{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3277", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class\\nfllXl\\nBookJy^Jii-\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "1885-\\n\\\\^Price^ SO Cents.\\nI^Le^RS\\nJIS IT IS.\\n(Ijisl^ a GOf^I^CGS GU1D\u00e2\u0082\u00ac 5^0 ClLLPLaCCS OP II25GR;\u00e2\u0082\u00acSS\\nW. W. WILLIAMS.\\nCLEVELAND,\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^i^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-^^h^\\nC^i C ^^i{ k o^?^^^ tf^l \u00c2\u00ab^iC^ ^|{H f^i C^ ^iC^iC^ ^l{^\\n^Viv-^ \u00c2\u00bbi \u00c2\u00ab^iC\u00c2\u00ab \u00e2\u0080\u00a2r\u00c2\u00bbi \u00c2\u00abr i;^ ^I e^ ^iif\u00c2\u00ab \u00c2\u00ab2 i", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "ir\u00c2\u00a9 mm;w Qim%MAmm\\nFrom the New England States and the East, this route has advan-\\ntages possessed by no other, v/hich will be appreciated by those who\\ndesire to make the trip as far as possible through the Southern States,\\ninstead of first making a long trip w^estward through familiar territory\\nbefore making the angle south. From Philadelphia the route is\\nthrough almost the finest and richest agricultural region in America,\\nand which continues through the Cumberland Valley to Hagerstown,\\nMd., and the Potomac, from whence the rich Shenandoah Valley be-\\ngins, and continues to afford a constant succession of beautiful views\\nand surprises during a daylight ride from 8:io A. M. to 6 P. M, when\\nRoanoke, Va., is reached. During the entire day the Blue Ridge is\\nnear and then far, on the left, while the North Mountains loom up\\naway to the right, with laps of undulations between richly covered\\nwith pretty scenes in agriculture, constantly changing. This is all fa-\\nmiliar ground to Sheridan s old troops. Antieiam, Front Royal,\\nand Waynesburg are all in sight from the cars, and the well-kept lime-\\nstone pikes will recall many a stormy scene of the past, while the\\nNatural Bridge and Luray caverns may tempt a rest.\\nFrom Roanoke the same rich agricultural scenes continue through\\nVirginia to Bristol, when the descent progresses with the same Blue\\nRidge of the AUeghenies on the left and the Cumberland Mountains\\non the right, 30 to 80 miles apart, when the familiar tramping ground\\nof Burnside s troops appears at Blountville, Greenville, Blue Springs,\\nStrawberry Plains, Knoxville, Fort Saunders, Loudon and Chatten-\\nooga, with a continuation of charming scenes such as the vallies of the\\nHolstein, Wautaga, Clinch, Sweetwater and Tennessee rivers afford.\\nThe time occupied in traversing the whole distance from Harrisbnrg,\\nPa., to Cleveland, Tennessee, is relieved from monotony by reason of\\nthese facts, and no poor country is reached until within a few miles\\nfrom Cleveland, Tennesse, when the foot-hills begin, and a hundred\\nmiles or so of poor scenery through a patch of Northern Georgia and\\nAlabama, is experienced, when pine forests follow, which continue\\nuntil Mobile and the gulf are reached. Here the invigorating salt\\nair and broad waters of Pascagoula Bay bring new sensations, to-\\ngether with the stir of suburban resorts as New Orleans is approached.\\nBy this route all monotonous scenes of worn out lands abounding in\\nscrub pine and oak, are avoided, and a fair, typical picture of a rich\\nportion of the South is presented. Double daily trains with Pullman\\nsleepers.\\nA. POPE, Gen. Pass, and T kt. Agt.,\\nH. V. TOMPKINS, ROANOKE, VA.\\nEastern Pass. Agt. 303 Broadway, N. Y.\\nB. W. WRENN, Gen l Pass. Agt.,\\nEast Tenn., Va. Ga. R. R.,\\nKnoxville, Tennessee.", "height": "3136", "width": "1986", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE CHAMBERLIH CARTRIDGE COMPANY,\\n76 Superior Street, CLEVELiAND, OHIO.\\nMANUFACTURERS OF\\nFIXED AMUNITION\\nBreecWoading Shot Suns.\\nLOADED B Y MACHINER Y.\\nF. L.\\nCliamljerlin s Shell LoadingiMachine. Capacity, 1,500 Shells per Hour.", "height": "3136", "width": "1986", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "POWER TRAHSMISSinw\\nPULLEYS,\\nGEARS,\\nSHAFTING,\\nHANGERS,\\nETC.\\nMachine Molded Pulleys and Gears a Specialty.\\nOlevela^nd.,\\n01:Lio.\\nj@^rWrite for Gear and Price List. Estimates furnished.\\ngan\\nM\\nP\\nARAFFINE\\nWAX\\nCANDLES.\\nCleveland, Ohio,\\nManufacturers of COLD PRESSED\\nPARAFFfflE OIL\\nRefined Paraffine Wax, Paragon Axle Grease, and a full line of Railway Machinery-\\nSignal and Miners Oils.\\nBoston Office, 32 Olive Street,\\nNew York Office, 143 Front St., New York.", "height": "3146", "width": "2059", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "[THE FLORIDA SHORT LINE,\\nEast Tennessee, Virginia Georgia R. R.\\nABSOI JTELY the shortest OF ALL ROUTES BETWEEN\\n^OR. -H LATEST AND FLORIDA.\\nThe Reliable Through Car Route.\\nThe Permanently Established Success.\\ntHE SHORTEST OF ALL SHORT ROUTES.\\nPresenting for the Season of 1884-5 Increased Attractions and Improved Facilities.\\nMiles the SHORTEST between CINCIN-\\n2 NATI and JACKSONVILLE. 2\\nMiles the SHORTEST Between CHATTA-\\n1 7. NOOGA and FLORIDA, via JESUR 1\\ni Miles the SHORTEST Between ATLANTA\\nlis and FLORIDA, via JESUP. 1 1 S\\nCommencing- Nov. i, a Line of\\nEleg-ant ZDraTTT-ing- I^oono. Sleeping- Oars\\niWILL BR RUN BETWEEN\\n(jin(^innATi ano jAijKsonviLLG\\niWithout Change over the Queen Crescent Route and\\nE. T., V. G. R. R.\\nOnly Line Running through Passenger Coaches between Chattanooga\\nand Jacksonville, Fla., Without Change and without Extra Fares, via\\nDALTON, ROME, ATLANTA, MACON, EASTMAN JESUP.\\nThe vast tide of Passengers in constant movement between the\\ni NORTHWEST and FLORIDA, via JESUP, is Immutable Evidence\\nlof the superior service performed by the Short Line.\\nj Our PERFECTED ROADWAY and EXCELLENT EQUIPMENT\\n[are not surpassed by any road in the South. Tourist Tickets on sale\\n[during the season.\\nI Closely connecting also at Atlanta with W. A R. R. trains, and\\nwith R. D. R. R. trains.\\nFor Rates, Tickets or other information by The Florida Short Line,\\napply to any Coupon Ticket Agent in the United States or Canada.\\n6 H. HARDWICK, J. J. GRIFFIN,\\nTrav. Pass. Ag t, P. O. Box 566, Chicago, HI. A. G. P. A,, Atlanta, Ga.\\nB. W. WRENN,\\nGen l Pass r and Ticket Agent, Knoxville, Tenn.", "height": "3146", "width": "2059", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Selected I^ands for Sale\\nIN THE STATES OF TENNESSEE, WESTERV NORTH\\nCAROLINA, GEORGL\\\\, ALABAMA AND\\nNORTHERN MISSISSIPPI\\nOn the First day of June, 1885, the subscriber will open offices in Huntsville, Ala.,\\nAtlanta, Ga., and Knoxville, Tenn., for the sale of lands lying along and contiguous\\nto the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad system. To this end, thorough\\nand systematic examinations have been and are being made of the different classes of\\nproperty in the market, which will be brought before the special wants of applicants\\nthroughout the North.\\nThe E. T. Va. Ga. system courses through an empire of itself, so different and\\nvaried are the soils and climate along its lines. East Tennessee offers the vallies of the\\nHolstein, Clinch, French Broad, Watauga, Nolichucky and Pigeon rivers where beauti-\\nful rolling plantations, with limestone sub-soil abound, rich in wheat, rich in clover, rich\\nin all that is necessary to the cultivated taste of a cultivated agriculturist, while westward\\nare presented the vallies of the Hiwassee, Sweetwater and Tennessee, all at prices less\\nthan half what the same would cost in the Shenandoah Valley, with no handsomer loca-\\ntions, nor better soil. Up the French Broad are rich yielding tobacco lands where one\\nacre s yield will buy five acres of land away to the west in Northern and Central Geor-\\ngia, are all varieties of cotton soil, level bottoms and rolling uplands in Middle Ala-\\nbama the rich cotton lands of the Black Belt west of Selma, and North, the rich soils of\\nthe Valley of the Tennessee River, and further west, the prairie region of Mississippi,\\nunderlaid with rotten limestone as well as blue hmestone.\\nThere are also large tracts of timber lands easy of access, together with mineral de-\\nposits such as zinc, barytes, corundum, lithographic stone, kaolin, ochres, umbers and\\nmica, leaving out coal and iron which is nearly everywhere, and the marbles of Tennes-\\nsee, whose quarries are having all they can do. The time to visit this portion of the\\nSouth is during the summer and not in the winter. It lies in a temperate climate and\\nsummer resorts are as abundant as in the North.\\nCorrespondence for particulars solicited.\\nW. E. PEDRICK.", "height": "3146", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "NEIV ORLEANS\\nAS IT IS.\\nWITH A CORRECT GUIDE TO ALL PLACES OF INTEREST.\\nFEB_ 2 1805,^ J\\nCLEVELAND\\nWILLIAM W. WILLIAMS.", "height": "3146", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Copyright, 1885,\\nBv W. E. PEDRICK.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "So2is la tojmelle verte\\nLa jeune feni^ne alertky\\nQu tin bras fort enlacaity\\nSe balancait\\nSa bouche de camee\\nMoiitrant demi-paniee\\nA deux grands yeux ardents\\nSes belles dents,\\nChantait iin air Creole\\nSans rime ni parole,\\nPensif, mats exalte\\nDe vohiptie\\nEt la grande har7no7iie\\nDe la brise benie\\nMnrmnrait tont autour\\nUn chant d amour", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Billings, Taylor 60.,\\nINCORPORATED.\\nHew York City and Cleyeland, Ohio,\\nMAKERS OF\\nWwj OQ)lQ^wmfWmwmimMmm ^mpmmm^\\nCoach and Car Colors in Oil or Japan,\\nPURE PREPARED PAIHTS\\nof the highest quality, ready for immediate use and apphcation.\\nSend for catalogue showing the latest artistic shades.\\nSOLE MANUFACTURERS OF THE\\nGeneva Rubber Enamel Top Dressing.\\nCORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nThe captain told father, when we went to engage passage, that\\nNew Orleans was on high land, said the younger daughter with a\\ntremor in the voice, and ignoring the remonstrative touch of her sister.\\nOn high land said the captain, turning from the pilot: Well,\\nso it is\u00e2\u0080\u0094 higher than the swamp, but not higher than the river, and\\nhe checked a broadening smile. Grandissimex.\\nNew Orleans, like Niagara, cannot be seen in\\nan hour. Mardi Gras excursionists come every\\nyear by thousands, spend a day or two, and dc:\\npart with a very superficial knowledge of the con-\\nglomerate freaks, the strange mixtures in the\\nmake up of this, the most cosmopolitan city in\\nour land.\\nAlthough the French tongue is dominant the\\nSpanish occupation changing it no more than\\nPrussia changed Alsace, yet its various individu-\\nalities have been religiously preserved, and Amer-\\nicanisms have failed to crowd them out.\\nBienville, Carondelet, O Reilly and the African,\\nhave each maintained a foothold, and preserve it\\nto this hour when the African claims that where\\na hand for a shovel is needed in municipal employ-\\nment, or a candidate for office to dispense rnunici-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "4 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\npal patronage, the O Reilly s are still in full force,\\nas in the city of New York.\\nHISTORY.\\nIn ninety-one years Louisiana changed rulers\\nsix times: From Louis XIV, in 1712, to the com-\\nmercial dominion of Anthony Crozat. In 1717\\nfrom Crozat to the Compagnie d Occident\\nGeorge Law s great Mississippi bubble company,\\nso copiously illustrated by old prints. In 1731 it\\nwas handed back to France; in 1762 from France\\nto Spain; in 1801 again to France, and in 1803 to\\nthe United States.\\nIn May, 1539, De Soto, with a fleet and thirteen\\nhundred and fifty men, appeared off the Florida\\ncoast. After three years of wearisome and peril-\\nous journeys by land and rivers, through the in-\\nterior, his body was buried beneath the waters of\\nthe Mississippi, and his followers reduced to three\\nhundred men. They were pursued by the Indians\\nto the coast, from whence they sailed to Panuco.\\nNo further attempts were made to penetrate\\nthis region by foreigners until July, 1673, when\\nFather Marquette came down the Mississippi to\\nthe mouth of the Arkansas, and then returned to\\nCanada.\\nIn 1682 La Salle appeared at the mouth of the\\nMississippi. He soon after went back to France,", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 5\\nand two years later returned, to be murdered by\\nhis companions while exploring in Texas.\\nUnder the orders of Louis XIV, King of France,\\nM. D Iberville sailed October 24, 1698, from\\nBrest, in command of an expedition to establish a\\ncolony in Louisiana. In January, 1699, he arrived\\noff the Florida coast, and soon after established\\nhimself on the shores of the Bay of Biloxi so\\nnamed from the Biloxis, an Indian tribe of that\\nlocality. It is eight miles east from New Orleans,\\nfour miles east from Beauvoir, where ex-president\\nJefferson Davis now resides, and a favorite place\\nof resort. In determining his location, Iberville\\nlanded upon Cat Island, about four miles from the\\ncoast, where he found swarms of animals which\\nwere a cross between a cat and a fox, and there-\\nfore gave it the name.\\nSouville was subsequently made governor of\\nthe Province and was succeeded by Bienville, who\\nwas removed in 17 10 and in 17 18 reappointed.\\nHe resolved to change the location of his seat of\\ngovernment, and sailed across Lake Ponchartrain,\\nentered Bayou St. John giving it the name and\\nlanded at or near the spot now known as Bayou\\nBridge, near the Jockey Club House.\\nIn the following year, 17 19, the colonists were\\nvery much discouraged by their first flood, the\\nMississippi overflowing the town site and tempor-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "6 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\narily causing its desertion. In 1722 however, the\\ngovernment offices were removed from Biloxi to\\nNew Orleans.\\nIn 1723 the town had about a hundred dwellings,\\nand from appearances in a portion of the old\\nFrench quarter, not a few of them still remain.\\nIt Avas laid out in sixty-six squares of three\\nhundred feet each (it now numbers over three\\nthousand squares). It had a frontage on the river\\nof eleven squares and six squares deep. The lots\\nwere sixty feet front and from one hundred and\\ntwenty to one hundred and fifty feet deep. The\\nname of the city was given it in honor of the\\nDuke of Orleans, Regent of France, and many of\\nits streets after prominent noblemen of France, as\\nChartres Street, the Duke of Chartres; Conti,\\nPrince of Conti; Conde, Prince of Conde; Tou-\\nlouse, Count of Toulouse; Bourbon, Duke of\\nBourbon. In naming the various localities of the\\nvicinity, many of Louis the XIV. s notables were\\nremembered. Bay St. Louis, Iberville named in\\nhonor of Louis IX. of France; Lake Ponchartrain,\\nwhose northern shores are under the protection of\\nSt. Tammany Parish, Count Ponchartrain, Louis\\nXIV. s minister Lake Maurepas,from Count Mau-\\nrepas, grandson of Ponchartrain Louisiana from\\nthe King. In streets the Spanish Sovereign was\\nremembered in naming St. Charles, and in later", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 7\\ntimes Magazine from Rue de Magazin, where\\nstood a large house or magazine for storing\\ntobacco, and where large tobacco houses are now\\nseen. Behind Magazine was a campo de negroes\\nwhere cargoes of Guinea slaves were kept, and the\\nstreet which was cut through became Camp street.\\nJuiien Poydras, who wrote an epic poem on the\\nachievment of Galvez against the English, was\\nsubsequently sent to the American Congress, and\\nPoydras street took his name. Rampart street\\nwas the outer line of Carondelet, the Spanish\\nGovernor s forts. The Indian name of Missis-\\nsippi, says one of De Soto s followers, was Chuca-\\ngua; the Spanish called it Rio Escondido. In\\n1727 the Jesuit fathers came over and located in\\nFaubourg St. Mary, near the first district. In\\nthe same year seven Ursuline nuns arrived, and\\ntook charge of Charity Hospital, under a contract\\nwith the India Company.\\nIn 1730 they occupied the convent, corner Ursu-\\nline and Chartres Streets, the old facade of which\\nis now used as stores or shops, and the rear abuts\\nupon the garden of the archbishop s residence.\\nIn 1824 the nuns removed to their present\\nspacious convent and grounds, three miles down\\nthe river, and near the U. S. Barracks.\\nIn 1728 the India Company sent over a number\\nof Casket Girls, or filles a la cassette, for wives", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "8 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nto the colonists. The company gave to each girl\\na casket containing articles of dress. The Ursu-\\nlines took care of them until they were provided\\nwith husbands, and from them are descended not\\na few old families.\\nIn Cable s beautiful story of the Grandissimes,\\nhe thus introduces a fille a la cassette Clotilde,\\norphan of a murdered Huguenot, was one of sixty,\\nthe last royal allotment to Louisiana of imported\\nwives. The king s agents had inveigled her away\\nfrom France with fair stories They will give\\nyou a quiet home with some lady of the colony.\\nHave to marry not unless it pleases you. The\\nking himself pays your passage and gives you a\\ncasket of clothes. Think of that these times,\\nfillette and passage free, withal, to the Garden\\nof Eden, as you may call it what more, say you,\\ncan a poor girl want? Without doubt, too, like a\\nmodel colonist, you will accept a good husband\\nand have a great many beautiful children, who\\nmay say with pride Me, I am no house-of-cor-\\nrection-girl stock my mother was a j^t/e d la cas-\\nsette\\nAnd again Here is the way they talked in\\nNew Orleans in those days. If you care to under-\\nstand why Louisiana has grown so out of joint,\\nnote the tone of those who_ governed her in the\\nmiddle of the last century: What, my child, the", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 9\\ngrand marquis said, you a fille a la cassette f\\nFrance, for shame Come here by my side.\\nWill you take a little advice from an old soldier\\nIt is one word submit. Whatever is inevitable,\\nsubmit to it. If you want to live easy and sleep\\neasy, do as other people do submit. Consider\\nsubmission in the present case how easy, how\\ncomfortable, and how little it amounts to A\\nlittle hearing of mass, a little telling of beads, a\\nlittle crossing of one s self what is that? One\\nneed not believe in them. Don t shake your head.\\nTake my example. Look at me all these things\\ngo in at this ear and out at this. Do king or\\nclergy trouble me? Not at all. For how does\\nthe king in these matters of religion I shall not\\neven tell you, he is such a bad boy. Fillette did\\nnot like the nuns, neither would she marry; so\\nthe marquis sent her, together with an old lady,\\nto gather the wax of the wild myrtle at Biloxi, a\\nbeautiful land of low evergreen trees, looking out\\nacross the pine-covered sand keys of the Missis-\\nsippi Sound to the Gulf of Mexico.\\nUnder the regency of the Duke of Orleans, the\\nprovince of Louisiana was the base of the Missis-\\nsippi-Bubble-Scheme of George Law, the prince\\nregent s great financier. Under the representa-\\ntions of the glittering prospectuses, filled with pic-\\ntures of the untold riches of the valley of the", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "10 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\ngreat river; of its highlands teeming with gold,\\nsilver and diamonds of the immense grants of\\nland to the company by the prince, all Paris was\\ncrazed Mississippi was the bonanza stock, the\\npossession of a few shares of which was a gilt-\\nedged passport anywhere and enough to create a\\nplethoric bank account, enabling, as the chron-\\niclers of those days relate, servants to go in\\ncarriages to the opera and out-dress their mis-\\ntresses. But the bottom at last dropped; no\\nArmour, nor Gould, nor Rockefeller, to become\\nricher, but all to become poorer. Mississippi,\\nthe province of Louisiana and the Compagnie d\\nOccident were matters of sore memory to the\\nancestors of the citizens around the Place d Arms\\nfor long years.\\nThe colony remained strictly French until 1762,\\nwhen it was ceded to Spain, and four year later,\\nUlloa, the Spaniard, arrived in New Orleans.\\nHis efforts to obtain peaceful possession failing, in\\n1769 Alexander O Reilly, as a Spanish general,\\narrived with a fleet and two thousand six hundred\\nmen, took possession of the town in the name of\\nthe king, and had a first-class torchlight proces-\\nsion in Jackson Square.\\nSeveral years of insurrection and trouble ensued\\nunder the Spanish occupation before General\\nO Reilly got his subjects under submission. He", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. II\\nwas one of the earliest Fenians, as he drove off all\\nthe English traders and would admit none of\\ntheir vessels.\\nFronting the Place d Arms, or Jackson Square,\\non St. Peter s and St. Ann s streets, with a front-\\nage of 336x84 feet upon each street, stand at\\npresent two large red brick blocks of stores.\\nO Reilley, in the king s name, granted this land to\\nthe town without reservation. The town subse-\\nquently sold it to Don Andres Almonaster-y-\\nRoxas, on a perpetual lease or yearly rental. His\\ndaughter, the Baroness Pontalba, became its pos-\\nsessor and erected the buildings now upon it.\\nIn 1779, Count Galvez, Captain-General of\\nCuba, required all residents who had come from\\nthe British colonies, including, of course, the\\nUnited States, to swear allegiance to Spain, and\\nthere were but one hundred and seventy in the\\nentire city.\\nIn an old curiosity shop on St. Charles Street,\\ncan be found for sale old copies of Galvez pro-\\nclamations in Spanish, a half yard square.\\nOn the thirteenth of February, 1784, the whole\\nbed of the river in front of the city was filled up\\nwith large cakes of ice, from two to three feet\\nthick, which continued five days, when it disap-\\npeared down the river.\\nOn the twenty-first day of Marcn, 1788, oc-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "12 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\ncurred the great fire, which consumed eight hun-\\ndred and fifty-six houses, including the church\\nfronting Place d Arms.\\nIn 1 79 1 Baron de Carondelet, a colonel of the\\nSpanish army and Governor of San Salvador,\\nGuatemala, was appointed Governor of the Prov-\\nince of Louisiana and Florida. The monuments\\nexisting to his memory are the canal, which he\\nbuilt from Bayou St. John to the city in 1796, and\\nCarondelet Street, which bears his name. He\\nestablished the first watch, or police, and caused\\nthe streets to be lit. He also offered a premium\\nto those who caused tile roofs to be placed upon\\ntheir dwellings as a protection against fire some\\nof which are still in use.\\nIn 1794 **The Moniteaur de la Louisiane\\nfirst appeared.\\nIn 1795 the first sugar plantation was started.\\nIn 1796 yellow fever was first introduced to\\nthe inhabitants.\\nIn 1 801 Spain ceded Louisiana to France.\\nIn 1803 Napoleon sold it to the United States\\nfor eighty millions of francs, or $16,000,000.\\nIn all these, changes of ownership, it was nolens\\nvolens with those who were the most interested,\\nthe occupants of the territory.\\nThe people acquiesced unwillingly to the de-\\nmands of their powerful rulers, and a long period", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 1 3\\nelapsed before cheerful conformity to the laws of\\nthe United States prevailed and the instinctive\\nlove of la belle France forgotten.\\nThe cession had become an accomplished fact.\\nWith due drum-beatings and act-reading, flag-\\nraising, cannonading and galloping of aid-de-camp,\\nNouvelle Orleans had become New Orleans, and\\nLouisiane was Louisiana. ^i^\\nCitizen Fusilier asked one of the gossips:\\nWhat has the new government to do with the\\nhealth of the Muses\\nIt introduces the English tongue, said the old\\nman, scowling.\\nOh, well, replied the questioner, the Creoles\\nwill soon learn the language.\\nEnglish is not a language, sir it is a jargon\\nHah sir, I know men in this city who would\\nrather eat a dog than speak English speak it,\\nbut I also speak Choctaw.\\nThere were children who remembered those\\ndays and who lived to see their native city again\\nin the hands of conquerors, the Federal troops,\\nand again obliged to submit to stronger powers.\\nUnder the rule of the United States, Bore was\\nNew Orleans first mayor, with such names as\\nLivaudais, Tureaud, Faurie, Villere, Fortier, Petit\\nCavalier, Derbigney and others as councilmen.\\nGrandissimes.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "14 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nIn 1 80 1 Daniel Clark was United States consul\\nhere. He was the father of Mrs. Gen. Myra\\nClark Gaines, by whose indefatigable efforts she\\nhas obtained a judgment of nearly ;^2,ooo,ooo\\nagainst the city.\\nFollowing in the wake of noticable events is\\nthat of the twenty-sixth of June, 1805, when, as\\nthe chroniclers relate: An elegant barge,\\nequipped with sails, colors and ten oars, manned\\nby a sergeant and ten able and faithful hands, car-\\nrying a single passenger Aaron Burr, the bearer\\nof letters from General Wilkenson, introducing\\nhim to the city.\\nThe New Orleans, the first steamboat down the\\nMississippi, arrived January 10, 18 12, and was\\nnine days and three hours from Pittsburg.\\nTHE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS\\nwas the the next important event that transpired.\\nThe scene of this engagement has been but little\\ninterfered with since the memorable eighth of\\nJanuary, 18 15. General Jackson s headquarters\\nwere in a. small house, which was thoroughly rid-\\ndled with cannon shot while the general was out\\nof it. Upon the site stands a monument of marble\\nabout sixty feet high, upon a brick foundation,\\nfifteen feet wide at its base. An iron staircase\\nwinds around a circular brick column to the top.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 15\\nSmall slits to admit light, but not convenient for\\npurposes of observation, occur at intervals. The\\ntop is covered with warped boards, and some of\\nthe top stones are fallen. A general air of decay\\nprevails about the structure. The approach ap-\\npears to be through private grounds, but access is\\nwilHngly given. A short distance from the monu-\\nment is Chalmette Cemetery, where twelve thous-\\nand five hundred Federal dead are buried. Through\\nthe main avenue of this cemetery, Jackson is\\nsaid to have established his line of battle. Out-\\nside the cemetery wall of brick, and but a few\\nrods from it, are the famous lines of breastworks,\\nits angles all plainly defined, and extending at\\nright angles with the river, nearly, a half mile or\\nmore. The Confederates used the same lines\\nduring the late war, and raised them so that now\\nthe distance is about ten feet from the water in\\nthe ditch to the surface of the works, from whence\\nthe deadly fire of the Kentuckians and Tennessee-\\nans decimated the British ranks. Logs sheathed\\nthe works inside and out, with earth between and\\ncotton bales. With this defense thirty-two hund-\\nred men, in one hour, with a loss of but thirteen,\\ndefeated twelve thousand British troops, with a loss\\nof three thousand. The bottoms of the ditches are\\nnow covered with green sluggish water, giving\\nsustenance to flags and bulrushes. A few trees in", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "l6 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nthe distance, opposite Jackson s right, denote the\\nspot where General Packenham fell, while off to\\nthe left is seen a broad plain of meadow land\\nwith cattle grazing.\\nForty-seven years passed away before the\\nwaters of the Mississippi again echoed the can-\\nnon s roar in war, and the defenses which now\\ncommanded its mouth were tested.\\nFARRAGUT AND BUTLER.\\nFort Jackson is situated on the west bank of the\\nriver, eighty miles below New Orleans, and cost\\nthe government over a million. It was a case-\\nmated fort, and for this occasion mounted eighty\\nguns. On the opposite and east bank is Fort St.\\nPhilip, mounting forty guns. Fifteen hundred\\nmen garrisoned both forts. The long line of\\nsunken vessels which the Confederates placed there\\nas obstructions had been swept away by high\\nwater. As an additional defense, sixteen vessels\\nhad been armed, the most of which, inducing two\\nironclad rams, were to support the forts.\\nGeneral Duncan, a Pennsylvanian and West\\nPointer, commanded both forts, and was considered\\na good artillerist. Colonel Higgins, formerly of\\nthe United States Navy, had immediate command\\nof Fort Jackson.\\nThree-quarters of a mile below the forts, a", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 17\\nchain had been placed across the river. It was\\nsupported by heavy logs, thirty feet long, a few\\nfeet apart, to the under side of which the chain\\nwas pinned near the up-stream end. In a few\\nmonths a raft of floating debris formed on the\\nupper side of the chain which reached nearly up\\nto the forts, and its weight and pressure became\\nso great it swept the whole obstruction away and\\nwent to sea. It was then replaced by a lighter\\nchain, buoyed by the hulks of eleven schooners.\\nFire-rafts were also prepared to descend the\\nriver.\\nOn the sixteenth of April, 1862, Farragut s\\nfleet consisting of eight steamers, sixteen gun-\\nboats, twenty one mortar schooners, forty-six sail\\nin all, with three hundred and seven guns, as-\\ncended the river twenty-five miles to the forts.\\nOn the evening of that day, Farragut made his\\niirst reconnoisance.\\nAs we came within range, a white puff of smoke\\nfloated upward from Fort Jackson and a hundred\\np.ound rifle shell shrieked through the air, strik-\\ning the water and exploding about a hundred\\nyards in advance of us. Farragut and Captain\\nBell had gone aloft, where they sat in the cross-\\ntrees taking observations. There was another\\nwhite puff of smoke and another monster shot came\\nshrieking towards us. This passed perhaps fifty", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "1 8 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nfeet over the heads of the gentlemen aloft, and\\nstruck the water two-thirds across the river.\\nBack her from aloft, and we drift down the river\\ntwo or three ship s length and only just in time,\\na third furious shell striking and bursting in the\\nwater just at the point we had a moment before\\nleft. A low murmur of applause at this remarka-\\nble excellent gunnery is drawn from our men as\\nwe steam slowly up again. Another shot falls\\nshort, another bursts prematurely (this one from\\na forty-two pound smooth bore), when whiz-z-z,\\nwith a fearful sound, a hundred-pound shell passes\\nlow down between our smoke stack and main\\nmast, the wind of its swift passage actually rock-\\ning one of the ship s boats hanging on the side.\\nTHE FIGHT.\\nThe last day of preparation is usually the\\nbusiest. It was the seventeenth of April. The\\nfleet had all reached the vicinity of the forts on\\nthe evening previous, and the dawn of the seven-\\nteenth found the vessels anchored in a tempting\\nhuddle four miles below Fort Jackson. The Con-\\nfederates began the ball. As the sun was rising,\\na fiat-boat piled with lumber, soaked with tar and\\nturpentine, was fired by them and cut adrift. A\\nfresh wind was blowing up the river, and the\\nN. Y. Herald.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 1 9\\ndescent of this magnificent bonfire was slow. But\\nit came at length, roaring and blazing by, causing\\na sudden slipping of cables and a general anxiety\\nto get out of the way. As it was supposed to\\ncontain something of the torpedo kind, the Mis-\\nsissippi fired a few shells into it without effect. A\\nboat from the Iroquois soon tackled the monster,\\nand, fixing grappling irons into the leeward end,\\ntowed it ashore, where it burned itself harmlessly\\naway. The work of preparation then proceeded.\\nThe dressing of the masts of the mortar-boats\\nwas completed, and they looked as if prepared\\nfor a festival instead of a bombardment. In the\\nafternoon some of the mortars were towed\\ninto position and fired a few experimental shells,\\nfragments of which were exhibited the next day\\nin New Orleans. Preparations were made for the\\nproper reception of fire-rafts in case they were\\nagain employed. All the boats of the mortar\\nfleet were provided with axes, ropes and grap-\\npling hooks; and early in the evening the boats\\nwere reviewed, furnishing a pretty spectacle to\\nthe rest of the fleet; .nay, a pair of spectacles.*\\nThe boats pulled around the Harriet Lane, the\\nflag-ship of Captain Porter, in single line, each\\nofficer in charge being questioned as he passed, by\\nCommodore Porter, as follows: Fire-buckets?\\n*Parton.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "20 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nafxes? rope? A responsive Ay, ay, sir! and\\nthe Commodore directed Pull around the Missis-\\nsippi and return to your vessels. The Mississippi\\nbeing a quarter of a mile ahead, the men gave\\nway sturdily in order to beat the rival boats.\\nThere were not less than one hundred and fifty\\nboats under review, many of them ten-oared, and\\nthe whole scene reminded me more of a regatta\\nthan anything else.\\nAn hour after the review, the men had an\\nopportunity to test, in a practical manner, their\\nmeans for destroying fire-rafts, and they proved to\\nbe an admirable success. A turgid column of\\nblack smoke, arising from resinous wood, was\\nseen approaching from the vicinity of the forts.\\nSignal lights were made, the varied colors of which\\nproduced a beautiful effect upon the foliage of the\\nriver bank, and rendered the darkness intenser by\\ncontrast when they disappeared instantly a hun-\\ndred boats shot out toward the raft, which now\\nwas blazing fiercely and casting a wide zone of\\nlight upon the water. Two or three of the gun-\\nboats then got under way, and steamed boldly\\ntowards the thing of terror. One of them, the\\nWestfield, Captain Renshaw, gallantly opens her\\nsteam valves and dashes furiously upon it, making\\nsparks fly and timbers crash with the force of the\\nblow. Then a stream of water from her hose", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT BS. 21\\nplays upon the blazing mass. Now the small\\nboats, which lay alongside, come up helter-skelter,\\nactively employing their men. We see everything\\ndistinctly in the broad glare men, oars, boats,\\nbuckets and ropes. The scene looks phantom-\\nlike, supernatural, intensely interesting, inextric-\\nably confused. But finally the object is accom-\\nplished. The raft, yet fiercely burning, is taken\\nout of range of the anchored vessels and towed\\nashore, where it is slowly consumed. As the\\nboats return they are cheered by the fleet, and the\\nscene changes to one of darkness and repose,\\nbroken occasionally by the gruff hail of a seaman\\nwhen a boat sent on business from one vessel to\\nanother passes through the fleet.\\nTHE SECOND DAY.\\nThe next morning the bombardment began.\\nAt daylight each of the small steamers attached to\\nthe mortar fleet, took four of the schooners in tow\\nand drew them slowly up the river, the bright\\ngreen foliage waving above their masts. Fourteen\\nof them were ranged in line, close together, along\\nthe western shore behind the forest the one in\\nadvance being a mile and three-quarters below\\nFort Jackson. Six were stationed near the east-\\nern bank, in full view of both forts, two miles and\\n*New York Times.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "22 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nthree-quarters from St. Philip. The orders were\\nto concentrate the fire upon Fort Jackson, the\\nnearest to both divisions, since if that were re-\\nduced, St. Philip must necessarily yield. At nine,\\nbefore all the mortar vessels were in position.\\nFort Jackson began the conflict, the balls plung-\\ning into the water a hundred yards too short The\\ngun-boat Owasco, which had steamed up ahead of\\nthe schooners, was the first to reply. In a few.\\nminutes, however, the deep thunder of the first\\nbomb struck into the overture, and a huge black\\nball, two hundred and fifteen pounds of iron and\\ngunpowder, whirled aloft a mile into the air with\\nthe roar of ten thousand humming tops, and\\ncurved with majestic slowness down into the\\nswamp near the fort, exploding with a dull, heavy\\nsound. The mortar men were in no haste. For\\nthe first half hour they fired very slowly, while\\nCaptain Porter was observing the effect of the fire\\nand giving new directions respecting the elevations,\\nthe length of fuse and the weight of the charge of\\npowder. The calculations were made with such\\nnicety that the changes in the weight of the charge\\nwere made by single ounces, when the whole\\ncharge was nearly twenty pounds. The Confeder-\\nates, too, fired slowly and badly during the first\\nhalf hour. By ten o clock, however, both sides\\nhad ceased to experiment and had began to work.