knight's Templar and Shriner, and one of the solid business men of the Cres- 
 cent City. 
 
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 S6
 
 ERNEST A. WHITE, Veterinary Surgeon, born at .New 
 Orleans. La.. January 14. 1875; graduating from the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania, class of '97 : immediately began the 
 prai-tiee of his chosen profession at New Orleans, and since 
 the first year of his practice. 1897. has built up a large and 
 lucrative practice in New Orleans. 
 
 Dr. White is a Mason. Shriner and an Elk. and belongs 
 tn the Young Men's Gymnastic Club, and is regarded as one of 
 the foremost men in his profession at New Orleans, La. 
 
 WILLIAM F. ROY, Editor, born in St. Bernard Parish, 
 October 10, 187". graduated from the New Orleans Jesuits 
 College with degree of A. B.. class of '88 ; appointed Notary 
 Public in 1905; established January 11, 1890 and has since 
 been continually editor and publisher of St. Bernard Voice. 
 President Louisiana State Press Association. 1913 ; member 
 Catholic Knights of America. W. O. W.. B. P. O. E., and has 
 served his native State for two terms in the Legislature, ses- 
 sion of 1908 and re-elected in 1912. 
 
 
 
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 HUGUES JULES de la VERGNE, Lawyer. Soldier. 
 Newspaperman, born New Orleans. La.. July 1. lSt»7 : graduate 
 Jesuit College class 1SS5 with degree of B. A. and in 1SS7 his 
 Alma Mater conferred degree of A. M. and in 189:J degree of 
 Ph. B. Graduate of Tulane Law School, degree of LL. B.. 1893. 
 .\ppointed aide-de-camp with rank of Major on stall' of Gov- 
 ernor Blanchard July, 1904, promoted to Lieut. -Colonel March 
 12. 1905; commissioned Colonel and aide-de-camp on staff of 
 Gov. L. E. Hall March 10, 1916; member of Boston, Strat- 
 ford and Gymnastic Clubs, also member of Y. M. C. A. Owner 
 and proprietor of New Orleans Bee. 
 
 WM. W. HEARD, Assi.~tant U. S. Treasurer. New- 
 Orleans has given much of his time and labor to his native 
 State- serving as lleputv Clerk of Vnion Parish Court for 15 
 years' was elected Representative, later elected to the State 
 Senate and was subsequently chosen State Auditor ; elected 
 Governor of Louisiana in 1900. and appointed Assistant Treas- 
 urer by President Wilson in March. 1915. Was Vice-President 
 State National Bank, an active churchman and Vice-President 
 Southern Baptist Convention. President Baptist State Conven- 
 tion and Vice-President for Louisiana for Jefferson Monument 
 Association. 
 
 57
 
 HENRY C. WHITEMAN, of the firm of Whiteinaii 
 Uros. born at Uayou Sara, La. In the year 1867. after leav- 
 ing school beiame associated with B. D. Wood & Sons, and 
 after being with that concern for some ten years became 
 connected with .Tung & Sons Coal Company, leaving the 
 latter company to go with West Kentucky Coal Company 
 and subsequently engaged in business for himself, form- 
 ing a partnership with his brother and doing business under 
 the name of Whiteman Bros, Mr. Whiteman married Miss 
 Mary Olive Wailes April 18. 1S92, and from this marriage 
 there are four children, Mary, George, Beryl and Olive. 
 
 ALBERT WARREN WHITEMAN, of Whitcina]] liros.. 
 was born at llayou Sara, La. June 27, 1S77, and after an 
 eduiation in the public schools, on leaving school, became 
 associated with B. D. Wood ii Sons, being connected with that 
 concern for seven years, then going with .Jung & Sons and 
 was with that Company for some seven years, and forming 
 a partnership with his brother in 1905, under the name of 
 Whiteman Bros, has been engaged in towing and contract- 
 ing since that date. Captain Wliiteman is an Elk and a 
 Mason and married June 27, 1900, Miss Netta Louisa 
 Davis of Ascension Parish, and from this marriage there 
 are five children. Aline, Irma, Warren. Willie Porter and 
 Ruby May Whiteman. 
 
 JAMES JOSEPH ALCEE FORTIER, born .luly 15. 
 1S90, son of Alccc Korti.r and Marie Lanauze ; graduate of 
 Arts and Science liepartnieiit Tulanc i:niversity in 1909, A. 
 B. degree: Tulane Caw School 1912, L. L. B. : member Louisi- 
 ana House of Representatives, Sixth Representative District, 
 Parish of Orleans. Practicing law under the name of Mene- 
 fee & Fortier. .Married to Marie Rose Gelpi, Sept. 2. 1913. 
 
 Member of Phi Theta Fraternity : The Legal Fraternity 
 of Phi Delta Phi: Athenee Louisianais ; Louisiana Historical 
 Society; Public School Alliance; L'Union Francaise ; Tulane 
 Alumni Ass'n ; St. Vincent de Paul Society ; New Orleans 
 Press Club : Choctaw Club : Lyceum Association ; Benevolent 
 and Protective Order of Elks ; Benevolent Knights of America ; 
 Pickwick Club and the Louisiana Bar Association. 
 
 WILLIAM S, HOLMES, of the Conservation Commission 
 of Louisiana, born April 10, 1873, in Ouachita Parish, La„ 
 was educated in the common schools of his native Parish, and 
 is a graduate of Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarks- 
 ville, Tenn., and of Louisiana State University ; was elected 
 District Attorney tor Madison and East Carroll Parishes in 
 1894 and served a full term. Is a member of Knights of 
 Pythias, Woodmen of the World, Elks, is a Mason and belongs 
 to his college fraternity Sigma Nu.
 
 JAMES W. REYNOLDS, Superlnttndcnt ami head of the 
 Police Department, City of .New Orleans, born in Algiers, La- 
 August 29, ISKS. is a son of James and Rose (Carroll) Rey- 
 nolds. Became identified with the Poliee Department of New 
 Orleans in an humble capacity in September. 1S9:^, continu- 
 ously climbing the ladder until he is now the head of that 
 Department; is a member of Knights of Columbus, A. O. U. 
 W., \V. O. W., B. P. O. E., Police Benevolent Association and 
 Press Club of New Orleans. 
 
 PORTEUS RICHARD BURKE, Lawyer, of New Iheria. 
 received an acariiinic education al Georgetown and Tulane and 
 is a graduate of the Law School of Tulane. class of 1897. 
 Has been prominent in the affairs of his native Parish and 
 State for several years and is a man of sterling worth and 
 integrity. Served in Legislature 1900-04. Was married to 
 Miss Mabel Hine on the 8th of March, 1900, at New Iberia, 
 and from this issue there is one child, Nina, age fourteen 
 years. 
 
 GEORGE GOODELL EARL, son of Holmes and Annie 
 (Taylor) Earl ; educated in Freehold Institute, Freehold. N. 
 .1.. receiving technical education in civil engineering at the 
 LaFayette College of Easton. Pa. Became associated with the 
 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad for about two years, 
 going then to Montgomery. Ala., as Assistant Engineer: later 
 formed a partnership with Capt. J. W. Williams. Was City 
 Engineer for the city of Aiiiericus, Ga.. and in 1892 became 
 identified with the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans. 
 La., was appointed Superintendent of that important Depart- 
 ment, which position he now holds. 
 
 JAMES FRANKLIN TURNBULL, Realty Developer, 
 born November 2, 1S89 ; was educated in his native Parish of 
 Orleans. Was connected with the Leon Oodchaux Co., Ltd. 
 later becoming associated with N. J. Clesi in the real estate 
 business Was with the Texas Oil Company during 1913 and 
 191-J. afterwards organizing the Arm of Kuntz & Turnbull, 
 shortly afterwards disposing of his interest in that firm to 
 enter the firm of Turnbull i- Heap. Dissolved partnership 
 July 1, 1915, and entered realty field alone, specializing in 
 Jefferson and St. Charles Parishes development. 
 
 59
 
 GENERAL SALVADOR ALVARADO. (iuvtrnor ot Yucatan. Mexiio. whoi>e di.slin- 
 tinguished representatives found in New Orleans the friendly co-operation necessary to enable 
 Yutatan to throw off the yoke of the old heuequeu monopoiy 
 
 60
 
 FRIENDLY CO-OPERATION SECURES 
 YUCATAN'S BIG HENEOUEN TRADE 
 
 An important ituiii in tin- fipicign coinniercc- of ilu- |i,,rt of Xcw ( Jrlcans is the importation of liene- 
 iliKMi, or sisal lieni|i. from \'iKatan. Of a total production of about I, (10(1, ()()() bales, valued at approximately 
 .$:J3,()00,()0(). nearly .ill of which is consumed in the United States in the manufacture of binder twine, about 
 75 per cent, comes llirouKh ibis imrt. 'I'he tonnage is sufficient to KJve two l..">()()-toii vessels full cargoes 
 each week in the \e.ii-. .\ot oidy is ihc bulk of Yucatan's henei|uen crop imported through New Orleans, 
 but arrangements have been made for storing large quantities of hene<|uen here in order that the selling 
 organization <jf llie growers may be able to meet promptly the demands of the manufacturers for the raw 
 prochu't. 
 
 The administration of Governor .Mvarado in Yucatan has accomplished numerous reforms beneficial 
 to the i>eople of that state, but none. i)erhai)S, was so far reaching in its immediate material l)enelits as the 
 elimination of the old henequen monopoly and the inauguration of a marketing system which assures to 
 the farmer an equitable price for his product and the saving of nnllions of dollars annually which heretofore 
 Howed into the pockets of middlemen. ^'et, in the achievement of this much-desired result, the govern- 
 ment encountered obstacles greater than tliose which it had to overcc.ime in any other line of its endeavors 
 for the moral, social and economic uplift of the state and peojjle. ft was necessary to oppose energetic- 
 ally tile International Harvester Company, one of the largest capitalistic combinations in the United States. 
 and another big Eastern corporation, the Plymouth Cordage Company, of .Massachusett>. Together these 
 two American corporations controlled about 82 per cent, cjf the entire henequen production of Yucatan. 
 Representatives of these two corporations made loans to tlie henei|uen growers at exorbitant rates of 
 interest and under mortgage contracts which stiinilated that the crop .>f the borrower should be deliv- 
 ered to them. Prices paid the farmer had been gradually depressed, arbitr.-irily, until the farmer was get- 
 ting about syi cents per iiound for material which, when manufactured into twine by a simple ;ind cheaj) 
 process, sold to the .American farmer at TI'j to II cents per pound. 
 
 Even the transportation facilities from Yucatan were largely controlled by the same men who con- 
 trolled the market price of henequen. The bulk of the henequen crop was shii)i)cd on vessels which operated 
 under the name of Avelino Montes, a millionaire Spaniard and the Yucatan representative of the Interna- 
 tional Harvester Company; likewise, most of the food, clothing and other articles imported by tlie planters 
 or merchants of Yucatan had to be shipped on the vessels which Avelino Montes ojierated. 
 
 lOncouraged by the goxernment, the heueciuen growers of \'ucatan formed a mutual benefit association 
 and agreed to use as a selling agent for their products the Comision Reguladora del Mercado de Henequen, 
 a public institution organized for the protection of the henequen interests of the state and operating under 
 the direct supervision of the Governor and a board of directors appointed by him. In turn, the Comision 
 Reguladora undertook to regulate the price of henequen in accordance with the law of supply and demand, 
 thus stabilizing the market, and to arrange for direct dealing with the manufacturers so as to divert to the 
 farmers the money which had been going into the pockets of the unnecessary middlemen. In other words 
 it was planned to guarantee to the farmer the true market value of his product in the United States, less 
 the cost of transportation and necessary incidental expenses. 
 
 Governor .Alvarado commissioned Dr. Victor A. Rendon, formerly Secretary of State of Yucatan, and 
 Senor Julia Rendon to proceed to the United States and make the t'lnancial arrangements necessary for the 
 success of the marketing system, to negotiate for the establishment of an iiulependent steamship service 
 from Progreso and to open offices in the United States to facilitate direct dealing with the manufacturers. 
 These gentlemen, both of whom were widely popular in' Yucatan, were chosen for this important mission 
 because of tlieir integrity, tact and business e.xperience. Their labors were crowned with the greatest 
 possible success and the commendations of their work by American financiers and business men, as well as 
 by the press, show that they are justly entitled to share with Yucatan's distinguished Governor the credit 
 for the perfection i>f a marketing system which is wortliy to lie regarded as an object lesson for .\merican 
 farmers. 
 
 By the terms of the loan agreement made between the Comision Reguladora del Mercado de Hene- 
 quen and Messrs. Sol Wexler and Lynn H. JMnkins, New Orleans bankers, and organizers of the Tropical 
 Commission Company, the latter will advance a maximum sum of $10,000,000, at a low rate of interest, on 
 warehouse receipts covering henequen stored at New Orleans or other United States ports. 
 
 Independent steamship service was secured, the Caribbean & Southern Steamship Company having al- 
 ready placed four steamers in freight service between New Orleans and Progreso. That company also 
 will add up-to-date passenger accommodations at an early date. 
 
 Dr. Victor .\. Rendon, general attorney for the Comision Reguladora del Mercado de Henequen, main- 
 tains offices in New York. .Arrangements also have been made for the opening of offices of the Comision 
 in New (Jrleans. 
 
 61
 
 LIEUT.-COL. THOS. J. LEWIS— Continued from page 42 
 
 Kirst Litnit., 2d Cavalry, -'uly 2*i, ISSO. Mar. 2S to May. 
 1889. and .May 2:^-3U, 18Si», lo .lutie. 1890; at. Fori Lowell, 
 Ariz .luiio to Sept., 1890 ; .lellerson Marracks, Mo., Sept., 
 1890 to Oct., 1892; Fort Wiiigalt'. N. M.. from Oct. 28. 1892 
 to Oct. 11. 1894, commanding Navajo Indian Troop L. 2d 
 Cavalry. Fort Uiley, Kan., from Oct. 14, 1892 to April 19, 
 1898. 
 
 Captain of Cavalry. 2d Cavalry, .Jnne i:^. 1897. Served 
 In Spanish-American War in command of Troop A. 2 Cavalry. 
 Cliit'kamauga Park, Ga., Ai)ril 2'A to May 11, 1898: Mobile, 
 Ala.. Ilh Corps. May l.X to .lunc 4, 1.S9S ; Tampa Hay. Fla., 
 .')lh Corps, .lune C, 1898; left Tampa Bay with 5th Corps, 
 fi\ route to Cuba, on Transport Stillwater; disembarked at 
 Daiquiri. Cuba, .June 2.'^, 1898; same date to Sibnney ; re- 
 turned to Daiquiri, .hine 24; Scvilla, .June 25; partic-ipated 
 In battles around Santiago, .July 1, 2 and 'A. On mounted 
 service of various kinds connected with llead(iuarters, 5tli 
 Corps. Commaded esrorf'to receive surrender of interior gar- 
 risons, July 19 to Aug. Hj. At EI Cristo. .Moron. Dos Cami- 
 nos, San Luis, Palma Soriano. Kmbarked for Montauk Point. 
 Aug. 24, arriving Sept. SO. Huntsville, .\hi., Nov. 3. I.SDN to 
 Feb. 1. 1S99. .Mantanzas, Cuba, commanding scjuadron ron- 
 sLsting of troops A, F and G. from Feb. 1. 1899 to .lune. 1899 ; 
 eomnumding Troop A, 2d Cavalry, at Mantanzas, Cuba, to Feb., 
 
 1900 : Regimental Adjutant to Nov. 1903 ; left Cuba. Jan.. 
 
 1901 : at Fort Myer, Va., to Nov., 1903 ; General Recruiting 
 Service, to Nov., 1905. 
 
 Major of Cavalry, 13th Cavalry. April 22. 1905. At Fort 
 Kiley. Kan,, commanding 1st Squadron. 13th Cavalry, Jan. 9. 
 1906 to July 2(:. 1907; Inspecting Militia, Kan.. April 1 to IG, 
 19UIJ; member of the Cavalry Board. 190(j, to July 2(j, 1907; 
 member of Cavalry Kxaniining Board. Aug.. 190() to July 20, 
 1909; commanded march, 1st Squadron, 1.3th Cavalry, from 
 Fort Riley. Kan. to Fort Sheridan, 111., July 27, 1907 to Sept. 
 ti, 1907; at Fort Sheridan, 111., commanding 1st Squadron. 
 13th Cavalry ; inspecting Militia, Illinois, Mar. 2 to April '.'. 
 1908. Commanding Officer, Ft. Sheridan. III.. July. 1908 to 
 March 29, 1909; Phillipine Islands, April, 1909 to Mar.. 1911 ; 
 commanding 1st Squadron, 13th Cavalry. Lieut-Colonel, Mar. 
 11, 1911. Adjutant General, Feb. 29, 1912; unassigned June 
 10, 1913. Retired Dec. 1. 1913. 
 
 Served in the Phillipines. commanding the 3rd Squadron. 
 13th Cavalry, in various stations in the Phillipines until Mar., 
 1911. being then assigned to Ft. Riley. Kan., as Lieut-Colonel 
 of the l.'Uh Cavalry, leaving there in Mar.. 1913. on being 
 assigned to Department of the Lakes at St. Paul, rank of Adj. 
 General and subsequently serving as Adjutant Southern Divis- 
 ion and Adjutant First Cavalry Division at Ft. Sam Houston 
 at San Antonio, when he was retired from active service Dec. 
 1, 1913, for disability incident to the service. Has been in 
 charge of the recruiting service at New Orleans since Aug. 
 (!. 1914. 
 
 Was married in New York City, July 29. 18S0, to Miss 
 Emma Rising, now deceased, and from this union there are 
 two ihildrcTi, Li cut Con verse H. anrl Fni'ietta Lewis. 
 
 WILLIAM B. THOMPSON— Continued from page 49 
 
 road of New Orleans ; is Vice-President of the Pan-American 
 Life Insurance Co., and a Director of Mechanics & Traders 
 Insurance Co^ Served as a member of the Board of Commi-;- 
 sioners of the Port of New Orleans and in December, 1912, 
 was selected as one of the members of the first Commission 
 form of government for the City of New Orleans, being named 
 Commissioner of Public Utilities. 
 
 Is a member of the Boston, Pickwick. Chess, Checkers 
 and WTiist Clubs. The Country Club, the Press Club and 
 Yacht Club, and a B. P. O. E., and member of Cotton Exchange 
 and Association of Commerce and Board of Trade. Is recog- 
 nized in New Orleans as a healthily active public citizen and 
 man of affairs. 
 
 SENATOR JOS. E. R A NSDE LL— Continued from page 50 
 
 Idtnt of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress since De- 
 cember. 1900, being especially active in all legislation relating 
 to the improvement of waterways for purposes of transpor- 
 tation, and also for the control and prevention of floods in the 
 Mississippi Valley. In January of 1912. further favors were 
 showered on the energetic Congressman when he w^as nomi- 
 nated for United States Senator, January 23. 1912. being 
 subsequently elected by the Legislature of Louisiana to suc- 
 ceed Honorable Murphy J. Foster, taking his seat March, 4, 
 1913, 
 
 Senator Ransdell is an indefatigable worker for his party ; 
 takes an active part in all legislation affecting Louisiana and 
 the South, especially Agriculture and Health ; and guards zeal- 
 ously every interest of his people in the upper branch of Con- 
 gress. 
 
 Senator Ransdell was married November 15, 1885, to Miss 
 Olive Irene Powell, of Lake Providence, La., they having no 
 children. 
 
 Mrs. Ransdell is a lineal descendant of General Evan 
 Shelby, one of the heroes of the Revolutionary war. She is 
 deeply interested in the patriotic work ot the National Society 
 of Daughters of the American Revolution, of which organiza- 
 tion she has been Treasurer General for the past three years. 
 
 ANDREW BRADFORD BOOTH— Continued from page 50 
 
 successfully handled the three camps, three hospitals, three 
 detachments National Guard, and flotilla of boats. Vicksburg. 
 Miss., Millikins and Wilton. La., taking care of 3.800 negro 
 refugees, He was Adjutant General and Handled the great 
 Confederate Parade reunion in New Orleans in 1903. and 
 was Commander Louisiana Division U. C. V.. 19ii5. and now 
 takes active interest in business and public affairs. 
 
 ISAAC MONROE CLI NE— Continued from page 54 
 
 Medical Association. Texas Academy of Silence, American 
 Association for the Advancement of Scrienee, American For- 
 estry Association. Louisiana Historical Society, and in 1914 
 was seloeted a member of the National Institute of Social 
 Siitni-es. Author of many published papers bearing on the 
 climate of the southwest in its relations to agriculture and 
 health. Of especial note are his contributions on "Summer 
 Hot Winds on the Great Plains ( U. S. A.)" and the ■■Climatic 
 Causation of Disease with Chart showing the Pathological 
 Distribution of Climate in the United States." Dr. Cline's 
 hobby is art and he lias a superb collection of paintings and 
 an unusually fine collection of more than 100 oriental bronzes 
 some of which arc inor<' than 2,OiiO years old. 
 
 WILLIAM A. McGILVRAY. State Labor Commissioner, 
 pern liar I >■ titled for tlif (idin- wliich he holds, has long been 
 identitif d wil h the worker and wage-earners of New Orleans 
 and because of his activities in behalf of union labor was 
 elected State Labor Commissioner against a large field of 
 candidates, and since his assumption of that office has been 
 instrumental in fori ing operators into providing sanitary 
 accommodations for their army of employees and in cleaning 
 up the Chinese laundries of the city, being responsible for 
 the creation of a stringent city ordinance which worked a 
 revolution in all of the laundries of the city. Chinese and 
 steam laundries alike. He is the right man in the right 
 place and looks well after the duties of liis office. 
 
 ROBT. P. COLLINS, born Edinburgh, Scotland, Novem- 
 ber 5, 1 SS3 ; immigrated to the United States in 1904 and 
 was first connected with the Standard Oil Company, subse- 
 quently going with the J. I. Case Thrashing Machine Co.. 
 at Fargo, N. D., and engaging in the land business at Fargo. 
 Coming to New Orleans in 1914, Mr. Collins became identified 
 with the Intertype Corporation and is or-' or the promising 
 young business men of the city. Married in 1910. Miss 
 .Johanna Schill and from this marriage there are three chil- 
 dren, Bruce. Richard and William. 
 
 THE DAN W. FEITEL BAG COMPANY is one of the 
 chief industries of the city, supplying Hit- trade in bags, 
 burlaps and twine, and shipping their products all over the 
 South. Mr. Dan W. Feitel is President of the Company and 
 is one of the solid business men of the city. The stroe room 
 and warehouse of the Company is located at Claiborne and 
 Erato Streets. 
 
 EDGAR A. CHRISTY. Architect, born in New Orleans. 
 La., September 5. t.S.SO, educated in the common schools of 
 New Orleans. After leaving school. Mr. Christy entered the 
 employ of Harold, An dry ,*i Bendernagel, of New Orleans, 
 being with that well-known architectural firm for two year.s, 
 later being in service of United States Government for one 
 year, then went into the mechanical engineering field, up to 
 1904. then became identified with the building division of 
 the Engineering Department of the city of New Orleans, and 
 has since been continuously connected with that Department, 
 being now the Chief Architect. Is a member of local chapter 
 American Institute of Architects. 
 
 HOWELL MORGAN. Assistant Supervisor of Public 
 Accounts, was born in East Feliciana Parish, La., June 1, 
 1863. Studied law under Thos. Campbell, of Longview. Tex., 
 returning to Charleston for a stay of two years and then 
 going to New Orleans. Appointed to the Indian Service in 
 1894 and served in South Dakota. Nebraska, Oklahoma, and 
 Minnesota ; Cashier Bank of Zachary. SacTiary. i^a., for six 
 years, subsequently receiving appointment August 15, 1912. 
 as Assistant Supervisor of Public Accounts for Louisiana, and 
 is now serving in that capacity. Member Sons of Revolution, 
 Society of Washington. D. C, and a Knight Templar. Mar- 
 ried Miss Thisba Hutson July 3. 1895. and from this union 
 there are four children, Cecil. Mildred. Thomas Gibbes and 
 Howell Morgan. 
 
 H. J. CARTER. Attorney and Clerk U. S. District Court. 
 New Orleans, La., a graduate of the law department Tulane 
 University, was born at New Orleans, La., April 1st. ISOl. 
 Appointed a deputy clerk of U. S. Courts in 18SS, he was 
 subsequently named Clerk of that Court in 1902. serving in 
 that capacity to date. In the social world of New Orleans, 
 Mr. Carter is a member of the Chess, Checkers and Whist 
 Club : is also a member of the American Bar Association and 
 of St. Andrew's Brotherhood. Is an affable man of affairs 
 and well and favorably known among the bench and bar 
 throughout the State. 
 
 62
 
 ROBERT HENRY DOWN MAN 
 
 Conspicuous aniunK tlic lii^ fiKurcs of the lunilu-r industiy of the United States is Robert Henry 
 Dovvnman of New Orleans, I'resident of tlie National Luml)er Manufacturers' Association, and tlie head of 
 half a dipzcn l.irj^e lumber concerns in I.Duisiaua and South Carolina. 
 
 Mr. Downinan was born in I'auiinier County, Virginia, l-'ebruary 27, 1801. He was educated at the 
 W'arrenton .\caileniy and the Virginia I'olytechnic Institute. 
 
 .Mr, Downnian left liis native state in 1879 and settled in Te.xas, which state's natural resources were 
 beRinnin)' to attract the attention of the country. Tfe entered the retail drug business in which he continued 
 f(ir fcjur years, wlien In- went inli) the wli'ilesale branch uf the trade. 
 
 In I.sss, Mr. I )o\vnnian married the daujiliter i.f \\illia)ii C;imeron of Waco, Texas, one of the big 
 hnnbernien of the I. one .St.ir Stale. 
 
 'l"he following list of the enter|)rises of which Mr. Downnian is tlie head reads like a page from an 
 industrial directory, but nevertheless is a fine tribute to Mr. Downman's genius of organization: 
 
 Jeanerette Lumber and .Sliinyle Comiiany. Limited, Jeanerette, La. 
 
 Rovvie Lumber Company. 
 
 The Iberi;i Cypress Coni|)any, Limited. 
 
 W'hitec.astle Lumber and Shingle C<nnpany, I..iniited. 
 
 Des .-Mlemand Lumber and .Shingle Company. 
 
 Hi.g Salakatchie Cypress Company. Varnville. S. C. 
 
 Ill.ick River Cypress Company, Sardinia, S. C. 
 
 .\s president of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. Mr, Downinan has taken an active 
 part in obtaining desirable legislation for the protection of the himber industry of this country. Mr. Down- 
 man has also taken a \ery lively ]iart in eriucating the peol)lc of this country tn the usefulness uf lumber as 
 a building material and in the makin.g ni iiavements. 
 
 Mr. Downnian is also one of the leading figures in the vast scheme of reclamation which is com- 
 manding the attention (if many states and Louisiana in particular. 
 
 Mr. Downnian is .a real captain of industry. When he started out in llie luml)er business he invested 
 big capital and was in position to start at the top. He investigated and studied lumber from the time it 
 stands in the forest until it is turned out a finished product by the mills. In the lumber world, Mr. Down- 
 man is to-day accounted the greatest authority on cypress in the United States, whicli of course means the 
 world. 
 
 -Mr. Downnian has cnntribnled generously to varicms movements in New Orleans where civic better- 
 ment was involved, but he has never been in politics. He votes for his choice for various offices and that 
 ends his activities in that direction. "I have never held a public office and 1 don't want any." he is quoted 
 as Iiavin.g told friends. 
 
 Devoted as he is to his business. Mr. Downnian has always found time to mingle socially with his 
 kind, lie is a member of the Boston and Country Clubs, of New Orleans, and nf the ^■|lUIlg Men's 
 tiyninastic Club of the same city.
 
 BROOKS-SCANLON LUMBER CO. 
 
 One nf the iinpcirt.nil iniliislrifs ..f I .,,uisian.i i>, that i>f tlie Hrooks-Scanlon Lumber Company, 
 located at KentwiMul, l,a. This Company is known as one of the largest shippers in the South and with its 
 plant at Kentwood turns out yearly a hundred and twenty-five million feet of long leaf and yellow pine 
 lumber. The Company purchased a large tract of land in I'.ior, and erected two complete saw mills and have 
 been oi)eratinK since that date on a large scale, being recngnizcd now as one of the principal lumber dealers 
 in the South. Through the effiMts of I'resideul Scanl-ui lliis Company has rendered a distinct service to 
 the State and to Kentwood and its contiguous lerritory in developing and placing their cut-over lands and 
 inducing colonists to adopt that section as thiir future home. Tlie Company makes a specialty of high- 
 grade planing mill work, railroad timber, ties, decking .lud export schedules, and because of their splendid 
 railroad facilities are enabled to make prompt delivery (ui all orders. The officers of the Company are M. 
 J. Scanlon, I'resident, A. B. Brooks, Vice- ('resident. S. D. Brooks, Treasurer. P. A. Brooks, Secretary and 
 J. S. Foley, General Manager. It is tlirough the energies of the latter named gentleman that has made pos- 
 sible the rapid development of Kentwood and ccuitiguous territory and the universal popularity of the 
 Brooks-Scanlon Conii)any: for it was during the dull season that this Company, having a due regard for 
 the welfare of their employees, and at considerable expense operated their mills on full time and paid all 
 employees full wages. 
 
 M. JOSEPH SCANLON 
 
 M. Jcisepli Scanlon, I'resident of Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company, Kentwood, La., a native of Wis- 
 consin. .After studying law at the University of Wisconsin, subsequently started in the lumber business at 
 Omaha. Neb,, and in 1889 became identified with the Newcomb business, later coming to Louisiana and 
 being identified with the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company, of Kentwood, of which he is the President. 
 Mr. Scanlon is one of the progressive men of the State and as the head of the Brooks-Scanlon Company has 
 done much towards developing that section of the State contiguous to Kentwood. Is a solid business 
 man of affairs and one of the foremost men of liis- section. 
 
 64
 
 AL. J. BUJA, Sole Proprietor of the J. P. Florio Company, is one of the prominent 
 business men of the Crescent City. Mr. Buja is a Mason and Shriner. a member of the 
 Board of Trustees of Elks. Press Club. Uruids and a Woodmen of the World. Worthy Presi- 
 dent of the Eagles and has held many offices as a member of the Benevolent & Protective 
 Order of Elks. Is a Director in the Hibernia Homestead Association and of the Orleans 
 Homestead Association. While taking an active interest in his party's politics and work- 
 ing consistently for the cause of Regular Democracy at all times, Mr. Buja has 
 always refused to offer himself for office. Stevedore for Texas Transport and Terminal 
 Company. Holland Amereia Line, French Line and Simpson, Spence & Young, of New York 
 and London. 
 
 65
 
 FRANK J. MANGHAM. General Agent of the Federal Fruit & Cold Storage C^impany. 
 burn ViiZuu City, Mis.s., November 11, ISTtJ, while yet a young man, is one of the solid 
 business men of the Crescent City. Mr. Mangham started out as a public accountant, 
 and making a success in that line as he has in others, and being a live man of affairs, 
 has given much of his time, labor and brains in the upbuilding of the City of New 
 Orleans, and is now regarded as one of the solid business men of the Queen City of the 
 South. Mr. Mangham is also very popular in the fraternal world, being a Shriner and 
 a member of the Grand Consistory of Louisiana. Mr. Mangham is ex- President of the 
 Louisiana State Board Certified Public Accountants, and was married on June 1-1. 1906, 
 to Miss Nancy Robinson. From this marriage there is one child. Carlos, born October 
 28, 1908. 
 
 66
 
 DR. S. M. LYONS, of Sulphui'. was for eight year^ a member of the Police Jury, and 
 is now Assessor- Elect of Caieasieu Parish. He was born on the CaUasieu River below 
 Moss Bluff in 1S68. the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lyons, pioneer residents of the parish. 
 Of four children, he is the only one living. He attended the public school near Vincent 
 settlement, and afterwards attended the State University at Baton Rouge, from which he 
 graduated, class 1SS9. Later he attendel the Tulane Medical College, from which he grad- 
 uated in ISnr. After his graduation. Dr. Lyons settled down in the locality where he was 
 born and embarked in the practice of medicine. His efforts were attended with much suc- 
 cess, and several years later he located in Sulphur, shortly after the opening of the cele- 
 brated sulphur mines. Dr. Lyons became widely known on the west side of the River 
 through his success in the practice of medicine, and through his wide family connections. 
 In the meantime, he had been married to Miss Delia Broussard, member of a prominent 
 West Calcasieu family. 
 
 Dr. Lyons was elected to the Police Jury from the Fourth Ward in 1908, and served 
 with signal success for two terms, until 1916, being president of that body for several 
 years. A year ago he announced as a candidate for assessor, and in the January primaries 
 cornered one-third of the total vote, with three other candidates in the running. He was 
 successful in the second primary and will assume otftce next January. , 
 
 His large vote in Lake Charles was in recognition of the services he performed for the 
 city while on the Police Jury. He is in entire sympathy with the interests of the city and 
 parish, and his past record assures its residents of continued and efficient service. 
 
 67
 
 OCTAVIO REYES. Manager Pan-American Trading Co.. Xew Orleans. La., was born 
 in Mexico City August 24, 1892. and after an education obtained at the Faculty de Droite. 
 of Paris, and the International College at Geneva. Switzerland, Mr. Reyes entered the news- 
 paper field, being connected with the Imparcial at Mexico City for some three years, then 
 with the Matin of Paris for one year and then with the Petite Garonde for some eighteen 
 months, after which he was connected with various other newspapers, embracing work 
 in England. Italy and Spain. Is a member of the Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans 
 and of the Press Club, of the B. E. C. Club of Paris and University Club of France and 
 N'autic Club of Spain. Enjoys a wide acquaintance and popularity In New Orleans and is 
 one of the solid business men of the Crescent City. 
 
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 EDWIN I. MAHONEY, l.awy.-r, liorn Scj.leilibiT l(i. 
 18.S;;, at New Orleans, Louisiana, was educated in the public 
 aud private schools of New Orleans : attended Jesuit College, 
 class of IflOl and graduated from Tulane Law School, class 
 of 1903; nieiuber of Legislature from Ninth Representative 
 District U>0S-12: Secretary to Court House Commission and 
 Superintendent N. O. Court Buildings; was first man in State 
 to introduce White Slave Law and also the first one to intro- 
 duce the "I'^ull Crew Bill' as a member of the Legislature, 
 session of 1908. John Mahoney, father of Edwin I., was one 
 of the first professional baseball players in New Orleans. 
 
 RUFUS HENRY PRADOS, Manager Prados Auto Com- 
 pany, New Orleans. La., born at New Orleans. La., September 
 
 Going with the Westinghouse Electric Company at Pitts- 
 burg for one year of practical experience, he then became 
 associated with the lumber concern of Henry J. Prados & Son. 
 at New Orleans, establishing the business of the Prados Auto 
 Company at 141.'?-14].'i Canal Street. New Orleans. January 1. 
 1915. This Company does a large business as distributors of 
 the Maxwell. Reo. Reo trucks. Winston Six and Detroit Pack- 
 age Delivery Automobiles and in handling tires and all auto- 
 mobile accessories. 
 
 THOMAS W. GOREAU, Liiensed Master Plumber, son 
 of Louis T. and Virginia (Torr) Goi-eau. was born at New 
 Ur leans. La.. .Xovt nibcr lIi;. l.STtJ. Invented and patented in 
 ifo- " '!'''*^"""t water filter; also invented and patented in 
 IJOi a liquid seal trap for plumbing aud has invented an 
 automatic water heater, patented in 1916. The first named 
 invention being recognized as a superior and most useful 
 article of Its kind. Kstablished his present business in 1903 
 and IS now quartered in his own home bulldiug at 751 Caron- 
 de let Street. New Orleans. 
 
 Member Merchants & Manufacturers Bureau, the Asso- 
 ciation of Commerce and Press Club, the Elks and Grand 
 fraternity. Was married November 23, 1899, at Galveston 
 to .Miss Margaret Marron, a native of Louisiana, and from this 
 union there is one boy. Howard, born Houston, Tex, April 
 1. 1901. 
 
 JOHN DARLING NIX. Jr., Attorney, born at Denver. 
 Col.. September i.'i. LS9il. .\Ir. Nix was educated in the public 
 schools of New Orleans, graduating from the McDonogh No. 
 23 School in 1904, and from the Boys' High School in 190", 
 later graduating from the Law Department of Tulane Univer- 
 sity, class of 1910. Elected to the Legislature January 23, 
 1911 and member of Constitutional Convention of 1913. 
 President Ravenswood Planting Company, Inc.. and Past Grand 
 Commander of Benevolent Knights of America and belongs 
 to his college fraternity. Phi Kappa Sigma. Is regarded as 
 an expert on criminal law and enjoys a wide practice, and on 
 January 25, 1916, was re-nominated a member of the next 
 Louisiana State Legislature. 
 
 74
 
 CRAWFORD HATCHER ELLIS, Vice-President United 
 (•"ruit Company, a son of Thomas Jefferson and Elizabeth 
 ( Hatcher) Ellis, is one of the solid business men of the 
 Crescent City. In 1S93 went to Central America, being there 
 for some four years, returning to the States in 1897. An 
 expert accountant. Mr. Ellis was made auditor for the United 
 Fruit Company, and was made Manager of that big Corpo- 
 ration in UM)9. being subsequently elected a Director and 
 Vice-i*resident. Served on staff of Gov. Sanders and also 
 Gov. Hall and is a member of Sewerage and Water Board from 
 Sixth District. In the social life of New Orleans is a member 
 of the following clubs: Boston. Pickwick, Southern Yacht and 
 (Continued on page 84) 
 
 WILLIAM A. PORTEOUS, New Orleans Manager for 
 the Western Union Telegraph Company, man of affairs and 
 one of the lives wires of the Crescent City. Besides being 
 a first class telegraph man. he is also a graduate lawyer 
 of the Tulane University and a member of the Louisiana Bar. 
 
 Mr. Porteous has given much of his time, labor, money 
 and brains in making Xew Orleans the Queen City of the 
 South. Mr. Porteous is a Mason, an Elk, a Master Pythian. 
 Rotarian and a member of the Transportation Club and Young 
 Men's Gymnastic Club. Jovian Order, President of the Lake 
 View Improvement Association. Association of Commerce and 
 Manufacturers' and Merchants Bureau and Board of Trade. 
 (Continued on page 84) 
 
 CHARLES VIRGINIUS UNSWORTH, M. D., a son of 
 HIdward and Elizabeth (Rogers) Unsworth. born New Orleans, 
 La.. December S. INTO, after graduating from the Boy's High 
 School in I8S6. subsequently took a pharmaceutical course at 
 Tulane University, and after passing an examination before 
 the State Board, engaged in the drug business, first as a 
 clerk and afterwards for himself, being in that business some 
 ten years, after which, taking a course in medicine at Tulane, 
 class of ]9u4. he begun the practice of medicine in the citv of 
 New Orleans. Married Miss Jennie Grice of New Orleans in 
 (Continued on page 84) 
 
 EDGAR M. CAHN, Lawyer, born in Xew Orleans. La.. 
 June 29. 18i.i5; educated in the common schools of New Orleans 
 and the High Schools of Cincinnati, and the Hebrew Union 
 College of Cincinnati, receiving his law education at Tulane 
 Law School, class of '88. 
 
 Eirst practiced as a partner of Moise & Cahn. dissolving 
 in 1897. since which time Mr. Cahn has been by himself in 
 the practice of his chosen profession ; is member of Louisiana 
 Ba"r Association and American Bar Association ; Young Mens 
 Hebrew Association, Crescent Tennis Club, member of Touro 
 (Continued on page 84)
 
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 76
 
 DAMERON-WHITE COMPANY, Ltd. 
 
 Oiu* of the representative companies help- 
 ing to boost New Orleans and to make the 
 Cresc-ent City what it is today, is that of 
 the Danieron-White Company. Contractors, 
 who maintain offices in the Hibernia liank 
 RuildiiiK, New Orleans, and at Baton Kouec. 
 La. Tlu'se gentlemen, in their bnsincss of 
 building levees and railways, have built up 
 an extensive business, doing levee work all 
 up and down the Mississippi River from 
 Baton Rouge to New Orleans and above 
 Baton Rouge. The class of work that this 
 Company puts up is responsible for their 
 increasing business, which now extends not 
 only over the State of Louisiana, but em- 
 braces work in other Southern States. 
 
 The officers of the Company are C. IL 
 Dameron. President; Mrs. C. H. Dameron. 
 Vice-President ; C. I. Dameron. Secretary. 
 They are all enthusiastic boosters for the 
 Crescent City and great believers in the 
 future of New Orleans. 
 
 PAN-AMERICAN 
 
 LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 
 
 The Pan-American Life Insurance Co.. of 
 New Orleans, La., in its fourth annual report 
 ending December 31. 1915. shows a big In- 
 crease over the report of 1914. notwithstand- 
 ing death claims aggregating some one hun- 
 dred and twenty-five thousand dollars were 
 paid ; while new premiums together with 
 renewals on old premiums aggregated more 
 than six hundred and nineteen thousand dol- 
 lars, the total income for the year being 
 more than seven hundred and ninety-six 
 thousand dollars. This Company, with a 
 capable corps of officers and directors, is one 
 of the most substantial in the South, and 
 does business in the States of Virginia, North 
 Carolina. Georgia. Florida. Alabama, Missis- 
 sippi. Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and the 
 Republics of Guatemala. Salvador. Spanish 
 Honduras. Nicaragua. Panama. Columbia, 
 Cuba and British Honduras. The Home Office 
 is at New Orleans. La. 
 
 WATCH YOURSELF GO BY. 
 Bt/ At. G. Fifhl. 
 
