{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3579", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "x^ Mm\u00c2\u00b0 x J11| Xf\\nw\\nV o", "height": "3436", "width": "1934", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "V vP *3 b\\nK*.\\n.V-\\nJ ^s-\\nA\\nV\\nc\\n.Ho,", "height": "3436", "width": "1934", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3502", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "(TTY OF NEW ORLEANS\\nW\\nT. F. TZWI U.IAM A CO., N.O.", "height": "3502", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "ipkatstntt", "height": "2471", "width": "2787", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "A", "height": "3447", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS\\nN 1798\\nsfr JOHN", "height": "2500", "width": "2838", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "THIS\\nPICAYUNES\\nGUIDE\\nTO\\nNEW ORLEANS.\\nREVISED AND ENLARGED.\\nTHIRD EDITI\\nRetail Price, 10 Cents.\\nCopyright, 1897, by\\nTHE PICAYUNE,\\nNew Orleans, Louisiana.\\n73", "height": "3447", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER I.\\nAN OMELETTE SOUFFLE, A PALM-LEAF FAN\\nAND A ROSE.\\nI offer you an omelette souffle, a\\npalm-leaf fan and a rose!\\nIt makes not the slightest difference\\nwhat is one s first impression of this\\nquaint and sunny old city, lying half\\nasleep, blinking, as it were, under her\\nluminous skies, luxuriously lounging\\non the elbow of the great yellow river;\\nin the end one is sure to conclude that\\nwhen she spoke, when first her tender\\nmessage was breathed into the ear,\\nit was an invitation something like\\nthis: I offer you a palm-leaf fan, an\\nomelette souffle, and a rose.\\nIt is early in the morning, late in\\nthe season, and young in the year;\\nbut it is the time of all times when\\nthis old, half-French, half-Spanish\\ntown of ours, with her beautiful women\\nand foreign ways, her odd, grim\\nhouses, and lovely rose gardens, pink\\nand bloomy, is at her best. A sky\\nmore blue than the lid of Italy is\\noverhead, and against it are limned\\nthe dull, gray belfries, the leaping\\nsteeples and gilded crosses of her\\nsanctuaries; roses blossom on her\\niron balconies, a very balustrade of\\nbloom is at the edge of her red tiled\\nroofs in the musty French quarter, the\\nperfume of the sweet olive interpene-\\ntrates all her shady places, and the\\nsense of a new, different and foreign\\nlife impresses the stranger.\\nThe very tinkle of the bells has a\\nnovel and enticing sound, and in a\\nlittle while one realizes that one has\\noome here to enjoy life, to get closer\\nto nature and to human nature, to be\\nglad over the beauty of things, and to\\nmelt the heart in the shining of the\\nwarm sun to see a city tendriled with\\ntropic vines and framed in with roses,\\nand a life all set to the music of sing-\\ning birds. Of what account is it the\\ncurrent price of wheat, or the stock\\ncalls on the exchange? Rather let us\\nknow what opera is to be sung to-\\nnight, and shall we take lodgings in\\nan entresol of the French quarter, or\\nin one of the big. Southern-looking\\nhotels, or in a rose-grown cottage of\\nthe garden district.\\nNew Orleans is unlike any other\\nAmerican city. Her very name is a\\nsouvenir of gayeties; her breath is a\u00c2\u00bb\\nsweet as a willow copse in June, and\\nsomething about her always make*\\none think of the opera and the\\nbal masque, the Carnival, the\\npalm-leaf fan, the omelette souffle and\\nthe rose. She is not to be known in a\\nday, and she will unfold herself slowly,\\npetal by petal, growing in charm each\\nday, as Venice does surely not to be\\ncomprehended in an eye-flash.\\nWhen you started forth from U*at\\nbeautiful, frozen North, where there\\nare icicles for daggers and snow-\\nbanks for roses, and often gray skies\\npent with rain, you tucked an or-\\ngandy gown down into your trunk\\nand you thought how, when you came\\nSouth, you would, perhaps, wear a\\nred rose at your belt and pin a velvety\\nbunch of Parma violets at your throat.