{"1": {"fulltext": "Ml\\nrlH", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class_\\nBook__\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3246", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "I m the Picayune Frog;\\nWill you veiture a jog with ma?\\nYou may foot it, or ride;\\nBut a capital Guide I ll be\\nI\\n^^^us^^^\\nBY THE\\n^/CAYO^^", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "THE PICAYUNE BUILDINGS,\\n326 328\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Camp Street\u00e2\u0080\u0094 326 328.\\nNew Orleans, La.", "height": "3246", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THEI\\nm\\nO-TJIIDE\\n-TO-\\nW\\\\KW (D0SD=1/^K1\\n[p[^D\u00c2\u00a9[E^\\n\\\\FW\\\\E (BlE^Yi\\nright, 1896, by\\nCopy I\\n3SriCHCOLSOI^ Sc OO.,\\nNew Orleans Louisiana.\\nX^", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "i:isriDE2\u00c2\u00a7:_\\nPage.\\nAcademy of Music 27\\nAccommodations for Visitors 8\\nArena Club 27\\nAudubon Parli 30\\nBienville s Landing Place 10\\nBoston Club 28\\nCabildo 11\\nCampo Santo 32\\nChalmette Battle Field 11\\nChalmette Cemetery 33\\nCharity Hospital 21\\nChess, Checkers and Whist Club 28\\nChrist Church Cathedral 17\\nCity Courts 20\\nCity Hall 19\\nCity Park 30\\nClay Statue 12\\nConfederate Memorial Hall 21\\nCommercial Club 28\\nCommanderia 11\\nCotton Exchange lU\\nCotton Yards 40\\nCustom-house 2()\\nDivisions of the City 4\\nElevators 36\\nExchange Building 22\\nEye. Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. 22\\nFair Grounds 30\\nFerries 8\\nForeword 3\\nFranklin Statue 12\\nFrench Opera House 27\\nFrench Market 33\\nFruit Landing 36\\nGirod Street Cemetery 31\\nGrnnd Opera House 27\\nGreek Orthodox Church IS\\nHarmony Club 28\\nHaunted House 2\\nHack and Cab Pares\\nHealth ;of the City\\nHotel Dien 22\\nHoward Library 21\\nHow to Get About 5\\n.Tack(?on Monument 12\\n.Jesuits Church 18\\nJockey Club 2S\\nLa Variete Club 28\\nLee Monument\\nPage.\\nLevee 34\\nMargaret Monument 13\\nMasonic Temple 24\\nMessiah Church 18\\nMetairie Cemetery 33\\nMethodist Church, Carondelet Street. 18\\nMilneburg 3*\\nMortuary Sculptures 13\\nNapoleon House 11\\nNegro Universities 23\\nOdd Fellows Hall 27\\nOld Convent 23\\nOut-of-Town Excursions 37\\nPere Antoine 11\\nPlace des Armes 1\u00c2\u00a9\\nPicayune Frog 39\\nPicayune Tier 3C\\nPickwick Club 28\\nPortia Club 27\\nPoydras Market 34\\nPresbyterian Church, First 18\\nSoldiers Home 22\\nSouthern Athletic Club 23\\nSouthern Yacht Club 28\\nShooting and Fishing 40\\nSpanish Fort 30\\nSt. Charles Theatre 27\\nSt. John s Boat Club 28\\nSt. Joseph s Church 16\\nSt. Louis Cathedral 14\\nSt. Louis Cemetery 31\\nSt. Patrick s Church 16\\nSt. Paul s Church 17\\nStatistics of the Guy 44\\nStreet Cars, Up Town 6\\nStreet Cars, Down Town 7\\nStreet Cars. Across Town 7\\nSteam Lines\\nSugar Sheds 36\\nTemple Sinai 18\\nTouro Intirmary 21\\nTu!ane University 22\\nTrinity Church 17\\nUrsulines Convent 23\\nWashington Artillei-y 26\\nWashington Stre\u00c2\u00abt Cemetery 32\\nWest End 29\\nWoman s Club 27\\nYoung Men s Gymnastic Club 28", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "FOR.E V^OI^lD.\\nGentle reader\u00e2\u0080\u0094 taking it for granted\\nthat you are gentle, as that is the sort\\n-at people one likes to have dealings\\nwith, and that you are a reader, or you\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0would have no business with this\\nbook it is proposed to take you at\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0once into our confidence, just as\\nNew Orleans receives you with open\\narms and heart, and whisper in your\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ear the fact that to see our queer, love-\\nJy old city, one needs a guide, just as\\nmuch as he does to get intelligently\\nabout Paris, or Venice, or Rome.\\nNew Orleans has a great deal in\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2common with those Old-World cities,\\nmuch more so than any other city on\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0this continent. It may not have so\\nmany treasures of art and architecture\\nto boast of as they; but it has, what\\nno other city of America has, a distinct\\nflavor of ancient history about it. Al-\\nthough settled nearly a century later\\nthan New York or Boston, being first\\nlaid out under Sieur Bienville in 1718,\\nit has not had, as they, a continuous\\nJiistoric development from its colonial\\nconditions to its present state, but in-\\nstead has undergone three tremendous\\nconvulsions, revolutionary changes,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2each of which has left its mark on the\\ncharacter of the city, and each of\\nwhich threw the preceding era into the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2domain of ancient history.. French\\nNew Orleans, as it was founded by\\nBienville, and continued under bis suc-\\ncessors, was a totally different place\\nfrom Spanish New Orleans, as it was\\nmolded by the iron hand of Don Gen-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2eral O Reilly Into Spanish forms; and\\nAmerican New Orleans, developed after\\n5ts cession to the United States by\\nPrance, is yet a wholly different place;\\nand again the war of 1861-5 threw the\\nwealthy and gay ante-bellum New Or-\\nleans, the queen of Southern com-\\nmerce and the home of Southern aris-\\ntocracy, into the irretrievable past.\\nNew Orleans has three distinct eras\\nof history\u00e2\u0080\u0094 history full -of fierce tragedy\\nand of tender romance and each has\\n5eft its marks indelibly stamped upon\\nthe place; each has on our streets its\\nshrines of historic interest. Every\\nfrowning old building has its story to\\ntell of love or war, of political plot or\\nsocial intrigue.\\nThe visitor who would really see the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0082\u00acsty should have a guide to tell him.\\nhere Bienville camped on the bank of\\nBayou St. John when he first decided\\nto convert the teeming swamp into a\\nFrench metropolis, while the sibylline\\nIndian hag prophesied, The Great\\nSpirit tells me that the time will come\\nwhen, between the river and the lake,\\nthere will be as many dwellings for\\nthe white man as there are trees\\nstanding now. Ihe haunts of the red\\nman are doomed, and faint recollec-\\ntions and traditions concerning tha\\nvery existence 6f his race will float\\ndimly over rhe memory of his succes-\\nsors, as vague and obscure as the mist\\nwhich shrouds on a winter morning tha\\nbed of the Father of Waters. Ho\\nshould have a guide to point out to him\\nthe outlines of the city as it was origi-\\nnally platted, and to rehearse the great\\nj names famous in the city of those days;\\na guide to show him where the daring\\nj revolutionists plotted their scheme for\\nI freeing their land from the Spaniard,\\nI and to name over the men who put the\\nI Spanish governor on a ship and sent\\nhim back to his own country, while\\nthey made the first declaration of\\nAmerican Independence on American\\nsoil; a guide to well, well, there is no\\nsuch guide to be had. There is hardly\\na man in the city of New Orleans to-\\nday who knows enough about her his-\\ntory, and its names and places, to\\nqualify him for the task; and those\\nwho do know it are too busy about\\nsomething else. So, gentle reader, this\\nlittle book is put into your hands to\\ntake the place of the guide as far as\\nmay be, with the hope that you may\\nnot find it altogether useless.\\nOne bit of advice may be given right\\nhere, which it is hoped that the gentle\\nreader will take in good part, though,\\ngratuitous advice has no right to ex-\\npect any such reception. Before you\\nstart out to see the city, read up a\\nlittle on its history. You will find it\\nvery helpful. The limits of this pres-\\nent work forbid the introduction of\\nhistory; but there are several quite\\ncomplete works on the subject, and\\nyou may find them at no expense to\\nyourself by taking the Prytania car\\nand getting off at the Howard Library,\\nat the corner of Camp and Howard.\\nYou will find there a very admirable\\ncollection of books, with all facilitie\u00c2\u00bb", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "for consulting them, polite and accom-\\nmodating attendants, and all that, and\\nyou will find in the librarian, Mr.\\nWilliam Beer, a most genial gentle-\\nman, and one able to give you all the\\ninformation that you may desire about\\nthe library, and a good many other\\nthings.\\nSOMETHING ABOUT THE CITY.\\nIt does not take the stranger in\\nNew Orleans long to discover that the\\ncity has a distinctly defined heart,\\nthrough which its life pulsates, and\\nfrom which its arteries of trade and\\ntravel radiate; and that heart is Canal\\nstreet. Here are found the principal\\nretail stores, and on its lower end\\nnot a few great wholesale establish-\\nments; here all the street car lines\\ncenter; here are the principal clubs,\\nand here is the chief promenade of\\nfashion and beauty. The old city, as\\nits was originally laid out by its found-\\ner, reached from Canal street north\\nalong the river to Esplanade avenue,\\nand back from the river to Rampart\\nstreet, so called from the fortification\\nwhich originally occupied its site. The\\nstreet is now a beautiful boulevard.\\nThis ancient part of the city is com-\\nmonly called French Town, and is\\nrich in historic associations and mem-\\nories. Here is the old Cathedral,\\nwith its quaint surroundings, one of\\nthe most interesting spots in America,\\nwhich looks as though it might have\\nbeen transported bodily from the heart\\nof some European city of the middle\\nages; here is the old Spanish Cabil-\\ndo, or Statehouse; the charming old\\nUrsuline Convent, now used as\\nthe Archiepiscopal Palace; the French\\nMarket, and many more places of his-\\ntoric and social interest.\\nThe French quarter of the city has\\nlong ago spread far across Rampart\\nstreet to the west, and reached below\\nEsplanade avenue on the north; but\\nthe old city is emphatically French\\nTown. In it still reside many of the\\ndescendants of the original first fam-\\nilies of Louisiana, a number of them\\nin reduced circumstances through the\\nrevolutions of fortune, but all of them\\ntenacious of their high family traditions\\nand of their social breeding. It may\\nbe remarked that nowhere in the\\nUnited States, not even in Maryland\\nand Virginia, is there a distinct so-\\nciety so entirely founded on birth and\\nblood, and so independent of property,\\ninherited or acquired, as in old French\\nNew Orleans.\\nTo the north of Esplanade avenue\\nthe city reaches some miles, a quar-\\nter chiefly inhabited by the poorer\\nclasses, to the Barracks (the military\\nreservation occupied by a small garri-\\nson of United States troops), the city\\nabattoirs, and the historic field ot\\nChalmette,\\nThe visitor to the city would do well\\nto fix fairly in his mind at the start\\nthe fact that in front of New Orleans\\nthe river flows almost directly north,\\nso that, altliough the city is on the\\neast bank of the river, the sun rises\\nacross the river; down the river is\\ntoward the north, while up the river\\nis south.\\nOn the south side of Canal street is\\nthe American quarter, which has mostly\\ngrown up since the cession of Louisi-\\nana to the United States, in 1803.\\nThe first few tiers of blocks are de-\\nvoted almost wholly to business pur-\\nposes. Near the river are the great\\nwholesale houses, whose names are\\nknown and whose goods are sold to\\nbusiness men all over the South and\\nWest, and not a few in the North.\\nCamp street is newspaper row, with\\nthe Picayune s magnificent establish-\\nment, surrounded by the offices of\\nthe other newspapers. St. Charles\\nstreet has theatres, hotels and retail\\nshops, with railroad and telegraph\\noffices, and many handsome houses\\nabove Laf.xyette Square. These were\\nformerly the residences of the mer-\\nchant princes, and arc now for the\\nmost part fashionable boarding-houses.\\nCarondelet street, with its splendid\\nCotton Exchange and great office\\nbuildings, is the resort of brokers,\\nbankers, nuctioneers, commission mer-\\nchants, shipping agents, and lawyers in-\\nnumerable.\\nFurther up the river, near the levee,\\nare railroad freight depots, warehouses,\\ncotton yards and manufactories, with\\nthe humble residences of their swarm-\\ning employes; while the streets fur-\\nther toward the woods, as far as\\nSouth Rampart street, have many com-\\nfortable residences.", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Above Jackson avenue, which runs\\nback from the river, is the famous\\nGarden District, where palatial resi-\\ndences arise in the midst of charming\\nlawns and of perennial bowers of roses\\nand other flowering plants. J his is\\nthe home of the wealth and fashion of\\nthe city, and there is no more charming\\none to he found in any city of the\\nland. Still above this is Audubon Park,\\nwith its many natural attractions; and\\nthen comas CarroUton, once a mere\\nbeautiful suburb, but now a section of\\nthe city, which, under the stimulus of\\nthe electric lines, is rapidly attracting\\nto itself a large and wealthy popula-\\ntion.\\nHOW TO GET ABOUT.\\nA ;;l;inoe at the map of tlje city will\\nshow that while it is laid out with\\nlittle regard to the points of the com-\\npass, it is not an easy place to get\\nlost in. The original city was laid off\\nwith military exactness by a skilled\\nengineer, but its later accretions have\\ngrown up, a piece at a time, often\\nfollowing lines of travel which had\\nbecome established by hap-hazard use,\\nand laid off with reference to the con-\\nvenience of the people interested rather\\nthan to any symmetrical plan.\\nIt may be roughly stated that streets\\nrunning across town are at right angles\\nto the river, and those rnnuing up and\\ndown town are parallel to the river.\\nAs the river sweeps past the city in\\na great double curve, it results that\\nmost of the cross streets in the part of\\nthe city above Canal street converge\\nfrom the levee toward a common center\\nnear the Canal street cemeteries, while\\nbelow the old city they radiate from\\nthe river towards the woods.\\nThis arrangement might prove ex-\\ntremely confusing, but that Canal\\nstreet forms a common focus, and St.\\nCharles street, which, below Canal, is\\ncalled Royal street, constitutes a main\\nartery throu jh the whole length of the\\ncity.\\nIf one chance to become bewildered\\nanywhere in the city and be too modest\\nto ask his way, he cannot fail to find\\na car somewhere near, which, for a\\nnickel, will set him down in Canal\\nstreet with neatness and dispatch.\\nThese last words are not carelessly\\nchosen. New Orleans has been a little\\nslow with her proverbial conserva-\\ntism in adopting new ideas of rapid\\ntransit, and the street car mule held his\\nown here long after he was exiled from\\nmost other cities of the country; but,\\nhaving at last realized the necessity\\nfor improvement, the city determined\\nto have the best, and an eminent for-\\neign authority not long ago declared\\nthat her new trolley car service was\\nthe best to be found in any city of\\nthe United States in point of cleanli-\\nness, celerity and general good man-\\nagement.\\nAll public gatherings in New Or-\\nleans, whether in the street cars,\\nplaces of amusement, thronged ex-\\ncursions, or anywhere else, are per-\\nvaded by a spirit of good humor and\\npolite consideration of others a species\\nof dignified altruism\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and you seldom\\nobserve any one crowding, pushing, or\\nmonopolizing more than his share of\\nspace, keeping his seat in the cars\\nwhile women are standing, or making\\nhimself in any way offensive.\\nEverybody\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ladies, children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 patron-\\nize the street cars, and the sight-\\nseeing tourist may safely do so. He\\nwill find them nice, convenient and\\nspeedy.