 The book written by Al. G. Field, "Watch 
 Yourself Go By" has become one of the best 
 sellers of the time. It is a book unique in 
 many particulars, treating of men and mat- 
 ters, recollections of a busy life — a story of a 
 boy and man that the world has been inter- 
 ested in for nearly a half century. More 
 show folks have read this book than an.y pub- 
 lished in years, not that it deals entirely 
 with show life, in fact, aside from the 
 author's endeavor to enter the walks of show 
 life, there is very little directly pertaining 
 to that profession in the book. Its ramifica- 
 tions are so varied that the reader is inter- 
 ested from the opening chapter. There is 
 home life with homelike characters, so deftly 
 drawn that their counterparts are met in the 
 daily walks of life, hence the title "Watch 
 Yourself Go By." and many there be who 
 will see themselves go by in the various 
 characters in the book. 
 
 If Al. G. Field had not contributed more 
 to the happiness of the world than the book 
 "Watch Yourself Go By." he would be reim- 
 bursed. 
 
 DOULLUT & WILLIAMS 
 
 The firm of Doullut \- Williams. Civil Engineers 
 and General Contractors, is one of the leading con- 
 tracting and engineering firms of the South. 
 
 This firm having a capital of $400,000.00 with 
 $200,000.00 invested in plant, specializes in river 
 and harbor work, dredging, pile driving, wrecking, 
 cofferdam and caisson work, and operates a number 
 of tugs, barges, derricks, dredges and pile drivers, 
 composing the largest, most complete and modern 
 pile driving and wharf building equipment of the 
 South. They employ a capable force of engineers, 
 and are prepared to finance, design, supervise and 
 construct the most difficult contracts on the short- 
 est notice. 
 
 They operate along the entire Gulf Coast, Atchaf- 
 alaya. Red and Mississippi Rivers, and in the har- 
 bors of Mexico. Within the past seven years they 
 have constructed 95*7 of the wharves and docks, ex- 
 clusive of Dock Board Wharves, that have been 
 built on the Mississippi River- from its mouth to 
 Baton Rouge. They embrace in their clientele, the 
 largest corporations, including the Standard Oil 
 Company. American Sugar Refinery. Illinois Central 
 Railroad, Swift & Company, and others, and have 
 done a large amount of work for the State of 
 Louisiana and the United States Government. They 
 have now under construction, the enormous wharves 
 of the Public Grain Elevator and Cotton Warehouses, 
 aggregating in cost, half a million dollars, and 
 among other work they have constructed in the past 
 few years, special mention should be made of the 
 docks for the Standard Oil Company at Baton Rouge, 
 which are the largest of their kind in the world. 
 
 This firm has at all times for sale or charter, 
 tugs, barges, pile drivers, derricks and dredges. 
 
 77
 
 FREDERICK WILBERT 
 
 l-'rctKrick W'ilhcrt, lumberman and planter, a son of Antone and Sibilla VVilbert, was born at Plaque- 
 niiiK-, l.:i., Auk. ■-•'•• '-'''i'i- -Mi". VVilbert is a Democrat in politics, has served as State Senator and is a member 
 (if the l'i)lice Jury. 'Pnvvn Cmincil ami of the Schonl P.cianl. He is a Director of the llihernia Hank ami 
 Trust Co.. Vice-President, IberN-ille Hank & Trust Co., President, Myrtle Grove Planting & Mfg., Co., 
 President. People's Drug Store and President of A. Wilbert Son's Lumber & Shingle Co. Mr. Wilbert was 
 married April 27, ISSl, to Miss Helena Lotz, and fnun this marriage there are seven children, live boys and 
 two girls. Mr. Wilbert is nne of the solid business men uf tlie State and is held in high esteem in the busi- 
 ness world '>f l.iiui--iana. 
 
 ALFRED Le BLANC 
 
 .-\lfred Lc Blanc. Steamship and Insurance Agent, a native Britisher, educated at Haileybury College, 
 Hartfordshire, England, was originally with the firm of Decan & Co., of New Orleans, subsequently being 
 a partner for ten years with the late Lucas E. Moore when he launched forth in his own behalf. Is agent 
 for and represents the Harrison Line of Steamers, the Lamport & Holt Line, and London .Assurance Cor- 
 poration; is Vice-President of the Bank i>f Orleans and Vice-Consul Argentine Republic, and generally a 
 man of affairs.
 
 HARRY FITZPATRICK, of Fitzpatrick Auction Co.. 
 successors to Fifzpaiiirk »Si Till, born New Orleans, La., 
 January S. 1877, is one of the solid business men of the 
 city and progressive in every sense of the word. A well 
 known athlete, Mr. Fitzpatriek has won over 500 prizes in 
 medals, cups and trophies and is the present holder of five 
 world records and fourteen Southern records, was the winner 
 of National walkins championship for one mile at San Fran- 
 cisco in August, 1915, and one of the principal speakers for 
 ,Iiio. M. Parker in his candidacy for Governorship of Louisiana. 
 
 JOSEPH A. ESTOPINAL. M. D., born in St. Ilernard 
 Parish. May 2!t. ls7i;: attended the Tulane High School dur- 
 ing two years ; later ^fiuluated from the Literary Departnienl 
 of Soule College ; studied medicine at the Tulane College of 
 Medicine from 1890 to 1899, graduating in the latter year. 
 Removing in 1901 to the Parish of St. Charles, the Doctor 
 built up during the eight years of his residen<-e there a large 
 and lucrative practice. In 1S9S. he returned to New Orleans 
 for the purpose of specializing in diseases of the ear. nose 
 and throat. At that time he also became identified with the 
 State Board of Health, which he served with ability in the 
 position of Secretary during about two years. The State 
 (Continued on page 84) 
 
 E. C. DREWES, a native of California, 
 was born at San Francisco, December 1 7. 
 1SS6. a son of Claus and Margaret (Richter) 
 Drewes. After completing his education 
 Mr. Drewes became associated with W. R. 
 Grace & Company in the San Francisco 
 office in 1908. After spending practically 
 two years in the Panama Zone, returned to 
 Sau Francisco, but subsequently choosing 
 Louisiana as his future home, located in New 
 Orleans in August. 1915. as Agent of W. R. 
 Grace & Co., with headquarters in Canal 
 Bank Building, Camp and Gravier Sts. On 
 October 12. 1911. Mr. Drewes was married 
 to Miss Clara Edith Smith at Ancon. Panama, 
 and from this marriage there is one child, 
 Robert Jackson Drewes, born February 2G, 
 1913. 
 
 PLEASANT LAWSON FERGUSON, 
 Lawyer, born at Orange. Texas, February 2. 
 1886, was educated in Peacock Military 
 School, Class of 9S-99 and graduated from 
 the Louisiana State University. Clasi; of 
 1908 ; began practice with S. F. Foster : 
 elected Representative of Vernon Parish in 
 1912 and resigned when elected delegate to 
 Democratic Convention or 1912 ; now prac- 
 ticing law, being associated with E. L. 
 Stewart and Frank E. Powell : married Miss 
 Lucie Rose Bland. June 29. '1909, of Point 
 Pleasant, La., and from this issue there are 
 three children, Mattie Rose, Lucie Bland and 
 Miriam Stark Ferguson. 
 
 79
 
 JOHN J. FIT/PATRICK 
 
 l.ilin J. I'"itzi).ilii(l<. I)()rn January :iOtli. 1880, was educated in the public scliools of his native Parish 
 and a graduate of I'nitcd Slates Naval Academy. Class of lilOI, servini); in the navy until 1907, when he re- 
 signed. 
 
 Became connected with the office of Tax (Collector of ()rle.'ins I'arish on leaving the service, being still 
 connected with that nffce: and in tlie social life of Xew ()rleans is a member of Chess, Checkers and 
 Whist Club, Choctaw Chdi. Siuillurn ^'aclu t'lnl). I'.ene\ oU-nt and Protective Order of IClks, and .'\rmy and 
 N'avy Club nf New \'ork. 
 
 SENATOR MURPHY J. FOSTER 
 
 .Senator Murphy J. h'oster, Ccdlector of I'ort of ( )rleans. was born h'ranklin, La., Jan. I:.', 184'J, has 
 siven tlie best of his time and talent to his n.itixe .State of Louisiana. 
 
 By protession a lawyer, he was electe<l a member of the Louisiana .State Senate in 187!), serving 
 twelve years. 
 
 It was while a niember of the State Legislature that .Senator booster begun the fight against the 
 Louisiana .State Lotterj-. which ended only in the deatli of tliat gigantic fraud, l-'.lected tiovcruor l^f the 
 State of Louisiana in ISlKI, Governor Foster was returned to the same office for a second term, and was 
 in UIOI elected by the people of his State to represent them in the Senate of the United States Congress 
 at Washington, being re-elected in 1!K)T. serving as U. S. Senator from Marcli 4. I'lOl to .March :;, IHl.!. 
 
 Senator I'oster was showed with further honors in his a])poinlnient as collector of the I'ort of 
 C)rleans on .\ug. 1, 11)14, which position he now hidils. 
 
 80
 
 D. D. MOORE 
 
 EDITOR AND GENERAL MANAGER TIMES- PIC AYUNE 
 
 PRESIDENT NEW ORLEANS PRESS CLUB 
 
 DIRECTOR AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 
 
 MEMBER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASS'N 
 
 81
 
 COL. ROBERT EWING 
 
 NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN FROM LOUISIANA AND PUBLISHER 
 NEW ORLEANS DAILY STATES AND SHREVEPORT TIMES 
 
 82
 
 JAMES M. THOMSON, Publis^lier ot The New Orleans Itpiii. one the most Progressive 
 iuul Sucressful Newspapers of the South. Mr. Thomson, the eontrolling owner and publisher 
 of the New Orleans Item, and prominently identified in politieal reform movements, was 
 horn Feb. 13. 1S7.S. at Summit Point. .Jefferson County West Virginia. He is a son of Dr. 
 A\igustus Pembrol<e Thomson and Elizabeth (Mcllhanyl Thomson both of whom were resi- 
 dents of Virginia, as were their ancestors since prior to the Revolutionary War. The 
 first .Tames Thomson was the younger son of a Scotch family and came to America a 
 licensed Episcopal Church of England preacher, settling in Fauquier County. Virginia. The 
 first Mcllhany was a Captain in the Revolutionary War and received land grants in London 
 County, Virginia. Both .lohn Augustus Thomson and James .Mcllhany, grandfathers of 
 James Thomson, were graduates of William's and Mary's College and ot Princeton University. 
 
 (Continued on page 841 
 
 83
 
 LEVERING MOORE— Continued from page 73 
 
 of Commerce ; Chairman of the Rural Credit Commission of 
 Louisianii ; Senior Warden of St. George's Episcopal Chun-h. 
 and Trustee of the Children's Home of the Protestant Epis- 
 copal Church. 
 
 He is a member of the following clubs, lodges and 
 societies : Tulane Alumni Assotriation ; Tulane Soc;lety of 
 Economics: Chunh Cluh of Louisluna ; Uotary. Pickwick. 
 Audubon Golf. New Orleans Country and Chicago Athletic 
 Clubs; Camj) lieaurcgard Sons of Confederate Veterans; Lou- 
 isiana Lodge F. & A. M. ; Oriental Consistory (Chicago) A, 
 A. S. R. : Jerusalem Temple. A. A. O. N. M. S. 
 
 He was married June 21. 1S9S to Miss Margaret Edger- 
 ton, at Galesburg, Illinois. 
 
 CRAWFORD H. ELLIS — Continued from page 75 
 
 Country Clubs, and member alsu of several carnival organ- 
 izations. Mr. Ellis was married April 24, 1895 to Miss Inez 
 Mollett Satfold, and from this marriage there is one child. 
 Miss Inez Lucile Ellis, who was Queen of the Carnival in 
 1916. Mr. Ellis was King of the Carnival in 1914. 
 
 C- V. UNSWORTH. M. D.— Continued from page 75 
 
 l.sil.i. and from this marriage there are four children. Rudolph. 
 Sarah, .lohn and Warren. Is a member of the Louisiana State 
 Medical Society and of the Southern Medi-al Society, and is 
 held in high esteem by the medical profession of the State of 
 Louisiana. 
 
 WILLIAM A. POR TEOUS — Continued from page 75 
 
 He married Miss Henrietta Koy. of Patterson, La., a daughter 
 of a prominent lumber man and from this marriage there 
 are three children. William A.. Jr.. Douglas Koy and Mildred 
 Hettie Koy. Well known throughout the South and West. 
 he is held in high esteem in the business world of New 
 Orleans and is one of the best boosters of the Crescent City. 
 
 EDGAR M. CAHN— Continued from page 75 
 
 Infirmary, also Jewish Widow's and Orphans Home, and of 
 Temple Sinai : a Master Mason, belonging to Jefferson Lodge 
 A. P. & M.. and member of Jerusalem Temple, and the Order 
 of B'Rith Abraham, as well as a member of the Grand Lodge 
 thereof. 
 
 B, A. LEDBETTER. M. D. — Continued from page 76 
 
 Medical Association. Appointed member State Board of Health 
 by Governor Sanders, subsequently re-appointed under Gov- 
 ernor Hall, and still serving as a member of that body. 
 
 Dr. Ledbetter was married to Miss Amie Seawell of New 
 Orleans. La., on October 29, 1S97. and from this union tliere 
 are five children. Karl, Gretchen, Ben and Walter (twins) 
 and Vi'tor Ledbetter. 
 
 J. A. ESTOPINAL, M. D.— Continued from page 79 
 
 health authorities fearing the introduction of yellow fever at 
 that time ottered the position of Inspector in Cuba to Dr. 
 Estopinal, whose familiarity with matters of health and sani- 
 tation, plus his knowledge of the Spanish language, made him 
 the proper man to discharge the duties of such a place. Ac- 
 cepting the position the Doctor served as Louisiana's Inspector 
 in Cuba during six months at the end of which time he re- 
 turned home and became one of the lecturers in school hygiene 
 and sanitation throughout the State. 
 
 Since 1911. when he resigned his position with the State 
 Board of Health. Dr. Estopinal has devoted all his time to 
 special practice, in which he has been very successful, and 
 has been one of the pioneers in practical teaching and in- 
 spection in the schools. As special Medical Inspector he 
 looks after the school children of his native parish. 
 
 JAMES M. THOMSON— Continued from page 83 
 
 and later became members of the Virginia Legislature. Dr. 
 Augustus Pembroke Thomson, father of the present James 
 Thomson, was a student at the Virginia Military Institute, 
 and was in the battle of New Market, He afterwards took 
 a course in medicine at the I'niversity of Virginia, George- 
 town College and University of Maryland. An uncle, James 
 W. Thomson, commanded a battery of artillery In the Con- 
 federate Army under General Stonewall Jackson, and was 
 killed at High Bridge. Virginia. 
 
 James Mcllhany Thomson graduated at The Shenandoah 
 I'niversity School, and entered the Johns Hopkins University 
 in 1894, graduating therefrom in 1 S97 with degree of A. B. 
 He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at the 
 Johns Hopkins. Associated with Edgeworth Smith of Bal- 
 timore, he founded and edited the first successful college 
 paper at the Johns Hopkins University, "The News Letter." 
 After graduating he entered the law ofHce of General .lohn 
 E. Roller at Harrisonburg. Virginia. In 190s went to Wash- 
 ington on the staff of the Washington Post, later formed the 
 Interview Syndicate and did spet ial work for the Washington 
 Bureau of the New York Herald and New York American and 
 .Journal. !n 1 9u(i Mr. Thomson went to Norfolk. Virginia, and 
 purchased the Norfolk Dispatch, which he develoi)ed during 
 the next six years to a leading circula<iun among Norfolk 
 j)apers. In 1900, as editor of the Dispatch, it was he who 
 lirst suggested that the 300th Anniversary of the settlement 
 of Jamestown, Virginia, should be celebrated by an Exposi- 
 tion at Norfolk, Virginia. He was subsequently actively in- 
 terested in the movement to hold this exposition, and was made 
 a director of the Jamestown Exposition Company. In 1906 
 he sold the Norfolk Dispatch and purchased the New Orleans 
 Item, of which he is now President and Treasurer and prin- 
 cipal owner. In 1910 he founded the New Orleans Weekly 
 Item. The New Orleans Item is the leading newspaper in 
 circulation and business in Louisiana, Mr. Thomp.son was a 
 supporter of the Good Government movement in Norfolk. Vir- 
 ginia, that overthrew the Norfolk City ring and put in power 
 the good government administration. Likewise in New 
 Orleans and Louisiana he was instrumental in the launching 
 of the Good Government movement in the Democrat i':; parly 
 that overthrew the State ring in 1912 electing a reform 
 Governor and Legislature and two United States Senators. 
 Mr. Thomson is a membei of the ProteUant Episcopal Church 
 and a member of several clubs and carnival r rganizations 
 and societies. In politics he is a Democrat, and ho has been 
 identified with the progressive political movements from the 
 time of his first interest in public affairs. He has never 
 been a candidate for public office. On June 30th. 1915 Mr. 
 James Thomson was married at Bowling Green, Mo., to Miss 
 Genevieve Clark, only daughter of the Hon. Champ Clark, 
 speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, 
 
 CHARLES ALLEN FAVROT, of the firm of Favrot & 
 Livaudais. Architects, son of Henry M. and Celestini { Du- 
 broca) Favrot. born at West Baton Rouge, La., May 22. 
 1866, After receiving the usual common ?>cnool or grammar 
 education, took a course in engineering at the Louisiana State 
 University, graduating in 1SS4. In 1SS5 entered the office of 
 Jas, Trent, and in 1887 took a post-graduate course in archi- 
 tecture at Cornell University, New York. Member of American 
 Institute of Architects and senoir member of firm of Favrot 
 & Livaudais, Architects. Was married to Miss Beatrice 
 Freret of New Orleans on January 8. 1891. of this union 
 there are five children, two girls and three boys. 
 
 JAMES E. GLISSON, Real Estate Promoter, was a 
 law student at the breaking out of the Spanish-American war 
 and abandoned his studies to volunteer and join "Hood's 
 Immunes," in Company "A" Second U. S. Volunteers, saw 
 service in Cuba with that Regiment. Elected Mayor Abita 
 Springs, serving two terms; is a member of St. Tammany 
 Lodge No. 1506 and also member of Loyal Order of Moose. 
 Married November 30, 1902, Miss Caladonia Rials Maddox. 
 and from this union there are five children. Ouida. James, 
 Lucille, Edith and Margarite. 
 
 A LARGE INDUSTRY IN NEW ORLEANS 
 
 It will probably be a svirprise to many who read this to learn that there is more capital invested in 
 the manufacture of beer in New Orleans than in any other industrj', and the pay roll is a large factor in the 
 general prosperity. It not only takes much capital, but a great deal of skilled labor is required and vast 
 sums go to the farmers. The product of the breweries in New Orleans is not only sold locally, but 
 throughout the South and exported to foreign countries. In return, this money is sent to New Orleans and 
 distributed, through the employees of the breweries, to the people of this city and section. As stated there 
 is probably no one other industry that contributes so largely to the upbuilding of New Orleans as her big, 
 modern and successful breweries. 
 
 .\t large outlay of money, the local breweries have brought the standard of their beer up to a point 
 where it is the equal of any beer made in the country, and the many thousands of tourists who visit New 
 Orleans, "The Winter Capital of America," are loud in their praise of the national beverage that is set before 
 them by the caterers in this city. 
 
 84
 
 MARSHALL BALLARD, Managing Editor. New Orleaus Item. Born in Baltimore. Md., 
 ill ISTi). of Easfrrii Slinrc parfutage. Son of Ruth V. Marshall and Samuel H. Ballard.. 
 
 Trained in the public sebools of Baltimore and in schools conducted by the Christian 
 Brothers. Studied pharmaceutical chemistry under William Simon, in the Maryland College 
 of Pharmacy. 
 
 Entered the .Johns Hopkins University in 1895 ; received the Baccalaureat degree in 1S9S. 
 after courses in which chemistry and biology were the principal subjects ; spent two years 
 further in special graduate studies in chemistry and geology. 
 
 First newspaper work was done as university correspondent for a Baltimore newspaper ; 
 afterwards served in several regular capacities as reporter and editor for The Baltimore 
 American and The Baltimore News, acting as correspondent at various times for The Xew 
 York Journal and The New York Evening Post, and other newspapers. 
 
 Retiied from newspaper work to follow further scientific studies in the Johns Hopkins 
 lUliverslty : later became associated with Mr. James M. Thomson as editor of The Norfolk 
 Dispatch, in Norfolk, Va. Came to New Orleans in same relation with Mr. Thomson at the 
 end of the year 1906. 
 
 Married in 1910. Edith Loeber, M. D., daughter of the late Friederich Loeber, M. D., a 
 distinguished physician and surgeon of New Orleans. The couple have tour children, two 
 sons and two daughters. 
 
 85
 
 '. -k 
 
 ARTHUR G. NEWMYER 
 
 BUSINESS MANAGER 
 THE NEW ORLEANS ITEM 
 
 86
 
 PAUL JONES THOMSON, Vi.e President and Assistant Bu mess .Manager oi The 
 New Orleans Item, in < liarge of its circulation, has been associated with The Item for the 
 past eight years. 
 
 Mr. Thomson was born at Summit Point, Jefferson County, West Virginia. May 20. 1SS4. 
 He is the youngest son of Dr. and Mrs. Augustus Pembroke Thomson. His early career was 
 that of the usual boy on a farm. 
 
 He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington. Virginia, as a Civil 
 Engineer. Assisted in the location and construction of the Virginia Railway through Virginia. 
 He built highway bridges across the Shenandoah River. Clarke County, Virginia. However, 
 before that he had been associated with his brother in Norfolk, Virginia, on the Norfolk 
 Dispatch. 
 
 Mr. Thomson has been one of the active elements in the marvelous growth of The New- 
 Orleans Item. 
 
 In a fraternal way he has been permitted to attain the 32nd degree in Masonry, having 
 advanced that far since he came to New Orleans. He is a member of Jerusalem Temple Shrine.
 
 A BRII:F HISTORY 01^' Till-: NEW OKLHANS ITF.M. 
 
 The New Orleans Item was founded June 11, 1877, and is accordingly in its thirty-ninth year. 
 
 It is the oldest afternoon newspaper in Louisiana and one of the oldest afternoon newspapers in tlie 
 country. It is a successor to other afternoon news|)apers that wen- printed in New ()rleans jirior to tlie 
 Civil War, as well as following the Civil War. 
 
 The venture succeeded fairly well from the start, and shortly after its inception was taken over by 
 J.ilm W. Fairfax, a leading broker and financier of New Orleans. Col. Fairfax operated the paper for some 
 lime and ret. -lined as edit'ir Mark Bigney. one of the famous newspaper men of Louisiana and the South. 
 
 l'"riini its forniatiiin the Item took kindly to reform. Col. ■•"airfax, a man of vigorous intellect, gath- 
 ered to The Item all of the talent that its income would warrant, lie bonght the paper with the idea of 
 turning it over to his son. In this, however, he was disappointed as his son was bent on a financial 
 career and went to New York where he became one of the successful business men of the metropolis. 
 
 It was during this period of Col. Fairfax's ownership that Lafcadio Hearn came to New Orleans and 
 became connected with the Item. Hearn contributed a number of editorials to the paper. His discussions 
 of local politics, local issues, local problems and of local needs written over thirty years ago is very much 
 along the line of the Item's discussions of the present day needs of its community. 
 
 Col. Fairfax sold the Item after some vicissitudes. It was purchased by Dominick C. O'.Malley. then 
 head of a detective agency in New Orleans, and active in local ))olitics. O'Malley purchased tlie Item in 
 IS!):') and owned it continuously for seven years. Under <)'Malley's ownership the Item exposed what was 
 known as the "Boodle Council" of New Orleans. It was idcntilied with one or two successful reform move- 
 ments in the city. Mr. O'Malley supported H. M. Pharr in his hght for the governorship — this was 20 
 years ago. Mr. Pharr was elected governor of Louisiana by a majority of the people of the state, having its 
 principal supixirt among the white voters of Louisiana. It is commonly lield that lie was counted out. 
 
 Even at this time the Item had the leading city circulation among the newspapers of New Orleans. 
 It has held this position practically without change during all the years that followed. 
 
 O'Malley sold the Item in 11)02, to Harry Thalheimer, of Philadelphia, and Charles M. Palmer, of 
 New York. Thalheimer operated the Item for about a year and determined to sell out and move to Ohio. 
 Since that time he has become publisher of The Toledo Blade and owner and publisher of other newspapers. 
 
 Charles M. Palmer took over Thalheinier's interest in the Item and O'Malley retained a minority 
 interest in the property. R. M. Denholme was made business manager and publisher and conducted the 
 property until lilOO, when Charles M. Palmer interested James M. Thomson and Marshall Ballard, of Nor- 
 folk, Vs... in the New Orleans field. They, along with Mr. Frederick I. Thompson, of New York, purchased 
 Mr. Palmer's interest in the Item and subsequently bought Mr. O'Malley's minority interest. 
 
 At that time the Item had the largest circulation of any newspaper in New Orleans and a city circu- 
 lation somewdiat in excess of that of The Times and Pica3une combined. The paper commanded a substan- 
 tial advertising patronage and was a leader in the afternoon field. 
 
 James M. Thomson subsequently purchased the stock of Frederick I. Thompson and became principal 
 owner of the New Orleans Item. The present directorate of the Item consists of James M. Thomson, who 
 acts as President and Treasurer and Publisher of the paper; Paul J. Thomson, Vice-President and Director 
 of Circulation; Marshall Ballard, Secretary and F.ditor of the Item; and .Arthur G. Newmyer, Director and 
 Business Manager. 
 
 Mr. Thomson was born in Summit Point, Jefferson County. W. Va., in 1S7S; he is a graduate of the 
 Johns Hopkins University, and from I'.HlO to IflOli was principal owner and publisher of the Norfolk Dispatch. 
 Mr. Ballard, also a graduate of Johns Hopkins, was editor of that paper. The Norfolk Dispatch at the time 
 they sold that property was the leading afternoon newspaper of Eastern Virginia and to-day as a component 
 part of The Ledger-Dispatch is the leading afternoon newspaper of F'astern Virginia and one of the most 
 successful newspapers in the country. 
 
 The modern, progressive editorial lines wdiich these gentlemen had followed in building The Norfolk- 
 Dispatch were followed in the building of the New Orleans Item. That paper to-day has a press run in excess 
 of 60,000 copies daily and in excess of 7.5,000 copies Sunday. It is the leading afternoon newspaper of the 
 South and from many standpoints makes claim to being the leading newspaper of New Orleans and of the 
 South. 
 
 Some three years after Messrs. Thomson and Ballard took charge of the Item. j\Ir. Paul Thomson be- 
 came connected with it. Some five years ago Mr. Arthur G. Newmyer became business manager of the 
 property. Mr. Newmyer has had extensive experience in the newspaper publication business, particularly 
 in the advertising world. For many years he was connected with the publication of Mr. Frank A. Munsey, 
 having been advertising and business manager of the Washington Times and general advertising representa- 
 tive of Mr. Munsey's chain of five newspapers. 
 
 In something over nine years of ownership and management The Item has held consistently to an 
 independent course on local, state and national affairs and on all issues the paper has attempted to voice 
 the convictions of its owners and editors. 
 
 Following the purchase of The Item by its present owners, the Morning World was started in the 
 New Orleans newspaper field. This venture lasted about six months and when it failed The Item bought 
 its presses and mechanical plant at that time the best in the City. The plant was moved from 336 Camp 
 Street to Nos. 210-212 Camp Street. The growth of the paper has necessitated the leasing of two buildings, 
 connecting on Common Street. 
 
 The Item has grown at an average rate of from 12 to 1,5 per cent a year in advertising and in circula- 
 tion during the years it has been under its present ownership. .\n important feature of its business policy is 
 that some years ago it excluded all fake advertising, including fake medical advertising, quack advertising 
 and advertising that is dishonest. 
 
 From the first the paper stood for open circulation books. It was one of the leading advocates of the 
 law which was finally passed compelling newspapers to submit sworn circulation statements to the postoffice 
 department. 
 
 Editorially and in a business way. The Item introduced modern newspaper publication methods in New 
 
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 Orleans. Il li.is ln'i-ti .1 Icidi-r in alnmst (.-very iiimn alii m :m(l ini|iriivciiifnt in juurnalisni in llu- Xcw fJrleans 
 field, 
 
 'The p.iper has stuoil nnilHi inly lor '^nnd gi>\ ernnu-nt, fur clean |)Mlitics, for tlio riglil of the people to rnle 
 in their own affairs. The Item is one of the best known newspapers in .America, not only because of the 
 lenKth of lime it has been in existence and the lead which il has maintained in its Held, but because of sub- 
 stantial achievements alonp: editorial lines and in constructive journalism. Space docs not permit a review of 
 these here. The Item has not been edited fro ma business-office stand|)oint. Wherever in its udKment the 
 interest i>f the whole people ran counter to si)ecial interests The Item has cheerfullj' sacrificed immediate 
 Kain to the interest of its readers 
 
 The Item fought for and obtained universal free street car transfers for the people of New Orleans; 
 it fought for and hclijed obtain lower electric lights and gas rates; better street railway service: it has fought 
 for fair telephone, telegraph, express and freight rates for the people of New Orleans. It has fought for 
 ecjuitable tax assessments for the people of New Orleans and Louisiana; it has fought for a fair treatment 
 of the Mississipi River al ilu- liands of Congress. .-\ noteworthy achievement of 'J"he Item was its fight to 
 abolisli wholesale race track gambling in New Orleans, this resulted in closing down the New Orleans race 
 tracks and keeping them closed for a period of five years. 
 
 The owners and editors of the Item are Democrats — locally and nationally — they have used tlie influ- 
 ence of the |)aper to make tlie Oemocratic party a proper vehicle for obtaining popular rights. The Item 
 has been identilicd with lights for the income tax, for the establishment of a regional banking system; for a 
 tariff commission; and for a proper recognition of the South and Southern interests at the haiuls of the fed- 
 eral government. Several years ago the Item organized the newspapers of the South to run an all Southern 
 avUonioljile route from the Atlantic to the Pacilic Coast. 
 
 The paper has long been a leader in the publication of matters of interest to women. Under its pres- 
 ent management the Item has been a consistent advocate o fwoman suffrage. 
 
 The New Orleans Item is published in different editions for different clienteles — city and country. Some 
 years ago the Item changed from a seven to an eight colimin pewspaper. The afternoon editions for the city 
 and imiuediate suburbs began publication at two o'clock in the day. The later editions for the country keep the 
 Item presses busy until late in the evening. 
 
 h'rom a newspaper standpont New Orleans has a iioimlaton uf four hundred thousand people. The Item 
 aims to civer this population more completely daily and Sunday than any other newspaper. The out of New 
 Orleans section of Louisiana embraces 1,600,000 people. The Item serves this population with a lar.ger daily 
 circulation than any other New Orleans newspaper. The morning editions of the Item are on the breakfast 
 tables in Lake Charles and Shrevcport every daly. 
 
 The Item is published to give the readers the maximum of reader time. The daily editions of the 
 Item are printed in from ten to twenty page size, the pages eight columns each. The Item has the full 
 daily afternoon report of the Associated Press. It has the exclusive use in the Louisiana territory of the 
 National and Inter-national news service features, better known as the Hearst Service. It has special corre- 
 spondents in all important centers of the country, covering the news of Louisiana and Mississi[)pi — the Item 
 territory, with special thoroughness. 
 
 Typographically and mechanically, the Item is modern throughont. It prides it>elf upon a loyal, capa- 
 ble and ex|)ert personelle in all departments of the business and lias followed the general policy of ptltting 
 on guard the most competent man in his field for his position. 
 
 The Item's -Advertisement Department is an edidence of this. I'ew iu-\\ >iia|iers in .Anirica have reputa- 
 tions on a par with the Itme for the possession of advertising knowledge, skill and mastery of commercial 
 facts and business conditions in their own advertising lield. Back of the clever and attractive advertising 
 copy in the Item is the substance of actual act|uaintance with the advertisers goods and the advertisers 
 Iirobleni. 
 
 The Item's owners and managers have aimed to build a .great institution adequate to serve the needs 
 of between three and four millions of people who live within the natural trade radius of New Orleans and 
 depend upon that city for metropolitan news service. 
 
 The Item is, broadly speaking, a newspaper not only for New Orleans, but for Louisiana and Missis- 
 sip|)i. \'ear by year it has grown to be better recognized in that capacity, has become stronger and better 
 able to express in a journalistic way the ambitious, the problems and the desires of these people. 
 
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 CALCASIEU PARISH 
 
 (by WILLIAM K. KREns) 
 
 Calcasivii i'arisli. iIk- tliiff of a group of five parishes vvliicli make up tlie soiuliwestern ccjrner of 
 Louisiana, is probal)ly one of the widest known subdivisions of the State outside of famous old Orleans. 
 The reasons for this arc not hard to diseover. It is as cosmopolitan as a great metropolis. Its citizens, 
 from the very manner of its settlement, are gathered from every state in the uinon and from almost every 
 country on the face of the globe, making its name a familiar one in their former homes and among tlieir 
 kinsmen. Some of its chief products, notably long leaf pine, lumber, and sulphur, are shipi)ed to all parts 
 of the United States and to many foreign countries. Moreover, the efforts of its people to develop its re- 
 sources and the improvements they have made to secure outside aid in its development have extensively 
 advertised it. 
 
 A brief chapter of Calcasieu liistory will suffice to sliow why it is cosmopcditan, and why it has at- 
 tracted various groups and classes of iiioneers, whose descendants have inherited their energetic and adven- 
 turous blood. 
 
 When Louisiana passed from alternating French and Spanish domination into the sisterhood of states, 
 Calcasieu was a part of the ".Attakapas country," embracing proljably one-fourth of the present area of the 
 state. The first white settlers were French — some from France direct, others by way of the land of Evan- 
 geline — and the growing of cattle on its vast plains was their chief industry. 
 
 Not long after Louisiana became United States territory, a boundary dispute arose between Spain and 
 the United States, the latter claiming the Sabine River as the dividing line, and the former the Calcasieu 
 River, called by them the Rio Hondo. In order to tighten its claim upon the disputed territory the United 
 
 States made liberal offers of land to settlers, and this brought to Calcasieu stalwart sons of the old South 
 
 Tennesseans, Carolinians and Georgians — whose intrepid characters and long rilles did more to settle the 
 boundary question than any display of force could have done. 
 
 Time passed; Calcasieu became an entity. The civil war wrenched the country to its foundatiims, 
 and after it had ended came hundreds of veterans — both L'nion and Confederate — to dwell together in amity 
 in a new land. Ne.xt came the development of the timber industry, and with it the sturdy woodsmen from 
 the shores of the great lakes. Then vast areas of public land passed into private and corporate ownership, 
 and hundreds of farmers from central and western states began to establish homes here. So each decade 
 brought its quota of hardy and adventurous men, pioneering in their own particular industry. 
 
 The coming of all these groups of men, not only from widely separated states, but from far distant 
 countries, has developed as remarkable a collection of resources as were ever found within an area of a 
 thousand square miles. 
 
 The first great manufacturing industry to be developed in Calcasieu was that of lumber manufacture. 
 Over one-half of its area was covered with great forests of long-leaf yellow pine upon which the ax of the 
 woodsman had made little impression initil the early eighties, when a group of Michigan lumbermen saw 
 their latent possibilities. Others from other states joined them, until the manufacture of pine lumber became, 
 and continues to be, the chief industry of the parish seat. Lake Charles. 
 
 So far as the present Calcasieu parish is concerned, little of the origin.il pine is left standing, but 
 its busy saw mills are reaching out by river and rail for timber supply from parishes to the north. ' The 
 saw mill of the Calcasieu Long Leaf Lumber Company, one of a group of seven in this and adjoining 
 parishes operating from the timber holdings of the Long-Bell Ltmiber Company, one of the largest mills in 
 the south, is permanently built and equipped, and has many years supply of timber ahead. The J. .\. Bel 
 Lumber Company, one of the few controlled by native Louisianans, operates two large mills, one in Lake 
 Charles and one thirty-five miles north, and has enough timber left to supply both for the next generation. 
 Especially well supplied with standing timber is the Krause-Managan Lumber Company, wdiose holdings are 
 sufficiently large to keep two mills busy for years. Other mills at Lake Charles have extensive holdings. 
 and the lumber industry will continue to be in the lead in the community for many years. 
 
 Wonderful mineral wealth has also been developed in Calcasieu parish, and recent successes indicate 
 that what has been done up to this time is merely a foretaste of greater wealth to come. Efforts to develop 
 oil more than a generation ago led to the discovery of an immense bed of sulphur beneath a quicksand deposit 
 in western Calcasieu, .\fter several companies had tried and failed, the difficulties of mining were overcome 
 by the genius of Herman Frasch, an eminent chemist, who organized the Union Sulphur Company. This 
 company supplies the L'nited States with sulphur, and could dominate the world market if desired, being able 
 to produce chemically pure sulphur at- a cheaper mining cost than can be done anywhere else in the world. 
 
 Geologists have ascertained that this is a "freak" deposit of sulphur, the like of which probably does 
 not exist elsewhere in Calcasieu, or in any other parish or state; but petroleum territory of the parish is not 
 so limited. Paying oil fields have been developed at Vinton and Fidgerly, which had a' combined output in 
 March, 11)16, of lii.OOO barrels daily, and the indications of oil deposits are plentiful at many points in Cal- 
 casieu. 
 
 Calcasieu has also been instrumental in developing the greatest agricultural product of the gulf 
 coast. Outside of a meager supply produced in the Carolinas all of the rice used in the United States was 
 imported until thirty years ago, when a Calcasieu farmer hit upon the happy idea that rice could be grown 
 upon high prairie land, on which water for irrigating purposes could be pumped; the rice to be harvested the 
 saiue as oats or wheat after the water had been drawn off. 
 
 The result of this has been that rice has become a standard crop in the United States and is fast be- 
 coming, as it deserves to become, one of the standard foods of the people. The rice crop of the United 
 States iias increased a hundredfold since then. Louisiana produces half of it; and Calcasieu territory pro- 
 duces half of the half. The milling plant of the Lake Charles Rice Milling Company, located at Lake 
 Charles, is one of the largest in the world and during the season of 1H1.)-Iiil6 handled more than two 
 million dollars worth of rice. The building of this and of numerous smaller plants for the milling of rice, 
 and the development of such lines of business as the Lake Charles Carriage and Implement Company to 
 solve the implement problems of the rice farmers, ha\'e been strong factors for the upbuilding of the indus- 
 try in Louisiana. 
 
 While these are the chief, they are by no means the only industries of Calcasieu parish. Xor are 
 its resources fully developed nor its possibilities exhausted. 
 
 The production of naval stores, the utilization of saw mill waste, and the manufacture of lumber 
 
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 beyond the rough state in which it leaves the mills, all offer possibilities to enterprising men and as far as 
 the two latter are concerned, are practically nntonched. There are thousands of acres of hardwood timber 
 in Calcasieu and adjacent parishes with which nothing has been done. The manufacture of pine timber 
 has oomplelcly absorbed the attention of the saw mill owners. 
 
 Tlic immense output of sulphur and petroleum in the parish offers unequaled opportunities for the man- 
 ufacture of chemicals and other products. The mineral resources of the parish themselves arc but slightly 
 known or developed. With the Gulf of Mexico but a few miles south, with splendid bottoms for the propo- 
 gation of oysters, there is not enough sea food obtained from this inexhaustible source to supply the home 
 market. 
 
 Some of the natural advantages Calcasieu offers to the farmer may be mentioned here: 
 
 .\n incomparable climate, in which the extremes range from maximum of ninety to one hundred de- 
 grees in summer to a minimum of a very few degrees below freezing in winter; a climate in which stock 
 needs no shelter, and the farmer can work out of doors, if he wishes, every day in the year. 
 
 .•\det|uate rainfall every month in the year; land well drained or susceptible of drainage; no floods 
 and no destructive storms. 
 
 .\ variety of crops unexcelled anywhere in the world, eml>racing rice, corn, cotton, oats, sugar cane, 
 all kinds of vege.tables, strawberries, small fruits, figs, peaches, grapes and all citrus fruits. 
 
 Low priced land, on which crops may be grown continuously throughout the year; pro.ximity to the 
 great markets of the country, and railroad trunk lines in every direction, with fast freight service. 
 
 Calcasieu's improvements, wrought by the community, are no less remarkable than her natural advan- 
 tages of soil and climate. As stated before, her transportation lines are plentiful, embracing the coast-to- 
 coast line of the Southern Pacific, the New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railroad, both the former from east 
 to west; and the Kansas City Southern north to Kansas City and the St. Louis, Iron .Mountain and .Southern 
 to St. Louis and Chicago. Lake Charles is the southern terminal of the last two named. The parish has 
 hundreds of miles of navigable streams, and is traversed by the great Intercoasta! canal from the Missis- 
 sippi to the Rio Grande, which when fully completed will give access to New Orleans and the Texas ports 
 by water, and will intersect all navigable streams in Southern Louisiana. Only one link, that between the 
 Calcasieu and Mermentau Rivers, is lacking to complete this waterwaj' from the Mississippi to the Texas 
 line, and the letting of the contract for this work is now in progress. 
 
 Calcasieu parish also has the best road system in Louisiana and one of the best to be found any- 
 where, having just completed the expenditure of over a million and a quarter dollars in the construction of 
 one hundred and seventy-live miles of permanent hi.ghvvays, extending into every section of the parish, and 
 a bridge across the Calcasieu river at Lake Charles. Included in the highway system is a brick paved auto- 
 moliile highway across the parish from east to west. The maintenance and extension of this road system 
 is in the hands of a highway department headed by a capable engineer. 
 
 Much pride is also felt by the people of Calcasieu Parish in their school system, upon wliicli they 
 spend, both in the city and in the country, more money than in all <jther departments of government com- 
 bined. The country systein includes a half dozen well-equipped high schools, and an agricultural high school 
 at Sulplmr with the most perfect plant and equipment of any similar school in the south. Wagonettes carry 
 the pupils from a distance to these schools and their course of study is modern and thorough. 
 
 The surface of Calcasieu is mainly high prairie, several feet above the surface of the streams. Land 
 adjacent to these streams is, of course, well drained; land further back is easily drained by means of drainage 
 canals and laterals constructed at small cost. A number of drainage districts have been formed and are in 
 operation in Calcasieu in order to give part of these lands perfect drainage. 
 