\\nBut I do not believe you realized the\\npossibility of other charms than cli-\\nmate as belonging to the old Southern\\ncity, sprawling like a Victoria Regia,\\nwith its petals dipped in the opaline\\nlakes and the great yellow river. In\\ntruth, she does float like a lily on her\\nlakes, and she lifts to the skies a\\nwondrous charm of old. red roofs and\\nold churches, narrow streets and curi-\\nous shops, and a strange and genial\\nlife. The dwarf palms, the Spanish\\ndaggers, the green lataniers pieVcing\\nthe gloom of her dusky environment\\nof cypress swamp, make one think of\\nan invasion of Chinese ladies uprising\\nfrom the other Fide of the world: and\\nin her narrow courts and dim. gray\\nchurches we find old-world charms,\\nmid in the roses on her balconies all\\nthe spicy perfumes of Araby.\\nNew Orleans, with her Southern\\nhomes, her gorgeous blooms, her su-\\nperstitions, her Southern ways, her\\nrr^rerons life, her fine hospitality and\\npicturesque localities, her churches and\\ncemeteries, is not for the pastime of a\\ntourist who does a city between the\\nrising up and going down of the sun,\\nand a continent in ten days. She does", "height": "3447", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "4\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nnot too freely reveal herself to an im-\\nportunate one, and it is only by dint\\nof delightful dawdling and idle outings\\nthat you may come to know her well,\\nand how sweet, and sunny, and genial\\nshe can be! Only in this way may you\\nfind out that, in her shops are fabrics\\nand confections native alone to New\\nOrleans, Paris and Madrid; only in\\nthis way may you get at the legends\\nof her historical mansions, the charm\\nof her convents and churches, the cus-\\ntoms of her sweet, Creole days.\\nThe aesthetic attractions of New Or-\\nleans are inexhaustible; they grow\\nupon one as the geniality and lovable-\\nness of the town and the people grow\\nupon one. At the end of a week you\\nlike the place; at the end of ten days\\nyou pace her streets wearing her rose\\ncolors on the lapel of your coat, sing-\\ning the music of her Opera House\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthe music of Verdi and Gounod and\\nMeyerbeer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and at the end of a month\\nyou will swear by her Spanish daggers,\\nby the beautiful eyes of her women,\\nby the rose upon your balcony.\\nShall it be Arcady or Bohemia? A\\ndewy lane set with Cherokee roses in\\nthe sweet suburb of Carrollton, or an\\nentresol in the rue Royal? The New\\nOrleans of Madame Delphine, or\\nthe New Orleans of Charles Dudley\\nWarner? It is all here. The purple\\nwisteria is threaded through all the\\nbranches of the magnolia trees, the\\nroses are red on the sunny walls and\\nlie primly sweet against the pink plas-\\ntered sides of the pent-roofed cottages\\nin the heart of French town: the cult-\\nure and charm of good society, the\\nbrilliancy of fashionable life, the\\namusement of the theatre and opera,\\nthe zest of foreign tongues, the inex-\\nhaustible charm of a city that is like\\nno other city in the world.\\nA fine and world-famous Opera\\nHouse, a season of brilliant French\\nopera; a Carnival equaling the Roman\\nin splendor and characteristic gayety;\\nthe solemn and picturesque ceremony\\nof the Lenten season (a feature of\\nevery Catholic community)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 these are\\nsuch usual bids for favor, such as we .l-\\npublished invitation cards to the city,\\nthat it is hardly necessary to speak of\\nthem.