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 23\\nThe scene at this time was in the highest degree\\nexciting and picturesque. The rigging of the\\nFederal fleet, just below the tnortar vessels, was\\nfilled with spectators from rail to mast head, who\\nwatched with breathless interest the rise and fall\\nof every shell, and burst into cheers when a good\\nshot was made. Four or five of the gun-boats\\nwere moving about in the middle of the river be-\\ntween the two divisions of mortars, keeping up a\\nvigorous fire upon the nearer batteries. Both\\nforts were firing steadily and well, their shots\\nsplashing water over the mortar vessels on the\\neastern side, and throwing up the soft soil of the\\nbank high over the masts of those on the western.\\nIt is wonderful how many splendid shots may be\\nmade at a distant object without one hitting it.\\nThe balls fell all around the mortar boats all day\\nand only two of them were struck, and they not\\nseriously injured. Not a man was hurt in the\\nmortar fleet the first day except those who were\\nsickened by the tremendous concussion which fol-\\nlowed every discharge. The men stood on tiptoe\\nand with open mouths to lessen the effect of the\\nstunning sound. But men can get used to any-\\nthing. They came at length to be able to sleep\\nupon the deck of the mortar boats while the\\nbombs were going off at the rate of two a minute.\\nIt was exhausting work, handling those huge globes", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "24 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nof iron, and the men, too tired to go below, would\\nlie down along the forecastle, falling instantly to\\nsleep, and never stir till they were called to duty\\nagain.\\nMen can bear what no other creature can. As\\nthe firing grew hotter, the very bees in the woods\\ncould not endure it, but came in swarms over the\\nriver and buzzed about the ears of the men in the\\nrigging of the fleet. It was too much even for the\\nfish in the river. Large quantities of dead fish\\nfloated past, killed by the close thunder of the\\nguns.\\nWhen the fire had lasted an hour and a half the\\nscene was enlivened by a new feature. Over the\\nwoods beyond the forts are seen seven or eight\\nmoving columns of smoke Confederate steamers\\nand soon three of them appear steering towards\\nthe forts. They soon get under cover again, and\\nthen three burning rafts are set afloat, but are\\nsoon disposed of The day wore on. At four in\\nthe afternoon General Butler s steamer, Saxon,\\narrived with the news that the general and his\\ntroops were below and ready, and also that the\\nMonitor had sunk the Merrimac. An hour later\\nflames were seen bursting from Fort Jackson, and\\nthe fire of its guns slackened. The citadel and\\nbarracks within the fort were on fire. Both forts\\nceased firinor, while the conflagration lasted till", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 25\\ntwo o clock the next morning. At half past six\\nCaptain Porter gave the signal to cease firing,\\nand the night passed in silence.\\nTHE THIRD DAY.\\nThe next morning, to the surprise of all, Fort\\nJackson responded vigorously to the fire of the\\nmortars. At half past eleven a rifle ball crushed\\nthrough one of the bomb schooners and sunk her\\nin twenty minutes without harming a man. The\\nOneida was twice hit in the afternoon, two gun\\ncarriages knocked to pieces and nine men wounded.\\nThe fire of the fort slackened as the day wore on.\\nA shell bursting in the levee had flooded the in-\\nterior of the fort with water. Another broke into\\nthe officers mess room while they were at dinner,\\nand the ugly thing lay smoking upon the ground\\nbetween them and the only door. They sprang\\naway horrified, while the fuse went out without\\nexploding the shell.\\nGeneral Butler and staff arrived in the afternoon,\\nand after dark went up in a small boat to take a\\nlook at the cable which obstructed passage up the\\nriver. At night the mortars played upon the\\nfort. A deserter, a Dan Rice circus performer,\\narrived, making his way from Fort Jackson to the\\nfleet, lighted and guided by the fire of the mortars.\\nThe third day of the bombardment passed, when", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "26 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nit was decided to attempt to cut the cable, which\\nwas supported by hulks of schooners. The at-\\ntempt by means of petards failing, the gun-boat,\\nItasca steaming up to a hulk, the men sprang onj\\nboard, lashed the gun-boat securely to her side.j\\nA rocket shot into the air. They were discovered.\\nBoth forts opened fire, but, protected by the\\ndarkness and smoke, succeeded in severing with\\nsledge and chisel the chain. The anchors of the\\nhulks were slipped, the central hulk removed,\\nwhile the current swung those upon each side\\naway.\\nTHE FOURTH DAY.\\nThe fourth day of the bombardment passed\\nwithout incident. Nearly four thousand shells,\\ncosting the government ;^50 each, had been fired,\\nand still the forts replied with determined vigor,\\nand, as usual, fire-rafts at night were regular vis-\\nitors.\\nTHE FIFTH DAY.\\nThe fifth day dawned April 22. Farragut in-\\ntended this should be the last day of the bom-\\nbardment, but on account of disabled gun-boats\\nhe decided to wait another day.\\nTHE SIXTH DAY.\\nThe sixth day the forts were silent. Not one\\ngun was fired by them from morning till night.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 2/\\nThe bombardment was languidly continued.\\nSome said Fort Jackson had been evacuated.\\nOthers thought a new cable was being placed\\nacross the river above the forts. Men at the\\nmast-head reported twelve steamers above the\\nforts moving about briskly. Occasionally one of\\nthese came down to the old cable to reconnoiter,\\ndraw the fire of a gun-boat and return. No in-\\nference could be drawn from the absence of a flag\\nat Fort Jackson, for it had been taken down after\\nthe first day. The general commanding in New\\nOrleans wrote that day to General Duncan Say\\nto your officers and men that their heroic forti-\\ntude in enduring one of the most terrific bom-\\nbardments ever known, and the courage which\\nthey have evinced, will surely enable them to crush\\nthe enemy whenever he dares to come from under\\ncover. Their gallant conduct attracts the admira-\\ntion of all, and will be recorded in history as\\nsplendid examples for patriots and soldiers.\\nDuncan reported: Heavy and continued bom-\\nbardment all night, and still progressing. No fur-\\nther casualties, except two men slightly wounded.\\nAt sunset of the twenty-third, Farragut s ar-\\nrangements were all completed for running by the\\nforts. The mortar boats were to cover the attack\\nby as rapid firing as possible. The Harriet Lane,\\nWestfield, Owasca, Clifton, Miami and Jackson,", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "m\\n28 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nwere to engage the water-battery below Fort Jack-\\nson. Farragut, with the largest ships, the Hart-\\nford, Richmond and Brooklyn, was to advance\\nupon Fort Jackson. Captain Bailey, with the\\nCayuga, Pensacola, Mississippi, Oneida, Varuna,\\nKatahdin, Kineo and Wissahickon, was to take\\nthe east bank and engage Fort St. Philip. Cap-\\ntain Bell, with the Scioto, Iroquois, Pinola, Itasca\\nand Kennebec, was to advance up the middle of\\nthe river and engage the Confederate fleet above\\nthe forts.\\nAt half-past three o clock on the morning of\\nthe twenty-fourth, the squadron commenced to\\nmove. It was two miles to the forts, and five\\nmiles to a point beyond range.\\nThe fleet advanced in the appointed three lines,\\none ship close behind the other. Captain Bailey,\\non the eastern side, caught the first fire. His\\nCayuga had first passed through the opening in\\nthe cable, when both forts discovered him and\\nopened upon him with every available gun. The\\nballs flew around the ship; but the firing was\\nmuch too high, and he was seldom hulled. As\\nyet the Cayuga was silent, and the Confederate\\ngunners, as they afterwards said, could see nothing\\nwhatever they averred that they aimed no gun\\nthat morning at an object except when the flash\\nof Union guns gave them a momentary delusive", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 29\\ntarget. Bailey s division steamed on three-quar-\\nters of a mile under this fire without firing a shot\\nin reply, guided on the way by the flashes of St.\\nPhilip. Running in at length, close under the\\nfort, he gave it a broadside of grape and canister\\nas he passed. The Pensacola, Mississippi, the\\nVaruna and rest of the division followed close be-\\nhind, each delivering broadsides of small shot and\\nkeeping steadily on in the wake of the Cayuga.\\nAll of this division passed the forts with little\\ndamage except the Portsmouth losing her tow,\\ndrifted down the river.\\nThe middle division of Captain Bell was less\\nfortunate. The Scioto, Iroquois and Pinola passed\\nby under the most tremendous fire, but the Itasca\\nreceived, opposite Fort St. Philip, a cataract of\\nshot, one of which pierced her boiler and she\\ndropped down the river. The Winona, staggered\\nby the annihilating fire, retired. The Kennebec\\nwas caught in the cable, lost her way in the dark-\\nness and smoke, and returned to her anchorage.\\nCommodore Farragut meanwhile was having, to\\nuse his own language, a rough time of it. The\\nHartford advanced to within a mile and a quarter\\nof Fort Jackson before receiving its attention.\\nFarragut was in the fore-rigging, peering into the\\nnight with his glass. Then the fort opened upon\\nthe ship a fire that was better aimed than that", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "30 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nwhich had saluted Captain Bailey. The ship was\\nrepeatedly struck. Two guns were mounted\\nupon the forecastle which replied to the fire of the\\nfort while steaming directly for it. At the dis-\\ntance of half a mile, broadsides of grape and\\ncanister drove every man in the fort under cover\\nbut the casemate guns were in full play, and fhe\\nHartford was well peppered. The Richmond\\nquickly followed and deluged the fort with grape\\nand canister. The Brooklyn, the last of this di-\\nvision, was caught by one of the cable hulks and\\nlagged behind. Captain Craven of the Brooklyn\\nrelates: I extricated my ship from the rafts;\\nher head was turned up stream, and in a few\\nminutes she was fully butted by the celebrated\\nram, Manassas. She came butting into our star-\\nboard gangway, first firing from her trap-door\\nwhen within about ten feet of the ship, directly\\ntoward our smoke-stack, her shot entering about\\nfive feet above the water-line and lodging in the\\nsand bags which protected our steam drum. I\\nhad discovered this queer looking gentleman,\\nwhile forcing my way over the barricade, lying\\nclose into the bank, and when he made his ap-\\npearance the second time, I was so close to him\\nhe had no opportunity to get up his full speedy\\nand his efforts to damage me were frustrated, our\\nchain-armor proving a perfect protection to our", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 3 1\\nsides. He soon slid off and disappeared in the\\ndarkness.\\nMost of the ships had run by, and Farragut,\\nhaving escaped Fort Jackson, was advancing to-\\nwards the other fort when a new enemy appeared\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094the fleet of Confederate gun-boats lying in order\\nof battle just above St. Philip. Captain Bailey,\\nwith the Cayuga, was in the midst of them be-\\nfore he knew it. The gun-boats ran at him full\\ntilt, he answering with eleven-inch solid shot, com-\\npelling them to surrender before the other ships\\ncame up. The Varuna and Oneida came dashing\\nin to the rescue; the former was struck by the\\niron-clad, Morgan, and again by another iron-clad,\\ncrushing in her sides, to which she replied by five\\neight-inch shells abaft her armor, settling the\\nram and driving it ashore in flames. The Varuna\\nthen sank. During this time the Morgan was\\ncrippled and surrendered to the Oneida. Mean-\\nwhile, Farragut was battling with the forts, pouring\\nbroadsides into St. Philip and receiving the fire of\\nboth. Suddenly a huge fire-raft blazed up before\\nhim, revealing the ram Manasses behind it, push-\\ning it towards the Hartford. The latter was soon\\nablaze and soon extinguished, after backing off\\nand getting clear of the raft. The Manassas then\\nmade a dash at the Mississippi, or both at each\\nother, when the former dodged the latter and ran", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "32 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nashore, the Mississippi pouring a broadside into\\nher. She soon afterwards drifted down the stream.\\nThe scene when the fire caught the flag-ship,\\nwhich was the crowning moment of the battle, is\\nbeyond the power of words to describe. The\\nmere noise was an experience unique to the oldest\\nofficers twenty mortars, a hundred and forty-two\\nguns in the fleet, a hundred and twenty on the\\nforts the crash of splinters, the explosion of\\nboilers and magazines the shouts, the cries, the\\nshrieks of scalded and drowning men Add to\\nthis the belching flashes of the guns, the blazing\\nraft, the burning steamboats, the river full of fire.\\nThe Cayuga was struck forty-two times. On\\narriving at the quarantine station the Confederate\\ncamp then surrendered. The fleet soon followed\\nand anchored. The dead, thirty in number, were\\nburied, and the wounded, one hundred and nine-\\nteen, duly cared for. At eleven a. m. the fleet\\nmoved up the river towards New Orleans, while\\nthe garrisons of the forts surrendered to Captain\\nPorter, who had remained with the mortar boats\\nbelow.\\nAt one o clock on the afternoon of the twenty-\\nfifth, Farragut s fleet lay at anchor off the head of\\nCanal Street, having met no obstacles in the way\\nof batteries except at Chalmette, Jackson s old\\nbattle ground, where a brief engagement ensued,", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 33\\nwith but trifling loss upon either side. During\\nthe evening before, the burning of cotton and\\nships began. Fifteen thousand bales of cotton on\\nthe levee, a dozen cotton ships and fifteen or\\ntwenty steamboats in the river; an unfinished ram\\nand vast heaps of coal, wood and timber. Hogs-\\nheads of sugar and molasses were stove in by\\nhundreds. Parts of the levee ran molasses, while\\nthousands of negroes carried off sugar in aprons,\\npails and baskets.\\nThe evacuation of the city by the Confederate\\ntroops had taken place. The morning report of\\nthe Confederate General, Lovell, on the day of\\nevacuation, showed his force to have been but\\ntwo thousand and eight hundred men only two\\nhundred more than the Spanish General O Reilly\\nbrought with him to capture the city nearly a hun-\\ndred years before.\\nAt eight o clock Sunday morning, April 27,\\nCaptain Morris of the Pensacola, which lay off the\\nUnited States mint, sent a few men ashore, who\\nhoisted the United States flag upon the mint. It\\nremained but a few hours when it was removed by\\nthe exasperated citizens.\\nOn the twenty-ninth. Captain Bell with a hun-\\ndred marines landed upon the levee, marched\\ninto the city, hauled down the Confederate flags\\nfrom the mint and custom-house, and hoisted in-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "34 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nStead the flag of the United States. Captain Bell\\nlocked the custom-house and took the key to his\\nship.\\nAt noon, May i, General Butler and his trans-\\nports arrived, and disembarked at four p. m. with the\\nThirty-first Massachusetts, Fourth Wisconsin and\\nEverett s Battery of Artilery, marching down the\\nlevee to Poydras Street, thence to St. Charles,\\nthence to Canal and the custom-house, where the\\nThirty-first were quartered. The Twelfth Con-\\nnecticut bivouacked upon the levee, and next day\\ncamped in Lafayette Square, opposite the city hall.\\nGeneral Butler then ordered the St Charles\\nHotel, which was closed, to be opened for the\\naccommodation of himself and staff. He prepared\\nhis proclamation, as Galvez and other rulers had\\ndone before him, but the printers wouldn t publish\\nit. He then placed his own compositors in the\\nTrue Delta office, who set up and struck it off,\\nproclaiming martial law. The circulation of Con-\\nfederate money was forbidden, and payment of\\nmunicipal taxes suppressed. The mayor and\\ncommon council were arrested and brought before\\nhim at the St. Charles, where Pierre Soule, for-\\nmer United States Senator, defended them. He\\nwas subsequently arrested and sent to Fort War-\\nren, in Boston Harbor. A fine bust of Senator\\nSoule can be seen in the Supreme Court room in", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 35\\nthe old Spanish Cabildo building in Jackson\\nSquare, also a portrait of the late Judah P. Benja-\\nmin, the Confederate Secretary of State, together\\nwith that of General Grimes, General Andrew\\nJackson s Adjutant-General.\\nAlgiers was next occupied by Federal troops\\nas well as CarroUton.\\nCommodore Farragut s gun-boats proceeded to\\ntheir work up the river to Baton Rouge, Natchez\\nand Vicksburg, while the inhabitants of New Or-\\nleans remained passively waiting to see which way\\nthe tide would turn.\\nTwenty-two years have passed, and this first\\nTuesday in November, 1884, when the great\\nquestion as to who shall govern these United\\nStates is being worked out, the writer has seen\\nat the polls in the city of New Orleans, a ticket,\\nwith the words printed in green ink, For Presi-\\ndent, Benjamin F. Butler.\\nMUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.\\nThe city is divided into seven representative\\ndistricts and seventeen wards.\\nThe Common Council is composed of thirty\\nmembers. The mayor, treasurer, comptroller,\\ncommissioner of public works, commissioner of\\npolice and public buildings, are elected every four\\nyears and receive in salaries ^3,500 each, except", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "36 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nthe police commissioner, who receives ;^3,ooo.\\nThe city attorney is paid ;^3,500 a year with nec-\\nessary assistants. The civil engineer gets ;^2,500.\\nThere are four police courts, who in addition per-\\nform the duties of justices of the peace. They\\nreceive each ;^2,5oo per annum, and are entitled\\nto four clerks each, whose saleries aggregate\\n$4,200. In those districts containing police\\ncourts, the office of justice of the peace has been\\nabolished.\\nThe markets of the city are farmed out to indi-\\nviduals, who have the collection of the rentals.\\nThey return in the neighborhood of ;^200,ooo per\\nannum. The stalls are let by the day. and are\\nopen from 3 a. m. till noon.\\nThe gambling houses, in common with all li-\\ncenses, pay a large portion of their gains to the\\nmunicipal government, aggregating a very large\\namount, and which in turn is ostensibly devoted\\nto alms houses.\\nThe report of the Board of Health gives the\\npresent population as follows:\\nWhites 171,000\\nColored 63,000\\nTotal 234,000\\nIn 1 86 1 the valuation of the real estate, per-\\nsonal property and slaves was", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 37\\nReal Estate $87,434,550\\nPersonal Property 31,148,733\\nSlaves 6,609,210\\nTotal $125,192,403\\nAt which time the ratio of taxation on every\\none hundred dollars was one and one-half per\\ncent.\\nIn 1863 the valuation of real estate and per-\\nsonal property was reduced as follows\\nReal Estate $86,000,000\\nPersonal Property 14,000,000\\nTotal. $100,000,000\\nAnd the ratio of taxation on every one hundred\\ndollars was one per cent.\\nFrom the last mentioned total valuation it has\\nfluctuated from its highest points in 1 870, when\\nit was 140,000,000 to its lowest in 1880 of $gi,-\\n000,000.\\nIn 1883 the total valuation was ^113,000,000.\\nRate of taxation on every one hundred dollars\\ntwo per cent.\\nIt would be a difficult problem to attempt to\\nfigure out the prosperity of the city or its retro-\\ngrading movement by the assessor s tables. The\\ntrade and commerce of the city may increase and\\nquadruple its merchants acquire wealth and build\\npalatial homes, but the influence of none of this", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "V\\n38 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nis seen except in the increased aggregate amount\\nof funds required for the city s bugdet.\\nThe total receipts for six months ending De-\\ncember 31, 1883, were $2,308,948.23, admitting\\nthe first half year to be the same, the aggregate\\nwould be $4,617,896.46, or over four and a half\\nmillions per annum.\\nThe total bonded debt of New York city, in\\nround numbers, is about $125,000,000, less its\\nsinking fund of ^^3 5, 000,000, being $90,000,000\\nnet, and about eight per cent, of the assessed\\nvaluation of its real estate. That of New Orleans\\nis about eighteen per cent, of the assessed valuation\\nof its real estate.\\nThe total bonded and floating debt of the city\\nat the close of 1883, according to the comptroller s\\nreport, was 18, 672, 947. 13.\\nThe Myra Clark Gaines judgment against the\\ncity, now being on appeal, amounts in addition\\nto ^1,925,667,82.\\nOf this total indebtedness, there has been\\nfunded into what are called premium bonds, about\\n$8,000,000, drawing five per cent, and payable,\\nboth principle and interest, when the wheel says\\nso.\\nEVERYBODY PLAYS IT.\\nEverybody plays something. From the street\\nfakir who shows you how to draw the right", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 39\\ncard (next time), from the Rue Royale keno,\\nrqulette and poker temptations, to the twenty-five\\ncent -daily, and the five-dollar monthly drawings\\nof Generals Beauregard and Early s Louisiana\\nlotteries, we ascend to the quarterly drawings in\\nApril, October, January and July, of the lottery\\nof the city fathers, by which drawings, as much\\nof the city s bonded debt is paid (known as pre-\\nmium bonds), as there are funds to apply. These\\nbonds are for twenty dollars each, and draw five\\nper cent, per annum from July 1875 neither prin-\\ncipal nor interest is paid until the wheel of for-\\ntune says they are entitled to payment; then such\\nbond numbers as are draw)i from the wheel, are\\npaid, both principal and interest and in addition,\\nas an inducement for holders of other bonded\\nindebtedness of the city to exchange their bonds\\nfor those of this class, prizes aggregating $50,000\\nare offered and paid to the holders of the lucky\\nnumbers three months afterwards.\\nThe administrator of finance, in his report advo-\\ncating this method, says: The City Council, in\\nits efforts to find a solution to this question, has\\nbeen compelled to abandon the ordinary forms of\\nfinance as unequal to the occasion, and to seek\\nnew and perhaps novel means of meeting the\\nexigency.\\nThe extensive appliances of the credit system", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "40 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nare by no means confined to the city. One may\\nsee in brokers windows, warrants of the Auditor\\nof State, issued in payment of salaries of judges\\nand other court officers; for payment of work\\nupon levees; for services of officers of election,\\nand various other duties performed, which war-\\nrants are bought, sold and dealt in as so much\\nmerchandise, to be paid when there is money in\\nthe treasury to pay with.\\nThe entire State, together with Alabama and\\nMississippi, are all afflicted with a system of credit\\nwhich is sapping the very roots of the vegetation\\nwhich grows. By acts of the legislature, the\\nplanter is permitted to give his mortgage-note,\\ncovering his personal property and the crop to be\\nraised upon his plantation, to the merchant, in\\npayment for supplies furnished. If the crop is\\nnot sufficient to meet the note which is often the\\ncase the next crop or succeeding crops are cov-\\nered by it until paid. By this system, hope lends\\nenchantment to the prospect of a fair crop with\\ngood prices, and the planter indulges in many\\nimaginary wants which, if money was required to\\npossess them, he would do without. He also per-\\nmits himself to pay from one to two per cent, a\\nmonth for the use of the supplies, and a very\\nlarge profit to the merchant upon the goods, be-\\nsides. Upon a capital of ;^io,ooo, the merchant", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 41\\ncan do a business of ^50,000 a year. He sends\\nthese notes to his factors in the cities, who furnish\\nhim the funds to draw against as often as his busi-\\nness requires. The planter has no choice of mar-\\nkets he is tied hands and feet. He grows poorer\\nwhile the merchant grows richer. Why not plant\\nless cotton and more necessaries of life? Because\\nthe merchant wants only cotton, rice or sugar; he\\nwill not receive a mortgage upon mixed farming\\nhe desires to furnish corn, flour and bacon himself\\nGeorgia has repealed the act. The strong and\\nactive competition of cotton factors in the streets\\nof its towns and cities, thronged as they are dur-\\ning the fall months with hundreds of teams loaded\\nwith cotton, whose owners are more independent,\\nillustrates forcibly the difference in the condition\\nof the producers.\\nTHE STONE PAVEMENTS\\nof the city, considering the length of time they\\nhave been laid, are excellent. They consist of\\nblocks of granite over a foot square, and quite as\\nthick. They were brought from the New England\\nStates in cotton vessels as early os 1850, and con-\\nstant use has had but little effect upon them. As-\\nphalt pavement is being laid upon St. Charles Ave-\\nnue, and when completed will be, in connection\\nwith the shell road, a favorite outlet for driving.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "42 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nDRAINAGE.\\nThe system of drainage employed is of great\\ninterest to strangers. Standing upon Canal Street\\nat almost any point, and looking towards the\\nlevee, the hulls of the river steamboats appear to\\nsit high above the point of observation, and they\\ndo our observing point is below the water level.\\nAlong the levee are laid water mains, into which\\nengines located at the head of Celeste Street, and\\nalso near the French Market, draw the water from\\nthe river, force it into these mains, from which\\nhydrants discharge it into the gutters abutting\\nupon the levee, and the grade being down, the\\nwater continues to flood the gutters by a current\\nuntil it is discharged into canals beyond the\\nbusiness portions of the city, which run at angles\\nto these gutters. When the latter are kept clean,\\nfree from obstructions, the drainage is good but\\nthey become often obstructed, particularly where\\nthe streets are not paved. When the water\\nlevel is reached, as at those canals which are the\\nrepositories for all sewerage, the accumulation is\\nmoved by draining machines, of which there\\nare three, having two wheels each one at Dublin\\nAvenue, one at Bayou St. John, and one at Lon-\\ndon Avenue. They are the old Dutch paddle\\nwheels, about thirty feet in diameter, with paddles", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 43\\nfour feet wide and six feet longf. These revolve\\nand paddle or push the water into a canal fojir\\nfeet higher than where the opposite side of the\\nwheel enters the receiving canal, and thus the\\nwater is elevated that height to flow down to Lake\\nPonchartrain, a distance of from four to six miles,\\nand receiving but these few feet of fall in that\\ndistance. The Canal Street, cars towards Metarie\\nroad, run near one of these machines. As before\\nstated, where the streets are paved and the gutters\\nkept free from accumulated rubbish, there is a\\ncurrent in them from the hydrants at the levee to\\nthe canals at the west end, but obstructed as\\nthey are sometimes allowed to become, the water\\noften gets stagnant. During high water, the Mis-\\nsissippi is often ten or twelve feet above the level\\nof the back part of the city.\\nBelow the Celeste Street and levee pumping\\nstation a couple of squares, is located the water-\\nworks engines. The reservoir is two squares back\\nof them. The top of the reservoir is about twen-\\nty-five feet above the pavement. A stand-pipe\\nabout seventy feet high gives pressure enough, to-\\ngether with the engines, to send water from a noz-\\nzle about seventy-five feet. Many people take the\\nwater at their residences, but for drinking purposes\\nrain water filtered is mostly used, as the infallible", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "44 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nhuge, high, round wooden tank at every house\\nplainly shows.\\nAREA.\\nAlthough the maps of the city show a great\\narea of territory extending from Lake Ponchar-\\ntrain to the river, and from the west line of Car-\\n^ollton to the lower protection levee, the searcher\\nof locations beyond Greenwood cemetery. Jockey\\nClub grounds and Elysian Fields will find it diffi-\\ncult to trace the surveyor s stakes in the meadows\\nand swamps which abound.\\nSTREETS.\\nThe streets of the city north of Canal have\\nstrictly preserved their identity in narrownesSj\\nnames and ancient architecture. Canal Street was\\nthe neutral ground between French New Orleans\\nand the cosmopolitans who inhabited the south\\nside of it. There the business houses and resi-\\ndences are more American, and the further one\\ngoes towards the Exposition, residences and\\ngrounds become more spacious and shrubbery\\nmore abundant.\\nFrequently the streets have duplicate names,\\nand in numbering there is great irregularity.\\nNearly all the streets which cross Canal lose their\\nidentity on reaching it. St. Charles, south of Canal^\\nbecomes Royal on the north; Carondelet becomes", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 45\\nBourbon Baronne, Dauphine .Dryades, Bur-\\ngundy, etc.; while on the other hand many a\\nstreet will course around squares, angles and\\nplaces and still keep its name, as does Annuncia-\\ntion Street. Upon the subject of streets the\\nTunes- Democrat says\\nThere is room for a great deal of improvement on all these points.\\nIt would be impossible, we suppose, to get the name of Dumaine\\nStreet spelled as it should be, Mame Street. The Creole speUing,\\nwhich has made the preposition a part of the name, is so old now that\\nit would be well nigh impossible to correct it with anything less than a\\nrevolution. But why should we continue to misspell it Dryades instead\\nof Dryads, and Prytania instead of Prytanea? And why will the city\\nauthorities get it, nine times out of ten, Philip Street\\nIt was only a few years ago that, by using the adjectives North and\\nSouth, we were able to distinguish between the two Ramparts and two\\nClaibornes. We have made no similar arrangement to distinguish\\nother duplicates. Who can tell where No. Union Street is? It\\nmay be near Carondelet Street or near Elysian Fields. We have a Jos-\\nephine up-town and a Josephine down-town, five miles away from each\\nother a Villere Street in New Orleans proper and another in Algiers\\na Chestnut Street in the city and another in Carrollton and much\\nmore of the same sort to create confusion.\\nBut it is in the numbering of its streets that New Orleans has gone\\nmad. In this respect it is the worst city in the world. With nearly\\nfive hundred streets only ninety-five, or less than a fifth, are numbered,\\nand only a very small portion of these. These numbers, moreover,\\nare irregular and uncertain, break off at one point, begin two blocks\\naway, break off again and begin again. Two out of three houses in\\nNew Orleans bear no distinguishing marks at all. And again we deal\\nin duplicates. Constance Street is numbered up to Calliope, and\\nstarts there again from No. i. There are consequently two Nos. 6\\nConstance Street, No. lo. No. i6, and so on up.\\nPeters Street is worse. It begins at Canal and is numbered correctly\\nenough to St. Louis, but here this stops. It begins afresh at Dumaine,\\ngoing back to No. i, and so contmues to St. Philip, and finally it", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "46 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nstarts at Ursulines again at No. i. There are consequently three Nos.\\n2 North Peters Street, in addition to a No. 2 South Peters Street,\\nanother Peters Street (neither north nor south), a Peters Avenue and a\\nPeter Street (in Algiers). A fine chance this to mislead a stranger.\\nA native poet has rung out the names of some\\nof the streets in the following lines\\nI wandered away from my heart s dear home,\\nI roved over land and sea\\nAnd back to my home again I come.\\nAnd peace comes back to me.\\nI hasten along from the Esplanade\\nAnd impatient wend my way,\\nAnd reach Canal Street stop and gaze\\nAt the Bronze of Henry Clay.\\nI jump in a white car start for home.\\nAnd we re rushing along Baronne,\\nUntil we reached Tivoli s ring\\nI am all in the car alone.\\nTill it stops and a sweet-faced little maid\\nGets on and I pass her fare.\\nWhile the sunshine gleams like a liquid beam\\nOn her shimmering golden hair.\\nWe make the turn, and I sudden look\\nAt the mythological names,\\nAnd I read Calliope through my brain\\nAn inspiration flames.\\nI rave, Calliope, blest be Thou,\\nThou mother of Orpheus, send\\nOr come to me and direct my pen\\nThy genius, Goddess, lend.\\nNext Clio Hist ry s Muse, and then\\nErato Sweet lyric Muse,\\nThou Jupiter s child oh bless me too,\\nThou sure wilt not refuse", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 47\\nAnd merry Thalia, lend Thy smile\\nMelpomene, sound Thy lyre\\nI think of Thee, I am charged the while.\\nWhen Thou speakest my soul s on fire.\\nTerpsichore\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dance let Thy Grace be seen,\\nThat my heart may dance with Thee.\\nEuterpe, play on Thy soulful Flute,\\nPolymnia a hymn for me.\\nAnd here s Felicity, Heaven itself,\\nWhat more is yet to win?\\nThe goddesses gone, on earth again,\\nAnd TO-DAY must again begin.\\nSt. Andrew comes, and a peaceful calm,\\nAnd 1 turn to the little maid\\nWill you tell me the name of the next street, Miss?\\nPray do never be afraid.\\nAnd she sweetly smiled with a pretty blush.\\nEach simple word between,\\nI live on that street, it is named like me.\\nAnd we re both called Josephine\\nMay I get out there? May I go to your door?\\nMay I tell what I thought and saw\\nOh, no, said she but you might, perhaps,\\nCall in and see my papa.\\nI got off the car, forgot each muse.\\nThrough couleur de rose all s seen\\nI saw papa, and he blest us both,\\nAnd I m happy with Josephine.\\nCanal Street is a great boulevard, and at night\\none of the best lighted streets in America. A row\\nof electric light poles, not too high, are placed\\nthrough its centre, while the electric lights from\\nthe store fronts are prevented by the wide bal-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "48 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nconies from throwing their rays above and are\\nconcentrated below. Canal Street is about one\\nhundred and twenty feet from curb to curb, and\\nflanked by broad stone sidewalks. It is the ob-\\njective and starting point for all horse-car lines,\\nand from it one can take the cars for Chicago,\\nCincinnati, Washington or New York.\\nIts stores are richly laden with goods, and its\\nwindows display choice French importations of\\ndress fabrics, kid gloves and fancy articles. Other\\nwindows have tempting exhibits of choice French\\ncandies and elegant displays of boned turkey hid\\nin crystal jellies, together with other appetizing\\ndishes of the French restaurant. The signs of\\nthe drug stores are: Pharniacie Francaise, or\\nBotica Espanola. Upon the pavements are\\nflower women in attitudes like those of ancient\\nRome, surrounded with huge boquets of roses\\nand chrysanthemums, in combinations peculiar\\nto New Orleans. Here sits the old turbaned neg-\\nress, brushing with peacock feathers the flies\\nthat gather over her sweetmeats while she laugh-\\ningly mutters French at the fezed Turk as he\\npasses by in his flowing robes.\\nRichly attired ladies and children meet nimble\\nChinese Boston and New York young men\\ncopper colored Choctaws black-eyed Creoles\\nwith fine forms and well fitting costumes; Spanish", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 49\\nCreoles in mourning, whole families, the children\\nin deepest black with the whitest of stockings\\nbronzed Mexican greasers, with dull eyes, few\\nhairs upon their chins, and covered with the queer\\nsombrero; Mexican military officers wearing eye\\nglasses Mexican sol-diers with ill fitting garments\\nBritish sailors in slouchy corduroys French\\nsailors better dressed Mississippi stevedores with\\ncotton-hooks hanging from their belts the black\\nplantation hand with bulging eye-balls and clothes\\nshining with cane juice. All these may be seen\\nany pleasant day but Canal Street is broad,\\nbroad enough for all this queer conglomerate\\nmedley of people of such diverse individualities.