 The health of the parish is safeguarded by a health department headed by an expert health (jfficer. 
 who takes command of the situation wherever a dangerous case of illness occurs and gets it under control; 
 and who also inspects the schools at stated intervals, sees that all sanitary precautions are observed, and 
 keeps guard over the health of pupils and teachers. Wherever the population justifies it, rural- mail service 
 and rural telephone systems are in operation, and these facilities are extended to keep pace with the in- 
 crease in rural population. 
 
 In all matters tendin.g to increase the comfort, convenience and profit of country life. Lake Charles, the 
 chief city of the parish, takes the lead. Lake Charles is a modern progressive city of 18,000, the railroad 
 center of the parish, and connected with all parts of the parish by means of permanent, well-constructed 
 highways which may be traversed every day in the year. 
 
 Lake Charles has ten miles of paved streets, a sanitary sewerage system, lour white schools built two 
 years ago at a cost of $1()0,000 and a $12.5,000 high school now building, to be completed in the early fall of 
 1U16. It has a fine electric plant which lights the city and furnishes power for a modern street railway, an 
 adequate water supply derived from artesian wells, handsome public and business buildings, and practically 
 a hundred miles of concrete sidewalks. 
 
 For a mile alou.g tlie lake bank in the heart of Lake Charles a park and drivewaj- is to be constructed 
 at a cost of $80,000, much of which is being contributed privately. A municipal waterw.orks system to take 
 the place of one now privately owned is planned when the waterworks franchise expires in the latter part 
 of 11)16. Lake Charles is governed by a city commission of three, headed by iMaj'or George L. Riling. The 
 mayor and his colleagues are business men with no political bias or instincts, and they are giving the city 
 an efficient and economical government. 
 
 Perhaps the feature about Lake Charles that most appeals to the population of Calcasieu is its readi- 
 ness to aid in farming development. Its business men mantain the Southerwestern Produce association, a 
 co-operative marketing bureau, wdiich finds a market for whatever the farmer produces. A government 
 demonstration agent helps him solve his growing problems. .-V canning factory, built by Lake Charles busi- 
 ness men. is at hand to can his surplus products. The city furnishes fine banking facilities. The Calcasieu 
 National Bank, with practically a million dollars capital, maintains branch banks throughout the Calcasieu 
 territory and with its subsidiary, the Southwest Louisiana Farm Mortgage Company, is always ready to 
 extend intelligent help to honest men who are developing Calcasieu's resources. Even in the matter of 
 land titles the new resident is safeguarded by tlie Mayo Title Company, whose records are so complete 
 that when two-thirds of the parish records were destroyed in a fire some years ago the company was 
 ready to reproduce them if needed. 
 
 But it would take the whole Itein Book to tell about Calcasieu and Lake Charles, and even then the 
 visitor would be likely to find out that like unto Solomon and his glory: "the half had not been told." 
 
 92
 
 W. H SULLIVAN, Mayor of Bogalusa 
 
 AND MANAGING HEAD OF THE GREAT SOUTHERN LUMBER CO. 
 
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 IKJALUSA, universally called tlu- Magic City of the South, has justly earned the title, being one 
 
 ■ if the most progressive cities of the co\nitry. hVom a dense pine forest, unknown and unheard of, 
 to a fast growing city of some l\vil\e lliousa)iiI inhabitants is a record to be proud of, especially 
 ulun that record has been made in the l)riLf >]iacc of ten years. Those men of thought and 
 
 ■ iili'Mi \\\]<i lia\e niaile the liogalusa of to-day have just cause to be proud of their efforts in the 
 creation and building of this, one nf the best cities in the State of Louisiana. Besides having 
 
 ihe shops of the .\c\v ( )rleans (jrcat .\orthcni k.iilroad Company employing a large number of men, a 
 million-dollar i>aper mill, several banks, a creosoting plant, and many smaller industries. Bogalusa has the 
 largest lumber mill in the world, producing a million feet of yellow pine lumber jjer day. This picturesque 
 city is situated in the famous Ozone Belt of Louisiana, seventy-two miles north of the city of New Orleans. 
 On account of its ideal location, many flowing artesian wells and splendid sewerage system, this municipality 
 is one of the most healthful in the country. 
 
 The amount of business done in Bogalusa is most substantial, as reflected in the receipts of the 
 post office and other sources of record, these comparing most favorably with the larger cities throughout 
 the State. Much of the progress and prosiierity of this thriving city is due to the efforts and co-operation 
 of the executive staff of the Great Southern Lumlier Company, which company is responsible for the creation 
 and making of the Bogalusa of to-day. This company, in selecting the site of what is now Bogalusa, 
 ni:ide no mistake in their choice, as is shown by the wonderful strides of progress already made. 
 
 Large tracts of lands from which the forest has been removed are being marketed by the Great 
 Southern Limiber Company on most liberal and attractive terms to homeseekers. In Marion County, Mis- 
 sissippi, on the line of the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad, near Columbia, they have some very 
 attractive i^roperties especially adapted to farming and stock raising. As this land is located sixty miles 
 from the Mississippi River, it is not subject to overflow. The broad and liberal spirit of this company 
 in the marketing of their farmin.g lands to prospective settlers is reflected in the fact that a certain amount 
 of liunber for building purposes is advanced on credit, at a very low rate of interest, based on the cash 
 payment made by the purchaser. Throughout this entire region truck gardening and dairying are coming 
 more and more to the front as among the chief industries. 
 
 In the city of Bogalusa much time, labor and money have been spent in water works and sewerage 
 equipment, all of which has made the city thoroughly sanitary and one of the most healthful in the entire 
 country. The Great Southern Lumber Company has given particular attention to the homes of its em- 
 ployees, and every white family enjoys electric lights, running water and bath rooms. 
 
 To supply the big mill at Bogalusa with logs for its enormous output, eighteen locomotives are kept 
 in constant service. More than three thousand men are employed in the woods and at the mill, manu- 
 facturing and shipping "Bogalusa Brand" lumber to Northern and Eastern markets, as well as to foreign ports. 
 
 Bogalusa boasts especially of the Long Leaf Yellow Pine timber manufactured by the Great Southern 
 I^umber Company, as this timber has no peer in the world's market for density, strength and durability. These 
 timbers are especially adapted, therefore, for use in bridge and trestle work; heavy construction of all 
 kinds, and wherever strength, durability and resistance to weather is essential. The Great Southern Lum- 
 ber Company specializes particularly in the manufacture of timbers in accordance with specifications adopted 
 by the Inspection Department of tlie .'\ssociated Factory Mutual Insurance Companies: the Southern Pine 
 Association, and the .American Railway Engineering .Association. Each and every piece of timber manufac- 
 tured in accordance with any of the above grades is branded "Bogalusa," which is a guarantee of the excel- 
 lency of the stock: a safe.guard to the customer, and an identification of the source from wlience it came. Not 
 only does the Great Southern Lumber Company specialize in the manufacture of "Bogalusa Brand" timbers, 
 but is also in position, because of its facilities and large capacity, to supply promptly mixed cars of Yellow 
 Pine yard stocks, flooring, mouldings, box shooks, lath, and all kinds of Yellow Pine for manufacturing pur- 
 poses cut to size. ;M1 of this stock is likewise branded "Bogalusa," which assures quality and service. 
 
 lion. W. 11. Sullivan, the managing head of the Great Southern Lumber Company, is held in high es- 
 teem by not only every employee of the company, but also by every inhabitant of hustling, bustling Boga- 
 lusa, and as a reward for his untiring energy in building up and making the city what ir is to-day. the people 
 coniprising Bogalusa have made him their Mayor. 
 
 Among the many agencies helping to bcmst I'.o- 
 galusa, none stand higher than the Washington Bank 
 & Trust Company. This Bank with a total of re- 
 sources of more than a quarter of a million dollars. 
 is recognized in the banking world as one of the 
 solid institutions of the State. The Company pay 
 especial attention to its Trust business and are en- 
 abled to act in any fiduciary capacity and are pre- 
 pared to handle anything in this line. 
 
 The First State Bank is another of the solid 
 banking concerns of Hogalusa. The oldest bank 
 in Washington Parish, the First State Bank prides 
 itself in the service rendered to its patrons in Bo- 
 galusa and other parts of the State. Lender a very 
 wise management, this banking institution has won 
 a reputation second to none, and has contributed 
 much towards the upbuilding and prosperity of 
 Bo.galusa. The Bank invites correspondence at all 
 times and make a specialty of out-of-town deposits. 
 
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 Strug Brothers arc jinigressive tailors and fiiniish 
 aiiytliiiiH '" ''^' il>'-.irr(l in iliilliin^ and s<L'nt's fur- 
 nishinK gouds. .siiM(.-> and Slctsmi hats. Operated 
 hy M. Strug and J. Strug, these gentlemen have 
 hnilt up a substantial business in their i)artieular 
 line and make a specially in tailnriiio; at CDUimun- 
 sense prices that will apiieal t<i every pocke tbook. 
 They carry a big assortment of Stetson hats and 
 ladies lingerie and are prepared to serve the trade 
 with everything in tlien- line If they haven't in 
 stock just what you want, make your wishes known 
 and they will get it. 
 
 Harry Marchiz, the ijopular tailor, whom every- 
 body knows and who makes the clothes for the 
 leading men of Bogalusa. is kept busy in filling his 
 numerous orders in and out of the city. He makes 
 the very best suit to be had at a common-sense 
 price, iilteen, eighteen and twenty dollars, and al- 
 ways guarantees satisfaction. Harry is very popu- 
 lar in licjgalusa and is well liked by a large number 
 (if patrons in the city of Bogalusa. 
 
 Tlie Ozone Ice Company lia^ .i niMilcrn and 
 up-to-date plant for the manufacture c d' ice and 
 furnish to Hogahisa as good a service as that ob- 
 tained in the larger c'lies, making a specialty of 
 prnnipt deliveries and in running on full time, are 
 enabled to furnsh to a large number of custmiiers 
 of the city their daily recpiirenients. besides the 
 out-of-town shipments that they are called upon to 
 fill. Especial attention is given to all out-of-town 
 orders and if you send in an order t" the Ozone 
 Ice Company, you may be sure it will receive prompt 
 attention. 
 
 The Bogalusa Steam Laundry is one of the lead- 
 ing institutions of the city, and send you back 
 "everything but the dirt." making a specialty of 
 cleaning and pressing, and because of their up-to- 
 date e<|uipment. are enabled to wash and clean the 
 most delicate fabrics witlmut injury, and do a large 
 b\isiness nut luily in Hogahisa. but tu out-ot-town 
 customers. Tlie laundry is operated by I'aul and 
 I^ouis Levert and these gentlemen may be relied 
 on to render the best of service at all times. 
 
 Morris Hyman, in operating "The Leader," lills, 
 a long-felt want in this thriving little town. With 
 a due regard for a good <|uality at a low price. ;ind 
 believing in fair treatment to all. he has built up 
 a good business in dry goods, notions, slmes. men 
 and ladies' furnishings and ready-to-wear garments. 
 Mr. Uyman has made himself pcijular in Bogalusa in 
 catering to the wants of the pu'jlic and if your pur- 
 chases are not satisfactory, he will guarantee sat- 
 isfaction. 
 
 At the furniture house of Heiman Brothers, suc- 
 cessors to Heiman & Burglass, Inc., may be found 
 everything necessary in furnishing the home, from 
 the kitchen up. These gentlemen are located on the 
 Columbia Road, ne.xt to Berenson Bros., and carry- 
 ing also a special line in jewelry, do a large business 
 in furnishing most of the citizens of Bogalusa in 
 everything rei|uired in their line. They constitute 
 one of the reliable business concerns of Bogalusa. 
 
 The Million Article Store, operated by i\l. Marx, 
 is one of the popular stores of Bogalusa. for here 
 you can find anything and everything needed for 
 household purposes, and if the store don't contain 
 just what you want, they make it their business to 
 see that your wants are fullilled. Mr. Marx has 
 built u]) a good business in collecting U)) tlie smaller 
 article^ that we need dailv and dues a big business. 
 
 Mr. H. B. 'Yeager is one of the pr<uniiient men 
 of hustling Bogalusa. and has contributed much of 
 his time. lal)or ,ind brains in making the Bogalusa 
 of to-day. -Mr. \' eager is one of the popular men 
 of the city. He is the general superintendent of 
 the Great Southern Lumber Company. 
 
 Berenson Bros, keep and upcrate one of the 
 best groceries m the city and are prepared to fur- 
 nish staple and fancy groceries at rock-bottom 
 prices at all times. Carrying a large stock of 
 general merchandise and catering to the best of 
 the trade, these gentlemen may be counted on for 
 the very best in their line, furnishing, as they do, 
 a prompt delivery service, and if the order delivered 
 at y.air door is not right, they nia\- be relied on 
 to make it right. 
 
 Mr. T. A. Magee is the watchful guardian of the 
 homes of the citizens of Bogalusa as the head of 
 the Police Department, being Chief of Police, and 
 is peculiarly adapted for the position which he holds 
 by virtue of his long experience as a deputy sheriff. 
 He is right on the job all of the time and is the 
 right man in the right place. The crooked element 
 give Bogalusa a wide berth when they float down to 
 Louisiana for their usual winter stay because it 
 isn't a healthy place to ply their several vocations. 
 
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 LOUISIANA SUGAR INDUSTRY. 
 
 [•"cw |)i'u))k' an' al)le to frame an adcniuaic iiK'Htal picture of the sugar industry of Louisiana. 
 
 To say that tlie state produces :i()(),nni) hniK tons of "sweetness'' in a normal year, or that tlie sn.tjar 
 product is worth $:{."i,()()(),()()0 annually to those producing it, or even to say that the capital invested in the 
 industry reaches the stu]H-n(hi(ius total of $:iOO, 000,000. is to throw on the canvass of the mind merely a 
 mass of color that fails lo stir tlie imagination. 
 
 This is an age of record-smashing ligurcs. and the mind numbs when nothing but cold arithmetic 
 is brought into play. 
 
 Millionaires' palaces there are on St. Charles Avenue built of the profits of the King of Louisiana's 
 industries, as well as sky-scrapers on Gravier Street and department stores on Canal street. 
 
 Country homes have been built or acquired on the Gulf Coast or the mountains of Tennessee and 
 North Caronlina; automobiles have been bought, and the excellent highways on which they spin have 
 been built; and innuiiierable improvemeuts for the comfort and convenience of Louisiana's population have 
 collie. And Sugar lias been, chiefly, the liquidator of the bills. 
 
 It is in considering h()w science and capital combined have brought these magnificent results about, — how 
 hard-headed engineering skill, energy, ambition, the industrial desire to do and dare; have built up slowly, 
 patiently, an industry that is a giant in proportions, that the mind is awakened into an enthusiasm. 
 
 Of all Louisiana's many profitable branches of agriculture, the sugar cane industry is infinitely the 
 most impeu-tant. not only on account of the huge annual returns to those engaged in it, but because of the 
 uniiiue position it occupies in the eccjiiomic life of her people, iiearlv half of whom arc interested directly 
 or indirectly in its development. 
 
 More tli;iii ,my other one industry it has upheld the commercial <liguity of the state — has been the chief 
 factor in exploiting her to the world at large. .\t times, indeed, it has been practically her one source of 
 wealth, the impenetrable bulwark of her industrial life. 
 
 Sugar was first made in Louisiana in 1795, though sugar cane was introduced into Louisiana in 17.")1 
 by the Jesuit h'athers from San Domingo, who had built up in that country a considerable industry. Its 
 use, ])rior to 17il."), was conlined to the manufacture of rum and syrup. 
 
 The cane grew well in the rich humus of South Louisiana, but all attem]its to manufacture sugar 
 
 from it were abortive, until lliil, when Don Antonio Mendez succeeded in extracting sugar from cane. Three 
 
 years later Ltienne de Bore made such a large crop of sugar that many were induced to go into the indus- 
 try, and it is to him that the real credit of being the father of the industry belongs. 
 
 Between that crude industry of 120 years ago, and this year of l'.)16, when Louisiana boasts of the most 
 modern sugar plant in the world — the Chalmette Refinery of the American Sugar Refining Company, which 
 also, is the second largest in the United States — has been written a record of marvelous human achievement 
 in the art of makin,g tlie article that now is one of the most important of foodstuffs. 
 
 The important early periods of the history of sugar in Louisiana were in 1820, when the production 
 reached a total of twenty millicm ]iounds. in lis:iO. when steam was introduced in the mills as the source of 
 power, in 18,'J4. when nearly liw hundred million pounds were produced, and in 1SS2. when the centralized 
 plant had its birth. 
 
 The later e])Ochal stations were in LSI);.', when the L'nited States Go\'eriinient. foreseein.g the advisability 
 of lending substantial aid to the Louisiana planter offered substantial bounties on all sugar manufactured in 
 the country, and in liilO when the Chalmette Refinery, introducing the last wor<ls in engineering and 
 chemical formulas, was opened. 
 
 The Louisiana sugar planter always has been a potent faxtor in the development of the state, distinctive 
 in his type and representative of her best class of citizenship. With characteristic progressiveness. he has 
 been quick to introduce new methods in culture or in the manufacture of the raw iiroduct, all things con- 
 sidered. 
 
 He has not only improved his lands by an intelligent rotation of crops, but he has cultivated and fer- 
 tilized them more thoroughly than had been the custom, and he has eliminated many sources of waste. 
 He has begun to compute the amount of sugar that could be manufactured from a ton of cane, and to put 
 cost gauges on all the steps of production and manufacture. 
 
 Progress in the last ten or fifteen years has been notably fast, and when the industry was at its height 
 a few years ago there was nearly 200 sugar plants, large and small, in the state and more than one thousand 
 individual growers. 
 
 Very few people have even the remotest idea of the great investment that a sugar plantation repre- 
 sents. The average large sugar planter pays out in wages alone from $100,000 to $2.50,000 annually. Good 
 sugar factories cost anywhere from $1J0.000 to $600,000. and have to be renewed almost entirely every ten 
 or fifteen years. 
 
 One 10,000-acre plantation in Lafourche Parish might be cited. This plantation has .■{,400 acres in 
 cultivation to sugar, has an annual pay roll of some $L50,()00, has a sugar house valued at $;!00,000, has .35 
 miles of 3-foot gauge railroad with three 17-ton locomotives, 262 freight cars of from h\>; to ten tons 
 capacity, and a mill that grinds about 1,200 tons of cane daily. 
 
 This institution, employing from 800 to 1,000 men the year round, gives living to a population of more 
 than 2,500 souls. Experts are employed to keep accurate tab on all items of cost, such as plowing, hoeing, 
 ditching and cultivating, harvesting, fertilizing, freight, depreciation in implements and factories, and the like! 
 
 In the inevitable evolution of the sugar industry of the state, the establishment of large refineries 
 equipped with the most modern of machinery, with capacities so large that costs are cut to a minimum, and 
 with buying and selling organizations and connections so adjusted that market demoralization is almost un- 
 known, has been a consequence. 
 
 Five large national concerns by the sugar crop of Louisiana, the chief one being the American Sugar 
 Refining Company, which takes an average of 60 per cent of the outinit. The Chalmette plant of this Com- 
 pany, located on the outskirts of New Orleans, has a capacity of 600,000 tons of sugar a year. In normal 
 years Louisiana contributes about 275,000 tons of this. The plant has a fine steel dock 800 feet long and
 
 80 feet wide, with a minimum of 30 to 35 feet of water. Its filtering plant has a capacity of 6,000,000 gal- 
 lons a (lay. The shippiiiK facilities permit the loading and nnloading of 100 cars a day without disorder. 
 
 'I'lie Chalmettc Kelinery gives steady employment to about 1,500 men. When the machinery is not 
 wurUing im Louisiana sugars, it is busy with sugars imported from Cuba, Porto Rico and the Central 
 Aini-ricaii countries. 
 
 The sugar belt of Louisiana embraces some twenty- fuur parishes uv parts thereof, of which the most 
 important, in order, arc St. Mary, Lafourche, Iberia, .\ssunii)tion, Terrebimne. Iljirvilje, St. James, West 
 Haton Rouge, Ascension, St. John, Lafayette, St. Martin and Pla(|uemines. 
 
 The industry stands out as Louisiana's contribution to the national programme of war preparedness, 
 and as such is entitled to every degree of aid and conservation that tlie state can give it. It is an admitted 
 fact that sugar is an essential part of a soldier's diet. Cane growers, the manufacturers of raw product, and 
 the rehners, operating (M1 the twentieth century principles of co-operation, have interests that by any fair 
 analysis are mutual. Given encouragement by wise state and national legislation, they will prove their worth 
 to tin- nation if perchance the country is eml)roiled in a foreign war and must fall back on its own food 
 supidies. 
 
 In liur own l,'i\il W.ir :iud in the Franco-Prussian War, sugar formed an important part of the soldier's 
 tooil. hi the Itoer War, Lnglaiul found sugar, especially in the form of candy, of peculiar service in keep- 
 ing up the spirits of her soldiery, and in the early months of the present giant luiropcan conliict, Germany 
 ascertained that a regiment linished a forced marcli on a twenty-four hour diet of sugar alone in much bet- 
 ter i)liysical condition than another regiment sujiplied with tlie regular army rations. 
 
 Sugar, in the estimation of men closely connected witli the state's industrial, will remain Louisiana's 
 leading "money crop" for some time to come. Year by year tlie growing of sugar cane and the marketing 
 of the cane or the raw sugars, are becoming more profitable through the modernizing of methocls. Co- 
 operation in producing and in rehning has lessened risk, decreased costs and stabilized markets. lifTi- 
 cicncy has come to be recognized by the planter as something quite as valuable to him as to the manufac- 
 turer of slioes or hats. Transportation by railroad and by canal or river barge from lield to mill and rel'mery 
 has been cheapened. 
 
 The sugar industry of Louisiana has all the aspects of a great manufacturing industry. h'armers in 
 the grain and cotton belts harvest the raw products out of their fields, take them to markets convenient 
 everywhere, and there the interests of the growers practically ends. A bale of cotton, or a bushel of corn 
 or wheat is a commodity tliat is salable in any market, at prices almost uniform throughout the United 
 States. 
 
 How different is the case of the cane planter! His interest in his crop is far from ended when the 
 stalks are stripped and cut and hauled out of the fields. It must go through the processes of manufac- 
 ture before it is of any use to anybody, except those few in the market for raw cane. Or it must be 
 made into raw sugars in the grower's own factory, and then its markets are limited to the refineries. In 
 a few instances the plantation is equipped with the sort of plants able to manufacture a completely refined 
 product. 
 
 These circumstances indicate that the relations between the planter, the raw sugar manufacturer and 
 the refiner are exceedingly close. .^ harmonious relation means greatest benefit to all three, certainly no 
 less to the grower than to the refiner. 
 
 Cities or localities seeking to increase their manufactures are usually advised by the experts in these 
 fields to stimulate tliose for which the community is specially adapted, (jr to which it is able to extend 
 superior natural inducements. In South Louisiana conditions exist that peculiarly are advantageous to the 
 growing of sugar cane and the manufacture and refining of sugars. 
 
 .\llu\ial deposits have been gravitating here from the North for a hundreil thousand years. Then came 
 ten thousand years of vegetation, with consequene humus. The result is a soil from one hundred to nine 
 hundred feet deep — rich beyond the power of pen to compute. In such soil, cane flourishes. 
 
 Railroad lines and canals, bayous, lakes and rivers intersect the soutli part of the state so thoroughly 
 that transportation for raw or manufactured product is cheap and convenient. 
 
 Then, when the sugar is bagged or barrelled, ready for the consumer's kitchen or table, steamship 
 lines come to the door of New Orleans to take it to the world's markets, a great national river system 
 places the markets of a rich agricultural and manufacturing valley within easy reach, and to the remainder 
 of the nation run the transcontinental railroad lines going through New Orleans. 
 
 King Cotton, some years ago, returned more actual money to the state than sugar, but cotton is a 
 vacillating monarch, sometimes prodigal in his gifts, at others more penurious than King Midas himself. 
 
 .Vnd it is when King Cotton has failed to justify Louisiana's right to a ranking position among the 
 sister states of the Union, that Prince Sugar has sil houted his mighty shadow across the industrial map 
 of the nation, compelling the attention of the world to the greatness of Louisiana. 
 
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 YI:LLOW PlXli INDUSTRY OF Till: SOUTH 
 
 l''\(.Ty SoutlicrrUT l<iin\v> lli.il llic niamifactnre of liimbei- is one of tlu' foruniost industries of the South 
 and that Scuillicrn W-llow I'inc is ihu principal commercial wood of the region. But how many of us, famil- 
 iar as we are with our native i;ine, know tliat it is not only one of tlie most plentiful \arieties, but is the most 
 useful wood llial .yrows, as well? 
 
 Southern ^'ello^\ I'ine has such a vast number and such a great \ariety of uses that the average person 
 lias lillle ciuiception of the important part it ])lays in almost every phase of the daily life of the world. Uc- 
 iinilely restricted in the area of its growth, Soiitliern \'ellow Pine's good qualities are so varied and its 
 adai)tability so su|>erior llial its distribution as hnuber is limited only by the confines of civilization and the 
 facilities for transportalion In America its place in manufactures and building construction is such that 
 more than :i(i per cent of all the lumber consumed is Southern Yellow Pine, while enormous quantities go 
 to I'.urope, South America ami Africa. Its annual production — more than 16 billion board feet — is nearly 
 three limes as great as any other (Uie wood and equal to the combined production of the four other most 
 useful woods. 
 
 In addition to its universal use in the manufacture of paving blocks, it occupies a place of first im- 
 portance in every kind of heavy construction — for piling, ties, trestles, poles, trusses, beams, sleepers, 
 joists, columns, rafters, sills — wherever great strength and endurance are essential. It has a multitude of 
 uses in manufactures — the "important" factory uses enumerated in Kellogg's "Lumber and Its Uses" in- 
 chidin;4 nuire than l."ill factory made articles. It is practically the only "all — purpose" wood extensively 
 used in general hcjuse construction, supplying every requirement in framework, siding, flooring, ceiling, 
 sheating, sash and doors, rails, spindles, newel posts and every variety of dressed or turned exterior and 
 interior linish. It is also used in making furniture, toys, woodenware, silos, lath, shingles, tanks, and house- 
 hold heliis. Because of its strength, density, even grain and workability it lends itself to more varied uses 
 than does any <ither wood. 
 
 Southern Yellow Pine has been in popular use since the first settlement in .America; and public 
 buildings, homes and country buildings constructed entirely of this wood 100 or even IJO years ago are 
 still in good state of preservation. Its long use and perfect record as a building and structural material 
 makes this wood more popular today than ever before for almost every building purpose, either for inside 
 or outside use. Old Midway Church, Screven County, Georgia, is one of the oldest wooden structures in 
 this country. It has given nearly 200 years of service and is still in use. It was built of Southern Yel- 
 low Pine. 
 
 The following — in which the figures quoted are from Government statistics and absolutley accurate 
 — are only a few of the many ways in which Southern Yellow Pine proves its marvelous adaptability; in 
 the multiplicity of ways in which it serves humanity it is unique, in a class by itself: 
 
 The manufacture of boxes and crates consume 10 per cent of the total annual lumber output 
 of all woods in the United States, and Southern Yellow Pine provides the material for one-fourth 
 of all such products. 
 
 In railway car construction the annual consumption of lumber is l.:-'iJi).U00.0UU hoard feet — and 
 SouthernYellow Pine supplies ."i4 per cent of it. 
 
 In the manufacture of a.gricultural implements — plows harrows, cultivators, drills, planters, 
 threshing machines, rakes, etc. — ::!00 million feet of lumber is used annually, and over 30 per cent 
 of it is Southern Yellow Pine. 
 
 In ship and boat building 200 million feet of hunber is required every year — and .'i.l per cent 
 of that is Southern Yellow Pine.' 
 
 Of wood paving materials and conduits >sii per cent are Southern Yellow P 
 
 lue. 
 
 In the manufacture of trunks and valises, which requires T.J million Ixiard feet of lumber 
 annually. Southern Yellow Pine supplies 20 per cent. 
 
 In machine construction — steam shovels, hoists, cranes, well drills, dredges, crushers, 
 presses — in which the wood used "must possess strength, toughness and durability," Southern 
 Yellow Pine supplies more than 3.'J per cent of the wood used. 
 
 In the building of freight and passenger elevators, which consumes 10 million feet of lumber 
 each year. Southern Yellow Pine supplies .^(5 per cent. 
 
 In the manufacture of ])layground equipment 16 per cent of all the wood used is Southern 
 \ ellow Pine, and in the making of scales and wei.ghing apparatus 24 per cent of the wood 
 recpiired is that same species. 
 
 Without goin.g into further detail, a few of the remaining classihcaticms where Southern Yellow- 
 Pine finds use are; furniture, fixtures, vehicles, woodenware. tanks, caskets and coffins, refri.gerators and 
 kitchen cabinets, excelsior, laundry appliances, shade and map rollers, picture frames and moldings, 
 sporting and athletic goods, patterns and flasks, plumbers woodwork, electrical machinery, clocks and signs 
 and supplies. This will give some idea of the variety of uses of "the wood of service." In the Govern- 
 ment Bulletin, "Uses of Commercial Woods of the United States." it is said of Southern Yellow Pine: 
 
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 tance it does not hll." 
 
 Because Southern Yelhnv Tine is dense grained, strong, stiff and tough, it is uneiinaled as a material 
 for silo construction. Its great durability is due to its fine, even, compact grain and the fact that it con- 
 tains a quantity of pitch and resin, natural repellants of moisture and decay. The oldest silos in e.xistence, 
 still ill use, are wood. The iddest wood silos in existence, still in use, are Southern Yellow F'ine. 
 
 The modern pavement and one that is becoming more popular every year is made of creosoted wood 
 blocks. Proliably DO per cent or more of all the wood block paving in America is Southern Yellow Pine. 
 Wood blocks make an ideal floor for factories, machine sliops and warehouses as well. 
 
 Southern ^■cllow Pine makes a perfect interior finish wood because of its striking grain and beautiful 
 te.xture, whicli makes il particularly suited to use in tine joinery and high varnish finish, while it takes paints 
 and stains perfectly. Southern Yellow Pine docs not "fuzz up" nor show "knife marks" in the planing mill 
 process, therefore it requires less labor and expensive hand scraping to secure smooth, satin-like surfaces. It 
 is bright and attractive in color and its general beauty and utility is surpassed by no other wood, not even 
 the most expensive hardwoods. 
 
 The beauty of the figure of Southern \ellow Pine lias only of late years been proi)erly aiipreciated. 
 During the past few years there has been a remarkable development of the use of Southern Yellow Pine for 
 face veneer, especially in door making and built-up panels for interior wood work. Southern Yellow Pine 
 is one of the most foremost woods in the veneer industry. The annual consumption of that wood in the 
 veneer industry is about 40 million board feet and in 1!)15 it lead in quantity pojjlar. cottonwood, oak and 
 birch. It was surpassed by red gum alone. The bulk of this veneer was used for orange and lemon boxes. 
 
 If protected by standard automatic sprinkler equipment, the economical "mill constructed" building of 
 Southern Yellow Pine is practically as free from fire danger as the most expensive building of non-combus- 
 tible materials, and commands usually an equally low insurance rate. 
 
 One of the newest and at the same time most satisfactory uses of Southern Yellow Pine is in the 
 constniction nf Motor Speedways. The best modern speedways in America are imw built of wood, since 
 racers have found that they can attain a greater speed with more safety on a wooden track than was possi- 
 ble on the old tracks. The great Sheepshead Bay speedway cost $:i,. 500,000 and used 6,500,000 feet of lum- 
 ber, of which :i, 000,000 feet of Southern Yellow Pine ::x4's placed on edge went into the track alone. 
 
 Mention has been made of the extensive use of Southern Yellow Pine in ship and boat building, but 
 it has remained for the present war to develop a new use for that wood. Xot hmg ago 5,000 submarine 
 destroyers were built by one of the great European powers. They were built of heart Southern Yellow Pine. 
 These boats are 70 feet long, carry a crew of seventeen men and are driven by the most powerful gasoline 
 engines ever designed. They have a speed of 4S miles per hour. The warring nations of Europe have used 
 huge quantities of Southern Yellow Pine and the demand bids fair to be gigantic after the war. 
 
 Southern Yellow Pine surpasses all other woods also in the variety and value of by-products recovered 
 from it. Some of these are: Wood pulp, pulp boards, paper, paper bags, paper twine, excelsior, turpen- 
 tine, resin, tar, pitch, charcoal, pine oil, ethyl alcohol, pyroligneous acid, an oil of balsamic odor, ether, var- 
 nishes, terpineol, pine wool, cattle feed, and it is not improbable that acetic acid, wood alcohol, acetone and 
 producer gas can also be obtained. 
 
 Southern Yellow Pine has a hi.gh heat value. One cord of seasoned wood being equal to a ton of 
 good coal. Heavy pitch pine may be almost equal, in heat value, to the same weight of good coal. 
 
 The toughest wrapping paper produced is made from Southern Yellow Pine wood pulp. Of all the 
 excelsior produced in .\merica, necessitating the consumption of 100,000,000 board feet of lumber annually, 
 15 per cent is Southern Yellow Pine. From the sap of the wood comes turpentine, resin, tar and pitch, their 
 production a gigantic industry in itself. The pine needles when boiled in a strong solution of alkali produce 
 pine wool, which is woven into fabrics and used in upholstery. 
 
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 SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES 
 
 TRAVEKSK THE BEST SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH 
 
 Tlio Soiitlieni Pacific Lines in Louisiana. opcralinR west ont of New Orleans, serve what is possibly 
 the most fertile and productive section of this great State. Tlie lines in question traverse what has always 
 been known as the ".SiiKar I'.owl" of Louisiana and a territory th.at feu- many years has been prominent in 
 the fact of its wondcrlul pl.nitatiMus, rich alluvial soils, and thriving; iirogressive up-to-date comtnunities. 
 
 The sugar sections bcKin on the west bank of the Mississii)pi River where the crf)SsinK of the lines is 
 made at Avondale and continue, with but one or two small breaks, until the town of Lafayette is reached, 
 a distance of one hundred ;ind forty-four miles from New Orleans. 
 
 Lafayette is in the ccnlcr of what is known as the "Attakapas" country, the name Ijeing derived from 
 a tribe of Indians that occupied this fertile area at the time when the State was oriKinally settled. 
 
 South of Lafayette, the wonderful semi-alluvial prairie gently slopes to the Gulf of Mexico, while north 
 of the thriving little city, also a passenger terminus of the Southern Pacil'ic, the country is penetrated by 
 what is known as the Alexandria branch of the system. Here is a wonderful region of farm lands, nearly 
 all occupied in the cultivation of sugar, corn, cotton, feed and forage crops. This territory runs to the Red 
 River and is characterized by a mixture of the Red River valley soils with the ecjually fertile sandy loams. 
 
 West of Lafayette, following the tnain line of the system, begins the wonderful upland rice fields 
 which have made Louisiana famous the country over. These rice fields have taken the place of the Hat. 
 level prairie, which, while distinct from the alluvial and semi-alluvial soil, it is capable of a high state of 
 cultivation and production. Line rice plantations and rice mills are features of this section until the Texas 
 line is reached. 
 
 North out of Lafayette operates the I'.aton Rouge line connecting witli the Illinois Central at Baton 
 Rouge, the State Capitol of Louisiana, and connecting alstj with the I'orl liarre branch out of Cade. Both 
 of these branches tap a splendidly develoj'ed section of the State. 
 
 The Napoleonville branch running from Schriever station north; the llouma branch operating south 
 from tlie same point, and the Lockport branch divergin.g soutli from the main line at Raceland, penetrate 
 additi<inal sections of the sugar producing area, serving the towns of !.ockpi>rt. Houma. Thibodaux and 
 Napoleonville. 
 
 South from Baldwin a branch line serves the wondtrfid rock salt mine at Week's Island, while an- 
 other branch south from New Iberia serves .Avery's Island, where is located one of the most remarkable 
 salt deposits in the world, and one which has l)een operated since tlie civil war. 
 
 West of New Iberia, wliat is known as the Abbeville branch, traverses a .-plendiil territory in which 
 is produced sugar, corn and rice, intersecting the main line at Midland and runnin.g north to lumice. This 
 particular region, while devoted to general farming, has lar.gely specialized in rice production. 
 
 Soutli and east of Lake Charles, the Lake .\rthur liranch of the system taps and serves another great 
 rice sectii'U. 
 
 While the "Sugar liowl" has been a distinct and i>rol'itable feature of Louisiana agriculture for many 
 years, and the lands are among the most fertile in the world, there is a sidendid oi)portunity for the small 
 farmer, both in the cultivation of sn.gar, and in diversified farming, intensive stock and hog growing. Lands 
 are reasonable in value and cheaiier. in proportion to their cai)acity. than any lands in the L'nited States. 
 
 The territory immediately sumumdiu.g Lafayette, north as far as Alexandria, and south taking in much 
 of the Abbeville branch, is ideal in its attractions, opijortunities. and products, for the man who desires to 
 make his home in a wonderful country and practice farmin.g on a small scale, while the prairies west of 
 Rayne offer ever}' inducement to tlie farmer who would either specialize in rice or engage in general farm- 
 ing, llcddings may be secured at extremely low \alues. 
 
 The rainfall and climatic conditions of the entire section of the State traversed and served by the 
 Southern Pacific Louisiana Lines, effect a condjination difficult to excel. The farmers are practically as- 
 sured of their crops and may proceed with their operations with a certainty that there will be no absolute 
 failure because of a lack of rainfall or because of unusual or abnormal conditions. 
 
 Proceeding west from New Orleans, the thriving towns of Thibodaux, Houma. Napoleonville. Mor- 
 gan City, Patterson, Franklin, Jeanerette, New Iberia. Lafayette. Rayne, Crowley, Jennin.gs and Welsh are 
 adequately supplied with educational ancl religious facilities, many handsome schools and church buildings 
 marking the enterprise and zeal of the citizens. 
 
 The same conditions obtain in the towns of Opelousas, Washington, St. Martinsville. Breaux Brid.ge 
 and Port Barre. north of Lafayette on the branch lines. Alexandria, the terminus'of the .Alexandria branch 
 is a splendid little city with many handsome improvements, while Lake Charles, possibly the largest city 
 on the Louisiana lines, is the center of a lar.ge lumber producing territory and has a marked industrial de- 
 velopment. 
 
 West of Lake Charles, and near the town of .Suliihur. is located the lar.gest sulphur producin.g mine in 
 the world. Near Vinton, a progressive community in the same locality is one of the great Louisiana oil tields. 
 
 The Southern Pacific lines in Louisiana furnish possibly the best service, both freight and passenger, 
 enjoyed bj- any section of the State, b'ive trains operate in each direction between New Orleans and Hous- 
 ton daily. .Additional trains operate to and from New Orleans and Lafayette, similar service being in effect 
 between Lafayette and Houston, makin.g a total of fourteen trains daily on the main line. Ade(|uate service 
 is operated over all branch lines connecting with the main line trains in such manner as to .give patrons of 
 the system the best and most convenient method of travel. 
 
 Perscuis desiring infonuati<m covering frei.ght and passenger traffic should address the followin,g officers 
 at New Orleans: Mr. Chas. S. I'ay. General Freight -Agent and Mr. Jos. Hellen, General Passenger Agent. 
 For information regarding possiliilities for agricultural and industrial development, farm lands, etc., address 
 Mr. H. M. Mayo. Manager, Industrial, Immigration & .-Xdvertising Bureau. Houston. 
 
 103
 
 1 
 
 
 T. & P. TERMINAL STATION 
 
 TllH THXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY 1\ LOUISIANA 
 
 The line of the Texas and I'acihc Railway is en 
 iiig as lerniini, I'T I'asD, Texas, the largest eity "M ih 
 combined ocean and river port in America, 
 
 The total mileaj^e covered by this great system 
 tliis total trackage while the remaining T^iAC) is take 
 
 The Texas and Pacilic Railway has seven bran 
 the main artery, enables it to reach, traverse and ser 
 one i)arishes nineteen have their county seats located 
 
 The three largest cities in the State, New Orlea 
 commercially with the Texas and Paciinc Railway, w 
 
 The people of New Orleans claim this railroad 
 liable assets. 
 
 The executive offices of this line are located in 
 mately four and a half million dollars in extensive a 
 
 The Texas and Pacific rails reach the West b 
 center of the forty-mile harbor, where within a few bl 
 the best etjuipped and most conveniently arranged p 
 
 The New Orleans terminal property comjirises 
 terminal facilities for the future great development of 
 and the sea. 
 
 The Texas and Pacific has so closely identihed 
 that it covers, and by close official contact with its p 
 cultural and industrial life. 
 
 By following it through the parishes, one cann 
 .growth that is not excelled by any other line in the 
 
 The greatest possible agricultural and mineral w 
 trihuting territory is perhaps the richest agricultural s 
 
 For 200 miles it crosses almost the entire len 
 of the Mississippi, whose lands carry a greater pote 
 the world. In addition to this it has, as tributary te 
 laya, which perhaps have no superior in America. T 
 the Red River to almost the Northern border of the St 
 .ill the most fertile lands on the Atchafalaya. 
 
 In addition to these rich river silt-deposits, th 
 cnt-over pine in North Louisiana, cut-ii\er cypress in 
 sei'tions of the state. 
 
 The greatest mineral wealth-producing asset of t 
 and Pacilic Railway runs right squarely through the 
 
 Tu the Northern part of the State are vast |iin 
 portion extensive cypress swamps. 
 
