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For HIa Posterity
A Portrait of "Coaimodore"
By Joe Allen
Prom the first moment I saw this man I felt a stronge compulsion to write about him* Something about his stance ??? the way the workmen responded to his questions ??? the way they stood aside to let him pass made me sense that here was a forceful, strcng and dynamic personality!
Inside Lcxi*s Cash and Carry Grocery Store I inquired of the	checker:	"Ollie, who is that	man
standing in the	road	with	those workman? The	one holding
that skinny cigar in his hand?
Ollie craned her neck for a better view. "Ohjf she seid:	"That	is	Commodore	Ernest Lee Juhncke.?
Titfit sentence sort of opened and closed the files for me. All my	life	I had known of -- but pbrhaps	would
never know this	man.	As	a child I had known	that	my
father*s long-leaf yellow pine lumber was transported on Jahncke Bprges snd that Jahncke opersted ferryboats took us across the river. Later I was to learn that Ernest Lee Jahncke was an important name in New Orl ans . This man had the ability to get thing3 done. He served as President of the New Orleans Association of Commerce,