The Herald du lieu suivant : Shreveport, Louisiana • 1

THE HERALD VOLUME 1 NO 3 Shreveport la Wednesday November 25 1896 TEN CENTS A WEEK THE FIFTH WARD A MODERN JOB WAILS WIDOWS TORMENTED BY A WHISTLING NUISANCE A HERALD READER PROTESTS AGAINST HIS NERVES BEING PUT ON EDGE to advertise is through the columns of a live paper The Herald for instance But never let the people in New York know that you have a barrel factory by blowing a whistle They may know it on Caddo Market Spring and other streets in this city but all Give Toombs another As he is not experienced with lullabies and tooisey-woot seys he is certainly not aware of the sin ke is committing the advocacy of the whistling1 prosperity theory Whistling Bill ALWAYS GAY George Gould He writes that the road did not earn a dollar last year not likely to earn one this year or any years or numbers of years and he spend any money surfacing tracks in a city on which he has such a leadpipe cinch as on Shreveport In fact but for the forfeiture of that congressional larceny of the heritage known as the Backbone Land Grant he would pull up his track and lay it from Waskora to Alexandria for the pure and simple fun of the thing These are not Mr words but it is the way he would talk in his sleep or duriDg a severe spell of absent mindedness It is about time the Council assisted Mr Quigles in carrying out his measure Mr Gould is able to pay for it BABIES A SHORT DISSERTATION THE SUBJECT they comprise one-fourth of new female population Where scarce The widow is an institution created by death If she is under 40 of age and especially a Shreveport widow she remains a widow of her own accord The only bar to a good looking widow m-rying again is a houseful of children J1A According to the census of 1890 there were 50270 widows in Louisiana Of these 18202 lived in -t New Orleans and comprised me-fourth of the adult female population of that city There are more widows iaNew Orleans in proportion to population than in any other city in the world A bachelor down there has -a hard time dodging the matrimonial lassoes continually poised over his head He only saves himself by keeping both eyes open and reminding himself of old man advice The city of Vancouver in the-western part of Canada close to-thePaciuj ocean is one of the fairest cities on the globe aad is short just 30000 women lta cli mate is good its natural resources excellent its houses fair itsstrests well paved yet within that town there is au air of forlorn dejection that strikes the most careless trar- eler tbat comes within its bounds ries And the desolation is caused by the lack of women and girls What a great place for the excess of widows who are looking far husbands to emigrate to! I Prof Dyche of the Kansas University not long since retained from an exploring trip to Gfeea- land Speaking of the Esquimaux he says the married women all wear blue ribbon in their hair the single ones red aad the widow black to which white Js added when they wish to marry again one he remarks were just eleven widows and theyw were all wearing the white with the black all the SENATOR AGE nator McEnery was bora May 28 1837 and is therefore just 59 ye rs old A great many people are under the impression that he is 70 an impression probably caused by his being ia public life ao'Ioag Senator McEuery is in vigorous trim and bids fair to live to a green old age 1 1 HOMEMADE HAVANAS Gen mode of warring down in Cuba ought to help Louisiana industries The home sugar man will profit and the pure Havana fillers made of Rodessa (Caddo parish) -leaf will soon impregnate the air with a delicious aroma GARBAGE The sensational and vulgar articles in many a newspaper should be classed as garbage and ebuntfed such THE QUESTION OF STREET IMPROVEMENT COUNCILMAN EFFORTS IN BEHALF OF HIS CONSTITUENCY COMMENDED The Fifth City Ward is one of the largest of the waids but with the exception of a few stretches of what may be called natural streets it has the worst topographical 'appearance of any subdivision of Major handsomely lllumi- nated map and the worst streets of 'I any ward in the city North or west of Caddo street the ward is cut up into little triangular plats with irregular width of streets which assume the respectable proportions of a statutory alley in spots and atop off suddenly as if they had no intention of going anywhere There is Christian street open from Texas avenue to Sprague street where Mr Kneeland informs the Council that he revokes his offer of donation of a 30 foot strip off the east side of his property because the owners adjoining him had refused to donate a like right of way and he did not think tbat a aide alley wonld improve his prop- erty And it Thia blocks Christian street at that point and the people be damned up as it were from entering Sprague street from Cane to Western avenue If they were good climbers they could get into Travis street np the Belt Line embankment where the trestle crosses the supposed south extent sion of Christian street Thera is no objection to the people going round through Duck but they do it you know not ij bad weather There are no streets in that summer resort Go round into Western avenue You do much of that either The Texet and Pacific have a cinch and an impassable trestle on that thoroughfare The north end of Christian street is blocked there too Councilman Quiglee is a quiet man and in the windburning contests in the councihc arena he have much show But he is an earnest man and energetic and manages to make the wants of his constituents known between spells In the Council He recently called the attention of the Council to the demands of Western avenue and obtained a resolution granting $75 for the improvement of that thor oughfare He had the city engineer make estimates of the probable cost of extending Western avenue across that trestle He had the street commissioner to notify the attorneys for the road and invited Colonel Herndon out to can-vass the situation but the gentleman seemed to need some practical experience that liae He said pshaw! It will cost the road $1500 to $2000 to grade up to that The city engineer estimated the work at less than $200 But Colonel Herndon is not blocking the wheels of Western avenue progress it is that power