 In addition to this, there is great prosi)ective d 
 sissippi. the Atchafalaya and the Red. These, and ot 
 this great steel artery of commerce offer bright pros 
 and thousands of miles of waterw-ay carrying products 
 forecast for this great system, already one of Louisi 
 
 nlined to Te.xas. Louisiana and .\rkansas territory, hav- 
 e Mexican liordcr and New (jrleans. La., the greatest 
 
 is 1, '.144. 07. The main line absorbs l,:i1'.l.iil miles of 
 u up by branch line feeders. 
 
 ch lines in Louisiana covering liSG miles, vvliich with 
 ve twenty-one parishes in the Stale. Of these twcnty- 
 
 on this road, 
 us, Shreveport and Alexandria, are intimately related 
 hich is one of their main trade thoroughfares, 
 as one of their home institutions and one of their val- 
 
 New Orleans, where it has lately cxi)ended approxi- 
 
 nd highly improved terminal facilities. 
 
 ank of the Mississippi at a point nearly opposite the 
 
 ocks from the river-front, it has built the most costly, 
 
 assenger depot in the South. 
 
 thirty city blocks, furnishing ample space to supply- 
 New Orleans, the great gateway to the Mississipjii 
 
 itself with Louisiana, by the wide diverging territory 
 eople, that it has become part and parcel of its agri- 
 
 ot fail to realize that it has a lield for development and 
 State. 
 
 ealth of the State lays right in its path. Its coll- 
 ection in the entire world. 
 
 gth of the State. It follows closely the West bank 
 ntial productive power than any other river valley in 
 rritory the valley of the Red River and the .Atchafa- 
 lie main line of the Texas and Pacific follows closely 
 ate, wdiile it throws out its branches in and around 
 
 ere is a great variet\' of other good lands, such as 
 South Louisiana and great tracts of prairie in middle 
 
 he State of Louisiana is its gas and oil. The Texas 
 
 se natural gas and oil fields. 
 
 e timber ami hardwood preserves and in the Southern 
 
 evelopment of the fresh water fish industry of the Mis- 
 her undeveloped resources of the State hemming in 
 pects for the future. With its own projecting lines 
 here and there to its rails, what future may be not 
 ana's busiest and best public servants. 
 
 104
 
 Till: NHW ORLEANS RAILWAY l\ LI(;HT CO. 
 
 'I'liis C'ciMipaiiy is mu' of the l)i>i iiislilutidiis cif iln- State of Louisiana, being the largest tax-payer in 
 the State and also has the largest pay roll of any single industry in the State. Operating some four hundred 
 and forty odd passenger cars and covering over two hundred and seventeen miles of trackage, the New Or- 
 leans Railway & Light Company furnish a street railway service comparable to any city of the United 
 States. The longest ride to be had for five cents is over seventeen miles. Transfers are furnished, which, 
 while not required in the franchise, are issued over practically all of the lines. The day and night service 
 is one of the most complete in the entire country and during the Mardi Gras festivities, in one day the com- 
 pany handles over live hundred thousand passengers. 
 
 The rails on St. Charles ."Xvenue weigh 110 pounds and are said to be the heaviest of any traction ser- 
 vice in the I'uited States. The system was generally electrified in 189"), and the old Orleans & Carrollton 
 Railroad, which is a part of the system, was one of the first street railways operated in the United States, 
 iihtaining its charter to do, business on February it, 18;i:i, and was then operated by steam and mule power. 
 The first experiments made in .America were made in New Orleans by the Confederate General V. T. G. 
 Beauregard witli the Carrollton road on upper St. Charles .Avenue. .A unique feature of the service of the 
 Company is that all cars operated in the city run on or across the main street, Canal, and for eight blocks 
 in the business section every intersecting street has a car line whicli either crosses or turns into Canal 
 Street, and a passenger boarding a car on Canal and remaining on the car will be brought back to its original 
 starting point. This Company paves and maintains St. Charles .Avenue from Canal to Carrollton. a distance 
 covering seven miles and also paves and maintains Jackson .Avenue from St. Charles to the river. The 
 paving is not only between rails, but extends from curb to curb, and as a result the Company spends thous- 
 ands of dollars yearly in this direction, and other vehicular traffic, public and private, reaps the benefit. 
 The Company also furnishes gas and electricity to practically the entire population of the Parish of Orleans 
 and have in use :i.l70 miles of gas piping, 407 iniles being gas mains and three gas plants being necessary 
 in the business, one the largest gas holders in the South, carrying a capacity of five million cubic feet, 
 besides otlier gas holders, the total being 8,000,000 cubic feet and embracing some 44,000 meters. During its 
 thirty years of service this Company has reduced the cost of gas from four dollars i)er thousand to one 
 dollar per thousand cul)ic feet, and in some cases as low a rate as eighty-five cents may be had, according to 
 consumi)tion. The gas franchises of the Company are n(jt only perpetual, but exclusive until r.)2.'), the last 
 named feature lieing affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States. 
 
 In the electric branch of tlie Company are used some 4,44ii miles of feed, trolley and light wires, while 
 eight electric power i)lants are neeessar" in the daily operation of its business, including some twenty thous- 
 and electric meters, and iii \'.n:t reduced charges in this department by approximately twenty-five per cent. 
 
 Tile President of the Company is D. I). Curran. who was formerly President of the New Orleans & 
 Northeastern Railroad and is still Chairman of the Board of that Company. Mr. Curr.in is universally liked 
 by the tliirty-seven hundred employees of the Company and is one of the solid business men of the Crescent 
 City. Coming from the ranks himself, immigrating from Ireland when a young man. .Mr. Curran has made 
 a recor<l equalled by few. 
 
 The New Orleans Railway & Light Company is one of the constituent of the several railway. light 
 and i)ower companies ojierated by the .American Cities Company, which operate gas, electric and traction com- 
 panies in New ()rleans, Hmiston. Little Rock. Birmingham, Memphis and Knoxville. 
 
 Mr. Matthew S. Sloan is General Manager of the New Orleans Company and is surrounded by a corps 
 of efficient workers vvlio labor unceasingly with a single eye to higher efficiency in point of service in all 
 de()artments. 
 
 105
 
 INTERIOR VIEW OF OUR THREE STORES 
 
 UPPER LEFT 
 
 STORE NO. 1 
 
 CORNER CAMP AND LAFAYETTE STREET 
 
 LOWER 
 
 STORE NO 3. 
 
 LOBBY OF WHITNEY-CENTRAL BANK BLOG. 
 
 UPPER RIGHT 
 
 STORE NO 2 
 
 LOBBY OF MAISON BLANCHE BLDG. 
 
 Tlif Coupon Cigar Stores, with its Made In New Orleans goods, fill a long felt want in tlie Crescent 
 City. 'I'here are three of these stores, one located at Camp & Lafayette streets, another at the Maison 
 Blanche Rnilding and a third at the Whitney-Central I'.ank liuilding. liach of the three stores give 
 coupons with every purchase, good fur per cent in trade. When your purchases have reached a dollar or 
 more, your cmipfins are redeemable for ."> per cent in trade for cigars, cigarettes, tobacco, etc. .'Ml three 
 stores carry a full line of magazines and weeklies, and fen- their Spanish and Mexican trade they carry a 
 full line of Spanisli printed newspapers containing all the latest war news witli particular attention given 
 in them to the war in Mexico, no coupons, however are given uidi nia.gazines, weeklies or newspapers, 
 this feature applying only to the trade on tobacco, cigarettes and pipes, etc. 
 
 .Among the more |)opular kind in the ten-cent variety may he found tlie LaBelle Imperia. Corona de J 
 Barzana. Conquest, Alisa. 1-"1 Trelles, while in the nickle kind may be found such delightful brands as the 
 HI I'erde, I'd Trelles, Mino. King's Court, Tango, Nena. Rex Roy. PA Cubo, I'"orget-Me-Not and Maison 
 ISIanche Specials. 
 
 .\t all of the stores may be found a \ariety and assortment of pii)es t(i suit the most falideons taste, 
 Calabashes, that good, cool, imported pijie; the Wellingtrm. with the patented bmvl that does away with all 
 nicotine; the old-style genuine corn-cob, witli a hard rubber bit attached, and Jimmy-Pipes. .Mr. .Mont- 
 gomery Miller is tlie President and General Manager, and is an affable and pleasant gentleman witli a 
 host of friends in N'ew < )i-|t-ans. .\ll three stores do a big business in lilling the wants of the smoker's of 
 the Crescent City anil are kept busy in filling their out-of-town orders. 
 
 106
 
 Bird's eve view of tlie plant of Penick cS: Ford, Limited, showing Syrup House, Cold 
 Storage Plant". Cooper Shoi), Power House, Car Repair Shop. Warehouses, immense btor- 
 affe Tanks and Model Can Plant. This plant is located on tlie Mississiiipi Kiver and the 
 largest ocean-jfoin- vessels land and disoharf,-e at the company's own vyharf. 
 
 This plant is the largest and most modern of its kind ni the world. A sheet of tin 
 plate is fed into automatic can makin- machinery and comes cut a can of molasses, sealed, 
 labeled boxed and nailed, all automatically. ,,,„,,„ ,-u- ■ i,„i,l 
 
 The principal product of this Company is VFA.VA SYRUP, which is a household 
 word in the South, but this Company distributes its various brands of canned and barrele.l 
 molasses throughout the length and breadth of the United States. 
 
 This Company is the largest distributor of molasses and syrups in this country. 
 
 The above picture is the entrance to the Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, La. The 
 management of the Metairie Cemetery have spent a good deal of time and money m mak- 
 ing of Metairie one of the most beautifully attractive burial grounds to be found in tlie 
 United States, and own a large area of territory which aftords to the man of moderate 
 means a lot at a reasonable price and on terms to suit the purchaser. Every courtesy and 
 facility is offered its patrons and being non-sectarian, a number of prominent Roman 
 Catholic families have their burial places there, as well as other religious denominations. 
 The tourist and casual visitor to New Orleans should make it a point to pay a visit to 
 Metairie Cemetery, which is one of the sights to be seen when on a trip to New Orleans. 
 
 107
 
 THE HOTEL BILOXI 
 
 THE HOTEL BILOXI "OverlonKiiiK the Culf," run on the American plan, is the Ijest hotel 
 of Biloxi, Miss., which city is one of the attractive resorts of the (!ulf Coast and is the lar<jest 
 city between Mobile and New Orleans on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. With efficiency 
 as the watchword, the manajjement of the hotel have buit up a larjje clientele amonK Northern 
 tourists, having their own artesian well and tifteen acres of palms, pines, live oaks and magno- 
 lias {jreen all winter, and the finest water frontage on the coast. The Hotel is steam heated, 
 has hot and cold water, and every other convenience found in the model hotel of to-day. A 
 notable feature of the Hotel and its service is their superior table and dining room service, 
 while all guests are made the recipients of hundreds of little attentions that make them feel not 
 only at home but among friends as well, and when the Northern visitor leaves Biloxi, instead 
 of saying, "I stopped at a hotel," he cheerfully states that "I stopped at the Hotel Biloxi." 
 Biloxi is both a summer and winter resort, for the thriving orange and grape fruit orchards 
 demonstrate its immunity from cold weather, while the constancy of the Gulf breezes attract 
 thousands of visitors during the summer. The management invites correspondence as to the 
 many attractions to be had at Biloxi, which is the Atlantic City of the South. 
 
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 LARGEST MAHOGANY MILL AND IMPORTERS IN THE WORLD 
 
 Operating their own line of steamers, bringing up full cargoes of Mahogany Logs from 
 
 Mexico and Honduras direct to their mill and yards on the Mississippi River 
 
 at the head of Peters Avenue. 
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 BANKERS LOAN & SnCURITlRS COMIMW 
 
 The Capital of this Comjjany is to be One Million Five Hundred Thou- 
 sand Dollars, in shares, par value, $100.00 each. 
 
 The i)urpose of the Company is to do a <^''eneral mortyai^-e loan and oond 
 business in the State of Louisiana, dealing- in all classes of mortgages for agri- 
 cultural and other improvements. 
 
 The state is divided into twentv districts, each having a district bank-, which 
 bank, or an officer thereof, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Com])anv. 
 
 The profits of the Comijany will be made by rediscounting loans and mini- 
 mizing the expenses of making loans, which, under the individual investment 
 system, has proven one cause for large costs in such transactions. 
 
 Loans will be made on a basis of five or ten years, with privilege of repaving 
 on more convenient terms than have been customary in this state. 
 
 While the basic plans of operation are patterned along those successfully 
 utilized by many of the large loan institutions of the North, a number of new 
 features have been incorporated in the plans of this Company which will reduce 
 the cost of doing business and add materially to the j)r()fits of the concern. 
 
 ITS KXh-CUTIVK OFFICKKS AKK: 
 
 Jas. L. Wright. President; Leo Fellman, Vice-President, in charg-e of Citv 
 Loan Department; Geo. S. Yerg-er, Vice-President; R. A. Kent, Vice-President; 
 O. W. McNeese, Treasurer; A. P. Perrin, Vice-President, in charge of Live Stock- 
 Department; Thos. E. Furlow, Vice-President, in charge of Bond Department; 
 H. M. Feild, Vice-President; S. R. Yancey, Secretarv. 
 
 ADVISORY OFFICIALS OF THE COMPANY ARE: 
 
 Foster, Milling, Saal & Milling, General Counsel; Marwick, Mitchell, Peat & 
 Co., Auditors; Diboll & (Iwen, Consulting Architects; J. Frank Coleman, Con- 
 sulting Engineer; St. D. J. Villere, Stock and Bond Broker. 
 
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 Ill
 
 iA/11 1 lAM DPRRV BROWN was one of the commercial giants ot the United States 
 
 v^^ rt^7,;i^^iJni.t;r^j>iirte'xr'^^^rt,.r^o°:iti;;;?;u^/''e. . 
 
 he rose from a clerkship in a eonntry ^-f"''/",^^;,™, 1,7^,'^ tot onlv of the I m'!ed States'. 
 
 I Continued on page 113) 
 
 112
 
 WILLIAM PERRY BROW N— Continued from page 112 
 
 brokerage offices in that city about ISOO. The matured busi- 
 noHs man gave lo the New Orleans cotton market the same 
 concentrated endeavor which ttie ambitious clerk had given 
 to general merchandise in Columbus and it was not long 
 before he was regarded as among the safest, sanest and most 
 reliable cotton brokers in the whole South. Success in this 
 branch of commerce is dependent, first of all. on ability as it 
 is In every line, but the confidence of one's clients or patrons 
 is almost eiiually as necessary. And this Mr. Ttrown won at 
 the start and kept to the day of his death, October 5. l'Jl-1. 
 
 During the two ciuituries in which cotton has been the 
 chief crop of the southern states only two successful "corners'* 
 were ever made and both of these were accomplished by Mr. 
 Brown. His mission in life was to obtain for the prodmer 
 of cotton the highest possible price. He had observed how 
 during many years the cotton growers had been virtually 
 swindled of millions of dollars by market manipulators who 
 forced the iirice of cotton down to such a figure that it wa-^ 
 ruinous to sell, but because of the conditions brought about 
 by the manipulators, it was likewise ruinous to retain hold- 
 ings of the staple 
 
 When Mr. lirown went out to conquer the bears he was 
 already coming into prominence and many regarded him as 
 a Sir Galahad, but there were others who looked upon him 
 as a Don Quixote who was doomed to certain destruction. 
 Even some of his well-wishers feared that his hazardou-^ un- 
 dertaking would mean that his personal fortune would be 
 swept aside by the cruel opposition which he had attacked 
 singlcd-Iianded. Whf n the bears were put to flight in a 
 brief but decisive fight the world of trade stood agliast and 
 Mr. Mrown was hailed as "The Cotton King." a title which 
 he held to the end of his remarkably useful life. 
 
 Hack in 1002 the spectacle of cotton selling at five cents 
 a pound saddened the heart of Mr. Brown. He saw many 
 of his friends in the cotton belt being crushed by the bears. 
 He surveyed the situation in New Orleans but came to the 
 conclusion that the real enemies of the planter were in Wall 
 street. Gathering a valiant little band about him — they in- 
 cluded Frank li. Hayne. T. .1. Majors and C. C. Cordill, he 
 marched upon New York. This was the most daring under- 
 taking ever recorded in the annals of the cotton market of 
 this country. 
 
 Reaching New York the quartette, under the leadership 
 of Mr. Brown compelled the traders to deliver what they had 
 sold and in a spectacular battle in which wits and unlimited 
 dollars were used, sent the price of cotton up to twelve cents 
 or more and compelled the bears to cry for mercy. Up to 
 that time the New York traders had controlled the cotton 
 markets of this country, but their defeat marked the crip- 
 pling of thier power forever. 
 
 For the next seven or eight years. largely due to fear 
 of the vigilant eye of Mr. Brown, those who had formerly 
 throttled the cotton grower, gave him a square deal. But 
 in the latter part of of 1909 the enemy grew bold again and 
 started some of his old tactics : Brown promptly accepted 
 the challenge. This time he surrounded himself with Frank 
 B. Hayne. Robert M. Thomson. Eugene Scales. .James 
 Patten and M. Rotschiid and began a second campaign 
 in Wall street. The enemy knew this time that he was 
 a formidable foe and they prepared for him. Thev put up 
 a determined offensive and defensive campaign, 'but con- 
 stant hammering of their forces by Mr. Brown and his 
 associates for a few months, made them retreat thoroughly 
 defeated. That was six years ago and Mr. Brown has beeii 
 dead nearly two years but there has neVer been any revival 
 of a war-like spirit in the camp of the New Yorkers. 
 
 Leading economists of the United States agree that Mr 
 Brown's raising of cotton in 1903 was the greatest single 
 boon ever bestowed upon the South. At that time the 
 southern states constituted a one-crop section and that one 
 crop was cotton. The boll weevil had made no appreciable 
 in-roads upon the plant and millions of people below the 
 Mason and Dixon Line were dependent upon the staple for 
 a livelihood. 
 
 V, A Ju^ ^^'^'' °^ ^^^'^ ■^^^ "lean" for the whole nation and 
 nad those who sent cotton down to five cents been allowed 
 to continue their operations the South would have faced 
 the greatest crisis since the days of the Reconstruction It 
 IS no surprise then that William P. Brown is regarded as 
 the savior of part of the country and counted with Robert 
 K. Lee. Judah P. Benjamin and Jefferson Davis. 
 
 In many ways Mr. Brown's memory is due a greater 
 debt trom the people of the South because he risked more 
 tha,n anyone else. He risked his all. Had he failed: had his 
 nrst New lork campaign been nipped in the bud— he would 
 
 have been forced to come back to his native heath penniless. 
 He would have been forced to start life as he did when he 
 entered that country store at Columbus, Miss. Of course he 
 probably would have won out again, but nevertheless he 
 would have been compelled to begin at Ihe bottom round of 
 the ladder. 
 
 Mr. Brown could not have succeeded in his cotton 
 business if he had not been a masterly financier. In the 
 early 90's he assisted in organizing the Southern Trust 
 and Banking Company at New Orleans and later to form 
 the Union National Bank. Also he assisted in consolidating 
 these two big institutions into what is now the IHbernia 
 Bank and Trust Company, one of the largest banking con- 
 (■(•rns in the United States. 
 
 Mr. Brown took a deep interest in military affairs and 
 was a born soldier. He showed his capacity as a fighter in 
 the two New York campaigns, but he never had a chance to 
 battle for the defense of his country. .lust before he left 
 Columbus, Miss., he organized and was captain of a com- 
 pany of militia which was counted the Ix^st drilled in the 
 Scmth. Mr. Brown was thorough in all his work. Someone 
 has said that genius is the capacity for taking pains and 
 tliis was borne out in Mr. Brown's instance. He drilled hi*; 
 company night and day and it came to be regarded as a 
 model by authorities all over the country. 
 
 Mr. Brown as "Cotton King" received tlie plaudits of 
 the Soutli and of that part of the world whi<b b<'Iieves right 
 should triumph but it was in his home life that he found 
 his greatest happiness. On December 27, 1894 he was 
 married to Miss Marguerite Braughn of New Orleans. Six 
 children blessed the union. 
 
 William Perry Brown, personally and in a business way, 
 represented the survival of the Old South. His business 
 methods were modern— they had to be for him to keep pace 
 with the intricate branch of commerce in which he was a 
 leader. But in his fine scruples in trade there was some- 
 thing remineseent of another day. Those close to him de- 
 clare at one time in his life, even after he had been accounted 
 as successful, he met with serious reverses. A shrewd coun- 
 sellor who knew of his temporary embarassment pointed out 
 to him a technical loop-hole whereby he could escape pay- 
 ment of most of the claims against him. 
 
 "You will not even be expected to pay those claims" he 
 was told. 
 
 "But I owe them." he replied. "And Ull pay every one 
 of them." 
 
 And he did. Not only did he pay those debts within a 
 year but within five years his possessions had trebled the 
 figure at which he had estimated them before his trouble came. 
 He died oiie of the wealthiest men in New Orleans. 
 
 Mr. Brown loved the South and its people. Several times 
 he had flattering offers to go to New York. Wall street 
 could have made good use of his splendid powers. Two of the 
 eastern metropolis" biggest banking houses sent emmissaries 
 down to New Orleans in an attempt to gain his services. 
 One of the concerns offered him a large interest and a fixed, 
 princely income for life, but he never even gave the offers 
 serious consideration. 
 
 "I am what they call a hill-billy," he laughingly told 
 his present biographer, five or six years ago. "I believe I 
 would slowly die if I had to move away from the dear old 
 South. I want the magnolia and the honeysuckle around nie 
 — to say nothing of niggers and mules and if I went to 
 the canyons of Wall street I'd pine away even if 1 made a 
 million a week." 
 
 Mr. Brown had the biggest kind of love for his fellows, 
 but he hated sham and hypocricy. He never made acquaint- 
 ances promiscuously. He never affected anything even re- 
 motely resembling dignity but he impressed one as being a 
 great man even though one met him in the street as a stranger. 
 
 Mr. Brown was practical in everything. He was a prac- 
 tical Christian and a practical philanthropist. He was 
 always ready to extend a hand to the suffering and needy 
 but he always made sure that his "contribution reached the 
 person or persons for whom it was intended. 
 
 Two years ago a Warren County. Mississippi, farmer sug- 
 gested that the people of the South erect a monument to the 
 memory of Mr. Brown, after his death. {This was during 
 Mr. Brown's life-time.) The movement found favor but was 
 not formally launched because Mr. Brown was alive at that 
 time and in the best of health. One of the Mississippi editors 
 proposed the following epitaph: 
 
 "In ten years he either gave or saved the 
 South two billion dollars." 
 
 Some day that moument will be erected and the epitaph 
 will carry out the suggestion of the editor. 
 
 ii:
 
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 x^ 
 
 JOHN DIBERT. 
 
 John Dibert's life history is an important chapter in 
 the chronicles of the South's development. He was one of 
 the sturdy pioneers whose brains and energies enabled the 
 Southern States to come into their own. 
 
 Mr. Dibert died .June 5, 1912 and when his heart stopped 
 beating finis was written on one of the greatest commercial 
 careers in the annals of Dixieland. 
 
 It was back in 1870 that Mr. Dibert left his father's 
 extensive farm lands in Ohio and cast his fortune with the 
 Pelican State which just then was in the throes of the Re- 
 construction Period. It required a magnificent faith in the 
 future of Louisiana for Mr. Dibert to remain after he had 
 seen conditions for himself. But he had that faith and he 
 stayed and he became one of its greatest citizens and lived 
 to see it one of the greatest states in the Union. 
 
 While still a very young man Mr. Dibert was one of the 
 foremost authorities on cypress and yellow pine in this country 
 and his vast knowledge of the industry, which even at that 
 time was important, made his services eagerly sought. He 
 associated himself with Lutcher and Moore who controlled im- 
 mense tracts of timber in Louisiana. It was not long before he 
 bought a substantial partnership in the concern and it ad- 
 vanced with great strides under the guidance of his genius. 
 
 Next Mr. Dibert formed the firm of Dibert. Stark and 
 Brown which bought some of the largest forests of virgin 
 
 timber in the world. Soon his company controlled twenty of 
 the biggest saw mills in the state and Mr. Dibert became 
 J-nnwn as "The Lumber King," a title he held at the time 
 of his death. 
 
 At the time Mr. Dibert's remarkable career came to a 
 close he held the following positions in the world of com- 
 merce : president of Dibert. Stark and Brown. Donner. La. : 
 secretary and treasurer of Lutt-her and Moore Cypress Com- 
 pany. Lutcher. La. ; vice-president of Lutcher and Moore Lum- 
 ber Company, Orange. Texas ; vice-president. Dibert. Bancroft 
 and Ross, foundry and machine works. New Orleans; president. 
 Whitney Iron Works. New Orleans; fir>t vice-president and 
 director Interstate Trust and Banking Company. New Orleans: 
 director. New Orleans Railway Company; director. New 
 Orleans Casualty Company and director of Southern Cypress 
 Manufacturers' Association. 
 
 Mr. Dibert took a great interest and pride in the progress 
 of New Orleans and gave generously to its civic and social 
 betterment. He was likewise a philanthropist and gave lib- 
 erally to many charitable institutions. 
 
 When Mr. Dibert died he left his big estate to the care 
 of his widow who has followed the business methods of her 
 husband and has added materially to the wealth placed in her 
 charge. She is a director in the bank of which Mr. Dibert 
 was vice-president. 
 
 114
 
 EDWARD WISNER, -the Father of l!.-< Uinuitum. was .in. dI Li>UTsiiiiia s gn alfst 
 men and one of lier greatest benefactors. He was the first man to develop, or reelaiin. 
 Louisiana's wet lands and he either invested, or eaused to be invested, in thi.-; state in land, 
 more monev than any other person in the history of the state. He died March 9. IJlo. 
 
 Mr Wisner had always had an infinite faith in the wet lands of the state.- He was 
 the first to realize that they could easily be converted into the richest land in the TOUi'try 
 for agricultural purposes. He succeeded in interesting »<■ «-™».''y ,f.""'^'f '"'''_, °f ' ''"'';; 
 and as a result they bought more than 45.000 acres of land in this state. Thi= led to 
 nianv other large investments. ,,• ,• iccn t., i««« 
 
 Mr Wisner was born on his fathers farm near Athene. Michigan. mlSfaO. In ISSb. 
 he came South on account of his health and settled in Franklin fan-li. ^ "'""', ^°""'i^"f„ 
 Two years later he established a bank at Delhi, where he handled timber and cotton, boine 
 y^ars later he founded the town of Wisner. He was the first to obtain large racts of 
 timber lands and at the same time he bought in a large area °' ^^f ™P, f "''r^,^!''^^-.*^^! 
 then known as "trembling prairies." Often he was ridiculed for buying "»" ^et land= but 
 he continued until he had acquired more than a million acres. Subsequently he brought 
 scientists to the s a e and the? vindicated his belief in the wonderful fecundity of thej,o>l 
 in 1911 Mr Wisner gave the city of New Orleans .'iO.OOO acres of wet lands to be sold tor 
 
 "^^ Long' befoit"'he "died. Mr. Wisner began to see the realization of his dream-that 
 I ouisKn? should become one of the greatest agricultural states in the union with many 
 and varied crops He mav be said to have added about 40.000.000 acres to the states 
 a?ea. Is it might have been many years before vast tracts of wet lands would have been 
 reclaimed had it not been for this pioneer. 
 
 115
 
 SAMUEL B. SNEATH wa- <Mir of the makers of the 
 New South. Uuiing his notably useful life he spent a large 
 part of his time at his birth-phu-e, Tiffin. Ohio, where he 
 had large interests, but New Orleans and Louisiana will always 
 claim him as one of their greatest developers. 
 
 Mr. Sneath died January 7, 1915, at Pass Christian, 
 Miss., whither he had gone ten days before in the hope that 
 the gulf breezes would restore his waning health. He was 
 8<j years old at the time his last sickness came upon him, 
 and he was unable to rally. 
 
 Mr. Sneath was born in Ohio. December 19, 1828. His 
 ancestors came to America before the Revolution and settled 
 near Wilmington, Delaware. 
 
 Mr. Sneath, even a quarter of a century ago, believed 
 in New Orleans and Louisiana and the contiguous territory 
 and he invested heavily in its banking, railroad and com- 
 mercial ventures. He was a financier of great poise and 
 splendid judgment and his advice and capital were substan- 
 tial factors in the growth of the Interstate Trust aud Bank- 
 ing Company, into one of the biggest institutions of its kind 
 in the Southern States. 
 
 Mr. Sneath never "took chances." His investments were 
 never made except after careful, personal investigation. 
 Fifteen years ago he foresaw the growth that has been the 
 portion of New Orleans in the last three or four years, and 
 
 he profited by helping to prtpait- lur tln' present trade de- 
 mands. 
 
 Mr. Sneath was either a stockholder or a director in a 
 score of corporations and he won the confidence of his fellows 
 as few men ever do. He was a big man in every sense of the 
 word. He thought in big figures : .when he be went into a 
 project he went into it in a big way : aud the results he 
 achieved were always big. He could have gone into any bank 
 in New Orleans at any time he lived in that city and borrowed 
 extensively on the mere nod of his head without concrete 
 security, — but with something that those who knew him held 
 to be as good as gold. — his word. 
 
 Mr. Sneath was conservative, but his conservatism was 
 not of the brand which halts progress. He never dreamed — he 
 wanted to know precisely what lay before him in any enter- 
 prise he undertook — and once he knew this he went in earn- 
 estly and enthusiastically, and won. 
 
 Mr. Sneath was a practical philanthropist. He not only 
 extended a helping hand to the faltering unfortunates whom 
 he met going through life, but he gave with splendid liber- 
 ality to homes and asylums of various kinds where he knew 
 his money would do the most good to the greatest number. 
 
 ^^^len he died Mr. Sneath left the distribution of his for- 
 tune to his widow, a business woman of the first calibre who 
 has managed the affairs of the estate in just such a way as 
 he would have done had he lived. She is a director in one 
 of the banks in which he had a big share. 
 
 116
 
 OSCAR L. PUTNAM. 
 
 In reveiwing the business history of New Orlean:^ and in 
 considering tliose factors wliit-h liave bad to do with the 
 progress and advance of this metropolis, few names stand 
 out more than does that of Oscar L. Putnam, cotton and sugar 
 broker who died in May, 1915. 
 
 The mature years of this man's life were devoted to pro- 
 mulgating wider business fields in which the whole of com- 
 mercial New Orleans had a share of value. 
 
 Mr. Putnam was born in Jackson, Miss., and was still 
 a young man when he came to New Orleans. The first busi- 
 ness house with which he became connected was that of R. E. 
 Craig and Co.. cotton factors. With this bouse be learned 
 every detail of the cotton business and in 1S86 was sufficiently 
 competent to enter an establishment of bis own. The firm 
 of Baldwin and Putnam grew into being. 
 
 The enterprise and ability of Mr. Putnam expanded the 
 business of this company so that shortly it grew into a larger 
 establishment, under the firm name of Flower, King and 
 Putnam. 
 
 Putnam and King succeeded this firm and finally evoluted 
 into Putnam and Norman, which, in spite of the withdrawal 
 of Mr. Norman some years ago. remained the firm's name at 
 the time of the senior member's death. 
 
 When Mr. Norman withdrew, Mr. Putnam associated with 
 himself bis nephew, Oscar Geren. 
 
 But it was not alone in the cotton industry that Mr. 
 Putnam found vent for bis business ability. He became in- 
 terested in Louisiana's sugar industry and before his death 
 
 was recognized as one of the city's big men in this phase o£ 
 commercial activity. * u v 
 
 A member, and "for some time a director of the New 
 Orleans Cotton Exchange, he became a member as well of 
 the Louisiana Sugar and Rice Exchange. Through these two 
 bodies be weilded a large influence in connection with de- 
 velopment of the city's and the state's business standing. 
 
 The live stock industry claimed a part of his interest 
 and Mr. Putnam acquired several plantations upon which he 
 worked out successfully his theories of live stock culture and 
 crop diversification. 
 
 It is a fact that a man of wide business interests con- 
 stantly finds himself confronted by opportunities for serving 
 in fields still wider and more wide. So. in Mr. Putnam's case. 
 He became a stockholder and director in the Hibernia Bank 
 and a stockholder and director in the D. H. Holmes Com- 
 panv. Ltd. 
 
 But business enterprises were not bis only interests. He 
 was a leading member in many of the more prominent car- 
 nival organizations : was a member of the Boston and the 
 Pickwick Clubs and is remembered as an officer in one of the 
 crack regiments of the old Crescent City Rifles, a voluntary 
 military organization of the latter 70's which aided in the 
 reconstruction work. 
 
 Eleven years before his death Mr. Putnam married Miss 
 Minnie Shaw. One son survives with the widow. 
 
 The body of this business leader is buried at Pass Chris- 
 tian. Miss. 
 
 Mr. Putnam was 60 years old at the time of bis death. 
 
 117
 
 JOSEPH SIMON 
 
 Among the distinguished citizens of New Orleans who went to their rest in the last 
 decade the name of Joseph Simon has a prominent place. He was a merchant prince and 
 philanthropist and died .June 15, 1 910. 
 
 Mr. Simon was born in Groenstacht, Germany in 1824. He came to the United States 
 while a young man. When the Civil War came he enlisted and served vailianlly with Co. 
 B. commanded by Captain G. W. West and also Colonel Girault's regiment of Louisiana 
 Volunteers. He was discharged at Camp Moore and was mentioned for especial bravery. He 
 deeply prized his discharge papers and always carried them in his wallet. 
 
 Mr. Simon took a prominent part in the organization of some of the Jewish bodies of 
 New Orleans which are the pride of the city, state and South- He founded the wholesale hat 
 firm of Simon and Kohn. which aftrward became Kohn, Weil & Co. 
 
 Mr. Simon served as president of the Hebrew Benevolent Association : he was a charter 
 member of Touro Infirmary; one of the founders of the Temple Sinai; and was a big figure 
 in the Jewish social life of the city. 
 
 Mr. Simon's home life was ideal. In 18.51 he was married to Miss Rosina Labatt, the 
 sweetheart of his boyhood days. He was survived by three sons and four daughters; S. L. and 
 David live in New York and Jacob lives in New Orleans ; Mrs. E. H. Jacoby lives in Mont- 
 gomery : Mrs. Herman Levy and Misses Estelle and Cora Simon live in New Orleans, A 
 sister, Mrs. David Weil, lives in Montgomery. 
 
 Mr. Simon took a deep interest in the civic life of New Orleans and gave much of his 
 time and money to civic betterment. He will always be regarded as one of the benefactors 
 of the city. He was a life long Mason. 
 
 118
 
 ROBERT S. (BOB) LANDRY. 
 
 Few men of the State of Louisiana won the love of their fellow men as did Robert S. 
 (Bob) Landry, who was clerk of the House of Representatives for 25 years and identified 
 with the state's affairs for 35 years. 
 
 Mr. Landry died December 2. 1915 and when the message was flashed over Louisiana 
 that he was dead there was genuine sorrow in every parish as he was probably the state's 
 most widely known citizen. 
 
 Mr. Landry was 55 years old when he died. He is survived by his widow and six 
 childrtn. 
 
 Mr. Landry was easily the greatest political authority in Louisiana. He possessed a 
 wonderful memory and he had a ready knowledge of every political event in the last half 
 century. He was not a partisan, in the strict sense of the word. He supported his friends 
 when he believed their cause right but he was one of the few politician:^ who had the con- 
 fidence, esteem and support of all factions at all times when he sought any office. He served 
 as secretary of the Democratic State Central Committee for 12 years — up to 1912. and from 
 that time was the assistant secretary. He almost grew up in the house of Representatives, 
 starting out as a page boy; then a committee clerk: then on the desk and finally as clerk 
 of the House. He could have been clerk of the House 50 years more, if he could have lived 
 that long, his friends believe, as no opposition was ever offered him. 
 
 Mr. Landry was assistant secretary of the Constitutional Convention in 1879, and secre- 
 tary of the Convention in 1S9S and 1913. 
 
 "Bob" Landry never amassed great wealth but as far as his income permitted he was 
 a philanthropist. He was always ready to help a faltering brother and he will always be 
 accounted among the great and good men of the state — not in having accomplished things 
 which bring the plaudits of the masses, but great in the things which counted him a real man. 
 
 119
 
 JOSEPH P. FLORtO, bom iu Venice, Italy. July 7, 1850. Died March 2. 1909. Lived 
 in New Orleans for 3U years, followed the Stevedore business until death in this City, did 
 the work for the Texas Trasport Ai Terminal Company for 10 years, also for other firms. Was 
 an Elk, Mason and belonged to other associations. The firm of which he was a member is 
 still in business under same title, J. P. Florio & Co., and is carried on by A. J. Buja. his 
 stepson. 
 
 120
 
 We invite vour Business in all lines oi Bankinfjf. 
 
 Whitney-Central Banks 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. I>A. 
 
 Capital and Surplus, $4,500,000 
 
 JOHN E. BOUDKN, Jk.. President 
 
 THE 
 
 Whitney-Central National Bank 
 
 Solicits vour Business in all lines of Commercial Banking. 
 
 FRANK B. WILLIAMS 
 HARRY T. HOWARD 
 J. D. O'KEEFE - 
 CHAS. T. BAISLEY 
 MAURITZ PYK 
 
 Officers 
 
 JOHN E. BOUDEN. Jr.. 
 ■Vice-President 
 Vice-President 
 V ice-President 
 Vice-President 
 Vice-President 
 
 AND THE 
 
 President 
 
 JNO. B. FERGUSON 
 
 E. H. KEEP 
 
 N. E. BERTEL - 
 
 N. M. WHITNEY 
 
 S. J. McMAIN 
 
 Cashier 
 Assistant Cashier 
 Assistant Cashier 
 Assistant Cashier 
 Assistant Cashier 
 
 Whitney-Central Trust & Savings Bank 
 
 Solicits your Savings Accounts. 
 Officers 
 
 JOHN E. BOUDEN. Jr. 
 HARRY T. HOWARD 
 FRANK B. WILLIAMS 
 CR.\WFORD H. ELLIS 
 
 President 
 Vice-President 
 Vice-President 
 Vice-President 
 
 H. L. FR.\NTZ 
 
 ALBERT BLOOM - 
 
 W. W. BOUDEN 
 
 JNO. L. COUTURIER. Ass't Cashier and Trust Officer 
 
 Vice-President 
 
 Vice-President 
 
 Cashier 
 
 Also acts as Executor of Wills. Administrators of Estates, Transfer Ajjent fbr Corporations. Receivers in 
 Litigations, Depositary of Court Monies, Guardian of Minors and in trust capacity of every character. 
 
 121
 
 rilBl'RNIA BANK AND TRUST COMPANY 
 
 FOKTY-SIX YKAKS OF CONTINUOUS SKKVICK AND GKOWTH 
 
 isTo - iQie 
 
 CAF^lT-A.!^ 5S1,500.000 SUTF^FT^OS ^2.000. OOf^ 
 
 MAFiOt-l "tl-i, IQie 
 
 RESOURCES 
 
 Loans and Discounts $10,782,782.31 
 
 Cash on Hand and with Banks 7,143,274.90 
 
 Bonds and Stocks... 3,993,288.22 
 
 Hibernia Bank Building 1,100,000.00 
 
 Other Real Estate - - 42(., 324.78 
 
 $23,445,670.21 
 
 LIABILITIES 
 
 Capital and Surplus S 3,500,000.00 
 
 Undivided Profits ..- 144,869.55 
 
 Deposits 19,800,800.66 
 
 $23,445,670.21 
 
 OFFICERS 
 
 JOHN J. GANNON President 
 
 HUGH McCLOSKEY Vice-President 
 
 R. W. WILMOT ..Vice-President 
 
 L. M. POOL Vice-President 
 
 R. S. HECHT ...Vice-President 
 
 CHAS. PALFREY Cashier 
 
 PAUL VILLERE Foreign Exchang^e 
 
 R. JOS. DRUHAN . Assistant Cashier 
 
 W. B. MACHADO Assistant Cashier 
 
 I. L. BOURGEOIS Assistant Cashier 
 
 P. H. WILKINSON Assistant Bond Officer 
 
 L. V. DeGRUY... Assistant Trust Officer 
 
 S. I. JAY Manager Savings Department 
 
 DIRECTORS 
 
 John J. Gannon 
 Hugh McCloskey 
 
 R. W. WiLMOT 
 
 L. M. Pool 
 C. E. Allgeyer 
 A. Brittin 
 C. P. Ellis 
 John T. Gibbons 
 Geo. J. Glover 
 
 Frank B. Hayne 
 Frank L. Levy 
 C. S. Mathews 
 Bernard McCloskey 
 J. S. Otis 
 e. overbeck 
 Charles Palfrey 
 John N. Stewart 
 Hugh E. Vincent 
 
 Frederic Wilbert
 
 ■^Aci«cfc,T-ij,* 
 
 ■^'^^^'^m^i^lj^i^^m.j^^j^ 
 
 BANANAS 
 
 Cheapest of Pure and Nutritious Foods 
 Put up and Sealed by Nature in a Germ- 
 Proof Package 
 
 FRUIT DISPATCH 
 
 COMPANY 
 IMPORT THE BEST 
 
 123
 
 KF"F"IdE^NC^V^ TMH> XV >^. T C Fi W O F2 ID 
 
 THE COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL 
 
 BOURBON RESTAURANT 
 124 BOURBON STREE I" 
 
 ROYAL CAFE 
 121 ROYAL STREET 
 
 
 One-Half Block from Canal 
 
 A. D. STHWART, Manager 
 
 BiDDi,K W. Allen 
 
 C. J. Kkiedrichs 
 
 ALLEN & FRIHDRICHS 
 
 Export Freight Handlers 
 AND Forwarders 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 agencies 
 
 NEW YORK KANSAS CITY 
 
 CHICAGO GALVESTON 
 
 Ca le Address "FREDALL" 
 
 Shipmenis Handled on LoCAt. ok Through 
 
 Bills of Lading on Quickest Possile 
 
 Dispatch and Lowest Rates 
 
 Charles A. Farwell Ellen R. Farweli, 
 
 MILLIKEN & FARWELL 
 
 COTTON FACTORS 
 
 Germ AN- American 
 
 National Bask Building 
 
 620 Canal St. 
 
 124
 
 Caribbean (^^ Southern Steamship Co. 
 
 INCOKPOKATKI) 
 
 OWNERS, AGENTS AND SHIP BROKERS 
 NEW YORK - MOBILE - NEW ORLEANS - CHICAGO 
 
 New Orleans Mexican Service 
 
 New Orleans to Progreso direct, sailings about everj- ten days. 
 
 New Orleans to River Plate Ports. 
 
 Mobile to Leeward and Winward Islands. 
 
 PX>R PTILL INFORMATION REGARDING FREIGHT RATES, 
 CHARTERING, Etc., APPLY TO 
 
 Caribbean & Southern Steamship Co., Inc. 
 