\\nDuring the carnival season, the store fronts\\nabove the awnings have tiers of seats from whence\\nthousands of spectators view the processions.\\nThe Clay statue on Canal Street is the centre\\nof gravity for all crowds and open air meetings.\\nHenry Clay stands there with outstretched arm,\\nwhich, to the angry crowds of labor strikers or\\nexcited political gatherings, is a presence of peace\\nand moderation. It is said that a portion of the\\ninscription on the base was partially obliterated\\nduring the rebelHon but on the other hand it is\\ndenied that any obliteration has taken place other\\nthan the action of the elements.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "50 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nPARKS.\\nThere really are none. The extensive meadow-\\nlands, heretofore known as the City Park, are the\\ngrounds occupied by the Exposition, and were\\nnoted only for a fine group of grand old live oaks\\nloaded with pendant moss beautiful temptations\\nfor many an artist s sketch book. In the north-\\neast end of the city, between Metarie Road and\\nBayou bridge, another area of ground belonging\\nto the city contains a circular sign **City Park,\\nbut it is wholly given up to pasturage of cows and\\ngoats, and shooting for sportsmen.\\nThere are some pretty squares or places, the\\nmost noted of which is Jackson Square. It was\\ncalled Place d Arms until the erection of the\\nequestrian statue of General Andrew Jackson,\\nwhen it took his name. It is bounded by St.\\nPeter, St. Ann, Chartres and Decatur streets.\\nThe Cathedral faces it, and all the notable gather-\\nings of early days were at this place. The walks,\\nflowers, orange, magnolia, fig and other trees and\\nshrubs are well kept, and roses are found in\\nbloom there almost any month in winter. The\\ngeneral s bronze steed is fiery, and his sword s\\nscabbard hangs with the convex side up but his\\nwrinkled forehead gives him a determined look,\\nintent upon promulgating the sentence which", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 51\\nButler caused to be chiseled on the granite base,\\nJuly 4, 1862 The Union Must and Shall be\\nPreserved.\\nlafayette square,\\nA short distance above the St Charles Hotel,,\\nand between St. Charles and Camp Streets. It is\\na very pretty spot and well shaded. In the be-\\nginning of May, 1862, on the arrival of Butler s\\ntransports, the Twelfth Connecticut Infantry\\ncamped in it Here is a marble statue of Benjamin\\nFranklin, by Hiram Powers. The City Hall,\\nwith its old Doric columns, fronts the square. It\\ncontains the mayor s and various other municipal\\noffices, together with the city library.\\nMARGARET S PLACE\\nis at the junction of Camp, Prytania and Clio\\nstreets. Here is a small plat of ground devoted\\nto walks, fountains and grass. In the centre is\\na marble statue of Margeret Haugery and a little\\nchild. She was an elderly lady of great benev-\\nolence, the founder of an orphan asylum, and be-\\nloved by all who knew her. It is said this is a\\nperfect likeness of her as she used to sit in front\\nof her little cracker bakery, from whence grew a\\nlarge business and fortune. She was very fond of\\nchildren, and none ever went from her empty-\\nhanded.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "52 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nCOLISEUM PLACE,\\non Coliseum Street, a few squares above. It con-\\ntains a breathing spot of walks and grass, bordered\\nwith shade trees.\\nLEE PLACE,\\nThe corner of St. Charles and Delord streets.\\nFrom a large mound in the centre arises a beauti-\\nful column of marble as high as that of the mon-\\nument on Boston Common, surmounted with a\\nbronze statue of General Robert E. Lee. This\\nstatue was unveiled in the spring of 1884, and it\\nis a great credit to the city.\\nCONGO SQUARE,\\ncorner of Orleans and Basin streets. It con-\\nsists of a park of about five acres. Here in the\\ngood old days is where the bull fights were held,\\nand 01d Creole days thus describes a bull\\nfight audience\\nIn the high upper seats of the rude amphithea-\\ntre, sat the gayly decked wives and daughters of\\nthe Gascons, from the ^netaries along the ridge,\\nand the chattering Spanish women of the market,\\ntheir shining hair unbonneted to the sun. Next\\nbelow, were their husbands and lovers in Sunday\\nblouses, milkmen, butchers, bakers, black-bearded\\nfishermen, Siccilian fruiterers, swarthy Portuguese", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 53\\nsailors, in little woolen caps, and strangers of the\\ngraver sort; mariners of England, Germany and\\nHolland. The lower seats were full of trappers,\\nsmugglers, Canadian voyageiirs, drinking and sing-\\ning; Americaifis, too more s the shame from\\nthe upper rivers, who will not keep their seats,\\nwho ply the bottle, and who will get home by-\\nand-by and tell how wicked Sodom is broad-\\nbrimmed silver-braided Mexicans, too, with their\\ncopper cheeks and bats eyes, and their tinkling\\nspurred heels. Yonder in that quieter section\\nare the quadroon women in their black lace\\nshawls, and below them are the turbaned black\\nwomen.\\nOrleans market and the parish prisons are near\\nCongo Square. The prisons are where General\\nButler kept a few Confederate prisoners, and are\\nof quaint old-fashioned architecture. They are\\nalso in close proximity to the fleet of oyster\\nsmacks which can always be found in Old Basin.\\nTHE MARKETS.\\nThere are sixteen markets in the city, the most\\nnoted of which is the old French Market.\\nIt extends from St. Ann s to Ursulines streets,\\nand from St. Peter to Decatur. Take the horse-\\ncars from Canal, near the custom-house. Here\\nare gathered together the most conglomerate", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "54 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nmedley of productions to the manor born and im-\\nported that can be found in these United States.\\nIn the good old days it was called Halle des\\nboucherfs, and to-day these old stalls are presided\\nover by the Gascons, who cut rump steaks at a bit\\na pound, and chop beef hash for you on the spot,\\nto order. The Gascons rule the meats, while the\\nDagos^the Sicilians are nick-named Dagos, an\\nappellation as unpleasant to them as nigger is\\nto a negro control the fruits, and the jargon of\\nboth, mingled with the language of the Creole, is\\nnovel at least to the stranger.\\nChoctaw squaws with pappooses ^just as pure\\nChoctaw as when La Salle first appeared here\\nare squatted outside the buildings, surrounded\\nwith a display of curious herbs for sale. Green\\nsweet bay leaves, also dried and powdered, sassa-\\nfras roots, gumbo for soups, pieces of palmetto\\nroots, for use as scrubbing brushes, together with\\nmany herbs of this lattitude.\\nHere in winter may be seen a full assortment\\nof a northern spring market. Here are green\\npeas, string beans, lettuce and young beets.\\nYams a half a yard long, long strings of garlic,\\nand chickens dressed with the tail feathers left in.\\nAt the fruit stalls may be found Michigan apples\\nalongside of muscat grapes from Spain and Cal-\\nifornia, with catawbas from Ohio Bananas,", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 55\\npomegranates, plantains, oranges, mandarines and\\nlimes, alligator pears from Jamaica, and Mexican\\npina.\\nAt the fish stalls we behold great tubs of moving\\ncrabs and huge piles of shrimps in agony. Here\\nare jack fish, red fish, reel trout, blue fish, red\\nsnapper, flounders, croakers and mullets.\\nAt the flower stalls we encounter huge boquets\\nthat would fill a peck measure, but no very great\\nassortment.\\nIn other quarters of the market, dry goods and\\nvarious wares are kept in queer cramped places\\nwith narrow passages, and here and there are de-\\npartments devoted to small lunch tables which are\\nwell patronized. At these tables the famous\\nblack coffee of the French Market is dispensed,\\nand may or may not deserve the credit which has\\nbeen given it. A seat at a table may assist in\\ndetermining the question. As in all other places\\nin the city, no coin less than a nickel is current.\\nRESTAURANTS.\\nThe restaurants are so numerous, one can hardly\\ngo amiss of them, and several may be tried before\\nan equilibrium is found where all is satisfactory.\\nMen with low incomes, live by thousands at the\\ncheaper restaurants; they will breakfast upon a\\ncup of coffee, with bread and butter, and pay ten", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "56 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\ncents for it. Twelve o clock will find them in a\\nsaloon before the lunch tables, being helped to a\\ndish of clam chowder, a slice of roast rump beef,\\nlettuce, radishes, bread and butter, cheese and\\ncrackers washed down with a glass of claret, and\\nonly ten or fifteen cents to pay. At six o clock\\nthey may perhaps afford a dinner with a glass of\\nwine, which may be had at the cheaper restaurants,\\nfor fifty cents. And so they live, deprived of all\\nknowledge of the constituents of a home.\\nIn addition to familiar soups you may have\\noffered you: shrimp gumbo, chicken gumbo,\\ncrab gumbo or oyster gumbo. Among your en-\\ntrees may be stewed veal a la Creole. In the\\nfish line tenderloin trout, tarter sheeps\\nhead, green trout, flounders or Spanish mack-\\nerel. For game, you may have mallards and\\nteal, snipe, grassit, quail, robins, wild turkey\\nor squirrel. The restaurants of Canal Street are\\nnoted by northerners for their biscuit glace a\\nsort of frozen cream which is delicious. Occa-\\nsionally a restaurant keeper is noted also for exor-\\nbitant charges, and a daily paper has recently been\\nsued by one of them for publishing a statement\\nof such charges.\\nOYSTERS.\\nThe oysters are mostly from the Gulf, and are\\nsold very reasonably. One may observe a sign", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 57\\nreading as follows Oysters from Bayou Cook,\\nboth fresh and salt. A paradox meaning the\\noysters are freshly taken from the water, and that\\non account of no recent overflow or presence of\\nriver water in the oyster beds, they possess the\\ndesired flavor. During the fall months they are\\nnot salt enough, but as cold weather appears, and\\nthe rivers are lessened in volume, the beds be-\\ncome more salt, and the oysters better. Via the\\nNorth Rampart Street cars to Old Basin, the ter-\\nminus of Carondelet s Canal, which leads to Bayou\\nSt. John, through which vessels reach Lake\\nPonchartrain, one may find a fleet of oyster\\nsmacks, manned by as utterly an un-American\\nclass of skippers as one would find in Sicily. No\\nEnglish is spoken. Spaniards, Italians and a few\\nCreoles are here grouped upon the wharves, wait-\\ning to dispose of their cargoes of oysters from Cat\\nIsland, where Bienville first landed from Ship\\nIsland, where General Butler first landed and sub-\\nsequently sent his Confederate prisoners from\\nBayou St. Peter and neighboring bayous, at prices\\nfluctuating from seventy-five cents a bushel to\\nseventy-five cents a barrel, depending upon the\\nweather for fishing, and the demand.\\nSALOONS.\\nNew Orleans is not behind its sister cities in its", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "58 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\ndrinking saloons. The business men who do not\\nfrequent them are in the minority. Their 7nenu of\\ndrinks are composed of all the well known solids\\ntogether with the ornamental, in the shape of\\nspoon cocktails, nectarine, claret punches, seltzer\\nfrom-the-syphon, apolinaris water (with the priv-\\nilege), and Santa Cruz rum.\\nA custom obtains here of advertising real estate\\nsales, instead of theatres, in the saloons. In the\\nmore promment places, like that of the St. Charles\\nor the Produce Exchange, large colored plats of\\nproperties for sale are suspended upon racks and\\nregularly renewed.\\nSUBURBAN PLACES.\\nCARROLLTON\\nis five miles from Canal Street and one mile\\nbeyond the Exposition grounds. Take the horse-\\ncars, corner Canal and Baronne. The last two\\nmiles of the distance is accomplished by the\\nqueerest looking dummy engines in America.\\nThey appear like cigar stubs on wheels. On\\nvisiting Carrollton one has an opportunity of see-\\ning with the eye what is so often discussed, the\\nrelative position of the Mississippi to New^ Or-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 59\\nleans. Standing upon the levee here and looking\\ndown upon the spot where you stepped from the\\nhorse-car, and then cast your eye upon the river,\\nat an ordinary stage of water, the river seems the\\nhighest. One can readily see that with high\\nwater at CarroUton, in the neighborhood of the\\nnewly made levee, it would not require much\\npressure to burst through, and, with rapidly in-\\ncreasing volume, flood the city.\\nFrom the spot where you are now standing it is\\nfour and a half miles in a direct line to the levee\\nat the head of Canal Street, while to follow the\\nbank around the crescent it is ten miles,, so that\\nincluding the distance to the United States Bar-\\nracks, three miles below Canal, the city has a fair-\\nly active river frontage of thirteen miles.\\nA daily paper recently contained the following\\neditorial\\nTHE CARROLLTON LEVEE.\\nThe work on the new levee in CarroUton is, with the number of\\nlaborers now employed, rapidly progressing, and should the weather\\ncontinue favorable the contractor will complete the entire line in a\\nmuch shorter time than was anticipated.\\nWhen it is considered that last year during the high water season the\\ncity was constantly threatened with overflow from that direction, and\\nthat it was only by constant work send increasing watchfulness that the\\nold levee was held, the caves repaired and a catastrophe averted, that\\nthe importance of the new embankment in the course of construction\\ncan be understood. For many years past, the CarroUton Levee, where\\nin high water the current impinges against the banks with all its terri-\\nble force, has been in a dangerous condition, and the entire attention", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "6(5 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nof the authories constantly directed on that point. Its condition was\\nsuch that the engineers have expressed it as their opinion that it could\\nnot stand another pressue such as the one that by constant labor and\\nat great cost it stood last year. The safety of the city depended upon\\na perfect protection from that point, and immediate steps for future\\nprotection were imperative. In consequence the Coimcil, feeling that\\nfurther delay might be the cause of a disastrous overflow next season,\\ndecided upon the present location for the new levee which is being\\nconstructed, and expropriated the property on the line, paying the\\nowners the assessment value on their houses, which offer met with no\\nopposition. With this levee of the dimensions fixed by the city sur\\nveyor. which is being rapidly pushed forward, the river will find at this\\ndangerous point a strong barrier against its waters, and the citizens of\\nNew Orleans be relieved of all further apprehension of danger from\\nthat section.\\nNew Orleans guide books have given extrava-\\ngant mention to\\nCARROLLTON GARDENS\\nto the disappointment of many strangers. It is\\nsimply a square of four acres of land, with shrub-\\nbery, flowers, dancing pavilion and restaurant,\\nclose to the railroad terminus. There are other\\nprivate residences in the same locality with\\ngrounds quite as extensive and better kept.\\nThe route there gives one a knowledge of a\\ntypical choice resident street of the city St.\\nCharles Avenue, which is being paved, and at the\\nupper end has a shell road to Carrollton. North-\\nerners will observe with curiosity that the door\\nbells to residences are at the outer iron gates\\nwhich are kept locked.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 6l\\nJOCKEY CLUB HOUSE\\nand grounds, Esplanade Street, near Bayou St. John\\nbridge. Take the Bayou Bridge and Esplanade\\ncars at the car starter s station on Canal Street,\\nnear the custom-house. Thence down Peters and\\nDecatur streets, near the extensive sugar sheds\\nand rice houses, on past the French Market, with\\nits odors of fruit, flowers, crabs and garlic. We\\nare now on the edge of the old French quarter,\\nand in passing the quaint, narrow streets of Conti,\\nSt. Louis, Toulouse, St. Peter, St. Ann, Chartres\\nand many others, to Northern eyes interest and\\ncuriosity is awakened. We here pass Jackson\\nSquare, with its fine view of St. Louis Cathedral and\\nits venerable companions, the old Spanish cabildo\\nbuildings. The route s oon turns upon Esplanade\\nStreet at the corner, where stands the United\\nStates mint. Outwardly, in appearance, it looks\\nas if an appropriation would not be amiss.\\nEsplanade is a superior type of the city s resid-\\nence streets. For nearly two miles shade trees\\nborder closely the horse-car lines on the elevated\\nstreet centres, where there is no driving, while\\neither side of the tracks is paved for that purpose.\\nA good class of residences of the usual two bal-\\ncony fronts, or a veranda with each story, bor-\\nder the street, while here and there are residences", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "62 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nwith more extensive grounds, with orange trees,\\nlarge oleanders and native shrubs. Along this\\nthoroughfare, an opportunity here and there is\\nhad of observing a wide ditch or canal at angles\\nwith it. We soon reach Bayou Bridge, with the\\nblack waters of Bayou St. John slightly moving\\nwith the tide. Moored to the shores are numer-\\nous yachts and row boats. It is three miles to\\nLake Ponchartrain and Spanish Fort. Green\\ntrout, perch and mullet are caught in its waters,\\nand the mullet keep the surface lively with\\ntheir frollickings Near at hand is St. Louis\\nCemetery, No. 3, and adjoining it the Jockey\\nClub grounds. The house is elegantly fitted\\nup in all its appointments. The grounds are\\nfilled with luxuriant foliage nearly hiding the\\nbuilding from view. It has, as a club house and\\ngrounds, a national reputation. Permission to\\nenter must be obtained from Mr. G. W. Nott,\\nsecretary, 104 Canal Street.\\nTHE NATIONAL CEMETERY\\nat Chalmette is so unlike the other cemeteries\\nof the city, which are described elsewhere, it is\\ndeemed best to class it separately. It is situated\\nat Jackson s battle ground, and can be reached by\\nhorse-cars as far as the United States Barracks,\\nfrom whence it is necessary to walk a mile. Take", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 63\\nthe Barracks cars from Canal to Magazine and out\\nalong the levee with various turns past the Ursu-\\nHnes Convent and United States Barracks, where\\nare stationed a detachment of infantry and artillery.\\nThe cemetery contains about fourteen acres, in\\nwhich are buried twelve thousand five hundred\\nFederal soldiers, its centre adorned by a handsome\\nmonument. Nearly every State in the Union is\\nrepresented here by its dead. The extraordinary\\ncare with which the grounds, flowers and shrub-\\nbery are kept reflect great credit upon the labors\\nof the three men there employed. There is a\\ngood landing here, it being immediately upon the\\nriver bank, to which boats may be run during the\\nExposition. The Shell Beach railroad from Elys-\\nian Fields and St. Claude Street also carry pas-\\nsengers to the rear of the cemetery, with far less\\nwalking than by the horse cars. See time table\\nin this book.\\nWEST END.\\nFor this point steam cars leave the corner of\\nCanal and Carondelet streets every half hour. It\\nis situated upon Lake Ponchartrain, six miles dis-\\ntant. A shell road also leads to it. Across the\\nplacid sheet of water no land is in sight. A casino,\\nmusic stand, bathing houses and the usual appurt-\\nenances to a summer resort, together with yachts,\\nrow-boats and boat club-houses, are at hand. A", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "64 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nfine shell road tempts horseback and carriage\\nriding. Along the beach the walks are bordered\\nwith fragrant violets, and roses bloom all the year.\\nDuring the summer open air concerts and theatri-\\ncal performances are given.\\nSPANISH FORT\\nsituated on Lake Ponchartrain, seven miles dis-\\ntant. Steam cars start from Canal, corner of\\nBasin, fare fifteen cents for the round trip. The\\nold fort proper, is a raised earth work about eight\\nfeet high, and faced with a brick wall. It is nearly\\nsquare. The remains of its armament consist of\\ntwo ancient cannon half buried in the earth.\\nUpon the earthwork is a large building in use as\\na restaurant. Along the lake front piles are\\ndriven, upon which the Casino, a large building\\nused for purposes of amusement, is built. Restau-\\nrants abound, together with flowers and shrubs.\\nA small enclosure contains a few large alligators.\\nMILNEBURG,\\non Lake Ponchartrain, east of Spanish Fort. It\\nis the terminus of the Ponchartrain railroad and\\nis a resort similar to West End, but has not such\\nextensive improvements.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 65\\nPLACES OF AMUSEMENT.\\nOf these, the\\nGRAND OPERA HOUSE\\non Canal, near corner Dauphine, is the most\\nprominent. In this building the most noted en-\\ngagements are made. It has a seating capacity\\nof eighteen hundred.\\nST. CHARLES THEATRE,\\nNo. 102 St. Charles Street, is also a leading\\ntheatre, and has a seating capacity of three\\nthousand.\\nThe Academy of Music 90 and 92 St. Charles\\nStreet, is another under the same management as\\nthe St. Charles. It seats twenty-two hundred.\\nTHE FRENCH OPERA HOUSE,\\nan immense pile at the corner of Bourbon and\\nToulouse streets. It was built in 1849. ^^s\\narchitecture, it is entirely void of curves, and\\ncomposed of squares and angles piled up against\\neach other like a huge cathedral that required\\ncenturies to build. It is quite in keeping with the\\nquaint Franco-Spanish edifices around it, but a\\ngiant among them. It is the home of French\\nopera in New Orleans, and which, to inaugurate\\neach season, a large subscription list is necessary.\\nThe following is a list for the season of 1884-85", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "66 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nExposition Season commencing February 2, and ending May 31,\\n1885.\\nSCALE OF PRICES.\\nSubscription. 120 performances in the season.\\nPARQUET AND PREMIERES SEATS.\\nFor all nights (120) in the season $120 00\\nFor any four days in every week 68 00\\nFor any three days in every week 51 00\\nFor any two days in every week 34 00\\nFor every Sunday (18) in the season 18 00\\nBOXES PREMIERES AND GRILLEES.\\nFor any four days in every week $272 00\\nFor any three days in every week 204 00\\n*For any two days in every week 136 00\\nFor every Sunday (18) in the season 72 00\\nPARQUET BOXES SIDE.\\nFor any four days in every week $340 00\\nFor any three days in every week 255 00\\nFor any two days in every week 170 00\\nFor every Sunday in the season 90 00\\nPROSCENIUM BOXES.\\nFor any four days in every week $408 00\\nFor any three days in every week 306 00\\nFor any two day in every week 204 00\\nFor every Sunday in the season 108 00\\nFARANTl S THEATRE.\\nCorner Bourbon and Orleans. A large corru-\\ngated iron structure amidst types of architecture of\\nthe old Spanish days. It is a novelty which draws\\nlargely from the dime museums, ten cents being\\nthe price of admission. It will hold nearly four\\nthousand people. It has a parquet seating a", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 6/\\nthousand, which can be turned into a ring for\\ncircus performances. The parquet has tiers of\\nseats encircling it, and to occupy one and listen\\nto the conversation going on is to bring at once\\nCable s Old Creole Days* dialect before you in\\nall its native purity. You are in the midst of\\nCvqoIq patois, neither French nor Spanish accent\\nbut unlike, purely individual and distinct. The\\ntheatre has a good stage, where fair performances\\nare given. Mazeppa is often placed here, and to\\nwitness it is to remind one of the famous Adah\\nIsaacs Menken, a New Orleans beauty who\\nachieved prominence in eastern cities and in Paris,\\nin this play.\\nRobinson s dime museum.\\nCanal Street, below St. Charles, what you will\\nfind in every city of a hundred thousand inhab-\\nitants, the usual dwarf, giant, skeleton, long-\\nhaired lady, long haired-man, bearded lady, glass-\\nblower, extraordinary cow and Punch and Judy,\\nsupplemented by a stage performance every hour.\\nPlease pass on gentlemen to the theatre below;\\nreserved opera chairs only one dime extra.*\\nGRUNNEWALD HALL,\\nBaronne Street, seats one thousand, but has no\\nregular engagements.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "68 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nROYAL MEXICAN AUTOMATON SHOW,\\n199 Canal Street. Pictures of Life in Mexico.\\nAdmission ten cents.\\nBATTLE OF SEDAN,\\nopposite Magazine Street, entrance to Exposition.\\nAdmission fifty cents.\\nBUFFALO bill s WILD WEST EXHIBITION,\\nat Oakland Park, afternoons only. Admission\\nfifty cents. Horse-cars from Canal and Carondelet.\\nLIBRARIES.\\nNew Orleans has three public libraries. The\\nlargest, that of the University of Louisiana, on\\nCommon Street, near the corner of Dryades, con-\\ntains just one-tenth as many books as the Boston\\nPublic Library, namely forty thousand, that of\\nBoston having four hundred thousand. This li-\\nbrary is open only from nine a. m. to three p. m.\\nFISK FREE LIBRARY.\\nThis is just around the corner on Dryades\\nStreet, from the entrance to the University library.\\nIt contains five thousand seven hundred volumes.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 6g\\nand is open from nine a. m. to five p. m. The\\nother is\\nTHE CITY LIBRARY,\\nlocated in the city hall, on Lafayette Square. It\\ncontains sixteen thousand volumes, and is open\\nfrom nine a. m. to three p. m. This, as well as\\nboth the others, are free to the public. In this\\nrespect New Orleans is much better off than Rich-\\nmond, Virginia, which has no public libraries.\\nThe Young Men s Christian Association also\\nhave their library at their rooms, Nos. 13 and\\n15 Camp Street.\\nPROMINENT BUILDINGS.\\nTHE UNITED STATES CUSTOM-HOUSE\\nstands first and last of the large structures of the\\ncity. It fills the square bounded by Canal, Cus-\\ntom House, Decatur and Peters streets. It is\\nbuilt of Maine granite, and is a monument of the\\nold style of architecture in government buildings\\nof the past. On the ground floor is situated the\\npost-office on the first floor above is the large\\nhail around which are arranged the desks of the\\ngovernment clerks In this room, over the door\\nof the east entrance, is a bas relief of Bienville,", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "70 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nthe founder of New Orleans, his Spanish costume\\nin great contrast to that of Andrew Jackson along\\nside, in his high collared coat of 1815. The offices\\nof the United States government officials are\\non the same floor. From the roof an excellent\\nview is obtained of the city and river.\\nUNITED STATES MINT.\\nCorner of Esplanade and Peters Street. It is\\napparently much larger than the mint at Philadel-\\nphia. In front of this building, Wm. B. Mum-\\nford was hung, June 7, 1862, for taking down from\\nthe flag staff on the mint the United States flag\\nwhich Farragut had caused to be placed there.\\nST. CHARLES HOTEL.\\nThis was built in 1838 at a cost of $600,000,\\nIt was burned in 1850 and restored in 52 and 53.\\nFrom the time of its erection to the present, it\\nhas been the rendezvous for all important dis-\\ncussions, and the abode of all of our noted men\\nwhen visiting here. When Benjamin F. Butler\\narrived in New Orleans it was closed, but he\\nordered it to be opened for the accommodation of\\nhimself and staff. In it were brought before him\\nthe mayor and Common Council in arrest, and be-\\nfore him Senator Pierre Soule defended them.\\nIts massive granite columns as large or larger", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 7 1\\nthan those of the sub-treasury in Wall Street sup-\\nporting its substantial cornice, make a facade\\nwhich modern architecture does not improve\\nupon.\\nWm, Howard Russell, better known during\\nwar times as Bull Run Russell, thus wrote of\\nthe St. Charles, in his letter to the London Tmies,\\nMay 24, 1861\\nIn the course of the day, I went to the St. Charles Hotel, which is\\nan enormous establishment, of the American type, with a southern\\ncharacter about it. A number of gentlemen were seated in the hall,\\nand in front of the office, with their legs up against the wall, and on\\nthe backs of chairs, smoking, spitting, and reading the papers. Of-\\nficers crowded the bar. The bustle and noise of the place would make\\nit anything but an agreeable residence for one fond of quiet but this\\nhotel is famous for its difficulties. Not the least disgraceful among\\nthem, was the assault committed by somd of Walker s, filibusters upon\\nCaptain Aldham of the Royal Navy,\\nHOTEL ROYAL\\nuntil recently known as the Hotel St. Louis. The\\nfollowing is a recent description of it by the\\nTimes Democrat:\\nThe period from 1833 to 1837 marked one of the most important\\nbuilding eras in the history of New Orleans. Banks, threatres,\\nhotels, markets, cotton presses and commercial edifices were rapidly\\nerected, costing four million five hundred thousand dollars, at which\\ntime the population did not exceed one hundred thousand, mainly in\\ndeveloping the portions lying between Poydras, Canal, St. Charles\\nStreet and the river. But the more thickly-settled portion lying below\\nCanal Street, likewise, was being beautified by the erection of magni-\\nficent civil and pubhc edifices, the most conspicuous of which was", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "72 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nthat which is now called Hotel Royal, then known as the City Ex-\\nchange. This imposing structure was planned and erected by the\\narchitect, M. J. N. DePouiliy. The money was suppHed by the\\nImprovement Bank, which was organized for the purpose of erecting\\nhandsome buildings Its president was the Hon. Pierre Soule, and\\nits domicile is yet to be seen in that relic of ancient glory now stand-\\ning on Toulouse Street, between Royal and Chartres. It was the\\noriginal intention of this company to cover this square with elegant\\nbuildings\\nThe St. Louis Hotel extended three hundred feet, the entire length\\nof the block on St. Louis Street, and one hundred and twenty feet\\neach on Royal and Chartres streets. Its architecture is a composite\\nof Tuscan ana Done. Its principal entrance, opposite Exchange alley,\\nis ornamented with six marble columns. Originally, there was a vesti-\\nbule of one hundred and twenty-seven by forty feet, which was the\\nrendezvous for the public at large, and from this entrance was gained\\nto the magnificent rotunda, whose lofty dome admitted the hght\\nthrough rich stained glass. Beneath the glass on the side of the dome\\nwere, and are still, paneled with frescoe paintings penciled with marvels\\nof skill by the celebrated Italian painters, Canova and Pinoli. These\\npaintings have been the admiration of thousands of visitors, and to-\\nday are as beautiful as when first executed. This rotunda was the\\nbusiness centre of this city for many years.\\nHere merchants assembled on High Change from one to three p. M.\\ndaily (Sundays excepted). And on Saturdays seven or eight French,\\nSpanish, Italian and English auctioneers were to be heard offering real\\nestate, stocks and bonds, and gang after gang of negroes. Here also\\nassembled the seconds in the affairs de honore, prior to accompanying\\ntheir principals to the ducHng grounds, which events were then of fre-\\nquent occurrence.\\nThe Royal Street entrance is provided with one of the grandest\\nstairways of any southern edifice, and affords an easy ascent from the\\nmarble pavement to the last upper floor.\\nThis building was badly damaged by fire in 1840, but with commend-\\nable energy its originators reconstructed it, increasing its magnifi-\\ncence. Its upper floors were divided into large ball-rooms, parlors\\nand dining rooms, besides commodious apartments for guests. These\\nwitnessed some of the most eventful scenes in the ante bellum days of", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 73\\nthis city. On January 8, 1840, General Jackson was received in the\\nbanquet hall by the committee of the Democratic party, who had\\nprovided here elegant suites of rooms for his accommodation. Thither,\\nhour after hour, thousands of citizens came to pay their greetings to\\ntheir esteemed General.\\nIn the winter of 1842 the Hon. Henry Clay was also handsomely\\nentertained here, in whose honor was given a ball, which was attended\\nby the elite of the city, and it is said the costumes of the ladies on\\nthat occasion were the most magnificent that had ever appeared in this\\ncity. A subscription banquet, costing twenty thousand dollars, was\\nalso arranged in the grand dining hall in honor of Mr. Clay.\\nIn 1844 the Hon. Martin Van Buren held a grand reception in the\\ndining hall of this noted building. There being no gas in these early\\ndays, the various apartments were lighted with wax candles placed in\\nlarge crystal chandeliers and candelabras. This building continued\\nto be used by various persons as a hotel, until it was forced to close for\\nwant of patronage during the war.\\nAfter the surrender it was re-opened for a sho?t time and again closed,\\nand finally the ownership was vested in the State and used for a State\\nHouse. Its grand rotunda, which had previously been floored over,\\nwas now used as a Senate Chamber, and the former dining hall as the\\nHouse of Representatives.\\nOn removal of the capital to Baton Rouge it was deserted and\\nrapidly deteriorated for want of care. During the last Legislature,\\nMessrs. Rivers Bartell, the enterprising proprietors of the St. Charles\\nHotel, obtained a fifteen years lease of the property.\\nThese gentlemen thoroughly refitted, furnished and opened it with a\\ngrand ball in November, 1884. This and the St. Charles are the lead-\\ning hotels in the city. Their terms are from four dollars a day up-\\nwards.\\nTHE CITY HALL,\\ncorner St. Charles and Lafayette, and fronting\\nLafayette Square, also supports some handsome\\nGrecian-Doric columns. In it are the offices of\\nthe mayor and other municipal officers.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "74 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nNEW MASONIC HALL,\\non St. Charles, above Lee Place. It has a front-\\nage of one hundred and forty-seven feet by ninety-\\ntwo deep, with two wings eighty-four feet deep.\\nThe Old Masonic Hall is on St. Charles, opposite\\nCommercial Place.\\nTULANE HALL\\nis located on the east side of Dryades Street, be-\\ntween Canal and Common. It is now occupied\\nby the academical department of the University\\nof Louisiana and the Fisk Library.\\nWASHINGTON ARTILLERY ARMORY,\\non St Charles, between Julia and Girod. It be-\\nlongs to the Washington Artillery, and in it, dur-\\ning the carnival season, the receptions are given.\\nODD fellows HALL,\\nLafayette Park. The lower floor is occupied by\\nthat ancient military company, the Continental\\nGuards. Near it are\\nCOURT BUILDINGS,\\nin which are located the Parish Criminal Court\\nand various parish offices.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 75\\nPICKWICK CLUB-HOUSE,\\ncorner Canal and Carondelet streets. This is the\\nmost imposing of modern structures in the city.\\nIts beautiful turretted corner and richly stained\\noriel windows are in great contrast to its surround-\\nings. Its large and elegant entrance is on Car-\\nondelet Street, which Cable has introduced to so\\nmany readers as containing Dr. Sevier s office. No.\\n3J^. An humble insurance company now occu-\\npies it, at whose desks none know of the doctor.\\nThe Illinois Central R. R. offices occupy the\\nCanal Street front, and are handsomly fitted up.\\nJust above the Pickwick, on Canal, is the\\nLouisiana Club-House, and near it, and above, is\\nthe Boston Club-House, a fine old-style structure,\\nNo. 148.