\\nOf course, if one can afford it, a\\nhack is the most convenient method\\nof locomotion, as it can carry the rider\\nwhere he will. They may be found on\\nCanal street, or St. Charles, or or-\\ndered from the stables, at reasonable\\nrates by the day or hour.\\nHACK AND CAB FARES.\\nThere is a regular tariff of charges\\nfixed by city ordinance (No. 1357,\\nA. S.) for hacks and cabs, and the\\nstranger in the city should see that\\nhe is not imposed on by unscrupulous\\ndrivers, and would confer a benefit on\\nthe public by reporting to the police\\nall cases of overcharging.\\nFor carriages drawn by two horses, any\\ndistance not exceeding one mile, or twelve\\nsquares, for one or two persons, .$1 each.\\nFor every such carriage hired by the\\nhour, $3 for the first hour, and ?2 for", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "each succeeding hour, or fraction thereof,\\nfor the use of the entire carriage.\\nFor cabs, or carriages drawn by one\\nhorse, any distance not exceeding one\\nmile, or twelve squares, for one or two\\npersons, 75 ce^ts each, and for each suc-\\nceeding mile, or less, 50 cents.\\nFor every such cab, or carriage, hired\\nby the hour, .$2 for the first hour, and\\n$1 50 for each succeeding hour, or frac-\\ntion thereof, for the entire cab or car-\\nriage.\\nThese rates apply from sunrise till mid-\\nnight. From midnight till sunrise, the\\nrates shall be fixed by agreement, but Sq\\nno case shall double the rates be ex-\\nceeded.\\nAll public vehicles are compelled to\\ncarry numbers on their lamps.\\nThere are, however, few parts of\\nthe city that are worth seeing which\\nmay uot be reached by street cars,\\nand it should be borne in mind that all\\nthe street car lines center in Canal\\nstreet.\\nSTREET CAR LINES.\\nUP-TOWN LINES.\\nTCHOUPITOULAS LINE starts\\non Canal street, at Camp; runs by\\nCanal to Tchoupitoulas, to Audubon\\nPark; returns by Tchoupitoulas to\\nSouth Peters, to Canal, to Camp.\\nANNUNCIATION AND ERATO\\nLINE starts on Canal street, near the\\nlevee, and runs out Canal, to Caronde-\\nlet, to Clio, to Coliseum, to Erato, to\\nAnnunciation, to Toledano, to Tchoupi-\\ntoulas; transfers to Audubon Park; re-\\nturns by Toledano to Chippewa, to\\nRace, to Annunciation, to Erato, to\\nCamp, to Calliope, to St. Charles, to\\nCanal to the levee.\\nCANAL, COLISEUM AND UP-\\nPER MAGAZINE LINE starts on\\nCanal street, near the levee; runs by\\nCanal to Carondelet, to Clio, to Coli-\\nseum, to Felicity, to Chestnut, to Lou-\\niana avenue, to Magazine, to Broad-\\nway, to Maple, to Carrollton avenue,\\nto Oaks, to upper protection levee, to\\nparish line; returns by Oaks to Car-\\nrollton avenue, to Maple, to Broadway,\\nto Magazine, to Louisiana avenue, to\\nCamp, to Calliope, to St. Charles, to\\nCanal to the levee.\\nMAGAZINE LINE starts on Canal\\nstreet, at Clay Statue; runs by Camp\\nto Old Camp, to Magazine, to Louisi-\\nana avenue, to Laurel, to Audubon\\nPark; returns by Laurel to Valraont.\\nto Con.stance, to Louisiana avenue, to\\nMagazine, to Canal.\\nCAMP AND PRYTANIA LINE\\nstarts on Canal, at Clay Statue, and\\nruns by Camp to Prytania, to Joseph,\\nto Hur!5t, to Audubon Park; returns\\nby the same route.\\nBARONNE AND CARONDELET\\nLINE starts at Eighth street and\\nCarondelet; runs by Carondelet to\\nCanal; returns by St. Charles to How-\\nai-d, to Baronue, to Eighth street ter-\\nminus.\\nDRYADES AND RAMPART LINE\\nstarts at Eighth street and Caronde-\\nlet; runs by Eighth to St. Denis, to\\nPhilip, to Dryades, to Felicity, to Ram-\\npart, to Canal and St. Charles; returns\\nby St. Charles to Howard, to Dryades,\\nto St. Andrew, to Baronne, to Eighth\\nstreet terminus.\\nCARROLLTON LINE starts on\\nBaroune, at Canal street; runs by\\nBaronne to Howard, to St. Charles\\navenue, to CarroHton avenue, to\\nJeannette street, to terminus at Jean-\\nnette and Dublin; returns by same\\nroute.\\nJACKSON AVENUE LINE start*\\non Baronne street, at Canal; runs by\\nBaronne to Howard avenue, to St.\\nCharles avenue, to Jackson avenue, to\\nthe Gretna Ferry Landing; returns\\nover the same route.\\nNAPOLEON AVENUE LINE starts\\non Baronne, at Canal; runs by Ba-\\nronne to Howard avenue, to St.\\nCharles avenue, to Napoleon avenue,\\nto the river; returns by the same\\nroute.\\nSOUTH RAMPART, DRYADES\\nAND PETERS AVENUE LINE\\nstarts on Canal street, at Clay Statue;\\nruns by Canal to Rampart, to Calliope,\\nto Franklin, to Jackson, to Freret, to\\nLouisiana avenue, to Dryades, to Pe-\\nters avenue, to Magazine; transfers\\nfor Audubon Park and Carollton; re-\\nturns by Peters avenue to Dryades, to\\nDufossat, to Baronne, to Louisiana\\navenue, to Howard, to Jackson avenue,\\nto Franklin, to Calliope, to Dryades,\\nto Canal, at Clay Statue.\\nCARONDELET AND UPPER\\nCAMP LINE starts on Canal street,\\nnear the levee; runs by Canal to Ca-", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "rondelet, to St. Andrew, to Brainard,\\nto Louisiana avenue, to Camp, to\\nHeary Clay avenue, to Magazine;\\ntransfers for Audubon Park and Car-\\nrollton; returns by Henry Clay ave-\\nnue to Coliseum, to Louisiana avenue,\\nto Dryades, to Julia, to St. Charles,\\nto Canal, to the levee.\\nANNUNCIATION LINE (VIA\\nSOUTH PETERS STREET) starts\\non Canal at Camp street; runs by\\nCanal to Tchoupitoulas, to Annuncia-\\ntion, to Toledano, to Tchoupitoulas;\\ntransfers for Audubon Park; returns\\nby Toledano to Chippewa, to Race, to\\nAnnunciation, to Delord, to South Pe-\\nters, to Canal, at Camp street.\\nLINE BOTH UP AND DOWN TOWN.\\nCLIO AND ERATO LINE starts\\nat terminus on Magnolia, near Erato\\nstreet; runs by Erato to Carondelet,\\ncrossing Canal to Bourbon, to Espla-\\nnade, to Decatur, to Elysian Fields,\\nto Southern Pacific Depot; returns by\\nElysian Fields to Royal, crossing\\nCanal to St. Charles, to Howard ave-\\nnue, to Rampart (at Illinois Central\\nDepot), to Clio, to Magnolia and\\nterminus.\\nDOWN TOWN LINES.\\nLEVEE AND BARRACKS LINE\\nstarts on Canal street, opposite the\\nUnited States Customhouse; runs by\\nCanal to North Peters, to Enghien, to\\nChartres, to Poland, to Rampart;\\ntransfers for United States Barracks;\\nreturns by Poland to Royal, to En-\\nghien, to North Peters, to Canal.\\nBROAD STREET LINE starts on\\nCanal, at Clay Statue; runs by Canal\\nto Dauphine, to Dumaine, to Broad,\\nto Laharpe, to White; transfers for\\nFair Grounds; returns by Bayou to\\nBroad, to Ursulines, to Burgundy, to\\nCanal.\\nBAYOU LINE starts on Canal, at\\nClay Statue; runs by Canal to Dau-\\nphine, to Dumaine, to Grand Route\\nSt. John, to Sauvage, to Fair Grounds;\\nreturns by Sauvage to Grand Route\\nSt. John, to Bayou road, to Broad, to\\nSt. Peter, to Burgundy, to Canal.\\nRAMPART AND DAUPHINE\\nLINE starts on Canal, at Clay Statue;\\nruns by Canal to Rampart, to Es-\\nplanade, to Dauphine, to Flood, to\\nNorth Peters, to United States Bar-\\nracks; returns by North Peters to\\nDelery, to Dauphine, to Poland, to\\nRampart, to Canal, to Clay Statue.\\nESPLANADE LINE starts on\\nCanal street, at Clay Statue; runs by\\nCanal to Rampart, to Esplanade ave-\\nnue, to Bayou St. John and Fair\\nGrounds; returns by the same route.\\nESPLANADE AND FRENCH\\nMARKET LINE starts on Canal\\nstreet, at Clay Statue; runs by Canal\\nto Rampart, to Esplanade avenue, to\\nthe levee; returns by the same route.\\nVILLERB STREET LINE starts\\non Canal street, at the levee; runs by\\nCanal to Villere, to Lafayette avenue,\\nto St. Claude; returns by the same\\nroute.\\nCANAL AND CLAIBORNE LINE\\nstarts on Canal street, at the levee;\\nruns by Canal to Claiborne, to Elysian\\nFields, to Urquhart, to Lafayette ave-\\nnue; returns by Goodchildren to Elys-\\nian Fields, to Claiborne, to Canal, to\\nthe levee.\\nACROSS TOWN LINES.\\nCANAL AND CEMETERIES starts\\non Canal street, near the levee; runs\\nby Canal to Metairie road, to Halfway\\nHouse and Cemeteries; returns by the\\nsame route.\\nTULANE AVENUE LINE starts\\non Canal street, near the levee; runs\\nby Canal to Rampart, to Tulane ave-\\nnue, to Rocheblave; returns by same\\nroute.\\nGIROD STREET LINE starts on\\nFront street, at Canal; runs by Front\\nto Girod, to Liberty, to Poydras, to\\nClaiborne, to Tulane avenue, to Roche-\\nblave; returns by Tulane avenue to\\nClaiborne, to Perdido, to Carroll, to\\nPoydras, to Fulton, to Canal.\\nFRENCH MARKET LINE starts\\non Decatur, corner Dumaine, by the\\nFrench Market; runs by Decatur to\\nUrsulines, to Burgundy; transfers to\\nBroad Street and Bayou Lines; re-\\nturns by Dumaine to Decatur.\\nCANAL AND BAYOU BRIDGE\\nLINE starts on Metairie road, at\\nCanal street; runs by Metairie road\\nto City Park and Bayou St. John,\\nalong Bayou St. John to Mulberry\\nstreet; returns over the same route.\\nSTEAM LINES.\\nCANAL, CEMETERIES AND\\nWEST END LINE starts on Canal\\nstreet, near Clay Statue; runs bj", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Canal to Metairle road, to West End;\\nreturns by same route.\\nSPANISH FORT LINE starts on\\nNorth Basin, at Canal; runs by North\\nBasin and Bienville to Spanish Fort.\\nPONTCHARTRAIN RAILROAD\\nLINE starts on Elysian Fields street,\\nnear the levee; runs by Elysian Fields\\nstreet to Milneburg, or Old Lake.\\nFERRIES.\\nThere are six steam ferries across\\nthe river, on all of which the fare is\\n5 cents.\\nTHE FIRST DISTRICT FERRY\\npuns from Canal street to Algiers.\\nTHE SECOND DISTRICT FERRY\\nruns from the French Market to Al-\\ngiers.\\nTHE THIRD DISTRICT FERRY\\nruns from the Morgan Depot, Espla-\\nnade avenue, to Algiers.\\nTHE FOURTH DISTRICT FER-\\nRY runs from Jackson avenue to\\nGretna.\\nTHE SIXTH DISTRICT FERRY\\nruns from Louisiana avenue to Har-\\nvey s Canal.\\nTHE RICHARD STREET FER-\\nRY runs from Richard street to Free-\\ntown.\\nBesides these there are three licensed\\nskiff ferries\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one from Upperline\\nstreet, one from Carrollton and one\\nfrom the Barracks.\\nTABLE OF DISTANCES.\\nMiles.\\nAlong the river front, from the\\nBarracks to city limits, above\\nCarrollton, about 12 1-2\\nFrom head of Canal street to\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBarracks\\nCarrollton\\nMetairie Ridge road\\nWest End\\nFrom Clay Statue, up St\\nCharles to\\nLee Place\\nJackson street\\nNapoleon avenue\\nAudubon Park\\nCarrollton\\nFrom Canal street, up Maga-\\nzine, to\\nJackson avenue\\nLouisiana avenue\\nNapoleon avenue\\nAudubon Park\\nFrom Clay Statue, via Ram-\\npart street, to\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nEsplanade avenue\\nNortheastern Railroad Depot.\\nFrom Clay Statue, via Ram-\\npart and Esplanade streets,\\nto\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nLouisiana Jockey Club\\nWidth of Mississippi river, from\\nbank at Jackson Square to\\nAlgiers Point\\n3.10\\n9.40\\n3.60\\n6.61\\n.70\\n1.47\\n2.93\\n4.15\\n4.70\\n1.70\\n2.54\\n3.30\\n4.84\\n.97\\n1.62\\n4.00\\n.42\\nACCOMMODATIONS FOR VISITORS.\\nNew Orleans is well provided with\\nthe best of accommodations for visit-\\nors, and nowhere in the United States\\ncan they be so comfortable at so small\\na cost. From the days long before\\nthe war, when every considerable\\nplanter within four or five hundred\\nmiles of the city considered himself\\nalmost a resident, and made a visit\\nof some weeks at least once in a year\\nto dispose of his crops, lay in his sup-\\nplies, purchase his servants, etc., New\\nOrleans has been the residence of an\\nenormous transient population, and\\nhas prepared for its entertainment.\\nThe hotels are numerous and com-\\nfortable, many of them splendid in\\ntheir appointments, and board by the\\nday, week or month may be had in\\nany of them at reasonable rates.\\nBesides these, the are large num-\\nbers of boarding-houses, where the\\nprices are lower than the like accom-\\nmodations can be had for in any con-\\nsiderable city in the country. These\\nare principally situated on Camp, Pry-\\ntania, Carondelet, St. Charles and Ba-\\nronne streets.\\nOne of the most comfortable and in-\\ndependent ways of living for the tran-\\nsient visitor, who wants to spend his\\ntime sight-seeing, and does not care\\nto be tied down to regular meal hours,\\nor a given locality, is to take a fur-", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "tiished room, which can be hired by\\nthe day, weeli or month, with excel-\\nlent service, at very low figures, and\\nto talie his meals at some of the nu-\\nmerous restaurants which abound in\\nthe business section and in the lower\\npart of the city. In the most of these\\nplaces the best cookery can be found,\\neither French or American, and\\nwhether one prefers to order on the\\nAmerican or European plans, he will\\nfind living very cheap. It is a fact\\nthat a great many of the permanent\\nresidents of the city prefer to live in\\nthis way, as it is economical and re-\\nlieves them of the petty cares of\\nhousekeeping. One can live very well\\non a couple of dollars a day.\\nHEALTH OF NEW ORLEANS.\\nA great many i eople, especially\\nNortherners, imagine that New Orleans\\nis a very unhealthy place, and not a\\nfew in their pleasure excursions give\\nit a wide berth, or make it but a\\nhurried visit, for fear of malarial\\nfevers and other diseases which they\\nimagine lie in wait for the stranger\\nhere.\\nNow the fact is the exact contrary,\\nthe death rate, except in times of epi-\\ndemics, is very low, compared with\\nthat of other large cities of the coun-\\ntry; while the death rate among the\\nwhite citizens, who live with some ri-\\ngard to sanitary conditions, is smallei\\nthan that of almost any place in the\\nUnited States. The general average\\nis raised by the mortality among the\\nnegroes, which is very high, not so\\nmuch on account of the squalor in\\nwhich many of them live, as on ac-\\ncount of their utter disregard of all\\nthe laws of health.\\nBut how can New Orleans help\\nbeing sickly, surrounded, as it is, on\\nall sides by miles of swamp? de-\\nmands the visitor.\\nThe swamps are undeniable; but it\\nmust be remembered that these\\nswamps are scarcely above tide level,\\nand that every high tide in the Gulf\\nfloods them with salt water, in which\\nmalaria does not and cannot breed.\\nThey are brackish at all times, the\\nwhole earth under them being more\\nor less impregnated with salt. Then\\nthe frequent and heavy rains (the an-\\nnual rainfall being something like six\\nfeet) wash the city and the swamps\\nclean of malaria, while the constant\\nsunshine does a work of disinfection,\\nwhose value is not appreciated as it\\nshould be. Sunlight Is fatal to con-\\ntagion, as every sanitarian knows.\\nAll those causes co-operate to make\\nNew Orleans one of the healthiest\\nspots in the United States. Malarial\\ndisorders and typhoid fevers, those\\ncurses of cities, are rare, and the ex-\\ncellent system of quarantine, which is\\nrigidly enforced, with the perfect ar-\\nrangements for disinfecting vessels\\ncoming into port, have since 187S\\nserved to bar yellow fever, once the\\ndread annual scourge of the city,\\neffectually from her people for many\\nyears.\\nAnother serious error under which\\nstrangers labor is that the heat of\\nour city in the summer time is some-\\nthing insupportable, and that even in\\nthe winter it is liable to be uncom-\\nfortably warm.\\nThe fact is, as one may see by a\\nglance at the thermometric reports of\\nthe weather bureau in the daily Pica-\\nyune, that New Orleans is often cooler\\nduring the heated term of midsummer\\nthan any other city of the country.\\nIt could scarcely be otherwise, with\\nthe great expanses of the Gulf of\\nMexico stretching away east and south\\nand west of it. The temperature of\\nthe water of the Gulf averages be-\\ntween 70 and 75 degrees both winter\\nand summer, and while the winds blow\\nfrom the water, as they almost always\\ndo, the weather can never get so very\\nmuch hotter or colder than that. An\\noccasional brl^ze from the north dur-\\ning the summer brings a wave of heat\\nthat drives the themometer to 90 de-\\ngrees or thereabouts, and the same\\nnorth wind in the winter is responsible\\nfor all the cold that New Orleans ex-\\nperiences, seldom any very great\\namount, though unhappily enough, once\\nevery five or six years, to make the\\ngrowing of oranges a precarious, busi-\\nness.", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "POINTS OF HISTORIC INTEREST.