\\nThere are famous old restaurants,\\nwith chefs who are shrined as saints\\nin the memories of gourmets; there are\\nbizarre attractions of the markets, the\\npicturesque stalls piled up With pine-\\napples and pompano, cauliflowers and\\ncalico, garlic and bandanas; there-\\nare luggers laden with golden oranges-\\nand bananas; there are ways electric-\\nlighted, and paths where only the fire-\\nflies wink in flame. In the public\\nparks you may have a rose; at the mar-\\nket stall you may have a cup of coffee\\nbrewed on a charcoal brazier; in the\\nOpera House, the music of Rigoletto\\nand Les Huguenots in the church\\nthe chanted mass and the perfume of\\nincense; in the ballroom, beautiful\\neyes in a pink domino, and everywhere\\nget a breath of the sweet olive, the\\nsoft breathings of the salt wind from\\nthe Mexican sea, and overhead the\\nluminous, radiantly blue and tender\\nsky.\\nFor the artist, the invalid, the idler;\\nthe writer, the rich woman of fashion,\\nthe man of the world, the busy worker\\ntaking a vacation, New Orleans is the\\nvery king, queen and all the royal fam-\\nily of winter resorts. The picturesque-\\nness of Southern scenery, and South-\\nern architecture, and Southern charac-\\nter, are alike at their best in this city.\\nBehind the pink and yellow stucco and\\nthe brick and mortar crust of tall\\nhouses in the French quarter are veri-\\ntable l its of virgin forests, fragments-\\nleft over from the bois dore of olden\\ntimes; in the second-hand shops are\\nmahoganies that have sheltered the\\nknees of princes of the blood royal: in\\nthe many courts and upon the trailing\\nvines, and by amber and green water\\njars, fortune for the artist sits and\\nawaits his coming; the courtly Creole,\\nthe dialect negro, all are here. The\\nsleepy charm of the public parks in-\\nvites one s soul to a loafing day in the\\nsunshine. A promise of health breathes\\ndown from the blue, and, go where you\\nwill, you cannot get beyond the song-\\nof uncaged birds, the beauty of clam-\\nbering roses, the sense and cheerful-\\nness and gayety of licht-hearted South-\\nern life.\\nAs a winter resort, this city offers\\nadvantages and inducements peculiar\\nto it alone. Its climate is delightful:\\nits social life and culture unexcelled;\\nits attractions are as varied as the at-\\ntractions o*f any great city. Less than\\nan hour s ride distant are the health-sri v-\\ning forests of pine, the white beaches of\\nthe Mexican Gulf, the quaint little\\nashing villages and seaside resorts of\\nthe Gulf Coast. The Teche and the\\nArcadian country are at our very door:\\nfamous hunting grounds are near at\\nhand the famous scenic beauty of", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "--5-\\nbrown Tchefuncta river is in the city s\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2suburb; Mexico streams this way; the\\nwinter route to California is this way.\\nand, when one wearies of New Orleans\\nitself, it is a point of departure for\\nmany wonderlands.\\nI never walk along that most fasci-\\nnating of fashionable thoroughfares,\\nCanal street, with its thousand and one\\nfamiliar faces for even the faces of a\\nhuge cily, the composite face of its\\nfloating population, grow familiar in\\ntime\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that I am not reminded to re-\\ngret that I can have no first experi-\\nence of it at all. The jostle of the\\npeople, the beautiful streei manners\\nof our public, the courtesy and good\\nhumor, the brilliant dressing of the\\nwomen, the everlasting blare of music,\\nthe constant processions and celebra-\\ntions, the peddlers and loafers, the\\nvendors of hot roasted chesnuts; the\\namber-hued, turbaned dispensers of\\npink pralines and yellow stageplanks,\\nwith a rosebud for lagniappe; the\\nmural adornments in the way of fat,\\nFrench flower women, forty and scant\\nof breath; the wheezing hand organs\\nbow delightfully it must impress one\\nseeing and hearing it all for the first\\ntime! How I envy the sealskin-coated\\ntourist just arrived from Duluth or\\nPenobscot, like a polar bear, panting,\\ntransported to the tropics; how I