\\nTHE COTTON EXCHANGE,\\ncorner of Carondelet and Gravier, a building hav-\\ning a larger front than that of the New York\\nStock Exchange, but not as large an interior. It\\nhas a beautifully decorated exchange room, and a\\nlife which the Produce and other exchanges have\\nnot, from the larger attendance and volume of\\nbnsiness done. It has a membership of about six\\nhundred, but seldom has an excited market, the\\nfluctuations in cotton being so slight, therefore\\nthe crowd doing business there seems small com-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "76 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\npared with the grain, oil and stock exchanges of\\nNew York and Chicago. The brokers cry of\\nI ll give four for one June, means for futures,\\nthat he will give say cotton is between ten and\\neleven cents ten and four one hundredths of a\\ncent for one hundred bales, the smallest amount\\ndealt in. If spot cotton, the fractions are one\\nsixteenth of a cent a pound. Thousand bale lots\\nare the usual quantities recorded. With the ele-\\nvator one may go to the roof, from which a good\\nview of the city may be had. There are numer-\\nous other exchanges detailed in this book, the\\nnext most prominent being the\\nPRODUCE EXCHANGE,\\nwhich occupies new ^quarters on Banks Arcade^\\nIt can also be entered at 44 Magazine Street. It\\nis very quiet here. There are samples of grain\\nand grocers goods upon the tables, but the busi-\\nness is done in a very leisurely manner.\\nTHE MEXICAN EXCHANGE\\noccupies the quarters 124 Common Street, and is\\norganized for the purpose of fostering trade with\\nMexican, Central and South American ports. A\\ngreat amount of the business which might pro-\\nperly be done at the exchanges, is transacted at\\nthe clubs, of which there are a dozen in good", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 7/\\nstanding, of which the Commercial, Pickwick,\\nBoston, Louisiana and Jockey Clubs are the most\\nprominent.\\nNEWSPAPERS.\\nThe Times- Democrat, No 58 Camp Street, owned\\nprincipally by Director-General E. A. Burke, and\\nThe Picayioie, No. 66 Camp Street, owned by\\nMrs. Nicholson, take the lead as English morning\\npapers, both having the press dispatches.\\nThe Daily States, 90 Camp Street The Daily\\nCity Item, 39 Natchez Street; Th.Q Eve?iing Chron-\\nicle, 23 Bank Place, and The Commercial Bulletin,\\n54 Magazine Street, occupy the field fully as to\\nnumbers. Of these The States is the only one\\nhaving the press dispatches. The Bulletin is par-\\ntially owned by W. B. Merchant, the postmaster.\\nThe L Abeille, 73 Chartres Street, is the French\\ndaily, and has a large circulation, as well as the\\nDeutsche- Zeitimg, 108 Camp Street.\\nThere are also the following weeklies\\nThe Mascot (illustrated), 6^ Camp Street;\\nLouisiana Sugar Bowl, no. 6 Camp Street. This\\nis devoted to the interest of planters.\\nLe Propagateur Catholique, corner Orleans and\\nRoyal streets.\\nMorning Star (Catholic), 1 16 Poydras street.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "78 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nAlgiers Advertiser, Villere, between Lavigne and\\nBartholcmew streets.\\nThe Christian Advocate, ii2 Camp Street.\\nSouthwestern Christian Advocate, 32 Natchez\\nStreet.\\nSouthwestern Presbyterian, 94 Camp Street.\\nAmerican Lumberman, 188 Gravier Street.\\nAlso the following publications:\\nDer Kinder Freund (bi-weekly), 112 Camp\\nStreet.\\nMedical and Surgical Journal (monthly), 19\\nBaronne Street.\\nWorkman, 34 Magazine Street.\\nEvangelisch Lutherische Blatter, 5 Old Magazine\\nStreet.\\nGretna Courer, Gretna.\\nTHE CEMETERIES.\\nIt will not do to omit the cemeteries, they are\\nso unlike all other cemeteries of the country.\\nThey are simply streets of tombs from ten to fif-\\nteen feet high and five to. ten feet in width. All\\nare scrupulously white, whether made of brick\\nand covered with cement and whitewashed, or of\\nmarble. Water being so near the surface, no\\nbodies are placed beneath it, but all above.\\nIn addition to family tombs there are tenament\\nblocks of tombs, four tiers or stories high, each", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. ^g\\nspace receiving one casket, each block containing\\nfifty or more caskets, and numbered as houses are\\nnumbered.\\nIn many of the cemeteries the inscriptions upon\\ntombs are almost exclusively in French, and sen-\\ntences similar to the following meet the eye at\\nevery turn: A mon cher epoux, Dieu seul\\nconnait mes regrets, A iiotre pere. Here and\\nthere may be seen the names of loved children in\\ngroups belonging to one family, as\\nLOUIS,\\nPHILIP,\\nEDOUARD,\\nALPHONSE,\\nVIRGINIA.\\nAbout these names and inscriptions are sus-\\npended all manner of designs of flower pieces\\nmade of beads, like hair-work, in purple, black or\\nwhite, together with metalic wreaths of flowers,\\nwhich to touch may alarm a small bright green or\\nbrown lizard, and cause it to start from its hiding\\nplace beneath, and display its proportions upon\\nthe white marble. Newly made tombs are for\\nsale, as a card announces: Tombe a vendre s\\nadrgsser au gardien dti Cimetiere St. Louis.\\nIn October last, a card at one of the entrances\\ncontained the following translation of the original\\nin French above it\\nAny persons that Wish to have there tooms", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "So NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nRepare Fore Saint Day, Will please address to the\\nSexton.\\nA wag has said that the song: See that my\\ngrave is kept green, does not apply to New Or-\\nleans but rather see that my grave is kept white-\\nwashed. When an interment takes place in a\\ntenement tomb, the mourners in carnages linger\\nwhile the casket is placed in the tomb, and\\nuntil the mason with trowel, mortar and brick,\\nquickly places a wall between it and the outer\\nworld, and fastens with cement and screws the\\nmarble slab that covers it.\\nALL saints day.\\nTo see the cemeteries of New Orleans at their\\nbest, is to visit them on All Saints Day, Novem-\\nber first. Early in the morning of that day the\\nflower stalls of the various markets are laden with\\nall sorts of made up flower-pieces and bouquets.\\nLadies, children and servants are hurrying\\nthrough the streets, laden with huge bouquets\\nof dahlies, chrysanthemums, white daisies and\\nimmortelles, full blush and crimson roses,\\nwreaths of green and purple artificial flowers, so\\nreal as to deceive the ordinary observer wreaths\\nof mourning, and bead work of every conceivable\\ndesign. Laden with these, the crowds wend their\\nway to the cemeteries. It is a legal holiday At", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS fT IS. 8 1\\nnoon the post office and custom-house close\\ntheir offices. The wholesale houses and general\\nmerchants close their doors. The drayman turns\\nthe ears of*his mules homeward with his right\\nhand, while his left carefully holds a huge bou-\\nquet for the adornment of the graves of his dear\\ndeparted.\\nIn the morning of that day, after high mass at\\nthe cathedral, the clergy march in procession to\\nthe cemeteries belonging to it and sing the\\nLibera. Long before that hour the grounds are\\nthronged with ladies, children and servants, all\\nbusy workers in adorning the houses of the dead.\\nServants are scouring and polishing the marble\\nladies are directing and arranging the disposition of\\nthe flowers, richly dressed children are darting here\\nand there with merry voices. The long rows of\\nstraight whitewashed trunks of magnolia trees,\\nstand like so many Corinthian pillars, supporting\\nthe canopy of green waxy foliage, and roofing\\ncompletely the white shelled roads beneath,\\nwhere, moving in dignified procession, are beauti-\\nful and stately mothers, followed by their children,\\nand these by neatly dressed servants, holding aloft\\nexquisite floral offerings for the sacred shrines.\\nFresh white sand is sprinkled over earth where\\nthe grass has not arisen, and from it protrudes\\nfresh pots of flowers. In the streets of tenement", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "82 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\ntombs, groups of people are industriously work-\\ning, cleaning, polishing and adorning the limited\\nspot of marble each possesses. Against tomb\\nfronts, huge masses of dahlias and inamortelles are\\ntastefully piled. Banks of bright green glossy\\npalms are handsomely grouped against the\\nwhite marble, relieved here and there by baskets\\nof full fragrant roses at the doors of tombs.\\nOn this November day, when throughout the\\nNorth the leaves of the chestnut, maple, and elm\\nhave fallen, and those of the oak are dried and\\nbrown in New England, when the withered grass\\nand leaves are coated with a white frost, and the\\nsharp ice crystals are fringing the edges of the\\nponds, full blush and crimson roses are here dif-\\nfusing their fragrance and showering their petals\\nover the borders of the walks.\\nIt is All Saints Day; a day of days at Pry-\\ntania Cemetery a bright holy day and holiday,\\nwhen children, birds, foliage, and flowers combine\\nto link all that is beautiful on earth with the mem-\\nory of those we love in heaven.\\nAt noon this labor of love ceases, ^and during\\nthe afternoon the throngs come and go until dark.\\nOf the small cemeteries, the Prytania or Wash-\\nington Street Cemetery is one of the best kept.\\nIt is not exclusive in its denomination, and con-\\ntains many aristocratic tombs.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 83\\nThe approaches to the cemeteries are lined with\\nflower, fruit and refreshment stands, and near the\\ngates inside, here and there, seated -before a small\\nwhite table, one will see a pleasant-faced nun re-\\nceiving in a silver plate, money gifts for some\\nnamed asylum, as Mt. Carmel Female Orphan\\nAsylum, St. Joseph s Orphan Asylum, etc.\\nSt. Louis Cemetery, No. I, corner St. Louis\\nand Conti streets, is the oldest in the city, and\\ncontains the names of many of the early promi*-\\nnent families, such as Claiborne, Mandcville, Marig-\\nney, Tanneret, Rosseau, Rocquet, Denis, Garcia.\\nHere are tombs of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian\\nand French societies. It is noticeable as being the\\noldest, but it is very much crowded and not as\\nwell kept as many other cemeteries. On All\\nSaints days artificial muslin and paper flowers\\nprevail here, together with decorations of beads.\\nThe air on that day resounds with the rapping of\\nsticks upon the silver plates on the tables to call\\nthe visitor s attention to the charity it represents,\\nand is filled with the medley of French, Spanish\\nand Italian voices. Before some tombs candles\\nare burning and postulants kneeling. A few aged\\nnegro women, with rosaries in hand, may be\\nheard ejaculating their prayers in French.\\nThe larger portion of the population on All\\nSaints Day make Greenwood, Metarie Road and", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "84 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nSt, Patrick cemeteries which are all grouped\\ntogether at Canal and Metarie Road the objective\\npoint. At the canal bridge, near the entrance to\\nMetarie Road Cemetery, the crowd becomes a\\njam. The Ponchartrain railway carries the people\\nby thousands. The streets approaching the gates\\nare like a Parisian fete day, lined as they are with\\nfruit, flower and refreshment stands, whose ven-\\nders are exceedingly demonstrative. A constant\\nline of carriages are crossing and recrossing the\\nbridge over the canal, which leads to Lake Pon-\\nchartrain. Two large refreshment houses are near\\nby, and they are thronged with people. Across\\nthe road is Greenwood Cemetery, its most notice-\\nable features being its shade and the Confederate\\nmonument which is near the entrance. Its streets\\nof tombs are named after the flowers, such as\\nMyrtle Avenue, Violet Avenue, Acacia Avenue,\\netc., etc. It is well kept. The Metarie is the\\nlargest and most modern in the city. Its entrance\\nis but a few rods from that of Greenwood, just\\nacross the canal bridge. As you enter, orange-\\nladen trees, bordering its shell-paved entrance-\\ndriveway, gr^et you to the right is the tomb of\\nthe Louisiana Division of the Confederate Army\\nof Tennessee, in which is a tablet to the memory\\nof General Albert Sydney Johnson. His statue\\nis to surmount it, and the statue of a Confederate", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 85\\nsoldier is to guard the entrance. To the left is a\\nlarge public receiving vault. Then follows an\\navenue of beautiful tombs, from which other ave-\\nnues diverge over a large space. The tombs are\\nmore modern in their construction; the walks\\nand drives of shell pavement are laid in curves,\\nwhile the others are in angles it is more spacious,\\nmore American. It contains some beautiful works\\nof cemetery architecture and sculpture.\\nThe Washington Artillery have a fine monu-\\nment, commemorating its battles and names of its\\ndead, with a statue of a Confederate soldier sur-\\nmounting it. The Louisiana division of the Army\\nof Northern Virginia also have a tomb and shaft,\\nsurmounted by a statue of Stonewall Jackson.\\nThe head of the statue is covered with a soldier s\\ncap, which does not seem quite appropriate, and\\nit suffers somewhat in comparison with the statue\\nof Jackson in the State House Park in Richmond.\\nThe Knights of Pythias have a handsome en-\\nclosure for their dead. The Morris tomb is a\\ngranite structure standing in the interior of a church\\nof Ivy, with circular front windows, side windows\\nand transept. This is very pretty. The frame is\\nof light iron work, but so covered inside and out\\nwith ivy as to be hidden from view. Adjoining it\\nstands a beautiful and venerable live oak, whose", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "86 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nimmense trunk and moss-laden branches are\\nworthy of observation.\\nRemember St. Mary s Orphan Asylum said\\na small placard, last All Saints Day, before a\\nwhite table in front of the large tomb of the\\nPelican Benevolent Society. Beside the table sat\\ntwo kind hearted Sisters, flanked by eight little\\norphan boys, about six years of age. Along^\\ncame a gentleman with servant carrying baskets.\\nGood evening, good Sisters, said the gentle-\\nman, in French, How are my Httle boys to-\\nday? as he droped some silver coin into the\\nplate sterling silver rem.embrance of the Orphans\\nof St. Mary s and now the Sisters must be\\nhungry, and little Leon, Francois and Philip must\\nbe hungry too, and so napkins are spread, and\\nthere upon the green grass, the gentleman seated\\nhis little group and caused a delicious lunch to be\\nspread, when he sat down and gaily chattered with\\nthe Sisters, and helped the little orphan boys to a\\ngood square meal and packages of bon-bons for\\nthemselves and their playmates at the asylum.\\nThere was happiness enough in that group to\\nbring tears to at least one looker on, as it illus-\\ntrated what inspiration the Day of All Saints may\\ngive when rightly spent.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 8/\\nTHE LEVEE.\\nThe levee at the head of Canal Street is always\\nfull of interest to the visitor. From the stone\\npavement at the head of the street, up to the\\nplank docks, it is laid with shells. Here may\\nbe seen great blocks of cotton bales, each marked\\nby the small various colored flags of the owners\\nor factors and as the bales are received from\\nthe steamboat, are thus checked off by their marks\\nand placed in their proper blocks.\\nVisit this spot on the arrival of a two thousand\\nton steamboat like the Bayou Sara. See the\\ncrowds of black stevedores on shore, watching the\\ngang-plank to get the eye of the mate for a job.\\nWatch the queer sort of deck or steerage passen-\\ngers which come ashore. See the stevedores\\nscrutinize them. Here comes a verdant up-river\\ndarkey from the cane brake, with eyes bulging out\\nat the scene before him. Hello dar, from a\\nstevedore spokesman, whar yer cum frum?\\nwhar s you fodder? you d better git back hind\\nder biler, no work fur you here\\nHere comes a poor white nondescript, with\\ndull, leaden countenance, eyes half closed, his\\nrags are stiff with filth and the color of his skin.\\nHis baggage consists of an old box, with\\nslats nailed across it, and contains a piece of filthy", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "88 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nsacking. As he passes down the plank, a negro\\nejaculates Good lawd de snakes all dead war\\nyou cum frum He takes him for a snake killer\\nby reason of his box whose occupation is gone;\\nand so this class of live freight, together with\\nwhole families of negroes and little pickaninnies,\\nare discharged.\\nThe cabin passengers are taken away, and a\\nlong line of trucks are started to move six thou-\\nsand or more bales of the great staple. The levee\\nis strewn with fragments of cotton and cotton\\nseed. The view from the deck of the steamboat\\ngives one an idea of the Father of Waters a hun-\\ndred miles from its mouth. It is, at this point,\\nfrom a hundred to two hundred and eight feet\\ndeep. Across on the opposite shore is the town\\nof Algiers, with a population of ten thousand,\\nto which ferry boats are plying. Walk a short\\ndistance down this levee and see the acres of casks\\nof sugar, molasses and rice, labelled with the\\nnames of the plantations from whence they came,\\nand as you walk upon the plank pavement the\\ngrains of sugar, grate upon the ear like sand. See\\nthe huge piles of merchandise on the levee to be\\nsent to the plantations in return payment.\\nTHE WHARVES.\\nNo stranger should visit New Orleans without", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 89\\nacquainting himself partially with the extent of\\nthe direct traffic with foreign countries.\\nTake a Tchoupitoulas horse-car as far as Sixth\\nStreet and walk down the river along the wharves,\\nwhere may be encountered a greater variety of\\nmarine architecture than any city in our land\\nsave New York. In addition to the Atlantic\\ncoast vessels, among which Boston and New\\nYork are largely represented, together with those\\nof South American ports, may be seen black,\\nrakish iron hulls, some of them drawing twenty-\\nfive feet of water, from Liverpool, Leith, Bath,\\nAberdeen, Glasgow, New Castle, London, Havre,\\nBremen, Hamburg, all busily loading with cotton,\\n(during the autumn months when the cotton ship-\\nment is at its height) oil-meal, rice, sugar,\\nmolasses and staves. Here are vessels from Cen-\\ntral and South America and the West Indies, with\\nwhole cargoes of fruit, and sometimes these car-\\ngoes are shipped entire to Chicago in the same\\ncars of the Illinois Central Railroad which\\nbrought from that city grain, soap, starch and the\\nyellow canvass hams of Mr. Armour, together\\nwith car loads of full, round, hard cabbages from\\nthe fields of lUinois. To walk the length of\\nthese wharves amidst acres and acres of com-\\npressed cotton bales on the one hand, and a river\\nlined with masts upon the other, with flags of", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "90 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nmany nations floating among the rigging to lis-\\nten to the medley of Yorkshire and Gaelic,\\nFrench, Italian, German and Spanish among the\\ncrews and the striking of the bells to see the\\nclear cut stems and rounded iron sterns of the\\nClyde built steamers and the old fashioned\\nsquare sterns and elaborate figure heads of some\\nof the old New England or Boston luggers to\\nsnuff the air laden with odors of rosin, tarred\\nrope and ship s smells; to be among all this is a\\nnovelty to a landsman from the interior, and full\\nof interest.\\nThe time is approaching when instead of bal-\\nlast, these foreign vessels are coming better laden\\nwith imports to be distributed from New Orleans,\\nmore thoroughly over the New South.\\nCOTTON PRESSES.\\nA large tract of territory reached oy the Tchou-\\npitoulas horse-cars and in the vicinity of the for-\\neign wharves, is devoted to immense brick store-\\nhouses, each with its huge press that receives a bale\\nof cotton as it comes from the plantation and river\\nsteamboats, and with one breath of the powerful\\nengines reduces its size to one-third its original\\nbulk, when its ties are quickly re-adjusted and it\\ngoes to the iron hulks of Liverpool and elsewhere\\nnear at hand.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 9I\\nTHE ST. LOUIS CATHEDRAL\\nfronts Jackson Square. Bienville located its site,\\nalso that of the presbytery. It was called the\\nChurch of St. Ignatius in 1720. A tornado swept\\nthe town subsequently and destroyed the building\\nwith many others. In 1725 a brick church was\\nerected, which was destroyed by the great fire of\\n1788. In 1794 Don Andres Almonaster-y-Roxas\\nbuilt the present cathedral, also the buildings now\\nstanding upon each side of it, the latter under a\\ncontract with the Spanish government. The one\\non the right was used for the sessions of the\\ncabildo, and that on the left for a presbytery. In\\n1850 the tower of the cathedral fell, injuring the\\nwalls, at which time it was altered and enlarged.\\nDon Almonaster died in 1798. His tomb is in\\nthe cathedral, in front of the Altar of the Sacred\\nHeart, where can be seen his coat of arms and the\\nfollowing inscription\\nA pesar de totos\\nVercetemos a los Godos.\\n^*In spite of all\\nWe will conquer the Goths.**\\nBeneath the marble in front of the Altar of\\nNotre Dame de Lourdes, and opposite the spot\\nwhere Hes the body of Almonaster, lie also the re-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "92 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nmains of three ancient cavaliers, one the founder\\nof the old families of Marigney and Mandeville.\\nThe old buildings flanking the cathedral are very-\\ninteresting their arches, courts and old Moorish\\nwalls almost speak Spanish to the observer. The\\nroofs are French additions, but the walls and in-\\nteriors are as occupied by the Spaniards. They\\nare now occupied, the one on the right, where the\\nsessions of the cabildo were held, by the Supreme\\nCourt, and contains as before stated, the portrait\\nof the late Judah P. Benjamin, General Grimes,\\nand busts of Senator Pierre Soule and Chief Jus-\\ntice Marshall. The other building is occupied by*\\nthe sheriff and Civil District Court. In the dark\\nrecesses of these Moorish arches, on a late visit,\\nwas found an article of the same identity as that\\nfound by a traveller last year at Arethusa s Fount\\non the island of Cyprus a Standard Oil Com-^\\npany s tin can.\\nAlmonaster left a daughter, the Baroness Pon-\\ntalba, who inherited the land on St. Peter and St.\\nAnn streets, facing the square, and which Count\\nO Reilley granted to the town in the king s name^\\nShe died in Paris, in 1874, leaving three sons.\\nEvery Saturday evening masses are offered for\\nthe repose of the soul of Don Andres Almonaster-\\ny-Roxas, and at sunset of that day the tolling\\nbell recalls his memory.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 93.\\nTHE PARROCCHIA ITALIANA,\\na queer old church, formerly used by the Jesuits,\\nis situated at the corner of Conti and Rampart\\nstreets, and is worth a visit.\\nTHE RUE ROYALE.\\nIt was very picturesque, the Rue Royale. The rich and poor met\\ntogether. The locksmith s swinging key creaked next door to the\\nbank across the way, crouching mendicant Hke in the shadow of a\\ngreat importing house, was the mud laboratory of the mender of broken\\ncombs. Light balconies overhung the rows of showy shops and stores\\nopen for trade this Sunday morning, and pretty Latin faces of the\\nhigher class glanced over their savagely-pronged railings upon the\\npassers below. At some windows hung lace curtains, flannel duds at\\nsome, and at others only the scraping and sighing one-hinged shutter,\\ngroaning and sighing towards Paris after its neglectful master.\\nPosson Jont.\\nThat was sixty years ago.\\nNOW.\\nIt is night, in October days, and the Rue Royale\\nis brilliant with all the appliances of the Brush\\nsystem of electric lighting. The narrow sidewalks\\nare filled with moving figures of men of all clases,\\nattracted hither like the moths around the bril-\\nliant Boulton carbons. From a long distance up\\nthe street, led by a band of music, comes with\\nrapid tread over the pavement of broad stones, a\\nprocession of a hundred or more members of some", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "94 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nsociety or club. The air is resonant with music\\nand human voices, a medley unaccompanied by\\nthe roar of wheels. Occasionally an open bar-\\nouche appears, with a lady or two, with bare heads,\\nand lace shawls, accompanied by an escort ap-\\nparently observers of the scene. As the varnished\\ndoors of restaurants, saloons, gaming houses and\\nconcert halls, swing upon their hinges, there are\\nbreathings outward of volumes of discordant\\nsounds of human voices, mingled with the clash-\\ning of glasses and orchestral music. As these are\\npassed, from the open windows of the stories\\nabove, are heard the shrill tones of the checking\\nclerks, calling: one sixty-seven, one eighty -four,\\ntwenty- one, seventy-eight, in quick, clear suc-\\ncession. That is keno\\nOn we go, passing the tall Doric columns of the\\nold Union Bank with its classic facade encount-\\nering huge piles of oysters banked up against the\\nwalls of entrances to restaurants again varnished\\ndoors swing to and fro, and broken volumes of\\nuncultivated soprano voices, essaying solos, belch\\nforth upon the summer air, while timid crowds\\nof men stand upon the curbstones to catch a\\nglimpse of female limbs draped in gauze of pink\\nor blue men who have no money to spend\\ninside, or whose consciences are not yet\\ntoughened. But as the orchestral music is thrown", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 95\\nout Upon the pleasant air, the wonder worshipper\\nis naturally drawn inside, perhaps to his sorrow,\\nor perhaps with the satisfaction of a better knowl-\\nedge of how some parts of the world move. He\\nis in one of the Tivolis or concert halls of the\\nstreet, where, arrayed in scant garments, but\\ngorgeous in combinations of color, are young and\\nmiddle aged youthful and fresh, together with\\nwearied and worn, whited sepulcheres watching\\namong the throng which enter, those whom their\\njudgment dictates have money to spend or throw\\naway upon them in remuneration for a display of\\ntheir utter unconsciousness of virtue.\\nThe music keeps pace with peals of laughter\\nglasses clink. Old roues jest and pat the cheeks\\nof young girls young and inexperienced youths\\nsit at the tables sipping wine, conscious of their\\nvery basfulness or out-of-place modesty. A police-\\nman occasionally enters and looks passively on as\\nthe night passes.\\nThe female habitues of these palaces are not\\nalways natives. The north is drawn upon from\\nNew York to Chicago, and from whence repre-\\nsentatives may be found. But let us leave these\\nhalls of wine, women and song; let us go up\\nsome of these brass-mounted stairways from\\nwhence come the cries of: 0-n-e s-e-v-e-n-t-y\\ns-i-x, t-hi-r-t-y f-o-ur; let us visit", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "96 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\n*THE SENATE,\\na large elegantly appointed room like an exchange.\\nBut the brokers, the bulls and bears, they do not\\nstand upon their feet they sit down. Neither do\\nthey shout. They are all silent a hundred or\\nmore silently gazing upon the small boards upon\\nthe tables beneath their eyes, while each index\\nfinger moves the button upon the spot covered\\nby the figures as they are lustily called out (and\\nwhich we heard upon the street below so often)\\nby the one who sits upon the throne in the\\nspeaker s chair of this senate, and swings his\\nSatanic majesty s censor, better known as the\\ngoose, and at each swinging he presses upon a\\nspring and out drops the ball upon which is the\\nnumber called. Here in this large room filled\\nwith tables sit the devotees, while conversation is\\nhushed. Occasionally a rap is heard upon a table;\\nan attendant appears, notes the number of the\\nboard, and calls Keno! The man who gave\\nthe rap has won. The other ninety and nine have\\nlost.\\nIs it very different outside In any or all the\\nbucket shops, stock, grain or oil exchanges of the\\nland Is not the principle more quickly and bet-\\nter illustrated herein\\nLarge squares of combinations of figures hang", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS FT IS. 9/\\nupon the walls, while the ever changing figures of\\nthe keno register move as automatically as those\\nof the members numbers at the New York Stock\\nExchange.\\nIn large alcoves with arched ceilings are sus-\\npended neat gilt sign-boards with Rouge et\\nnoir here, Roulette there, at th^t end,\\nGrand Hazard here, Twenty-one there,\\nbeneath which are the tables indicated by the sign-\\nboards, and each surrounded by a group of men\\nactively staking their ivory chips men of all\\nclasses, young and old, richly dressed and some\\neven barefooted, all anxious to receive their por-\\ntion of fortune s bestowals.\\nOther gilt signs upon the walls inform us that;\\nThis game is open day and nights\\nPlease report irregularities^\\nPlease see that your cards are pegged.\\nA keno made on a board not pegged will not be paid.\\nOther archways, under which are suspended the\\nsigns Poker, lead into adjoining rooms, where\\nare still other signs, stating that such and such tables\\nare for Draw Poker. These tables of eight\\npersons, besides the banker and the dealer, are\\nwatched by lookers-on with keen interest, and as\\none player, more lucky than the others, increases\\nhis pile of ivory chips, bills and specie, congratu-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "98 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nlatory hand-shakes are offered him, while the\\nsilent one, who, at the other end of the table, has\\nbeen staking the largest and losing heavily, is not\\nnoticed.\\nThe god of success is worshipped, while no\\nsympathy is shown the unfortunate one. Is this\\nvery different outside in the world\\nHave you missed something ye lovers of the\\ngaming tables who read this But you can have\\nit The Rue Royale can supply you with every\\nconvenience your yearnings crave. Directly\\nacross the street, up any of these brass mounted\\nor golden stairs, that row of windows, second story\\nthere you will find a strong house, and Faro\\nthe king.\\nIt is free free to all as water, without any show\\nor thought of suppression, and the proprietors^\\nwhose fifteen per cent, yield the city large sums^\\nhave as excellent franchises as they who sell flour,\\nbacon or cotton.\\nAN AGED DATE PALM.\\nIn addition to what can possibly be described\\nwithin the limits of this volume, there is much\\nelse which an observant eye will appreciate. In\\nlot No, 53, Orleans Street, near the corner\\nof Dauphine, stands a living monument of the\\npast, which for more than a hundred years has been", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 99\\nthe wonder of the inhabitants, and a hundred years\\nago the oldest inhabitant knew not the time when\\nit was not an antiquarian. It is a native of the\\nEast Indies or Africa. It is claimed that its like\\ndoes not exist in the State, and never has but\\nthere are similar species in various parts of the\\ncity, and one fine one in the yard of Mr. Litch-\\nfield, on Rampart near Canal. However, this date\\npalm is certainly the oldest, and towers fifty or\\nsixty feet above high piles of wood, and is sur-\\nrounded by humble barracks, in which both cattle\\nand people reside. Its knarled and thick bark\\nenvelopes it for fifteen feet. Its diameter at the\\nbase is two feet. Its single stem rises forty feet\\nhigher, and from its top twenty or more long\\npalm leaves wave above the low housetops. It\\nbears huge blossoms, but no fruit.\\nThis tree was as great a wonder to the early\\nsettlers as to the citizens of to-day. What a his-\\ntorian, could it speak The botanist, De Can-\\ndoUe says these palms live to the age of six hun-\\ndred and seven hundred years. It is but two\\nsquares behind the cathedral. Sit here upon the\\nwooden steps of the low adobe covered dwelling,\\nand look about you. Listen to the Creole patois.\\nIt will not be difficult to imagine yourself out of\\nthe United States. The New Englander who loves\\nthese things, will find antique studies in architec-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "100 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nture in this quarter, go in whatever direction he\\nmay. At the corner of Orleans, opposite the\\ngarden at the rear of the cathedral, a sign an-\\nnounces the following\\nLibrarie de la famille.\\nArticles religieux.\\nOrnements W e glise.\\nChasaublerie.\\nLivres classiques.\\nArticles de Fantaisie.\\nGo inside, near the approach of All Saints\\nDay, and see the great and endless variety of tomb\\nornaments displayed, the wax and paper flowers,\\nenormous fancy wax candles, etc.\\nThe old dwelling in square 75, Rue de Orleans\\nand Bourbon, opposite Faranti s theatre, will il-\\nlustrate Cable s Old Creole Days residences.\\nVisit the old row of buildings on Chartres, for-\\nmerly occupied by the Ursulines. Go into the\\nqueer old courts, and see how they are arranged\\nfor dwellings, and ask if you are not in Jerusalem.\\nIf a balcony study is desired, visit the corner of\\nSt. Peters and Royal, or stand at the entrance to\\nthe Hotel Royal, and look down the length of the\\nnarrow court called Exchange Place. Seethe long\\nrows of balconies upon either side, and the Bridge\\nof Sighs that spans it.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. lOI\\nFor typv^o of the old Franco-Spanish residences,\\nwith the tile roofs of Carondelet s time, see Nos.\\n219 and 221 Rue Royale. This is beyond all the\\nWashington headquarters in the country. At the\\ncorner of Ursulines and Chartres, opposite the\\narchbishop s house, is another also at Dauphine\\nand St. Philip, two stories and a gallery.\\nCable thus pictures one of these dwellings:\\nNumber nineteen is the right-hand half of a\\nsingle-story, low-roofed tenament, washed with\\nyellow ochre, which it shares generously with\\nwhoever leans against it.\\nVisit No. 139 Royal. Note the relief afforded\\nby the interior of this court filled with flowers and\\nshrubbery relief from the dinginess surrounding\\nthe entrance. From the Hotel Royal, take an\\nhour s walk up Royal Street and vicinity. Note\\nthe strange visions that greet you through the\\nmany half opened entrances to Moorish arched\\ncourts beyond. In many of these dwellings the\\nold patterns of half-circle windows, barred with\\niron, surmount the doors.\\nOn Toulouse, just back of the Hotel Royal,\\nsombre and sad, stand the ruins of the Old Citi-\\nzen s Bank building, whose one hundred and sixty\\nkegs of five thousand Mexican dollars each,\\ntogether with bank note plates and Confederate\\nBond plates, while under the protection of the", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "I02 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nConsul of the Netherlands, General Butler con\\nfiscated.\\nAt 176 Canal, our youths will be reminded of\\nAudubon, who was born in New Orleans. Here\\nare stuffed birds and plenty of young stuffed alli-\\ngators, in all stages of exit from the shell together\\nwith stuffed armadilloes. A desire to ascertain\\nhow oranges are packed and shipped, may be\\ngratified by visiting the vicinity of the corner of\\nGravier and St. Peter s streets.\\nGeneral G. T. Beauregard, at present Adjutant\\nGeneral of State, is a resident, whose home is at\\nNo. 355 St. Charles Street. He has an office in\\nSt. Louis Hospital building.\\nLUMBER.\\nIt you are curious to ascertain how the city is\\nsupplied with lumber, take the South Rampart\\nStreet cars to the corner of Julia Street, at the\\nhead of the basin or canal which leads to lake\\nPonchartrain.\\nHere are huge piles of staves, wood, brick,\\nwhite sand and lumber. But there is no stock of\\nseasoned lumber kept on hand as in northern gities.\\nIt is mostly sold before it is brought by the\\nschooners from the lake and it tributaries. A tug\\nwill tow ten or twelve of these lumber schooners.\\nHere are also lying at the wharf, huge black", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. IO3\\nbarges covered with black cloth. Loaded as they\\nare with charcoal, they look like immense funeral\\nfloats.\\nOLD BOOK STORES.\\nThe old book stores to be found in the French\\nquarter will serve as a treasure trove to many a\\nvisitor who loves these things. Presided over by\\ndecrepit old men or women, may be found old\\ncopies of Bossuet, Moliere, Racine, together with\\nmany curiosities in literature the contents of\\nprivate libraries of many old families of the city.\\nGALLERY ROOMS.\\nIn the ancient dwellings of the city, as well as\\nin many of the modern, the upper halls are on\\nthe outside of the house, forming the balconies\\nupon wings and rear, upon which the doors and\\nwindows open. These rooms are called gallery\\nrooms, and when fronting pleasantly are very con-\\nvenient, but when in the rear, and the sunlight is\\nobstructed by brick walls, they are not so desira-\\nble. In the more ancient houses a huge fire-place\\nalmost invariably adorns every gallery room,\\ntogether with the inevitable old-fashioned four-post\\nbedstead, with a plaited roof of crimson cloth\\ngathered at the centre, adorned with a centre piece\\nof brass, and the whole enveloped in the folds of\\nthe very necessary mosquito bar.