 17 BATTERY PLACE 
 NEW YORK 
 
 MOBILE, ALA. NEW ORLEANS, LA. CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 City Bank Building 202 Canal Bank Bldg. 208 S. La Salle Street 
 
 Edenborn Line 
 
 Louisiana Railway and Navi^-ation Company 
 
 SHREVEPORT BATON ROUGE 
 
 ALEXANDRIA NEW ORLEANS 
 
 Excellent Passenger Service 
 Fast Freisfht Service 
 
 J. F. MURDY, C. A. E. C. D. MARSHALL 
 
 709 Gravier St. General Passenger Agent 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA SHREVEPORT, LA. 
 
 125
 
 THE NOLA FILM COMPANY 
 
 Established 1914 
 
 HE Nola Film Company, only film producing concern per- 
 manently operating in the City of New Orleans, i-s located 
 on tlie old Fourchy estate on the west bank of picturesque 
 Bayou St. Jolin within forty rods of the famous duelling 
 oaks of historic City Park. 
 
 The Nola Company owns and operates a studio with a glass 
 enclosed stage capable of accommodating three acting companies. 
 The stage is equipped with the latest improved panchroma lights 
 making it possible to work by night as well as by day. 
 
 Adjoining the stage is an immense property room and a 
 carpenter shop with electrically driven machinery capable of turn- 
 ing out the most delicate cabinet w ork. All the settings used on 
 the stages are made here. 
 
 The laboratory which includes developing, drying and 
 printing rooms is fully equiped with the paraphernalia of the latest 
 design. 
 
 The Nola Film Company is making feature dramatic pro- 
 ductions and short length comedy films, and is also doing a big 
 volume of commercial film business. 
 
 Capt. William J. Hannon is President and General Mana- 
 ger of the Nola Film Company, w ith offices in tlie executive build- 
 ing of the Company at 1347 Moss Street. 
 
 12"
 
 JOHN McWlLLIAMS FORD, 
 Mavor, Shreveport, La. 
 
 JOHN McWlLLIAMS FORD, the popular, pro- 
 gre.«isive Mayor of Shreveport, Loui.siana, is 
 the son of Dr. Tliomas Griffin and Alice (Mf- 
 Williamsl Ford, and a native of Shreveport, where 
 he was born on February 15. 1.SS0. After attend- 
 ing private and public schools for the acquire- 
 ment of the rudiments of education. Mr. Ford, 
 during the years 1S;)3-1S96, attended Sewanec 
 Military Academy, soina. in 1896, to University 
 of the South. Sewanee. Tennes.see, where his edu- 
 cation was completed in 1S9S. Upon returning 
 home. Mr. Ford began his career in tlie busine.ss 
 world through tlie medium of banking", witli 
 which he was affiliated until 1902. The four 
 years following were devoted to business as a 
 merchant, and in 190() he tiroadened operations 
 to include wliolesale grain and milling activities. 
 His firm, known as Kalmbach-Ford Company. 
 Ltd., became one of tlie widely know'n factors 
 in tlie grain and mill industry of north Louisiana. 
 Mr. Ford's capabilities, however, required a more 
 exiiansive field for operation, and found a con- 
 
 genial outlet in civic work. In November. 190S, 
 lie became a meml:>er of Slireveport's City Coun- 
 cil, and until 1910 was one of the most active 
 members of tliat body. In 1914 he accepted 
 office witli tlie Police .lury. from wliicli he re- 
 tired in ]91(i to ser\-c as a member of the State 
 Legislature. Sliortly tliereafter lie was elected 
 Mayor of Slire\'eiiort. and, preferring to concen- 
 trate his capabilities in service to his Iiome 
 uiwn. lie accepted tlie office, which he has sinc^ 
 tilled with unanimous approval of Slireveport's 
 entire populace, who enthusiastically re-elected 
 liini their Ma.vor for a four-year term in 191S. 
 without any opposition whatsoever. 
 
 On September 15. 19ns. Mr. Ford and Miss 
 Mary Pearce were united in marriage, and their 
 home is a rendezvous for much of Shreveporfs 
 social and political activities. 
 
 Mr. Ford is a member of S. A. E. College Fra- 
 ternity, a popular B. P. O. E.. a Scottish Rite 
 Mason, Kniglit Ti-mp?ar and Sliriner. He belongs 
 to Shievepoit Rotary and Country Clubs, and is 
 considered one of the most virile and capable men 
 of north Louisiana and the State generally. 
 
 89
 
 Kppr':s WAvi.Ks broavne, 
 
 I.awviT. 
 
 ^^i'i'KS WAYLES BROWNE. Lawyer, member 
 rn ft' Louisiana General Assembly and promi- 
 ^^ nent le^i.slator, was born in Lake Provi- 
 dence. Louisiana, on Aiisust 27. ISTi). He is the 
 son of Benjamin F. and Laura Ella Browne. From 
 hiKh school he went to Louisiana State Univer- 
 sity, where he reache<l the junior class. He en- 
 tered Tulane Law School, .iiraduatini; with tlie 
 class of 1904 (May). He began the practice of 
 liis legal profession at once, in which he has 
 attained eminent success. He was appointed l»y 
 Governor Hall in 1912 Attorney for Tax Collec- 
 tion of Cad<lo F'arish. Louisiana. His activities 
 liave always been vi.^orously directed toward 
 moral betterment of the community. In 1917 he 
 was elected memlier of Louisiana General Assem- 
 bly to fill the unexpired term of .John McWil- 
 liams Ford, the prese.it Mayor of Shreveport, and 
 at once championed all issues retroactive on the 
 morals of the community, lie is amon,^ the most 
 forceful speakers of his section, and presents 
 ciuestions to the public with a concise clearness. 
 
 Mr. Browne has also been remarkably successful 
 in tlie world of commerce. Since 1912 he has 
 l)een a director of tlie American Xational Rank 
 of Sbreveport. He is President of the Title Guai- 
 aiity & Securities Comjiany. and also of the 
 Queen City Realty Comjjany. anil is a virile 
 worker for ijenuine dcveloi)ment of his community 
 and Slate. His well-known stability easily wins 
 ■A powertui followiii:^ for any unilertakin^ he 
 beeomes affiliated witii. and lie enjoys the confi- 
 dence of the classes and likewise of the masses, 
 whose interests he ne\er oveiMooks. Mr. Browne 
 "iiarried Miss Grace Hall Lani^. dau.arhter of B. W. 
 1-ant;. Clerk of Court in Harrison County. Texas. 
 Tlieir home happiness is completed by the pres- 
 ence of (Jiie son, E. Wayles Browne, Jr., who. at 
 the ai;e of two year'^. bad a vocabulary of over 
 1.400 words. Mr. Browne is a member of Amer- 
 ican B.'ir Association, beloniis to Louisiana Bar 
 .Association, beint; Chairman of the Committee 
 of llie Slireveoort Bar Association. He is also a 
 member of Elks Loliic. 122. and in every way one 
 of Louisiana's most active and progressive 
 citizens. 
 
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 MONROE 
 
 OUACHITA PARISH 
 
 M( IN |,'( )l'], sitiiiilcd in Xortlienst Tjoiiisiaiia, has a ii(i[nilati(Jii of some 11.000 puople, is located mi tiie 
 Ouarliiia ii'iver. with straniliiiat traffic to Xcw Orleans. The frovernniciit is constructing a system 
 nf Idcks and dams nn this river, one of which, at Monroe, is completed, and the two below seventy 
 per cent conqileted. 'I'hr appropriation I'oi- tlio completion of these two dams is in hand, and one season 
 of h)\v water will sulVicc to coiiiplele (hem, and thus insure ri\('r na\i,nalion the year round. 
 
 West Monroe, separalc(l rr(im ^foin'oc hy the Ouachita iiiver, has a population of 2,00(1, its own 
 municipal government, excellent systeins of wafei', sewerage, schools, churches and fire department. 
 
 There are three raili'oails through Monroe — the \'icksburg, >Shreveport & Pacific, Missouri Pacific, 
 Iron Mountain and its hranches, and the Arkansas, Loiiisiana it Midland, running twenty passenger trains 
 daily. 
 
 Monroe is the Jobbing and trade center of a rich agricultural country for a distance of seventy- Sve 
 miles in every direction. On account of her rivor transportation, ample railroad facilities, cheap freight 
 rates, with 500,000,(100 feet of oak, gum and pine timber in Ouachita Parish. Monroe is an ideal loca- 
 tion for manufacturing plants, especially woodworking plants. A box factory, veneer plant, chair fac- 
 tory, wagon factory and furniture factory would find Monroe an ideal site on account of raw material, 
 trade location and. cheap transportation with fuel from their waste. It is also an opportune time to estab- 
 lish in Monroe a departnu'iit store, overall factory, wholesale drug company, and a poultry packing plant, 
 and button factory. 
 
 The city owns and operates its water system, electric lighting plant, and street car system. 
 
 Monroe has a uni(pic pleasure resort in its Eadia Salt Water N"atatorium. The Natatorium is 
 owned and controlled by the eit}', the salt water (;omiug from a well about 3,400 feet in depth, the result 
 of an attempt to strike oil and gas during the year 1909. After reaching a depth of 2,400 feet the salt 
 water rushed in and drowned the well, though .some gas is flowing yet, coming up with the salt water, 
 and in sufficient quantity to run heating plants for the shower baths. The swimming pool is 200 x 400 
 feet, ranging in depth from one to twelve feet. The flow of water is about 7,000 gallons per day, insur- 
 ing clean water at all times. There are four bath houses ample to accommodate 350 bathers. 
 
 The agricultural lands surrounding Monroe are remarkably rich; a sandy loam producing large 
 acreage yields of cotton, corn, oats, potatoes, peas, soy beans, and hay. The long growing season and 
 ample rainfall (50 inches) making possible two, and even three crops in one year. 
 
 Monroe is noted for its fine schools and churches and its immunity from epidemic diseases, 
 cyclonic and seismic disturbances. It has never, in all its history, bad an epidemic, a destructive storm 
 nor an earthquake. It is an ideal place to live and prosper. 
 
 A $500,000 bond issue for about 100 miles of good roads was recently voted in two road dis- 
 tricts for the construction of roads radiating from Monroe north, northeast, east, southeast, and south. 
 These roads wall give easy access to Monroe to farmers fifteen or twenty miles distant, making fa:-m 
 lands in the vicinity of !^^onroe more attractive. 
 
 'I'he development of the Monroe Oil and Gas Field, twenty miles north of this city, has given 
 an impetus to the industrial life of Monroe. Several Avells have produced gas in large quantities, and 
 gas from this field wnll be piped to Monroe in a short while. Natural gas will make cheap fuel that will 
 be attractive to manufacturing enterprises, and the added attraction of river navigation will lend vigor 
 to the industrial life of Monroe. 
 
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 ARTHUR WASHINGTON de ROALDES, 
 
 Surgeon — Humanitarian. 
 
 - Jf RTHUR WASHINGTON de ROALDES. 
 ^^ surgeon, humanitarian, veteran of tlie 
 '— *» Franco-Prussian War of ISTU. Com- 
 mandeur de la Legion d'Honneur, Commandeur 
 of the papal Order of Saint Gregoire le Grand, 
 Chevalier of the Italian Order of Saints Maurice 
 et Lazare. was born in Opelousas, Louisiana. 
 January liSth, ls4:i. Son of Abel de Roaldes, M. 
 D. and Coralie Testas de Folmont of the Depart- 
 ment du Lot, Fiance. 
 
 Arthur W. de Roaldes was a grand nephew of 
 General Garrigues de Flaujac of St. Landry 
 Parish, Louisiana who emigrated to Louisiana 
 during the French revolution, bacame later State 
 Senator, luid was a hero of the battle of New 
 Orleans, specially mentioned in the official re- 
 port of General Jackson; General Garrigues de 
 Flaujac was credited with having commanded the 
 battery that killed Pakenham. 
 
 Arthur W. de Roaldes was educated in France 
 by the Jesuits; was awarded by the jury of the 
 University of France the diploma of Bachelier- 
 es-Lettres in 1S65 and of Bachelier-es-Sciences 
 in '1866. An epidemic of choleia having closed 
 the schools of Paris he returned to America 
 where he began his medical studies and later 
 became interne of the Charity Hospital. The 
 Medical Department of the L'niveisity of Louisi- 
 ana (now Tulane) conferred upon him"the diploma 
 
 of doctor in 1869, after which he continued his 
 medical studies in France. He passed his last 
 examination before the Faculty of Paris, by 
 which he was awarded the title of docteur en 
 medecine in l,S7(i. At the outbreak of the Franco- 
 IM'ussian wai- he offered his services, and on the 
 recommendation of Professor Nelaton and Dr. 
 Marion Sims, was appointed Assistant Aide- 
 Ma.ior of the 6th International Ambulance. At 
 the retreat of the .5th Army Corps, surprised by 
 the Germans, he was mentioned in the Order of 
 the Day for act of bravery on the eve of the 
 Battle of Sedan. Not only did he .save his 
 .\mbulance at the Battle of Beaumont-Mouzon, 
 but also a number of wounded in an improvised 
 hospital, which Piussian guns directed at a 
 pontoon behind it, had set flre to, for which he 
 was subsequently made Chevalier de la Legion 
 d'Honneur. He planted the Red Cross flag on the 
 roof of the burning building, which forced the 
 Prussians, in respect to the article of the Con- 
 vention of Geneva, to change the direction of 
 their firing. The following day, with the aid of 
 three hospital nurses, in the heat of battle he 
 rescued 17 wounded French and Germans from a 
 burning house at Bazeilles. He then served in 
 the Armee de la Loire until the end of the war. 
 
 Cte de Flavigny, President of the French Red 
 Cross, appointed Dr. de Roaldes Surgeon-in-Chier 
 at the outbreak of the Commune, and he organ- 
 ized the .\niliulance of ('haville and Ville d'Avray, 
 
 f^Continufd on patjc 'J8J 
 
 97
 
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 uuAhi)i:s. 
 
 itUjinlited from page 97) 
 
 acting: under the orders of the government of 
 Versailles. The Jled Cross Society pi-esentcd him 
 with (iatteriiiK documents expressing its thanks, 
 as well as with the .Surgical Instruments used in 
 his Aml)ulaiu*e during the Second Siege of Paris. 
 
 In 1S7^ he retui-ned to New Orleans and served 
 as Chief of Clinic successively to Professors 
 Itichardson and Logan. At different periods he 
 WHS visiting Surgeon at the Charity Hospital. 
 
 In 1JS76 for reasons of health he went to Nice, 
 J'^rance, where he joined the Medical Society and 
 practised his profession during the winters, 
 traveling during the summer on tlie continent. 
 
 in 1 SSO (Joveiiior Wiltz of Jyouisiana. offered 
 him the i)osilion of Suigcon in Chief of the 
 Charity Hosi>ital which he accepted, and i-eturned 
 to New (.>rleatis to assume its diiection. The 
 l^oard of Administration at the head of which 
 was Doctor ilnlliday, seconded Dr. de Koaldes 
 unsuccessful cltort to intioduce traine<i nurses 
 into the Cliaiity Hospital. It was not until ten 
 j'ears later that a sul)s<M)uent administration ac- 
 cepted the reform. louring liis term as Surgeon 
 in Chief he suggested and pi-esented plans for an 
 ambulance service, which were also carried out 
 by a successor. 
 
 From 1887-1889 he devoted himself to special 
 study of diseases of the Ear, Nose, Throat ami 
 ('hest. visiting for that puri)ose during Spring 
 and Summer the principal clinics of Europe. 
 Aided by charitable citizens, he founded in 1SS9 
 the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital with 
 Mr. William B. Schmidt, as its first piesident, 
 and of which he became Surgeon in Chief. He 
 held this position until his death. 
 
 In 1S90 he was elected to the Chair of Oto- 
 laryngology in the Faculty of the New Orleans 
 Polyclinic (now Tulane Post-Graduate School 
 of Medicine.J He took part in 1890 In the Inter- 
 national Congress of Berlin and became Corre- 
 sponding Member of la Societe Francaise d'Otolo- 
 gie de Ithinologie et de Laryngologie; Vice-Presi- 
 dent Louisiana State Medical Society in 1892; 
 in 1898 was president of the Orleans Parish 
 Medical Society; president New Orleans Diph- 
 theria Antitoxin Commission in 1894; Fellow of 
 the American Laryngological Association, and 
 delegate from it to the Ijaryngological Associa- 
 tion of England, and to the .^th International 
 Otological Congress 1895 held in Florence. Italy. 
 At this Congress he was chosen a meml^er of the 
 Organization Committee of the next International 
 Congress to be held in London in 1899. Mem- 
 ber of International Congress in Roine in 1S94. 
 Paris. 1900, Member of American Committee 
 of Seventh Otological Congress in 1904 at 
 Bordeaux. He collaborated in several medi- 
 cal journals in America and in Europe. He 
 was Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, 
 and Member of Institute of Social Sciences. His 
 graduation thesis on "Bes fractures du Femur 
 par armes a Feu," received honorable mention 
 by the Faculty of Paris. Among his writings on 
 medical themes are: 
 
 ■'A Case of Atresia Laryngis from Catarrhal 
 Laryngitis, with presentation of Patient followed 
 by Intubation;" 1891. 
 
 "The Electrical Department of the Eye. Ear, 
 Nose and Throat Hospital of New Orleans;" 1893. 
 
 "Adenoid Growths of the Naso- Pharynx and 
 their Treatment;" 1893. 
 
 "An improved Motor-Dynamo and Electrical 
 Cabinet;" 1S94. 
 
 "Bromide of Ethyl as an Anaesthetic in Oto- 
 Laryngological Practice;" 1894. 
 
 "A Case of Foreign Body (gold coin) Engaged 
 in the Ventrides of the Larynx;" 1894. 
 
 "A Ca.se of f'ompound Follicula Odontoma in- 
 vading the Kight Anteum of Highmore and 
 obstructing the Corresponding Nasal Fossa;" 
 1894. 
 
 "The Differential Diagnosis between Diphtheria 
 and other Diphtheroid (Psendo Membranous) In- 
 flammations of the Upper Air Passages can only 
 be positively established in doubtful cases by the 
 presence of the Ivlebs-LoelTler Jiacilus;" 1894. 
 
 "Notes on Diphtlieria Antitoxine," ]89r). 
 
 "Itepoit of the Dii)htheria Antitoxin Commis- 
 sion of New (Jrleans;" 1S94-1895. 
 
 "Nciti's Preliminaries sur (lualques unes des 
 I>;irlienlarites du Negre en Otologie." 1896. 
 
 "Ftcjjort of a case of Incomplete Fracture of 
 the Left Corina of the Thyroid Cartilage, result- 
 ing fr<nn Self-lnllicted Violence;" 1897. 
 
 "A Remarkable Case of KiI)ro-Chondroma of 
 Branchial Origin (Pharyngeal Teratoma), re- 
 moved from the Throat of an Infant Six Weeks 
 Old." 18;)7. 
 
 "lieport of a few Cases of Chronic Empyema 
 of the Antrum of Highmore; operation by the 
 Caldwell-Luc Method," 1900. 
 
 "Management of Foreign Bodies in the Air 
 Passages;" 1900, etc. 
 
 In 1903 the French Government, in considera- 
 tion of his scientific works and of his Fijunda- 
 tion made him Officer of the Legion d'Honneur. 
 
 A short while after, he was awarded at a i)ub- 
 lic ceremony by a committee of the Progressive 
 Union, the Picayune "Boving Cup," an honor 
 conferred upon the one recognized by the citizens 
 of New Orleans as having rendered the greatest 
 service during the year for the public benefit. 
 
 Subsequently, France rewarded the gratuitous 
 services rendered her indigent sick by his hospital 
 foundation by sending it a magnificent Vase de 
 Sevres of heroic size, example that was followed 
 by the governments of Italy, Russia, Germany, 
 and Spain with artistic gifts to the same insti- 
 tution in appreciation of medical attention given 
 their respective poor. 
 
 In 1906 lie raised a large sum of money with 
 which was constructed the new clinic of the Eye, 
 Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, of which the in- 
 auguration took place February 2::;nd. 1908. In the 
 same year he was raised by the government to 
 the grade of Commandeur de la Begion d" 
 Honneur. 
 
 In 1907, he presided over the meeting in 
 Washington of the American Laryngological 
 Association. 
 
 In 1896 Doctoi- de Roaldes lost his sight at 
 the zenith of his professional career. Undauntecl 
 l)y his misfortune that would have forced many 
 ;tnothei- into inactivity, he courageously con- 
 tinued, handicapped as he was. with the help of 
 competent partners and assistants the success- 
 ful administration for 1.') years of his hospital 
 foundation and his office practice until invalidism 
 seven years before his death confined him to his 
 home. It was a cruel irony of fate that one who 
 h^A founded a hospital for the relief of eye 
 cases should himself have been stricken with 
 blindness. He died June 12th. 1918. Doctor de 
 Hoaides was a devout Catholic. 
 
 He mari-ied in 1874 Baura Pandely who died 
 in 1S75. In 1885 he married Annie E. Miller, 
 daughter of Justice Henry C. Miller of the 
 Supreme Court of Louisiana. 
 
 He was well known for his genial disposition, 
 hospitality, his power of making and keeping 
 fj'iends. and his kindliness to the poor. 
 
 Active membei- for many years of the Orleans 
 Palish Medical Society, Louisiana State Medical 
 Society, and of the American Laryngological As- 
 sociation, when sickness necessitated his retire- 
 ment, he was put on the list of Honorary Mem- 
 bers. 
 
 98
 
 CITART.ES ALl'lIc JN/.i 1 l''A l; \\ KM. 
 Tlusiness Man, Sugar Factor, Philanthropist. 
 
 GHARLES ALPHONZO FARWELL. an ifleal- 
 i.stic spirit, a mind of unusual brilliancy 
 and an executive skill that proceeded with 
 uninterrupted assurance to the accomplish- 
 ment of the designed ends easily appointed the 
 late Charles Alphonzo Farwell a leader of the 
 more difficult and hazardous combats that de- 
 velope in the growth of a community populated 
 by so widely diverse nationalities and actuated by 
 stich conflicting aims as are characteristic of 
 New Orleans. His contribution to the commercial 
 strength of the city was notable. Grounded in 
 the knowledge obtained b.\' personal contact with 
 the problems of management of large plantations, 
 during his career in that capacity on the planta- 
 tion of his uncle, Richard Milliken, Mr. Farwell 
 entered the office of the former in New Orleans 
 but soon became a partnei- of the business which 
 as Milliken & Farwell was one of the leading 
 factors in the sugar producing and selling in- 
 dustry of the south. Mr, Farwell attained 
 special eminence in connection w'ith his work in 
 behalf of protection of American industries. His 
 ■ wide knowledge of tariff laws in their relation 
 'to the sugar industry thiust upon his shoulders 
 the welghtest work for the preservation of this 
 most important Louisiana product. When the 
 American Cane Glowers' Assn. was organized in 
 1896, Mr. B''arwell was elected its President. He 
 affiliated his organization with the .\merican 
 Beet Sugar Assn. and within a month visited 
 
 W a.^iiingti.iii. siippiirtt'l h\' a coninuttee of staunch 
 adherents to the i)rotective policy on sugar. 
 There under abnoi'inal difficulties Mr. Farwell 
 and his associates were instrumental in abetting 
 the introduction of the famous Dingley Bill into 
 <'ongress, which after much opposition was final- 
 ly signed by President McKinle.v. Mr. Farwell's 
 acti\'ity in behalf of sugar continued unabated, 
 and at tlie time of his decease he was President 
 of tlie American Protective Tariff League. 
 
 Charles Alphonzo Farwell waJs the son of 
 Charles A. and Martha Blair Farwell, born in 
 New Orleans in November, 1S61). A part of his 
 boyhood days were spent at his father's old 
 home in Rockland, Maine in the acquirement of 
 rudimentary education. He returned to New- 
 Orleans and completed education through a pi'i- 
 vate school. 
 
 Despite the vast import of his public life, it 
 was as a private citizen that Mr. Farwell dis- 
 played the most notable characteristics. His 
 cliarity was wide, generous and unobtrusive. As 
 a friend and benefactor of the Charity Hospital 
 he devoted much time during his later years to 
 the management of the affairs of that institu- 
 tion. Largely through his interest therein, his 
 aunt. Mrs. Deborah Milliken. contributed several 
 hundred thousand dollars for the erection of the 
 Milliken Memorial Building of Charity Hospital 
 which augmented its facilities in such a marked 
 degree. Mr. Farwell was a man of culture whose 
 
 (Conlinucd on page 114) 
 
 99
 
 CAPTAIN PENDLETON S. . -M 
 
 UIMS. 
 
 Rusiness Man, PliilanthroiJii^t. 
 
 a ATTAIN PENDLETON S. MOKRIS. P.usi- 
 ness man, Philanthropist and IiJealist. 
 whose thirty-six years of activity in all 
 mattf'rs appertaining to the best development of 
 the South have impressed the history of progress 
 of the best interests of that section of the 
 country in a most vital manner, was born in 
 Frankfort, Kentucivy on December 31st. ISfiS. He 
 was the son of H.irry Innis Morris and Ann 
 Stewart Morris, native Kentuckians. and Is born 
 of those families who place ideals high in their 
 family life. His ancestors, through the paternal 
 and also the maternal line, were factors of de- 
 velopment through colonial a-lid revolutionary 
 times to date. Througli the maternal line, Mr. 
 Morris was decended from the Stewarts of 
 Virginia, one of whom was a distinguished and 
 brave member of Washington's army during the 
 French and Indian wars. Another distinguished 
 ancestor, of the maternal line, was Commodore 
 Richard Taylor, first cousin of Col. Richard 
 Taylor, father of President Zachary Taylor. 
 Througli his father, Mr. Morris was descended 
 from the Morris's of Louisa County, Virginia: 
 likewise from Judge Harry Innis. a noted Jurist 
 of Kentucky and Virginia, at one time Attorney 
 General of the District of Kentucky and until 
 his death Judge of the U. S. District Court. 
 Autliorities estimated .ludge Innis the coinpeer 
 of Patrick Henry in eloquence and his superior 
 
 ih titta iti nient.s. I'lie former refused the office of 
 Chief .Justice of the I'^nitcd States. He married 
 KIi/'al»elh (^allaway, daughter of Col. James Calla- 
 way of Virginia, who fought in the French and 
 Inilian wars and was a Colonel in the Revolution- 
 ary war. 
 
 Their descendant, Capt. T*endleton S. Morris, 
 spent a happy youth in his native town of Fi-ank- 
 fort, and entered the comjiiercial arena in 1SS2 
 as an employe of the Chess-Carley Oil Company 
 in Louisville, Ky. His entire business life was 
 devoted to oil interests. He remained with the 
 Chess-Carley Comp.iny until the Standard oil Co. 
 absorbed it, since which date he has been an able 
 official of the latter concern whose interests he 
 represented in Louisiana since September, 1897. 
 Capt. Morris actively participated in every move- 
 ment for the highest civic development of his 
 resident community. He was President of the 
 New Orleans Assn. of Commerce. Vice-Chairman 
 of the New Orleans Red Cross and Cli lirman of 
 Draft Board No. LS. Representing the most ex- 
 clusive socially, he was President of Pickwick 
 Club of New Orleans, a delightful host and an 
 especially charming companion to those who en- 
 joyed his friendship. In chuich matters he was 
 foremost, being a regular attendant at Trinity 
 Episcopal Church and. unlike the multitude, 
 practiced his religious beliefs in his daily deal- 
 ings with the world. He was never heard to 
 speak unkindly of anyone, he gave liberally of his 
 
 ((Continued on pagv. 114) 
 
 100
 
 Wn.I.TAM I'ATKICK BURKE. 
 Business Man. 
 
 -^^pr ILLIAM PATRICK BURKE was the 
 ^ w 1 eldest son of Nicholas BurUe and Eliza- 
 vA/ beth Hanton, and was born in New Or- 
 leans on the 14th of January, ISfiS. During his 
 early years he attended the parochial schools and 
 was later a student at the College of the Im- 
 maculate Conception from which he graduated in 
 ISSl with distinguished honors. 
 
 Immediately after i^raduating he entered the 
 business world as a cleik of Nicholas Burke 
 Company, Limited. Wholesale Grocers and Im- 
 porters, of which his father was President. His 
 zealous attention to duty, his affability, and his 
 strong and noble character soon won for him 
 pr(tmotion, and in 1S92 he was made Vice-Presi- 
 dent of the Mrm. a position which he held until 
 his father's dealli in l!to4. j^ince which time he h-j.s 
 been The :icting President and Directing Genius 
 of the Institution, although he steadfastly re- 
 fused to accept the higher title out of defeience 
 to his fathei's memory. 
 
 In January, 1906 Mi-. Burke helped to organize 
 the German-Ameiican Savings Bank and Trust 
 Company, of which he was immediately elected 
 •President. During his administration the Bank, 
 small at first, grew rapidly, and was soon 
 reckoned among the most successful institutions 
 of its kind in the state. Later, in .lanuary, 1914, 
 when this bank merged with the Canal-Louisiana 
 Bank and Trust (^ompany and the Gcrman-.Ameri- 
 can National Bank, in recognition of his faithful 
 
 ser\ices. his sterling honest \". and business acu- 
 men, Mr. Burke was elected Chairman of the 
 Board of Directors of the new Ijank. a position 
 carrying with it even more responsibility than 
 that of President. 
 
 In 1915 his sound business methods, strict 
 veracity, and uncompromising adherence to his 
 ideals had won for him a universal, reputation, 
 and he was selected as on© of the foremost busi- 
 ness men of the city to act as a director of the 
 Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company, 
 a widely coveted honor. He was also a director 
 of the Southern Railway System, and a few years 
 earlier had been a director of D. H. Holmes Com- 
 l)any. Limited. 
 
 Besides the more businesslike side of his nature 
 he exhibited at all times a most considerate, un- 
 seltish and self-.sacrificing trend of character which 
 knew no limit in the service of his friends, and 
 which made him universally beloved by all those 
 with whom he came into contact. His popularity 
 with his associates is evidenced by the number 
 and quality of the clubs and organizations to 
 which he belonged. Among these were the fol- 
 lowing: President. Club on Wheels; Member of 
 the Governing Board of the Boston Club; Life 
 Member of the Pickwick Club: Member of the 
 Governing Board of the Audubon Golf Club; 
 Member of the following clubs: Louisiana. Chess. 
 Checlcers and Whist, Stratford, and of the South- 
 ern Yacht Club, Pass Christian Yacht club. New 
 
 (^C:>nliniied on pa<jr 114) 
 
 101
 
 JOHN NEAVTON PHARR, 
 Sugar Plantei". 
 
 JOHN NEWTON PHARR was born in North 
 Carolina of Revolutionary ancestry, March 
 19. 1S39. His father was a cotton planter. 
 The family moved to Tennessee and thence to 
 Mississippi, and ut the age of 20, while living 
 in Mississippi, his attention was called to the 
 Louisiana paper shell pecan, and upon inquiry 
 he learned that they were grown on Bayou Teche. 
 He was told also that the Teche country pro- 
 duced marvekius crops, and resolved at once "to 
 spy out the land." He arrived in St. Mary's 
 Parish in 1S50. and immediately set to work with 
 his extraordhiary energy and ability, and at the 
 outbreak of the war was the owner of a con- 
 siderable amount of property and a number of 
 slaves. He served throughout the period of the 
 war as a Confederate soldier and started afresh 
 at its close to rebuild his fortunes. He became 
 interested in sugar plantations, steamboats, tim- 
 ber lands, and saw mills, and at the time of 
 his death he was the largest individual owner 
 of sugar properties in the State. Mr. Pharr was 
 a man of unusual force of character, and his 
 name was synonymous with integrity and honor, 
 and his word was his bond. In 1S6S he married 
 Miss Henriette Andrus of Opelousas and there- 
 after became associated with the Methodist 
 Kpiscopal Church, the Sunday School and the 
 cause of prohibition. Three sons, John Andrus, 
 Henry Newton ancl Eugene Albertus, are the 
 present representatives of the family in Louisi- 
 ana, holding intact, and operating, and year by 
 
 year adding to the estate. In 1896, two years 
 after the first "Wilson bill, the sugar planters 
 in Louisiana, acting almost as a unit, went over 
 to the Republican party, calling themselves the 
 "Lily Whites." John Newton Pharr became the 
 unwilling standard bearer in the gubernatorial 
 nomination, and. as the records of that date will 
 amply testify, he was elected Governor by an 
 overwhelming majority of the white voters. The 
 following is taken from un editorial of the 
 Times-Democrat of that year, w'hlch paper op- 
 posed his candidacy: "It must be admitted 
 that Mr. Pharr carried twenty of the twenty- 
 five white parishes in the State, while his Demo- 
 cratic opponent carried the remaining five white 
 parishes and all of the so-called black parishes, 
 having negro majorities." 
 
 The political machinery of the State at the 
 time was in the hands of the Democratic party, 
 and Mr. Pharr was counted out. There was. 
 however, a lively contest at Eaton Rouge which 
 might easily have resulted in civil strife. Mr. 
 Pharr agreed to withdraw only after tlie leaders 
 of the I_>emocratic party pledged themselves to 
 a Constitutional Convention by which means the 
 negro vote was to be elminated from political 
 contests in future. This convention followed in 
 1S9S. since which time the negro vote has 
 ceased to be a factor in the State. 
 
 John Newton Pharr died at his home on 
 "Fairview Plantation." in St. Mary Parish, on 
 Nov. 21, 1903. honored and loved by the com- 
 n^unity, where he had dwelt more than half a 
 century, leaving a record in public, biisiness and 
 private life, an honor to his family. 
 
 iu:;i
 
 PHILII' ^VKRLKIX. 
 
 Business Man, Merchant, Man of Affairs. 
 
 CHI LIP WERLEIN, nationally known as one of Louisiana's ablest men. was 
 born in New Orleans on June 5th, 1S7S, the son of Philip and Betty (Parham) 
 Werlein. With the completion of acquirement of education. Mr. Werlein 
 n turned to Nl'W Orleans to associate with the business known as "Philip 
 Werlein," founded by his Grandfather, one of the oldest houses in the United 
 States engaged in the sale of pianos, musical instruments and music, of which 
 business he became the Head and Chief Executive. Under his direction the firm 
 of "Philip Werlein" cor.tinued its growth and expansion in a remarkable manner. 
 Mr. Werlein, in addition, was one of the most active men in the community in 
 belialf of public betterment. lie served for three terms as President of the 
 New Orleans Progressive Union, and was a determinate factor in promoting every 
 movement having the growth and development of New Orleans as' its object. 
 He was Sub-Treasurer of the United States, but accepted only as a party measure 
 so as tn iierniit the then encumbent to assume another important post. He was 
 Vice-Chairman of Democratic State Central Committee and President of the 
 Election of Supervisors of Orleans Parish. In the piano industry he enjoyed the 
 best esteem of its leaders, and was President of the National Association of 
 Piano Merchants. His acquaintance with artists and musicians was world-wide, 
 most of whom esteemed Mr. Werlein as a warm personal friend, and his death 
 on February 2*2. UtlT. bereaved New Orleans particularly and a world-wide circle 
 generally of one of its most beneficent and valuable influences. 
 
 103
 
 WASHINGTON' O. BOVLAN. 
 r.usimss Ahm. 
 
 -RT-V \SHINGTON G. BOYLAN, Protector of 
 \ If / I'ublic Safety: Soldier; Business Man. 
 yA/ Probably few men in this generation 
 have been as familiar with the applied art of 
 buiKlarv. or knew how to deal moie effectively 
 with its instigators than tiie late Washington 
 G. Bovlan, whose activities as guardian of public 
 safety extended over a half century. Absolutely 
 fearless, with a mind keenly alert to tlie dis- 
 guises of danger and quick to detect its pei- 
 petrators, he was the terror of that P-irt of the 
 world engaged in destroying its fellowmen and 
 their property. Mr. Boylan's activities as a de- 
 fendei- of mankind began with his admission to 
 the Thirteenth I^ouisiana Volunteers as a private, 
 at the outbreak of the Civil War. At the close 
 of the war he had attained to tlie rank of captain. 
 In I.XTT, during the turmoil between the Metro- 
 politans and the State Supreme Court. Capt. 
 Bovlan with the late Ben J. Onorato. under ap- 
 liointment of the then civil sheriff. Thom-is H. 
 Handy, deterred Major Loan, Capt. Giay and 
 Bight or ten uniformed officers, acting under 
 orders fi-oni .Judge IjUdeling. from taking posses- 
 sion of the premises and held same until the in- 
 stallation into office of the NichoUs Court headed 
 bv Chief Justice Manning had been successfully 
 
 accoini)lished. Later, for 20 years, Mr. Boylan 
 engaged in the peaceful pursuit of weigher for 
 I'ort of New Orleans, but resigned that office 
 to become again active in defense work under 
 the institutional name of Boylan's Detective 
 Agency and Protection Police. This organization 
 gained permanent fame fo'r its work as a pro- 
 tector of individuals and properties. For 32 
 years Cipt. Boylan directed the operations of the 
 protective police who guarded the banks of New 
 Orleans. His men were on duty day and night. 
 In addition to its bank corps, the Boylan com- 
 pany operated an efficient detective system. 
 Through that department they have brought 
 many notable criminals to justice, including W. 
 Thomas Smith and Jas. W. Harper, officials of 
 the First National Bank of Hattiesburg who 
 were trailed from Hattiesburg. Miss., to Van- 
 couver. B. C, and finally captured at Seattle, 
 Wash. They also detected and e.xposed the opera- 
 tions of many forgers. They made the world 
 safe onlv for men whose activities could endure 
 the glare of rigid investigation and freedom from 
 all crookedness. Mr. Boylan was born in New- 
 Orleans where he lived all his life. He was a 
 graduate of Spring Hill College of Mobile. He 
 married Miss Ogiana E. Westerfield. Their 
 
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 107
 
 CHAUT.IOS DICKENS MONTGOMERY. 
 
 {Coittiniiid front paije 70) 
 
 Subsf^qiieiitlj' l;o rt'nio\-f(l to New Orleans, where he is 
 Agency Manager for the same conrern. Mr, Montgom- 
 ery married Miss Alice Hicks, of Green w<h)i.1. Missis- 
 sipiji. Their three children are John Hides, Charles 
 Dickens and l-'rances Montgomery, Mr. Montgomery 
 is a member of Cliicas:o and New Orleans Press Clubs, 
 and belongs to the Masonic orders. 
 
 GliORGE SHAl^L KAUSLER, 
 
 {Continued from patjt 71) 
 IDOo, Mr. Kausler assumed entire ownership and con- 
 trol of the latter business which, under the firm name 
 of Geo, .S, Kausler, Ltd., of which Mr. Kausler is 
 President, is an important factoi" in Southern insurance 
 circles. Mr. Kausler married Miss Wilhelmina Hall- 
 wede. There are no children. He is a luemljer of New 
 Orleans Chess, Checkers and Whist Clul). Hoston, New 
 Oi'leans Country. Soutiiern Yacht and various other 
 clubs and Carnival associations. He was Commis- 
 sioner of .Shakspeare Almsliouse under tlie Shakspeare 
 administration, and with rank of Colonel has served 
 on staffs of the various governors, including Murphy 
 J. l^'ostei" and \V. W. Heard. He is also a member of 
 the Motor League of Louisiana. 
 
 ABRAHAM BRITTIN. 
 
 {Continind from pai/e 71) 
 the New Orleans Cotton Exchange for thirty-nine years, 
 was elected President three times, and later as hon- 
 orary member. In May. 1SS8. he was elected on the 
 Young Men's Democratic ticket to membership in tlie 
 Citj' Council, during which service the Mayor ap- 
 pointed him Chairman of the Budget Committee and 
 member of the Finance Committee. In 1S96 he was 
 elected on the Citizens' League ticket as a member of 
 the City Council, of which body he was elected Presi- 
 dent. During his term of olfice as acting Mayor, he 
 supplied the city with the plans for its splendid system 
 of water supply and sewerage facilities. In 191^0 he 
 was made Vice-President of the Board of Li^iuidation 
 of City Debt. He is a member of the Board of Direc- 
 tors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New 
 York; President Board of Trustees of Howard Memorial 
 Liljrary; member Board of Directors of Hibernia Bank 
 & Trust Co.; member Board of Trustees of Tulane- 
 Newcomb University. Mr. Brittin is prominent socially, 
 and a member of a number of clulis of prestige. 
 
 JOSEPH H. DE GRANGE. 
 
 (Continued from pane 71) 
 
 present is the Secretary of the New Orleans Railway 
 and Light Company. 
 
 Is a member of the Country Club. Pickwick Club, 
 Young Men's Gymnastic Club, and life honorary mem- 
 ber of the Chess and Southern Y'acht Clubs and various 
 Carnival organizations, and the Shakspeare Club. Presi- 
 dent of the Jovian League. Is a veteran of the Wash- 
 ington Artillery Civil War service. Vice-President of 
 the Public Libraries, a member of the Sewerage and 
 Water Board. Was President of the Board of Fire 
 Commissioners when the paid Fire Department was 
 organized. Served in the Legislature ol the state and 
 took an active part in all public movements that bene- 
 fited the city and state. Is now a widower. Had six 
 children; five now living; all marr:ed and all occupy 
 good social, professional and business positions. He 
 has six grandsons in the service of the country in the 
 navy and in the army. Three were "over there" some- 
 where doing their duty. Took active interest in the 
 Doll and Toy I''und of the Times-Picayune, believing it 
 did a great deal of good. 
 
 GEORGE J. TRAUTH. 
 
 (Continued from page 85) 
 for American Cotton Oil Co. He was later for a time 
 with Crescent Mill in the same capacity. He next 
 acted as engineer for the Industrial Cotton Oil Co. of 
 Denison. Texas, which office he resigned to become 
 general foreman for tlie American Cotton Oil Co. He 
 was the first Justice of tlie I'eace for the parish of 
 Jefferson elected by the people in April. 1!)16. He 
 belongs to David Crocket Steam Fire Company, the 
 oldest in the state, and is a member of Elks' Lodge- 
 No. 30; Martin Behrman Maccabee Tent IS. Algiers. 
 La.; and Druids' Cypress Camp No. 47. of Gretna. He 
 married Miss Theresa Navarre on February 11, 1911, 
 in Gretna. Their two children are Leycester Louis 
 Romain Trauth and George J. Trauth, Jr. 
 