envy\\nthis one threading a path between the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0cotton bales and sugar barrels, sniffing\\nthe sugary odors, hearing the greasy,\\neasy, negro lingo. Everything contains\\na subtle suggestion of a southland, con-\\nveyed by the hue of oranges, the per-\\nfume of violets, the swift smile of vel-\\nvet eyes. To such a one every full-\\nthroated, pink-cheeked, shaven French-\\nman, laughing and gesticulating, with\\na red flower on his coat that shows at\\na distance like the ribbon of the Le-\\ngion of Honor, may be a Faust of the\\nFrench opera; every handsome woman\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0with black eyes may be a belle Creole,\\nor the queen rose in the garden dis-\\ntrict of girls; the shimmering fabrics\\nin the shop windows suggest pineapple\\norgandies from Havana; the grotesque\\nmasques, the coming Carnival, with its\\nRex and queen, its confetti and\\npageants. Yet, after all. who can so\\nlove the town as one who knows the*\\nmosses on its old manses by heartJf\\nwho knows the haunts of the workinsr\\npeople, the best place for omelette\\nsouffle, the only place for Italian\\nmacaroni, the garden where the most\\nroses are?\\nThe electric light shows the way to\\nthe opera, the French market, the\\ncathedral; but out of the thoroughfare\\nis a tiny cafe where the coffee might\\nbe bottled and sold for perfume. At\\nthe fringe of the town are convents\\nthat once were grand plantations, soon\\nto be under the snows of sweet orange\\nblossoms. The long, narrow, black\\ntunnels of entrances to houses in\\nFrench town give on open courts and\\npictures of most foreign-looking life.\\nThe song birds of the opera live here,\\nthe violet vendor has there her beds\\nof purple bloom, and yonder the praline\\nvendor concocts her rose-leaf conserves\\nor peels pecans for your after-dinner\\ncup of cafe noir. A poet dwells in this\\nbig house, and across the way a ghost\\nlives. A ling once slept and snored\\nin yonder haunted chamber.\\nI look one way and see the salt\\ncrusted funnel of an Indian steamer,\\nor the red sail on the catboat of a\\nBarataria oysterman; I look the other\\nway, and, pressed up by the dingy\\nhouses and the graveyard walls by the\\nOld Basin, I see the charcoal schooners\\nfrom the Mississippi bayous\u00e2\u0080\u0094 their sails\\ntrailing like the broken wings _ of a\\ngull. The air is warm and moist; it\\nkisses the skin with a caress as tender\\nas the touch of love; it is a whisper of\\nthe southland, and its breath is that\\nof roses. A silver rod, old, faded gold-\\nen-rod grown gray with age, self-plant-\\ned on the pent roof of Madame John s\\ntumbling cottage, trembles in the wind,\\nand at an early hour a plump market\\nwoman goes clacking in her wooden\\nsabots.\\nUp in the Garden district, where the\\nbig, southern mansions are, their veran-\\ndahs and columns and gateways trel-\\nlised with jessamine vine, all is sun-\\nshine and flowers. One may wamder\\ndown the quiet streets, the shade trees\\narching overhead as if this were some\\ncountry lane in an English shire, and\\nnever weary of the view nor lose the\\nimpression that this is New Orleans,\\nnfe king, the queen, and all the royal\\nfamily, of winter resorts.\\nAnd so, with all her products and\\nher commerce, her busy marts and her\\nfine buildings, her opera and theatres,\\nand her balls and routs, who desires\\nthat she shall offer you anything better\\nthan omelette souffle, a palm-leaf fan\\nand a rose?", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "6-\\nCH AFTER II.\\nSOME OF OUR PECULIARITIES.