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "I04 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nWhen investigating the chambres garnie? a lour\\nof the French quarter it is well to consider light\\nand ventilation. Does the room look into the\\nstreet? And the reply often will be: Non\\nmonsieur y elk donne sur le Jarden and the garden\\nwill doubtless be the court, paved with flat stones,\\nwith a spot of earth here and there, from which\\nrises a sturdy palm, Spanish bayonet, fig, pome-\\ngranite or orange tree. Is the apartment fur-\\nnished? Madame will assure you that it is, and\\nthat y a tout ce qui est necessaire et que V ameu-\\nblernent en est fort beau, and that tous les meubles\\nsont d acajou. All this may prove true, and\\nthe lodger secure very neat apartments,where the\\nfurniture is all mahogony, and so ancient that a\\nBoston dealer would look upon it with envy. On\\nthe other hand, as is often the case, the furniture\\nmay be wretched, and hired from a second-hand\\ndealer for the occasion.\\nGENERAL BUTLER s HEADQUARTERS.\\nAt No. 5 1 Coliseum Street, and occupying the\\nsquare between Urania and Felicity streets, stands\\na large two-story and basement, brown stuccoed\\nmansion, surrounded by a row of magnolias and\\nskirted with orange trees. This is the Harrison\\nplace, which General Butler appropriated to his\\nown use for his headquarters. It is now owned", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 10$\\nby Wm. B. Schmidt, Esq., of the wholesale gro-\\ncery house of Schmidt Zeigler. During the\\nFederal occupation, the army occupied barracks\\nin Orleans Park, now the Exposition grounds,\\nwhere were the headquarters of Generals Hatch\\nand Hunt.\\nTHE CREOLES.\\nGeorge Cable and Colonel Waring, in their la-\\nbors for the United States Census report, say:\\nThe term Creole, as applied to natives of Louisiana, belonged first\\nto the French, and then to the Spanish a certain excellence of ori-\\ngin, including any native of French or Spanish descent, whose pure\\nnon-mixture with the slave race, entitled him to social distinction.\\nLater, Africans mixing with European, French or Spanish, adopted\\nthe term, as Creole Africans, although not recognized by their Euro-\\npean kindred. There are French, Spanish and colored Creoles,\\nbut no English, Irish, Scotch, or Yankee Creoles, In furtherance of\\nthis idea of excellence of origin in commerce, we may have Creole\\nponies, cows, or cabbages.\\nIn outward appearance, the Creoles had become the handsome well-\\nknit race, that the freedom of their natural surroundings would have\\nbeen expected to provide. Of a complexion lacking color, yet free\\nfrom the sallowness of the Indies, there was a much larger proportion\\nof blondes among them than is commonly supposed. Generally their\\nhair was of a chestnut, or but little deeper tint, except that in the city\\na Spanish tincture, now and then, asserted itself in black hair and\\neyes. The women were fair, of symmetrical form, with pleasing fea-\\ntures, lovely expressive eyes, well rounded throats, and superb hair\\nvivacious yet decorous in manner and exceedingly tasteful in dress,\\nadorning themselves with beautiful effect in draperies of muslins\\nenriched with embroideries and much garniture of lace, but with the\\nmore moderate display of jewels which indicated a community of\\nlimited wealth. They were much superior to the men in keenness of\\nwit, and excell them in amiability and many other good qualities.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "I06 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nThe Creole shopkeeper does not soHcit you to\\nbuy. He condescends to wait upon you. You\\nobject? And as both heads clasp, then separate\\nand swing outwardly, while the head goes to one\\nside and the shoulders rise with a shrug, his\\nejaculation will not unlikely be\\nSoit. A voire plaisir, or Muy bieii, sea como\\nlo quiere f/. Just as you please, It makes no\\ndifference to me, or that is all right. He does\\nnot follow you to the door. He is content that\\nyou are gone. It is so unlike his ancestors across\\nthe water; but it is perhaps the Spanish in them,\\nnot la belle France.\\nSUNDAY IN NEW ORLEANS.\\nA Sabbath in New Orleans, to the stranger,\\nmight appear as any Sabbath in a Northern city,\\nprovided he sojourned up town, somewhere in the\\nneighborhood of Trinity Church, corner of Jack-\\nson and Coliseum streets. There he will see, pre-\\nceding the hour for morning service, groups of\\nwell-dressed children just out from Sunday-school,\\nand on entering the church he will behold a good\\nattendance and hear an excellent sermon and so\\nin many other portions of the city. The whole-\\nsale stores of the solid merchants of those streets\\nsouth of Canal are closed. The streets are as\\nquiet as those of Boston, and the merchants are", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS TT IS. 10/\\nat church or at their homes with their families.\\nAt the same time, at Christ s Church, on Canal,\\nwhile Dr. Drysdale, with the font for his pulpit\\nand the space outside the chancel rail for his plat-\\nform, with his excellent extempore sermons, de-\\nlivered with great dramatic force, together with\\nthe influence of the highly cultivated music, is\\nendeavoring to lead souls into the better life, in-\\nside the very next adjoining walls of the Opera\\nHouse, Ingomar is learning from Parthenia the\\nbeautiful theory of\\nTwo souls with but a single thought,\\nTwo hearts that beat as one,\\nA bell may call one congregation, whilst a brass\\nband and electric lights call the other.\\nBut on a Sunday morning visit the French quar-\\nter and French Market and he will see it at its\\nbest (or worst), crowded with young and old, well\\ndressed and poorly dressed; some in carriages and\\nsome barefoot, purchasing the Sunday dinner.\\nThrongs of girls, fresh from their devotions at\\nlow mass, are out for a promenade scores of\\nyoung men there to meet them, and whom the\\nflower-sellers earnestly solicit to buy. One may\\nsee a half-dozen little boys dressed for church, at-\\ntentively watching the operations of a man with\\na card trick to catch the dimes, or listening to the\\ntirade of the Mexican with his miraculous beans", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "I08 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nfrom the Holy Land, and the curative powers of\\nhis South American ginger root, but this is noth-\\ning. Wait until evening when people residing in\\nthe American quarter are getting ready for church,\\nthen walk down St. Charles street and see the\\nhuge banks of young men, walled up against the\\ndoors of the theatres, pushing and pounding each\\nother to get choice of seats in the galleries. If\\nthere are new attractions, the opening night is in-\\nvariably upon a Sunday.\\nBut this is nothing. Walk farther down St,\\nCharles street, across Canal, and behold the bril-\\nliantly lighted and famed Rue Royale. See the\\ncrowds of patronage the street itself possesses,\\nand then enter any of the bar-rooms, gambling-\\nrooms or Tivolis heretofore described, and you\\nwill behold them in the climax of their glory on\\na Sunday evening.\\nBut with all this, there is a wide awake organi-\\nzation known as the Sunday League, and which\\nhas been persistently at work endeavoring to get\\nthe managers of the Exposition to agree to close\\nthe gates on the Sabbath day, and which at this\\nwriting is being considered, while packed Sunday\\nevening meetings are held in churches where con-\\ngregations unite in this effort, where Bishop Hugh\\nMiller Thompson delivers timely addresses and\\nsays in substance The people of the North think", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. IO9\\nNew Orleans a very bad city a dangerous place\\nfor their boys to sojourn but it is not altogether\\ntrue. New Orleans is not such a very bad place\\nthe people are not all bad there are great, pure,\\ngenerous, noble Christian hearts earnestly work-\\ning for their fellow men here. There are bad places\\nhere as in all cities, but you will not find all of\\nNew Orleans in them. You will find none of Dr.\\nPalmer s congregation there, nor none of Dr.\\nHolland s. And so, there are thousands of the\\ngood people of New Orleans who would order a\\ndifferent Sabbath over the entire city if they\\ncould, but do not yet see the way.\\nLOTTERIES.\\nThe institution drazving these Lotteries ivas reg-\\nularly incorporated by the Legislature of the State for\\nEDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES.\\nSo heads the scheme. It is possible New Or-\\nleans may have inherited this business from Spain,\\nfor The Royal Havana Lottery is among the\\nrecollections of the oldest inhabitant. It has a\\nfirm foot-hold here, and influences all classes, from\\nthe crowd at the curbstone around the woman who\\nplaces your hands upon a galvanic plate, causing\\na small gong to sound, while in a glass tube filled\\nwith alcohol a small imp arises, bows, disappears\\nand, as the woman alleges, to write upon a sheet", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "no NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nof paper a diagnosis of your future, which, in a\\nsealed envelope, is handed you, and a dime handed\\nto her from this woman to her rival across Canal\\nStreet, the Mexican doctor with his harangue:\\nHere, gentlemen, yoCi see the male and female\\nMexican bean which I place in a glass of water.\\nThe male floats, and you observe the female sinks.\\nCarry a pair of these in your pocket and your\\ndigestive organs will be free from disorder. Try\\nyour blood, gentlemen Try your blood It shows\\nyour circulation whether you have heart disease\\nor liver complaint. He hands you a glass tube,\\nwith a bulb at each end, and containing a colored\\nliquid, which a warm hand causes to flow from the\\nbulb held by the hand to the bulb at the other\\nend A cold hand will not accomplish it. This\\nis his test of liver complaint and heart disease.\\nTry your blood, gentlemen; only five cents,\\nand I give you with it a lucky bean from the\\nHoly Land, which insures you success in all\\nundertakings. See the dimes this man draws\\nfrom the pockets of Superstition and Faith.\\nSee the blue and pink lottery tickets suspended\\nupon lines in all the cigar store windows What\\ndo all these men and women of many nations,\\nwhite and black, .stand in contemplative mood\\nbefore these sheets of numbers for Why do they\\ninvariably select a particular combination of", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. Ill\\nnumbers? Is it not because they believe in the\\nparticular superstition that the particular 07ie will\\nwin Of course they believe. They do not\\nbuy tickets they play it, but they pay, just as\\nwell for them.\\nYou never play that? said a street knife\\npeddler whose stand was before one of these\\nwindows. You never I know a man, a negro,\\nhe play in this window on 15 and he got 15,000\\nprize oh, yes, many play that.\\nYes, many do play it in some form or\\nanother, from the curb-stone to the funding of the\\ncity s debt. Hungry women have been known to\\nsell the shoes from their feet to procure the means\\nfor purchasing a ticket. Men of means from the\\ncountry have come to town to play it as Herkimer\\ncounty farmers go to Wall Street when there is a\\npanic and played it until they had blue and red\\ntickets enough to paper the rooms they occupied\\nand not strike it; the man who while on his way to\\nprocure medicine for his sick wife with a last five\\ndollar note is induced to part with it for a whole\\nticket which draws the Capital prize. This and all\\nother fortunate ones are heralded while the hun-\\ndreds of thousands w^ho dare not tell the story of\\nthe money spent on tickets which was sorely\\nneeded for other purposes, is a secret. Fail to\\nwin why they need not, for here are little manuals", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "112 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nfor sale at twenty-fiv^e cents which teach how to\\nplay it to win by mere common sense calcula-\\ntions and combinations. Oh, vain, vain expec-\\ntation. Poor, poor fools, whose time, whose\\nminds are thus diverted from the substantial,\\nhealthy ways of earning the bread they eat. The\\nlast dollar of many -and many a man is paid as a\\nlast straw to obtain means to procure the neces-\\nsaries of life for another week, to lose it. The\\npersonal appearance of many who are seen stak.\\ning their last dollar for a ticket their worn and\\nseedy clothes tell the tale of poverty following this\\nbeckoning, alluring demon of Hope.\\nThe headquarters of the Louisiana State lot-\\ntery is the whole of the granite building corner of\\nUnion and St. Charles streets. Its main entrance\\nis on St. Charles, and discloses a large room filled\\nwith desks and clerks, with all the p ^raphernalia\\nof an ordinary bank.\\nRich and poor, old and young, ragged and well\\ndressed, are entering and departing constantly,\\nparting with their specie and currency and receiv-\\ning the blue, red and yellow tickets, which they\\ncarefully fold, with the faith that they may relieve\\na pressing need or increase their accumulations\\nnext week, or to-morrow, as the turn of the wheel\\nmay direct.\\nIt is said that this lottery is mostly owned by a", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. II 3\\nprominent citizen of New Orleans who is a lover\\nof good horse flesh, and who once desired a mem-\\nbership in the Jockey Club on Esplanade Street.\\nHe made application and was promptly black-\\nballed. His reply was: Very well, gentle-\\nmen, I ll turn your race-track into a burying-\\nground. A short time elapsed, when his agents\\nwere quietly at work securing a sufficient number\\nof shares to give him the control. When this\\nwas done, he elected his own officers, and to\\ncarry out his threat ordered the sale of the track\\nfor cemetery purposes, and it is now known as the\\nNew St. Louis Cemetery.\\nA MATINEE AT THE ACADEMY.\\nPeriod 1884 November 11, one act, one scene.\\nOn Stage left, a large wheel, six feet in diameter,\\nresembling somewhat an over-shot waterwheel.\\nIt is about three feet in width and the sides are of\\nplate glass. A shaft runs through the centre to\\nwhich, upon each side, is attached a crank.\\nUpon the stage right is a smaller wheel about\\ntwo and a half feet in diameter, similar to the first\\nexcept that its circumference is sheathed with\\nbrass. Near it, upon a box, lies a small white\\nsack containing about four quarts of prizes.\\nIn the stage front and center, upon the carpet,", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "114 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nlie eight sacks containing about two bushels each\\nof numbers, and all tied and sealed.\\nA group of three gentlemen are seated upon the\\nleft; one of medium low stature, about sixty years\\nof age, dressed stylishly in black, with neatly\\nclose-cut white hair and mustache.\\nThe next most distinguished, ten years the sen-\\nsenior of the first, is dressed in garments of gray,\\nhanging loosely over a form with stooping\\nshoulders, a head partially bald and with flowing\\ngray beard. The third, a taller gentleman than\\nthe others, younger, and dressed as if for an evening\\nparty or attendance upon a Cabinet meeting.\\nUpon a sofa in the rear, are seated four little\\nboys. At the wings ready for service, stand two\\nnegroes. A notary s table is on the left, another\\nupon the right. Four gentlemen now enter and\\nseat themselves at one of the tables at the same\\ntime three reporters enter and seat themselves at\\nthe other table. One of the negroes places before\\nthe footlights a walnut box about two feet square\\nand in front of it a hassock. A youth of about\\nfourteen enters and seats himself upon the hassock\\nwith back to the audience.\\nThe gentlemen rise from their seats, and form\\na group about one of the tables, and for a few\\nminutes converse gaily in French. During all", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. II 5\\nthis time the parquette and galleries are rapidly\\nfilling.\\nThe fashionably dressed gentleman of sixty,\\nwith gray, almost white hair, and close cut\\nmustache, which is General Beauregard, takes his\\nseat at the side of the wheel of brass upon the\\nright. The gentleman with stooping shoulders,\\nlong beard and spectacles, which is General Jubal\\nEarly, takes his seat upon the left beside the huge\\nwheel of glass.\\nShall we not commence, General? it is ten\\nminutes to eleven, said one of the gentlemen\\nfrom the rear, addressing General Beauregard.\\nWe may as well, responded the General, look\\ning at his watch. The negroes then appear and\\ndraw one of the large sacks forward. General\\nJubal Early arises and stands before it while Gen-\\neral Beauregard breaks the seal and unties the\\nneck. The sack is then lifted, and its two bushels\\nof numbers, each about two inches in length,\\nrolled to the thickness of a pipe stem and held\\nby a rubber band, are emptied into the wheel at a\\ndoor in its outer edge. General Early looks into\\nthe sack to determine that all the tickets are out,\\nthen hands it to General Beauregard. General\\nEarly then remarks All out? General Beaure-\\ngard responds: AH out, as he throws into a\\ncorner the seal which was about the neck of the", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "Il6 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nsack. This is repeated until the eight sacks are\\nemptied, and the huge wheel through its transpar-\\nent sides is about half filled with sixteen bushels,\\nsupposed to be one hundred thousand bits of\\npaper consecutively numbered. The two generals\\nthen repair to the brass wheel upon the left, where\\nGeneral Beauregard lifts the small white sack con-\\ntaining the four quarts of similar bits of paper\\nsupposed to number one thousand, and empties\\nthem into the wheel. These are the prizes. One\\nof the small boys in knee pants then approaches\\nGeneral Beauregard, who places upon the child s\\neyes, a bandage, which reaches around the head,\\nat the same time bareing the little arm to the\\nelbow. Upon the left wing General Early, with\\nanother child, achieves a similar work.\\n**Are you ready, gentlemen? enquired a\\nportly, dignified looking man from the center.\\nWe are ready, responded General Early. The\\ntwo negroes then step forward and take their\\nplaces upon each side of the large wheel, and with\\ntheir hands upon the cranks, turn it until the con-\\ntents roll upon each other, and the tickets are\\nthoroughly mixed. The sound of these hundred\\nthousand bits of paper revolving is like the music\\nof Oliver Wendell Holmes huckleberries, drop-\\nping from the measure into the pan. The revolu-\\ntions cease, the two generals simultaneously open", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS FT IS. 11/\\nthe doors to the wheels and the Httle bared arm\\nis thrust into each, a number is drawn forth and\\nhanded to General Early, and another to General\\nBeauregard. The former unrolls it and reads\\naudibly, Twenty-nine thousand_, six hundred and\\nseventy. The response, in a low but rapid tone\\nfrom General Beauregard, as he unrolls his num-\\nber, is Fifty. A gentleman^ facing the audi\\nence from General Early s right, receives the\\nticket from the child, holds it up to the audience,\\nand repeats in loud tones, Twenty-nine thou-\\nsand six hundred and seventy, while another at\\nGeneral Beauregard s left, repeats Fifty dollars.\\nAgain the little hand goes into the wheel of fate,\\nNinety-tv/o thousand and forty-one, and two\\nthousand dollars follow it. $ioo, $$o, $500\\n$200, and other prizes are drawn during the space\\nof five minutes, when a voice exclaims, Next\\nroll and change boys. Two other little fellows\\ntake the places of the first, the negroes enter and\\nset the wheels revolving until the tickets are\\nagain thoroughly mixed, the doors are opened\\nand the drawing renewed. This is repeated every\\nfive minutes while the drawing lasts. As a play\\nit becomes monotonous, but to the house of\\nspectators every moment is one of intense interest,\\nand when General Beauregard quietly and dis-\\ntinctly ejaculates, Seventy-five thousand, and", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "115 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nthe stentorian voice of the repeater, shouts\\nSixty-eight thousand, nine hundred and eighty\\ndraws the capital prize of seventy-five thousand\\ndollars! there is a loud murmur throughout the\\nacademy, messenger boys from the reporters are\\ndarting out between the flies, while the actors re-\\ntire for a few moments ostensibly to ascertain\\nwhere that ticket was sold. The drawing occupies\\nabout two and a half hours when the last prize is\\ntaken from the brass wheel. The numbers in the\\nlarge wheel do not seem to have diminished. In\\nfact only one per cent, of the entire number has\\nbeen taken out. One of the announcers of num-\\nbers then steps forward with this epilogue:\\nThat s the last of the drawing, gentlemen. I\\nhope you all drawed prizes.\\nWith many a sigh, for it is a great tragedy to\\nthe majority of the vast audience, the secret, sor-\\nrowful hearts quietly depart. In many places the\\nsidewalks are strewn with torn tickets, the cigar\\nstores are now emptied of them, but to-morrow\\nthey will be replenished with the new scheme for\\nthe following month, and which will be heard of\\nfrom the Atlantic to the Pacific, from New Orleans\\nto Manitoba.\\ncable s HOUSE.\\nGeorge W. Cable s home is on Eight Street, No.\\n229. It has a very pretty yard flanked with", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. II9\\ngood sized orange trees well laden. In building\\nthis castle he has embodied none of the courts,\\nporte-cochere, or Moorish arches of Franco-Spanish\\nNew Orleans, which he loves to describe, but the\\nreverse. He has entirely ignored the low floor,\\non a level with the sidewalk, and has leaped into\\nthe air. He has perpetuated the architecture of\\nthe mansions of the lower Tennessee, above\\nPaducah, where the best citizens, on account of\\nhigh water, first erect the foundation of columns,\\nand then commence and end on the second stgry,\\nthe porte-cochere being a ladder, which after ascend-\\ning is pulled in. Cable has improved upon the\\nperspective architectural views of that country by\\ngrowing roses and jessamines in front of his\\ncolumns, and bananas in the rear so as to hide\\nhis back yard from, the curious in their efforts to\\npeer through. Instead of the ladder, he has a\\nflight of substantial wooden steps, the width of\\nwhicji was governed by the space between two\\nold orange trees, which guard them upon either\\nside. It is thought that he entrusted the building of\\nthe cottage to his friend Col. George E. Waring,\\nwho by thus elevating it upon columns got in all\\nhis well known principles on ventilation and\\ndrainage. During Cable s absence east with Mark\\nTwain, the cottage is occupied by Joaquin Miller,\\nwho is here wrestling to down the imageries of the", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "120 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nSierras in describing the manners and customs of\\nthe Creoles. In his pen pictures of All Saints\\nday, he presents the tombs in the cemeteries, as a\\npack of army wagons coralled upon a prairie.\\nA SUGAR PLANTATION.\\nThe nearest large sugar plantation to the city is\\nthat owned by the estate of the late Oakes Ames,\\nof Massachusetts. It lies on the opposite side of\\nthe river from the Exposition grounds, and is\\neasy of access via the Choupitoulas and Levee\\nhorse-cars, stopping at Upper Line Ferry, where\\na sail-boat is waiting for passengers. On reaching\\nthe opposite bank a cluster of ancient brick build-\\nings, enclosed within a paling, greet the eye. On\\ndescending from the levee bank to the store and\\noffice, one feels on looking back that he is inside\\na fort, so high do the earthworks of the levee\\nappear. The office of the plantation is within\\nthe store, where is kept the usual general assort-\\nment of a country store, to supply the hands.\\nNear the store and residence are long rows of\\none-storied brick dwellings, shingled with staves.\\nThese are the old negro quarters used before the war,\\nand are yet quite comfortable. A short distance\\nfrom them is the sugar house or mill, and from the\\nbeginning of November, when cane cutting begins,\\nuntil January, it is a busy place. The cane fields", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 121\\ncommence near the sugar house, and extend near-\\nly two miles, or as far as the soil is planted.\\nDeep canals or ditches traverse these bottoms,\\nintersected by smaller ditches. From this deep,\\nalluvial soil the thick rows of cane, planted in\\nridges about six feet apart, grow to a height of\\ntwelve and fifteen feet, and on looking down these\\nlong avenues of thick, dark, purple stalks, the\\nwaving blades become a canopy of green over-\\nhead.\\nWith heavy, cleaver-like knives, the rows of labor-\\ners cut and strip each individual stalk separately,\\nwhile the overseer in his saddle is eyeing every\\none. It is a pretty scene in agriculture to witness\\nthese long rows of negroes to listen to their ludi-\\ncrous conversation, and hear the swish of the cut-\\nting .knives as they descend upon the juicy stalks\\nwhich sweeten the world to stand upon the ele-\\nvated banks of these large ditches, and look over\\nthe line of cane-cutters to the sea of waving green\\nbeyond, and further still to the tall chimneys of the\\nsugar houses, belching forth the black smoke. At\\none s feet, from among the rank grass, rise the still\\nbright golden rod and small aster, while the crickets\\nand other insects make sounds of summer that\\nremind one of home far, far away in the north.\\nThe cane is planted in layers on the ridges of\\ndeep furrows five or six feet apart. When it is", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "122 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\ncut, from the stubble the next crop springs up for\\nthe following season; when that is cut, some\\nplanters plow the land and put in a crop of pea-\\nvine by way of rotation before planting again.\\nThe leaves on being stripped are left upon the\\nground to be plowed under as a fertilizer. The\\ncane is loaded upon carts driven by a negro with\\nthree mules abreast a la chaiiot to the mill. A\\ntramway and cars drawn by mules also bring the\\ncane to the mill from another direction. From\\nthe piles where the carts deliver it, men place the\\nstalks upon aprons or carriers of canvass, five feet\\nwide, like the carriers to a threshing machine,\\nwhich convey them, gradually ascending to the\\nnext story of the mill, where two men feed the\\nstalks to a huge drum or roller, which draws the\\ncane through, crushing and pressing out the juice.\\nFrom this roller the crushed cane is carried to an-\\nother fifteen feet further on, where it is again drawn\\nthrough rollers and every vestige of saccharine\\npressed from it. After this last pressing, the cane\\nis so dry it is carried upon aprons directly to the\\nfurnace fires and burned, supplying nearly all the\\nfuel necessary for the steam used. From the\\nrollers a small river of cane juice is constantly\\nflowing to the boiling tanks. These are very\\nnumerous in long rows, and from them the juice or\\nsyrup, when a certain degree of saccharine gravity", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 123\\n(if the term may be used) is reached, is taken to\\ntanks in an adjoining room, where it rests until it\\nhas settled. From thence it is elevated to the\\nvacuum evaporator. This is about eight feet in\\ndiameter at the base, in shape like a Minnie ball,\\nor may be Hkened to the upper end of Jules\\nVerne s projectile, in which the journey to the\\nmoon was taken. That had a round window from\\nwhence observations outside could be made. This\\nhas a circular window, firmly bound with brass\\nto the strong iron casing, through which observa-\\ntions can be made inside to ascertain how the\\nboiHng is progressing. Inside this iron shell,\\ncoils of steam pipes keep the thickening syrup\\nin a restless condition until it is evaporated.\\nAs the hour approaches for a strike, as it is\\ncalled, the sugar boiler every few moments draws\\nfrom the hopper or base of the shell, by means of\\na brass tube which penetrates it, a sample of the\\nboiling syrup, and by dexteriously manipulating it\\nbetween the forefinger and thumb, determines\\nwhether it has sufficient grain, if the syrup is de-\\nparting from it, and if it is in a condition to draw.\\nWhen the time arrives for the strike, the\\nsteam is cut off from the coils, a gong is sounded\\nand the men take their places below, as they would\\nin taking a charge of iron from a furnace stack,\\nThe valve at the base or hopper is then opened.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "124 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nand into a shute the mass of saccharine flows a.\\nriver of hot sugar into huge vats called the vac-\\nuum pans, through which a shaft, with arms at-\\ntached, revolves, to keep the sugar from settling;\\nfrom these it descends in streams into the centri-\\nfugal drums below, whose twelve hundred revolu-\\ntions per minute separates effectually every frac-\\ntion of a pennyweight of syrup from every grain\\nof sugar, and the latter on its metamorphosis\\nfalls into large wheelbarrows, is then wheeled into\\nan adjoining room and emptied into channels con-\\ntaining endless screws, carrying it to elevators,\\nthence to the dryers or granulators above, and\\nfrom them descends pure white sanded crystals\\ninto barrels below, and is packed and headed up\\nin much less time than is required to describe it-\\nFrom the vacuum evaporator, to dry white grain\\nsugar less than five minutes time is taken. A\\nstrike from this evaporator will yield fourteen\\nthousand pounds of sugar, with an average of\\nthree strikes in twenty-four hours, or twenty-one\\ntons a day.\\nThe cane yield upon this plantation is from fif-\\nteen to twenty tons per acre. A ton of cane pro-\\nduces about one hundred and thirty-five pounds of\\nsugar. An average hand will cut and strip three\\ntons of cane a day an extra hand, five tons a\\nday. An evaporater alone, like this one, would", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 1 25\\ncost about as much as a locomotive, or eight\\nthousand dollars. The machinery or plant of a\\nsugar house like this would represent an invest-\\nment of from sixty thousand to eighty thousand\\ndollars. There are several thousand acres of land\\nin this plantation, but not over five hundred acres\\nin cane. Like many others it has suffered severely\\nfrom crevasses, the great river being a constant\\nsource of terror.\\nSugar cane is a barometer of the season of\\n1884, illustrated as follows Near the base of the\\nstalk the spaces between the joints were short.\\nThis represents the protracted rainy season of\\nspring, when the cane was in its infancy. Longer\\nspaces farther up, denote fair cane weather dur-\\ning early summer. Contracted spaces again near\\nthe top, denote the severe drouth of the autumn\\nof that year.\\nTO THE JETTIES.\\nSteamboats leave at eleven a. m., daily at the\\nhead of Conti Street, for the Jetties, arriving at about\\nmidnight, and start on the return trip about seven\\nA. M. next day. There is a hotel for the accom-\\nmodation of those who may desire to spend a day.\\nThis is an enjoyable trip, giving visitors an op-\\nportunity for a short ride upon the Father of\\nWaters, where it is at its best, as well as a chance\\nto view the great work of Captain Eads. It is", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "126 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nabout eighty miles to Forts St. Philip and Jack-\\nson. From the forts to the head of the passes it\\nis about twenty miles, from thence to Fort Eads\\ntwelve miles, where the jetties commence, extend-\\ning one and a half miles to the gulf. This trip\\ncovers territory representing some of the best\\nrice, sugar and orange plantations in Louisiana.\\nThe total rice crop of Plaquemine Parish for 1883\\nwas 74, OCX) barrels, and the crop of sugar was\\n15,552 hogsheads. The first orange plantation\\ncommences at Chalmette on the east bank, three\\nmiles below, and the first rice plantation is on the\\nwest bank five miles below. Two miles below\\nthat upon the same side of the river, is Corrinne\\nplantation, which produced last year 1,500,000\\npounds of sugar. Fifteen miles below, on the\\nleft bank is the Charles Villere plantation, where\\nGeneral Beauregard was raised. A mile below\\nthis is Terrre au Boeuf, or Beef Prairie, where\\nthe Shell Beach Railroad terminates. This is at\\n*Eno;lish Turn, the bend in the river where Bien-\\nville advised the Englishman who had come to\\nstart a colony in Louisiana, to turn back, and he\\ndid so.\\nNineteen miles and we reach H. P. Kernochen s\\nsugar plantation, Scarcedale, on the left bank,\\nwhich produced during the season of 1883, i,ii9r", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 12/\\nooo pounds of sugar. This is said to be one of the\\nfinest plantations in the State.\\nTwenty-two miles below is Simpson Horner s\\nStella plantation.\\nRice, sugar and orange plantations continue,\\namong them being Ste. Rosalie, thirty-three\\nmiles, producing 760,000 pounds refined sugar;\\nMyrtle Grove, owned by State Senator Wil-\\nkinson, thirty-five miles below on right bank\\nHarlem, Bellevue, and many others.\\nThe first rice mill is the Farmers, on the left\\nbank, forty-two miles below. The Court House\\nmill, two miles further, and others follow. Ex-\\nGovernor Warmouth s plantation, Magnolia, lies\\non the west bank, forty-five miles below. It pro-\\nduced, in 1883, 1,000 hogsheads of sugar.\\nSixty miles below, on the right bank, is the\\nJohnson orange plantation, containing, it is said,\\n11,000 bearing trees.\\nNext we reach the forts where Farragut ran the\\ngauntlet described elsewhere in this book. Below\\nthe forts there is but little cultivation, being\\nmostly in swamp.\\nOn this trip many varieties of craft are met,\\nfrom the oyster smack to the Bremen steamer,\\ntogether with many hulls from various parts of\\nthe world.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "128 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nThe following from the Times- Democrat is a\\ngood description of Captain Eads achievement:\\nThe jetties extend from South Pass across the bar into the Gulf.\\nThe total length of the east jetty, as constructed, was 12, 100 feet, or\\nnearly two and one-third miles the west jetty terminates opposite the\\neast jetty, but its total length is only about one and a half miles, the\\ndifference being due to the greater extension of the natural banks on\\nthe west side of the pass. Without entering into a detailed account\\nof the method of constructing the jetties, their mode of structure may\\nbe briefly stated to be with willow mattresses, laid m layers, and\\nweighted with stone, and on this foundation a concrete wall is built.\\nAfter successfully surmounting innumerable engineering difficulties\\nand embarrassments of the most formidable character. Captain Eads\\nachieved a glorious triumph in his great undertaking, and the jetties\\n-were practically completed in July, 1879.\\nThis improvement on the channel continues from year to year. The\\nlatest reports show that the shoalest locality in South Pass this year is\\nseven hundred feet above East Point, where the least depth is twenty-\\nnine feet, and the least width of the twenty-six foot channel is two\\nhundred and forty feet. Last year, 1883, the least depth of the chan-\\nnel throughout the pass was twenty-seven feet and the twenty-six foot\\nchannel was one hundred and sixty feet wide, a deepening of two feet\\nin the least depth and a gain of eighty feet in width in the twenty-six\\nfoot channel.\\nComing to the jetties proper the improvement is still more conspicu-\\nous. The least depth last year was thirty-one feet to-day it is thirty-\\nfour feet, a deepening of three feet. In 1883 the thirty foot channel\\nvv^as ninety feet wide and the twenty-six foot channel two hundred and\\nforty feet. The report this year shows a width for the former of one\\nhundred and fifty feet, a gain of sixty feet and for the latter of two\\nhundred and seventy feet, a gain of thirty feet all this done by the\\naction of the water alone and without the aid of the dredge-boat, which\\nhas not operated since February 22, 1883, and with a very small force\\nof workingmen employed.