\\nNew Orleans is eminently, of all\\nthe cities of the country, a place with\\na history, and though the local history\\nof the city, apart from that of Louisi-\\nana the old Louisiana, which, it will\\nbe remembered, originally included the\\nbetter part of the Mississippi valley\\nhas never been written in full, and\\nmany of its most romantic and inter-\\nesting passages remain involved in\\nthe obscurity of moldy manuscripts and\\noriginal records, what of it is known\\nto the world through the pages of\\nMartin, Gayarre and others is full of\\ninterest and thrilling adventure, and\\nthere are many spots in and around the\\nold city, consecrated with the blood of\\nheroes and patriots, which deserve to\\nbe commemorated with storied monu-\\nments. Perhaps they will come some\\nday. As it is, such spots, so far as they\\ncan be identified, are worthy of the\\nattention of those whose hearts are\\ncapable of thrilling in sympathy with\\nglorious deeds.\\nOne such spot is the place on Bayou\\nSt. John though now, perhaps, it\\nwould be impossible to identify it\\nwhere, in 1718, Bienville, with some\\nfifty followers, landed from his voyage\\nin small boats across Lake Pontchar-\\ntrain, and decided to found a city on\\nthe spot, between the bayou and the\\nriver, which, with uncommon foresight,\\nhe perceived was bound to be the great\\nartery of commerce for the immense\\nterritory drained by that noble stream.\\nIt is, perhaps, the orily considerable city\\nin the country, whose site was deliber-\\nately chosen, that has justified by its\\nhistory the foresight of its founder.\\nFrom the day that Bienville set his\\nfoot upon the ground on the banks of\\nBayou St. John, New Orleans has been\\nan inhabited city. The spot is surely\\nworthy of commemoration. It is prob-\\nably somewhere in the neighborhood of\\nBayou Bridge, at the foot of Esplanade\\nstreet.\\nThe Place des Armes is another spot\\nnotable in the history of New Orleans.\\nIt is the square now occupied by Jack-\\nson Square, and its change of name is\\na notable instance of that ruthless dis-\\nregard of historic sanctities which\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2seems characteristic of Americans.\\nNew Orleans has no patent on this\\nvandalism. All over the country we\\nlook in vain for historic names which,\\nfur some mere fad or whim, or im-\\nmature aestheticism, have been rele-\\ngated to oblivion. New Orleans had a\\nbetter reason than that for dedicating\\nits Place des Armes to the great soldier\\nI and president whose name it now\\nbears, bu.t yet an insuSicient reason.\\nAs the Place des Armes it was first\\nlaid out by Bienville s engineer, and\\nthe Place des Armes it ought to be\\nstill. The name is consecrated by a\\nthousand historic associations of the\\nearly city. Here were held, from the\\nvery beginning, those public meetings\\nwhere all matters of common interest\\nand public policy were discussed, and\\nthe first settlers of the city, though\\nloyal, even devoted subjects of the\\nI King of France, learned those first\\nj lessons of self-government which taught\\nthem later how to become free citizens\\nof a free republic. Here Don de Ulloa\\nreceived the keys of the city and took\\npossession of Louisiana in the name\\nof the King of Spain in 1762, and here\\nj met the resolute band of patriots under\\nj the heroic Villere, who renounced the\\nauthority of Spain, declared their in-\\ndependence in 1768 and sent the\\nSpanish governor packing back to his\\nown country. It was here that Captain\\nGeneral Don Allesandro O Reilly land-\\ned with an army too powerful for the\\nlittle colony to resist, and took formal\\npossession of Louisiana in the name of\\nthe King of Spain, bringing the scarce-\\nfledged republic to an untimely end;\\nand here that, a few days later, he\\nshot to death, as rebels and traitors,\\nthe leaders of the French patriots.\\nIt was in this same Place des Armes\\nthat Don Bernardo de Galvez, one of\\nthe most heroic figures in Louisiana s\\nhistory, appeared in 1779 before a\\ngreat popular meeting of the citizens\\nand won their hearts. Thought but a\\nboy, scarcely 21 years of age, he held a\\ncommission as captain general of the\\nprovince, but he told the citizens, with\\nhis sword in his hand, that he would\\nj not accept the ofiice without their con-\\nj sent and promise of loyalty. They\\nj clamorously confirmed his appointment,\\nand it was from this same Place des\\ni Armes that he led a little army to\\nj some of the most notable victories over\\nI the English that were ever won on this\\nI continent.", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "11\\n~V\\nMany other notable events in the his-\\ntory of New Orleans lend, for the de-\\nvout student of history, a mystic charm\\nto this interesting spot. It was the\\nheart of the life of the old city, this\\nPlace des Armes, and its name should\\nnever have been changed.\\nThe Battle Field\\nof Chahnette is an-\\nother most notable\\nhistoric point. Of\\ncourse, everybodj-\\nwho knows any-\\nthing of the liistory\\nof his count ry,\\nknows all about the\\nbattle where Gen-\\neral Jackson, with\\nhis handful of regu-\\nlars, his unerring\\nKentucky ni arks-\\nmen and his entbu-\\nsias ti c Louisiana\\nvolunteers, v a n\\nquished the most\\nvaliant veterans of\\nthe British army\\nand saved New Or-\\nleans from ruthless\\ninvaders.\\nThe field, just be-\\nlow the city, is still\\nin very much the same condition in\\nwhich it was when the battle was\\nfought, and there are still some traces\\nof the works which covered the gallant\\ndefenders of liberty. The lines of de-\\nfense and attack may still be followed\\nby the curious student, and every now\\nand then some relic of the battle, a\\nbroken sword, or piece of a gun, a\\nmusket ball or a moldering bone, are\\nfound to bear witness to the fierce\\nstruggle that took place there.\\nThe grand old monument which com-\\nmemorates the decisive victory is well\\nworth seeing.\\nThe Cabildo, one of the antique\\nbuildings which flank the Cathedral,\\nlooking on Jackson Square, is a place\\nof no little historic interest. It is the\\none on the upper side of the ecclesias-\\ntical edifice, and is now used as the\\nSupreme Court chambers. It was built\\nlong before the other, and was the\\nprimitive capitol of the colony of Louis-\\niana. Within its walls all the formal\\ntransfers of the country from one\\ngovernment to another have been made.\\n~^M\\\\m\\\\\\\\\\nCHALMETTE MONUMENT,\\nIt was within its walls that the higb\\ncommissioner absolved the people of\\nLouisiana from their oaths of fealty\\nto the crown of France and handed\\nthem over, much against their will,\\nto the dominion of his Catholic majesty\\nof Spain. Later on they were turned\\nover here to the King of France again,\\nand in the same\\nbuilding Governor-\\nClaiborne, represen-\\nting the United\\nStates, received\\nhem into the privi-\\nleges of citizens ot\\nhis great repiiblic.\\nIn 1826, when Gen-\\neral Lafayette wa.s.\\nentertained by tlie\\ncity of New Orleans,\\nthe Cabildo was fit-\\nup as a resi-\\ndence, and was the\\nhome of that distin-\\nguished friend of\\nliberty during hi\\nstay in the cit.v.\\nThe lower court\\nbuilding is not so old\\nas the Cabildo, and\\noccupies what was\\nformerly the site of\\na monastery of\\nCapucliins, The grounds of the mon-\\nastery originally covered several\\nsquares, and it was here that for many\\nyears resided Father Antonia de la\\nSedella, better known as Pere Antoine.\\nWhen this earnest ecclesiastic first ar-\\nrived on American soil, he came with\\nletters from the Grand Inquisitor of\\nSpain,, authorizing hira to establish,\\nthe Inquisition in Louisiana, aud ap-\\nplied at once to the governor for au-\\nthority to carry out the orders of the\\nHoly Office. That very night a file of\\nsoldiers aroused him from his bed and\\nforced him to go aboard ship and leave\\nthe country. He returned afterward,\\nbut never attempted further to estab-\\nlish the Inquisition.\\nThe Commanderia, which was the\\nmilitary headquarters during the time\\nof the Spanish occui;ntion, is at 115-\\n(old number) Royal street, and is an\\ninteresting specimen of the architecture\\nof the old city.\\nAt the corner of St. Louis and\\nChartres streets is rather an imposing:", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "13\\nedifice, surmounted by a cupola. At\\nthe time of the fall of Napoleon I it\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was understood that the unfortunate\\nanonarch designed to go into voluntary\\nexile in Louisiana, and a wealthy ad-\\nmirer of his built this house with the\\npurpose of presenting it to the great\\nFrenchman as his residence.\\nOBJECTS OF ARTISTIC INTEREST.\\nIt has been asserted that New Or-\\nleans is very poor in public monuments,\\n-and this is measurably true, though,\\nconsidering the size of the city, it is\\nnot so badly provided in this respect\\n^s many other places in the country,\\n.and the few to be found here are of no\\n-ordinary artistic merit. One of the\\nfirst things that\\nstrikes the eye of the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0stranger is the mag-\\nnihceut bronze sta-\\ntue, of heroic size,\\nrepresenting that\\n-great statesman.\\n-Henry Clay, who\\nwould rather be\\nJ ight than p r esi-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2dent.\\nIt stands on Canal\\n-street in an attitude\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of calm reasoning,\\njiigh over the bustle\\n-and roar of New\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Orleans busiest\\nthoroughfare, a very\\nsymbol of civic wis-\\ndom, which guides\\n.and guards the busy\\n-activities of Ameri-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2can commerce.\\nIt is the work of an\\nAmerican sculptor.\\nJoel T. Hart, of\\nKentucky, and is\\nuni versally admired\\nboth as a portrait\\n-and a work of art.\\nThe bronze eques-\\ntrian statue of (jeu-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2eral Andrew Jack-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2son. the Savior of\\n2(ew Orleans, which\\nstands in Jackson\\nSquare, is one of the\\nmost noted art pro-\\n-tluctions in the Uni-\\nted States. It was\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2executed by Clark\\n-Mills, the famous\\nsculptor, and is an\\nexact copy of the\\nCLAY STATUE\\nstatue in front of the White House in\\nWashington city. It represents the\\nGeneral seated on a prancing horse\\nwith his hat in his hand, as though\\nsaluting his troops. This figure\\nis unique among equestrian statues,\\nfrom the fact that the horse stands on\\nhis hind legs with no artificial support.\\nThe artist said that\\nwhen he first de-\\nsigned the statue he\\nmeant to put a prop\\nunder the horse s\\nbreast, but one day,\\nwhile watching a\\nrestive horse being\\nexercised under th*?\\nsaddle, the animal\\nreared and stood for\\na moment balanced\\non his hind legs. The\\nsculptor s eye caught\\nthe line of gravity\\nand modeled his sta-\\ntue on the poise of\\nthat horse. The sta-\\ntue is not bolted to\\nthe pedestal, as many\\nignorantly suppose;\\nit simply stands bal-\\nanced on its feet,\\nand so solidly that\\nscarcely a n y t h i i j\\nbut an earthquake\\ncould tumble it over.\\nThe Franklin sta-\\ntue, in the middle of\\nLafayette Square, i8\\na tine piece of work\\nby the celebrated\\nsculptor, Powers. It\\nis lite-size, of white\\nmarble, and repre-\\nsents the great states\\nman and philosopher\\nstanding in athought\\nful attitude, with\\none arm resting oh\\nthe stump of a light--\\nuiug- shivered tree,\\nwhile the other,\\nhand is supported on", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "18\\n^his hip. The art work is most admira-\\nble; but the statue, which was erected\\nin 1872, is beginning to show the\\neffects of exposure to the atmosphere.\\nIt ought to be housed, and, indeed, the\\nsculptor has said that it was not in-\\ntended for an out-of-door location, and\\nwould appear to much better advan-\\ntage in a hall or gallery.\\nThe Lee Monument, which stands in\\nLee Circle, ten blocks from Canal\\nAmerica in honor of a woman. Mar-\\ngaret Haughery was reared in poverty,,\\nand made a fortune for herself in the\\nmilk and bakery business. Early in life-\\nher sympathies were enlisted in behalf\\nof the orphans, and she dedicated her\\nwhole time and fortune in their inter-\\nests. She was one of the noblest phil-\\nanthropists that the world has ever\\nseen, and as such the people of New\\nOrleans dedicated this memorial to her.\\nMARGARET MONUMENT.\\nstreet, up St. Charles, is a magnificent\\nmemorial dedicated to the South s great\\nhero, General Robert E. Lee. It is a\\ngraceful shaft of white marble, rising\\nnearly 70 feet from a shapely granite\\nbase, and surmounted by a statue of\\nthe great General 15 feet high. So\\nskillfully has the sculptor calculated\\nthe effect of his distances that the\\nstatue, seen from the ground, has the\\nappearance of being about life-size.\\nThe Margaret Monument, which\\nstands in Margaret Park, at the inter-\\n.5ection of Camp and Prytania, is well\\nworth seeing, not only for its artistic\\nmerit, which is not slight, but also\\nthat it is the first statue raised in\\nIt is carved in marble, and represents\\nher seated with her arm thrown pro-\\ntectingly and affectionately around one\\nof her little proteges.\\nThe Cemeteries of the city are rich\\nin fine specimens of mortuary sculpture,\\namong which are deserving of special\\nnotice the Italian monument in the\\nold St. Louis Cemetery, the Confed-\\nerate Monument, the Washington Ar-\\ntillery Monument and the Army of\\nNorthern Virginia Monument, in\\nMetairie Cemetery.\\nNew Orleans is sadly deficient in\\nanything like a public art gallery, a\\nwant which will some day be sup-\\nplied; but it has many fine paintings by", "height": "3319", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0various old masters and others in its\\nprivate homes.\\nThe Frescoes on the ceilings of the\\nCJotton Exchange are considered by\\n-connoisseurs well worth inspection, and\\nthe windows, some of them, in the\\nJesuit s Church, on Baronne street, are\\nsaid to be especially fine examples of\\nart glass work.\\nTHE CONFEDERATE MONUMENT.\\nTHE CHURCHES.\\nQuite a number of very fine examples\\nof Ecclesiastical Architecture are to be\\nseen in New Orleans, and not the least\\namong them is the Cathedral, which\\nwas originally built in the most public\\nand central spot of the city, in the\\nmiddle of the eastern side of the Place\\ndes Armes, facing the river. It is dedi-\\ncated to St. Louis, the great patron of\\nFrance, and is built in the Renaissance\\nstyle of architecture. The first building\\non the site was constructed of wood\\nand adobe, being erected by the piety\\nof the city s founders almost before\\nthey had homes for themselves. In\\n1723 it was destroyed by a tremendous\\nhurricane, which leveled a great part\\nof the infant and ill-constructed city.\\nA new Cathedral was built the follow-\\ning year, which was burnt in the great\\nfire on Good Friday, March 21, 1788,\\nin common with the greater part of the\\ncity. This conflagration was so disas-\\ntrous that for a long time the colony\\nwas unable to rebuild its temple, and the\\nmass was celebrated in a temporary\\nstructure till 1794, when Don Andres\\nAlmouaster, a wealthy Spanish noble-\\nman, decided to rebuild the Cathedral\\nat his own expense, providing that a\\nmass was to be said every Saturday for\\nthe repose of his soul. The plan origin-\\nally selected was of the usual heavy\\nSpanish style, the front having three\\ngreat round towers. In 1851 the old\\nbuilding was remodeled to its present\\nstate. The towers were surmounted\\nby spires and the facade was made\\nmore imposing by the addition of\\ncolumns and pilasters. In 1892 the in-", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "15", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "IG-\\nterior was frescoed and decorated by\\nHumbrecht, and the work has been\\nTery much praised by connoisseurs.