Tuesday Jan 10 - 1928 New Orleans A bright warm day. In the afternoon took a steam trip to see the shipping of New Orleans. It is one an impressive trip to see the ships from many lands to carry some any of the sights things of beauty. The river along the docks is from 30 to 70 feet deep, to 180 feet at the center, and with a width of between 1500 feet and less than one-half mile. It runs from 2 1/2 to 3 miles per hour, and is very dirty, a reddish-yellow color into which one cannot see more than two miles deep. Everywhere then are levees - raised banks of earth that appears to have been pumped out of the river, and that appear to be from 10 to 20 feet high. Today the river is high and during last summers flood was within two feet of the top of the levee at the crops. See the terrible storm on the steamer. Sunday, Jan. 15 - 1928 Worked all morning on the Rudemann jigsaw In the afternoon took the trolley to New Orleans and the shore of Lake Ponchartrain that goes out into the Gulf of Mexico. This is a sort of resort place with the Southern Yachting Club house here. In the evening finished the paper designs for Rudemann's book.