 GEORGE LONG, 
 
 (Continued from page 85) 
 moted to the office of Captain. He served as Captain 
 for three years, and was then appointed Chief of Detec- 
 tives on February 11, 1911, in which office he has 
 served with great success. Captain Long is a member 
 of the Y'oung Men's Gymnastic Club and also of the 
 Masonic orders. He is one of the best known charac- 
 ters active in New Orleans' public life. 
 
 MURPHY J. FOSTER. 
 
 (Continued from page 77) 
 served two terms. In 1901 lie vvas sent to the United 
 States Senate, and re-elected thereto in 1S07. He served 
 in the United States Senate for twelve years. In 191-;, 
 Mr. Foster was appointed Collector of Port of Orleans, 
 and is now serving- the people of his native state in 
 that capacity. 
 
 DR. VALENTINE KING IRION. 
 
 (Continued from page 77) 
 tice of his profession in Opelousas, Louisiana, in ISSii, 
 and though the demands on his time weie drastic, he 
 found opportunity to devote some of his energy to 
 public service, and from 1SS9 until 1S92 lie served t!.e 
 parish of St. Landry as Superintendent of Public Edu- 
 cation. In 1S92 he became a member of the Board of 
 Administrators of the State Normal at Natchitoches, 
 and remained until 1S9S. In 1837, on account of the 
 greater facilities proffered by New Orleans, Dr. Irion 
 removed there, where be has since risen to acknowl- 
 edged eminence as one ttf the leading dental surgeons 
 of the city and state. He continues active in public 
 service, and is a member of the State Board of Public 
 Utilities. In 1906 he became also Secretary-Treasurer 
 of Louisiana State Board of Dentistry. Dr. Irion mar- 
 ried Miss Helen Lastrapes. of Opelousas. Louisiana. 
 They iiave four children: Mary Caroline, Alfred King, 
 Alice and Albert Moore Irion. The latter died in 1914. 
 at the age of fifteen years. Their eldest son. Alfred 
 King, entered Second Officers' Training School, Oc- 
 tober 14. 1917. Shortly thereafter he joined the avia- 
 tion branch of tlie service and went through Kelly 
 Field School of Aviation. He is now stationed at the 
 University of Wisconsin as Military Instructor. Dr. 
 Irion is a member of State Dental Association, member 
 of Louisiana Society of Sons of the American Revolu- 
 tion, and member of Alumni Association of Louisiana 
 State University. He was appointed E.xaminer for 
 tlie Dental Reserve Corps of the United States Army. 
 and is serving in that office at this time. 
 
 DUNCAN BUIE. 
 
 (Continued from page 73) 
 where, up to a few years ago. their value was unrecog- 
 nized and unappreciated. Upon good roads depend the 
 prosperity of a state, because they are a factor in pro- 
 moting agriculture and enterprise, and are, now* that 
 the country is at war. "doing their bit" by relieving 
 railroad congestion. With Mr. Buie at the head of the 
 State Highway Department. Louisiana roads, wherever 
 impro\'ements have l.>een made, have been recognized 
 as the best roads of their type in the country, and the 
 system of roads, as outlined for the state, will event- 
 ually form a network of good roads connecting every 
 parish seat and country in the state. 
 
 Louisiana, with its limited funds for road construc- 
 tion, has easily out-distanced some of her sister states. 
 This is due partially to her wonderful resources in 
 natural gravel, shell and other good road material, and 
 because in every instance of construction consideration 
 has not been given to the cheapest type but to the 
 most economical and durable, based on sound engineer- 
 in^-^ Iirinciples. 
 
 ISIr. Buie was selected for this position because of 
 liis years of practical experience, and he has proven 
 that he is the right man in the right place He goes 
 about bis work in a quiet, unobtrusive manner, to 
 demonstrate his qualifications and direct the affairs of 
 his office. 
 
 The hi.ghway department has constructed to date 
 CSS.S2 miles of highways; there are 279.98 under con- 
 struction, and 108 miles will be constructed in the 
 near future. 
 
 MICH.^EL C. SINS. 
 
 (Continued from page 86) 
 for the J. & W. Steele Company, but since 1916 has 
 conducted his present business, wiiich is a valued fac- 
 tor in the city's commerce. Mr. Sins is a member of 
 the Southern Yacht, Elks, and New Orleans Press 
 Clubs, and belongs also to Old Colony Club. 
 
 108
 
 BENKUICT MOIIET GItUNKWALD. 
 (CniUiiitud from par/e 70) 
 lienedict Moret Gninewald is Lhe otily t-on of tlic 
 late W N Gruncwakl, a promiiiPiit busines--.s man and 
 former head of the well-known linn of wliich the .son 
 is now Viee-1'resiilent and Manager. The latter suc- 
 ceeded his fatlier in the niananenienl of the lar^e busi- 
 ness despite his youtliful years, and is denionslratins 
 his ability to manage the establisluncnt m the most 
 approved ami snceessful mannei-. Mr. Ciunewald is 
 said to be one of the best informed nn ii in the I'iano 
 business throughout the entire country. On November 
 :< tins Mr Crunewalil married Miss .Jane Louise <'or- 
 d'ill Tlieir two children are .lane Louise and Marion 
 Cordill Uiunewahl. Mi-, and Mrs. Crunewald are active 
 factors in tlie social life of New Orleans. Mr. Grune- 
 waltl is a member of Boston. Rotary, ("'ountry and 
 Delta Duck Clubs. He al.so belongs to Soutliern Yacht 
 Club. He is a tiiirty-.second decree Mason and Shriner. 
 
 MARK LEIGH ALEXANDER. 
 
 (Colli inui:d from paffc 79) 
 
 lieinp a traveling salesman for many years for some of 
 the larse.st hardware houses in the South. KngaBed In 
 the real estate and insurance business at Alexandria 
 in general e.xploitation work and Secretary of the 
 Cliamber of Commerce of that city. He is a member 
 of the New Orleans Association of Commerce; Benevo- 
 lent and Protective Order of Klks; Cliess, Checkers and 
 Whist Club: the Press Cluli; the liound Talde Club; 
 tlie Sinithern Vacht Club, and the Audubon Golf Club. 
 Memlier of tlie National Geo^'raphic Society; Louisiana 
 Historical Society; Vice-President of the American 
 Kisiierics Society; President of tlie International Asso- 
 ciation of Game and Fish Commissioners; member 
 Federal Advisory Board for the I'lotcction of Migratory 
 Game; is Commis.sioner of Conservation. iJepartment 
 of Conservation. State of Louisiana. He was married 
 on .June 12. ISSS, at Alexandria. I,a., to Miss Nellie 
 Luckett, daughter of Dr. Robt. L. Luckett of Rapides 
 Parish. Louisiana. Has three children: Misses Ethel 
 and Constance, and Mark Leigh, .Jr. 
 
 LESTER F. ALEXANDER. 
 
 (Contmued from paije 70) 
 work in Havana. After returniuK^ from Cuba in 1902. 
 he ensased in river and harlior work for the United 
 States Engineers' Department until 1009. For one 
 year he was then general superintendent for tlie firm 
 of Christie & Low, Civil Engineers and Contractors, 
 since which date he has engaged in business individ- 
 ually and has become one of the V.est known of New 
 Orleans' engineers and contractors. Office, S34 Audu- 
 bon building. Mr. Alexander belongs to the Chess, 
 Cliockers and Wliist Club, Southern Yacht Club, Elks, 
 Woodmen -if the World, and Louisiana Engineering 
 Society; also the Country Club of Cleburne, Texas. 
 
 EDWARp ALEXANDER PARSONS. 
 
 (Contiiiitcd from pa</e 76) ,f, 
 
 Hoys' High School in Canal Street." As a traveler he has 
 vi.s'ited the great places, as well as many of the quaint 
 and little known sites, of historic and artistic interest. 
 in America, Europe, Asia and Africa. As a lecturer on 
 Egypt, Gieece, Rome, and the Near East, he has ap- 
 peared before univer.sities, learned societies and chau- 
 tauquas; has photographed the Vvorld's noted scenes 
 from Sitka to Assuan, and has collected material from 
 many places to be used in this work. As a student 
 of art and letters, he delivered the tercentennary ad- 
 dress on the occasion of the S'liakespeare Tercentennary. 
 celebrated in New Orleans, at the Tulane Theater, in 
 1916. Among other notable occasion.s may be men- 
 tioned the Golden Jubilee address (St. Simeon's School); 
 Englisli as a World Literature: The Spirit of Italy (on 
 the thiril anniversary of ltaly'.s entrance in tlie war), 
 etc. Mr. Parsons is a bibliophile, and lias collected 
 one of the most valuable libraries of art and antiquity 
 In the country.- He has been prominent in all war 
 activitie.s; wa.s the leader of the Fourteenth Ward in 
 the War Savings Stamp campaign; a Four Minute man: 
 member of the Finance Brigade, Legal Advisory Board, 
 etc. 'His law offices are in the Whitney-Central Bank 
 building. 
 
 "6 
 
 REV. FATHER JOHN FRANCIS PRIM. 
 
 {Contintted from page 77) 
 
 of CarroUton Church in 1S9S. lie lias developed into 
 one of the most important congregations of the city 
 what formerly was a few scattered luke-warm profes- 
 sors of the Catholic faith. He builds missions, erects 
 churches, amelioi'ates tlie conditions of the unfortunate, 
 especially interested in the development of Catholic 
 youth, and works for the general good of the coiu- 
 mtinity witli a boundless enthtisiasm. One of the most 
 determinate factors tor progress, in religion and civic 
 life, active in the city. 
 
 FRIODERICK \V. MATTHEWS. 
 
 iContinurd from patje 79) 
 
 Low. resident manager, remaining in the company's 
 employ for a iieriod of one year — 1S91 to 1.S92. From 
 1S92 to 1S9.S he was salesman for !•'. F. Hansell & Bro. 
 
 Returning from the Spanish American War to civilian 
 life he was made bookkeejjer for the Gulf Hag (Com- 
 pany, branch of the Bemis Bag Compan>'. In 1901 he 
 was made general bookkeeiier and .auditor for l''inlay. 
 flicks & Co.. Ltd. He continued in that jiosition until 
 191:!, when the Board of .Administrators of the Charity 
 Hospital elected him secretary and treasurer of the 
 Charity Hospital of Louisiana. He has filled that posi- 
 tion ever since. 
 
 An advocate of early military training for the young 
 manhood of America, he served eight years, 1890 to 
 1S9S, in the State Militia. He was a private in the 
 Southern Athletic Battalion. Comiiany P. unrler Cap- 
 tain T. A. Marshall. Later he was sergeant and then 
 first lieutenant of Company B, Fourtli Battalion. Loui-si- 
 ana State National (juard. under Captain Myles S. 
 Waterman. From this he went into the Second Ijouisi- 
 aua Regiment of Infantry, as captain of Company E, 
 serving under Colonel IClmer E. \\'ood. commanding. 
 Tills regiment was attached to tlie Se\enth Army Corps, 
 under General Fitzhugh Lee. commanding. He married 
 Miss Myra-Kate Monctire, of Crystal Springs, Miss., 
 and has three children, as follows: Miss ^lyra Mon- 
 cure Matthews. Frederick Warner Matthews, Jr.. and 
 Susan Fitzhugh Matthews. Clubs: Louisiana Lodge 
 No. 102. Free and Accepted Masons: New Orleans 
 Lodge No. 30, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 
 and the United .Spanish V.'ar Veterans. Hayden Y. 
 Grubb Camp No. 3. Politics: Democrat. Creed: EpLs- 
 copalian — member of Trinity Church. Residence ad- 
 dress: 2330 Octavia street. 
 
 CHARLES HENRY BEHRE. 
 
 ^Cimtiniud from page 11) 
 
 likewise the Pelican Cold Storage & Warehousing Co.. 
 and the LaGrange Ice & Fuel Co.. all of which concerns 
 are vital factors in the commercial life of New 
 Orleans and Georgia. Mr. Behre was one of the organ- 
 izers of the Child's W'elfare Association, of which he 
 is a Vice-President. He works assiduously in behalf 
 of the Association of Commerce. He is President of 
 the New Orleans Ice Exchange: President of Louisiana 
 Ice Manufacturers' Association, and member of the 
 Executive Committee of National Association of Ice 
 Industries. He was born in Charleston. S. C. and is 
 tile son of Charles H. and Mary Behre. He attended 
 high school in America, and spent two and a half years 
 in Germany, completing his education. He married 
 Mi.ss Emelie S. Behre on April 19. 1S.S3. and their five 
 children are. Edwine. Ellinor. Theodore. Edna and 
 Charles H. Behre, Jr. Mr. Behre is a member of the 
 Peters Avenue Commission, and one of New Orleans' 
 forceful business men. He belongs to the Round Table, 
 Press and Country Clubs. 
 
 WILLIAM PENNELL ROSS. 
 
 {^Continued from page 72) 
 
 operators of a steamship business in An^urica, and his 
 at^iliation with that business has brought it to a high 
 state of development and operation. Mr. Ross was 
 for ten >'ears a member of the public Belt Railroad 
 Commission, and has always contributed ably to promo- 
 tion of all public movements that in his opinion tended 
 to a greater progress of the city. He married Miss 
 Clara Jane Keen. Their son is James A. Ross, 
 prominent in local insurance circles, Mr. Ross belongs 
 to Round Table Club, and in the sunset of a well- 
 spent life is enjoying the fruits of .success and affluence 
 won honorably in honorable contest with other men. 
 
 SAMUEL A. TRUFANT. 
 
 (Continued from page 71) 
 
 Later he became cashier of Citizens Bank of Louisiana, 
 where he remained for twelve years. Recently began 
 operations as a stock and l3ond broker, in which he is 
 successfully engaged to date. Mr. Trufant married 
 Miss Bertha .Alice Todd on February 21. i;;,><7. Their 
 two children are Sallie Hyams Trufant. now Mrs. Henry 
 Burguieres: and Samuel A. Trufant. Jr.. a lawyer. Mr. 
 Trufant is one of New Orleans' well known business 
 men, belongs to Boston Club, is a member of the Stock 
 Exchange, and prominent in social and church activities. 
 
 109
 
 DAN W. FP:iTKL. 
 
 ((U)iilinucd from payc 84) 
 
 of the Iar;?e.st businesses of its kind in the Tniteil 
 Stales. His fat'tory covers 7S,000 stjuare feet of 
 L;r()un(i, is eiiuipiK-d with the latest and must modern 
 aii!)lian('eK of operation, including electric cranes, trav- 
 i^liny conveyors, haling presses, automatic sprinklers, 
 and other labor-saving and life and property-protecting 
 devices. There are 108 sowing machines fi-r mending 
 second-hand ha;^s. lie employs aI)Out 2:^0 I'eople. and 
 the enormity and immense extent of the business tes- 
 tify ably to the fact that Mi'. Feitel is an organizer, 
 a master l)nilder and an optimist. Tn November, 190f\ 
 Mr. I-'eilel marrii'd Miss Kebecca Sperlini;. of New Or- 
 leans, and tliree cliildrcn ha\e been boi'n of their union, 
 being I'Jslelle, .leannc and I mums I'-eilel. 
 
 CHARLES KIIXST WKRMrTH. 
 
 {('•mtiiiui'd from pa{/e 74) 
 
 office of Auditor of the Southern Pacific Company, 
 Atlantic .System. He severed that connection in l'J04. 
 and opened an office in New Orleans for practice as a 
 public accountant, in which piofession he is most emi- 
 nently successful today. In September. 19ms, Mr. Wer- 
 mutii was elected President of Louisiana State Hoard 
 of Accountants. He married Miss Marie Aj:nes Pichet, 
 and they have one child, a daughter, who is now Mrs. 
 Mai'ie Louise Shibley. In May. IHIT. Mr. Wermutli 
 was appointed to serve as Division Auditor for tlie 
 nnited States War Deijartment, in charge of canton- 
 ment construction, which office he discharged witli 
 distinguished success until January, lit IS. He is one 
 of New Orleans' best known men in the accounting 
 world. 
 
 O. M. SAMUEL. 
 
 {Continued from pane 84) 
 
 the large demolition contracts in New Orleans and 
 vicinity for tlie past sevei'al years, being the largest 
 coneoin of tlie kind in the South, while tlie American 
 Cyiiress Tank Company ships its cisterns and tanks 
 to the various i>ai'ts of the Southern states and to Cen- 
 tral and South America. Mr. Samuel lia? refrained 
 from cornmenling about his j;>ersonal side, as he feels 
 that a man's work is duly representative of his import 
 in -1 community. 
 
 PHI Lli' J. SCIIOJON, SK. 
 
 (Cnntiniwd from paiic S4 ) 
 
 Mr. Schoen is one of the well-known men ciiiia^fd in 
 the undertaking and emljalming l)usiness in New Or- 
 leans. He is a member of various fraternal and benevo- 
 lent organizations, as also of numerous undertakers' 
 associations, and director of prominent enterprises. He 
 was appointed a member of Local Board of Division No. 
 T, acting for the War Department, of ll;e Eighth Ward, 
 of which board he acts as clerk. 
 
 HENRY C. RAMOS. 
 
 (Continued fnm pat/e S4) 
 
 obtainable labor. He is a member of Soutb.ern Yacht 
 Club, George AVashington Lodge No. 65. E. & A. M., 
 roeniber of Louisiana Council No. 2. R. & S. M., mem- 
 ber of Orleans Delta Cliapter No. 1, R. A. M., member 
 Knights Templar and Sbriners. He is a life member 
 of Elks' Lodge No. 30. Mr. Ramos maintains residences 
 in New Orleans and Covin.^ton, La. 
 
 JOHN H. OVERTON. 
 
 (Continued from page S3) 
 
 prominent legal combinations in the state, known as 
 the firm of Placknian. Overton and Dawkins. Mr. 
 <.)verton married Miss Ruth Dismukts, of Natchitoches, 
 and their four children are Katharine, Ruth, Mary 
 Elizabeth and John H., Jr. 
 
 R()i:i:kt jclilts barr. 
 
 {('ii/itinurd from, paye 74) 
 
 he retained until 1876. In 1882 Mr. Barr associated 
 with the Q. & C. Railroad, and for the following five " 
 year.s continued with them. In 1S8S Mr. Parr branched 
 out into Imsiness for" himself, confining his operations 
 to exporting grain to Europe, in wliicli lie has achieved 
 success, and is today one <(f the notable operators in 
 the gi-ain trade of the South. Mr. Parr married Miss 
 Ellen Bradley, of Alabama, in 187ij. Tliere have been 
 live sons and four daughters born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Parr. Surviving are: R. J.. Jr., James W., Norman D., 
 C. LeRoy, Miss (^audie Uarr and Mrs. J. R. Wester- 
 field, Jr. Mr. Barr is eminently respected for his dis- 
 criminating intellect, and a cliarmiiig courtesy that 
 lenders him conspicuous in any assembly. 
 
 JOS. K. cap.i:i-:i;a. 
 
 (('ontinurd from patjr Tl) 
 
 the Cuban governmeiit, with headipiarters in New Or- 
 leans, where lie is a delightful participant in the public 
 and social life of the city. He is a member of Yacht 
 and Country Clubs of Havana, and Press and Surf Clubs. 
 New Orleans. Also New Orleans Opera Association and 
 Louisiana Motor League. 
 
 CHARLES F. GELBKE. 
 
 (Cnnt lulled from paf/e 7(i) 
 
 Gretna in every way. He organized the Gretna Ex- 
 change & Savings Bank, of which he was President 
 until he resigned to accept his present office as Mayor. 
 Charles F. Gelbke is the son of Louis C. and Mary 
 Lanier Gelbke. He was born in Tangipahoa, Louisi- 
 ana, on October 11, 1878. He attended Gretna and 
 New Orleans public and high schools, sraduating from 
 tlie latter in 1896. He graduated from Tulane Medical 
 College in 1900. Dr. Gelbke is one of the prominent 
 members of Masons. Elks. l>ruids. Moose and Macca- 
 bees, and always in the lead where betterment for 
 (Jretna. New nrbans and Louisiana is to be accom- 
 plished. 
 
 ALBERT JOSEPH BUJA. 
 
 (Continued from page S3) 
 
 French lines of steamships. Governor Pleasant ap- 
 pointed him member of Public Utilities Board. He 
 married Miss Mamie Winn. They have one daughter. 
 Miss Flora Marie Buja. Mr. Buja is a Mason, Shriner, 
 member of B. P. O. E., Eagles. Woodmen of the World. 
 Druids, Moose, and various other popular societies, fra- 
 ternities and clubs. He is also President Schumert- 
 Warfieid-Buja, Inc.. Printers. Stationers, 417-422 Camp 
 street. 
 
 Jt'LES J. DUAWE. 
 
 (Continued from piuje 79) 
 
 Illinois, on June 8, 1856, but has lived practically all 
 his life in New Orleans, where he graduate'd from the 
 local public schools. Later he graduated from Yonkers 
 College, in New York. He. married Miss Edith Daniel, 
 daui^liter of Hiram Daniel, in 1910. after the demise 
 of his first wife, who was Miss Catherine Shannon, 
 whom he married in 1881. Senator Drawe is a member 
 of Masonic orders and ijelongs to New Orleans Press 
 Club. 
 
 JOHN LEWIS DANTZLER. 
 
 (Continued from page 74) 
 
 lumber and paper. His long connection with these 
 latter lines has established him as one of the fore- 
 most men of the lunil)er industry in this section. He 
 is President of the Standard Export Lumber Company. 
 Mr. Dantzler was bereft of his wife through death. 
 There are two cliildren. a daughter. Eran Dantzler, 
 and a son, A. M. Dantzler. Mr. Dantzler is a member 
 of the Boston, Pickwick. Country, Yacht and Press 
 Clubs, and belongs to Masons and Shriners 
 
 WILLIAM CHARLES McLEOD. 
 
 (Continued from page SI) 
 
 immediately after leaving college and has steadily 
 attained success as a member of the legal profession. 
 Mr. McLeod was married to Elizabeth Fentress, of 
 Memphis, Tenn., December 4. 1895. and they have three 
 children, who are: Kenneth (second lieutenant. Coast 
 Artillery, and graduate of Tulane University, class of 
 191S); iVIargaret. student Sophie Newcomb College, New 
 Orleans, and Elizabeth, at Newman. Mass.. Training 
 School. Mr. McLeod enjoys a wide acquaintance in 
 New Orleans, and is a member of the Chess, University 
 and Round Table Clubs. 
 
 110
 
 Ar.ni.;RT waruen wiiiteman. 
 
 {Coiilinucd from page 75) 
 
 his brother, under the linn name of Whitcman Uros., 
 and under this style is ojieratiiiK one of ti'P most suc- 
 cessful towiny and conlraclin^ undei-Lakin;4S in this 
 section. Mr. W'hitenian married Miss N'etla Louisa 
 Davis, of .Ascension Pai'ish, o!i June 27. 190U. Their 
 home has been blessed with seven children, who are: 
 .Mine, irma, Warren. Willie Porter. Huby May. lOdwin 
 AV. and Starl? D. W'hileman. Capt. Whiteman is a 
 member of Klks' Club, and belouKS to the Masons. 
 
 WILLIAM BLAin LAXCASTKR. 
 
 (('I'lilmwd /mm pane 81) 
 
 owned real estate, which have made him famous 
 throujihout this section, and have materially advanced 
 the development of St. Tammany Parish, He adver- 
 tised Mandeville and Abita i-prinas so extensively as 
 to intei-e.st a «reat influx of new^ population. He or- 
 Kanized a popular-priced boat service on Lake Pont- 
 chartraln between New Orleans and Mandeville, that 
 *iave a much-needed convenience to an appreciative 
 populace. He is a member of the Xew Orleans Real 
 Kstate Board, New Orleans Association of Commerce, 
 New Orleans I'ress Club and the Old Colony Club. In 
 politics he is a radical T>emrK'rat. 
 
 i'ai;l h, mai.onky, 
 
 {Continmd from par/i' SI) 
 
 tile sole owner ol" the business which is one t)f the 
 suhstatitial concern,-^ of New Orleans, Mr, Maloney's 
 initiative craved other methods of expression, and he 
 founded the Office Toilet and Towel Supply Company 
 in lyo.'J, Jt was at that time a pioneer concern for 
 the cliaracter of business it speci.tlizes in. and filled 
 a long-felt want in the business community. Mr. 
 Maloney's activity in buildin,£j the community has not 
 been limited entirely to commercial jiursiiits. During 
 1912-1914 lie served as a member of the State Legisla- 
 ture: he was a delei^ale to the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion in 1914. which failed to convene. an<i in various 
 ways Mr, Maloney contributes to belteiment of politics 
 in his native city. He is an active nieniber of {lie As- 
 sociation of C^ommerce and Rotary <'Udj. He also is 
 it thirty-second decree Mason, and belongs to Chess, 
 t'lieckers and Wliist. .and Choctaw Clubs, He is Presi- 
 dent of the Team Owners' Bureau of Transjiortalion. 
 and interested in the progress of New Orleans alon.t;- tlie 
 best avenues of inii)ro\-ement. 
 
 CHARLES A. STAIR, 
 
 (Continued from page So) 
 
 sponsibility and trust. culminatin.Si! in liis present im- 
 portant office of General Manager for the Cumberlaml 
 Company for the states of Louisiana .and Mississippi 
 with head(|uarters in New Orleans, Mr. Stair is a 
 nati\'e of Knoxville, Tennessee, where he was born on 
 June 19. 1S79. His education was acfjuired throug:h 
 attendance on the public and higli schools of Tennes- 
 see and Kentucky. On December 7. 1910. lie married 
 Miss Eva MonoKue. of Memphis. Tenn, Mr and Mrs. 
 Stair have two dau.gliters. Mr, Stair is ,a memlier of 
 Chess, Checkers and Wliist Club. Country Club. Soutli- 
 ern Yacht Club and Press Cl\ib of Xew Orleans. 
 
 RicHAitD McCarthy, jr. 
 
 {('otilhiued from page 81) 
 
 City Hall Annex and Camp S'helby, Mr. JlcCarthy is 
 a member of Hiram Lodge. No. 70. F. and A. M,. Grand 
 Consistory of Louisiana. Mystic Shrine, P., P, O, Elks, 
 Lodtre No, 30: Southern Yacht Club and otlier social 
 and fraternal organizations. He was recently appointed 
 by Governor Pleasant as a member of the State Board 
 of Charities and Corrections. 
 
 HANS A. M, JACOBSEN, 
 (Continued from page 86) 
 
 ployment Service, State of Louisiana, lieing a promotion 
 from Ci^■il Sei-vice He was also appointed State Direc- 
 tor of the U. S. Public Service Reserve for tlie State of 
 Louisiana on July 16. IIIIS, Mr, Jacobsen married Miss 
 Florence L. McGarry, and their one child is a son. Hans 
 A. M. Jacobsen, Jr, 
 
 WILLIAM LYLE RICHESON. 
 
 [^Continued from page 80) 
 
 inspector of New Orleans Board of Trade, Ltd., retain- 
 ing that office until 1917. Since that date he has acted 
 as Manager of the Wheat E.xport Co.. Inc., representing 
 the allied governments' buyers of food.sturfs, and is 
 ably "doing his bit" to win the war. Mr, Rlcheson 
 was born in St, Louis, Missouri, on December 22, 1869. 
 lie is the son of Jesse Douglas Rlcheson and Caroline 
 Lyie Uicheson, He linished grammar schol in 1SS3. 
 He married Miss Lucia Anna Rickert. of New Orleans, 
 on Novemlier 2N. 1900, and their three sons are William 
 1-yle Rlcheson. Jr., Lacy Douglas Rlcheson, and Edward 
 liickert Rlcheson. Mr. Rlcheson is a member of I'ick- 
 wick. .Southern Yacht. New Orleans Coiintry Clubs, 
 Motor League of Louisiana, Carnival organizations, New 
 f)rleans Board of Trade, Xew Orleans Association of 
 ('orameree, Louisiana Lodge Xo. 102, F. & A. M.. Grand 
 Consistory of Louisiana, Jerusalem Temple A. A. O. N. 
 M. S. of New Orleans. 
 
 JOSEPH P. HENICAN. 
 
 (Continued from page 72) 
 
 Miss Alice Boning, and their two children are Joseph 
 P. Henican, Jr., and Caswell Ellis Ilenican, Mr. 
 Henican was appointed Vice-President and Member 
 Board of Adniinistr.ators of Charity Hospital by 
 Governor Pleasant, He is also a member of Boston, 
 New Orleans Country Clubs, Louisiana Motor League, 
 B. P. O. E., K. of C. and Southern Yacht Club. 
 
 ALLEN TUPPER. 
 
 (Continued from page 73) 
 
 family removed to Louisiana in 1856. He attended 
 private schools and the University High School in 
 1.S75. Mr. Tupper entered the coiimercial world as 
 cashier and bookkeeper for J. O. Terry & Sons, was 
 temporarily associated with the timber and sawmill 
 interests, and afterwards affiliated with the Barber 
 Asphalt Pavin.g Co. In 1886 he was a member of the 
 Hrm of Tupper Bros. Since 1S91 to date he has been 
 successfully engaged in business for his own account. 
 Ml'. Tupper was a member of Company K, Second 
 Louisian.a Regiment, under Colonel Bowling, serving 
 in 1877 when Governor Nicholls was put in office; he 
 served three years with that regiment. He was Vice- 
 President of the Eleventh Ward Anti-Lottery Club, 
 and member of the M, D, Club in 1SS8, and of the 
 Citizens' I^eague in 1896, Governor Foster appointed 
 him a trustee of Southern University during 1893-1898, 
 He was Vice-President of the Contractors' and Dealers' 
 Exchange in 1915, Mr, Tupper married Miss Mary 
 Whitewell Ballard, They have no cliildren He is a 
 member of the Association of Commerce, of the Boston. 
 New Orleans Country, Yacht and New Orleans Press 
 Clubs, and one of the best, known among the business 
 men of New Orleans. 
 
 CHARLES B, THORN, 
 (Continued from page 72) 
 
 direction, has attained affluent eminence, recently retir- 
 ing from the cotton business to accept an active vice- 
 presidency of the Interstate Trust & Banking Company, 
 w'ith which institution he has long been identified as 
 a director, Mr, Thorn's fine work in l:)elialf of the 
 local council of the Boy .Scouts of America has brouglit 
 him most endearingly before the public He is Presi- 
 dent of tlie New Orleans Council, and an enthusiast in 
 directi'ng tlie work, Mr, Thorn is a prominent member 
 of the Boston Club, He was the first Vice-President of 
 the New Orleans Country Club, which office he retains. 
 He is o,ne of the city's virile promoters of progress and 
 growth, who enjoys the high esteem of tlie com- 
 munity. 
 
 JOHN DAVID O'KEEFE. 
 (Continued from page 75) 
 
 der the direction of Prof. A. S. Lesclie. Upon leaving 
 school. Mr. O'Keefe affiliated with the United States 
 Engineers' Corps, liut later entered the commercial 
 world. His success has been remarkable, and he is 
 today a predominant factor in the most important 
 business, civic and social activities of New Orleans and 
 the South, As Vice-President of the Board of Port 
 Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, his aiiility 
 and acumen ably assisted in directing tliat notable 
 body to its present state of wis-?ly maintained success. 
 Mr. O'Keefe was aiipointed receiver for the N. O. Ry, & 
 Liglit Co,, early in January, 1919. b.v Judge Foster, 
 Mr. O'Keefe married Miss Rita L. McDonald, but there 
 are no children. Mr, O'Keefe is a prominent member 
 of Boston Club, Press Club, Country Club, Elks, and 
 various Carni\'al societies. 
 
 Ill
 
 DAX «. LEHON. 
 
 {Continui'd from jmtic 82) 
 tlon for membership in tlie Police DeiJartiiU'iil in 
 ChioaKO, and was appointfd as a Delective in 1X95. 
 when Civil Service was first adopted in CliicaKO. He 
 left the Police Department in isaa and entered the 
 service of the Illinois Central Railroad, as Special 
 Asent, with lieadquarters in Memphis, Tenn.. whicli 
 position he held for five years, lie resif,'ned to enter 
 the service of i^inkerton's Xational IJttective AKency, 
 and was detailed by tliis agency in the protection of 
 liatrons at race tracl<s, circuses, large gatherings, state 
 fairs, etc.. all over the United States, against operations 
 of pickpockets, conlidence men, etc. He then re- 
 enteied the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad as 
 .Special Ayent. with headquarters in New Orleans, in 
 tlie fore part of lao,'!. wiiicli position lie held until 
 August 1, 1910. when he resigned to accept the position 
 of General Manager for the fe'outhern Division of the 
 William J. Burns International Detective Agency, and 
 on .July 1. 15116, resigned tliat posititm to go into husi- 
 ness on liis own account, in which business he is still 
 engaged, with offices in the Wliitncy-Central building, 
 and a branch office at 300 Canal street. 
 
 I-Je is a memlter of tlie Young IVlen's Gymnastic Club, 
 Knights of Columbus, and the Association of Com- 
 merce, lie has never lield a political iiosition. either 
 elective or appointive. IVIr. Lehon married Miss Ernes- 
 tine Cuneo. a native of Xew Orleans, in June, 1906. and 
 has a very interesting family of four daughters from 
 this marriage, he being- a widower at the time lie mar- 
 ried Miss Cuneo. his first wife having died in Mem- 
 phis in 1902, there being three children from his first 
 marriage: Miss Charlotte. Miss Eleanor and Jack, all 
 of wliom reside in Xew Orleans. 
 
 \l.KREIi LE BLAXC. 
 
 ( (.'o/jh'HKCrf from page 75) 
 
 Holt Line, with connections in every important port 
 of the world, and enjoying a world-wide recognition in 
 the cotton and shipping business. Mr. LeBlanc is a 
 member of the Boston Club. In ISSl he married Miss 
 Jane Stewart, and their children are Stewart A.. Ken- 
 neth. Henry S.. and Josephine A. LeBlanc. all of whom 
 are pi'ominent in the local commercial and social 
 worlds witli wide acquaintance elsewhere. 
 
 FURMAN BARNES PEARCE. 
 
 {Continued from patje 75) 
 
 with the degree of LL.D. Beginning his career in 1900 
 witli the practice of law, lie forsook that profession 
 upon Ills appointment to office as Assistant Postmaster 
 in .S'av.annali, Ga. Upon retiring from otfice in 190.S 
 he remo\'ed to New Orleans, associating himself with 
 the Soutli Atlantic Steamship Line, of which concern 
 he is now Vice-President and General Manager. On 
 August 10. 1910. Mr. Pearce married Miss Ella Saint, 
 of Louisiana, and their two cliildren are Elizaljetli 
 Bowdre and Harriet Murray Pearce. Mr. Pearce is 
 director of shipping. Gulf Idvlsion. Shipping Control 
 Committee (Army Transpoi't Service). He is also a 
 prominent member of Pickwicl\. Louisiana. Rountl 
 Table Cltibs. and Motor Leagtie of New Orleans, and 
 Ancient Landmarlc Lodge, F. & A. M,. of Savannah. Oa. 
 
 EDWARD S. HILL. 
 
 (Continued from page SO) 
 
 was associated with a Cliicago c-oncern until 1S9S. 
 when he removed to New Orleans, where he has since 
 taken an active part in the commerci.al and social life 
 of the city. Mr. Hill married Miss Myra Richard, of 
 New Orleans, in 1903. They ha\'e two children. Mar- 
 jorie L. Hill, aged 12 years, and Susette E, Hill, aged 
 r> years. He is a member of New Orleans Chess, 
 (^hcckei's and Whist. Soutliern Yacht, Rotary, anti 
 Y. M. G. Clubs, also of the Press Club. 
 
 H. DICKSON Co-|-lli:.\.V. 
 
 (Continued from par/e 82) 
 
 removed to New Orleans, where he has since resided. 
 He liar, attained eminence as an operator iii the cotton 
 market, and recognition as a valuable, progressive citi- 
 zen, always interested in promoting the public welfare. 
 Mr, Cothran is a popular member of New Orleans 
 Country Club and of New Orleans Press Club. He 
 married Miss Adelaide Gammon. They have two lovely 
 children, who are Adelaide and Lille Bowie Cothran. 
 
 .losi'ii'H ior(;i':xi'; i;axsdeli,. 
 
 (Continued from patje 24) 
 
 tlon soon, and great herds of beef and dairy cat- 
 tle of the best breeds flourish in every part of 
 Dixie, constituting one of its most valuable 
 assets. 
 
 In tlie tJenate. Mr, Ransdell is Chairman of the 
 Committee on Public Healtli and National Quar- 
 antine, and I'eceritly secured the passage of a 
 law providing a National Home for Lepers, where 
 liiose poor unfortunates from every state in the 
 Union will be housed and cared for humanely and 
 given as many comforts as their .sad condition 
 permits. 
 
 He is also a member of the Senate Committees 
 on Public Lands. Commerce, Agriculture, the 
 Na\'y. and Wom.an Suffrage. 
 
 Mrs. Ransdell is greatly interested in all her 
 husband's work, and their home life has been 
 a happy one. She belongs to the Daughters of 
 the American Revolution, was for four years 
 National Treasurer General of that organization, 
 takes an active interest in war work in Wash- 
 ington, and is a member of the Ladies of tlie 
 .Senate Red Cross Unit. 
 
 HENRY R. PEDARRE. 
 
 (Continued from paije 78) 
 
 no children. Mr. Pedarre is a member of Elks. Choc- 
 taw. Young Men's Gymnastic Clubs, and Louisiana 
 Motor League. He is also a member of the .Society 
 of the Holy Spirit. 
 
 HUGUES JULES DE LA VERGNE. 
 
 (Continued from pat/e 73) 
 
 Tulane University, which he later attended, he received 
 the degree of LL.B., in 1S8S, and Ph.D.. in 1893. As a 
 lawyer, a colonel on the Governor's staff, a leader in 
 clubdom and society. Mr. de la Vergne enjoys wide 
 distinction. He is President of the Louisiana Colonials, 
 a member of the Boston. New Orleans Country, Y. M. G. 
 Clubs, member of Louisiana Bar Association. U. S. of 
 C. V. Camp l!-i:!0. .lesuits and Tulane Alumni. He was 
 commissioned Major by Governor Blanchard. July 9. 
 1904. and promoterl to Lieutenant Colonel on March 12. 
 ;905. He was commissioned Colonel by Governor Hall. 
 March 10. 19 IG. and Governor Pleasant commissioned 
 him again on January 27. 1917. He married Marie 
 Louise S'chmidt, daughter of Charles E. Schmidt, an 
 eminent lawyer of New Orleans, There are seven chil- 
 dren of tills union, wlio are: Marguerite, now Countess 
 Charles de Bony de la N'ergne. Juilles Hugues. Charles 
 E. Leda. Jules, Jactpies and Pierre Renaud. Mr. de la 
 Vergne ran for Democratic nominee for the Louisiana 
 Senate in 1904. and as Democratic nominee for Lieu- 
 tenant Govei'nor of I..oiiisiana in T.916. He was Presi- 
 dent of the New. Orleans Bee for three years, and is 
 one of those combinations of aristocrat and success- 
 ful man of affairs peculiar to New Orleans. 
 
 WILLIAM DAY JENKINS. 
 
 (Continued from page 86) 
 
 Houston and Dallas. Texas, and New Orleans, La. Mr. 
 Jenkins was born in Blandvllle. Ky.. on July 2S. 1SS2. 
 the son of W. W. and Alice P. Jenkins. His father 
 was a prominent lawyer and .liidge of Ballard County. 
 Kentucky. Mr. Jenkins is a member of the New Or- 
 leans Country Club. Audubon Golf. Press, Pickwick, 
 Southern Yacht, Tally-Ho. and Elks Clubs, and Associa- 
 tion of Commerce Foreign Trade Bureau. He is a 
 bachelor. 
 
 CAPTAIN MILLARD FILLMORE BRADFORD. 
 
 (Continued from page 72) 
 
 ford's first marriage occurred in Donaldsonville in 1874. 
 froin whicli marriage there were four children: Marina. 
 Irene. May and ^\'inona Bradford. In 1S90 he married 
 Miss Mary Dudenheiffer. of New- Orleans, and there are 
 nine ciiildren. of whom one is deceased. Tlie surviv- 
 ing children are: Millard. William. Percy. Oliver. lone 
 and Lurline. Carl and Bernice. Captain Bradford is a 
 member of Elks' Club. Board of Trade and Association 
 of Commerce. 
 
 113
 
 Cll. MILKS ADDISON 1 1 A I fl'W lOI.I.. 
 
 (VftilH/mt'd from patic 8'2) 
 Charles C. Hiirtwell. in 1.S60. 'J'lu- liriii is uric ciT the 
 oldest existins in tlie South, and its liool<s sliov a 
 lecord of having installed a majority ol' tlie Inrge con- 
 traPls throii;;;h Southern territory. It originally oper- 
 ated exclusively as a plumhinff and heating eoneern. hut 
 since l;U3. under the direction of its present President, it 
 has become more widely known as the house de luxe for 
 electric fixtures, gifts of art and hric-a-hrac, and fur- 
 niture of rare designs and maniifacture. as well as 
 siieciali/.ing in other objects for creating the House 
 Beautiful. The strength of the House of Hartwell has 
 likewise hecn added to by its late V'iee-1'i-esident, Mr. 
 S. C. Hartwell, wlio died in I'JOS to be succeeded by the 
 present S'lce-President, Mr. A. A. Marx. Tlie present 
 I>resident is likewise Vice-President of the Louisiana 
 Abstract and Title Company, a concern filling a long- 
 felt need in this vicinity. He is Vice-President of the 
 IJe Soto Hotel Company, and a Diiector of tlie City 
 Bank & Trust Company. He is a valued member of 
 sucli clubs as Chess. Checkers and Whist. Xew Oilcans 
 Country, Southern Yacht, Y. M. G. C, iOlks and Kniglits 
 of (^olumlius. He is Secretary of the Maniuelte Asso- 
 ciation for Higher Education, and in addition to bis 
 contribution to the commercial strength of the com- 
 munity, he has likewise contributed valualdy to its 
 artistic development. 
 