\\nThe body of the builder of the church\\nlies buried before the altar of St.\\nP^rancis, with a marble slab iu the floor\\nabove it inscribed with his worthy\\ndeeds. He seems to have made a noble\\nuse of the goods witn which he was\\nblessed. The altar to the left of the\\nhigh altar is dedicated to Our Lady of\\nIxturdes, and is decorated with many\\nvotive offerings from those who have\\nbeen blessed by her intercession.\\nOne of the curiosities of the Cathe-\\ndral for the stranger is the Suisse,\\nor beadle, who has charge of the\\nchurch to preserve order. He appears,\\naccording to ancient custom, in cocked\\nhat, red coat, sword and halberd.\\nThe Jesuits Church is located on\\nBaronne street, at the corner of Com-\\nmon. It is beautifully decorated. The\\naltar is especially costly and splendid,\\nand is worthy of minute examination.\\nThe statue of the Blessed Virgin, over\\nI the altar dedicated to her, is of white\\nI marble, and was originally ordered by\\nI Queen Marie Amelia, of France, for\\nI the chapel in the Tuileries. The rev-\\nolution of ISiS prevented its being put\\nin place, and, being offered for sale,\\nit was purchased for this church by\\nsome devout ladies.\\nSt. Patrick s Church, on Camp street,\\nseven blocks above Canal, is one of\\nthe finest specimens of architecture of\\nthe city. As the name would indicate,\\nit was built by the Irish citizens for\\ntheir use, and was dedicated to the\\nI patron saint of Ireland. It is a large\\nI edifice, nearly pure Gothic in style,\\nI being modeled after the celebrated\\nCathedral of York, and its proportions-\\nj are very satisfying to the eye.\\nj St. Joseph s Church, on Tulane ave-\\nnue, near the Charity Hospital, is nota-\\nI ble as being the second largest church\\nin the United States. The nave is\\nI 215 feet long, and rises to the height\\nCHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, ST. CHARLES AVENUE.", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "17-\\nof 95 feet from the floor. The lofty\\narches, supported on beautiful columns\\nof red granite, give a very giand effect.\\nWith the high basement and all,- the\\nchurch rises 150 feet into the air, mak-\\ning it a prominent landmark in the\\ncity. The church has some magnificent\\nart work in the way of stained glass,\\nand the stations of the cross, elaborate-\\nly carved bas-reliefs, are worthy of a\\nclose inspection.\\nThe Episcopal Church has several\\nnotable edifices in New Orleans.\\nChrist Church is, perhaps, the most\\ninteresting of all, on account of its\\nhistory, being the pioneer Protestant\\norganization of the Southwest. In\\n1805 the Protestant citizens of the\\ntown determined to have a society of\\ntheir own, and held a meeting to de-\\ntermine by ballot to what denomination\\nit should belong. A large majority of\\nthe votes were in favor of the Episco-\\npal faith, and accordingly the church\\nwas organized on that line. A small\\nedifice was erected, where the congre-\\ngation worshiped until 1847, when, un-\\nder the Rev. Dr. Hawks, a preacher of\\ngreat power, a large building was\\nerected on Canal street, at the corner\\nof Bourbon. Here the congregation\\nworshiped until 1886, when the de-\\nmands of business made a change\\nnecessary, and the beautiful Gothic\\ncathedral was erected on St. Charles\\navenue and Sixth street. It is a beau-\\ntiful building, and will repay an in-\\nspection.\\nTrinity Church, on Jackson avenue\\nand Coliseum street, is a fine building\\nand the home of one of the wealthiest\\ncongregations of the city, though it\\nhas few pretensions to architectural\\nbeauty. Its most noticeable artistic\\nfeature is a magnificent stained-glass\\nwindow, a memorial of the Fighting\\nBishop, General Leonidas K. Polk,\\nwho was the pastor of this church and\\nthe Bishop of Louisiana during the\\nwar.\\nSt. Paul s Church, on Camp street,\\nopposite Mar^ aret Park, is a handsome\\nTEMPLE SINAI, CARONDELET STREET, NEAR HOWARD AVE-", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18-\\nbuilding of the modern school, which\\nwas erected, a short time ago, to re-\\n:place an older church destroyed by\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0fire. Its most remarkable feature is\\nits tower, which is a reproduction of a\\nfamous structure in Oxford, England.\\nThe church is expensively finished with\\npavements and wainscot of colored\\nmarbles, and has a pleasing interior.\\nThis building was erected under the\\nefficient management of Rev. H. H.\\nWaters, who has been in charge of the\\nparish since 1875. and who is and has\\nbeen especially dear to his people since\\nhis heroic conduct during the last yel-\\nlow fever epidemic in 1878. When the\\nscourge broke out Mr. Waters was\\naway from the city on his vacation.\\nThough he had never had the dread\\ndisease, he hurried back to the city\\nand remained with his people, com-\\n;forting the sick and burying the deau,\\nregardless of his own peril. This church\\nhas a fine vested choir of boys and\\nmakes strangers welcome at its ser-\\nvices.\\nThe First Presbyterian Church,\\nwhich stands on the south side of\\nliafayette Square, is a very handsome\\nspecimen of architecture. It is Gothic\\nin its general design, and is surmount-\\ned by a graceful steeple 219 feet high.\\nThe interior is lofty, airy and well\\nadapted to the worship of the denomi-\\nnation to which it belongs. The pas-\\ntor is the Rev. Dr. B. M. Palmer, one\\nof the most eloquent and eminent\\nPresbyterian divines of the countrv.\\nTemple Sinai, on Carondelet street,\\nnear Howard, the worshipping place\\nthe Reformed Jewish Congregation, is\\none of the notable religious buildings\\nof the city. It is built in an adapta-\\ntion of the Byzantine style of archi-\\ntecture, with alternate layers of white\\nand red brick, which give a very pleas-\\ning effect. A large and wealthy con-\\ngregation gathers there every Sabbath.\\nThe Church of the Messiah, on St.\\nCharles street, just below Lee Circle,\\nis a curious piece of architecture and\\nwell worth seeing. It is octagonal in\\nform, with aisles and clerestory, and\\nhas a rather agreeable effect. The\\nchurch was built in 1854 for the use\\nof the celebrated Unitarian minister,\\nDr. Clapp.\\nThe CaroTidelet Street Methodist\\nChurch, on Carondelet street, near\\nLafayette, is the home of the oldest\\nand most prominent Methodist congre-\\ngation in the city. The building is mas-\\nsive and substantial to the eye, and,\\nwhile not pretending to many of the\\ngraces of architecture, is well adapted\\nto its purposes, and conveys an im-\\npression of permanence and power.\\nThe Greek Ortho\u00c2\u00abiox Church, on Dol-\\nhonde, near Esplanade street, is wor-\\nthy of mention, to note the presence in\\nour city of an exponent of the prin-\\nciples of this most venerable sect,\\nreally the eldest sister of the Protes-\\ntant family. The church is a small\\nbuilding, and is seldom open for wor-\\nship, as the congregation is too small\\nto maintain a priest.", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a219-\\nPUBLIC BUILDINGS.\\nNew Orleans has not a few public\\nbuildings which are worthy of more\\nthan a passing glance from the sight-\\nseer. Some of them have few rivals\\nin the country in architectural magnifi-\\ncence.\\nThe Cotton Exchange is a notable\\nexample. It is situated on the corner\\nof Cai-ondelet and Gravier streets, in\\nthe midst of one of the busiest sections\\nments. The interior is one grand\\napartment, surmounted with a splendid\\ndome supported on elegant Corinthian\\ncolumns, and beautifully decorated with\\npaintings. The gallery is always ac-\\ncessible to visitors, and members are\\nalways ready to furnish cards of ad-\\nmission to the floor to properly intro-\\nduced strangers.\\nThe City Hall, which stands on the\\nCOTTON EXCHANGE.\\nof the city, and is the heart which reg-\\nulates the pulsation of New Orleans\\nmost important industry. The fluctua-\\ntions of prices in its cotton ring are\\nfelt in the remotest trade centers of\\nthe world. It is a beautiful building of\\nRenaissance style, with an exterior of\\ncream-colored stone, elaborately sculpt-\\nwred with bas-reliefs and other orna-\\nwest side of Lafayette Square, is a\\nmassive building, with a handsome\\nportico modeled after the famous\\nAthenian Parthenon. Over the portico\\nis a fine group in bas-relief, represent-\\ning Justice, surrounded with the em-\\nblems of the industries of the Missis-\\nsippi valley. The building is occu-\\npied by the offices of the city govern-", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "ment. One of its notable features is\\nthe fine library, open to the use of the\\npublic. Here may be ^een the Vie\\nde Caesar, by Napoleon III, which\\nwas presented to the city by the im-\\nperial author.\\nThe new Courthouse, situated on\\nTulane avenue and Rampart street, is\\nwell worth seeing, both for its hand-\\nsome exterior, thoroughly modern in\\nstyle, and expressing in every line\\nthe solid majesty of the law, and for\\nits commodious interior arrangements,\\ncarefully adapted to the needs of\\nthing for it to eat away a half mile of\\nits bank on one side, and deposit earth\\nto make as much land on the other;\\nand so here, just east of the custom-\\nhouse, where formerly was the river\\nchannel, 200 feet deep, are now solid\\nblocks of buildings and busy streets.\\nThe building is 81 feet high and\\nmeasures 340 feet on Canal street\\nby 297 on Decatur street. The build-\\ning is made entirely of stone and\\nbrick, and is fireproof throughout.\\nBuilt, as it is, on a bottomless soil,\\ngreat difficulty was experienced in se-\\nTHE CITY HALL.\\njustice. The city jail is in the same\\nbuilding.\\nThe United States Custom-house, at\\nCanal and Decatur streets, is one of\\nthe most s.dmired buildings of the\\ncity and of the country for its perfect\\nsymmetry and grace. It is built of\\ngray granite, and occupies an entire\\nsquare. This square was formerly on\\nthe immediate bank of the river, and\\nwas occupied by Fort St. Louis, one\\nof the original defenses of the old\\ncity. The Mississippi River, as dwellers\\non its banks know to their cost, is an\\nextremely erratic stream and floweth\\nwhere it listeth. It is no uncommon\\ncuring a foundation, and the work\\nhad to proceed very slowly. The\\noperations progressed at intervals for\\nmore than thirty years, and even yet\\nthe building is not finished according\\nto the plans. The corner-stone was\\nlaid by Henry Clay, in 1847. The\\nedifice was originally estimated to cost\\n$800,000, but already considerably\\nmore than $4,000,000 has been spent\\nupon it, and it is said that it will take\\nnearly a million more to finish it. One\\nof the most notable parts of the build-\\ning is the famous Marble Hall, situ-\\nated in the middle of the pile. It is\\nthe main business room of the cus-", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "toms department, and is considered by\\nconnoisseui-s one of the most splendid\\nrooms in the world. It is 128 feet\\nlong by 84 feet in width, and has a\\nheight of 58 feet. The walls are dec-\\norated with many handsome sculptures,\\nand the ceiling, of iron and ground\\nglass, is supported by 15 fluted col-\\numns of white marble, each 41 feet\\nhigh. Some of the best views of the\\ncity are to be obtained from the roof,\\nwhich is accessible to visitors on ap-\\nplication to the janitor. Besides con-\\ntaining the Custom-house, the building\\nis occupied by the United States\\ncourts, by the Post Office, and other\\nFederal departments.\\nThe Howard Memorial Library, cor-\\nner Camp and Howard, was erected\\nby Miss Annie Howard as a memorial\\nof her father, the late Charles T. How-\\nard. It is a decidedly unique building,\\nerected after plans by the famous\\nAssociation of Confederate Veterans,\\nto be used as a museum of war relics\\nand a meeting place. Many ragged\\nbattle flags lend their glory to the\\nplace, and numerous other curious\\nmementoes of the South s gallant\\nstruggle and of her honored heroes\\nare to be seen there.\\nThe Charity Hospital, on Tulane\\navenue and Howard street, is an insti-\\ntution of which New Orleans is justly\\nproud, and for the maintenance of\\nwhich she gives liberally. Its erec-\\ntion was begun by private benefaction,\\nbacked by the help of the State, in\\n1832, after the plans of the Shrews-\\nbury Hospital, England. Numerous\\nadditions have been made to it since,\\nas necessity demanded and means\\ncame to hand. Only recently it has\\nbeen increased bj e addition of a\\nsplendid amphithea, and operating\\nrooms, and is to-day one of the best\\nTHE HOWARD MEMORIAL LIBRARY.\\narchitect of Ti inity Church, Boston,\\nRichardson. The material is undressed\\nbrown stone, and the whole effect,\\nthough striking one oddly at first, is\\neminently satisfactory. Within the\\nbuilding is handsomely finished in\\nwood, and is most conveniently ar-\\nranged for the purposes for which it\\nwas intended. The library itself,\\nwhile not large, is very select, and is\\nfree to the use of all well-behaved per-\\nsons; but the books may not be taken\\nout of the library.\\nThe Confederate Memorial Hall,\\nwhich stands next the library, was\\nerected by the liberality of Frank T.\\nHoward, Esq., and presented to the\\nappointed and equipped hospitals in\\nthe country. Its services are free\\nto all who need them.\\nThe Touro Infirmary, situated on\\nPrytania street, between Aline and\\nFoucher, is one of the most important\\ninstitutions of the city. It was original-\\nly founded by Judah Touro, a Jewish\\ngentleman, noted alike for his wealth\\nand benefactions, who gave for its use\\na handsome mansion in what is now the\\ncotton press district. The growth of\\nindustries around it rendering the site\\nunsuitable for its purposes, the hos-\\npital, by the co-operation of the Hebrew\\nBenevolent .^.ssociation and of the Jew-\\nish citizens generally, was removed to", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "33-\\nits present site some twelve years\\nBince. Large additions and improve-\\nments have recently been made, and it\\nis considered one of the best equipped\\nhospitals in the South. While such pa-\\ntients as are able to pay are charged\\nfor what they receive, the Infirmary,\\nthrough the benefactions of the B nai\\nB rith, is enabled to do a large chari-\\ntable work, especially in the line of\\noutside clinic and dispensary, a feature\\nthat has been largely developed of\\nlate.\\nThe Hotel Dieu, on Tulane avenue\\nand Johnson street, is another great\\nhospital, belonging to the Sisters of\\nCharity.\\nThe Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat\\nFree Hospital is at No. 29 North Ram-\\npart street. It is a charitable institu-\\ntion, and its blessings are widespread.\\nHospital de la Sainte Eamille is at\\nNo. 40 St. Bernard avenue.\\nCamp NichoUs Soldiers Home is on\\nBayou St. John, near Esplanade ave-\\nnue.\\nThe Exchange Building, Royal\\nstreet, corner Customhouse, Is an im-\\nposing structure, with a handsome\\nfront of white stone. It was here that\\nthe famous trial took place of General\\nWalker, the celebrated Central Ameri-\\ncan filibuster. Latterly the building\\nhas been used as a dance hall.\\nTulane University of Louisiana oc-\\ncupies a splendid and imposing collec-\\ntion of new buildings on St. Charles\\navenue, opposite Audubon Park. The\\nbuildings stand in the midst of a large\\ncampus, admirably laid out for the\\nconvenience of the institution and of\\nthe students. They are constructed in\\nmodern style, and thoroughly fur-\\nnished with everything conducive to\\nthe efficiency of the university. All\\nthe buildings contemplated in the plan\\nof the university have not yet been\\nerected. When they are complete, the\\ncountry will hardly have a better ap-\\npointed institution of learning.