French race displays in support of the government to which it owes allegiance.

"Of course we love Louisiana, and I won't say it is the only part of our country that has a picturesque tradition, but when you come from a place like Ohio-that has some history, I will admit-but it has nothing to remind you as you are here reminded, of those who builded so well in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

"Under the guidance of the professor who presides here so gracefully, I visited the French Quarter to-day, and he pointed out to me the Cabildo and the other buildings that were erected during the generation when Spain was here in control, and one could identify, with an experience in the Philippines, in Cuba and in Porto Rico, that same strength of construction, built for centuries, that characterizes the Spanish work wherever it may be.

"One of the advantages of living in a State like Louisiana is that we get a proper sense of proportion with reference to the place we occupy in history. In a State like Ohio we are apt to think that we are the whole thing-that there was nothing but the Anglo-Saxon race that made history at all. But it doesn't diminish one's pride in an Anglo-Saxon descent to be made aware of how much other races have contributed to make modern Christian civilization, and I never miss the opportunity, when I can, to pay tribute to the French and the Spanish, who had so much to do with the early history of this country. Of course, all races are subject to criticism. There are none of us perfect, and there was a time when those heroes that we like to paint now as heroes, if you examine them a little closely, came pretty near answering the present definition of pirates. When the history of our hero, Morgan, who at one place was known as a buccaneer and at another a Governor of Jamaica, and others are looked into, we pass them over with a feeling that it needs distance to lend enchantment; but they were the outgrowth of the civilization that then existed, and though the progress at that time did

not seem rapid, they were all making towards higher standards and a better life in this generation.

"As to the present State of Louisiana, I am saturated with admiration and respect for it. I have been living with the Governor and with the Mayor of New Orleans. I have had -I am sorry to say-only too little conversational acquainance with the beautiful women of New Orleans, but it was given to me last night to see at the opera such a bevy and such an audience as I doubt could be equaled anywhere in this country. And then I was under the guardianship of a gentleman who insisted on taking me into the corner where only men were admitted and passing by these gracious faces that indicated that, for the time being at least, they were willing to meet the President of the United States.

"However, I am looking forward to another visit, and then I shall come with Mrs. Taft. Now, Mr. President, to you I wish to pay the thanks and testify to the gratitude that I feel for the party with whom I have come, for your effort to make this journey of ours not only delightful in point of pleasure, but useful in point of knowledge, and it is always a pleasure to testify to the excellence and virtue of a citizen who, by his works, shows what his high standard of citizenship and patriotism is."

EARLY CENSUS TABLES OF LOUISIANA.

Among the transcripts of documents relating to Louisiana from the Ministère des Colonies, Paris, made by the late M. Victor Tantet (see Publications of the Society, Vol. IV., p. 156), one finds a volume of census tables from the year 1706 to the year 1741, bearing the title: "Récensements 1706-1741." Under the direction of Mr. William Beer, of the Howard Memorial Library, a table of contents of this volume has been prepared, the census of 1706 and that of 1721 have been printed, and notes upon the same appended. Mr. Beer remarks: "It has been thought interesting to print the first list (Récensements, pp. 1-8) of the population of Louisiana, at that time concentrated at Biloxi; and the census of 1721 (Ibid, pp. 20-52) of the inhabitants and concessionaires of New Orleans and the neighborhood. The list of 1706 shows that the Colony at that time. had only eighty-five inhabitants, of whom there were thirty-one men, no less than twenty being married, seven widows and unmarried women, and twenty-seven children.

The census of 1721 shows what survived of the large numbers of emigrants brought by the Mississippi Company in 1718, proving the immense waste of human life after the arrival of the colonists, the cause of which is pointed out in the interesting notes which follow the census tables. It was the result of the administration of the Colony being on the Gulf of Mexico instead of within the river, and the disembarcation at a point lacking all provision for feeding or medical attendance. The absence at the point of arrival of small boats in sufficient number held the emigrants until all their means had been exhausted.

It is interesting to observe the trades which are represented in this government colony. Including M. de Bienville, there are eighteen employees of the government. There are fortyeight persons of property, of whom one baker, one armourer, three carpenters, one locksmith, one harnessmaker, one turner, one house-furnisher, one tobaccomaker, one engraver, one gardener, one tailor and one pastry cook. In the service of the Company there are forty-eight names, among them being three

carpenters, one blacksmith, seventeen boat captains, two shipbuilders, one teamster, two cabinetmakers, one locksmith, one edge-tool maker, one foreman over the negroes, and nine sailors, with forty-three men and thirteen women labourers.

The population was distributed among the towns and concessions as follows:

CONTENTS OF VOLUME LABELED RECENSEMENTS 1706-1741.

1-2. 1 Aout, 1706.-Denombrement des familles et

3-8.

9-19.

habitans qui'sont a la Louisiane.

1 May, 1722.-Recensement de habitans du Fort St. Jean Baptiste des Nauchitoches.

28 Juin, 1721.-Recensement des habitans du fort Louis de la Mobile.

20-37. 24 Nov., 1721.-Recensement des habitans et concessionaires de la Nouvelle-Orleans et lieux circonvoisins.

37-52.

53-56.

1722.-Notes.

13 Mai, 1722.-Recensement des habitans et con

concessionaires qui sont Establys sur

le fleuve du Mississipi.

57-59. 19 Janvier, 1723.-Recensement fait en Natchez des habitans et ouvriers de la concession

de M. le Blanc.

60-62. 18 Feb., 1723.-Recensement des habitans etablis a Sotékouy, Arkansas, ci devant appartenant a M. Law.

63-104. 12 Nov., 1724.-Recensement du Village des Allemands Hoffen.

105-106. 20 Dec., 1724.-Recensement des habitans depuis Nouvelle-Orleans jusqu'aux Ouacha

ou le Village des Allemands.

164 166. Mars, 1725.-Recensement de l'Ile Dauphine Mobile et Pascagoula.

166-222. 1 Janvier, 1726.-Recensement general de la Colonie de la Louisiane.

223-264. 1 Juillet, 1727.-Recensement general du Department de la Nouvelle-Orleans.

265-287.

1731.-Recensement generale des habitations. le long du fleuve.

282-302. Janvier, 1732.-Recensement generale de la Ville de la Nlle.-Orleans.

303-311. 1 Janvier, 1732. Recensement generale de la Prairie du Fort de Chartres des Illinois.

312-321. Etat des habitans qui ont fait leurs soumissions pour avoir des negres.

322-337. Estat des habitants sur le fleuve audessous de la Nouvelle-Orleans jusqu'au quartier

des Allemands.

338. 29 Nov., 1741.-Denombrement des gens qui ont été tues dans le massacre par les

Sauvages Natchez, 1 Nov., 1729, jusqu'au 1 Aou, 1730.