Show REALLY USED COTTON BALES popular idea concerning battle of new orleans has been found to be correct interest in the slumbering cotton bale theory of the battle ot of now orleans was aroused by the finding of a watercolor water witter color picture map of the original battle plan in an abandoned trunk in the celler caller of the st charles hotel little la Is known about the drawing or the other contents ot of the trunk which has rema remained I 1 tie d un unnoticed n noticed for y years a ar a in a dark corner five veterans of the battle have added their rig signatures natures to the remarkable map to attest the fact that it Is a true representation of the battle plan as made under the direction of andrew jackson by his military engineer it II laclotte it shows a ilan of cotton bules bales which a marginal note says was 1000 feet laag ig with a long Iong ment extending feet into the woods some historians deny dany the story about the use of cotton bales the live veterans who say eay they fought behind cotton bales were joseph st cyr jean lamothe P al lapice charles raymond and jean gervaas Ger vals pen pictures of thess these men appear in the footnotes the finding of the picture Is timely says the new orleans item as it will be of service for the staging 01 the battle which Is to be one of the leading features of the exposition big ideas of |