\\nTulane University was originally\\nfounded by the State as the University\\nof Louisiana and, until 1893, occupied\\na group of four large and fine-looking\\nbuildings on University Place and\\nCommon street. The name was changed\\nin 1888 out of compliment to Paul\\nTulane, an eminent merchant of the\\ncity, who donated more than a million\\ndollars to make the University worthy\\nof the State. This fund has been safely-\\ninvested, and only the income is usetl\\nto further the interests of the Uni-\\nversity.\\nThe H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial\\nCollege, located on Washington ave-\\nnue, corner Chestnut street, is a wel!", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "23\\nappointed institution for the higher\\neducation of women and is a regular\\ndepartment of Tulane University.\\nThe Medical Department of Tulane\\nUniversity occupies a building of its\\nown on Canal street, corner Villere,\\nthe gift of Mrs. Ida A. Slocomb Rich-\\nardson. It is a handsome building, and\\nis elaborately fitted up with every con-\\nvenience demanded by the most recent\\nmedical science. The department was\\noriginally founded as a separate school\\nin 1834. It is one of the best known\\nmedical schools of the country, and as\\nthe students have the entree of the\\nneighboring Charity Hospital, with its\\nthousands of patients yearly, it offers\\nNew Orleans in 1727, after a voyag\u00c2\u00ab-\\nof incredible danger and hardship.\\nThe old Convent is the antique and\\ncurious structure now occupied as a\\npalace by the Archbishop of New Or-\\nleans, at the corner of Chartres and\\n[Jrsuliues streets. It is a charming\\nspecimen of the style of architecture\\nof the beginning of the eighteenth\\ncentury, and is well worth a visit.\\nThe well-behaved visitor is freely ad-\\nmitted, and if he choose, may pay his\\nrespects to the Archbishop, Mgr. Jans-\\nsens, in whom he will find an unas-\\nsuming, genial gentleman, as well as\\none of the most eminent ecclesiastics\\nof the country.\\nAbout half a century ago these quar*-\\nUHARITY HOSPITAL-MAIN ENTRANCE.\\nrare advantages of practical clinical\\ninstruction to its students.\\nThe Ursuline Convent is one of the\\ninstitutions well worth seeing, and one\\nof the oldest institutions of learning in\\nthe United States. At the first founding\\nof the city, Sieur Bienville decided\\nthat educational facilities must be pro-\\nvided for its children, and invited the\\nUrsuline Nuns of Rouen to supply\\nthem. Eleven sisters were sent in\\nresponse to this appeal, and landed at\\nters were found too narrow for the^\\ngrowing necessities of the good sisters,\\nand the present Ursuline Convent was\\nerected on a spacious property on\\nNorth Peters street, near Poland. It\\nconsists of a group of buildings, the\\nprincipal one of which, a very long\\none, painted white and facing the river,\\nis a prominent landmark as vessels ap-\\nproach the city from below.\\nThe Straight University, corner of\\nCanal and Tonti streets; the Leland^", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\nUniversity, St. Charles avenue, near\\nAudubon, and the Southern Universi-\\n;4j, on Magazine street, near Dufossat,\\nThe Masonic Temple, St. Charles\\nstreet, corner Perdido, is a point of in-\\nterest to many people. It is a hand-\\n-are noteworthy as being some of the\\nmost important institutions of the\\ncountry for the education of the colored\\nj)eople.\\nsome building of brick and stone, after\\nplans by architect James Freret, and\\nis decorated vrith good taste in strength\\nand beauty. The lower floors are oc-", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a226-\\ntupied by stores and offices, aud the\\nupper stories by lodgerooms.\\nThe Washington Artillery Armory\\nstands on St. Charles street, above\\nGirod, and while it has few architect-\\nural attractions to recommend it, ex-\\ncept its size, it is well worth a visit.\\nThe Washington Artillery was first\\norganized in 1847 by General Persifor\\nSmith, and fought through the Mexi-\\ncan war and the late civil war. It was\\nconsidered the leading artillery organ-\\nization on the Confederate side. The\\nArmory contains a small, but interest-\\ning collection of battle flags, arms and\\npictures. In the drill hall is a life-\\nsized painting by Julio, which is con-\\nsidered fine. It represents the meeting\\nof General R. E. Lee and Stonewall\\nJackson during the battle of Chancel-\\nlorsville. The portraits are said to be\\nexceptionally good.\\nThe members of the organization take\\na great pride in the historic fame of\\ntheir organization, and are very proud\\nto show its quarters to strangers, par-\\nticularly to the veterans who fought\\nagainst them in the great struggle.\\n.L\\nU,^\\\\\\nr\\n..ft-S\\nj\u00c2\u00bb ,--fir^teP\\nguiiaittiii\\nSUGAR EXCHANGE.\\nTHE HAUNTED HOUSE.\\nThe Haunted House, of which a very\\ninteresting history, originally written\\nfor the Picayune by Miss Marie Points,\\nwas on sale at the World s Fair at\\nChicago, is one of the sights of the\\ncity. It stands on the corner of Royal\\nand Hospital streets, and was one of\\nthe most splendid mansions of the city\\nin the long ago. Here, in 1831 and\\nafterward, lived a Mme. Lalaurie, who\\nwas very wealthy and moved in the\\nfirst circles of the aristocratic society of\\nthe time. She possessed numerous\\nslaves, whom she treated with the\\nmost abominable cruelty, starving, tor-\\nturing, flaying them alive, until her\\nbarbarities becoming known to the pub-\\nlic, she was compelled to flee for her\\nlife. The house was wrecked at the\\ntime by the indignant populace, and\\nit is said that no tenant has been able\\nto occupy it since on account of th\u00c2\u00bb\\nghosts of the murdered slaves, who\\nhold high carnival there at times. Few\\nvisitors come to New Orleans without\\ntaking a look at The Haunted House.", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "27\\nTHE THEATRES.\\nThe French Opera House, situated\\non the corner of Bourbon and Toulouse\\nstreets, is considered by experts to be\\none of the most perfect buildings of\\nthe sort in the country. It was erected\\nin 1860, after plans by Ballier, a well-\\nknown French architect. It has an\\nimposing front, with a beautiful bal-\\ncony and suitable approaches. Tbe au-\\ndience room is oval in fo;m, giving it\\na great breadth, and is furnished with\\nfive tiers of seats, after the French\\nfashion, with boxes, dress circle, etc.\\nHere is usually maintained, and\\nat great expense to the subscrib-\\ning patrons, an annual season of\\nFrench opera forty nights by care-\\nfully selected troupes of artists,\\nengaged in France, and a most capable\\nlocal chorus. Here are to be seen, e.spe-\\ncially on Saturday and Sunday nights,\\nthe elite of New Orleans society in\\nfull dress. The French Opera is one\\nof the characteristic features of New\\nOrleans, and is to be found nowhere\\nelse in the country.\\nThe Grand Opera House, Canal\\nstreet, near Dauphine, wa.^ erected a\\nfew years since by a private company\\nat great expense. It is a handsome\\nbuilding, beautifully decorated, com-\\nfortably furnished and conveniently\\nfitted with all proper accessories. During\\nthe season its stage is occupied with\\nthe best attractions to be procured.\\nThe St. Charles Theatre, on St.\\nCharles, near Poydras, is the largest\\ntheatre in tha city, except the French\\nOpera House, and is a favorite resort.\\nIt is sometimes called the Old Drury,\\nas its boards have been trodden by\\nKean, Macready, the elder Booth, E,\\nLi. Davenport, Ellen Tree, Char\\nlotte Cushman in fact all the favorite\\nactors of the past generation. The stage\\nj is especially large and admirably fur-\\nnished.\\nThe Academy of ]Music, St. Charles\\nstreet, near Commercial alley, is a\\nsmaller theatre, but it has a pretty au-\\nditorium and is a great favorite with\\nthe patrons of the stage.\\nOdd Fellows Hall, Camp street, near\\nPoydras, is a handsome building, and\\ncontains a spacious and handsomely\\nfurnished hall, which is in great de-\\nmand for lectures, concerts, balls, flow-\\ner shows, and other purposes of public\\nentertainment.\\nTHE CLUBS.\\nThe Woman s Club is one of the\\ninstitutions of New Orleans. It was\\norganized some 15 years ago by Miss\\nMargaret Bisland (now Mrs. Whetmore,\\nof New York), and has existed, with\\nvarying fortune, ever since. It is a\\nclub in the true sense of the word. It\\ndoes not interest itself particularly in\\nthe political or social questions of the\\nday, but exists purely for the von-\\nvenience of the members. It offers all\\nthe facilities for boarding, etc., which\\nare found in ordinary men s clubs, and\\nis open to rich and poor alike. What\\nwork it undertakes to do is for the\\nbenefit of the members, and to amelio-\\nrate the condition of *he laboring\\nmasses, in which the club takes a\\nlively interest. The club gives a lit-\\nerary or musical entertainment every\\nMonday evening, which is open to all\\nproperly introduced strangers. The\\nclub has rooms on Camp street, near\\nClio, which are appropriately and hand-\\nsomely fitted up.\\nThe Portia Club is a younger organ-\\nization among the ladies of the city.\\nIt was founded some three years since,\\nand has now a large and influential,\\nmembership. This club is specially in-\\nterested in securing the suffrage and\\nother rights of women. It advocates\\nan educational restriction of the ballot\\nonly, and is an ardent friend of the\\ncause of prohibition. It meets twice\\na month, on Saturday evenings, at\\nthe rooms of the Woman s Club, for the\\ndiscussion of the political and economic\\nquestions in which it is interested,\\nand once a month has a public dis-\\ncussion, to which outsiders, if properly\\nintroduced, are welcome.\\nThe Arena Club is a mixed one, hav-\\ning both men and women as members.\\nIt is devoted to the cause of women s\\nsuffrage and to the discussion of lit-\\nerary and politico-economic questions.\\nIt holds a weekly meeting at the resi-\\ndence of the President, ]\\\\Irs. Ferguson,\\nand once a month holds a public meet-", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a228-\\ning, at which some important question\\nis discussed. Among other things, the\\nArena Club is strongly in favor of the\\nSingle Tax, and is deeply interested\\nin the elevation of the masses.\\nThere are a number of Social Clubs\\nin the city with handsomely furnished\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0clubhouses, fitted with reading-rooms,\\nrestaurants, and all the comforts and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0conveniences of club life.\\nThe Pickwick Club is one of the most\\nprominent of these. It has a member-\\nship of some 300 of the most prominent\\ngentlemen of the city. It built and\\nformerly occupied the handsome build-\\ning on the corner of Canal and Caron-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2delet, now the Pickwick Hotel. The\\nclub was burnt out in the winter of\\n1894-95, after which it sold its build-\\ning and removed into its present quar-\\nters.\\nThe Boston Club is composed mainly\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of merchants and professional men,\\nand occupies a handsome building on\\n-Canal street, near St. Charles.\\nThe Harmony Club is the association\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of the leading Jewish citizens of New\\nOrleans, and occupies handsomely ap-\\npointed quarters on Canal street, near\\nCarondelet.\\nThe Commercial Club is composed\\nof business men. It has a membership\\nof about 600, and a well appointed\\nclubhouse on Canal street, above Ca-\\nrondelet.\\nThe New Orleans Chess, Checkers\\nand Whist Club has more than a thou-\\nsand members, and its much frequented\\nrooms are on the corner of Canal and\\nBaronne.\\nLa Variete Club is composed of stock-\\nholders of the Grand Opera House,\\nand makes its home in the Oisera Build-\\ning.\\nStrangers well introduced can readily\\nprocure tickets from members of most\\nof these organizations admitting them\\nfor a limited time to the privileges of\\nthe clubs.\\nThe Southern Athletic Club is one of\\nthe oldest organizations of the kind in\\nthe south, and belongs to the National\\nAmateur Athletic Union. It has a\\nmembership of over 1000 and owns a\\nsplendidly appointed clubhouse and\\ngymnasium on the corner of Prytania\\nstreet and Washington avenue, furnish-\\ned with a rubber racing track, a swim-\\nming pool, hot and cold baths, and all\\nmodern appliances.\\nThe Young Men s Gymnastic Club\\nhas its clubhouse at M North Rampart\\nstreet, and a perfect one it is. The\\nrooms are fitted up with great elegance,\\nand the gymnasium is all that could be\\ndesired. Experts declare that there is\\nnot another its equal in the United\\nStates. The membership is very large\\nand composed of the first young men\\nof the city.\\nThe Olympic Club is noted through-\\nout the country as having managed\\nsome of the greatest prize fights of the\\nworld. Its rooms, gymnasium and arena\\nare a good ways down Koyal street\\n(old No. 63G), and it was here that the\\nfamous bruiser, John L. Sullivan, met\\nhis Waterloo at the hands of James J.\\nCorbett.\\nThe Southern Yacht Club has a fine\\nclubhouse at the mouth of the New\\nBasin Canal, at West End, for the\\naccommodation of its members-\\nNew Orleans presents unrivaled fa-\\ncilities for yachting and boating on\\naccount of the proximity of Lake Pont-\\nchartrain. Lake Borgne, the Mississippi\\nSound and the adjacent bayous, and\\nthis club has a large membership and\\npossessess some of the finest yachts\\nof the country. Regattas are frequently\\nheld during ihe summer in the lake\\nand along the sound, and are occasions\\nof great pleasure.\\nRowing, rlso, is assiduously culti-\\nvated in the city, and there are several\\nboat clubs which have their houses at\\nWest End, and on Bayou St. John.\\nSt. John s Club, at West End. is one\\nof the most prominent.\\nThe Jockey Club has a splendid club-\\nhouse on Esplanade street, near Bayou\\nBridge. This was originally a private\\nresidence. It is a two-story brick man-\\nsion, with large wings, and is hand-\\nsomely and conveniently furnished,\\ncontaining, among other things, a fine\\nbowling alley. The house stands in\\nthe midst of ample grounds, which are\\nbeautifully laid out and maintained\\nwith great care. Here the members\\nof the club, during the spring and sum-\\nmer, frequently entertain themselves\\nand their friends with music, dancing\\nand other divertissements, the house\\nand grounds being converted into a\\nveritable fairyland with electric lights\\nand colored lanterns gleaming through\\nthe shrubbery. Well introduced strang-\\ners are always made welcome to these\\nentertainments.", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "POPULAR RESORTS.\\nThe West End, situated on Lake which starts on Canal street, near\\nPontchartrain, at the mouth of the the Clay Statue.\\nNew Basin Canal, may be called the At West End will be found a number\\nConey Island of New Orleans. It is\\nabout five miles from the heart of the\\ncity, and is reached by a dummy train.\\nof hotels and restaurants and all sorts\\nof devices for public amusement. On\\nan immense platform, built on piles", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "over the water of the lake, is a music\\n-stand, where a fine band discourses\\nmusic every evening during the summer\\nto all who care to listen. These open air\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0concerts are extremely popular, thou-\\nsauds of people resorting thither night-\\nly to enjoy the music and the cool\\nbreezes from the lake.\\nThe resort is thoroughly respecta-\\nble, and the best of order is maintained\\nat all times, none of the gambling or\\nlow amusements which too frequently\\ndegrade such resorts about the North-\\nern cities being tolerated there.\\nSpanish Fort is a small village, with\\npleasure gardens, situated at the mouth\\nof Bayou St. John, on Lake Pentchar-\\ntrain. It takes its name from a small\\nfort erected during the Spanish occu-\\npancy of the country, and called Fort\\nSt. John. The fort has long been aban-\\ndoned for military purposes and con-\\nVerted into a place of amusement. It\\nwas here that General Jackson landed\\nin 1814, when he arrived at N ew Or-\\nleans to take command and oppose the\\nBritish invasion. For many years this\\nwas the favorite resort of the New\\nOrleans people. It has i-ecently changed\\nhands, and the new proprietors propose\\nto leave no stone unturned to make\\nit the most attractive and popular\\npleasure resort in the South. Spanish\\nFort is reached by a steam train, start-\\ning on North Basin, at Canal.