Marietta Daily Leader

Has Two Thousand Men at Work on the Levees.

The Last Grand Rally Before the Advancing Waters Made.

Lumber in Carloads and Mud by the Trainload Being Used to Strengthen the Levees-Only a Few Days Before the Crisis Will Be Reached.

New Orleans, April 23. -The monster river stood still Thursday. Clouds gathered, but no rain fell. It was altogether a fine day for work and great work was done. There is need for it. New Orleans and her over-the-river protege, Algiers, have several weak levees to look after. Just below in St. Bernard are two; just above, taking both sides of the river together, between here and Baton Rouge, are half a dozen. New Orleans has 2,000 men at work Friday morning and the other places have many more. Lumber in carloads and mud by the trainload are being used. It is one of the finest fights in history and only a few days more remain before the crisis will be reached.

As previously stated, the battle has had its lessons and a great deal has been learned about the way to obtain the most strength of levees, about revetments and about the importance of proper drainage for the embankments, a point which was heretofore almost entirely neglected. Now the state experiment station at Audubon Park announces a number of interesting tests in progress. Various kinds of earth are being submitted to outward pressure, as to its penetrability, and when the experiments are completed the scheme of levee building will be more exact.