\\nThe visitor to this quaint, old city\\nshould bear in mind that there is one\\nportion of it best seen from the street\\ncars, and another portion which may be\\nseen only a-foot. Below Canal street\\none wants to stop at every parrot call,\\nevery clang of a wooden shoon,\\nevery note of a gay chanson floating\\ndown from dormer windows set in\\nqueer tile roofs. It is practically im-\\npossible to lose one s way in New Or-\\nleans. Every cross street leads to the\\nriver. Every other street leads eventu-\\nally to Canal. The street cars all run\\ninto that thoroughfare. One has but\\nto remain long enough in the convey-\\nance to find himself in the heart of the\\ncity, within convenient walking dis-\\ntance of the hotels.\\nCanal street is, in fact, a remarkable\\nplace. It divides New Orleans into\\ntwo separate and distinct phases of\\nlife, two epochs of history, two styles\\nof architecture, two modes of thought.\\nA NEW ORLEANS MILKMAN.", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "PRALINE TOTO.\\nAbove Canal may be found a city the\\ncharacteristics of which are essentially\\nAmerican. Below Canal, however, are\\njalousied verandas; sunny, marble-\\nflagged courts, in which grow palms,\\nand olive trees, and perfumed mag-\\nnolias; a Babel of tongues; narrow and\\nill-paved streets, and dozens of con-\\nvents, cemeteries and chapels, mainly\\nof the Catholic faith, which appeal to\\nthe imagination with extraordinary\\ncharm. The houses in this section re-\\ntain many characteristics of the .French\\nand Spanish dominations. The visitor\\nshould note the hand-wrought balconies\\nof delicate ironwork, the beautiful\\ncourtyards, the tunnel-like entrances\\nto houses enriched with arched and\\nmullioned windows, and the spiked\\ngalleries that project over the side-\\nwalks.\\nA peculiar and vivid street-life lends\\nanimation to these curious thorough-\\nfares. The milk carts are strictly in-", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "8\\nCALLA WOMAN.", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "9\\ndigenous. They are formed of a tall,\\ngreen box, set between high wheels,\\nand are driven almost invariably by\\nGascons. The two large, bright, brass-\\nbound metal cans that ornament the\\nfront of the wagon compel the driver\\nto stand up much of the time when\\ndriving, in order to see clearly the road\\nbefore him. Negresses, bearing vege-\\ntables in large shallow baskets poised\\nupon their heads, go by. calling their\\nwares fresh and fine. In the sea-\\nson, the blackberry hucksters may be\\nheard caroling, in a shrill, nasal voice,\\nthe following couplet:\\nBlackberries, fresh and fine,\\nJust from the vine.\\nMany housekeepers purchase their\\nsupplies from these itinerant vendors,\\nthe prices being exceedingly small,\\nand usually scaled with the pica-\\nyune as a unit. If you ask, they\\nwill throw in some shallots for\\nlagniappe. Lagniappe. a word which\\noften puzzles visitors, when heard in\\nthis connection, signifies a sort of\\nbonus in kind given with each purchase.\\nIn other days the seller of lottery tick-\\nets was one of the most singular\\nfigures in the living panorama. Since\\nthe abolition of the State Lottery Com-\\npany, three or four years ago. he pur-\\nsues his calling surreptitiously, if at\\nall. For the same reason the policv\\nshops, with glazed windows bun? with\\nrows of pink and blue tickets, have dis-\\napueared from the streets.\\nIt will be noticed, in Canal street,\\nthat nearly all the fine retail stores\\nare on the lower side of the street.\\nThis side is a favorite promenade, and.\\non a sunshiny day. is usuallv crowded\\nwith well-dressed people. Tn Carnival\\ntime the street is almost impassable.\\nUsuallv. in the windows of one of the\\njewelrv shops, bere will be found ex-\\nposed the regalia of the Carnival roy-\\nalty.\\nHere. too. In the vicinity of Pauphine\\nand Bourbon streets, will be seen\\nquaint, fat. amber-onlored nesrresses.\\ntheir beads covered with gaudv ban-\\ndana handkerchiefs. Tn n basket\\ntucked awav in a cozv corner, formed\\nbv two show-windows, tbev have for\\nsale nralines. of cocoannt and sugar.