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Page Six The Aurora a city which was to be one day one of the leading commercial cities of the World. How was it done? Every year in the spring that bog was covered over with a layer of water from six to twelve feet thick. The city site is at the highest point only twelve feet above sea level while one third of its area is two feet below. The city is there today. How was it done? System ! Let me explain in detail: ' At the end of the seventeenth century Spain began to crumble. Louisiana was returned to France and Napoleon, dreading that Louisiana would again fall into the hands of the English contrived it transfer to the United States. Fiercely those people of the old regime living in New Orleans opposed the exchange. Foreign tyranny had lost its grip upon the river and, like a flood undamimed above them, Kentucky's flat-boats came pouring down to New Orleans, tobacco, grain, flour, pelts, lumber. Merchants found themselves making money hand over fist. Dwellings had' to be built to house the people to the city. Drainage had to be promoted. Ah, that was it. Drainage. How on earuth were they to drain the city? The small streams flow away from the river, not tow-ard it. It sounds quite simple. Remember however that the banks of the Mississippi are higher than the ground behind them. How could New Orleans be drained when the river stands at its maximum twenty feet higher, and the sea is six feet higher than the approximate level of the city? Yet both sea and river must be kept out of town. The people threw up ridges of dirt. Unsystematic. Puny little barriers that the river broke in 1780, 1785, 1791, and 1799. The people gradually began to com- bine with each other in wfar against the common enemy. The Federal Government began to combine with the people of New Orleans and the Valley. By solving one problefm they intensified the other. A continuous ring of embankment around the town had converted New Orleans into a gigantic saucer out of which no drainage could flow. Neither can the moisture sink into a supersaturated earth. Every gallon of water must be lifted over the saucer's rim. To imagine the tropical cloudburstg some- times as much as three inches .per hour, a yearly average of five feet. On the bl-ack night of April 15-16, 1927, the sky itself seemed to open, the bottom dropped out, and a deluge came from above. Thirteen inches of rain in thirteen hours. Streets be- came navigable rivers, with the mighty Mississippi attacking the levee. New Orleans handled every drop of that inside water by means of its pumping system. How? It was just stated. System. Another victory for System was the de- struction of Yellow Death. Men are alive now who may remember standing at the door of America's finest hotel and smelling the stench of its sewage that meandered lazily along an open gutter. Refuse could not go elsewhere. There were no under- ground pipes, and no chance to lay them. Odors from disease breeding filth suffocated a town of ten thousand. No wonder the death rate there climbed to 180 per thou- sand. No wonder that malaria alone killed 156 people per 100,000. When the Yellow fever came on, the town had to be absolutely closed. No human being was permitted to enter. Boats were shooed away from the landing place and north-bound trains rushed through at full speed. In the trade territory of New Orleans no travel went or came: not a com- modity was moved. Wholesalers called in their drummers. Business came to a com- plefte standstill. Meantime American investigators were patiently following the trail and studying the phenomena of Yellow Death. Heroes sacrificed their lives to demonstrate that infection was carried solely by a mosquito. Not only that-they narrowed down their research to a sin-gle kind of mosquito, the female of the species Stegu-myia fasciata. When our investigators caught Mrs. Stegumyia with the goods, they screened every yellow-fever patient so that she could stick her weapon into no more poison. Squads of determined officers cleaned out
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