 1 1 A M 1 "!•( i.\ U i; Y .N'OLDS. 
 
 (Cimtinuvd from patjc 73) 
 
 lie established his own business, since which time he 
 has become widely known for bis extensive operations 
 in construction of Seventeenth Street Canal. Xew Or- 
 leans; Bayou Bienvenu Levees; additions to pumping 
 stations Xos. 1 and 2; Hed Cross to Holloway Levees; 
 fifty miles of gravel roads in St. .Mary Parish; pile- 
 driving and excavation work, Xew Orleans army sup- 
 l,d.v depots. 
 
 Mr. Reynolds is exceedingly fond of hunting and 
 fishing, and is a prominent member of Southern Yacht, 
 Y'. M. G. C. Little Lake Gun and Rod, Lake Shore and 
 Choctaw Clubs. He is also a member of the B. P. O. E. 
 and Louisiana Kngineering Society. He was married 
 to Miss lilma Trion. of Xew Orleans, in )H02. There 
 are three children, namely, Klton, F.lma and Xydia. 
 
 lODMiWD 1';k.\i;st kicharuson. 
 
 (Conlinucd from j)ayc 78) 
 among the clubs of New Orleans, being a member of 
 Boston, Country, and Southern Yacht Clubs. He is a 
 member of Mountain City Club of Chattanooga. Mem- 
 ber of New Orleans Cotton Exchange. He resides at 
 Ui);t s't. Cliarles .Avenue in X'ew Orleans. 
 
 FRKD. A. IOARHART. 
 
 (Continued from patje 7S) 
 lOarhart Secretary of the Board of Pharmacy. He 
 was also president of the State PViarmactutical Asso- 
 ciation, and while devoting the larger part of bis time 
 to the drug business, Mr. Karhart is also active in 
 other lines of endeavor. He is President of Mackie 
 Pine Company of Louisiana. He takes active interest 
 in politics, and served as Representative from the 
 Eleventh District during the administration of Gov- 
 ernors Hall and Pleasant. He married Miss Ida May 
 Hailes. of Xew Orleans, seventeen years ago. They 
 have seven children. He is an Elk, member of W. O. W., 
 Shriners, Druids, and belongs to the Masons-. He is a 
 member of the Board of Directors of Crescent City 
 Homestead and Board of Directors of New Orleans Col- 
 lege of Pharmacy. 
 
 ALBERT ANDREW VVILSOX. 
 
 (Continued from pai/c 82) 
 career began in IDOl, when he entered the business 
 world in connection with cotton brokerage, which be 
 has remained affiliated with to this date, being now 
 sfuioi partner of the firm of A. A. Wilson -S Co.. im- 
 po'-tant factors in llie cotton business. Mr Wilson is 
 a member of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. He 
 belongs to the Masons and Shriners, Xew Orleans Coun- 
 try. Press and Young Men's Gymnastic Clubs. He 
 married Miss Viva Houston, and llieir three children 
 aro' Muriel Haughton, Elizabeth Cleveland, and Marion 
 Chamberlain Wilson. 
 
 •TAMES W. BILLINGSLEY. 
 
 (Continued from page 80) 
 
 Billingsley is one of the well-known men of the city. 
 He is a valuable member of the leading clubs, which 
 include Pickwick, Country, and Southern Yacht of New 
 Orleans. He is also a member of the Louisiana Engi- 
 neers Society, of American Society of Civil Engineers 
 and American Highway Association. Mr. Billingsley 
 is a bachelor. 
 
 MICHAEL JOSEPH ROONEY'. 
 
 (Continued from page 78) 
 
 in the United States army, during which time he saw 
 active service in the Philippines, where he was sta- 
 tioned for about twenty-six months. I'pon his return 
 to New Orleans, he was appointed to bis present office 
 as Chief Clerk to the Mayor. Mr. Rooney married 
 Miss Genevieve Owens on .Tuly ?,, 1909, and they have 
 one child, a daughter, May Rooney. Mr. Rooney is a 
 member of Elks' Club. Woodmen of the World. B. K. of 
 .A.. Maccabees. St. Vincent de Paul, and Choctaw Clubs. 
 
 
 113
 
 Jn ii^murtam 
 
 CONTINUATION. 
 
 cAi'TAix I'lONpiJ-yroN s. M()i;i;is. 
 
 (^(.'imtinued from pape 100) 
 
 worldly means to every charily ami lived a liiKl), 
 true, clean life in the midst of the corruption 
 current in modern life. Oapt. Morris married 
 Miss I^illian I.ittlefleld of UrunswicU. (leorgia on 
 April 2S. 1SS6. They had four cliihlren — Pen- 
 dleton Stewart, Innis, Stanley Stewart and Kdgar 
 Taylor Morris. The three sons are in active sei-v- 
 ice in the U. S. Army, Lieutenant-Colonel Pendle- 
 ton Stewart Morris, Jr. beiuK now with the 
 American forces in Archangel, Russia; Lieut. 
 Stanley S. Morris, with the American forces in 
 France, and Lieut. Ed.gar T. Morris with a 
 stevedore regiment at Camp Alexandria on the 
 Atlantic Coast. The daughter is now Mrs. Carey 
 ,1. Ellis, Jr. of Rayville, Louisiana. Capt. Morris 
 was a member of the National Guard. He served 
 as Captain of the Brunswick Riflemen of Hruns- 
 wick, Go.., was commissioned by (lov. (.loi-don of 
 Georgia as Captain of the Macon Huzzars, and 
 was later Captain of the Chickasaw Guards at 
 Memphis. Tenn., and Captain of the Cavalry Co. 
 of New Orleans. Capt. Morris, though loyally 
 a i-esident of Louisiana, never ceased to he a 
 Kentuckian. He was President of tlie Kentucky 
 Society in Louisiana and faithful in his allegi- 
 ance to the "Blue Grass" State. An exponent of 
 the finest in American ancestry and develoiiment, 
 (\ipt. Morris died on Sept. 24. llilS. 
 
 WASHINGTON G. BOYLAN. 
 
 {Conthiurd from paf/r 104) 
 
 children are a son. Milton \V. liioylan. who suc- 
 ceeded his fathei' in the active management of 
 the splendid organization created by the latter: 
 a daughter w^ho is now Mrs. Katie B. Lyon. The 
 demise of Mr. Boylan on December 2!l, 1917, re- 
 moved from the community one of the its most 
 loval. devoted and highly esteemed citizens, who 
 had fought and won a good fight for public 
 betterment. 
 
 WILLIAM PATRICK BURKE. 
 
 ((Utiiliiiitc'd from page 101) 
 
 Orleans Country Club, Pass Christian Country 
 Club. The Old Colony Club and the Benevolent 
 and I'rotective Order of Elks. He also belonged 
 to most of the Carnival Organiz;utions. among 
 them the following: The Mystic Krewe of 
 Comus, The Knights of Proteus. The Knights of 
 Monnis, The Court of Rex. as Duke of Maryuette, 
 The Krewe of Nereus, Tlie Knights of Mithras, 
 and the Carnival German. Moreover he was a 
 member of the Dixie, the Rigolets. and The 
 Ballejo hunting and fishing clubs, while his more 
 serious, reli.gious and patriotic feelings prompted 
 his membership in such societies as the Tula-ne 
 Society of Economics, Vice-President of the 
 Marquette Association for Higher Education, The 
 General Conference of the Society of Saint 
 Vincent de Paul, The Jesuit Alumni Association 
 and its Sodality, The Chaplains Aid Society. The 
 Governing Board of the Canteen Service of the 
 American Red Cross. The Chamber of Commerce, 
 The War Finance Brigade, The Wholesale Grocers 
 Association and the N. O. Board of Ti'ade. 
 
 He was always a strong advocate of education 
 and man.v were his gifts and scholarships to 
 Catholic institutions of learning. On the 24tli 
 of November. 1S92 he married Miss iSIary Agnes 
 Cahill of St. Louis and was blessed with two 
 sons, the elder Nicholas born in 1894, and the 
 younger William Patrick, Jr. in 1900. In 1909 
 his son Nicholas died, and the following year Mr. 
 Buike erected a Seismic Observatory at Loyola 
 
 University to his memory. This was the first 
 tiuildim,-- gi\en to this institution, which was at 
 that lime in an embryonic form of development. 
 But Loyola was to receive still other and greater 
 gifts from his hanfls. 
 
 It was in 11113, while he was acting as executor 
 of the estate of Thomas McDermott that Miss 
 Kate McDermott, the sister of the deceased ex- 
 pi-essed a desii-e to erect a memorial to her 
 brother and wished to be advised where to build 
 it. Mr. liurke suggested that as Loyola Uni- 
 versity was contemplating the erection of a 
 magnificent Church to form the right wing of 
 their imposing quardrangle that this would be 
 an excellent opportunity to benefit both her 
 lieligion and the cause of Education. She 
 decided to follow this advice, and the first pile 
 was driven o?i .luly the 30th. 1913. He was later 
 made one of the trustees of the Church, called 
 the Gesu. and as he took upon himself most of 
 the responsibilities of its (;onst!'U(;tion. its pres- 
 ent perfection may be largely traced to his 
 en<icavors. 
 
 Needless to say Mr. Burke was extremely 
 l)ati'iotic, subscribed liberally to the various 
 War Loans and Charities, and, as above stated, 
 was himself a member of the War Finance 
 Brig.ade. and the Governing Board of the lied 
 Cross Canteen .Service, and up to the beginning 
 of his last illness an indefatigable worker for the 
 Fourth Liberty Loan. 
 
 His death on the 19th of October. 1918. left a 
 \ery perceptible void in the life of the community. 
 His disposition and character, as well as his 
 multitude of cltarlties. most often known only 
 to the recipient, caused him to be universally 
 mourned and regietted. And although he no 
 longer lives in person, his illustrious example 
 wili never l)e dimmed, but will shine on forever in 
 the lives and deeds of those wliom lie molded by 
 his friendsliip. 
 
 CHARLE.S ALPIIDXSO FARWELL. 
 
 (Contiftin'd jrtuii paije !)0) 
 
 pleasures w'ere chiefly in pursuit of knowledge and 
 as collector of rare articles. 
 
 The social prominence of Mr. Farwell and his 
 family brought him into contact with the more 
 exclusive circles of which he was a conservative 
 but alwaj's charming member. In 1901 Mr. Far- 
 well married ilrs. Stella Evans French, of 
 Tennessee. Tw-o sons were boiai of their union, 
 i. e., Ch.arles A., Jr. and Frank Evans Farw-ell. 
 Mr. Farwell was actively affiliated with institu- 
 tions briert.N' listed as follows; President Ameri- 
 can Protective League, President Stanton Plant- 
 in.y it Mf«. Co.. President Westover Planting Co.. 
 President Elsinor I'lanting Co.. President Oakley 
 Sugar Company, Vice-I*resident Honduras Sugai- 
 & Distilling Co.. Director Whitney Trust & Sav- 
 ings Bank. Director Shadyside Co.. Director 
 Charit.v Hospital. Director Mortgage Securities 
 Co., Member Louisiana Sugar & Rice Exchange. 
 Member New Orleans Board of Trade. Member 
 Milliken & Farwell. honorary member of New- 
 Orleans Cotton Exchange. Among clubs Mr. Far- 
 well favored Boston. New Orleans Press, and 
 Carnival clubs. He was. Ex-King of the Carnival. 
 Prominently connected with Masonic organizations 
 in high capacities, and a member of many im- 
 portant scientific societies including the Luther 
 Burbank Societ.v of which he was a life-member, 
 and others. As one of Louisiana's foremost 
 citizens. Mr. Farwell stands paramount and a 
 recital of the histor.v of his career and personal 
 Qualifications must serve continually as an incen- 
 tive for emulation by many succeeding genera- 
 tions of youth ambitious for achievement not 
 only in the commercial world but pai'ticularly in 
 the higher and deeper avenues of development 
 that open only to the man of intellect and dis- 
 criminating taste and judgment. 
 
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 CALCASIEU PARISH 
 
 I\ 1!)1S. CJiilcasicu Parish had an iiicToasc of over l"),()lll) aeri'S in the cailtivated farm area, with ap- 
 ]ii(i\iiiiatelv 20,000 acres appai-eiit for the ])i-esent year, which will inak'e llie cultivated farm area 
 Sdiiiething over 100,000 acres, which does nut include the large area used as cattle ranges. The esti- 
 mated value i)f all farm products for the Parish, incduding live stoclc, is considerably iu excess of two and 
 oiicdiair inillidn dollars ($2,500,000). 
 
 This fact is of utmost importance and worthy of consideration by anyone seeking a hication ;'r 
 wishing a desii'ahl(\ place for recreation, either summer or winter. 
 
 Altitude \ai'ies fi'iiin sea K'\('l on ihc (iiilf Coast to ovei' ^io feci in liighci' port ions of Calcasieu 
 Parish, .\llitudc at Lake Charles, 20 to 2.") fed. 
 
 Calcasieu Parish's highway system, which is Hearing eomph'tion and allows fur over two hun- 
 dred miles of hard-surfaced highways, inchuling brick, gra\'el with tarvia. ]jlain gravel, and .shell, con- 
 st rneted at an expenditure of -$2,100,000, with all bridges and culverts of concrete, including the Calcasieu 
 Pai-ish highway bridge, which has six arch spans each 9(i feet in the clear, one double-leaf trunnion Bas- 
 cule span, electrically operated. 1o;i feet in the clear, one approach girder sjjan of 30 feet and twenty- 
 nine girder s]ians each ;io IVet in ihe eli'ai-; tol.il length nf structure being 1,7.S2 feet and cost, witli ap- 
 proaches, $175,000. 
 
 Clviuili'. — .Send-t ropieal. The winters ai'e very mild. Freezing point is seldom reached and neve!' 
 continues for niori' than a day oi' two. Shari) fi'osts are occasionally encountered, hut the ground never 
 fi'cezes. Fielil woric e;in be done practicallv IweU'c months in the year. Sunstroke anrl heat prostrations 
 are ne\('r lieaid of. 
 
 The iinnual I'ainfall \aries liom -"lO (d (111 inches per annum. (|nite ex'eidv disti'ihuteil thi'oug'houl 
 the yeai'. 
 
 lleitlHi. — Public health is unusually good in SouthwesI Tjonisiana ami the (Jnlf Coast country. The 
 death I'ate pei- thousand inhabitants in the city po|iulation (d' the I'niied Slates is lit. (I. 
 
 .Vl.C.VSIEU BKIDGE CAT TOP) LINKING MODEL HIGHWAY. 
 
 115
 
 ilu^ustnal ^wttuit
 
 THE RACING SEASON— WHAT IT MEANS 
 TO NEW ORLEANS 
 
 'I'lic iKiliciii th;il |i:i\s Mllclilinii tn its S|i(il1s is llir iiiitiiMi lliat |ii-iii luce-; iiii'ii lit at all tiiilt-s to 
 
 (>ii.s,mi>:c in (he .ureal liattlc <>( lil'r mi llirir nww arrdiiiit. tn liatllc rm- llic ImiKii' (if liii^ir I'aiiiily and their 
 
 home ami to wai;'e sueeesslii|]\ Ihdse uivater liattles I'nr the safely ami security (if tlieii' tiwii home country. 
 
 Not alone are sports proilnetive of a physically lit iieople. hut they leiiil a /.est to life that makes tlie living 
 
 all the hettei' I'oi' those oHci-ed the oppoi'Innitv to en,na,uc in them. Sports ai'c of many kimi and eliar- 
 
 aeter. and like the tastes of men they dilVci' materially in their I'clat ionshi|i to each other. We have 
 
 the sport that men engage in for tlicii' own [iliysieal lieni'lit. and the spcu't that pi'oduces a hetter hreed 
 
 of liorses, a better breed of cattle and a hettei' love of hnmaiiit\ on the pai'l of all jieople who love to 
 
 indulge in that kind which most appeals to tlieii' tastes and desires. 
 
 The great winter sjioi-t of New Orleans is racing. Like all s[ioits there are many opposed to it, 
 
 hut non(> can denv that hoiiestlv ami properly conducted there is no spoi't more appealing to the human 
 
 race as a whole than a contest hetweeii thoroughljreds, he they sprinters or harness racers. Kacing as 
 
 condiH'ted in .\e\v Orleans the hist three seasons can he honestly teriued a clean and upright sport. 
 
 That it is benelicial to the city from a (Inaiicial standpoint is lieyond dispute. The elite of the racing 
 
 world, the man of means and the man of commanding standing in industry of all kinds the nation 
 
 over is to he found during all or pan of the racing season as a guest of the city. They are the men 
 
 who love racing because they love the horse, and without racing \e\v Orleans jirobahly could not ofTer to 
 
 them the inducement that would attract their attention from their husiness calling long enough to pay a 
 
 visit at any perioil of the year. True there would be the winter toui'ist who would pay a visit to the city 
 
 during his annual pilgrimage of the nation, hut the world knows that the average mere tourist is not the 
 
 spender or the person who henelits a community the most hecansr he never tarries long enough to fully 
 
 undei'stand and hecome ac(piainted with the actual splendors of the c imnnily he visits. 
 
 Never in the history of New Orleans has the city hecn so well patronized by men of means as 
 
 it has during the present winter. The record [u-oves that these visitcu-s were attracted by the racing 
 
 going on and tluit thev not only made a long visit hut that they spent money more liberally and enjoyed 
 
 11?
 
 (Iicinsclvcs tn a riillcr cxlrii! lliiiii was cxcr kiKiwii (if mere Icmrisl Irailc. As a result nl' tlicii' visit (lie 
 lioti'ls, ivstaiiraiits. tlieatiTs, lianl<s. ciiiiinn'rcial cntci'pi'iscs nf all kinds liaxc liciiclitcil to a larjrer extont 
 iliMii tlit'V possibly c-niiM lia\i' was llici-c im I'ac-iiii;' tn aiti'act the kind (if visitors we have had witli us 
 the present winter. 
 
 .V iiatinn tliat is all liusiness and nn pleasui'i' ne\'ei' was and never will Iji' listed as a denineralie 
 (ine. Instead it is tlie lireeder nf ill will aninnfi' its peoples to the peoples of freer nations, wliei'e 
 jdeasnre is "iven eipial swa\- with husiiiess. (iei'inany was the ty])e of the nation lirst rel'ei-i-ed to, and 
 it was that fanatical observance of business lirsl llial led the land of the Kaisei' to covet the holilinfrs of 
 nei^'bbors. Another exaniple of wbai lack of pleasiii'e means In the snceess of a nation is furnislie(l by 
 Titissia. What pleasui'es there weie in that nation wei'e only for those who cnnld alford them. Tlie peas- 
 ant and tlie laborer bad none and wer<' permitted n.ime. Tjltle wonder then there was a lack of Ijroth- 
 erl\ love between the \aricus elemeiils of life williiii llie iiatinn and that ruin and destiuction. blood- 
 sheil anil |iogronis are the (U'der ol the day. 
 
 Tliere is no irettiiii,'- away fiiuii the fa<-t that horse racing;- is <ine id' the ercatest sports of man. 
 It has been referred to as the spoi't of kiiii;'s, and sucli it is. 
 
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 118
 
 W. H. KER, President. 
 
 Has i;ieen connected with thu organization sinci- its li»'.L;innin^ in lliOo, He possesses knowledge 
 in his linp which entitles him to rank witli the lead.Ms tliiciashout the conntry. A man of pleasing 
 liersonality: a Louisianian by birth and resides in i\e\v Orleans, He prides himself in the knowledge 
 that has governed his advancement from salesman to President of an organization, which is co-oper- 
 ative and progressive in every sense. Is ever untiring in his efforts to advance the prestige of the 
 entire community. Has a large acquaintance throughout the entire South and is recognized as a 
 thoroughly technical and practical coffee and tea man. 
 
 S. J. CASTLE, First Vice-President. 
 
 A man of storling qualities and wide acquaint;inc<' tliroii,i;liout llu- Southern States; has been con- 
 nected with the Cnmpany for about 12 years and is their leading salfsman. Plome and headquarters 
 are at Slireveport. L.a. His importance has been further recognized by his recent election to the Board 
 of Directors. 
 
 p. P. GLUCK, Treasurer. 
 
 ^u co- 
 lies 
 
 ful in hi.s line— cotton and banking: of 
 ■nt nf New Orleans. 
 
 A man of wide acquaintance and very active a 
 pleasing personality — a philanthropist in >-\ivy sei; 
 
 W. E. NORRISS. Second Vice-President. 
 
 Is well and favorably known throughout the Southern States. Highly regarded by his large circle 
 of friends and customers: has traveled for the Company for about 4 years. His ability and standing 
 have recently been rewarded by his present title. His home is New Orleans. 
 
 RICHARD G. DROWN, Secretary. 
 
 A young man of exceptional ability, possessing many qualities which are applied effectually to 
 his work. He has risen from shipping clerk to the important position of Secretary. His duties con- 
 sist chiefly of buying the general equipment, handling city credits and advertising. Has been with 
 
 the Company about S years. His honie is New Orleans. 
 
 C. L. PEAP^ON, Asst. Treasurer. 
 
 A resident of New Orleans; has won hi.s adv ancement gradually from bookkeeper to cashier, 
 thence to .Assistant Treasurer. Is most efficient in accounting. His chief duties are handling country 
 credits ,nid collections. He is calm, deliberate and con.siderate in his dealings with the trade. Has 
 
 lieen with the pniiin:in\- alxint seven vears. 
 
 AMERICAN COFFEE COMPANY 
 
 OF NEW ORLEANS, LTD. 
 
 119
 
 LEYLAND LINE 
 
 Frederick Leyland o Company, Limited 
 
 REGULAR SAILINGS 
 
 FROM NEW ORLEANS for 
 
 LIVERPOOL 
 
 MANCHESTER 
 
 LONDON 
 
 M. J. SANDERS, Manager 
 
 1210-1212 HIBERNIA BANK BUILDING 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 120
 
 CUYAMEL FRUIT 
 COMPANY 
 
 IMPORTKltS AND EXPORTERS 
 
 BANANAS 
 
 CUYAMEL BUILDING 
 
 410 AND 412 CAMP STltEET 
 
 NEW ORLEANS 
 
 DIRECT 
 FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE 
 
 TO 
 
 PUERTO CORTEZ 
 
 AND 
 OMOA HONDURAS 
 
 121
 
 Qlie Pelican Cracker Factory) 
 
 -- -m 
 
 "EF H H H E" 
 
 
 NEW ORLEANS is the home of many splendid enterprises, among which none is 
 more vitally a factor in the commercial growth of the city than THE PELICAN 
 CRACKER FACTORY, engaged in the manufacture of crackers, cakes and 
 other toothsome edibles. Its product is in demand over a wide area of territory, 
 and is shipped into South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, 
 Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana. For the United States Government alone the Pelican 
 Cracker Factory now holds on hand enormous orders for its produce, for exclusive 
 use of the United States Government overseas, and has already supplied over three 
 million pounds of their product for governmental uses. Despite this enormous business, 
 the output of this splendid factory is constantly growing in favor and increasing in 
 demand throughout this and other countries. The company has a large force of skilled 
 employes, employing in New Orleans 3 79 people in their factory here. They likev>rise 
 are represented throughout their territory by sixteen high class traveling men, each of 
 whom is a specialist in his line. The company employs a liberal policy of justice, 
 fairness and co-operation in its dealings with its employes, and conducts its businf'ss 
 on the highest principles. Its officers are among the well known men of New Orleans, 
 and are as follows: 
 
 E. L. GERDE, President. 
 
 CHARLES W. BROWN, Vice-President. 
 
 LYLE A. CARTER, Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 A. B. CLARK, Factory Manager and Director. 
 
 CHARLES GALLMAN, Factory Manager and Director. 
 
 122
 
 THE LUMBER-PAPER CENTER OF THE SOUTH. 
 
 /^XE OF the fastest growing and most progressive eities of Jjoiiisiana or the entire Soutli 
 ^-^ is HOGALI'SA, tlie home of the world's greatest sawmill anti the South's largest paper 
 manufacturing plant. Twelve yeaj's ago the site of the city was covered by a virgin pine 
 forest; today it is necnpiod by 16,000 happy, contented people, most of whom are engaged in 
 work connected with llic production <>( liinihcr iVoni the Southern pine tree or with the con- 
 version of waste wood into paper. 
 
 One million feel of lunihei' is inanuractured in B<igalusa every working da}'. In doing 
 this, there are necessarily produced iniiny Ions of waste material in the form of limbs and tops 
 in the woods and slabs and edgings at the mill. Formerly only a very small percentage of 
 this waste material could be made into useful products. In fact, it was found that only one- 
 third of tlie tree was turned inio liiniber, boxes, lath and shingles. Two-thirds of the tree 
 was either left in the woods or hurnl as .slabs, edging.s, sawdust, etc. 
 
 I'lint was before the construction of the nuignilicent plant of the llogalusa Paper 
 Conipanv. Inc. This great plant was built b}' the same men who own the Great Southern 
 Lumber C'omjjany. Their investment in the paper mill amounts to $2,000,000. The owners 
 feel that the building of this paiiei' mill was a long step forward towards the ideal of true 
 conservation. The pa]ier ])lant o|)erates entirely on waste products. 
 
 Illustrated on this page is the new City Hall, of which every citizen of Bogalusa is 
 exceedingly proud. Tliis liuilding was erected at a co.st of $10, 000. Although established 
 in 1906, Bogalusa was nut incor]:)orated as a city until July 4. 1!)14, at which time it had a 
 jxipulatioii of about lo,()00. Tlu> city enjoys a commission form of government. 
 
 With tlie establishment of the paper jnaking industry, Bogalusa has become a VFAl- 
 MAXENT city instead of being dependent upon destructive lumbering ojjcrations as in the 
 past. Wlien the manufacture of lumber shall have ceased, the paper mills will turn to second- 
 growth pines for tlieir raw material. 
 
 BOGALUSA WILL V.K TlIK TIIIllD CTTT OF LOUISI.VXA WlTlllX TlIK 
 A'EXT TEN YEARS. 
 
 ■I TV iiAi.i,, boc;alusa. I. a. 
 
 12c
 
 The 
 Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance 
 
 Company, Ltd. 
 
 "AS A LOUISIANA INSTITUTION" 
 
 Has selected New Orleans as one of its four Departments for the management of its 
 American Business. 
 
 Maintains a Local Board of Managers, comprising four of New Orleans Representa- 
 tive Merchants. 
 
 Employs at its New Orleans Oflice 100 persons, consisting of Managers and Clerks. 
 Has invested in New Orleans Real Estate 3 office buildings at a cost of $366,000.00. 
 Pays annually taxes to New Orleans and State of Louisiana on Real Estate, $9,840.00. 
 Pays taxes on its business operations City of New Orleans and State of Louisiana 
 $12,259.64. 
 
 Deposits its funds in four of New Orleans' Banks from which Losses throughout the 
 South are paid. 
 
 Purchases all stationery and supplies necessary to its Southern Business from New Or- 
 leans Merchants and Dealers. 
 
 These facts exhibit how this Connpany has become identified with Louisiana which 
 should favorably commend it to the consideration of Louisiana Insurers. 
 
 DIRECTORS 
 
 HUNT HENDERSON, 
 
 JNO. M. PARKER, 
 
 D. D. CURRAN 
 
 OFFICERS 
 
 CLARENCE F. LOW, Manager. 
 
 J. G. PEPPER, Assistant Manager. 
 
 R. H. COLCOCK, Jr., Deputy Assistant Manager. 
 
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 (•iia!i'iI':rh;d august 1st, isto. 
 NEW ORLEANS 
 
 1"()1{ ks \'KA1{S A I'AC'l'OH I\ I'lIK I'l.XAXC lAL AM) 
 COMMERCIAL IIISTOIJV OF TIIK CITY OF XKW 
 OHLKAXS AND TIIK rKUUn'OHV OF WIIK II IT IS 
 THE FIXAXCIAE AXD COM.MEUC lAE CAFirAL. 
 
 CAPITAL $1 ,000,000.00 
 
 SURPLUS 500,000.00 
 
 UNDIVIDED PROFITS 449,763.51 
 
 $1,949,763.51 
 
 NOTE: — The amount of Capital contributed by shareholders 
 was $200,000. The additions to make up the above total 
 came from Earnings alone. 
 
 toward 
 
 'j invite all classes oi' hanking' l)usiness and will welcome interviews 
 and correspondence with ^reat interest. Our service and our attitude 
 the husiness oi' our customers A\il! please. 
 
 Check Accounts Rent Collections 
 
 Savings Accounts Income Collections 
 
 Special Deposits Loans and Discounts 
 
 Certificates of Deposit Correspondent for Banks and 
 Collections. Foreign and Raidsci-s 
 
 Domestic All othei' kinds of hanking and 
 (Our service covers the world) financial affairs. 
 
 OFFICERS 
 
 ADOLPII KATZ President 
 
 R E. CFcAIG 1st Vice-President and Chairman of the Board 
 
 FERDINAND KATZ Vice-President 
 
 ALVIN P. HOWARD Vice-President 
 
 FRANK E. RIESS Cashier 
 
 CHARLES E. STEVENS Asst. Cashier 
 
 DIRECTORS 
 
 GUS. IJ. BALDWIN. U. MARINONI. Jr. 
 
 A. Baldwin & Co., Ltd. Attorney at Law 
 
 H. F. BALDWIN D. B. MARTINEZ 
 
 R. E. CRAIG ^- Koen & Company. Wholesale Cigars 
 
 1st Vice-President and Chairman of the Board E. L. POWELL 
 ALVIN P. HOWARD American Creosote Works. Inc. 
 
 3rd Vice-President J- C!. Rainwater Lumher Co. 
 
 ADOLPH KATZ President San Ramon S. S. Co. 
 
 Cuyamel Fruit Co. LOUIS P. RICE 
 FERDINAND KATZ Louis P. Rice & Co., Saddlery 
 
 2d Vice-President j a. SALMEN. 
 Mayer Realty Company Vice-President Salmen Brick At Lumber 
 
 GUSTAVE LEMLE Co., Ltd. 
 
 New Orleans Attorney, Illinois Central System. e q SCHLIEDER 
 
 Attorney, New Orleans National Bank, Etc. President American Brewing Companv 
 
 JAS. J. M ANSON S. ZEMURRAY 
 
 Manson Bros., Salt S. Zemurray & Co., Fruit. 
 
 126
 
 New Orleans Credit Men's Association Exerts Constructive 
 Influence on Southern Business. 
 
 N< 'WIIErtK has the modern science of organized 
 lo-operntinn reached such development as in 
 (he United States, where, more than in any 
 other country, it has preserved its appropri- 
 ate character of an aid to. rather than substitute 
 lor. individual initiative, and where, under sane 
 Tf^ulation thmui^h a li-i;is]ati ve jjolicy wliich rocuK- 
 nizes that principle, a system of co-operation in 
 business has been evolved whicli not only adapts 
 itself to the rc(|uirements of each class of industry, 
 but includes inter-industry organizations desi;?ned 
 to work out joint prolileins bearing upon tlie various 
 Ithases of commercial activity. [M'ominent, or even 
 pre-eminent, among tlie latter class is tlie National 
 Association of Credit Men. composed of 122 local 
 associations in tlie principal cities of the country, 
 witli a total membtrship of 1^7.000 business con- 
 cerns. Of these constituent associations the New 
 Orleans Credit Men's Association may be considered 
 typical, having been or,i;anized in March, ISOG. the 
 first organized in the South, and one of the many 
 wliich at the same time be^an springin.er up all over 
 the country. The remarkable initial impetus of the 
 credit association movement was due to the realiza- 
 tion of the necessity for 
 improvement in credit 
 conditions, which were 
 in a deplorable state, 
 each firm acting for it- 
 self, on the principle of 
 stealing- business from 
 each other, and naturally 
 largely ignorant of or 
 disregardinjL; the logical 
 basis of credit. As said 
 by one of its officials, 
 the New Orleans associa- 
 tion practically started 
 itself, growing out t>f 
 the recognition of the 
 fact that such conditions 
 were not only wasteful 
 and destructive of busi- 
 ness from the standpoint 
 t'f the manufacturers, 
 jobbers, wholesalers and 
 bankers in whose inter- 
 est it was primarily or- 
 ganized and has been 
 conducted, but unjustly 
 burdensome to their hon- 
 est and worthy custom- 
 ers, and unduly encour- 
 aging' to the dishonest 
 and unreliable. The 
 
 sjioutiuieity and strength 
 of the movement is indi- 
 cated by the fact that in 
 June. 1896. a national 
 convention was held, at- 
 tended by representa- 
 tives of 6(1 local associa- 
 tions; and the New Or- 
 leans organization has 
 been closely identified 
 with the national move- 
 ment from its inception. 
 The New Orleans 
 Credit Men's Association 
 
 was reorganized and incorporated in lOOV. and ranks 
 high among local organizations, its membership on 
 March 1, li)18. comprising 36S firms in New Orleans 
 and others of the larger towns in the State and 
 vicinity. More effectively to serve the latter it is 
 contemplated that eventually branches will be estab- 
 lished in the principal outlying- towns in its vicinity, 
 reporting to the New Orleans office. It is not merely 
 a deliberative oody. but an active business institu- 
 tion, carrying: out the fundamental principles of its 
 foundation in a concrete business service, in spacious 
 offices, and with a clerical force of ?,2 people. Next 
 to its basic purpose, "to establish closer acquaint- 
 ance and to encourage and promote confidence and 
 co-opeiation among credit men." and "to jiromote 
 the higher education of credit men." its most im- 
 portant function, embodying in a striking manner 
 the co-operative spirit, is the credit information 
 service, in which, through its large membership, it 
 is able to render exceptional service. It has been 
 ;iptly described as an interciiange of ledger infor- 
 mation, any member desiring knowledge as to the 
 ( redit of a prospective customer being advised with 
 what other members he has done busin 'ss. the ex- 
 tent of it, and all facts bearing upon his reliability 
 
 VV. P. SIMPSON. President. 
 
 — a regular open competition plan, witii "all the 
 cards on the table." 
 
 Another purpose, "to secure the economical liqui- 
 dation of overdue accounts." is accomplislied through 
 its collection department with marked efficacy, with 
 the important further effect of encouraging pi'ompt 
 payment by customers, who realize that delinquency 
 affects tiiem with all their creditors. Many claims 
 Iiandlerl by it are collected without cost, a large 
 proportion at a cost of two i)er cent, and experience 
 shows that many which ai-e uncolleetable could have 
 been collected if placed with the association more 
 promjitly. Another allied function is "to administer 
 involved estates so as to jjroduce maximum returns 
 at a minimum cost, and these two brandies of work 
 are handled under competent management, backed 
 by thorough knowledge of the commercial laws of 
 the several States, with the aid of specially selected 
 attorneys 
 
 Another of its objects, not less important. Is "to 
 assist honest, fmancialiy embarrassed merchants," 
 and in no other branch of its work appears so clearly 
 the broad constru<-ti ve character of the organization. 
 It is founded on the i»rinciple that the function of 
 credit is not to destroy 
 but to build up trade. 
 and that co-operation, to 
 be fully effective, must 
 not be confined to mem- 
 bers, but must be ex- 
 tended to their custom- 
 ers. Fi'om tliis stand- 
 point a customer who 
 may, for the time, be an 
 undesirable one. but is 
 capable of being con- 
 verted into a good one. 
 is an asset to be pre- 
 served; and many a ctis- 
 tomer has through its 
 assistance and wise 
 counsel been tided over 
 a crisis and placed on 
 his feet again better 
 than before. For in this 
 work education is a great 
 factor, and frequently 
 the fault has been found 
 to be improper methods, 
 and by showing the 
 debtor how to put his 
 business on a sound 
 li;isis. he has been able 
 to continue and become 
 a valuable customer. 
 Prominent along this line 
 has been the campaign 
 of the association to en- 
 couraging better account- 
 ing in retail business, to 
 enable the merchant to 
 know his costs, assist 
 Iiim in paying his bills, 
 and of late, to know 
 where he stands on tax 
 matters. The association 
 has also been active in 
 promoting the use of 
 trade acceptances, and 
 has met with marked success along this line: and 
 considering the wide field of its work, which is not 
 limited to any one line of trade, but has to do with 
 fundamental conditions in numerous lines, it has 
 been .a potent constructive force in business circles 
 in its territory, and has accomplished a good hard 
 fight to realize in building up and making more etTi- 
 cient the commercial forces therein. 
 
 On the other hand, it is the unrelenting foe of 
 commercial dishonesty, and one of its objects is "to 
 build a fund with which to prosecute the fraudulent 
 and dishonest." This fund is a substantial one. and 
 is drawn upon whenever necessary to prosecute those 
 guilty of fraud in any form affecting its members. 
 This is not done in any vindictive spirit, and even 
 here justice is often tempered with mercy; but it is 
 felt that the high standard whicli it endeavors to 
 maintain in commercial life can be preserved only 
 by making an object lesson of violators of the law; 
 and if, after the careful investigation which is 
 always made in the case, is found to be a proper 
 one for prosecution. It is taken up and pushed with 
 energy 
 
 Another of its pronounced objects, "to secure legis- 
 (Con tin iird on paije 1 2S. )
 
 CIIKDIT MEN'S ASSOCIATION. 
 
 (('(mtiiiuril from pa;/': 127.) 
 
 latHin tVir tlio |)i'i)iniition of honesty in Ini.siness." is of 
 .siniil:ir cliaiacter. J I lias been active in l<eepinH in 
 touch witii the course of lOKisIation in Louisiana and 
 nearby States, ami in recoinincndins legislation de- 
 sis'ned to maintain correct prac'ticcs in Imsiness; and 
 among other concrete results may be mentioned the 
 lollowini; acts placed on the statute books of Louisiana 
 at its instiyaticn: 
 
 i^roliiliilins prison-made articles from lieing sold in 
 competition with free labor. 
 
 licmilatintr tlic sale of merchandise in bulls or out 
 of the usual coui-se of business (mai<inK it difficult to 
 defraud ci-editors l)y that means). 
 
 i*ro\idin.i< penalties for tlie makins or usin.g of false 
 statements to obtain mone>' or property on credit. 
 
 Fi-oviding penalties for .i-'iviny checks,' drafts or ordei-s 
 on any liank or depositary wiien the drawer has not 
 sufficient funds or ciedit to cover. 
 
 To make the stoi-y complete, mention must be made 
 of the close co-operation and interchanse of informa- 
 tion with other credit men's associations, through 
 wliich tile cooperative principle is carried out to its 
 full logical extent and with tlie maximum efficiency. 
 
 Tiie New Orleans Credit Men's Association Is man- 
 affed by men prominent in the business world, not only 
 in tiie city, but throughout Louisiana and other States. 
 Tliey are men who have been identified with it for a 
 long time, and have lieen prominent in tlie shaping 
 of its policies: and their liigit standing, as well as 
 that of the firms whose credit interests they represent, 
 is of itself a sufficient guarantee of tlie maintenance of 
 tlie iiigli standard it has set for itself. Its president 
 is VV. P. S'impson, president of tlie C. T. Patterson 
 ('ompany, Ltd., and its vice-president is ,1. A. Badger, 
 second vice-president of Woodward, Wight & Co., Ltd. 
 G. Owen Vincent, vice-president ('ommercial Trust and 
 Savings IJank, is cliairman of JOxecuti\'e Committee. 
 All tliese gentlemen serve without pa.v, gi\'ing their 
 time and energy freely for the uplifting of business 
 in tlieir McId of work. 
 
 Tlie active management of tlie office is in tlie capaijle 
 hands of T. .1. Hartlette, until recently, credit manager 
 of Wiiiiams-Richardsim Company, Ltd., wlio lias been 
 secretary-treasurer of the Association for twenty years, 
 and during his long connection with tlie organization 
 lias played a most important part in the development 
 of its work which has greatl.v contributed to its 
 success. 
 
 Orleans Cotton Mills, Inc. 
 
 Was ui .uani/.n! in Unil. with two timusand 
 spiiuUfs till- the manufacture of yarn. A.s turn- 
 went by, the mill lias grown and prospered, until 
 today it has rive thousand one hundred and eighty- 
 four spinning spindles, one thousand four hun- 
 dred twisting spindles, and runs day and night, 
 with a force of one hundred and fifty skilled 
 operatives. 
 
 Today the mill is turning out the very best 
 quality and highest grade of yarn, which is con- 
 verted into duck and other fabrics used in im- 
 mense quantities by tlie Quartermaster and 
 Ordnance Departments, for equipment for troops 
 for overseas service. Since the entrance of the 
 United States into the war. the n;iill has devoted 
 its output exclusively to Government require 
 ments. 
 
 The new mill building of modern day-light 
 factory construction, containing the most ap- 
 proved and sanitary plumbing fixtures, drinking 
 fountains, and individual lockeis for each em- 
 ploye, has ju.st lireii coinpb'tpd, and t!u- new 
 marhiiicr\' iiista]l''il l hnrin. 
 
 The employes of the Orleans Cotton IVIills, Inc.. 
 tri\ly feel that they are a part of the army be- 
 hind the lines and that tiiey are doing their 
 best towards winning the w.i.r, as every hour of 
 their labor helps to make something which the 
 soldier boy will need when he goes over the top. 
 This mill is owned ciitii cly b.\ New t M h.-uns 
 people and the officers and operating staff are 
 as follows: 
 
 MR. \V. L. I.vVNDAU. President. 
 
 MR. HARRIS HYMAN, Vice-President. 
 
 MR. A. K. LANDAU. Treasurer and Secretary. 
 
 MR. \V. IWSSMUKE, Night Superintendent. 
 
 MR. E. GASTAUER, Day Spinning &. Twist- 
 ing Supt. 
 
 MR. H. VV1R13ED. Dav Carding Supt. 
 
 MR. F. (iASTAUEIi, Foreman of the Packing 
 & Shii)ping Department. 
 It is a source of gratification to the manage- 
 ment that most of these foremen have been 
 steadily employed with this Company for periods 
 varying from five to twenty years, and the aver- 
 age length of employment of the operatives is 
 seven years. 
 