\\nOld Lake, otherwise Milneburg, is\\na small village, with restaurants, bath-\\nhouses and other waterside facilities,\\nsituated on the lake shore some four\\nmiles from the city. It is reached by\\na railroad, which starts at the foot\\nof Elysian Fields street. This road has\\nthe distinction of being the second\\nrailroad built in the United States, and\\nof being the first equipped with a\\nplatform for facility of handling\\nfreight. This convenience now so uni-\\nversally in use, was the invention of\\nthe superintendent of this little road.\\nThe Fair Grounds, formerly known\\nas the Gentilly Race Course, are situ-\\nated near Esplanade avenue and Bayou\\nSt. John. This spot has frequently been\\nused for the State Fair, and has suit-\\nable buildings and some very inter-\\nesting gardens and greenhouses, with\\na lai-ge collection of tropical plants.\\nThere is a, fine race course on the\\ngrounds, and it is used by the Louisi-\\nana Jockey Club for the Spring Meets.\\nAudubon Park extends from St.\\nCharles avenue to the river, and is\\nnearly five miles from Canal street by\\nthe Prytania or Magazine trolley cars.\\nIt is also reached by the St. Charles\\navenue line, by the Coliseum line, by\\nthe Peter s avenue line and several\\nothers. The park contains 249 acres,\\nand was originally the plantation of\\nEtienue Bore, who introduced the culti-\\nvation of sugar into Louisiana. The\\nfirst crop was made here. The park has\\none of the finest groves of live-oaks in\\nthe South, and it has also one of the\\nlargest conservatories in the world,\\nfilled with all sorts of tropical trees and\\nplants. This building is a remnant of\\nthe Great International Exposition,\\nwhich was held in the park some years\\nsince. The Park is yet but pai-tially\\ndeveloped, but its improvement is\\nsteadily progressing under the able\\nmanagement of the Audubon Park As-\\nsociation. When the plans are realized\\nit will be one of the most beautiful\\npublic parks in the country.\\nThe City Park is situated on Metairie\\nroad, near Canal street, and is accessi-\\nble either by the Canal street trolley\\ncars or by the Fair Grounds line. It\\ncontains 160 acres of land, and is by\\nnature one of the most beautiful spots\\nanywhere near the city. Magnificent\\ngroves of live-oaks embellish it, and\\nan added charm is found in its beauti-\\nful lake. A wierd attraction hangs\\naround the place from the fact that its\\ngrove was, for many years, the favorite\\ndueling ground of the city, and those\\nhoary trees have looked down on many\\na desperate conflict.", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "31\\nTHE CEMETERIES.\\nNot least among the attractions of\\nNew Orleans are its cemeteries with\\ntheir antiquated tombs and their\\nsilent records of the loves and\\nheroisms of past generations. Ly-\\ning so low, as it does, it\\nis almost impossible in the city to\\nbury the dead under the earth, as an\\nexcavation of a foot or so in depth is\\ncertain to fill immediately with water.\\nIn consequence interments are almost\\nwholly made in tombs built above the\\nsurface, and, especially in the older\\ncemeteries, these are so crowded to-\\ngether, with but narrow alleys be-\\ntween the rows of mausoleums, that\\nthey are veritable cities of the dead.\\nthe handsomest tombs to be seen here\\nis that of the Italian Society, which\\nis surmounted by a fine piece of mortu-\\nary sculpture, deserving more than\\npassing attention. Not far away is\\nthe lofty tomb of the Societe Fran-\\ncaise, a strong benevolent association\\namong the French-speaking citizens.\\nAt the back of this cemetery, beyond\\na board fence, which separates the\\nconsecrated from the uuconsecrated\\nground, may be found the original\\nmonument erected to the memory of\\nGeneral Claiborne the first American\\ngovernor of Louisiana. It was once a\\nbeautiful monument, but now decayed\\nand neglected, and possessing merely\\nCEMETEllY ALLEY.\\nThe old St. Louis Cemetery is per-\\nhaps the one best worth seeing, as the\\noldest and most crowded of all. It is\\nsituated on Basin street, just beyond\\nwhat was the original limit of the city,\\nKampart street, and is bounded by\\nSt. Louis and Conti. The grounds here\\nwere laid out without any regular\\norder, and the ancient tombs, with\\ntheir French and Spanish inscriptions,\\nare scattered about, forming tortuous\\nalleys, through which it is difiicult to\\npick one s way. Most of the tombs here\\nbelong to the old Creole families of\\nthe colonial city, and in many of the\\ninscriptions may be read names which\\nfigure in the colonial history. One of\\nan historic interest, as the remains\\nof the general were long since re-\\nmoved to a costly tomb in Metairie\\nCemetery. There are three other St.\\nLouis cemeteries, situated further\\naway from the heart of the city. They\\nare on Claiborne street, one block north\\nof Canal. They, too, are crowded with\\ntombs, among which may be found\\nthe last resting places of many famous\\nin the history of Louisiana. Here lies\\nJudge Martin, the historian and jurist;\\nAlexander Milne, the famous philan-\\nthropist; Delachaise, Plauche, and\\nothers.\\nThe Girod Street Cemetery, located\\non Girod street, near the New Basin,", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\nis notable as being the oldest Protest-\\nant burial place in the city. Shortly\\nafter the organization of Christ Epis-\\ncopal Church, in 1805, its restry de-\\ntermined to have a place where they\\ncould lay away their dead according to\\nthe rites of their religion, and this spot\\nand who wish to lay their dead wjij^h\\ntheir beloved departed.\\nThe Washington Street Cemetery is\\nanother of the older burial places. It\\nis on the corner of Washington and\\nPrytania streets, and is a picturesque\\nand beautiful spot, shaded by noble\\ntrees and kept with pious care.\\nwas consecrated to that purpose. In\\nits quiet alleys await the resurrection\\nthe bodies of many of New Orleans\\neminent citizens.\\nThese old cemeteries are little used\\nfor interments of late years save by\\nthose whose family tombs are thpre,\\nThe Campo Santo of St. Roch, with\\nits exquisite mortuary chapel, is one\\nof the most notable cemeteries in the\\ncity. It is on Claiborne street, four\\nblocks below Elysian Fields street.\\nThis Is the burial place of several of\\nthe religious orders of the Catholic", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.in\\nxJhvLTch, and the chapel is noted for\\nmany well authenticated miracles per-\\nformed in answer to prayers. For this\\nreason it is a favorite shrine with many\\ndevout Catholics suffering under afflic-\\ntions, and many is the pilgrimage made\\nthither to procure the divine blessings,\\nthank offerings for the reception of\\nwhich are to be seen on every hand.\\nA visit to New Orleans without a\\npilgrimage to St. Roch s were incom-\\nplete-\\nThe Metairie Cemetery, situated at\\nthe head of Canal street, is the most\\npicturesque and beautiful in the city,\\nand compares favorably, though yet\\nbut new, with some of the most famous\\ncemeteries of the country. It was\\noriginally a race course, and was pur-\\nehased and converted into a cemetery\\na few years ago by a company, which\\nhas spared no expense in its laying out\\nand adornment. Here are the tombs of\\nmany of the most notable families of\\nthe city, the Washington Artillery\\nMonument, the Army of Tennessee\\nMonument, and many other points of\\ninterest.\\nIn the same neighborhood are many\\nother burial places; the Hebrew Ceme-\\nteries, the Masonic and Odd Fellows\\nCemeteries, and not a few more.\\nThe Chalmette Cemetery is situated\\non the old battle ground, six miles\\nbelow the city and a mile and a half\\nbelow the terminus of the Rampart\\nand Dauphine cars. This is a national\\ncemetery, under the care of the gov-\\nernment, and is tastefully laid out and\\nbeautifully kept.\\nTHE MARKETS.\\nThe Markets of New Orleans are\\nwell worth a visit from the northern j\\ntourist, as he will see there many i\\ninteresting features of the characteris-\\ntic life of the city. To see them in\\ntheir perfecttion, he will have to arise\\nearly enough to get to the market by\\nsunrise, and loiter about for an hour\\nor two, watching the eager groups of\\nbuyers and sellers. If he go too earl.\\\\\\nfor breakfast it will be all the better,\\nas he will be in a condition to appre-\\nciate the delicious French coffee, and\\nthe other palatable things, which he\\nwill find offered for sale at some of\\nthe stalls. In most of the markets a\\nbreakfast can be had better and cheap-\\ner than in any hotel in the city.\\nThere are a number of markets\\nscattered at convenient points through\\nthe city, the principal of which are\\nthe x- rench Market, the Magazine Mar-\\nket and the Poydras Market, but the\\none to be visited by all means is the\\nFrench Market. It is situated on the\\nLevee, near Jackson Square, seven\\nblocks below Canal street. The market\\nis open daily from 5 a. m. till 11 a. m..\\nbut the great day to see it, if possible,\\nis Sunday. The market is more of an\\ninternational bazar than any other\\nplace of the sort in the United States.\\nHere one .nay see Americans, French,\\nSpaniards, Greeks, Italians, Negroes of\\nall sorts and shades, Indians, China-\\nmen, and a sprinkling of almost every\\nother nation under the sun. all bustling\\nabout in the most democratic fusion\\nand confusion, and here he will find\\nfor sale the fruits, wares and produce\\nof every race and clime.\\nThe market is divided into five dis-\\ntinct departments, known as the meat,\\nthe bazar, the fruit, the vegetable and\\nthe fish markets. In these various de-\\npartments may be bought pretty well\\neverything under the sun, and at the\\nlowest possible prices. Perhaps the\\nmost notable of all is the fruit market,\\nwhere the apples and cherries of the\\nnorth crowd the bananas and pine-\\napples and mangoes of the tropics,\\nwith the golden oranges of the Louisi-\\nana peninsula, grapes and apricots from\\nCalifornia, and guaves from Mexico,\\nalong with a host of other fruits in\\ntheir season, to keep them company.\\nThe Fish Market is one of the won-\\nders to the inland stranger, and, indeed,\\nthe Fulton Market, in New York, one\\nof the most famous fish marts in the\\nworld, can show no such tempting varie-\\nty as may be found here at all seasons\\nof the year. The Gulf of Mexico is\\nfamous for the abundance and variety\\nof its food fish, and the Gulf lies right\\nat New Orleans door. As an eminent\\ndivine visiting on the Gulf coast said:\\nIf a man wants oysters, fish, crabs,\\nor anthing else that grows in the wa-\\nter, all he has to do is to step out into\\nhis back yard and get them. Here\\nis the pompano, the sheepshead, the\\nSpanish mackerel, the red snapper, the", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34\\nredfish, the flounder, and other sorts\\ntoo numerous to mention, besides green\\nturtle, shrimp, crabs (hard and soft),\\noysters of the most delicious kind\\neverything that comes out of the wa-\\nter and everything of the sort amaz-\\ningly cheap.\\nIn these markets, too, are to be\\nfound, in the proper season, a quan-\\ntity and variety of game, -which is\\nsurprising to one who does not con-\\nsider that wildernesses of swamp and\\nwildwood lie in close proximity to New\\nOrleans on every hand. Here is bear\\nand venison, wild duck, turkey, goose,\\nquail, pheasant, woodcock and all sorts\\nof other game, and all at most mod-\\nerate prices.\\nAt the French Market are very\\ntastily-kept stalls, where meals are\\nserved at reasonable prices, and with\\na cookery that might put to shame the\\nmost expensive restaurants of New\\nYork, or of Paris itself.\\nA curious feature of the Poydras\\nMarket is the labor department, where\\nnumbers of ntgro women may be found\\nwaiting for employment, standing in\\nlong rows. Here one can hire a scrub-\\nbing woman, a washerwoman, a cook,\\nor a housemaid, at the regular market\\nprice.\\nTHE LEVEE.\\nON THE LEVEE.\\nOne of the features of New Orleans\\nwhich can but prove of great interest\\nto the stranger in New Orleans is the\\nLevee\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that is, the river front. It is\\ncalled the Lfevee because it consists of\\na great bank of earth thrown up to\\nprotect the city from the invasion of\\nthe Father of Waters, which at flood\\nrises far above the level of the streets.\\nThe river, however, since the city was\\nlocated on its banks, has, along most\\nof the front, withdrawn itself a good", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "ways from its original channel, so\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2that many solid blocks of buildings\\nstand where the river flowed when\\nBienville first looked upon it; and the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0wnstant additions to the levee give a\\ngradual slope up t8 the river front,\\nwhich makes it difficult for one to re-\\nalize that he is going up hill to the\\nriver. But so it is. The slope begins\\nfoot of Canal street he will find the\\nSteamboat Landing, where boats of all\\nsorts and sizes, from the stately river\\npackets, side-wheelers, which trade up\\nthe river to Vicksburg, Memphis, Cairo\\nand St. Louis, to the little stern-wheel-\\ners, which run up Red River, and into\\nBayou Atchafalaya, and the Lower\\nCoast.\\nui.; r:^^^*\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nat a considerable distance back from\\nthe river, and the stranger can realize\\nit as he sees the water in the gutters\\nflowing away from the river, instead\\nof towards it.\\nOn the river front itself are many\\n-sights which the visitor, if at all con-\\nversant with commercial matters, can\\nbut find of great interest. Near the\\nHere they lie, busily receiving and\\ndischarging freight, with a throng of\\ndarkies waiting about hoping for a job\\nas longshoremen to assist in the work\\nof handling the cargo, or as roustabouts,\\nto go on the next trip of the vessel.\\nTo the old resident of New Orleans,\\nwho remembers when the frontage of\\nthe river was scarcely sufficient to", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "afford accommodations to the swarms\\nof steamboats of all classes that sought\\nher levees aud carried her commerce,\\nit is rather a sad sight to watch the\\ncomparatively few now to be seen\\nthere. The railroads, reaching north,\\neast and west, with their rapid trans-\\nportation and low rates, have well-\\nnigh killed the river trathc. It is\\nas nothing to what it was. But there\\nIS still enough of it to afford an in-\\nteresting spectacle to the casual visitor\\nfrom other parts.\\nAnd there are many other sights of\\ninterest to be seen there. Here, near\\nthe head of Thalia street, is the Fruit\\nLanding, where almost any day may\\nbe found oue or more vessels, iron\\nsteamships mostly, discharging great\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0cargoes of tropical fruits bananas,\\npineapples, cocoanuts, lemons and\\nother things brought from ports on\\nthe Gulf of Mexico aud the Caribbean\\nSea. A good deal of this fruit stops\\nin New Orleans, especially the ripest\\nof it, and .s exposed for sale in her\\nmarkets at ridiculously low prices; but\\nthe great bulk of it is loa-ied into cars\\nright at the wharf, and a few hours\\nafter the arrival of the ship is fly-\\ning northward towards St. Louis,\\nChicago, Cincinnati, Louisville and\\nother cities, to l e sold there.\\nAt no great distance below Canal\\nstreet are found the wharves of the\\nCromwell Line, running a regular line\\nof steamships to New York, which\\nnever fail of a cargo of sugar, mo-\\nlasses, cotton or other characteristic\\nproducts of the South. Below that a\\nshort distance are the wharves of the\\nHarrison Line, which trades to Liver-\\npool and runs two or three steamers a\\nweek, and sometimes, when the trade\\nIs brisk, one a day or more.