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| An Excursion to Grand Isle, Louisiana,
1906
On Saturday, July 7, 1906, members of the New Orleans Horticultural
Society and their guests celebrated the organization's twenty-first anniversary
with an outing to Grand Isle. Nineteen or so passengers on board the steamer
Grand Isle, piloted by Captain McSweeney, left the city in the morning
and arrived at their destination at 9:10 P.M. that evening. According to
a report in the May 10 Daily Picayune,
When they arrived at the island
the natives met them and saluted them by setting off a lot of fireworks,
and when they left each one was presented with a fine bunch of fish. .
. .
One of the features of the trip
was the stories of escapes from sharks told by Mr. E. J. Fortier, the cashier
of the J. Steckler Seed Company. Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Mayer were among the passengers aboard the Grand
Isle according to the Picayune article. Others who made the trip
were C.W. Eichling, J.H. Menard, J.A. Newsham, Paul Abele, B.M. Wisher,
W.C. Wisher, H. Kraack, Otto Werner, A. Aloist, H.L. Elwell, Frank Faessel,
Frank Broker, J.D. Halleroff, W. Stolzentholer and M. Stolzentholer.
The captions shown here are taken
from the original album.
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