\\nThe present condition of the jetties, as far as depth of water is con-\\ncerned, may be given about as follows Least depth in pass above\\njetties, twenty-nine feet least width of twenty-six foot channel in pass", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 1 29\\nabove jetties, two hundred and forty feet least depth through jetties,\\nthirty-four feet least width of twenty-six foot channel through jetties,\\ntwo hundred and seventy feet least width of thirty foot channel\\nthrough jetties, one hundred and fifty feet least depth of outlet into\\ngulf beyond jetties, thirty-two and ei^ht hundreths feet least width\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of thirty foot channel of outlet into gulf beyond jetties, one hundred\\nand twenty feet.\\nThe channel through the year has sensibly improved with approxi-\\nmation to uniformity of depth. That is, the jetties, instead of having\\na rough and uneven bottom, are growing more regular and uniform, with\\nnearly the same depth throughout.\\nSince their completion the jetties have been put to the severest tests,\\nand the repeated and safe passage through them of vessels of the\\nlargest draught have completely demonstrated their success. Among\\nthe latest triumphs of the jetties was in 1883, when the immense Eng-\\nlish cable steamship, the Silvertown acknowledged to be the\\nlargest vessel with the largest cargo that ever left New Orleans went\\nout to sea successfully. The dimensions of the Silvertown were 338\\nfeet in length depth of hold to top deck, 42 feet beam, 55 feet. On\\nthe trip referred to she carried a cargo consisting of 10,618 bales of\\ncotton, 319 tons of oil cake, 24,193 bushels of grain, 10,750 wood\\nstaves, 1,000 tons of coal, and water ballast, 275 tons. With this cargo\\nher draught of water was 25 feet 4 inches aft and 22 feet 1 1 inches for-\\nward. Vessels have passed through the jetties with a heavier drauglit\\nthan the Silvertown. The City of New York, a short time before,\\nwent through wfth a draught of 25 feet 10 inches, but she was a com-\\nparatively narrow ship, with a sharp bottom the Silvertown, on the\\ncontrary, had an enormous breadth of beam, and was nearly as broad\\nat the bottom as the top, being nearly flat-bottomed. Ii was a splen-\\ndid testimonial to the complete success ot the jetties.\\nMARDI GRAB.\\nThe festival preceding the first of Lent or\\nAsh Wednesday, is one of special interest in New\\nOrleans, and the city is distinguished for the\\nsplendor she gives to her favorite holiday, the", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "130 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nMardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday. Most of the\\ndistinctive ceremonies now annually performed\\nwere ori^^inally introduced by the French popula-\\ntion as early as 1827, and for many years their\\ncelebration was confined chiefly to them. One of\\nthe leading features has been the procession of the\\n**Bceuf Gras, the ox gorgeously dressed and at-\\ntended through the streets with much pomp by\\nlarge numbers of gaily and grotesquely masked\\nbutchers. Everything pertaining to these festiv-\\nities now comes within the control of an elaborate\\norganization. The day, Mardi Gras, is a legal hol-\\nday, and the whole city is for the time ostensibly\\nplaced under the control of a King of the Carni-\\nval, the mysterious and mighty Rex. There\\nare two principal pageants. The first, in the day\\ntime, is the escort of the beloved Rex through\\nhis favorite city. He is seated on a magnificent\\ncar, high above the heads of the people, his ap-\\nproach heralded as only royalty used to be, at-\\ntended by his own special guard and foreign\\nsoldiery, as well as the United States military and\\nmarines. The illusion of a powerful monarch vis-\\niting his dominions is most curiously sustained to\\nthe minutest detail. The night pageant is known\\nas th\u00c2\u00a3 Mystic Krewe of Comus, This has a\\ncharacter altogether unique. The first display\\nwas in 1857. The proceedings are kept entirely", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 1 31\\nsecret; nothing is known but that the Krewe will\\nagain make their appearance, but whence they\\ncome, of whom composed, and what is to be the\\ncharacter of the entertainment, is kept in pro-\\nfound mystery till they suddenly reveal them-\\nselves to the curious and always delighted specta-\\ntors. It is a series of tableaux drawn upon im-\\nmense floats, brilliantly illuminated, illustrative of\\ngreat classic poems of striking events in the\\nworld s history, ancient and modern, as Paradise\\nLost, The Iliad, The Historic Charactersof\\nAmerica, Audubon and His Birds, and\\nScenes from the Ancient Scriptures. These\\ndisplays evince a rare combination of classic erudi-\\ntion, taste and ingenuity, presented with a com-\\npleteness and gorgeousness as bewildering as it is\\nbeautiful. The day s pageants close with combi-\\nnation tableaux at the theatres, Avith a ball, and\\nwith the grand court ball of Rex, at which he\\nchoses a queen, who shares his greatness for the\\nevening. During this festival many grotesque\\nscenes and processions of maskers appear in the\\nstreets. The throwing of flour in the streets is\\nnow prohibited.\\nThe appearance of his Royal Highness is now\\npublicly announced for Mardi Gras, February 17,\\n1885, when the brilliant pageants of the Krewe of\\nProteus and Knights of Momus will take place.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "132 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nELCTION DAY IN NEW ORLEANS\\nDuring the Centennial Exposition at Philadel-\\nphia, the writer visited various voting- precincts\\non the day of the Presidential election in that city,\\nand, being in New Orleans on the second Tuesday\\nin November, 1884, a comparison of events is\\ncertainly in order, in view of the apparent want\\nof truthful information on the part of thousands\\nof Northern people who are led to believe that\\nscenes of danger and bloodshed are constantly oc-\\ncurring. Philadelphia is cited in comparison be-\\ncause the outlying wards of the city the precincts\\nlying towards the upper end of Chestnut street\\nmay be truthfully likened to the voting precincts\\nof the old French Quarter in New Orleans on the\\nday of the last Presidential election, in point of\\norder, quiet, and entire absence of any noisy or\\nboisterous conversation. No quarrels, no threat-\\nening language, nor display of firearms Vv^as seen\\nno crowds even around the polls voters leisurely\\ncoming forward, selecting their tickets from the\\ntables on the sidewalk, depositing their votes and\\ndeparting to attend to their business. The drink-\\ning places were closed, and as far as quiet goes, it\\nwas a far better Sunday than the ordinary day.\\nBULL RUN RUSSELL S PEN PICTURES OF NEW ORLEANS IN l86l.\\nAt night the steamer entered a dismal canal, through a swamp which\\nis infamous as the most mosquito haunted place along the infested", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS FT IS. 1 33\\nshore the mouths of the Mississippi themselves beins: quite innocent\\ncompa-red to the entrance of Lake Ponchartrain. When I woke up\\nat dayhght, I found the vessel lying alongside a wharf with a railway\\ntrain alongside, which is to take us to the city of New Orleans, six\\nmiles distant.\\nA village of restaurants, or restaurats, as they are called here,\\nand of bathing boxes has grown up around the terminus all the\\nnames of the owners, the notices and sign-boards being French. Out-\\nside the settlement the railroad passes through a swamp, like an In-\\ndian jungle, through which the overflowings of the Mississippi creep\\nin black currents. The spires of New Orleans rise above the under-\\nwood and semi-tropical vegetation of this swamp, Nearer to the city\\nlies a marshy plain, in which flocks of cattle, up to the belly in the\\nsoft earth, are floundering among the clumps of vegetation. The\\nnearer approach to New Orleans by rail lies through a suburb of ex-\\nceedingly broad lanes, lined on each side by rows of miserable, mean,\\none-storied houses, inhabited, if I am to judge from the specimens I\\nsaw, by a miserable and sickly population.\\nA great many of the men and women had evident traces of negro\\nblood in their veins, and of the purer blooded whites many had the\\npeculiar look of fishy-fleshy population of the Levantine towns, and\\nall were pale and lean. The railway termmus is marked by a dirty,\\nbarrack-like shed in the city. Selecting one of the numerous tumble-\\ndown hackney carriages, which crowded the streets outside the station,\\nI directed the man to drive me to the house of Mr. Mure, the British\\nconsul, who had been kind enough to invite me as his guest for the\\nperiod of my stay in New Orleans.\\nThe streets are badly paved, as those of most of the American\\ncities, if not all that I have ever been in, but in other respects they\\nare more worthy of a great city than are those of New York. There\\nis an air thoroughly French about the people cafes, restaurants, bil-\\nliard-rooms abound, with oyster and lager-bier saloons interspersed.\\nThe shops are all magazines the people in the streets are speaking\\nFrench, particularly the negroes, who are going out shopping with\\ntheir masters and mistresses, exceedingly well dressed, noisy, and not\\nunhappy looking. The extent of the drive gave an imposing idea of\\nthe size of New Orleans the richness of some of the shops, the ve-\\nhicles in the streets, and the multitude of well-dressed people on the", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "134 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\npavements, an impression of its wealth and the comfort of the inhab-\\nitants. The Confederate flag was flying from the pubHc buildings\\nand from many private houses. Military companies paraded through\\nthe streets, and a large proportion of men were in uniform.\\nThe streets are full of Turcos, Zouaves, Chasseurs walls are cov-\\nered with placards of volunteer companies there are Pickwick rifles\\nLa Fayette, Beauregard, MacMahon guards, among whom the Mea-\\ngher rifles, indignant with the gentleman from whom they took their\\nname, because of his adhesion to the North, are going to rebaptise\\nthemselves, and to seek glory under one more auspicious. In fact,\\nNew Orleans looks like a suburb of the camp at Chalons. Tailors are\\nbusy night and day making uniforms. I went into a shop with the\\nconsul for some shirts the mistress and all her seamstresses were busy\\npreparing flags as hard as the sewing-machines could stitch them, and\\ncould attend to no business for the present. The Irish population,\\nfinding themselves unable to migrate northwards, and being without\\nwork, have rushed to arms with enthusiasm to support southern insti-\\ntutions, and Mr. John Mitchell and Mr. Meagher stand opposed to\\neach other in hostile camps.\\nI dined with Major Ranney, the president of one of the railways,\\nwith whom Mr. Ward was stopping. Among the company were Mr.\\nEustis, son-in-law of Mr. Slidell Mr. Morse, the Attorney-Genera^\\nof the State Mr. Moise, a Jew, supposed to have considerable influ-\\nence with the Governor, and a vehement politician Messrs. Hunt\\nand others. The table was excellent, and the wines were worthy of\\nthe reputation which our host enjoys, in a city where Sallusts and\\nLucuUi are said to abound. One of the slave servants who waited at\\ntable, an intelligent yellow boy, was pointed out to me as a son of\\nGeneral Andrew Jackson.\\nWe had a full account of the attack of the British troops on the\\ncity, and their repulse. Mr. Morse denied emphatically that there was\\nany cotton bale forti^cation in front of the lines, where our troops were\\ndefeated he asserted that there were only a few bales, I think seventy-\\nfive, used in the construction of one battery, and that they and some\\nsugar hogsheads constituted the sole defence of the American trench.\\nOnly one citizen applied to the State for compensation, nn a t", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 135\\nof the cotton used by Jackson s troops, and he owned the whole of\\nthe bales so appropriated.\\nIf an apology is needed by those Southern read-\\ners who desire a veil drawn over the bloody\\nchasm of the past, because of the somewhat\\nlen^^thy description of the Farragut engagement\\nwith Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and other events\\nincident thereto relating to New Orleans and de-\\nscribed in this book, it is hereby freely given.\\nThe persons mostly interested in these matters are\\nthose whose hands did the work the Confederate\\nand Federal soldiers, sailors and marines. The\\ntrue Confederate soldier desires no apology and\\nwould treat it as ridiculous the energetic hand of\\nthe Confederate which savagely grasped the musket\\nthat sent the deathly messenger, with earnest ten-\\nderness, now grasps the hand of the Federal\\nsoldier while they draw near to talk of the dangers\\nthey have passed. Thousands of Federal soldiers\\nwho are fast passing away, will now make their first\\nvisit to former scenes of slaughter, and any light\\nthat can be given them relating to locations, will\\nbe most assuredly appreciated. That there is a\\nreticence on these subjects in the publications for\\nthe information of strangers visitng New Orleans,\\nis to be regretted. The Federal soldier has noth-\\ning offered him which will refreshen his memory,", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "136 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nand unless a Confederate soldier is met with who\\nis possessed of information on the subject, he is\\nleft completely in the dark without any means of\\ninforming himself as to an important event in the\\nhistory of New Orleans, in which he doubtless\\nwas a participant. This reticence on the part of\\npublishers must arise from a false modesty entirely\\nforeign to the subject. The twelve thousand five\\nhundred white headstones, with names from Maine\\nto New Mexico, standing in Chalmette Cemetery,\\nwill not down, neither v/ill the monuments in\\nGreenwood and Metarie Road, erected to the\\nmemory of the Confederate dead. These small\\nheadstones, white and clean, are the cards of those\\nwhich you have among you constantly. Sons of\\nmany of those who lie buried there, will embrace\\nthis opportunity of visiting the spot, and those\\nparticipators of the struggle, who are living, the\\nFederal soldiers, when tJieir cards are presented\\nto their Confederate soldier friends, is anyone fool-\\nish enough to suppose that their conversation will\\nbe merely formal, avoiding all allusions to the\\nconflict, instead of going into every detail, refresh-\\ning and correcting the memory of each other with\\na warmth and. friendship born in sympathy with\\nthe dangers they have passed The frequent in-\\ntercourse of Federal with Confederate soldiers,\\nthroughout the South, during the past few years,", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 137\\nhas taught the fact that any dissenting view is\\nridiculous.\\nHave we done New Orleans Have we seen it,\\nas it is? And our tired feet, do they bear evidence\\nas to the thousands and thousands of square feet of\\nsurface in the Exposition Buildings Are our ears\\ndulled with the combination of noises\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the music of\\nbands, the chiming of bells, of fog-horns, the rat-\\ntle of machinery, the gongs of the steam cars of\\nCanal Street; the strange cries of street venders,\\nthe noise of mule cars and vehicles? Then let\\nus jump aboard the cars at the station of the\\nLouisville Nashville Railroad, head of Canal\\nStreet, and start down the Gulf coast. O, what a\\nrehef to leave the last link of suburban civiliza-\\ntion, the low, one-storied, dormer-window roofed\\nhouses with solid green wooden blinds, hiding\\nevery vestage of glass from sight, and look out\\nagain into Nature s haunts, into the broad savannas,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2endless plains of salt marsh stretching away to the\\neast, away to the west, great masses of long grass\\nas far as the horizon the green and brown relieved\\nby vast clouds of white flowers, and tall groups of\\nbrilliant golden rod. Here and there great fires\\nhave blackened the plain close to the roots of the\\nlong grass, and in the morning sun the water\\nsparkles through the black surface like diamonds.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "138 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nHere are broad bayous with pretty islands of green\\ncane, sitting like great boquets upon the placid\\nwaters, and as we approach, a group of Spanish\\ncurlews, a white crane or a few pelicans arise into\\nthe air, the latter soaring away in single file.\\nAnd the swamps Slimy pools of green or,\\nperhaps a fire has painted them brown or black\\ntoo thick to ripple, and look as though an alliga-\\ntor s nose would cause an elevation but not break\\nthe surface. See how the naked gray cypress\\ntrunks rise like immense stalagmites, and the\\ngreat thick, long mantles of dark moss droop-\\ning like stalactites. See the lowly palms,\\ntheir outer edges whitened with fire, brightening\\nthe gloom with light, like pin-wheels of fire amid\\nthe damp they almost laugh like sprites. It is\\nlike a solemn lonely cavern, the haunt of spirits.\\nNo wonder Pascagoula Bay has its legend, a mer-\\nmaid queen, whose music can be heard to this\\nday. Such places, such scenes, are breeding\\ngrounds of the supernatural.\\nIn 1727 Governor Perier visited the spot near\\nthe mouth of the Pascagoula River, where on\\ncalm, moonlight nights is heard strange music,\\nlike distant aeolian harps, which appears to issue\\nfrom grottoes in the bottom of the river. Tradi-\\ntion says a tribe formerly existed here, who wor-\\nshipped the idol of a mermaid, and lived on oys-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. 139\\nters and fish a harmless race. In 1540 a priest\\nappeared among them, and with cross in hand\\nendeavored to convert them, when one moonlight\\nnight, upon the crest of a wave, a beautiful mer-\\nmaid appeared, singing\\nCome to me, come to me, children of the sea.\\nNeither bell, book nor cross shall win you from your queen.\\nAt this they all plunged into the sea, and were\\nnever heard of more. The music is still there.\\nEighteen miles from the city we reach Fort\\nPike, which was occupied by Louisiana troops in\\n1 86 1, and thirty miles brings us to the Rigolets,\\npronounced Rigolais, the entrance from Lake\\nBorgne to Lake Ponchartrain. It is a charming\\nride along here, the car windows being high\\nenough over all to scan the horizon for miles.\\nThirty-eight miles brings us to Pearl River and\\nGrand Plains, and fifty-three miles to Bay St.\\nLouis. Fifteen miles back of Bay St. Louis, close\\nto Bayou La Croix, in the Devil s Swamp, remain\\nsome fifty or sixty of the once powerful Choc-\\ntaws. They are Christians now, and have a little\\nCatholic church The Church of the Holy\\nCross. But they are Choctaws still, have no\\nlarge herds, like those of their tribe in the Indian\\nNation, but live by logging, raising sweet pota-\\ntoes, making baskets and selling Choctaw and\\nwahaka roots for bitters.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "140 NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS.\\nFrom Bay St. Louis, east, the shore is dotted\\nwith handsome summer residences and cottages.\\nPass Christian, Mississippi City, Beauvoir where\\nex-President Jefferson Davis resides Biloxi,\\nBienville s first capital. Ocean Springs, West and\\nEast Pascagoula, all have excellent hotels, a good\\nbeach and avenues of shade of magnolia and live\\noak. Thunder showers prevail in winter, when\\nit seems like Long Branch in June, but with a\\ngreater abundance of shade upon the beach. The\\nrailroad courses through the pine woods, and from\\nit one can get no idea of the appearance of the\\ncoast, half a mile distant. At Pass Christian one\\ncan remain in comfort, and do the Exposition by\\nmorning and evening trains with low fares, as well\\nas if located at Rye or Yonkers and the Exposi-\\ntion was in New York. From these points along\\nthe coast short excursions can be made to Cat Isl-\\nand, Ship Island, Isle au Pied, where in winter\\nwild geese are plenty, as well as snipe, ducks and\\ncurlew, while the waters yield sheeps-head, red\\nfish, croakers, flounders and Spanish mackerel\\nWith plenty of time at command, the coast is the\\nplace to stay, see the Exposition and rest.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "The World s Industrial\\nAND\\nCOTTON CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION.\\nOpening Dec. i6, 1884, Closing May 31, 1885.\\nOFFICERS OF THE EXPOSITION.\\nBOARD OF MANAGEMENT\\nEDMUND RICHARDSON, E. M. HUDSON,\\nALBERT BALDWIN, JULES C. DENIS,\\nWM. B. SCHMIDT. SIMON HERNSHEIM,\\nF. C. MOREHEAD, SAM L. H. BUCK,\\nGOV. R. M. PATTON. |NO. V. MOORE,\\nTHOS. HARDEMAN, Jr., G. A. BREAUX,\\nDUNCAxN F. KENNER.\\nEXECUTIVE OFFICERS\\nEDMUND RICHARDSON, President.\\nALBERT BALDWIN, First Vice President.\\nWM. B. SCHMIDT, Second Vice President.\\nRICHARD NIXON, Secretary.\\nJOHN B. LAFITTE, Treasurer.\\nE. A. BURKE, Director General.\\nF. C. MOREHEAD, Commissioner General.\\nG. M. TORGERSON, Supervising Architect.\\nS. H, OILMAN, Consulting Engineer.\\nF. N. OGDEN, Chief Superintendent.\\nCHIEFS OF DEPARTMENTS\\nDR. G. B. LORING, Chief of Agriculture.\\nPARKER EARLE, Chief of Horticulture.\\nB. K. BRUCE, Chief Department Colored Exhibits.\\nSAME. MULLEN, Chief of Installation.\\nB. T. WALSHE, Chief of Information and Accommodation.\\nCHAS, L. FITCH, Chief of Transportation.\\nWM. H. H. JUDSON, Chief of Printing and Publishing.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "142 THE EXPOSITION.\\nTHE WORLD S INDUSTRIAL AND COT-\\nTON CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION.\\nITS SCOPE.\\nThe following is an enumeration of the different\\ngroupings of exhibits\\n1. Agriculture, 6. Furniture and Accessories,\\n2. Horticulture, 7. Textile Fabrics, Clothing and Accessories,\\n3. Pisciculture, 8. The Industrial Arts,\\n4. Ores and Minerals, 9. Alimentary Products,\\n5. Raw and Manufac- 10. Education and Instruction,\\nlured Products, 11. Works of Art.\\nUnder these heads everything wrought by man\\nor produced by nature can be classed.\\nThe World s Exposition, in its intent, scope and\\nprovision, covers every object on earth having any\\nrelation to man s use or interest.\\nThe management, under the authority granted,\\nprovided for a thoroughly comprehensive exposi-\\ntion. To encourage exhibits in the various de-\\npartments, when feasible and appropriate, the most\\nliberal premiums in cash and medals are offered.\\nIn the Horticultural Department premiums to the\\namount of $32,000 are offered in the Department\\nof Agriculture and Live Stock, premiums to the\\namount of ;^8o,ooo are offered. For many special", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE EXPOSITION. 143\\nexhibits liberal cash premiums will be offered.\\nFor general exhibits entered for competition, sub-\\nmitted to international juries, gold, silver and\\nbronze medals, diplomas, certificates of merit and\\nspecial mention will be awarded.\\nLOCATION OF GROUNDS.\\nThe City Park, lying between the left bank of\\nthe Mississippi River and St. Charles avenue,\\nabout four miles from the business centre of the\\ncity, was tendered by the city council for the uses\\nof the Exposition. It is a high, dry and beauti-\\nful stretch of ground, having numerous groves of\\nmagnificent live oaks and unusual advantages of\\neasy access by water and by land. Its river front-\\nage of over half a mile affords ready landing for\\nscores of steamers, while five street and two steam\\ncar lines reach it from the centre of the city. St.\\nCharles avenue, the great boulevard of the city,\\nbounds it on the north. The Exposition grounds\\nfront east, towards the city proper.\\nTHE MAIN BUILDING.\\nThe main building is the largest ever erected.\\nIt is 1,378 feet long by 905 feet wide, without\\ncourts, and has a continuous roof composed\\nlargely of glass so arranged as to afford an abund-\\nance of light without subjecting the interior to the", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "144 THE EXPOSITION.\\ndirect rays of the sun. Within, the view is unob\\nstructed. From one side or corner of the build-\\ning to its opposite, the interior showing all the\\nphases of industrial activity is seen. There are\\nno partitions, and the lofty pillars, wide ^.apart^\\nsupporting the roof structure, present no impedi-\\nment to one s vision, but only serve to assist the\\neye in measuring the vast expanse. The interior\\nis surrounded by wide and spacious galleries,\\ntwenty-three feet high, which are reached by\\ntwenty elevators having the most approved safety\\nappliances, and by convenient stairways.\\nThe machinery department occupies a space of\\n1,378 feet long by 300 feet wide, within the main\\nbuilding, and has an extension added in iron 350\\nfeet long and 150 feet wide for heavy machinery,\\ndescribed under the heading of Factories and\\nMills. From the galleries overlooking, more than\\ntwo miles of shafting can be seen driving every\\nknown character of machinery.\\nMusic Hall, with a seating capacity, in commo-\\ndious chairs, for 11,000 people, a platform capac-\\nity for 600 musicians and a mammoth organ built\\nto order for the Exposition occupies the centre of\\nthe interior.\\nThe main building will contain general exhibits.\\nIt is situated about in the centre of the grounds.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "THE EXPOSITION. 1 45\\nUNITED STATES AND STATE EXHIBITS.\\nThis building is 885 feet long by 565 feet wide.\\nIt is one of the largest exposition buildings ever\\nerected. At the time of the adoption of the plans,\\nit was supposed that the Main Building, having\\nthe largest capacity of any building heretofore\\nerected, in conjunction with the Horticultural Hall\\nand such minor outside buildings as were neces-\\nsary, would afford ample space and accommoda-\\ntion for all exhibits but the interest in the World s\\nExposition had become so wide-spread and the\\ninquiries and applications for space became so nu-\\nmerous, that the necessity for additional accom-\\nmodation became imperative, and the management\\ndetermined upon the erection of this magnificent\\nstructure specially for the United States and State\\nExhibits. The government exhibition will be\\ncomplete of itself, almost a mammoth exposition.\\nEach department will have its distinctive exhibit.\\nThe Department of State showing samples of cot-\\nton, wool and cosmos fibres, and of the fabrics\\nmade from them from all parts of the world. This\\nexhibit will be arranged in continental groups\\nrepresenting the geographical divisions of the\\nworld s commerce, etc. The Postoffice Depart-\\nment will exhibit all the improvements in mail fa-\\ncilities, and estabhsh a branch office in the build-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "146 THE EXPOSITION.\\ning for the accommodation of visitors and to show\\nthe practical workings of the Postal System. The\\nTreasury Department will exhibit coast survey,\\nlight housing, life-saving service, customs, internal\\nrevenue, engraving, printing, etc. The War De-\\npartment will show arms, ordnance, engineering,\\nmedical, surgical and hospital services, progress in\\nsame, etc. The Navy Department will show na-\\nval arms, ordnance, projectiles, torpedoes, dyna-\\nmo electro-machines for firing, models of war ves-\\nsels ancient and modern, etc. The Interior De-\\npartment everything pertaining to the inventions\\nand im.provements in American industries and to\\nthe history, customs and habits of the aboriginal\\nraces, etc. The United States Fishery Commis-\\nsions, the Department of Justice, Bureau of Agri-\\nculture, the Bureau of Education, and especially\\nthe Smithsonian Institute, will be exhaustively rep-\\nresented. The Government exhibit will vastly ex-\\nceed that made at Philadelphia. In addition to\\nthe Government exhibits, the collective State ex-\\nhibits and the general educational display will be\\nlocated in this building. This structure presents\\na very attractive appearance.\\nTHE HORTICULTURAL HALL.\\nThe Horticultural Hall is 600 feet in length and\\n194 feet wide through its centre. It is the largest", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "THE EXPOSITION. 147\\nconservatory in the world. It is substantially\\nbuilt as a durable structure, becoming, by arrange-\\nment with the city, a permanent feature of the\\nPark. It is located on high ground in the midst\\nof live-oak groves. Surmounting the centre is a\\nmagnificent tower, 90 feet high, roofed with glass.\\nBeneath this tower, in constant play, is a grand\\nfountain. 20,000 plates of fruit, double the\\namount ever before displayed at any exposition,\\nwill be shown on tables extending through the\\nhall. Around the hall will be arranged an infinite\\nvariety of rare tropical and semi-tropical plants,\\nflowers and shrubbery. There is a tropical hot-\\nhouse, 250 feet long by 25 feet wide, in which the\\nmost delicate flowers from the far South will be\\nnurtured and made to bloom in their most brilliant\\nperfection. Tropical fruits in the various stages\\nof growth will be exhibited. Fruits of every sec-\\ntion and the productions of all seasons will, by\\narrangements for stated supplies and thorough\\nprocesses of cold storage, be available for exhibit.\\nTHE ART GALLERY.\\nThe Art Gallery is 250 feet long by 100 feet\\nwide. It is a structure built of iron. The build-\\ning is an elegant and artistic structure, so arranged\\nfor mounting, accessibility and light as to present\\nthe best effects, and with ample accommodation", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "148 THE EXPOSITION.\\nfor as large a collection as was ever exhibited on\\nthis hemisphere. It is fireproof even the par-\\ntitions being of iron.\\nFACTORY AND MILL,\\nThis is a large iron building 350 feet long by\\n120 feet wide. In it will be exhibited cotton in\\nall stages of manipulation from the boll to the bale.\\nThe newly invented Cotton Pickers, Openers and\\nLappers, as well as the various and complex\\nmachinery for ginning, cleaning, bailing and com-\\npressing, will be in constant operation. The sup-\\nply of field cotton for this purpose will be abun-\\ndant.\\nIn addition to cotton machinery this extension\\nof Machinery Hall will contain the various kinds\\nof machinery used in the rolling of cane and\\nmanufacture of sugar, and the harvesting and mill-\\ning of rice.\\nVarious kinds of factory and mill machinery for\\nwood working, brick and tile making, etc., will be\\nlocated in this structure. Adjacent to this build-\\ning there will be a line of sawmills, extending to-\\nward the river showing forty sawmills in motion.\\nTHE MEXICAN HEADQUARTERS.\\nThis is a structure of striking beauty, erected\\nby the Mexican Government and fashioned after", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "THE EXPOSITION. I49\\nthe Style of a Mexican senor s residence. It is a\\nquadrangle, with a frontage of 190 feet and a\\ndepth of 300 feet. Round its open interior or\\ncourtyard, runs a terraced gallery, supporting a\\ncollection of the rarest plants and flowers and the\\nmost gorgeous birds of that famous land, seeming\\nlike a hanging garden. Surmounted at each cor-\\nner and in the centre of its front with light and\\ngraceful turrets, and painted in Oriental combina-\\ntions of gold and green, with mediums of maroon\\nand touches here and there of intense red, its\\nMoresque style will attract and please the Vision\\nand give a fair idea of the taste and characteristics\\nof the Mexican people, and fairly prepare the* vis-\\nitors for their wonderful exhibit. While intended\\nsimply as the headquarters of the Mexican con-\\ntingent, it will, however, contain in two apart-\\nments, sixty-four by thirty-two feet, most attract-\\nive bazars of Mexican art-work and bric-a-brac,\\nfeathers, wax, pottery, and all the minute artistic\\ncreations for which that country is so justly fam-\\nous. Thus, in one building, the social and official\\nforms, the military organizations, the architectural\\nmethods, and the light and delicate arts of our\\nnext-door neighbors will be most exquisitely and\\nelaborately illustrated.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "150 THE EXPOSITION.\\nSPECIAL FEATURES.\\nThe special features of the World s Exposition\\nare so numerous and so striking that it virtually\\nnecessitates classing them as general. What are\\ntermed as tropical displays will be special to\\nthis Exposition and so extensive as almost to be a\\nleading feature. In fruits, flowers, plants and\\nforestry, in cultivated products, in export woods,\\nin minerological samples, in native manufactured\\nproducts, in rich archaeological stores, the exhibits\\nof Mexico, the countries of Central and South\\nAmerica and the West Indies will be complete\\nand comprehensive, unitedly composing an ex-\\ntraordinary exposition. The general government\\nexhibits will in magnitude and variety far exceed\\nthe magnificent display made at the Philadelphia\\nCentennial. The cotton exhibit, from the weed to\\nthe fabric, through numerous and wondrous pro-\\ncesses, will be an unusual attraction. The same\\ncan be said of the sugar-cane and the rice plant,\\nthe processes of cultivation, harvesting and man-\\nufacturing, all being practically demonstrated.\\nThe live-stock display will be a very interesting\\nfeature. It includes not only cattle, horses,\\nmules, sheep, hogs, poultry and pet stock, but\\nthat useful animal the dog. A very liberal pre-\\nmium list offered in this department will insure a", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "THE EXPOSITION. I5I\\nlarge representation. The electrical display will\\nbe complete, demonstrating the wonderful prog-\\nress in this line in all descriptions of invention\\nand use. The machinery exhibit will be enor-\\nmous, it will present in detail the culmination of\\nthis, the greatest of all inventive, eras. The de-\\nvelopments of the past few years will afford ma-\\nterial that will be a source of continual wonder-\\nment to the visitor. The exposition of woman s\\nwork is a feature exciting earnest consideration.\\nThe exhibit will display her work in all the phases\\nof her taste, skill and industry an attempt at\\nenumeration would be futile. In all that her hand\\nmay do or her taste may influence, evidences will\\nbe abundantly present. Another and an equally\\ninteresting feature is the department devoted to\\nan exposition of the work and progress of the\\ncolored race. The identification of the colored\\nrace with the material progress and the develop-\\nment of the great natural resources of the South,\\nand the influence of so large a portion of her pop-\\nulation upon her prosperity, renders this demon-\\nstration of their educational and industrial prog-\\nress and advancement eminently appropriate.\\nThe Board of Management, appreciating the fit-\\nness and propriety of such a feature, and to afford\\nevery incentive for the fullest and most thorough\\nexposition, has assigned the sum of ;^50,ooo to", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "152 THE EXPOSITION.\\nassist those engaged in the work of preparation.\\nThe colored people have entered into the work\\nwith great enthusiasm and the promises are bright\\n-for a most interesting and magnificent display.\\nOUTSIDE FEATURES.\\nOutside of the Exposition proper, the interest\\nin it and its magnitude will attract many import-\\nant enterprises and features. An international\\ndrill, in which, besides the volunteer soldiery,\\ncompanies of the regular army will be invited to\\nparticipate, and the companies of the Mexican\\narmy and of the Spanish army in Cuba, together\\nwith the soldiery of any other nation present, will\\nbe invited to take part, and which will be a feature\\nof international interest. During the station of\\nthe United States fleet in the river bordering the\\nExposition grounds (already promised by the Sec-\\nretary of the Navy), a sham naval and land battle\\nis contemplated.\\nA large number of organizations of national\\nreputation and extent have already arranged for\\ntheir annual convocations at New Orleans during\\nthe period of the Exposition.\\nThe carnival pageants, occurring about the\\nmiddle of the Exposition period, will be the most\\nelaborate and brilliant of this world-wide famed\\nfestival.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "THE EXPOSITION. 153\\nThree regular first-class theatres, two grand\\nopera houses and one grand French and Italian\\nopera house, will be open during the Exposition.\\nGrand concerts, vocal and instrumental, will be\\ngiven regularly in Music Hall in the main build-\\ning. The largest organ ever built for an Exposi-\\ntion is being built expressly for the World s Ex-\\nposition.\\nLOCAL EXCURSIONS.