 The manasrement is always glad to extend the 
 opportunity to ambitious boys and girls to learn 
 a well-paying trade, at which they can always 
 get steady employment, good wages, and con- 
 siderate treatment, in addition to being paid 
 while learning. 
 
 HENRY PETERS 
 
 .All of the romance of the sea attaches to 
 the business career of Henry Peters, contract- 
 ing stevedore, and Mr. Peters and his equip- 
 ment of large marine derricks and their ma- 
 chinery play a large part In the maritime com- 
 merce ol: New Orleans. At one time the huge 
 fifty-ton capacity derricks are lifting from the 
 bottom of the Mississippi slimy wreckage of 
 steamboats of other generations; at another 
 they are raising a steamboat which may have 
 listed too far from Injudicious loading, and 
 still again the stevedore and his crew may be 
 unloading the valuable mahogany logs for the 
 Otis Company or transferring the Italian 
 marbles from Leghorn to the railway cars 
 from the ships' holds. Mr. Peters handles 
 heavy sugar machinery for houses in Cuba and 
 Porto Rico, and at odd times fishes up lost 
 caliles for the Telephone or Railway-Light 
 companies. Mr. Peters' two derrick boats are 
 the Louisiana and the New Orleans, and they 
 are probably the most powerful boats on the 
 river or in the South. The Louisiana picked 
 up a 6,5-ton steam shovel at Red River and 
 carried it quite a distance, and its average 
 day's work in handling marble is moving fifty 
 blocks from a ship to a freight car. The New 
 Orleans was the first derrick boat to go through 
 Southwest Pass, and brought up all the ma- 
 cliinery for the coaling station. Mr. Peters is 
 a valuable citizen of New Orleans, and resides 
 at 3026 IJrsuline Street. 
 
 (MILLION DOLLAR HOME) 
 
 New ORLEANScr 
 
 OCCUPIES AN ENTIRE SQUARE BARON NE & PERDIDQ STS. 
 FAMOUS FOR ITS CREOLE CUISINE 
 
 12S
 
 Marine Bank & Trust Company 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, 
 
 The Marine Bank and Trust Company, of New Orleans, is one of tlie youngest active 
 financial institutions of the South. 
 
 On the morning of February Gth, 191S. Mr. I.,. M. Tool, who had been identified with an- 
 other Bank in New Orleans tor over 25 years, anounced the organization of tile Marine Bank 
 and Trust Company. In the prospectus, which was s(mt to prospective investors, the capital was 
 fixed at .$4n0,n00.00, and the stock was offered on the basis of $125.00 per share, which provided 
 a surplus fund of $100,000.00. Within three days, the capital was very largely over-subscribed; 
 total applications for stock exceeding ONE MllJ>ION DOLLARS. 
 
 The organization of the Bank was completed in record lime, the Bank opening for business 
 in its temporary quarters at 732 Gravier Street, on March ISth, 191S, just 40 days after the an- 
 nouncement of its Organization, with full paid capital and surplus, and over TWO AND ONE- 
 HALF MILLION Deposits. 
 
 The Officers are: 
 
 L. M. POOL President 
 
 J. A. BANDI Vice-President 
 
 W. T. MARPIELD Cashier 
 
 W. J. PILLOW Assistant Cashier 
 
 All of the Officers have had practical Banking experience, and been actively identified with 
 Banking and Business interests in New Orleans, Louisiana and Mississippi for years. 
 
 The Directors are successful and aggressive business men of New Orleans and the Terri- 
 tory served by the Bank; and represent every class of business, which is handled through New 
 Orleans and financed by New Orleans Banks. 
 
 The activities of the Bank include all Branches of Banking and Trust Business, covering 
 the entire field adjacent to New Orleans, which includes practically all of Mississippi and 
 Louisiana. 
 
 The Bank enjoyed a successful business from the start, and in less than Six Months' time, 
 the deposits were nearly $5,000,000.00. 
 
 With the development of general business, and particularly foreign business through the 
 Port of New Orleans, the Marine Bank and Trust Company is destined to play an important part. 
 
 COMPLIMENTS OF 
 
 COLUMBIA SUGAR CO. 
 
 FRANKLIN, LA. 
 
 120
 
 MAGINNIS COTTON MILLS, 
 
 E. V. BENJAMIN, Owner. W. LOBER LANDAU, Manager. 
 
 The Maginnis Cotton Mills, specializing in Cement Bags, is the largest concern 
 of its kind in the country. Large scale specialization and studious attention to detail 
 are the secrets of its success. Covering a territory ranging from coast to coast and 
 from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, the concern numbers amongst its satisfied customers 
 the most powerful corporations in the cement world. 
 
 Indicative of the new spirit in business and hence worthy of special note, is 
 the splendid co-operation existing between the management of the Mills and the em- 
 ployees. The comfort and welfare of the latter are constantly a matter of consider- 
 ation. The Mills have a grocery department, where foodstuffs are sold to employees 
 at cost. A large restaurant is run on the same basis. The management has instituted 
 a liberal benefit system embodying the principle of voluntary, contributory social insur- 
 ance. The employees pay 10c weekly to the Mills' benefit society. In case of ill- 
 ness they receive the attention of specialists and when necessary, treatment in the pay 
 ward of a hospital. Wages of members on the sick list are paid in full by the manage- 
 ment for twenty w^eeks, which period may be extended at the management's discretion. 
 In case of the death of a member, the Mills pay $100.00 to the dependents. 
 
 In short, the Maginnis Cotton Mills make a point of satisfaction — satisfaction 
 to customers and employees both. The former has always been a point of business. 
 It is the latter which is now being stressed for the first time. Present indications 
 point to a new era in industrial relationships. The management of the Maginnis 
 Cotton Mills takes great pride that here, as elsewhere, it is well up in the van. 
 
 NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE PORTLAND 
 
 W. R. GRACE & CO. 
 
 QUEEN AND CRESCENT BUILDING 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 IMPORTERS, =^^^====^ EXPORTERS, 
 STEAMSHIP AGENTS 
 
 BRANCH OFFICES IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES OF 
 CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 GRACE BROTHERS & CO., Limited. 
 
 1.30
 
 MENGE MARINE HARDWARE & SUPPLY CO., Inc. 
 
 Menge Block — Canal, Common. S. Peters and Fulton Streets. 
 
 wa.s orgaiiizpil on Junuaiv 1st. llil.'i. uiul began business al 338 Camp. The Company grew so rapidly 
 tliat it was necessary for tliem to obtain larger quarters and they were .successful in securing the 
 entire square on Canal Street, neai" tlie river. . 
 
 TlK'ir location is an ideal one and they are carrying the largest and most complete line of Ship 
 (_^handlery .South of the Jlason and Dixon Line, they are Stem to Stern's outfitters, carrying every- 
 thing in stock pertaining to the building, repairing and provisioning of vessels. 
 
 The following well known business men of the Crescent City constitutes the officers of the Com- 
 pany, R. H. MacLeod. President; M. B. Griffin, Vice-President; L. I£. Blanchard, Secty. and Treas., 
 and J. H. Menge, General Manager. 
 
 The genial general manager has been identified with the Steamship and Steamboat business for 
 the past twenty years and the name of Menge is a guarantee to all Steamboat and Steamship cap- 
 tains of fair treatment and dealings. , . 
 
 Besides the general officers mentioned above, tlie City Sales Department is under the supervision 
 of Mr. A. P. Barba, long identified with the Ship Chandlery business, the Engineering Department, Jlr. 
 F. C. Lacassagne; the Shipping Department. Mr. Jeff. P. Robinson. 
 
 JOHN H. MURPHY IRON WORKS 
 
 MANUFACTURERS AND CONTRACTORS 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, U. S. A. 
 
 Vacuum Pans, Coil and Calandria 
 Webre Multiple Effects 
 Centrifugals and Mixers 
 Crystallizers, any type 
 Return Current Juice Heaters 
 
 Internally Fired Boilers 
 
 High Pressure Boilers Fitted with Steel Casings 
 
 Quinn Flat Top Bagasse Furnaces 
 
 Juice and Syrup Tanks 
 
 Oil Storage Tanks, all sizes and shapes 
 
 AGENTS FOR BLAKE— KNOWLES PUMP WORKS 
 
 Large Stock of New and Second Hand Machinery 
 
 13 1
 
 CHAS. \V. SHEPARD 
 
 PETER P. GLUCK 
 
 F. C. SHEPARD 
 
 SHEPARD 8 GLUCR 
 
 Cotton Commission 
 Merchants 
 
 NEW ORLEANS 
 
 Members 
 New York Cotton Exchange. 
 
 Established 
 1829. 
 
 Cable Address: SLOAN 
 
 Codes: — Shepperson's 1878-81; 
 
 Myers' 39th Ed.: A. B. C. 5th Ed. 
 
 N. P. SLOAN COMPANY, 
 
 COTTON MERCHANTS AND EXPORTERS. 
 
 Main Office: 310 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 N. P. SLOAN, President. 
 
 
 
 R. J. McKEOWN, Treasurer. 
 
 H. V. SLOAN, Vice-Presi 
 
 dent. 
 
 BRANCH OFFICES 
 
 W. H. DUNN, Secretary. 
 
 Domestic 
 
 
 Foreign 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Havre, France. 
 
 J. I). Morhan. Mgr., 
 
 
 K. A. Bedell, Mgr. 
 
 John Griffin, Mgr. 
 
 S17 Perdido Street. 
 
 
 Utica, N. Y. 
 
 Milan, Italy. 
 
 Fort Worth, Texas. 
 
 J. H. Mum bower, Mgr. 
 Savannah, Ga. 
 
 L. L. Alsina, Mgr. 
 Charlotte, N. C. 
 
 J. L. Bussey, Mgr. 
 
 
 Alfred Firth, Mgr. 
 
 Fall River, Mass. 
 J. H. Jackson, Mgr. 
 
 New Bedford, Mass. 
 
 Chester W. Chase, Mgr. 
 
 Malcolm P. Hoover, Mgr. 
 
 Barcelona, Spain. 
 J. W. Bingham. Mgr. 
 
 Den Hague, Holland. 
 Fred. MuUer, Mgr. 
 
 Greenville. S. C. 
 
 D. Byrd Miller, Mgr. 
 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 P. A. Sears. Mgr. 
 
 Kobe, Japan. 
 J. Grover Sims, Mgr. 
 
 LaGrange, Ga. 
 
 
 Providence. R. 1. 
 
 Liverpool, England. 
 
 n wigg Stuart, Mgr. 
 
 
 E. S. Harrington. Mgr. 
 
 Herbert <t Witter. Rep'fs 
 
 Full Cargoes Cotton to European and Asiatic Ports Our Specialty. Stocks concentrated at 
 
 principal ports for that purpose. 
 
 Orders solicited for the purchase juid sale of cotton for future delivery. WIRE OR TELE- 
 PHONE NEAREST BRANCH OFFICE FOR OUR LIMITS. We are always in the market. 
 
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 THE JOHN B. HONOR CO. 
 
 LIMITED 
 
 STEVEDORING 
 CONTRACTORS 
 
 227 S. FRONT STREET, 
 
 TELEPHONE MAIN 1399 
 AT NIGHT:— UPTOWN 1185 
 
 WALNUT 158 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company 
 
 EDENBORN LINE 
 
 THE SHORTEST HOl^TE THE NICEST TRAIXS 
 
 AND THEINIOSr CONVENIENT SCHEDITLES 
 
 liETWEEN 
 
 NEW ORLEANS SHREVEPORT 
 
 ALEXANDRIA BATON ROUGE 
 
 on. BURNING ENGINES FAST FREIGHT SERVICE 
 OESERVATTON PAREOR CAFE CARS 
 
 E. C. D. MARSHALL 
 
 (icucrdl Frcii/Jit (tiid Passenger ^If/iiit 
 SHREVEPORT, LA. 
 
 133
 
 UNITED IRRIG ATION 8 RICE MILLING CO. 
 
 OF 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Wnil ()!•■ KICKS AT 
 
 CROWLEY, ESTHERWOOD, GUEYDAN, 
 
 KAPLAN AND ABBEVILLE 
 
 owiiiii"' and fontrollinu llioiisaiids of at'iT-s of the clioii-i'st lands in Sontlnvest 
 Louisiana, and a xcrv laryc canal ivrination system. otT'ers unsurpassed 
 facilities to the farmer. 
 
 GALLAGHER ^^ ^^^^^^ 
 TRANSFER 
 AND 
 STORAGE GO. 
 
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 TRANSFER. 
 
 After the new residence has been chosen, the next important thought is moving. In your place, 
 include the large padded vans, electric vans and smaller wagons, with "The World Moves — So 
 Does Gallagher." It means efficiency and satisfaction. 
 
 PACKING AND SHIPPING. 
 
 We maintain a regular force of expert packers: trained the Gallagher way. The best packing 
 materials are used. Expert packers combined with first class material, insures perfect packing. 
 
 STORAGE. 
 
 Finest warehouses and facilities for storing household goods. Conveniently located on Jackson 
 Avenue and Camp Place. Separate private rooms and open storage. Satisfied patrons, our most 
 valued asset. 
 
 134
 
 THE JOHNSON IRON WORKS, Ltd. 
 
 P. O. 1U)X 840 NEW OULKANS, J. A. 
 
 Machine, Forge and Pattern Shop and Brass Foundry, with 
 Wharf and Facilities for General Marine Repair Work. 
 
 MORGAN, PATTERSON AND SEGUIN STREETS 
 
 Telephone Algiers 101 
 
 HULL AND CONSTRUCTION YARD 
 Bayou St. John 
 
 Telephone Galvez SU 
 
 (Established IHH.l) 
 
 MENTE & COMPANY 
 
 MANUFACTURERS ANT) 
 IMPORTERS 
 
 BURLAP AND BAGS 
 COTTON PATCHES 
 BAGGING AND TIES 
 TWINE 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, U. S. A. 
 
 135
 
 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY 
 
 lir.St M|lliHi| ilS iImiiIS S.'VC-ll 
 
 years uk" ^>h1 it has guiie un 
 steadily incroasins' from yeai- 
 to year until at present it 
 comprises eleven distinct de- 
 partments. The X'niversity Is 
 admirahly situated in the Har- 
 den district of New Orleans, 
 on St. Charles Ave., opposite 
 Audulion I'ark. In response to 
 the demand of the public and 
 to meet the wishes of his 
 (irace, Arcliliishop Ulenk, tlie 
 Jesuit l''alhers opened this 
 University in llUl. The Uni- 
 \'ersitv groiii> of buililinj^s in- 
 cludes Maniuette Hall, the 
 I.,ouise C TlKMuas Hall, the 
 McDermott .Memorial Church 
 and the Nicholas T). Burkes 
 Seismic Observatory. T h e 
 style of architecture is Tudor 
 
 riie llrst of the buildintrs erected was the 
 Hurke, in memoriani of their son, Nicholas 
 
 Gotliic, material useil is tariestry brick and Indiana limestom-. 
 Nicholas I). Hurke Seismic Observatory by ilr. and M rs. Wni. I 
 D. Burke. Thonuis Hall was donated by Mrs. S. O. Tlionias. 
 
 The Churcli of the .Most Holy Name, the McIJermol.t Memorial, was erected by Hiss Kate McDermott 
 in memory of her brother. It is a pure type of tlie 'I udor Gothic and is the most beautiful buildinK in the 
 Crescent City. Its lofty tower can be seen miles away. The Gesu is now beins equipped according to the 
 liemands of ecclesiastical art in the most thorouKli and artistic stvle, and it will stand as a splendid monu- 
 ment to the charity of a noble w^oman. The main altar was donated by Lawrence Fabacher, which was 
 brousht from Italy. The altar rail of carved Carrara marble was given bv Mrs. Nicholas Burke. A side 
 altar, the Sacred Heart, was given by Mrs. John IJou glas, another side altar, the Saint Ignatius bv Mr 
 and Mrs. Wm. P. Burke and will stand as a memoriani of the late Wm. P. Burke A third side iilta'r the 
 first erected in the new church, was donated by Mr. and Mrs, K. J. Kobet. in honor of the Blessed Virgin 
 All altars are of pure AVhite Carrara marble. Stations of the Cross, representing the Sacred Passion of 
 Our Lord, were donated by Mr. and Mrs. Swarbriek. The shrine, St, Anthony, was donated by the workmen 
 on the chureli, many of whom were non-Catholics. Another shrine, that of St, Anne, was the gift of Miss 
 Anna McNeil. 
 
 The eleven ilepartments that comprises the courses offered at Lovola University are: 
 
 (^oUegiate-i'lassical Course: A four-year course leading to the Degrees A. B. and A. M.: Collegiate-Scien- 
 tific Course: Degree B. S.; Law Course: Degree L. L. B. : Dental Course: Degree D. D S • Pharmacy Courses- 
 Degree Ph. D., l>egree Ph. C.: Post Graduate Medical Course: Wireless Telegraphy; Two-year Business 'course; 
 Marine Architectural Course: Degree M. A.; Drafting Course, and Oratory Course. The Jesuit Fathers have 
 always been convinced that a complete education means the training of the whole man mentally morally 
 and physically. Kxcellent facilities for the department of athletics are provided at Lovola, a well equipped 
 gymnasium and a magnificent stadium offer the student unsurpassed opportunities for the proper training 
 of the body. 
 
 Loyola University, is, in the proper sense of the word, a modern university, thoroughly equipped with 
 the latest and most up-to-date appliances in all departments. It is of the highest educational standard It 
 has a faculty numbering one hundred and twenty-Hve, including many eminent educators, and gentlemen of 
 high professional reputation. 
 
 For special information regarding the various departments, address- 
 
 RKV. A. E. OTIS, S. J., President: REV. M. J. WALSH. Vice-President: JUDGE HUGH CAGE Dean of 
 Law Department; DR. J. J. BATCHELOR. Dean, Post- Graduate School of Medicine: DR J J SARR4ZIN 
 Dean. School of Dentistry; PROP. JOHN GRASSER, Dean, College of Pharmacy; MR. LEWIS L LANDON 
 Dean. College of Commerce; MR. ALFRED J. BONOMO, Dean. College of Oratory; MR EUGENE S HAY- 
 FORD. Dean. School of Nautical Science; MR. M. L. GRUBMAN, Dean, Wireless' Department 
 
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 fi-.'- scholarshii)S f<>r Louisiana students. 
 
 College of Technology. AVitli complete laboratory 
 
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 139
 
 Phone Main 
 
 4189 
 
 Southern Motor and 
 Truck Co., Inc. 
 
 NATIONAL AND ELGIN 
 AUTOMOBILES 
 
 STANLEY STEAM CARS 
 
 Calliope and 
 St. Charles Avenue 
 
 
 
 .loynson. Bentley & Co., 
 Liverpool, England 
 
 Bentley, Joynson & Co., 
 Memphis, Tenn.; Dallas, Texas 
 
 BENTLEY, 
 JOYNSON ^ CO. 
 
 COTTON 
 EXPORTERS 
 
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 D. A. MAGINXIS 
 
 W. R. KUHN 
 
 Duggan, Maginnis 
 & Co. 
 
 COITON BROKERS 
 
 217 Varieties Place 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Members 
 
 N. O. Cotton Exchange 
 
 N. O. Future Brokers Ass'n 
 
 
 
 LEHMAN BROS. Estaolish.-d 
 New York ISOS 
 
 Lehman, Stern & Co., 
 
 LIMITED 
 
 COTTON MERCHANTS 
 
 840 UNION STREET 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Liberal Advances Made on 
 Consignments 
 
 Special Attention Given to the Sale of 
 Cotton on F. O. B. Terms 
 
 Orders for Future Contracts Executed on the 
 
 New Orleans, New York and Liverpool 
 
 Cotton Exchanges 
 
 140
 
 NEW ORLEANS. LA. 
 
 Nnc Orleans' Neicest and Most 
 Complete FIIiEPROOF Hotel 
 
 'I'lic lioMsc that c'oinhiiR's plcasiiiLi' 
 sc'i'N'icc with "■(■niiinc Iiosnilalitx' 
 
 Situated on St. C'liarles Street, 
 faciiin' Ijafayette S(iiiare. op- 
 posite the Post Office 
 
 II. A. MICHAEL, Mainujer 
 
 R. L. Levert 
 
 GENERAL 
 INSURANCE 
 
 806 Perdido Street 
 
 Telephone Main 378 
 NEW ORLEANS 
 
 Established 1S72. 
 JIKXUY BRER 
 
 i'-.DiiAi: H. J{Uir;?iT 
 
 .1. Wll.rjAM IlARKDUI.r, 
 ;•■ AUHICAN AliilAlIS 
 
 PRIVATE WIRES TO NEW YORK, CHICAGO 
 ANB INTERMEDIATE POINTS 
 
 H. & B. BEER 
 
 Commission Merchants 
 
 325 Baronne Street 
 
 Telephone Main 659 and 660 
 
 i;j:A.\i'II i ■I'I-ici-;: 
 
 217 CARONIIEI.ET STREET 
 
 Plione, Main 416 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Cotton, Stocks, Grain, Provisions, 
 Cotton Seed Oil, Sugar and Coffee 
 
 -MK.MUKtlS in- 
 New Orb'ans Cotton Kxchange 
 N. O. Future Brokers' Association 
 New York Produce Kxchange 
 Now York t^tock Kxchange 
 New York Cotton Exchange 
 New York Coffee Kxchange 
 Chicago Board of Trade 
 Associate IMcnibers of Liverpool Cotton Ass'n. 
 
 Special attention g"iveu to the execution of 
 orders on the above exchang-es 
 
 Phones Main 
 280 to 286 
 Inclusive 
 
 ROBERT P. HYAMS 
 COAL COMPANY, Ltd. 
 
 OFFICE AND YARDS 
 
 Clio and Magnolia Streets 
 
 P. O. BOX 1269 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 COAL AND 
 COKE 
 
 141
 
 Coffee Steamers from Brazil to New 
 Orleans. Service to European Ports 
 
 M. & R. Warriner, 
 
 Incorporated 
 
 STEAMSHIP AGENTS 
 
 AND 
 
 BROKERS 
 
 Agents for 
 
 Elder, Dempster & Co., 
 
 Liverpool, Elngland 
 
 The Prince Line, Ltd. 
 
 Newcastle-on-Tyne, England 
 
 307 Title Guarantee Building 
 NEW ORLEANS, U. S. A. 
 
 Phone Main 
 1115 
 
 I NOT INl •( IRPI »1:ATE1 1 1 
 
 Wl^nkaalr (Enufrrttnufrs 
 
 Nos. 417-423 Decatur Street 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 Distributing' Ag'euts 
 
 "Lowney's" 
 Chocolates 
 
 Holy Cross College 
 
 NEW ORLEANS 
 
 'ffrn:^?^. ■ 
 
 Sdifi S ■• 
 
 Holy Cross College, wliich is coiulucted hy the 
 Ilrolhers of tlie Holy Cross and located on the 
 liauphine and Levee and Barracks car line. 
 
 Mentally, morally and physically the youth is 
 prepared for manhood, and the institution which 
 was first opened in 1S79 can point with pride to 
 some of the most successful men in the country 
 ;i:- its j^radiuites. 
 
 Phone Main 
 
 3463 
 
 SMOKE HOUSE 
 
 729 IBERVILLE STREET 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Dealer in 
 
 High-Grade 
 
 Cigars and Tobaccos 
 
 142
 
 Equipped for Action 
 
 When opportunity knocks, have you the 
 ready money to meet it? 
 
 The most beneficial asset of all humanity 
 is the ability to SAVE. 
 
 Old age is known to be a stage in the life 
 of a man when natural forces reduce energy 
 and thereby diminish his earning power. 
 We cordially invite every man, woman and 
 child of the most limited means to open an 
 account in this Institution, knowing that the 
 first and most important step in the devel- 
 opment of Thrift is the start. 
 
 Whitney-Central 
 
 Trust and Savings Bank 
 
 St. Charles and Gravier Sts. 
 
 Dauphine and Piety Sts. 8132 Oak St. 
 
 Chartres and Iberville Sts. 
 
 810 Gravier St. 
 
 
 
 J. C. LeBOURGEOIS. Pre.sldent 
 R. G. BUSH. JR., Vice-President 
 P. .1. Stou.se, SecTftary-Treasurer 
 
 Le Bourgeois S Busd, 
 
 Fnr 
 
 SUGAR BROKERS 
 
 AND 
 
 FACTORS 
 
 Phones (City): Main 2774 and 4194 
 Long Distance 42 
 
 1012-13-14 HIBERNIA BLDG. 
 P. O. Box 52 7 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Specializing in the direct distribution of 
 
 Louisiana Cane Granulated and all direct 
 
 Consumption grades of Louisiana 
 
 Cane Products 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 LOUISIANA SUGAR CO. 
 
 GENERAL COMMISSION 
 MERCHANTS 
 
 Solicit Consignments of 
 
 SUGAR, MOLASSES, 
 RICE 
 
 J. M. Burguieres, President 
 E. A. Pharr, Vice-President 
 E. A. Burguieres, Treasurer 
 
 840 GRAVIER STREET 
 
 NEW ORLEANS 
 
 
 
 Stauffer, Eshleman & Co. 
 
 HARDWARE 
 
 Fine Cutlery, Guns, 
 Ammunition, Iron, Nails, 
 
 Metals, 
 Agricultural Implements 
 
 511 to 513 Canal Street 
 
 115 to 129 Dorsiere Street 
 
 510 to 520 Customhouse Street 
 
 NEW ORLEANS 
 
 143
 
 NATIONAL SASH & 
 DOOR COMPANY 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OK 
 
 Sash, Doors, Blinds and Mill 
 Work of all Kinds 
 
 Having the largest oiit- 
 ])\i\ i'or any Sash and Door 
 Faclory in Louisiana, we 
 can fill all orders with the 
 greatest facility. 
 
 ESTIMATES ON PLANS CHEERFULLY 
 FURNISHED 
 
 P. O. Box 1550 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Poitevent S Favre 
 Lumber Co. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS 
 OF 
 
 PITCH PINE 
 
 Main Office and Mill: 
 Mandeville, La. 
 
 Branch Office: 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 SHIPPING POINTS: 
 
 Gulr'port, Miss.; Ship Island, Miss.; 
 Mobile, Ala. and New Orleans, ha. 
 
 Cable Address POITEVENT. 
 
 JULIUS 
 WEIS & CO. 
 
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 Cotton Factors 
 
 AND 
 
 Commission Merchants 
 
 8 1 7 GRAVIER STREET 
 
 NEW ORLEANS 
 
 Anderson Clayton 8 
 Company 
 
 Members 
 
 New York Cotton Exchange 
 
 New Orleans Cotton Exchange 
 
 Associate Members 
 Liverpool Cotton Association. Ltil. 
 
 K. A. BEVERIDGE, Mngk. 
 
 827 (tHavier Strket 
 
 Ne^v Orleans 
 
 OFFICES 
 
 Houston S avail nail 
 
 Oklahoma City Atlanta 
 Boston 
 
 144
 
 INDEX 
 
 Page 
 A 
 
 Abaunza, Gonzalo 61 
 
 Alexanrler, Lester F , - 76 
 
 Alexandei-, Mark Leigh .*. _- 79 
 
 American Audit Co., The _ 136 
 
 American Banlv & Trust Co 138 
 
 American Coilee Co 119 
 
 American Securities Corp 138 
 
 Anderson, Clayton & Co 144 
 
 Area - _ 14 
 
 B 
 
 Bailey, TTon. James J. . 64 
 
 Barr, L'obert Julius - '''4 
 
 Beer, H. & B „ 141 
 
 ]-!chre, ChaTies lienry - 7'? 
 
 Behi-man, Hon. Martin 28 
 
 Bentley, Joynison & Co. .-. 140 
 
 Billingsloy, James W 80 
 
 Bogalusa ■■ ■ 123 
 
 Bott, Fred. W .. 60 
 
 Bovlan. Washington G 104 
 
 Bradford, Millard Filmore 72 
 
 Brasco's Restaurant 136 
 
 Brittin. Abraham _ - 71 
 
 Browne, Eppes Wayles 90 
 
 Buie, Duncan 7.T 
 
 Burke, William Patrick '. 101 
 
 Buja, Albert Joseph 83 
 
 Buitman, Jr., Anthony Fred 46 
 
 Cabrera. Jose I! , 74 
 
 Calcasieu Parish _ : 115 
 
 Capdevielle, Paul _ 69 
 
 Carlisle. Tom Fennell 66 
 
 Chalona. Joseph 43 
 
 Clark, John P :. 52 
 
 Climate :. - 12-13 
 
 Cothran, H. Dickson 82 
 
 Curran, D. D 58 
 
 Cuyamel Fruit Co 121 
 
 Columbia Sugar Co 129 
 
 Cypress • 11 
 
 D 
 
 Dantzler, John Lewis 74 
 
 Dawkins, Hon. Ben. C - 33 
 
 DeGrange, Joseph H ,.. — 71 
 
 De lia Vergne, Hughes Jules 73 
 
 Denegre. George 70 
 
 de Roaldes, Arthur Washington 97-98 
 
 Dickinson. Edwai'd Foster 39 
 
 Dixf)n. Brand t V. B : 56 
 
 Doullut. Paul - 68 
 
 Drawe. Jules J 79 
 
 Duggan, Maginnis & Co - 140 
 
 Dunwody, Robson ~ 62 
 
 Dussel, Alex 64 
 
 E 
 
 Earhart, Fred A _ 78 
 
 Ebaugh, John Lynn 60
 
 INDEX-Continued. 
 
 Pajje 
 
 Kll is. Caswell P 53 
 
 Ellis, Crawford Hatcher - : 54 
 
 Kst()i)iiial, Jr.. Albert ' - 87 
 
 RwiiiLT. rjobert I. « 47 
 
 F 
 
 Farwell. Cliarles Alphonso 99 
 
 Fcitcl, Dan W 84 
 
 Flint-Goodridge Hospital 137 
 
 Ford, ,) olni McWilliams 89 
 
 Foster, Murphy J 77 
 
 Freeman, 'riioinas .T. ^7 
 
 G 
 
 Gallagher Transfer and Storage Co., Inc 1 '■'• I 
 
 Gas ■ Ill 
 
 Ga\-, Edward J 2o-26 
 
 Geibke, Charles F - 76 
 
 Grace, Fred J (57 
 
 Grace & Co., W. K 13n 
 
 Green, Aubrey L 95 
 
 Greenlaw, Eclward Punnels ■'^7 
 
 Grunewald, Bcnediel Moret 70 
 
 H 
 
 Halliday. Alex M 45 
 
 Hardwoods 1 1 
 
 Harriss. IJaymond Francis T)5 
 
 Hartwell, Charles Addison '. 82 
 
 Health Record 13 
 
 Heller, Maximillian- 56 
 
 Heniean, Josepli P , , 72 
 
 rierii, Geortje Alfred .; 53 
 
 Herold, Sidney Levy 91 
 
 Hibernia Bank & Trust Co .. 138 
 
 Hill. Edward S 80 
 
 Holmes. Williams Clay 93 
 
 Hoi V Cross College 1 42 
 
 Honor Co., Ltd., The John B * 1 33 
 
 Hotel DeSoto ....: 1 28 
 
 Hotel llonteleone 139 
 
 Hiis:hes. Thomas Poland 92 
 
 Hvams Coal Co.. Lfal.. Robt. P , 141 
 
 Irion, A'alentine King .77 
 
 Jacobsen, Hans A. M 86 
 
 Jahncke, Ernest Lee 54 
 
 Jenkins. 'William Dav 86 
 
 Jeter, John W. A. ..." 92 
 
 Johnson Iron Works, Ltd., The - 135 
 
 K 
 
 Kausler, George Shall 71 
 
 Kelly, Thomas J Ido 
 
 Kemper, Charles Delaware - 44 
 
 L 
 
 Lafayette Hotel de Luxe, The 141 
 
 Lancaster. William Blair 81
 
 INDEX-Continued. 
 
 Page 
 
 Loliiiiiiii. Stern & Co ,. 140 
 
 Lelioii, Dan S ... 82 
 
 Le l^laiic, Alfred ... ?o 
 
 Le Bour<;v())s fr Busii, Inc. ■ 143 
 
 Lcvert, John B 51 
 
 Levovt, R. L 1 4 1 
 
 Lewis, Ernest Sidney .'. 30 
 
 Leyland Line ;.• 120 
 
 Liverpool S: London & Globe Ins. Co 124 
 
 Live StorJv Industry ., 18-1 i) 
 
 Long', George ; 85 
 
 Louisiana 1-3 
 
 Louisiana Railway & Navigation Co 133 
 
 Louisiana Sugar Co 143 
 
 Loyola University ... 136 
 
 JI 
 
 Magijinis Cotton Mills _ .v 18(i 
 
 Maiionev, Edwin L .. 83 
 
 Maloney, Paul H '. 81 
 
 JMarine Bank & Trust Co '. 129 
 
 Martin . Whitmel 1 P :.. 27 
 
 ifatas, Rudolph 37 
 
 JLithews, Charles S .'. .: ;. 35 
 
 J\Iatthews, Fredei'ick Warner .• .■ -79 
 
 McCarthy. Jr., Richard ;..! '. 81 
 
 McLeod, William ( 'harles .....:....." 81 
 
 Men.ge Marine Hdwe. i*v: Supply Co., Inc. l.'l! 
 
 Menioriains : 9G-105 
 
 Mente & Co. , : : 135 
 
 Michell, Bernard ; ; 41 
 
 Michel, Jno. T : $...... : 63 
 
 Mineral ; ;: : 11 
 
 Monroe : 94 
 
 Monroe, Hon. Frank A '. 29 
 
 Montgomery,. Charles Dickens 79 
 
 Moore, Daniel D '.. 49 
 
 Morrii5, Captain Pendleton S 100 
 
 Mouton, Hon. Fernand ....'. '23 
 
 Murphy Iron AVorks. John H 131 
 
 X 
 
 National Resources of Louisiana 10-21 
 
 National Sash & Door Co 144 
 
 Naval Stores Industry 20 
 
 New Orleans ' 4-9 and 16-18 
 
 New Orleans Business Men's Racing Assn 117-118 
 
 New Orleans Credit Men's Association 127-128 
 
 New Orleans Naticnifll Bank 12fi 
 
 
 
 Oil 10 
 
 O'Keefe. John David 75 
 
 O'Neill. Hon. Chas. A 30 
 
 Orleans Cotton Mills, Inc '. : 128 
 
 Overton, John H 83 
 
 Pa]ier Industry 20 
 
 Parsons, Edward .\lexander ._. 76 
 
 I'earce, Furman Barnes ~ - 75 
 
 Pedane, Henrv R 78
 
 I N 
 
 'ib"EX 
 
 Page 
 
 Abbot, Giiulcr 51 
 
 Ak-xanikT, M. L I'.i 
 
 Ak'xaiuk'r, James \V. ... IS 
 
 Allun & Friedrichs . ... fit 
 
 .Mvarado, Gen. Salvador . . lio 
 
 .\iiu-ricaii Brcwt-ry l():i 
 
 .\iiu-rican SuRar Rclining Co. Dfi 
 
 Haird, 1. Piarluii 70 
 
 Hallard, Marshall S.'j 
 
 I'.ankers Loan & Securities Co. 110 
 
 Harr, John C '.''i 
 
 Hebrnian, Martin, Mayor . (i 
 
 Bogalnsa '.(4 
 
 Ikigakisa Merchants .... '.Ki 
 
 Honey, Richard K 30 
 
 Piooth. .•Xndrew II ">() 
 
 Hott, Fred W 38 
 
 Hrennan, H. McEvoy. ... 28 
 
 Hrooks-Scanlon Lumber Co. . 64 
 
 Brown, Wm. P 112-113 
 
 Bnja, Al. J 65 
 
 Burgheim, Clarence A. . . . 46 
 
 Burke, Porteous R 5'J 
 
 Cabera, Jose R 43 
 
 Cahn, F'dgar M 75 
 
 Calcasien National Bank . . 90 
 
 Cak-a*jieu Parish 01-92 
 
 Capdevielle, PanI .... 22-23 
 
 Caribbean & Southern S. S. Co. 125 
 
 Carter. H. J 62 
 
 Christy, Edgar .\ 62 
 
 Cline, Isaac M 54 
 
 Collins, Robt. P 62 
 
 Consumers Electric Light & 
 
 Power Co 109 
 
 Cosmopolitan Hotel .... 124 
 
 Coupon Cigar Stores .... 106 
 
 Dameron-Pierson Co., Ltd 
 Dameron-VVhite Co., Ltd. 
 Dantzlcr, John L. . . 
 Davis, George H. . . 
 de la Vergne, Hughes J 
 Denechaud, J. F. . . 
 Derbes, Rudolph J.. Jr. 
 Dibert, John .... 
 Dowling, Oscar, M. I). 
 Downman, Robt. }L . 
 Donllut & Williams . 
 Drewes, E. C. . . . 
 
 109 
 
 41 
 38 
 114 
 17 
 63 
 77 
 79 
 
 Earl. George G. . . . 
 Ellis, Crawford H. . 
 Estopinal, Hon. Albert 
 Estopinal, Dr. Jos. A. 
 Ewing, Col. Robert . 
 
 59 
 75 
 56 
 79 
 82 
 
 Favrot, Chas. A 84 
 
 Favrot, Lionel F 72 
 
 Feitel. Dan W., Bag Co. . . 62 
 
 Ferguson, P. L 79 
 
 Fettis, Clarence E 71 
 
 Field, Al. G 77 
 
 Fitzpatrick, Harry .... 79 
 
 Fitzpatrick, J. J 80 
 
 Florio, Joseph P 120 
 
 Ford, James P 34 
 
 Page 
 
 Forticr, Jas. J. :\ 58 
 
 b'ostcr. Sen. Murphy J. . . . 80 
 [•"ruit Dispatch Co 123 
 
 Gelbke, Clia^. F. . . 
 Gilbert, VN'illiani K. 
 
 Glascr, Michael . . . 
 
 Glisson, Jas. li. . . . 
 
 Goreau, Thos. \V. . . 
 
 Grace, Fred J. . . . 
 Grossman, Dr. Gustav 
 
 26 
 
 70 
 84 
 74 
 
 54 
 
 Hardin, Jeff D 15-16 
 
 Heard, Wm. W 57 
 
 Hecht, R. S 15-16 
 
 Hecht, Rudolph S 39 
 
 Henson, Clarence C 31 
 
 Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. . 122 
 
 Holmes, William S 58 
 
 Hotel Biloxi 108 
 
 Hudson, W. 15-16 
 
 Hughes, Thomas R 44 
 
 Jackson Brewery 102 
 
 Jung, Louis A 37 
 
 Jurgens, George B 36 
 
 Kahle, P. Jorda, M. D. . . . 35 
 Knop, Louis 36 
 
 La. Railway & Navigation Co. 125 
 
 Land, Alfred D 35 
 
 Landry, Robert S 119 
 
 Lazaro, L 29 
 
 LeBIanc. A 78 
 
 Ledbetter, Dr. B. A 76 
 
 Lewis, Lieut. -Col. Thomas J. 42 
 
 Loeb, Ernest M 15-16 
 
 Louisiana Sugar Industry . 97-98 
 Louisiana State Rice Milling 
 
 Co 123 
 
 Lovejoy, William C 37 
 
 Lyman, G. V. W 55 
 
 Lyons, Dr. S. M 67 
 
 Mahoney. l\dwin I. . 
 Mangham, Frank J. 
 Martin, WJiitmell P. . . 
 Mayo, Col. John P. . . 
 McChesney, T. S. . . . 
 McCloskey, Hugh . . . 
 McGilvray, William A. . 
 Metaire Cemetery Ass'n. 
 Mexican Navigation Co. 
 
 Milner. P. M 
 
 Milliken & Farwell . . 
 Morgan, Howell . . . . 
 
 Aloore. D. D 
 
 Moore, Levering . . . 
 
 Nathan. Edward . . . 
 National Brewing Co. 
 Newman. Harold W. . 
 Newmyer, Arthur G. 
 New Orleans Item . . 
 Nix, John D., Jr. . . 
 N. O. Railway & Light Co 
 Nola Film Co. . . . 
 
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 O'Cwnnor, Chas. D. . 
 Odenhcimer, Sigmund 
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 Otis Manufacturing Co. 
 
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 I'an-.'\merican Life Ins. Co . 77 
 
 Penick & Ford 107 
 
 I'enick, William S. . . . . . 34 
 
 Picheloup, Maurice .... 51 
 
 Porteous, Wm. A 75 
 
 Prados, Rufus II 74 
 
 PMtnam, Oscar L 117 
 
 Ransdcll, Sen. Joseph E 
 Reyes, Octavio ... 
 Reyn<dds, Jas. W. . . 
 Riling, George, Mayor 
 Roy, William F 
 
 Scanlon. .M. J 
 
 .Schorr, Jno. W 
 
 Simon, Joseph 
 
 Sisal Industry 
 
 Sloan, Matthew S 
 
 Sneath, Sanmel B 
 
 Southern Pacific Lines . . . 
 
 Stafford, E. M 
 
 Stair, Chas. A 
 
 Standard Brewery 
 
 Standard Oil Company of La. 
 
 Steele, Ollie B 
 
 Sullivan, W. H 
 
 Te.xas & Pacific Railway 
 Thomson, James M. . 
 Thomson, Paul J. . 
 Thompson. William B. 
 Turnbull, Jas. 1". 
 
 Union Sulphur Mines 
 Unsworth. Dr. Chas. V. 
 
 V'an de Ven. Right Rev. 
 
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 VN'eiss. Leon C 49 
 
 Wermuth. Chas. E 40 
 
 White, Ernest -A 57 
 
 Whiteman, .Mbert W. ... 58 
 
 Whiteman. Henry C 58 
 
 Whitney Central Banks ... 121 
 
 Wilbert, E. G 39 
 
 Wilbert, Frederick 78 
 
 Wilbert. Maj. 'Peter G. . . 53 
 
 Willis, James C 40 
 
 Wilson. Andrew H 33 
 
 Wisner, Edward 115 
 
 Wolf. Samuel 56 
 
 Wren. William M 27 
 
 Wright, James L 47 
 
 Wynhoven, Rev. Peter M. H. 69 
 
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