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When what is believed to have been the greatest flood ever known in the lower Mississippi valley destroys one hundred million dollars' worth of property and takes fifty lives, decisive action by the Federal Government can no longer be delayed. The Republican national platform of this year pledges the party to take such engineering steps as may prevent a recurrence of this great calamity. Theodore Roosevelt, a little before the Chicago convention, proposed that the machinery used in digging the Panama Canal be put to work for this purpose in the periodically overflowed areas. This article by Mr. M. A. Rose is one of unusual timeliness and significance. Mr. Rose is a resident of New Orleans, and was an eye witness to some of the most dramatic incidents in connection with this fight against the Great Flood.

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AIN is sloshing down, a downpour after a day-long drizzle. The water rushes in little torrents down one side of a gigantic rampart of sodded earth which zig-zags off before and behind. On the other side, the drops pelt the surface of a mile-wide stream into the semblance of brown stucco.

Standing on the dike, one may study the roofs of a plantation home behind it. Turning, one can stoop and dabble a hand into the muddy river, so near is it to the top of its barrier.

The smooth, true line of tawny water and green grass on the river side is broken by an ugly box of raw pine which projects into the stream an arm's length, and parallels the embankment forty feet, and into this box, negro convicts in their striped garb, free laborers, the village

NEAR VIEW OF A In the background can be seen the piling which is being that will close the crevasse

mayor, the village doctor, the wealthy planter, the banker, every able-bodied man within a radius of miles, is packing burlap sacks, filled with dirt.

Above the queer chant of the negroes comes a shout from a convict guard, rifle in hand. Before the gaze of the toilers, a bit of the dike further upstream sinks, at first gradually, an inch, two inches, three inches. A yellow geyser spouts up in the road, forty feet behind the levee. Then the great wall of earth

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