. Review of reviews and world's work. stry, and therecent visitation of yellow fever will not deterher. It will force her officials to keep the moredensely populated portions of the city clean, togive the mosquito no quarter, and to adopteverywhere the latest sanitary improvements, inorder that the disease maybe battled with the bettershould it ever appear Orleans has at all timeswater deep enough to floatcomfortably the biggest ves-sels afloat or yet to be has an ultundance of rawmaterials, and she is the nat-uial and responsil)le outletlor hundreds of thousandsof miles of
. Review of reviews and world's work. stry, and therecent visitation of yellow fever will not deterher. It will force her officials to keep the moredensely populated portions of the city clean, togive the mosquito no quarter, and to adopteverywhere the latest sanitary improvements, inorder that the disease maybe battled with the bettershould it ever appear Orleans has at all timeswater deep enough to floatcomfortably the biggest ves-sels afloat or yet to be has an ultundance of rawmaterials, and she is the nat-uial and responsil)le outletlor hundreds of thousandsof miles of rich and thicklypopulateil territory. Cotton,the annual output of whichis more valuable than that ofany other crop grown inAmerica, is the principal ar-ticle exported. The value ofthe shipments of this staple(raw) alone through New Or-leans in 1!)04 was$:5(,-ISS. Of unmanufacturedtol)acco, $.11,540,7-.) worthwas shipped. There was adecline in the value of botlicorn ajul wheat which passed THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR GULF PORTS. 197. TULANE UNIVEKSITY, NEW OIILEANS. through tlie port. The former diminished from!|49,i:]5,000 in 1903 to $25,257,143 in 1904, andtlie latter from $59,329,791 to $10,821,350 in thesame period. There were 256 kinds of articlesof commerce exported last year, and tlieir totalvaluation foots up nearly a billion dollars. Thetotal value of New Orleans imports for 1904 wasonly $34,894,809. PLUCKY AND AGGRESSIVE GALVESTON, Galvestons pluck is inspiring. Robbed ofmore than 8,000 inhabitants and nearly $20,- 000,000 worth of property, cut off from all com-munication with the mainland, and prostratedbeyond description, almost in the twinkling ofan eye, by one fell swoop of a Gulf tornado justfive years ago, she has righted herself and madeherself fairer to the eye and of more importancein the business world than ever before. Couldany other American city have done as much inso short a time ? That question the future mayanswer with another terrible emergency else
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