behind the American throne Mr To The Herald As your bazoo is now in full blast permit me to test its melody I do ndt propose to play on one string but have determined to hit with a ten-pound sledge hammer on the little and run the scale on out a la 16-year-old maid -if I alarm the and right here I wish to say of all the abominable nuisances under the sun the theory is the rankest unmuzzled-fluke ever turned loose upon suffering humanity Have you Mr Editor ever spent a night administering Mrs Soothing humbugs to baby? Have you watched wife dnneing an old-fashioned reel warbling sweet lullabies into the ears of her darling wishing fervently that the dear thing would go to sleep? Have you ever had fever at 103 in the shade with two doctors in attendance and an undertaker looking on from the distance? If you have eyer had sueh an experience and have lived in the whistling prosperity end of the town I am satisfied you would advocate the whistling ordinance now before the council -f The whistling vintage is of the 1840 crop It has populistic ticklers a yard long and needs a crop ping- The whistle of the oil mill is melodious regular and carries me back to days of long ago It may be necessary for it to toot and toot all it pleases but I have cine to the conclusion that if every cob crushing factory is permitted pull the cord every time the fireman falls asleep in the wood house that it is time for the distress sign to be hung out and that Captain General Weylar be asked to make a raid in this neck the woods Now I believe in letting the woild know we have a planing mill foundries elevators compresses window door aud sash factories oil mills etchut if can show me the necessity for the grand jubilee of toots from 5:30 till nigh on to 7:30 nm permit you to steer me against a ride or any kicking machine that can be found in the country in favor of them tooting but propose to restrict the number of toots If I employed a lot of men that required as much tooting to get to work as some of tbs now bulling the market turn the job lot off and replace the tooting apparatus with a Sells ealiope I represent infants Mr Editor whose lips hare never been separated from a nipple more I arise in the interests of beloved mothers whose nerves are being daily shattered by these tin cau pot mettled theorists who propose to advertise with a whistle to the world that is himself again The most profitable way known IIow can a reporter complain of hard times and dull days? If he has no resources in himself there is Capt Jim Martin with his terrible tales of the moonshiner with which he is wont to freeze the marrow of United States district court circles and curdle the ink down on the public convenience desk in the custom house corridor Then there is plenty of thunder especially when Mayor Reub is about aud the improvement of the streets is the question on deck Hear that aud then exhort the populace to protracted prayer that Red river may not bt frozen hard enough to bear seven and a balf inches of concrete two inches of and and four inches of Garrison brick when the Miiain street paving reaches that classic stream Then there is Dan Holland and Paul DeBergue who are always obligingly ready to pump trusting souls full of wild -western wind until they yearn for some one to come along and puncture their tire or fatigue spot with a theatre hat pin Oh Shreveport is a good field for journalistic skirmishing It i a first class A CHUNK OF TAFFY thing that puzzles me a great said an esteemed punctually paying subscriber where you fellows get all your news I walk around town aright smart and rarely see or hear anything out of the ordinary but The Herald comes to me every afternoon laden with news spice It is like a ray of sunshine and puts me in good humor with myself If you fellows only stay sober there is no other reason in your way of making money Have a cigar? No smoke? Thought so the reason I asked The man who gave us all this taffy counted on getting his name in but he is badly fooled A NEW WRINKLE The possibilities of North Louisiana agriculturally speaking are unlimited From the successful experiments made at Calhoun Rodessa aud other places there is no reason why every smoker should not grow his own cigars FOR THE ARMENIANS Miss Frauces Willard has issued an appeal to the public to contribute for the aid of the Armenian refugees what they feel disposed to give on Thanksgiving and Christmas days A VISITOR OBSERVES A GOOD CUSTOM IN SHREVEPORT notice one thing in Shreveport that has gone out of style to a great extent in the cities of the said a drummer at the Phoenix Hotel to-day that is the carrying of babies on the streets As a rule the Northern mothers leave theiT babies at home or turn them over to their nurses when they go out on the streets I like your custom best Joke as much as they may but I really believe this bicycle and new woman movement is exercising a perverted influence All that remains now is for it to go out of fashion for the new women to have babies at all ancf when that day comes all the bloomered and pug-dogged females will shortly die off aud leave the world as God intended it and as it exists here in the GOOD ROADS If there is one town in the coun-try that should have good roads leading to it that town is Shreveport The entire basis of the retail trade rests on the wagon traffic Good roads even if they are short ones go a long way in helping business It is said that good roads are ef but while this expression may be a little far-fetched there is no doubt of their being promoters of prosperity The time for highways to receive attention is in the summer so they can be ready for the fall and winter traffic Good churches good schools good roads and good crops thia quartette of blessings is all that is needed to fill the cup of contentment WILL LOOK INTO IT The Herald is going to interview the authorities 'as to the reason certain classes of persons on Caddo and Upper Water streets are permitted to signal people who happen to pass in that locality in Ithe day time We have heard no complaint from night visitors or people who drop down that way to get intuited HAS DIPHTHERIA Ruth the little daughter of Win Brjan has diphtheria The disease in her case is not considered fatal i.