\\nThe opportunities for these pleasurable and in-\\nstructive pastimes are almost innumerable in the\\nCrescent City. By water, fresh or salt, to nearly\\nevery point of the compass. Elegant steamboats\\nply from New Orleans, covering the Mississipi, to\\nits famed delta and its numerous lower tributaries,\\npenetrating the enchanting waters of interminable\\nbayous, bordered with rich canefields and shaded\\nwith the live oak. Steamers sail regularly between\\nthe city shores of Lake Ponchartrain and its north\\nshores and the sound watering places, and down\\nthe Mississippi into the Gulf to the shores and\\nKeys of Florida, to the coast places of Texas,\\nMexico, Central America, the Carribean Isles and\\nthe West Indies. By rail, the Land of Flow-\\ners is reached in a few hours, and every promi-\\nnent southern point, even to the City of Mexico,\\nbecomes conveniently accessible.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "154 THE EXPOSITION.\\nACCOMMODATION.\\nA matter of the utmost importance to the visit-\\nor is the question of accommodation with this,\\nas to character, comfort or safety, in doubt, large\\nnumbers would be debarred from attendance.\\nThe Board of Management early realized the im-\\nportance of the subject and took prompt and ef-\\nfective steps in the matter. A department of ac-\\ncommodation and information has been organized.\\nThe city is being thoroughly canvassed, divided\\ninto districts and sub-districts, each having con-\\nnection with the central office by telephone, tele-\\ngraph or messenger service. All of the accom-\\nmodation of the city is being listed and classified,\\nits character and rate of charges determined, so\\nthat no imposition or extortion can prevail, and\\nthe promptest information and assistance will be\\nat all times available to the visitor. No charge\\nfor this service will be made either against citizen\\nor visitor.\\nIn a city with 250,000 inhabitants, in a climate\\nlike that of the Crescent City, with houses of more\\nthan ample capacity, it will not be impossible to\\nsecure comfortable and acceptable accommodation\\nfor fifty thousand extra people. Besides the ac-\\ncommodation assured within the city precincts,\\nthe Mississippi Sound coast for a distance of more\\nthan forty miles is lined with a succession of fine", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "THE EXPOSITION. 155\\nhotels and comfortable boarding houses for sum-\\nmer and winter resort, all within an hour and a half\\nto two hours ride of the city. Accommodation\\nfor thousands of people can be obtained. Border-\\ning the Gulf shore, in the midst of the pine, live\\noak, the orange and the magnolia, with numerous\\nmineral springs, superb facilities for fishing, sail-\\ning and hunting, with the mild yet bracing salt air\\nof the sea, with constant communication with the\\ncity by luxuriously furnished and rapid trains,\\ntarrjang at these resorts will be found wonderfully\\nattracting and compensating. In addition to the\\naccommodations now afforded numerous hotel\\ncompanies are preparing to establish capacious\\nbuildings near the grounds.\\nMISCELLANEOUS.\\nThe temperature of New Orleans from the ist\\nof December to the last of May averages about\\nsixty-five degrees, Fahr. The thermometer very\\nseldom falls below the freezing point and then but\\nfor a day or two. The weather during this period\\nis almost invariably clear, sunshiny and pleasant,\\nwhile in general healthfulness it will compare with\\nany section of the Union.\\nDuring this period foliage, fields and the forests\\nretain their vernal hue, many kinds of fresh vege-\\ntables are in season, various kinds of fruit ripen,", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "156 THE EXPOSITION.\\nwhile the orange and nearly all of the tropical\\nfruits are in their prime.\\nDuring this same period the wharves of the city-\\nare lined with the sail and steam craft of all na-\\ntions, and hardly a day passes without the depart-\\nure or arrival of some vessel to or from nearly all\\nparts of the habitable globe.\\nSix trunk lines of railway centre at New Or-\\nleans and furnish rapid and luxurious transit to all\\npoints of the compass except gulfward. By water\\nregular lines of palatial steamers ply between St.\\nLouis and Cincinnati and the Crescent City, and\\ncover all navigable tributaries of the great river.\\nGates open at 9 a. m. Admission, 50 cents\\nchildren in arms half price, all others full rates.\\nNo money received at the gates except United\\nStates silver half dollars.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "GUIDE.\\n157\\nGUIDE.\\nHOTELS,\\nSt. Charles Hotel.\\nHotel Royal\\nHotel Vonderbanck.\\nCity Hotel\\nCassidy s Hotel\\nSouthern Hotel\\nHotel Denechaud.\\nLally s Hotel\\nWaver) y House\\nHotel Chalmette\\nStock Dealers Hotel\\nWest End Hotel....\\nCarondelet House..\\nEdwards House....\\nHerron House\\nOviatt House\\nPerry House\\nArlington Hotel.\\nAllen House\\nBOARDING HOUSES.\\nLOCATION.\\nSt. Charles and Common Sts.\\nRoyal and St. Louis Sts\\n40 Magazine St\\nCamp, Cor. Common St\\n40 Carondelet St\\nCarondelet and Julia Sts\\n56 to 64 Carondelet St\\nCor. St. Charles Poydras Sts.\\nFoydras, N.W. Cor. Camp St.\\n98 St. Charles St\\nEcho St\\nWest End\\n88 Carondelet St\\n135 Camp St\\n225 Canal St\\nII Dauphine St\\n13 St. Charles St.\\n116 Camp St\\n288 Canal St\\nPROPRIETORS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 LOCATION.\\nPrivate House Mrs. M.A.Clark, 7 Carondelet.\\nMrs. C. Holland, 155 Clio\\nJno. A. Braun, iii St. Charles\\nJ C. Hood, 95 St. Charles.\\nWm. Progel, 106 St. Charles.\\nMrs. M. A. Russell, 116 Camp\\nMrs. M. Lee, 130 Camp\\nMrs. D. Herricic, 198 Camp.\\nMrs. A. E. Heard, 196 Camp.\\nMrs. L. Arnold, 215 Poydras.\\nMrs. M. Arnold, 193 Canal..\\nMrs. M. Becker, 233 Gravier..\\nMrs. B. Behan, 2 South\\nMrs. A. Bell, 51 Girod\\nMrs. A. Bond, 211 Carondelet\\nMrs.J W. Baum, 1 1 iSt. Charles\\nMrs. J. Burst, 175 Magazine.\\nMrs. A. Burns, 164 Julia\\nPER DAY\u00c2\u00bb\\n$4.00\\n4.00\\n1. 00 to 3.00\\n2.50\\n3.00\\n2.50 to 3.00\\n1. 00 to 3.00\\n1.50\\n1.50\\nT.OOtO 2.00\\n2.50 to 3.00\\n2.00\\n1.50\\n2.00\\n1. 00 to 2.00\\n2.00\\n2.50 to 3.00\\nPER DAY.\\n$1.50 to $2.00\\n2.00\\n1. 00 to 2.50\\n2.00\\n2.00\\n2.00 to 4.00\\n1. 00 to 3.00\\n2.50 to 3.00\\n2.00\\n1.50\\n2.00\\n2.50\\n3.00\\n2.00\\nX.50\\n2.00\\n2.00\\n2.00 to 2.50", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "158\\nGUIDE.\\nPrivate House Mrs. I. Cavaros, i6i Camp.. 2.50\\nMrs. M. A. Carey, 209 Camp. 3.CX)\\nMrs. F. S. Chesley, 5 North.. 2.00\\nMrs. G. Callier, 302 Canal... 1.50\\nMrs. B. Connell, 249 Baronne. 1.50\\nMrs.A.C. Crane, 222 St. Joseph i. 00 to 1.50\\nMrs. R.Delerno, 227 Magazine. 1.50\\nMrs. E. Elam, 29 N. Rampart. 2.50\\nMrs. Emerson, 194 St. Charles. 2.00\\nMrs. J. Fabien, 138 St. Charles. 1.75\\nMrs. M.Gernon,234St. Charles 7.50103.00\\nMrs. Gilham, 139 St. Charles. 1.75 to 2.00\\nMrs. E. M. Gilham, 211 Camp. 2.00\\nMrs. M. Gogin, 106 Bombair.. 1.75\\nMrs. Harrison, 138 Carondelet. 1.50\\nH. S. Kellogg, 67 Royal i. 00 to 2.00\\nA.C.Malborough,i29Carond t 2.00\\nM. McCormal, 161 Carondelet 1.75\\nH. McDaniel, 148 Julia 2.00\\nL. V. McFarland, 192 Julia. 2.50 to 3.00\\nC. E. Minor, 173 Camp 2,00\\nKate Mawney, 190 Julia 1.50102.00\\nA. Maunn, 164 Carondelet.. 2.00\\nE. Penniston, 156 Julia 1.50\\nMrs. Goldsmith, 154 Carondel t 1,50102.00\\nMrs.Tora Rogers, 196 Baronne 2.00\\nMrs. C. Russell, 21 Dauphine. 2.00\\nMrs. V. Street, 5 South 3.00\\nMrs. P.Schreiber, 225 Poydras. 1.50\\nMrs. Torian, 135 St. Charles. 2.00\\nMrs. L. Trapolin, 123 Royal. 2.00\\nMrs. C. Tuttle, 181 Camp.... 1.50\\nMrs. Kate Vetter, 90 Baronne. 1.50\\nMrs. A. Voisen, 135 Chartres. i.oo to 2.00\\nMrs. E.Walter, 256 Baronne. 2.00\\nMrs. Welsh, 165 St. Charles. 3.00\\nH. Gernon, 135 St. Charles.. 2.00\\nMrs.D.Edwards,223 St. Joseph 1.50\\nMrs. M. Wall, 149 St. Joseph. 2.00\\nMrs. A. Can, 223 Camp 2.00\\nMrs.Redmond, 303 St. Charles 2.00\\nMrs. C. Williams. 310 Canal. 1.75\\nAdditional lists of boarding houses can be obtained at the Bureau of\\nInformation, 164 Gravier Street, opposite St. Charles Hotel.\\nMany of the steamers at the levee also offer excellent accommoda-\\ntions at about $2.00 a day for board and room.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 159\\nRESTAURANTS. LOCATION.\\nAntoine s 65 St. Louis\\nBergamini Co 21 Royal\\nBero Victor 31 Bourbon\\nBezandin Lxjuis 113 Custom House.\\nBorges 109 Custom House.\\nBoudousquie Henry 129 Gravier\\nCassidy s 40 Carondelet\\nCosmopolitan 13 15 Royal\\nDenechaud E. N 8 Carondelet\\nDetzel Jacob 135 Poydras\\nEgerton Mrs. E 31 Natchez\\nExcelsior 595 Magazine\\nFabacher Joseph 23 Royal\\nFelicini Alexander 218 Magazine\\nForget Philip 107 Custom House.\\nFour Scasotis 1 1 1 Chartres\\nFrid s 106 St. Charles\\nJohn s 181 Canal\\nKing Thomas 138 Dumain\\nKissinger Bros 57 Gravier\\nLebrun Lucien 13 St. Philip\\nLeon s 23 St. Charles\\nLicalzi Antonio 6 N. Rampart\\nLeynoz Pablo 209 Royal\\nLukinonch Morco 192 Camp\\nMarchal Jules Mrs 19 Union\\nMeyer Bernard 200 Poydras\\nMoreau s 128 Canal\\nPaichous Hypolite 93 St. Charles\\nPhoenix House 96 St. Charles\\nPizzini s 182 Canal\\nRaphael Joseph 174 Custom House.\\nSchaefer Egbert 18 Exchange- Place\\nStecher Joseph 174 Gravier\\nSugasti Everiste 9 St. Phiiip\\nTeen Elizabeth 85 Dauphine\\nTroyani S 52 St. Louis\\nToumilla Jean 38 N. Franklm\\nValerey N 108 Custom House.\\nVictor s 31 Bourbon\\nVonderbanck 128 Common\\nVoorhies P. E 18 Royal\\nWalker A 63 Exchange Place.\\nWest End Restaurant 8 Carondelet\\nZiegler J 10 Royal", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "l60 GUIDE.\\nEXCHANGES.\\nCotton Exchange Carondelet, corner Gravier\\nStreet; Charles E. Black, President; Henry G.\\nHester, Secretary.\\nProduce Exchange 44 Magazine Street; E. K.\\nConverse, President; W. M. Smallweed, Secretary.\\nStock Exchange 29 Carondelet Street.\\nMexican Exchange 124 Common Street.\\nChamber of Commerce Corner Gravier and\\nCarondelet streets.\\nSugar Exchange Corner Front and Bienville\\nstreets.\\nMechanic s and Lumberman s Exchange 187\\nGravier Street.\\nEXPRESS COMPANIES.\\nWells, Fargo Co 18 and 20 Union Street.\\nTexas Express Co 18 and 20 Union Street.\\nSouthern Express Co 18 and 20 Union Street.\\nPacific Express Co 20 Camp Street.\\nBaldwin s European and Havana Express Co\\n163 Gravier Street.\\nNew Orleans Express Co 175 Common Street.\\nDavies Co. s Express 48 Carondelet Street.\\nMerchant s Citizen s Delivery Co 88 Canal\\nStreet.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. l6l\\nTELEGRAPH.\\nWestern Union 5 1 St. Charles Street\\nBaltimore Ohio (on the way).\\nAmerican District 47 Camp Street.\\nTowboat Telegraph 159 Common Street.\\nGreat Southern Telephone Telegraph Co\\nCorner Poydras and Carondelet Streets.\\nPOSTOFFICE.\\nNew Orleans Postoffice Custom House Build-\\ning, Canal Street W. B. Merchant, Postmaster\\nGeneral Delivery window open from 8 a. m. to 5\\np. M. Carriers make four deliveries and collections\\na day in the central portion of the city. Money\\nOrder and Register offices open from 9 a. m. to\\n4 p. M. The General Delivery, Carriers and\\nStamp windows open from 9 a, m. to 12 m. on\\nSundays.\\nMARKETS.\\nFrench Market North Peters and Decatur\\nStreets.\\nMagazine Market Magazine Street.\\nDryades Market Dryades Street.\\nPoydras Market Poydras Street.\\nNinth Street Market Ninth and Magazine\\nStreets.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "1 62 GUIDE.\\nClaiborne Market Claiborne Street.\\nCarroUton Market Carrollton Street.\\nSt. Mary s Market Annunciation Street.\\nDelamore Market Elysian Fields and Claiborne\\nstreets.\\nJefferson City Market Magazine Street.\\nPilie Market Poydras Street.\\nSecond Street Market Second Street.\\nSoraparu Market Soraparu Street.\\nSt. Bernard Market St. Bernard Avenue.\\nTreme Market Orleans Street.\\nWashington Market Chartres Street.\\nBANKS.\\nCitizen s Bank of Louisiana Capital $1,050,-\\n000 134 and 136 Gravier Street.\\nGermania National Bank Capital and Surplus\\n$450,000; 102 Canal Street.\\nHibernia National Bank Capital and Surplus\\n$570,000 17 Camp Street.\\nLouisiana National Bank Capital and Surplus\\n^1,200,000; 120 and 122 Common Street.\\nState National Bank Capital and Surplus $775,-\\n000 33 and 35 Camp Street.\\nMetropolitan Bank Capital $250,000; 91 Canal\\nStreet.\\nUnion National Bank Capital and Surplus\\n$600,000 corner Gravier and Carondelet Street.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "GUfDE. 163\\nWhitney National Bank Capital ^400,000\\n137 Gravier Street.\\nThe People s National Bank Capital ;^300,ooo\\ncorner Decatur and Custom-house Street.\\nNew Orleans National Bank Capital and Sur-\\nplus ;^450,ooo; 54 Camp Street.\\nNew Orleans Canal Banking Co. Capital and\\nSurplus $1,200,000; corner Camp and Gravier\\nStreet.\\nMutual National Bank Capital and Surplus\\n;^375,ooo; 106 Canal Street.\\nGermania Savings Bank Capital ^100,000;\\n17 Camp Street.\\nGRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.\\nJoseph A. Mower Post Corner Camp and\\nNatchez streets.\\nTimothy O. Howe Post 193 Gravier Street.\\nThere are 50 Masonic Lodges, 24 Odd Fel-\\nlows Lodges, 12 Knights of Pythias Lodges, and\\nmore societies, associations and clubs than any\\nother city in the Union of like population.\\nROLLER RINKS.\\nCrescent City Roller Skating Rink corner\\nWashington and Prytania streets.\\nExposition Skating Rink Washington Artil-\\nlerv Hall. Admission twenty-five cents.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "1 64 GUIDE.\\nCHURCHES.\\nROMAN CATHOLIC.\\nDiocese of New Orleans Most Rev. F. X.\\nLeray, archbishop. The archbishop s residence is\\n280 Chartres Street.\\nAnnunciation Church Mandeville, corner Ma-\\nrias Street. Rev. A. Durier, pastor.\\nChapel of the Ursuline Convent Third Dis-\\ntrict.\\nChurch of The Holy Name of Mary Veret,\\nbetween Alix and Eliza streets Fifth District.\\nChurch of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Canal,\\nbetween Lopez and Rendon streets. Rev. A.\\nMarine, pastor.\\nHoly Trinity Church (German) St. Ferdinand,\\nbetween Royal and Dauphine. Rev. Peter L.\\nThevis, pastor.\\nJesuit s College and Church of the Immaculate\\nConception Baronne, between Canal and Com-\\nmon streets.\\nMater Dolorosa Church Cambronne, corner of\\nBurthe Street. Rev. A. Bichlmayer, pastor.\\nMt. Carmel Chapel\u00e2\u0080\u0094 53 Piety Street.\\nNotre Dame de bon Secours Jackson, between\\nLaurel and Constance streets.\\nSt. Alphonsus Constance, between St. Andrew\\nand Josephine streets. Rev. F. Girardey, pastor.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 165\\nOur Lady of the Sacred Heart North Clai-\\nborne, corner Annette Street. Rev. Celestin\\nFrain, pastor.\\nSt. Ann s Church, St. Philip, between Roman\\nand Prieur streets. Rev. H. Tumoine, pastor.\\nSt. Anthony s (Italian) N. Rampart, corner of\\nConti Street. Rev. J. A. Manoritta, pastor.\\nSt. Augustin s Church Hospital, corner St.\\nClaude Street. Rev. Joseph Subileau, pastor.\\nSt. Boniface Church (German) N. Galvez, cor-\\nner Laharpe Street. Rev. Joseph Koegerl, pastor.\\nSt. Francis De Sales Second, corner St. David\\nStreet. Rev. Nicholas Simon, pastor.\\nSt. Henry s Church (German) Berlin, between\\nConstance and Magazine streets. Rev. John Bog-\\naerts, pastor.\\nSt. John the Baptist Church Dryades, between\\nClio and Calliope streets. Rev. James D. Foote,\\npastor.\\nSt. Joseph s Church Common, between Howard\\nand Villere streets. Rev. Richard J. Fitzgerald,\\npastor.\\nSt. Louis Cathedral Chartres, between St. Ann\\nand St. Peter streets. Most Rev. F. X. Leray,\\narchbishop.\\nSt. Mary s Assumption (German) Josephine,\\nbetween Constance and Laurel streets. Rev. M.\\nSeimgruber, pastor.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "l66 GUIDE.\\nSt. Joseph s Church Gretna. Rev. Eugene\\nFrairing, pastor.\\nSt. Mary s Church (Archbishop s residence)\\nChartres, between Ursuline and Hospital streets.\\nRev. G. Raymond, D. D., pastor; Rev. Blane-\\ngarin, assistant.\\nSt. Mary s Church Cambronne, between Sec-\\nond and Burthe streets. Rev. R. Valle, pastor.\\nSt. Maurice s Church Hancock, corner Royal\\nStreet. Rev. J. Dumas, pastor.\\nSt. Michael s Church Southeast side of Chip-\\npewa, between Orange and Race streets. Rev.\\nThomas Heslin, pastor.\\nSt. Patrick s Church Camp, between Girod and\\nJulia streets. Rev. P. F. Allen, pastor.\\nSt. Peter and St. Paul s Church Burgundy,\\nbetween Marigny and Mandeville streets. Rev.\\nJ. Moynihan, pastor.\\nSt. Rose de Lima Church Bayou Road, be-\\ntween Dolhonde and Broad streets. Rev. F. Mit-\\ntlebron, pastor.\\nSt. Stephen s Church Napoleon Avenue, cor-\\nner Camp street. Rev. Verrina, pastor.\\nSt. Stephen s Church (old) Camp, corner Ber-\\nlin Street. Rev. A. Verrina, pastor.\\nSt. Theresa s Church Erato, corner Camp\\nStreet. Rev. P. M. L. Massardier, pastor; Rev.\\nThomas Golden, assistant.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 167\\nSt. Vincent de Paul Dauphine, between Mon-\\ntegut and Clouet streets. Rev. A. F. X. Cha-\\npins, pastor.\\nTrinity Church Cambronne, near Second\\nStreet.\\nPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL.\\nDiocese of Louisiana Office, Trinity Church.\\nRev. John N. Galleher, bishop.\\nAnnunciation Church Race, corner Camp\\nStreet. Rev. John Percival, D. D., rector.\\nCalvary Church Prytania, corner Conery\\nStreet. Rev. W. R. Douglas, rector.\\nChrist Church Canal, corner Dauphine Street-.\\nAlexander J. Drysdale, D. D., rector.\\nMt. Calvary Church (colored) St. Andrews,\\nsouthwest corner of Willow.\\nMt. Olivet Church Peter, corner Olivier Street.\\nRev. C. S. Hedges, rector.\\nSt. Anna s Church 197 Esplanade Street.\\nRev. J. F. Girault, rector.\\nSt. George s Church St. Charles Avenue, cor-\\nner Cadiz Street. Rev. Samuel Wiggins, rector.\\nSt. John s Church Third, corner Annunciation\\nStreet. Rev. S. Wiggins, rector.\\nSt. Paul s Church Camp, corner Gaiennie\\nStreet. Rev. H. H. Waters, rector.\\nSt. Philip s Church Prytania, southwest cor-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "l68 GUIDE.\\nner Calliope Street. Rev. C. H. Thompson, D.\\nD., rector.\\nTrinity Chapel South Rampart, corner Enterpe\\nStreet. Rev. Arthur W. Chapman, in charge.\\nTrinity Church Jackson, corner Coliseum\\nStreet. Rev. R. A. Holland, D. D., rector.\\nBAPTIST.\\nAmiazion Church Deslonde, between Bur-\\ngundy and Rampart streets. Rev. Charles Will-\\niams, pastor.\\nAusterlitz Church Austerlitz, between Maga-\\nzine and Constance. Rev. G. W. Walker, pastor.\\nColiseum Place Church Camp, corner Terpsi-\\nchore Street. Rev. S. Landrum, pastor.\\nFifth Equal Rights Church (colored) 164 Val-\\nlette Street. Rev. Charles Mathews, pastor.\\nFifth African Church Howard, between Jack-\\nson and Philip streets. Rev. Henry White, pas-\\ntor.\\nFirst African Church Gretna. Rev. Alexander\\nArmstrong, pastor.\\nFirst Church Magazine, corner Second Street.\\nRev. M. C. Cole, pastor.\\nFirst Free Mission Church Broadway, between\\nMarket and Magazine streets. Rev. Burnett\\nBrown, pastor.\\nFirst Free Mission Church Adams, between", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 169\\nBurth and Third streets. Rev. Guy Burke, pas-\\ntor.\\nFirst Free Mission Church (colored) 371 Com-\\nmon Street. Rev. A. S. Jackson, pastor.\\nGood Hope Second Baptist Church (old) 63\\nJackson Street. Rev. John Fleming, pastor.\\nLiberty Church Marias, between Clouet and\\nFeliciana streets.\\nLittle Zion Church 269 Lafayette street.\\nHarvey s Canal African Church Harvey s Ca-\\nnal, Fifth District. Elder Joseph Ross, pastor.\\nMt. Moriah Church Walnut, between Wall and\\nEsther streets. Rev. Henry Williams, pastor.\\nMt. Sinai Baptist Church Vallette, near the\\ncorner of Eliza Street, Fifth District. Rev.\\nJames Creagh, pastor.\\nMt. Zion Church (colored) Vallette, between\\nAlex and Evelina streets. Fifth District. Rev. N.\\nRuffin, pastor.\\nNazareth Church (colored) ^Josephine, between\\nAnnette and St. Anthony streets. Rev. Thomas\\nJones, pastor.\\nNew Light Church Feliciana, between Robert-\\nson and Villere streets. Rev. William Patterson,\\npastor.\\nNew Hope Church Gretna. Rev. Putney\\nWard, pastor.\\nPilgrim Church Newton, between Monroe and", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "I/O GUIDE.\\nFranklin ^streets, Fifth District. Rev.^Richard\\nFrazer, pastor.\\nSecond African Baptist Churchr-:393 Melpo-\\nmene Street. Rev. Samuel Walker,- pastor.\\nSecond African Church Gretna .Rev. Ches-\\nley Henderson, pastor.\\nSecond Church (colored) Laurel, between\\nBerlin and Milan streets. Rev. Henry Caldwell,\\npastor.\\nSecond Free Mission Church Burdette, be-\\ntween Fourth and Plum streets Rev. H. Davis,\\npastor.\\nSecond Free Will Church Urquhart, between\\nMarigny and Mandeville streets. Rev. J. B.\\nMeyers, pastor.\\nSeventh Church (colored) Washington, be-\\ntween N. Robinson and Claiborne.\\nShiloh Church (colored) Perdido, between S.\\nRocheblave and S. Dolhonde streets. Rev. H. C.\\nGreen, pastor.\\nSixth Church Rousseau, between Felicity and\\nSt. Mary s streets. Rev. John Marks, pastor.\\nSt. John s Church (colored) First, between\\nHoward and Freret streets. Rev. Robert Jessop,\\npastor.\\nSt. John s Church (colored) St. Louis, between\\nN. Tonti and N. Rocheblave streets.\\nSt. Luke s Church Cypress, between Prieur", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 171\\nand Johnson streets. Rev. Louis Taylor, pastor.\\nSt. Mark s Fourth African Church Magnolia,\\nbetween Common and Gravier streets. Rev. R.\\nH. Steptoe, pastor.\\nSt. Peter s Church^New Orleans, between\\nRoman and Derbigny streets, Rev.N.Geddridge,\\npastor.\\nSt Peter s Church (colored) Cadiz, corner Col-\\niseum Street. Rev. H. B. Parks, pastor.\\nThird African Church 310N. Roman, between\\nLaharpe and Columbus streets. Rev. George W.\\nMerritt, pastor.\\nUnion Church (colored) 427 St. Peter Street.\\nRev W H. Bolding, pastor.\\nUnion Church (colored) 305 Orleans Street.\\nRev. John Holmes, Pastor.\\nZion Traveler Church (colored) Water, be-\\ntween Walnut and Chestnut streets. Sixth District.\\nRev. Thomas Evans, pastor\\nZion Traveler Church Branch (colored) Laurel,\\nbetween Amelia and Perriston streets.\\nMETHODIST EPISCOPAL.\\nAmes Church St. Charles, corner Calliope\\nStreet. Rev. J. G. Vaugn, pastor.\\nClinton Street Church (colored) Clinton, cor-\\nner Pearl Street, Seventh District. Rev Prince\\nKing, pastor.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "172 GUIDE.\\nFirst German Church South Franklin, corner\\nSt. Andrew Street. Rev. D. Mathaei, pastor.\\nFirst Street Church (colored) Winan s Chapel\\nDryades, near corner First Street. Rev. T. G.,\\nMontgomery, pastor.\\nJefferson Street German Church Jefferson,,\\ncorner Plum Street, Seventh District.\\nLaharpe Street Church (colored) Laharpe,.\\nbetween North Roman and North Prieur streets.\\nMt. Zion Church (colored) :Jackson, near Lo-\\ncust Street. Rev. J. F. Marshall, pastor.\\nMt. Zion Church (colored) Desire, betweert\\nMarias and Urquehart streets.\\nPleasant Plains Chapel (colored) 290 Perdido-\\nStreet. Rev. James D. Hudson, pastor.\\nPlum Street Church Plum, between Leonidas\\nand Monroe streets, Seventh District. Rev.Wm.\\nMurel, pastor.\\nNew Methodist Church Constance, southwest\\ncorner Octavia Street. Rev. M. Parker, pastor.\\nSixth Street Church Sixth, between Annunci-\\nation and Laurel streets. Rev. Morris J. Dyer,\\npastor.\\nSecond German Church Eighth Street, south-\\neast corner Laurel. Rev. J. A. Traeger, pastor.\\nSimpson Chapel (colored) West Valence, be-\\ntween Camp and Chestnut streets. Rev. Joseph\\nGould, pastor.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 173\\nSt. James African Church North Roman,\\nbetween Custom-house and Bienville streets.\\nRev. Henry B. Parks, pastor.\\nThird German Church North Rampart, between\\nFerdinand and Press streets. Rev.W. H. Traeger,\\npastor.\\nThompson Chapel (colored) Rampart, corner\\nWashington. Rev. R. L. Beal, pastor.\\nUnion Bethel Church (colored) South Frank-\\nlin, corner Thalia street. Rev. J. R. Grimes,\\npastor.\\nUnion Chapel (colored) Bienville, between\\nVillere and Marias streets. Rev. Stephen Priestly,\\npastor.\\nUnion Chapel 181 Union Street, Third District.\\nRev. Jesse Cummings, pastor.\\nWesley Chapel (colored) South Liberty, be-\\ntween Perdido and Poydras streets. Rev. S.\\nDavage, pastor.\\nZion African Church Frenchman, corner of\\nJosephine street.\\nMETHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH.\\nAlgiers Church Lavergne, corner Delaronde\\nStreet. Rev. James L. Wright, pastor.\\nDryades Street German Church Dryades, be-\\ntween Euterpe and Felicity. Rev. I. B. A. Ahrens,\\npastor.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "174 GUIDE.\\nCarondelet Street Church 147 Carondelet\\nStreet. Rev. Felix R. Hill, pastor.\\nCraps Street Church 575 Burgundy. Street.\\nRev. Wm. Leiser, pastor.\\nFelicity Church Felicity, southeast corner\\nChestnut Street. Rev. C. W. Carter, pastor-\\nLittle Bethel Church Coliseum, between Va-\\nlence and Bordeaux streets.\\nLouisiana Avenue Church Louisiana Avenue,\\ncorner Magazine Street. Rev, A. C. Coey, pastor.\\nMoreau Street Church Chartres late (Moreau)\\nstreet, corner Lafayette Avenue. Rev. James J.\\nBillingsley, pastor.\\nSoraparu Church Soraparu, between Chippewa\\nand Annunciation streets. Rev. P. H. Henesch,\\npastor.\\nSt. Charles Street Church St. Charles, corner\\nGeneral Taylor Street. Rev. Bernard Carradine,\\npastor.\\nSt. John s Chapel (colored) Market, near Pow-\\nderhouse Street, Fifth District.\\nPRESBYTERIAN.\\nCanal Street Church Canal, corner Derbigny.\\nRev. A. N. Wyckoff, pastor.\\nFirst German Presbyterian Church First, near\\nLaurel Street. Rev. L. Voss, pastor.\\nFirst Presbyterian Church Lafayette Square,", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 175\\ncorner Church and South streets. Rev. B. M.\\nPalmer, pastor.\\nFirst Presbyterian Church of Carrollton Bur-\\ndette, between Hampton and Second streets. Rev.\\nA. J. Witherspoon, pastor.\\nFranklin Street Memorial Church South Frank-\\nlin, N. W. corner Euterpe. Rev. J. Wm. Flinn,\\npastor.\\nLafayette Presbyterian Church Magazine, be-\\ntween Jackson and Philip streets. Rev. T. R.\\nMarkham, pastor.\\nNapoleon Avenue Presbyterian Church Napo-\\nleon Avenue, corner Coliseum Street. Rev. R. Q.\\nMallard, pastor.\\nPrytania Street Presbyterian Church Prytania,\\ncorner Josephine Street. Rev. James H. Nalle,\\npastor.\\nSeaman s Bethel and Reading Room East St.\\nThomas, between Jackson and Philip streets.\\nRev. A. J. Witherspoon, chaplain.\\nSeaman s Bethel No. 9 Esplanade Street.\\nRev. L. H. Pease, chaplain.\\nSecond German Presbyterian Church St. Ber-\\nnard, corner North Claiborne Street. Rev. Otto\\nF. Koelle, pastor.\\nSecond Mission Church Laurel, corner of\\nPleasant Street. Rev. A. J. Witherspoon, pastor.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "1/6 GUIDE.\\nThird Presbyterian Church Washington Square.\\nRev. H. M. Smith, pastor.\\nLUTHERAN.\\nEvangelical Lutheran St. Paul s Church 426\\nNorth Claiborne Street. Rev. Niles J. Bakke,\\npastor.\\nEmmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church St.\\nLouis, between Johnson and Prieur streets. Rev.\\nJ. F. Doescher, pastor.\\nFirst Evangelical Lutheran Church Camp,\\nnear Soniat Street. Rev. Owen Reidy, pastor.\\nMt. Zion Evangelical Luthern Church Frank-\\nlin, southwest corner Thalia. Rev. G. N. Blake,\\npastor.\\nSt. John s Church Custom-House, corner\\nNorth Prieur Street. Rev. T. Steinake, pastor.\\nSt. Paul s Church Port, corner Burgundy\\nStreet, Rev. Christian G. Moedinger, pastor.\\nTrinity Church Olivier, corner Eliza Street,\\nFifth District. Rev. George Franke, pastor.\\nZion Church St. Charles, corner St. Andrew\\nStreet. Rev. P. Roesner, pastor.\\nEVANGELICAL PROTESTANT.\\nBethlehem Church 368 Felicity Street. Rev.\\nHenry Kleinhagen, pastor.\\nGerman Evangelical Church Jackson, south-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 177\\nwest corner Chippewa Street. Rev. L. P. Heintz,\\npastor.\\nFirst Church Milan, corner Camp Street.\\nRev. Julius C. Kraemer, pastor.\\nGerman Protestant Church Zimple, between\\nLeonidas and Monroe streets, Seventh District.\\nRev. Louis Rague, pastor.\\nGerman Protestant Church Gretna.\\nGerman Protestant Church Clio, between St.\\nCharles and Carondelet streets. Rev. August\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Gehrke, pastor.\\nMadison Street Church Madison, between\\nEurthe and Third streets. Seventh District. Rev.\\nP. Ziemer, pastor.\\nGerman Evangelical Protestant Church 36\\nIMorth Derbigney Street, Rev. J. H. Perpeet,\\npastor.\\nUNITARIAN.\\nChurch of the Messiah St. Charles, corner of\\nJulia Street. Rev. Charles A. Allen, pastor.\\nGREEK.\\nGreek Church of the Holy Trinity North Dol-\\nhonde, between Barracks and Hospital streets.\\nRev. K. Michel, curate.\\nCHRISTIAN.\\nFirst Christian Church Camp, corner Melpo-\\nmene Street. Rev. W. L. Gibson, pastor.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "178 GUIDE.\\nCONGREGATIONAL.\\nAlgiers Church (colored) Vallette, near Eliza\\nStreet.\\nCentral Church (colored) S. Liberty, corner\\nClasquet Street. Rev. Robert Alexander, pastor.\\nHoward Church (colored) Spain, between Ram-\\npart and St. Claude Streets. Rev. H. A. Ruffin,\\npastor.\\nMorris Brown Church (colored) Marais, be-\\ntween Bourbon and Union streets, Third District.\\nMorris Brown Chapel, No. 2 (colored) 471\\nVillere Street, Third District.\\nJEWISH.\\nChevre Redushe Mikveh Israel Synagogue 165\\nDryades Street. Rev. Albert Silverstein, rabbi.\\nTouro Synagogue 218 Carondelet Street. Rev.\\nIsaac H. Leucht, rabbi.\\nGates of Prayer Jackson, between Chippewa\\nand Annunciation streets.\\nTemple o( Sinai East Carondelet, between\\nDelord and Calliope streets. Rev. J. K; Gutheim.\\nrabbi.\\nThe Right Way Carondelet, between Poydras\\nand Lafayette streets. M. A. Seiferth, acting\\nrabbi.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 179\\nASYLUMS.\\nAsylum for Destitute Orphan Boys St. Charles,\\nbetween Dufossat and Belle Castle, Jefferson City,\\nAsylum cf the Holy Family 40 St. Bernard\\nAvenue.\\nAsylum of the Immaculate Conception Ram-\\npart, northeast corner Elmira.\\nAsylum of the Little Sisters of the Poor\\nNorth Johnson, corner Laharpe, branch 965 Maga-\\nzine.\\nBeauregard Asylum Pauline, between St.\\nCharles and Rampart.\\nFemale Asylum of the Immaculate Conception\\n871 North Rampart, corner Elmira.\\nGerman Protestant Asylum State, between\\nCamp and Chestnut.\\nGirard Asylum Metairie Road, between Conti\\nand St. Louis.\\nIndigent Colored Orphan Asylum 393 Dau-\\nphine.\\nJewish Widows and Orphans Asylum Jack-\\nson, corner Chippewa.\\nLouisiana Retreat Insane Asylum Henry Clay\\nAvenue, between Camp and Coliseum.\\nLutheran Bethlehem Orphan Asylum North\\nPeters, between Andry and Flood.\\nMt. Carmel Female Orphan Asylum 53 Piety\\nStreet.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "l80 GUIDE.\\nNew Orleans Female Orphan Asylum Clio, be-\\ntween Camp and Prytania.\\nPoydras Orphan Asylum for Females Maga-\\nzine, between Leontine and Peters Avenue.\\nProvidence Asylum for Colored Female Chil-\\ndren Hospital corner North Tonti.\\nSociete Francaise de Bienfaisance Asylum St.\\nAnn, between Derbigney and North Roman.\\nSt. Alphonsus Orphan Asylum Fourth, corner\\nSt. Patrick.\\nSt. Anna s Asylum Prytania, corner St. Mary.\\nSt. Elizabeth Orphan Asylum Napoleon Ave-\\nnue, corner Prytania.\\nSt. Joseph s Orphan Asylum Josephine, cor-\\nner Laurel.\\nSt Mary s Orphan Boys Asylum Chartres,\\nbetween Mozart and French.\\nSt. Vincent Half Orphan Asylum Cambronne,\\nbetween Second and Burthe.\\nSt. Vincent s Orphan Asylum Magazine, cor-\\nner Race.\\nWidows and Orphans Father Turgis Asylum\\nfor Widows and Orphans of the South St. Claude,\\ncorner Pauline.\\nBoys House of Refuge Metairie Road, betwecK\\nBienville and Conti.\\nChildren s Home (Protestant Episcopal)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jack-\\nson, corner St. Thomas Street.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "GUfDE. I8l\\nChildren s Home (colored) 40 South Liberty.\\nFaith Home for the Aged and Destitute\\nPitt, corner Robert.\\nFink Home Camp, between Antonie and\\nAmelia.\\nHome for the Aged and Infirm Carondelet,\\ncorner Nashville.\\nHouse of Refuge for Destitute Girls -Annun-\\nciation, corner Calliope.\\nHouse of the Sisters of Christian Charity\\nConstance, between Berlin and Milan.\\nIndustrial School and Model Farm of Our Lady\\nof the Holy Cross North Peters, corner Reynes.\\nLittle Sisters of the Poor North Johnson, cor-\\nner Laharpe.\\nNewsboys Home 22 Bank Place.\\nProtestant Orphans Home Seventh, corner\\nConstance.\\nShakespearean Alms House Rampart, between\\nNashville and Arabella.\\nCONVENTS.\\nConvent de St. Famille 172 Hospital.\\nConvent of Our Lady of Lourdes 315 Char-\\ntres.\\nConvent of Our Lady of Mercy j6 Chippewa.\\nConvent of Perpetual Adoration\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Marias, be-\\ntween Mandeville and Spain.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "l82 GUIDE.\\nConvent of Mt. Carmel Olivier corner Eliza.\\nConvent of the Benedictine Nuns 630 Dau-\\nphine.\\nConvent of the Good Shepherd Bienville, N.\\nDolhonde and N. Broad.\\nConvent of the Redemptionists Constance, be-\\ntween St. Andrew and Josephine.\\nConvent of the Sacred Heart Gretna,\\nConvent of the Sacred Heart 96 Dumaine.\\nConvent of the Sisters of Notre Dame Laurel,\\nbetween St. Andrew and Josephine.\\nConvent of the Sisters of the Holy Family 17\\nOrleans.\\nMt. Carmel Convent 90 Oliver.\\nMt. Carmel Convent 200 Hospital.\\nSt. Alphonsus Convent of Mercy St. Andrew,\\nbetween Constance and Magazine.\\nSt. Boniface Convent Lapeyrouse, between\\nMiro and Tonti.\\nSt. Henry s Convent Constance, between Milan\\nand Berlin.\\nSt. Joseph s Convent St. Philip, corner N.\\nGalvez.\\nSt. Mary s Dominican Convent Dryades, cor-\\nner Calliope.\\nSt. Mater Doloroso Convent Cambronne, cor-\\nner Third.\\nUrsuline Convent Norfii Pclers, near Manuel.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "GurDE. 183\\nSt. Patrick s Convent of Mercy 139 Maga-\\nzine.\\nHOSPITALS.\\nCharity Hospital Common, between Howard\\nand Locust.\\nHospital de la Famille (for colored widows) 41\\nSt. Bernard Avenue.\\nHotel Dieu Common, between Bertrand and\\nSouth Johnson.\\nLuzenburg Hospital 431 Elysian Fields.\\nSmallpox Hospital South Hagan Avenue,\\nbetween Canal and Common.\\nINFIRMARIES.\\nCircus Street Infirmary 132 and 134 South\\nRampart.\\nTouro Infirmary Prytania, between Amelia\\nand Delachaise.\\nInfirmary of the Sisters of Charity Hotel\\nDieu.\\nCamp NichoUs Soldiers Home Bayou St.\\nJohn, foot of Esplanade.\\nCEMETERIES.\\nAmerican North Basin, between St. Louis and\\nConti.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "l84 GUIDE.\\nCarrollton Between Adams and Lowerline\\nstreets.\\nCemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran St. John s\\nChurch Canal Street, between Anthony and\\nBernadotte.\\nCharity Hospital, No, i Canal Street, between\\nAnthony and Metairie Ridge streets.\\nCharity Hospital, No. 2 Metairie Road, be-\\ntween Canal and Bienville.\\nCypress Grove Metairie Road, corner Canal\\nStreet.\\nFireman s Canal Street, corner Metairie Road.\\nGirod Street South Liberty, between Perril-\\nliat and Cypress streets.\\nHebrew Elysian Fields Street, near Gentilly\\nRoad.\\nHebrew Association Canal, between Anthony\\nand Bernadotte streets.\\nHebrew Congregation Dispersed of Judah\\nCanal, between Anthony Street and Metairie Road.\\nHebrew Jackson, between South Basin and\\nSouth Franklin streets.\\nLafayette, No. i Washington Avenue, between\\nColiseum and Prytania streets.\\nLafayette, No. 2 Washington Avenue, be-\\ntween South Basin and St. David streets.\\nLocust Grove Sixth, between Locust and Fer-\\nret streets.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 185\\nMasonic Bienville Street, between Metarie\\nRoad and Anthony Street\\nMetarie Cemetery Association Canal, between\\nSt. Patrick and Bernadotte streets.\\nOdd Fellows Rest Canal Street, corner Meta-\\nrie Road.\\nOlivier Verret, corner Market Street, Fifth\\nDistrict.\\nSt. Joseph Orphan Asylum Cemetery West\\nside Washington Avenue, between St. David and\\nSouth Liberty streets,\\nSt. Louis, No. I Between North Basin and\\nNorth Liberty.\\nSt. Louis, No. 2 Between Custom-House and\\nSt. Louis, North Robertson and North Claiborne\\nstreets.\\nSt. Louis, No. 3 Esplanade, near Jockey Club\\nHouse.\\nSt. Mary Between Adams and Lower, Seventh\\nand Eighth streets.\\nSt. Patrick s, Nos. i and 2 Canal, between\\nAnthony Street and Metairie Road.\\nSt. Patrick s, No. 3 Metairie Road, between\\nCanal and Bienville streets.\\nSt. Vincent North side St. Patrick, between\\nSt. David and Green streets, Jefferson.\\nSt. Vincent de Paul Between Louisa and Piety,\\nUrquhart and Villere streets.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "1 86 GUIDE.\\nGreenwood Metairie Road, corner Conti Street.\\nNational Cemetery Cbalmette.\\nVallence Street North side Rampart, between\\nVallence and Bordeaux streets.\\nWilliam Tell Tenth, between Lavoisier and\\nNerota streets, Gretna.\\nSTREET CAR LINES TO EXPOSITION.\\n\\\\_Separate cai^s are provided for sviokiiig and a7 e\\nindicated by their signboards?^\\nANNUNCIATION STREET LINE, RED CARS.\\nStart from Canal and Camp, up Tchoupitoulas\\nand Annunciation. Return by Chippewa, An^\\nnunciation and South Peters. Red light at night;\\nevery five minutes.\\nCANAL AND COLISEUM LINE, GREEN CARS.