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January 1915
The first meeting of the Jefferson Highway Association brings together 650 representatives of states along the intended route. The goal is to build a highway from the Gulf of Mexico to Winnipeg, Canada. |
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September 1915
September 29 a category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of over 140 miles an hour come ashore near Grand Isle and the eye passes over the city about 4 p.m. A tidal surge of 13 feet sweeps over St. Bernard Parish. The clock on the St. Louis Cathedral stopped at 5:50 p.m. Street cars stopped operating at 2 p.m. The steeple of the First Presbyterian Church on Lafayette Square is hurled through part of the church roof and two adjoining rooming houses. In the French Quarter, ironwork and chimneys were ripped from portions of the Pontalba Buildings The dome and the upper floors of the vacant St. Louis Hotel receive heavy damage. The Presbytere’s cupola is demolished and most of the Cabildo’s roof slates were torn off. Hundreds of live oaks are uprooted. In Audubon Park the thirty year old Horticulture Hall from the Cotton Exposition collapses in a pile of timber and glass. All that is left of the Dumaine Street Wharf is a mass of twisted metal. Half the buildings and all of the major amusement rides have blown down at Spanish Fort. The new drainage pumps proved their worth by removing much flood water from the urban areas, but after electricity began to fail, the pumps had to be turned off to prevent short circuiting. Water began to accumulate in Mid-City and behind S. Claiborne Avenue. The next day sight seers toured the city to see the devastation. The death toll was around 275 people, including 21 in the city. |
October 1915
The first Sunday in October is traditionally annual "Straw Hat Day" when the men of New Orleans stuff their sunburned summer straw hats into a cannon on the river front to watch them blown across the river as a symbol of the end of another hot summer. |
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| Tom Brown takes his Hot Five to Chicago making it the first white New Orleans band to appear there. For the first time the word "jazz" is used in print to describe New Orleans music in Chicago. It is used to discredit Brown’s Band, but he embraces the term, names his band Brown’s Dixieland Jass Band and proves it an excellent public relations gimmick. | The Second City Criminal Court and Third Precinct Police Station is designed by city architect Edgar Angelo Christy in the Beaux Arts style and is built at 410-414 Chartres Street in the French Quarter. It was purchased by the state in 1957 and is in use until the late 1970s. It now houses the research materials for the Historic New Orleans Collection. It has exaggerated stone joints, window crowns, decorative garlands and roof-line balustrade and beige brick for the second story pilasters. | ||||||||||
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