\\nBelow that is the Morgan Landing,\\nwhere occasionally is seen a ship of\\nthe Morgan Line, trading to New\\nYork or to some port on the Gulf,\\nthough now the most of this line s\\nGulf boats land at Morgan City, some\\neighty miles to the west, receiving\\ntheir freight and passengers by the\\nSouthern Pacific Railroad.\\nClose by this is the Lugger Landing,\\ncalled also +he Picayune Tier, where\\nis always to be seen a most picturesque\\nsight. A swarm of luggers gathers\\nhere, with their huge square sails tied\\ndown on their preturnaturally long\\nbooms, or flapping idly in the breeze\\nto dry, while their picturesque crews,\\nGreeks, Italians, Dagoes, French, ne-\\ngroes and nondescripts, bustle about\\nunloading cargoes of oranges, oysters,\\nfish, vegetables and all the various\\nproduce of the land and water of the\\nlower coast, where they trade through\\nthe bayous and lakes; or loiter\\nidly about, smoking their cigarettes,\\ncooking their meals over queer little\\nfurnaces fired with charcoal, and wait-\\ning for some sorl of a cargo.\\nFurther along the levee, both above\\nand below Canal street, may be seen\\nat most times of the yeai-, and espe-\\ncially in the winter, when the cotton\\nand sugar are moving, many great\\ntramp steamships, huge iron monsters,\\nwhich roam about the waters of the\\nworld seeking what they may devour\\nin the shape of a cargo, to go they\\ncare not where.\\nYonder, across the river, at Gretna,\\nand on this side at Southport, just above\\nthe city, are great grain elevators,\\nwhere the wheat, oats and corn which\\ncome down the river in barges from\\nthe granary of the world in the great\\nnorthwest are stored and loaded\\ndirectly aboard the immense ships\\nwhich lie alongside of them. On an-\\nother part of the river, perhaps, you\\nmay see at work one of the floating\\nelevators, which transfer the grain\\ndirectly from the great barges to the\\nhold of the steamship. New Orleans\\nis growing rapidly as a grain port, as\\nthe shippers of the northwest discover\\nthat it is the most economical route to\\nEurope, or to any other part of the\\nworld, and that the grain does\\nnot suffer by passing through the\\nwarm climate of the Gulf.\\nThe Sugar Sheds, which lie along\\nthe back of the levee, just below Canal\\nstreet, are worth a visit. One cannot\\npass them without realizing the great-\\nness and importance of the sugar in-\\ndustry of Louisiana. They are great,\\nopen buildings, covering block after\\nblock in extent, and along about mid-\\nwinter you will find them crowded\\nand packed with sugar and molasses\\nin barrels and hogsheads. And, big\\nas they are, they afford scant room for\\nthe product that seeks this greatest\\nsugar market in the United States.\\nThe barrels of sweets overflow the\\nsheds, crowd all the warehouses in\\nthe vicinity, overrun the levee and", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "(block the sidewalks. There is sugar\\ntions is changed into the beautiful\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2everywhere.\\nwhite sugar that you see upoa your\\nClose by the sheds are seTcral great\\ncrefineries, where the crude prod-\\ntable. It is well worth while to look\\nqict of the sugar-houses on the planta-\\nthrough one of them.\\nOUT-OF-TOWN EXGURSIOMS.\\nThe visitor to New Orleans can\\nliardly consider that he has done the\\nplace properly unless he has tried\\nsome, or all, of the excursions in which\\nthousands of the residents delight.\\nThere are a number of them, by rail\\nand by water, and they are all de-\\nlightful. By rail one can reach\\nBaton Rouge, the interesting old\\ntown where Louisiana makes her laws,\\nand where there are not a few things\\nworth seeing, over the Mississippi Val-\\nley Railroad. The Illinois Central will\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2enable him to spend a day very pleas-\\nantly among the piny woods of Missis-\\nsippi, or at charming Lake Mauchac.\\nThe Northeastern will take him out\\ninto a forest wilderness; or, by the\\n:Southern Pacific, he can reach the\\nbeautiful Teche country, the home of\\nEvangeline, or the wonderful salt\\nmines on Avery s Island.\\nBut the most delightful trip of all\\n5s over to the Gulf coast of Missis-\\nsippi, by the Louisville and Nashville\\nRailroad. The first forty miles of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2this route passes through cypress\\n-swamps, and across vast stretches of\\n.grassy marsh, intersected in all direc-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2tions by sluggish bayous, alive with\\nfish, and at every station are fishing\\n-clubs by the dozen, where the enthusi-\\nastic fishermen of the city delight to\\nrepair with rod and reel, and return\\nwith immense strings of finny victims,\\niud still more immense yarns of the\\n-ones they did not catch. After passing\\nPearl River into Mississippi, the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2marsh gradually gives place to solid\\nground, covered with pines and live\\noaks; and presently you are at Wave-\\n3and, the first station where a water\\nfront with no marsh before it is found.\\nThe pine forest here literally bathes\\nits feet in the warm brine of the Gulf,\\nand from this point, for forty miles,\\nstretches one of the most beautiful\\nand desirable reaches of coast to be\\nfound anywhere in the United States.\\nThere are stations every mile or two,\\nand the whole shore is practically one\\n^reat village, the coast being lined\\nwith residences, many of them beauti-\\nful mansions, inhabited in the sum-\\nmer by the wealth and fashion of New\\nOrleans.\\nHere are Bay St. Louis, Pass Chris-\\ntian, Long Beach, Mississippi City,\\nBeauvoir, Biloxi and Ocean Springs,\\nall charming resorts, strung along the\\nsparkling shore, and if you ask which\\nis the most beautiful and worthy of\\na visit, no unprejudiced person could\\nanswer. Ocean Springs is the farthest\\naway, but its natural attractions are\\ngreat and it has the distinction of\\njLcupyiag the site of the first settle-\\nment made on the shores of Louisiana\\nby Sieur Bienville, for here, on the\\neastern shore of Biloxi Bay, and not\\nat the present town of Biloxi, stood\\nthe original village of that name.\\nBiloxi itself, as it now is, is the older\\ntown, and has one of the best harbors\\nfor small boats on the coast, being\\ndefended from the Gulf by Deer\\nIsland, which reaches for several miles\\nsome half a mile off shore. Both these\\ntowns are much resorted to by North-\\nornei-s in the winter, as also is Pass\\nChristian, which has a capital hotel;\\nwhile Bay St. Louis, one of the French-\\niest settlements on the coast, and the\\nfavorite resort of the New Orleans\\nCreoles, is rapidly growing in favor\\nwith winter visitors.\\nThis whole coast ought to be known\\nas the American Riviera. It has\\nall, in the way of climate, bathing,\\nboating, fishing, lounging, that heart\\ncould desire. The salt air of the Gulf\\nmingles with the balmy breath of the\\npiny woods, the equable temperature\\nof the water softens the chilly airs of\\nthe north, and leaves nothing to be\\ndesired for pleasure or health.\\nAnother delightful excursion is by\\nboat, from West End, across Lake\\nPontchartrain, to Mandeville, Madi-\\nsouville, and up the charming Tche-\\nfuncta River to Covington.\\nOf course, the visitor to the city\\nwill not go away without seeing that\\ngreat engineering feat of modern", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38-\\ntimes, the Jetties, at the mouth of\\nthe river, which render the Missis-\\nsippi navigable to ocean-going vessels\\nof the largest class, and makes New\\nOrleans one of the greatest ports of the\\nUnited States, as it is destined to be, at\\nthe completion of the Nicaragua Canal,\\none of the greatest of the world. The\\nJetties may be reached by a steam-\\nboat, which makes the round trip in\\nabout twenty-four hours, and a de-\\nlightful trip it is for the passenger.\\nA trip by steamboat down the Bayou\\nLafourche will well repay the\\ntourist who wants to see the sugar\\ncountry in its perfection. It can be\\nmade at small cost in about twenty-\\nfour hours, by taking a boat down\\nthe bayou to Thibodaux, and thence\\nback to the city by rail.\\nA sight that can but be of interest\\nto visitors from the North is a sugar\\nplantation, with its waving fields of\\ncane, and its sugar-making in full\\nblast. This sight may be seen any time\\nbetween the beginning of November,\\nwhen the cane ripens, un to about the\\nend of February, and there are not a\\nfew plantations within eas^ reach of\\nthe city by boat, where the curious\\nvisitor will bp made welcome with true\\nLouisiana hospitalif-y. and the whole\\nsugar business laid before his eyes.\\nTt is an interestinsr spectacle, even to\\nthose who are familiar with it.\\nHere ynu see the cane fed by the arm-\\nful to the massive rollers, from the\\nother side of which th^ saccharine\\njuice flows in a crreenish white stream,\\nwhile the dry bacasse. smashed and\\nflattened almost to the thinness of\\na sheet of paper, streams out. to be\\nfed, a moment later, to the roaring fur-\\nnace.\\nYonder are the huge, shallow evapo-\\nrating pans, where the juice is boiling\\nfuriously under the watchful eye of the\\nexpert sugarmaker, whose judgment\\nmust be infallible if the best results\\nare to be secured. Over here are the\\ngreat crystallizing vats, where the boil-\\ned juice is placed to turn into sugar.\\nIn one the juice is still hot from the\\nevaporating pans; in the next it is\\ncovered with a heavy deposit of sugar\\ncrystals, and in the one beyond are\\nbarefooted workmen, shoveling the\\nsugar into barrows to be taken to the\\ncentrifugal machine, which speedily\\nthrows the molasses out of it and\\nleaves a beautiful mass of yellowish\\ncrystals, ready to be sent to the re-\\nfinery.\\nYou may see the whole process, if\\nyou choose, at Ames Plantation, just\\nacross the river from Carrollton.\\nAnother most interesting trip from\\nthe city is by boat across Lake Pout-\\nchartrain and through Pass Mauchac\\ninto Lake Maurepas, and some of the\\nbayous that empty into it. Here the\\ncurious visitor will find himself in the\\nmidst of some of the most interesting\\nand important lumbering operations in\\nthe world. These swamps all about are\\ngrown up with immense forests of\\ncypress timber, which grows right in\\nthe water, and must be cut from rafts\\nor staging erected for the purpose.\\nThat huge tree yonder, which appears\\nto be dead, was girdled last winter,\\nand is left standing until it becomes\\nsomewhat dry, for if it were felled\\ngreen, the wood is so heavy that it\\nwould at once disappear under the\\nblack waters of the swamp, and that\\nis the last that would be seen of it.\\nThat little canal through the swamp\\nhas been dug by the swampers for\\nthe purpose of floating out their logs\\ninto the open waters of the lake, where\\nthey are made into rafts and towed\\nto the mills.\\nAlligators? Yes, there are plenty\\nof alligators about, and big ones, too,\\nthough they prefer the more open\\nwaters of the bayous to the thickets of\\nthe swamp. There is nothing to be\\nalarmed about. They are great cow-\\nards, and are not going to attack a\\nman in a boat, but I would not advi.se\\nyou to put your hands in the water.\\nIt is full of moccasins, and a more\\ndangerous suake does not exist in the\\nSouth. Yonder is one now. See? Swim-\\nming across the bayou with his head\\njust above the water.\\nThese cypress swamps are of great\\nvalue, though the industry does not\\nmake so much money as it ought, nor so\\nmuch as it will after a while, when\\nthe white pine and spruce of the North\\nbecomes comparatively exhausted.\\nThere will always be plenty of cypress\\nhere, for, though it is a slow grower,\\nthere is nothing else that can grow in\\nthese swamps.\\nNorthern capital is beginning to real-\\nize its value, and already there is a\\ngood deal of it invested in the Louisi-\\nana swamp land. It s a good invest-\\nment, too.", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a289-\\nTHE PICAYUNE FROG.\\nThe Picayune Frog is one of tlie in-\\nstitutions of New Orleans. He was\\ndiscovered in the city one day early\\nin January, 1894, and invited to take a\\nplace on the Picayune as Weather\\nProphet, a position which the pursuits\\nof his early life had eminently quali-\\nfind him to fill. Thursday, Jan. 11,\\n1894, was the memorable day on\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2which he first made his appearance in\\nhis new roie, dressed\\nin the iacntical cos-\\ntume represented in\\nthe accompanying cut.\\nThere were no inau-\\ngural ceremonies cou-\\nnected with his indue\\ntion into office. He\\ndid not even venture\\non any remarks to in\\n^ratiate himself with\\nthe public but at a\\nsingle bound he, jump-\\ned into popular favor,\\nand was at once recog-\\nnized by all classes as\\na representative pub\\nlie cliaracter. Adults\\nand children alike look\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0daily for liis appear-\\nance, piu their fui^li\\nto his meteorological\\npredictions, and enjoy\\nhis amusing remarks\\non all sorts of matters\\nof general interest,\\nfor, iiudiiig liimself in\\nso i r\u00c2\u00abminent a posi-\\ntion, he naturally mid earlv took an\\ninterest in ail matters toucuing the\\nwelfare of hisfrien.ls and constitiienfs,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0and fell iufco a Weggish habit of drop-\\nping occasionally iuto poetry, which\\nnever lacks a point.\\nSo great has his popularity grown\\nthat no public entertainment has been\\nconsidered complete without him. He\\nhas been persistently invited to all\\nsorts of garden parties, fairs, church\\nfestivals, etc., where he has always\\nrHE PICAYUNE FROG\\noccupied the post of honor, and the\\nlemonade which he dispenses on such\\noccasions has justly become famous as\\nFrog lemonade.\\nHe has had music dedicated to him\\nby composers; he has been pasted into\\nthousands of scrap-books, and last\\nyear, by special invitation, he occupied\\nan honorable place in the Mardi Gras\\nparades.\\nHe has even re-\\nceived the most sin-\\ncere lionor of attempt-\\ned imitation but it\\nwas a far-off attempt.\\nThe Picayune Frog is\\none and inimitable.\\nBut all this public\\narlnlation has not\\nturned his head. Ho\\naccei)ts ii all with be-\\ncoming modesty,\\nmerely taking courage\\nfrom it to strive harder\\nto deserve the great\\npopular favor which\\nis accorded him. He\\nattends strictl^^ to\\nbusiness; and is daily\\nto be found at his\\npost of duty, toiling\\nwith all his might to\\nadvance the best in-\\nterests of New Or-\\nleans, and Louisiana,\\nand the whole South,\\nand he means to con-\\ntinue doing so while\\nand popular favor en-\\nhealth\\ndures.\\nlasts\\nFor the Queen of the South\\nIs New Orleans! The wile\\nOf her beautiful smile\\nBrings my heart to my moutL\\nTo secure me a place\\nIn her heart s my sole care\\nAnd to die would I dare\\nTo prevent her disgrace.", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\nCOTTON YARDS.\\nThe Cotton Yards and Compresses\\nshould not be overlooked by one who\\ndesires to see the characteristic sights\\nof the city. There are a large number\\nof them to be found in the section of\\nthe city south of Julia street and east\\nof Constance. The Tchoupitoulas street\\ncars will take one right into the midst\\nof them. The cotton yards, occupying\\neach a full block, are surrounded by\\nhigh, brick walls, guarded with iron\\ndoors, to protect their inflammable con-\\ntents from risk of fire. All around the\\nwalls on the inside are immense sheds,\\nroofed with slates, to protect the tieecy\\nstaple from the weather; though, in\\nthe busy season, when every boat and\\ntrain into the city discharges huge\\npiles of cotton baJes on her wharves\\nand platfoms, the sheds are altogether\\ninsufficient to contain the cotton, and\\nthe yards will be found heaped with\\ngreat stacks of bales, and not infre-\\nquently they overflow to the surround-\\ning sidewalks, until the cotton district\\nJbecomes wellnigh impassable for them.