\\nStart from head of Canal Street, out Canal, up\\nCarondelet, Clio, Coliseum, Felicity, Chestnut,\\nLouisiana Avenue and Magazine. Return by\\nMagazine, Louisiana Avenue, Camp, Calliope and\\nSt. Charles. Green light at night every live\\nminutes.\\nCAMP AND PRYTANIA LINE.\\nYellow cars at night red light every five\\nminutes. Start from Clay Statue, up Camp and", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 187\\nPrytania. Return by Prytania, Poeyfare, Maga-\\nzine and Canal.\\nMAGAZINE STREET LINE.\\nGreen cars at night white light every two\\nminutes after midnight every hour. Start from\\nClay Statue, up Camp and Magazine. Return by\\nMagazine and Canal.\\nCARROLLTON LINE.\\nGreen cars at night green light every five\\nminutes. Starts from Baronne and Canal, up\\nBaronne, Delord and St. Charles to station, where\\ndummy engines take the cars to the Exposition\\nGrounds and CarroUton. Return by the same\\nroute.\\nTCHOUPITOULAS LINE.\\nEvery five minutes; green cars; green lights.\\nStart from Canal and Camp and thence up Tchoup-\\nitoulas. Return by same route.\\nIn progress Steam cars from corner Hagan\\nAvenue and Canal to the Exposition. Steamers\\nalso leave the head of Canal street for the Expo-\\nsition.\\nREMAINING STREET CAR LINES.\\nJackson Street Line every five minutes red", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "I\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab GUIDE.\\ncars and red lights. Start from Baronne and Ca-\\nnal, up Baronne, Delord, St. Charles and Jackson\\nto Gretna Ferry Landing. Return by same\\nroute.\\nCANAL AND CLAIBORNE STREET LINE.\\nYellow cars red lights every five minutes.\\nStart from head of Canal Street, out Canal,\\nup Claiborne, up Elysian Fields, down Ur-\\nquhart to Lafayette Avenue. Return by St.\\nClaude, Elysian Fields, Claiborne and Canal.\\nCANAL AND COMMON.\\nYellow cars white lights every five minutes.\\nStart from head of Canal, out Canal, Rampart\\nand Common to station to Rocheblave street. Re-\\nturn by Common, Basin and Canal.\\nGIROD AND POYDRAS.\\nEvery five minutes; yellow cars; green lights.\\nStart from head of Common Street, thence out\\nFront, Girod, Claiborne and Common to Roche-\\nblave Station. Return by Common, Claiborne,\\nPerdido, Poydras and Fulton.\\nCANAL STREET LINE.\\nGreen cars and white light every seven min-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 189\\nutes. Start from Clay Statue, out Canal to Green-\\nwood and Metairie Road Cemeteries. Return by-\\nsame route.\\nESPLANADE STREET LINE.\\nYellow cars; red light; every five minufes;\\nevery hour after midnight. Start from Clay\\nStatue, out Canal, Rampart, Esplanade to Louisi-\\nana Jockey Club Race Course. Return by same\\nroute.\\nESPLANADE AND FRENCH MARKET LINE.\\nYellow cars red light every eight minutes.\\nStart from Custom House and Canal Street, out\\nPeters and Esplanade to Jockey Club House and\\nBayou Bridge. Return by same route.\\nI LEVEE AND BARRACKS LINE.\\nGreen cars red light every five minutes.\\nStart from Canal at the Custom House, thence\\nout Peters, Lafayette Avenue, Chartres and Po-\\nland to Station. Here change cars for the United\\nStates Barracks (without extra fare). Return by\\nPoland, Royal, Lafayette Avenue, Peters and\\nCanal.\\nRAMPART AND DAUPHINE LINE.\\nRed cars white light every five minutes.\\nStart from Clay Statue, out Canal, Rampart, Es-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "igO GUIDE.\\nplanade, Dauphine and Poland to Station, thence\\nto Barracks and Slaughter-house. Return by\\nRampart and Canal.\\nCANAL, DUMAINE AND BAYOU ST. JOHN LINE.\\nBlue cars and blue light every five minutes.\\nStart from Clay Statue, out Canal, Dauphine, Du-\\nmaine. Bayou St. John and Grand Route, St.\\nJohn to Laharpe Street. Return by Broad, Ursu-\\nlines, (every third car by St. Peters) Burgundy\\nand Canal.\\nCANAL, DUMAINE AND FAIR GROUNDS LINE.\\nGreen cars green lights every five minutes.\\nStart from Clay Statue, out Canal, Dauphine,\\nDumaine and Broad to Fair Grounds. Return\\nby Broad, (every third car by St. Peters Street)\\nUrsuHnes, Burgundy and Canal.\\nFRENCH MARKET LINE.\\nRed cars; red light; every five minutes. Start\\nfrom Decatur, corner Dumaine, out Dumaine and\\nBroad to Fair Grounds. Return by Broad, Ursu\\nlines and Decatur.\\nJACKSON R. R. LINE.\\nRed cars red light; every five minutes. Start", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 191\\nfrom head ofvElysian Fields, up Royal, St, Charles,\\nDelord, Dryades and Clio to Jackson R. R. Depot.\\nReturn by Erato, Carondelet, Bourbon, Esplan-\\nade and Decatur.\\nRAMPART LINE.\\nGreen cars; green light; every five minutes.\\nStart from Clay Statue, up St. Charles, Delord,\\nDryades, St. Andrew and Baronne to station on\\nEighth Street. Return by Baronne, Dryades,\\nRampart and Canal.\\nCARONDELET STREET LINE.\\nWhite cars; white light; every five minutes.\\nStart from Clay Statue, up St. Charles, Delord\\nand Baronne to station on Eighth Street. Re-\\nturn by Carondelet and Canal.\\nBARRACKS AND SLAUGHTER HOUSE LINE.\\nRed cars white light every fifteen minutes.\\nStart from station, Rampart, corner Poland,\\nthence out Poland, Dauphine, Delery and Peters\\nto the Slaughter House. Return by Peters,\\nFlood, Dauphine and Poland.\\nCANAL STERET DUMMY RAILWAY.\\nStart from Canal, opposite Carondelet, for", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "192 GUIDE.\\nGreenwood, Metairie Road and St. Patrick Cem-\\neteries and West End every half hour, returning\\nby the same route.\\nRAILROAD STATIONS.\\nShell Beach Railway Corner St. Claude and\\nElysian Fields. Ticket ofifice at station.\\nMobile Ohio Head of Canal Street. Ticket\\noffice opposite St. Charles Hotel.\\nNew Orleans, Spanish Fort Lake Railroad\\nCorner Canal and Basin streets. Ticket office at\\nstation.\\nNew Orleans City Lake Railroad (West End)\\nCanal, opposite Carondelet. Ticket office on\\ncars.\\nPonchartrain Railroad (Old Lake End or Milne-\\nburg) Corner Elysian Fields and Chartres Street.\\nTicket office at station.\\nIllinois Central or Great Jackson Route Head\\nof Calliope Street. Ticket office corner Canal and\\nCarondelet.\\nLouisville Nashville Head of Canal and\\nLevee. Ticket office under St. Charles Hotel and\\nat station.\\nMississippi Valley Railroad Jackson Depot\\nhead of CaUiopc. Ticket office at 61 St. Charles\\nStreet.\\nNew Orleans and North Eastern (Queen and", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 193\\nCrescent) Corner Levee and Cotton Press Street.\\nTicket office St. Charles Street, opposite St. Charles\\nHotel.\\nSouthern Pacific and Star Crescent Head of\\nEsplanade and Levee. Ticket office corner of\\nMagazine and Natchez.\\nTexas Pacific Head of Terpsichore Street\\nand Levee. Ticket office 47 St. Charles Street.\\nFERRIES TO ALGIERS.\\nFrom head of Canal Street.\\nFrom head of St. Ann Street.\\nFrom head of Barracks Street.\\nEvery twenty minutes fare five cents.\\nMorgan s Louisiana Texas Railroad Ferry, from foot of Esplan-\\nade Street, on departure of train for railroad depot at Algiers.\\nThe following ferries are skiffs, or sail boats, carrying persons when\\ncalled fare lo cents each way\\nFree Town Ferry Head of Richards Street.\\nLouisiana Avenue Ferry to Harvey s Canal (a tug) Head of Lou-\\nisiana Avenue.\\nSlaughter House Ferry From the Slaughter House and United\\nStateslBarracks.\\nGretna Ferry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 To the Oak Ames Plantations, foot of Upper Line\\nStreet.\\nSTEAMERS FOR UPPER AND LOWER\\nCOASTS AND DOMESTIC PORTS.\\nFor Bayou Sara, Port Hickey, Baton Rouge, Donald-\\nsonville and way landings Steamboats Edward J. Gay and Corona\\nleave wharf below Canal Street Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and\\nSaturdays.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "194 GUIDE.\\nFor Bayou LiaFourche, Coast Plaquemine and Donald-\\nsonville Steamboats Whisper and Keokuk, daily at 12 M., from\\nfoot of Conti Street.\\nFor HJimpton Point and way landings Str. Mabel Comeaux,\\nMonday, Wednesday and Saturday at 12 M., from foot of Conti Street,\\nFor Gross Tete Railroad, Baton Kouge, Piaquemine,\\nBayou Goula and DonaldsonTille^Stearaer Clinton, Mon-\\nday and Friday, 5 p. M., below Canal.\\nLio^iver Coast\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamer Godfrey T. Johnson, for Pat Lyon s\\nPlace and way landings, daily, Mondays excepted, at 3 p. M., head\\nof St, Louis Street.\\nLower Coast to Oakrill\u00c2\u00a9 Steamer Lura, daily at 8 a. m,,\\nThursdays excepted, from head of St. Louis Street.\\nLower Coast lor Port Eads, Quarantine Station and\\nForts St. Philip and Jacltson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamers Neptune, Alvin and\\nDaisy, from head ofConti Street, at 11 A. M., daily except Saturday\\nand Sunday.\\nFor Red River, Colfax, Cane Rirer, Alexandria, Pine-\\nvile Steamer Phil E. Chappell, from head of Conti Street, as adver-\\ntised,\\nOachita River\u00e2\u0080\u0094 For Oachita City Trenton, Monroe and\\nlandings Steamer Poplar Bluff every Wednesday at 5 P. M., from\\nwharf below Canal Street.\\nBayou Teche\u00e2\u0080\u0094 For St. Martinsville, New Iberia, Jean-\\nevette, Baldwin s, Franklin, Centerville, Patterson s\\nand all landings Steamer New Iberia from head of Custom House\\nStreet, as advertised.\\nFor Atchafalaja River and landings and Bayou Courta-\\nbleau Steamer Fanchon, Wednesdays at 5 P. M., from head of\\nCustom House Street.\\nFor Viclcsburg, Greenville, Natchez and Davis Bend-\\nSteamers J.M. White, Ed. Richardson, Natchez, Tuesday, Thursday\\nand Saturday at 5 P. M., from head of Custom-House Street.\\nFor Cincinnati and Ohio River, as advertised, from head of\\nPoydras Street,\\nFor Memphis, Arkansas City, Greenville and way land-\\nings\u00e2\u0080\u0094Steamers Henry Frank and Chas. P. Choteau leave on alternate\\nThursdays at 5 P. M., from head of Poydras Street.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 195\\nFor St. liouis\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Anchor Line)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamers City of Bayou Sara and\\nCity of Baton Rouge, Wednesday and Saturday at 5 P. M., from head\\nof Poydras Street.\\nFor New York\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Cromwell Line)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamers Knickerbocker, Hud-\\nson, Louisiana and New Orleans, as advertised, from head of Toulouse\\nStreet.\\nFor New York\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Morgan s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and\\nSteamship Company)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamers leave Algiers every Tuesday and\\nFriday at 6 P. M.\\nLake Fonchartrain\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamer New Camelia leaves Milneburg\\non arrival of cars from Fonchartrain depot, Elysian Fields Street, for\\nMandeville, Madisonville and Old Landing. Trains leave above depot\\nto connect, Mondays and Thursdays at i P. M., Tuesdays, Fridays and\\nSaturdays at 4 P. M. E.xcursions, Wednesdays at 8 A. M. and 6 p. M.,\\nSundays at 7 A. M. and 6 P. M. Fare each way, $1.00. Excursions\\nover and back, $1.00.\\nFOREIGN TRADE.\\nThe foreign trade which is open to the mer-\\nchants of New Orleans can be no better illustrated\\nthan in the publication of its lines of ocean traffic\\ndirect with many parts of the world, and particu-\\nlarly its Central American and Mexican trade.\\nMore trips to the month are needed, and increasing\\nbusiness ere long will bring this about. The Ex-\\nposition edition of the Times- Democrat on this\\nsubject says:\\nNew Orleans stands at the mouth of the greatest river in the world,\\nwith the greatest tonnage and traffic and the greatest future before it.\\nIt is midway between the world s two great oceans, midway between four\\ncontinents, two north and south, two east and west, and is finally the\\nterminus of at least six of the longest and most important railway trunk\\nlines in the world.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "196 GUIDE.\\nDISTANCE TO LATIN-AMERICAN PORTS.\\nIn the point of time and distance to all the ports of the Gulf of Mex-\\nico and Caribbean Sea, to all the ports of Mexico and the West Indies,\\nwith the exception of a few of the further islands of South America,\\nwest of Guiana, and to all the countries and islands of the Pacific\\nocean, New Orleans is more favorably situated than any city on the\\nAmerican seaboard, and should do the importing and exporting busi-\\nness of these- countries.\\nThe time between New Orleans and Vera Cruz is only three days\\nvia Morgan City three and one-half by way of the passes. Port\\nLimon, Costa Rica, is seven days from here, and nme and one-half\\nfrom New York, and Colon the same distance from both cities. Belize\\nis three and one-half days from New Orleans seven from New York.\\nSTEAMERS AND SAILING VESSELS.\\nWe have, during the winter season, two lines of steamers, run\\nning to Vera Cruz and stopping at Bagdad, Tuxpam and Tampico.\\nThere are also sailing vessels frequently running to Progreso and other\\nMexican ports.\\nWe have a regular line of steamers to Havana, Key West and Cedar\\nKeys. There are besides these nine other Imes, embracing ninety-three\\nvessels (steamers), running between this port and Europe, which stop\\nat various West Indian and Mexican ports en route to this city or on\\ntheir way home, thus giving us easy and frequent communication with\\nthem. Thus the West India and Paciric Line (British) stop at nearly\\nall the important West Indian ports the Mississippi and Dominion\\nLine (British) at Havana the North German Lloyd (German) also at\\nHavana; the Harrison Line (British) among the West Indies and the\\nports of Central and South America another line at Porto Rica and\\nCuba and the others in similar manner at various ports on the Gulf\\nor the Caribbean.\\nWe have besides these a line of vessels (the Macheca Line) between\\nBeHze (British Honduras) and New Orleans, making three trips a\\nmonth a hne trading regularly to Port Livingston, on the eastern\\ncoast of Spanish Honduras, and two other hnes, the Oteri and C. A.\\nFish s steamers, connecting Truxillo and the Bay Islands with this\\nport.\\nA new line of steamers has just been established between New Or-", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 197\\nleans and Nicaragua, placing this city in regular monthly communica-\\ntion with the three Caribbean ports of Gracias a Dios, Bluefields and\\nSan Juan del Norte.\\nC. A. Fish s steamers connect New Orleans with Port Limon bi-\\nweekly, and thence with the interior by rail.\\nThree hnes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Macheca s, Oteri s and Fish s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 run between this city\\nand Jamaica during the winter season, and one to Port-au-Prince,\\nHayti.\\nWith the other ports of the Caribbean there is very little communi-\\ncation. A line of steamers was recently estabhshed to Laguayra, Ven-\\nezuela, but had to be discontinued on account of the oppressive quar-\\nantine. With Venezuela we have now no communication except an\\noccasional vessel.\\nFOREIGN STEAMSHIP LINES.\\nFor Liverpool\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Compania Mexicana Trasatlantica\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamers\\nMexico, Oaxaca, Tamauripas, as advertised, from head of St. Marys\\nStreet.\\nFor Trieste, A.ustria\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Ward and Holzapfel s Line)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamers\\nleave as advertised from head of Jackson Street.\\nFor Havre\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Antwerp and Bordeaux French Commercial Line)\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSteamers Dupoy de Lome, Paris, Havre, Rouen, Bordeaux. Nantes,\\nand Marseille, as advertised, from head of St. Mary s Street.\\nFor Bremen, Hamburg, Genoa, Glasgow and London\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094{Mexican Gulf Line)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamers leave as advertised from head of\\nWashington Street.\\nFor Ruatan, Truxillo, Utilla, Bonacca, Belfate, Ceiba\\nand other ports in Spanish Honduras\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Oteri Pioneer Line)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steam-\\ners S. Oteri and E. B. Ward, Jr., leave as advertised from head of\\nCaliope Street.\\nFor Florida and Havana\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Morgan Line)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamers Hutchinson\\nand Morgan leave Algiers as advertised. Passengers take ferry boat\\nfrom head of Elysian Fields Street.\\nFor Vera Cruz\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamer Harlan leaves Algiers as advertised.\\nPassengers take ferry boat from head of Elysian Fields Street.\\nFor Central America, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and As-\\npinwall-(New Orleans and Central American Steamship Line.)", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "198 GUIDE.\\nSteamship Lucy P. Miller, as advertised, from head of Caliope\\nStreet.\\nFor Spanish Honduras ports and the Bay Islands Steamship\\nKate Carroll, as advertised, from head of Caliope Street\\nFor Bine Fields and Port Limon The Costa Rica Steam-\\nship Heredia, as advertised, from head of CaUope Street\\nFor Puerto Cortez, Omoa, Livingston, Port Barrios,\\nS\u00c2\u00a3^,nto Tomas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (New Orleans, Honduras and Guatemala Steamship\\nLine)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamship Ellen Knight, as advertised, from head of Caliope\\nStreet.\\nFor Belize, Livingston, Port Barrios and Truxillo\\n(United States and Central American Steamship Line)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steamship\\nLongfellow, as adrertised, from head of Caliope Street.\\nFor Belize, Livingston, Port Barrios, Puerto Cortez\\nIsabel and Panzos (New Orleans and Belize Royal Mail Steam-\\nship Company) Steamers City of Dallas and Wanderer, as advertised,\\nfrom head of Caliope Street.\\nFor Livingston, Santo Tomas and Puerto Cortez\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Steam-\\nship Craigallion leaves as advertised, from Picayune Tier.\\nBy the New Orleans, Central and South American steamship pass-\\nengers are conveyed to Aspinwall, and thence by British, French or\\nGerman mail steamships to the following Atlantic ports\\nCosta Rica\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Port Limon.\\nNicaragua Greytown.\\nColombia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Carthagenia, Sa vanilla Bay and Magdalena River,\\nSanta Martha, Rio Hacha.\\nVenezuela\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Maracaibo, Puerto Cabello, La Guayra, Cumana^\\nCarupano, Bolivar on the Oronoco River.\\nBritish G-uiana Georgetown, on the Demerara River.\\nDutch Guiana\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Paramaribo.\\nFrench Guiana\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cayenne.\\nDutch West Indies\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Island Curacao.\\nBritish West Indies\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, St.\\nVincent, Barbadoes, Sta Lucia, Montserratt, Antigua, St. Kitts,\\nJamaica.\\nFrench West Indies\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Martinique, Gaudeloupe.\\nDanish West Indies\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sta. Cruz, St. Thomas.\\nSpanish West Indies\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Porti Rico, San Domingo, Hayti.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 199\\nBy the NewOrleans and South American steamships, passengers and\\nfreight are conveyed to Aspinwall and thence by the British Steam\\nNavigation Company s steamships to the following South Pacific\\nports\\nNew Grenada\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Beunaventura, Tumaco.\\nEcuador\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Esmeraldas, xManta, Ballenita, Guayaquil, Tumbez.\\nPeru (via Callao)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pimentel, Eten, Pascasmayo, Malabrigo,\\nHuanchaco, Huacho.\\nPeru\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Payta, Callao, Tambo de Mora, Pisco, Lomas, Chala,Quilca,\\nIslay, Mollendo, IIo, Arica, Pisagua, Mexiilones, Iquique.\\nBolivia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pabelon de Pica, Huanilos, Tocopilla, Cobija, Antofo-\\ngasta.\\nChili\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Chanaral, Caldera, Carazal-bajo, Huasca, Coquimbo,\\nValparaiso, Tome, Talcahuano, Lota, Coral (Valdivia), Ancud, Port\\nMontt.\\nThrough first cabin passenger rates from New Orleans to the follow-\\ning south Pacific ports (not including railroad fare across the Isthmus)\\nBuenaventura 85 00\\nTumaco 93 75\\nEsmeraldas no 00\\nManta 120 00\\nGuayaquil 140 00\\nPavta 155 00\\nCallao 195 00\\nTambo de Mora and Pisco i97 5\u00c2\u00b0\\nChala 212 50\\nQuilca and Mollendo 222 50\\nIlo and Arica 230 00\\nPisaqua, Mexiilones and Iquique 232 50\\nTocopilla and Cobija 240 00\\nChanaral and Caldera 248 75\\nCarazal-bajo and Huasco 255 00\\nCoquimbo 258 75\\nValparaiso 265 00\\nThe fare from New Orleans to\\nAspinwall 5\u00c2\u00b0 00\\nCarthagena 60 00\\nSavanilla 65 00", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "200 GUIDE.\\nOCEAN DISTANCES BETWEEN NEAR\\nPORTS.\\nMILES.\\nAspiriwall to Carthagena 2 270\\nCarthagena to Savanilla 73\\nSavanilla to Santa Martha 46\\nSanta Martha to La Hacha 87\\nLa Hacha to Curacao 264\\nCuracao to Porto Cabello 115\\nPorto Cabello to La Guayra 66\\nLa Guayra to Trinidad 340\\nDemerara to Trinidad 365\\nBarbadoes 430\\nTobago 315\\nTrinidad to Jacmel 1130\\nPort-au-Prince 1320\\nPort-au-Prince to St. Thomas 660\\nSanJuanP. R 994\\nJamaica to Jacmel 255\\nTrinidad to Grenada 94\\nSt. Vincent 178\\nBarbadoes 283\\nSta Lucia 230\\nMartinique 275\\nDominica 324\\nGaudaloupe 377\\nAntigua 445\\nMontserrat 477\\nNevis 510\\nSt. Kitis 510\\nTortolo 639\\nSt. Thomas 660\\nSan Juan, P. R 720\\nBY THE NEW ORLEANS, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN STEAM-\\nSHIPS.\\nFreight and passengers are conveyed to Aspinwall, thence crossing\\nthe Isthmus by rail proceed from Panama by the Pacific Mail Steam-\\nships to the following ports on the North Pacific Ocean to China,\\nJapan, Indian and Australian seas.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 201\\nThe distances from Panama are\\nTO. MILES.\\nCosta Rica\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Punta Arenas 454\\nNicaragua\u00e2\u0080\u0094 San Juan del Sur 6io\\nCorinto 716\\nHonduras\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A mapala 779\\nSan Salvador- La Union 800\\nLa Libertad 904\\nAcajulta 942\\nGuatemala San Jose de Guatemala 1002\\nMexico\u00e2\u0080\u0094 San Benito 1121\\nTonala 1223\\nSalina Cruz 1303\\nPort Angel 1384\\nAcapulco 1591\\nManzanillo 1742\\nSan Bias 1928\\nMazatlan 2033\\nCalifornia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 San Francisco 3220\\nAt San Francisco the steamers connect at the following ports, and\\nthe distance from San Francisco to\\nMILES.\\nWashington Territory\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Victoria 750\\nTacoma 880\\nOlympia 925\\nOregon\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Portland T020\\nSandwich Islands Honolulu 2100\\nFejee Islands\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kandavan 4900\\nNew Zealand\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Auckland 6050\\nWellington 6625\\nLyttleton 6795\\nPoint Chalmers 7000\\nNew South Wales\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sidney 7200\\nVictoria, Australia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Melbourne 7240\\nQueensland, Australia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Brisbane 7150\\nRockhampton 7500\\nSouth Australia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Adelaide 8246\\nTasmania\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hobarttown 7600\\nJapan\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Yokohama 4800\\nvia (Yokohama) Hiogo S^oo\\nNagasaki 5559\\nChina- (via Hong Kong) Shanghai 6000\\n(direct) 6400\\nMalay Pen\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Singapore 7857\\nIndia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (via Hong Kong) Penang 8718\\nCalcutta 9900", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "202 GUIDE.\\nPassengers to and from Aspinwall, by European Mail Steamers, are\\ntwenty-one days on the ocean, while by the New Orleans route, con-\\nnecting with European Steamers at New York, the sea voyage across\\nthe Atlantic is reduced to twelve days, and is relieved by a very pleas-\\nant journey of three days by rail from New Orleans to New York.\\nOCEAN DIISTANCES FROM NEW ORLEANS.\\nMILES.\\nTo Cuba 2 620\\nTampico 625\\nTuxpan 750\\nVera Cruz. 1113\\nCoatzocalcos (Eads Railroad) 900\\nProgresso, Yucatan 600\\nBelize (Honduras) 840\\nBay Islands Honduras) 900\\nJamaica (West Indies) 1200\\nAspinwall (Colombia) 1300\\nTo Carthagena 1 300\\nSavinilla 1322\\nCuracao 1557\\nTrinidad 2085\\nBarbados 2135\\nFOREIGN CONSULS AND CONSULAR\\nAGENTS AT NEW ORLEANS.\\nArgentine Republic\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wallace Ogden, Consul, 179 Common\\nStreet.\\nAustria-Hungary Baron Meysenberg, Consul, 71 Carondelet.\\nBelgium\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Anton, J. R. Landauar, Consul, 45 Carondelet.\\nBolivia Joseph P. Macheca, Consul, Rampart, between Ursulines\\nand Hospital.\\nBrazil\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Allain Eustis, Vice Consul Rampart, between Ursulines\\nand Hospital.\\nCosta Rica\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. A. Quintero, Consul, 66 Camp.\\nDanish\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H, F. Clumpp, Consul, 42 Union, First District.\\nFrance Paul d Abzac, Consul-General, 92 Royal.\\nGerman Empire John Knittschnitt, Consul, 163 Carondelet.\\nGreat Britain\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. de G. de Fonblanque, Consul, 13 Carondelet.\\nGreece N. M. Benachi, Consul, 44 Perdido.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "GUIDE. 203\\nOuatemala\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E, Martinez, Consul, jj Custom-house.\\nHonduras\u00e2\u0080\u0094 L. M. Avendano, Consul. 44 Conti.\\nItaly\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. C. Marfoschi, Consul, 84 Conti.\\nMexico\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Zapata Vera, Consul, Room i, 28 Natchez.\\nNetherlands\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Adolph Schreiber, Consul, 61 Carondelet.\\nNorway ond Sweden\u00e2\u0080\u0094 B. F. Bengston, Vice Consul, I\\nGal liar Court.\\nRussia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. F. Schroeder, Consul, 62 Baronne.\\nSan Salvador\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Em. Martinez, Consul, 77 Custom-House.\\nSpain\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Arturo Baldasano y Zopete, Consul, Pedro SoHs, Vice\\nConsul, 5 Commercial Place.\\nSwitzerland\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Emile Hoehn, Consul, 63 Custom-House.\\nUnited States of Columbia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Em. Martinez, Consul, 77\\nCustom-House.\\nUruaguay (Oriental Republic)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Leonard Sewell, Consul,\\n25 Carondelet.\\nVenezuela\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Em. Martinez, Consul, Custom House.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "204 GUIDE.\\nRAILROAD DISTANCES FROM NEW ORLEANS.\\nMILES.\\nTo Atlanta 447\\nAustin 527\\nBaltimore 1204\\nBoston 1626\\nCharleston 803\\nChattanooga 574\\nChicago 9IO\\nCincinnati 858\\nCleveland, O 1103\\nDenver 1616\\nEl Paso 1075\\nGalveston 411\\nHouston 361\\nIndianapolis 823\\nJacksonville 743\\nKansas City 977\\nLittle Rock 529\\nLouisville 749\\nLynchburg 1020\\nMexico City 1300\\nMemphis 394\\nMilwaukee 1000^\\nMobile 140\\nMontreal 1698\\nMontgomery 32a\\nNashville 564\\nNew York 1392\\nNiagara Falls 1308\\nNorfolk 1224\\nOmaha iiio\\nPaducah 553\\nPensacola 244\\nPhiladelphia 1304\\nPittsburg 1171\\nQuebec 1909\\nRichmond 1046\\nSavannah 734\\nSalt Lake City 2123\\nSan Francisco 2500\\nSan Antonio 577\\nSelma 392^\\nSt. Louis 700-\\nSt. Paul 1324\\nToronto 1365\\nVicksburg 227\\nWashington 1163", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "GUIDE.\\n205\\nHIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES OF MIDDLING UPLAND\\nCOTTON IN EACH OF THE CALENDAR YEARS\\nNAMED AT THE CITY OF NEW YORK.\\nHIGHEST\\nPRICE.\\nYEAR. CENTS.\\n1825 27\\n1826 14\\n1827 12\\n1828 13\\n1829 II\\n1830 13\\nX83I II\\n1832 12\\n1833 17\\n1834 16\\n1835 20\\n1836 20\\n1837 17\\n1838 12\\n1839 16\\n1840 10\\n1841 II\\n1842 9\\n1843- 8\\n1844 9\\n1845 9\\n1846 9\\n1847 .12\\n1848 8\\n1849 II\\n1850 14\\n1851 14\\n1852 10\\n1853 II\\n1854 10\\n1855 II\\nLOWEST\\nPRICE.\\nCENTS.\\n13\\n9\\nHIGHEST\\nPRICE.\\nYEAR. CENTS.\\n1856 12\\n1857 15\\n1858 13\\n1859 12\\ni860 II\\n1861 28\\n1862 68\\n1863 88\\n1864 190\\n1865 122\\n1866 52\\n1867 36\\n1868 33\\n1869 35\\n1870 25K\\n1871 22\\n1872 27I\\n1873 2l|\\n1874 18I\\n1875 I7I\\n1876 I3I\\n^^-77 i3i^\\n1878 12^\\n1879 13I\\n1880 13I\\n1881 13\\n^882 ^xa^\\n1883 Hi\\n1884 to\\nSept. I. t^\\nLOWEST\\nPRICE.\\nCENTS.\\n9\\n13\\n9\\nII\\n10\\nII\\n20\\n54\\n72\\n33\\n32\\n15 K\\n16\\n25\\n15\\ni8|\\ni3f\\nX4|\\ni3iV\\n10^\\n9i\\nloi\\n10", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "206\\nINDEX.\\nINDEX.\\nAfrican, the, 3.\\nAaron Burr, 14.\\nAlmonaster-y-RoxasDonAndres II\\nTomb of, 91.\\nAlgiers, 35, 88.\\nArea of City, 44.\\nAdah Isaacs Menken. 67.\\nAmusements, 65.\\nAll Saints Day, 80, 8i. 82, 83, 84.\\nAcademy of Music, 65.\\nAn Apology, 135, 136.\\nAmes Oakes, Estate of, 120.\\nArticles Religieux, 100.\\nAudubon, 102.\\nArt Gallery, 147.\\nAsylums, 179, 180, 181.\\nBoarding Houses, 157; 158.\\nBalcouy Studies, 100.\\nBridge of Sighs, 100.\\nBull Run Russell Pen Pictures,\\n132, 133, 134.\\nBay St. Louis, 139.\\nBattle of Sedan, 68.\\nBienville, 3, 5.\\nBiloxi, 5, 6, 9, 140.\\nBayou St. John, 5, 57.\\nBattle of New Orleans, 14.\\nButler, General Benjamin F., 24,\\n34. 35. 51. 53- 70, 102.\\nHeadquarters of, 104.\\nBailey, Captain, 28, 29, 31.\\nBell, Captain, 29, 30, 33.\\nBenjamin, Judah P., Portrait of,\\n35-\\nBank, Old Citizens, loi.\\nBanks, 162, 163.\\nBeauregard, General G. T. 39,\\n102, 115, 116, 117 126.\\nBull-fight Audience A, 52.\\nBlack Coffee, 55.\\nBiscuit Glace, 56.\\nBayou St. Peter, 57.\\nBenjamin Franklin, Statue of, 51.\\nBuftklo Bill s Wild West, 68.\\nBoston Club House, 75.\\nBoulton Carbons. 93.\\nBrush Electric Light, 93.\\nCHAS.\\nCreoles, The, 105, 106.\\nChrist s Church, 107.\\nChasaublere, 100.\\nConfederate Silver, Seizure of, loi.\\nCivil District Court, 92.\\nColiseum Place, 51.\\nChurch of St. Ignatius, 91.\\nChurch of Ivy, 85.\\nCathedral St. Louis, 91.\\nChurches, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168,\\n169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175,\\n176, 177, 178.\\nConvent Ursulines, 7, 63.\\nConvents, 18 r, 182.\\nCat Island, 5.\\nCompagnie d Occident, 4, 10.\\nCable, Geo. W. 8, 105, 119.\\nCession to the United States, 12.\\nChalmette Cemetery, 15, 62.\\nCraven, Captain, 30.\\nCrozat, Anthony, 4.\\nConfederate Ram Manassas, 30,31.\\nConfederate General Lovell, 33.\\nConnecticut Infantry, 12th, 34. 51.\\nClay, Henry, 49, 173.\\nCommon Council, 13, 35, 39,\\nCustom-House, 69.\\nCredit System, 40, 41.\\nCongo Square, 52.\\nChoctaws, 139.\\nChoctaw Squaws, 54.\\nCarondelet s Canal, 57.\\nCarondelet, Baron de, 3, 12, 57.\\nCanal Street, 44, 57.\\nCarrollton, 44, 58, 60.\\nCarroUton Levee, 59.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "rNDEX.\\n207\\nCarrollton Gardens, 60.\\nCity Library, 69.\\nCity, Debt of, 38.\\nCiry Hall, 51, 73.\\nCity Government, Expenses of, 35,\\n38.\\nCourt Buildings, 74.\\nCotton Exchange, 75.\\nCotton Presses, 90.\\nCemeteries, 15, 62, 78, 79, 183, 184,\\n185, 186.\\nCotton Table, 205.\\nDrysdale, Dr., 107.\\nDevil s Swamp, 139.\\nDe Soto, 4.\\nDuke of Orleans, 9.\\nDuncan, Confederate General, 16, 27\\nDrainage, 42, 43.\\nDime Museums, 67.\\nDagos, 54.\\nDate Palm, 98.\\nDavis, Jefferson, Ex- President, 5.\\nDummy Engines, Queer, 58.\\nDraw Poker, 97.\\nDe Pcuilly, M. J. N.. 72\\nEast Pascagonla, 140.\\nExposition, the, 141, 142, 143, 144,\\n145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 151, 152,\\n153. 154. 155. 156-\\nExposition, the. Special Features\\nof, 150, 151.\\nExposition, the. Outside Featur s\\nof. 152.\\nExcursions, Local, 153.\\nEnglish Turn, 126.\\nEads, Captain, 128.\\nExchange Place, 100,\\nElection Day in New Orleans, 132.\\nEverett s Artillery, 34.\\nEarly, General Jubal A., 39, 115,\\n1x6, 117.\\nEsplanade Street, 61, 62.\\nExchanges, 160.\\nExpress Companies, 160.\\nFarragut, 17, 26, 28, 29. 31, 32,\\n16, 19, 70, 35, 127.\\nFranco-Spanish residences, loi.\\nFort Pike, 139.\\nFactory and Mill, 148.\\nFerries, 193.\\nFrench Market, 107,\\nFort Eads, 126.\\nFather Marquette, 4.\\nFille a la Cassettes, 7, 8, 9.\\nFort Jackson, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21,\\n22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 126.\\nFort St. Philip, 16, 22, 29, 31, 126.\\nFish, Varieties of, 56.\\nFisk Free Library, 68.\\nFaranti s Theatre, 66, 67.\\nForeign Vessels, 88, 90.\\nForeign Trade, 195, 196, 197.\\nForeign Steamship Lines, 198,199.\\nFaro, 98.\\nFrench Opera House, 65, 66,\\nForeign Consuls, 202, 203.\\nGallery Rooms, 103, 104,\\nGulf Coast, 137,\\nGovernor Perier, 138,\\nGuide to New Orleans, 157,\\nGalvez, 7, 11,\\nGreat Fire, 12.\\nGaines, Mrs. General Mvra Clark,\\n14. 38.\\nGrunnew ld Hall, 6j.\\nGascons, 52.\\nGrand Army of the Republic, 163.\\nGrand Opera House, 65,\\nGeneral Grimes, Portrait of, 92.\\nGrand Hazard, 97.\\nGambling Houses, 94, 96, 97, 98.\\nGumbo Soups, 56.\\nHolland, Rev. Dr., 109.\\nHorticultural Hall, 146.\\nHospitals, 183.\\nHatch, General, 105,\\nHunt, General, 105.\\nHoly Land, 108.\\nHiggins, Confederate Colonel, x6.\\nHarriet Lane, the, 19, 27.\\nHistory, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,\\n13, 14, 15, 16, 17. 18, 19, 20, 21,\\n22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,\\n31. 32. 33- 34. 35-\\nHaugery, Margaret, 51.\\nHotel Roval, 71.\\nHotels, 157.\\nIberville, M. D., 5.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "208\\nINDEX.\\nIndia Company, 7.\\nInfirmaries, 183.\\nJockey Club House, 5, 61, 62, 113.\\nJesuits, 7.\\nJackson, General Andrew, 14, 15,\\n32. 70, 73-\\nJackson Square, 10, 11, 35, 61.\\nJetties, to the, 125, 126, 127, 128,\\n129.\\nKernochen, H. P. Plantation, 126.\\nKeno, 94, 96, 97.\\nLotteries, 109, no, in, 112, 113,\\n114, 115, 116, 117, 118.\\nLouisiana State Lottery, 112, 113.\\nLivres Classiques, 100.\\nLumber Yards, 102.\\nLouis IX, 6.\\nLouis XIV, 4, 5, 6.\\nLa Salle, 4, 54.\\nLunches, 56.\\nLee Place, 51.\\nLee, General Robert E., Monu-\\nment to, 51.\\nLouisiana Club House, 75.\\nLevee, the, 87.\\nLaw, George, 4, 9.\\nLouisiana Division Northern Army\\nof Virginia, Monument of, 85.\\nLafayette Square, 51.\\nLibraries, 68.\\nMiller Joaquim, 120.\\nMyrtle Grove Plantation, 127.\\nMardi Gras, 129.\\nMystic Krewe of Comus, 130.\\nMermaid Legend of, 138,\\nMexican Headquarters, 148, 149.\\nMain Building, 143.\\nMusic Hall, 144.\\nMarquette, Father, 4,\\nMississippi River, 7.\\nMoniteaur de la Louisiane, 12.\\nMass. Infantry, Thirty-first, 34.\\nMexicans, 49, 53, 107.\\nMexican Exchange, 76,\\nDoctor, no.\\nMarkets, 53, 54, 55. 161, 162.\\nMarket, Old French, 53.\\nMonuments, 49, 50, 51, 52, 85.\\nMargeret s Place, 51.\\nMum ford, Wm. B., 70.\\nMilnebury, 64.\\nMarigny Families of, 92.\\nMandeville 92.\\nMasonic Halls, 74.\\nMarshall, Chief Justice, Bust of,\\n92.\\nNational Cemetery, 15, 62.\\nNewspapers, 77.\\nNuns, Ursulines, 7.\\nOrleans Park, 105.\\nOpera House, 107.\\nOrange Plantation, nearest, 126.\\nOrnements d e glise, 100.\\nOld Citizens Bank Building, 101.\\nOld Book Stores, 103,\\nOcean Springs, 140.\\nO Reilly, General Alexander, 3, 10,\\nII. 33-\\nOrleans Market, 53.\\nOysters, 56, 57.\\nOyster Smacks, 53.\\nOld French Market, 53.\\nOld Spanish Fort, 64.\\nOdd Fellows Hall, 74.\\nOcean Distances, 200, 201 202.\\nParks, 50.\\nPalmer, Rev. Dr., 109.\\nPlaquemine Parish Rice Crop, 126.\\nPalm Date, 98, 99.\\nPascagoula Bay, 138.\\nRiver, 138.\\nPearl River, 139.\\nPass Christian, 140.\\nPontalba, Baroness, 11, 92.\\nPoor Whites, 87.\\nPoker, 97.\\nPersonal Property, Valuation of, 37.\\nPost Office, 161.\\nPoydras Julien, 7\\nPackenham, General, 16.\\nPorter, Captain, 19, 22, 25, 32.\\nPopulation, 36.\\nProminent Buildings, 69.\\nPortugese Sailors, 52.\\nParish Prison, 53.\\nPonchartrain Lake, 56, 57, 62, 139\\nPickwick Club House, 75.\\nProduce Exchange, 76.", "height": "3136", "width": "1929", "jp2-path": "neworleansasitis00pedr_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n209\\nParrocchia Italiana, 93.\\nRigolets, 139.\\nRoller Rinks, 163.\\nRue Royale, 39, 93, 94, 95, loi,\\n139, 219, 221.\\nReal Estate, Valuation of, 36.\\nRouge et Noir, 97.\\nRoval Mexican Automaton Show,\\n68.\\nRussell, Wm. 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