\\nIn almost e^ery yard will be found\\nin operation a compress, a giant ma-\\nchine operated by steam, and com-\\nbining all the mechanical powers to\\nsecure the gi-eatest possible pressure in\\nthe briefest time. A bale of cotton,\\nmeasuring, perhaps, four feet through,\\nand pressed as tightly as possible with\\nthe machinery employed on the planta-\\ntions, is rolled upon the platform, and\\nthe iron ties which hold it are loosened\\nby the rapid hands of the attendants.\\nThe engineer moves his hand, and,\\npresto! like lightning the platform flies\\nup toward the immovable frame above\\nit, and the great bale is squeezed to-\\ngether until it is not more than ten\\ninches or a foot in thickness. The\\niron bands are hastily readjusted to\\nthe reduced size of the bale; the mon-\\nster machine releases its aold, and the\\nbale falls out, to be speedily followed\\nby another. This compressing costs\\nbut a very small sum per bale, and\\nfar more fhan pays for itself in the\\nincreased number of balos which it\\nenables a ship to carry.\\nA COT lON YARD.\\nOVER THE LAKE FISHING AND SHOOTING.\\nAny visitor to New Orleans who is\\ntfond of fishing and shooting can get\\nIboth of the best quality and at slight\\nexpense, in the immediate vicinity of\\nithe city. Only a short distance out\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of town, by any of the railroads, can\\nfij.e found lakes and ibay-ous full of the\\nfinest game fish, and woods and\\nprairies where resort deer, turkey,\\ngeese, ducks, snipe, and sometimes big-\\nger and more dangerous game.\\nPerhaps the best thing to do, if one\\ndesire a day s sport, is to take the\\nearly train on the Louisville and Nash-\\nICoiitiuuod on page 42.]", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "41\\n819 Canal. Bourbon Dauphine Customhouse.\\nThis Book\\nWas Compiled for the Instruction\\nand in the Interest of\\nVisitors..\\nIt Contains Facts\\nResidents Are Familiar With,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2One of Which is That\\nThis is the Largest\\nGeneral Dry Goods Store\\nIn the South.\\nAnother is that you, as well as they, are always welcome to stroll\\nthrough our establishment, use our parlors, stationery, check your\\npackages (free of charge), and, daring your stay in our city, make it\\nyour headquarters examine and price everything we have to sell\\nwithout feeling the slightest obligation to buy.\\nThirty-two departments, each as large as a separate store. Silks,\\nLaces, Eibbons, Velvets, Dress Goods, Wash Goods, White Goods,\\nBlack Goods, Hosiery, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Shoes, Men s Furnish-\\nings, Housefurnisbings, Silverware, China and Crockery, Upholstery,\\nLadies Capes and Dresses, Boys Clothing, Infants and Ladies Un-\\nderwear, Corsets, Tin and Graniteware, Linens, Books, Perfumery,\\nHandkerchiefs, Umbrellas, Men s Hats, Millinery, Trimmings, No-\\ntions, Carpets, Curtains.\\nOur Dress-Making Department is under the supervision of\\nfamed French Modiste and a Berlin Man Tailor.", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "ville Railroad, and, if shooting be his\\nobject, get ofE at Lee, or Michaud,\\nwhere he can easily find a guide who\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0will show him sport in abundance. If\\nfishing is what he wants, he should go\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ion to Chef Menteur, about sixteen\\n-smiles fix)m town; or Lake Catharine,\\nor the Rigolets, a little ways further\\noff. At each of these places are a\\naumber of fishing clubs, most of them,\\norganized by the sportsmen of New Or-\\nleans for their amusement, and all of\\nthem hospitably open to the properly\\nintroduced visitor.\\nThe green trout (a species of bass) is\\nthe favorite game fish of the bayous,\\ni^nd, if the fisherman be well provided\\nwith fresh bhrimp or other proper bait,\\nhe may expect to fetch home a big\\nstring of the beauties, weighing from\\ntwo to six or seven pounds apiece.\\nAt the Rigolets, which is properly an\\narm of the sea, being the strait which\\nconnects Lake Pontchartrim with the\\nGulf, the sheepshead is caught in great\\nabundance, and speckled sea trout and\\nredfish, and sometimes a pompano or a\\nSpanish mackerel, one of the gamest\\nfish that swims. The mackerel, how-\\never, is much more commonly taken\\nin the summer in the waters of the\\nsound at Mississippi City, Biloxi and\\nOcean Springs.", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE MODEL MUSIC HOUSE,\\nIn business, as in fashion, the newest, most up to date concerns are the ones\\nthat n:ost interest the public. New Orleans cannot boast of the large, elegantly\\nappointed stores that abound in northern citiss, but she is coming to the front\\ngradually, and the past year (1895) has seen added to her other attractions a\\nmusic store fashioned and conducted on the lines pursued by the progressive con-\\ncerns all over the country.\\nIts location, 214-216 Camp street, is central, and yet just removed from the\\nnoise and bustle of Canal street, which is a great desideratum in this business,\\nand is flttod up in a manner to invite a visit, while the magnificent stocli of\\nCONOVER, SCHUBERT and KINGSBURY Pianos in the warerooms on the sec-\\nond floor is well worth critical attention. Business is conducted on modern lines\\nand all instruments have the prices marked on them in plain figures. A full line\\nof sheet music (sold at one-half price) and small instruments of all grades, in-\\ncluding the famous WASHBURN Mandolins and Guitars and STEWART Banjos,\\nis also carried.\\nTalien as a whole, it may be considered the Mode] Music Store ot the\\nSouth, and stamps the DUNNING-MEDINE MUSIC CO.. Ltd., as being up to\\ndate. Don t fail to pay them a visit, and you will find your welcome to be\\nas hearty, whether you call simply as a sight-seer or as a purchaser.", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "STATISTICS OF THE CITY.\\nFollowing are some statistics, which\\ngive an idea of the size and business\\nimiwrtance of the city:\\nPopulation in September, 1S95\\nAs estimated by the President of the\\nBoard of Health 300,000\\nAs estimated bv the publisher of City\\nDirectory 270,000\\nMiles of Paved Streets-\\nCobblestone, mostly laid prior to 1S88.. 39.01\\nBelgian blocks Jp\\nSquare block pavement \u00e2\u0096\u00a0^J-oy\\nGravel pavement t n\\nAsplialt pavement o-^^\\nVitrified brick _ j^\\nTotal paved streets ^^-^Jo?\\nMiles of electric street car lines 2-o\\nManufactures\\nNew Orleans is not commonly\\nthought of as a manufacturing city;\\nbut the last census revealed the fact\\nthat its growth in this respect had\\nbeen phenomenal during the decade\\n1880-1890, being more than 100 per\\ncent in the number of establishments,\\nand 150 per cent in the capital invest-\\ned and hands employed. The figures\\nfor 1890 are as follows:\\nManufacturing establishments 2,001\\nHands employed o^i\\nCapital invested $21,185,358\\nVS^ages paid 10,048,264\\nValue of manufactured products... 35.535,596\\nThe growth of the manufacturing in-\\nterests in the city has been even more\\nrapid since 1890 than it was before.\\nPresuming the ratio of gi-owth to have\\nbeen the same, however, its present\\ncondition may be stated as follows, in\\nround numbers:\\nManufacturing establishments 3,000\\nHands employed 40,000\\nCapital invested $36.000,(10a\\nWages paid 18,000,000\\nValue of product 63,000,000\\nThe substantial growth of the city\\nis shown by the fact that during the\\nyear ending Sept. 1, 1895, new build-\\nings were erected to the value of ^3,-\\n099,359.\\nThere are twenty-four Homestead\\nand Loan Associations operating in the\\ncity, with a paid-in capital of some-\\nthing like $6,000,000, the better part\\nof which goes into permanent improve-\\nments in real estate.\\nDrainage and Sewerage\\nThe drainage and sewerage of New\\nOrleans in the past have been about\\nas bad as they could be, the drainage\\nbeing mostly mere surface drainage in\\nthe gutters of the streets, helped on\\nby a few pumps to raise the drainage\\nwater from the low-lying main ditches\\nto the level of the lake. There has\\nbeen simply no sewerage at all, the\\nfilth of the city being deposited in\\nvaults in private yards, and carried\\nI away, when carried at all, by esca-\\nvating companies. All this, however,\\nis being rapidly changed. A compre-\\nI hensive plan for the drainage of the\\nI city, prepared after long consideVation\\nI by a competent board of engineers,\\nhas been adopted by the city, and will\\nbe commenced in 1S9G. The total cost\\nof the work is estimated ati$7,933,-\\n091.\\nThis drainage is to be discharged\\ninto Lake Borgne.\\nA system of sewerage has been in\\ncourse of construction for some time.\\nIt proposes to have the waste and\\nother sewage from residences dis-\\ncharged into sewer pipes under the\\nstreets, and forced through them by\\npowerful pumps, to be discharged into\\nthe river, below the city.\\nNew Orleans has lon^ been known\\nas one of the chief commercial centers\\nof the country, and the few statistics\\nfor the commercial year ending Aug.\\n31, 1895, given below, will give some\\nidea of her importance in this particu-\\nlar:\\nImports .?]3,315,219 00\\nExports 68.425,316 00\\nTonnage Handled by the Six Prin-\\ncipal Railroads-\\nForwarded,\\npounds.\\nSouthern Pacific 978,717.653\\nTexas and Pacific. 310,376.020\\nLouisville Nash e 552.190,900\\nlillinois Central\\nMississippi Valley\\nN. O. and N. E... 396,137,000\\nReceived,\\npounds.\\n1,119.866,326\\n662.106.055\\n674.571.900\\n470.042.000 1,486.362,000\\n180,446,000 990,250,000\\n67,288,000\\nTotal 1894-95 2,887,908,573 5,700,444,281\\nNumber of vessels entered 1,193\\nTonnage 1,615,650\\nNumber of vessels cleared 1,174\\nTonnage 1,606,825\\nBanking capital ?8.754,699 49\\nIndividual deposits 22,051.036 80\\nLoans and discounts 19,118,728 20\\nBank clearings 447,211,337 00\\nCotton bales received\\nAverage value per bale.\\n2,702,931\\n?31\\n583,790,861\\nTotal value\\nSugar Received\\nHogsheads 59,915\\nBarrels 1,636,541\\nMiscellaneous Products Received\\nRice, barrels 264,946\\nFlour, barrels 687,506\\nWheat, bushels 1,523,3Z%\\nCom, bushels 2,761,324\\nCoffee, bags 344,622", "height": "3266", "width": "1931", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE NEWSPAPER PRESS.\\nThis gi eat oiigine arul agent of j)0]m]iii education and enlightennK nt\\nis represented in Louisiana by 172 serial publications, of m Inch, 14 are issued\\ndaily; 2 semi- weekly 147 weekly; 3 semi monthly, and 6 monthly. Of\\nthese, 7 are printed in both French and English; 3 in French wholly 3 in\\nGerman 2 in Italian, and 1 in Spanish. They are for the most part well-\\nconducted and are excellent exponents of the local interests of the several\\nparishes and districts in which they are printed.\\nThe leading newspaper published in Louisiana is the New Orleans\\nI icAYUNE, which was established in January, 1837. It is the oldest English\\npaper in the city or in the State, its age being surpassed only by that of\\nrAboille (the Bee), which is ten years older and is printed in the French\\nlanguage, and with the two exceptions of the Bee and the Deutsche Zeitung\\nor German Gazette, it is the only paper in New Orleans that has survived\\nthe civil war.\\nThe Picayune has always been an able, conservative, enlightened\\nrepresentative of the best interests of Louisiana and of the great southwest,\\nin whose progress and development it has had a large share, and no paper in\\nthis country has been so close to the people themselves. It is their great\\ntribune and advocate, ever standing against political trickery and official\\ndishonesty, and being free from all corrupt jobs and selfish schemes it has\\nalways maintained the highest place in public confidence and favor.\\nThe Picayune was started in 1837 by the brilliant and famous George\\nWilkins Kendall, one of the most distinguished wits of his day, and, perhaps,\\nthe first journalist in the world who played the part of a correspondent for\\nthe press from military headquarters in the field, Mr. Kendall having accom-\\npanied the United States army of invasion to Mexico during the war of\\n1846-47, sending to the Picayune the first and freshest news of all the mili-\\ntary operations of that important war.\\nSince then, the Picayune has been conducted by many able and often\\ndistinguished men, constantly improving its excellent qualities as a news-\\nE taper, and always growing in influence and ability to represent and work\\nor the people ot New Orleans, of Louisiana, and of the South, until under\\nits present proprietors, Mrs. E. J. Nicholson and Col. Geo. Nicholson, it has\\nreached the summit of journalism and is the leading paper in the great\\nSouthwest.\\nA volume could be filled with accounts of the Picayune s enterprise in\\ngetting news, from the time of the Mexican war down to the present, but\\nwhat has been said will suffice. Its complete offices of publication contain-\\ning the most improved machinery and perfect appliances which science has\\nprovided for the production of newspapers and its able and skilled corps of\\nthinkers and workers, combine to make it what it is, one of the great Ameri-\\ncan dailies and the chief of all the journals of the Southwest.\\nIn closing this brief notice of the newspaper press it is not inappro-\\nEriate to refer to the special editions issued by the Picayune, Of these the\\nest known, particular among visitors fiom abroad, are the superbly illus-\\ntrated Caunivau Editions, on. issue being (b voted to each of the mystic\\nparades\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rex, The Kkewe of I koteus, and tlje MvoTio Krewe of\\nCOMUS. These editions aie printed on lieavy paper from plates specially\\nprepared by talented artists and lithographers. The illustrations are exact\\nreproductions in every detail of the floats and costumes, and the accom-\\npanying letter press greatly aids the spectator in a full understanding. i.l\\nappreciation of tne subject selected for illustration by the maskers. An im-\\nmense number of these papers are printed and sent broadcast throughout the\\ncountry. The retail price of eacn copy is ten cents, at the news stands, or\\ntwelve cents by mail. A full set (3 copies) will be sent by mail to anjr\\naddress for thirty-four cents.\\nAnnually, on September 1st, the Trade Edition of the Picayune^,\\ncontaining an exhaustive review of the financial and commercial transac-\\ntions of the year, is published. Its statistics and articles are prepared by ex-\\nperts, and it is highly esteemed by the commercial community.\\nFor some years past it has been the custom of the Picayune to publish\\non January 2d, a resume of the important occurrences of the preceding\\ntwelve months. As no other Southern paper possesses a like feature, and as\\nthe table, while paying particular attention to Southern events, does not\\noverlook notable happenings elsewhere, its value as a work of reference is\\nreadily apparent. In fact, so great is the popularity of the work, that it was\\nrecently found necessary to reprint the tables from 1885 to 1894 in pamphlet\\nform, under the title of Ten Years of the World s History. The book has\\nalready met with a large sale.", "height": "3241", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto01newo_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "Si\\nAlways\\nReliable,\\nAlways\\nGIVING THE\\nLatest News\\nLEADING NEWSPAPER\\nor TliE SOXJTKC.\\n,vo-\\nA^\\nThe Daily Picayune\\nIs a real newspaper. No expense\\nis spared in producing it. Its\\ntelegraplilc service Is unsur-\\npassed. Its news gatherei-s\\ncover all places of interest. Its\\nmechanical appliances are mod-\\nern and the best. Its staff of\\ntalented writers and artists is\\ncomplete. Dally, including Sun-\\nday, $12 a year.\\nThe Sunday Picayune\\nIs a household treasure of news,\\nInformation and literature. 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