\\nor of siTrnr and necans. cut in round\\nflat oak\u00c2\u00abs. Tbev also sell molncses\\ncandy, nopcorn balls, and the vicious\\nlittle peppers known to gourmets a\u00c2\u00ab\\nchilis.\\nThe telegraph poles, which disfigure\\nevery corner, will be found decorated\\nwith myriads of rusty tacks. It is a\\ncustom in New Orleans to announce\\ndeaths by printing a notice on a double\\nsheet of paper, bordered with black, and\\nto nail these on telegraph poles in the\\nmore frequented parts of the town.\\nThis practice is confined to the city.\\nIt is also a custom to drape the door\\nor gate of the stricken household\\nwith crape, white for the young\\ndead, black for the elderly, and to\\nfasten here also one of the printed no-\\ntices.\\nIn some parts of the city it is\\nesteemed a mark of respect for the\\npasser-by to enter, just a moment, the\\nroom where the dead are lying. It is\\nusual, though not so general as\\nformerly, for the passer-by to raise\\nhis hat before the gate, and\\nalways to remain uncovered while a\\nfuneral goes by. Catholics invariably\\nlift their hats when passing a church\\nof their faith, and the stranger will\\nobserve this done even in the street\\nThe flower merchants in Canal street\\nare well known. They are commonly\\nfound near the pralinieres. Neither\\nthe flower women nor the candy ven-\\ndors cry their wares, but sit patiently\\nwaiting for customers, meantime brush-\\ning the flies away with mops of brown\\npaper.\\nNearly everyone remarks the con-\\nvenience of the arrangement of the\\ncar tracks in Canal street. They\\nare restricted to the neutral ground.\\nor raised esplanade, in the center of\\nthe street. In old times a broad and\\ndeep fosse ran through the street,\\nwhich was then the southern boundary\\nof the city. When the town spread\\nbeyond the limits of the Vieux carre.\\nthe ditch was filled in and the raised\\ncentral way was formed. There are\\nfive tracks here, running from the\\nmonument at Liberty place to Baronne\\nstreet. It is said that a car passes\\nevery ten seconds. The crowd here\\nis continuous. Nothing of the kind\\nis to be seen elsewhere, the famoiis\\njam at the corner of State and\\nWashington streets, in Chicago, belne\\ncomparatively tame. The cars are\\nmarked conspicuously, so that ther*\\nneed be no mistake.", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "10\\nCAR ROUTES\\nWAS PREPARED BY CITY ENGINEER BELL\\nUPTOWN LINES.\\nCANAL, COLISEUM AND UP-\\nPER MAGAZINE LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on\\nCanal street, near the Levee; runs by\\nCanal to Carondelet, to Clio, to Coli-\\nseum, to Felicity, to Chestnut, to Lou-\\nisiana avenue, to Magazine, to Broad-\\nway, to Maple, to Carrollton avenue.\\nReturns by Maple to Broadway, to\\nMagazine, to Calliope, to St. Charles,\\nto Canal, to the Levee.\\nCAMP AND PRYTANIA LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nStarts on Rampart, near Canal; along\\nCanal to Camp, to Prytania, to Jo-\\nseph, to Hurst, to Audubon Park. Re-\\nturns by same route.\\nMAGAZINE LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on Canal,\\nat Clay Statue; runs by Camp to Old\\nCamp, to Magazine, to Louisiana ave-\\nnue, to Laurel, to Audubon Park. Re-\\nturns by Laurel to Valmont, to Con-\\nstance, to Louisiana avenue, to Maga-\\nzine, to Canal, to Clay Statue.\\nTCHOUPITOULAS LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts\\non Canal, at Camp; runs by Canal to\\nTchoupitoulas, to Audubon Park. Re-\\nturns by Tchoupitoulas to South Pe-\\nters, to Canal, to Camp.\\nANNUNCIATION AND ERATO\\nLINE Starts on Canal, near the\\nLevee; runs out Canal to Carondelet,\\nto CJlio, to Coliseum, to Erato, to An-\\nnunciation, to Toledano, to Tchoupi-\\ntoulas. Transfers to Audubon Park.\\nReturns by Toledano to Tchoupitoulas,\\nto Race, to Annunciation, to Erato,\\nto Camp, to Calliope, to St. Charles,\\nto Canal, to the Levee.\\nCARROLLTON LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on\\nCanal, near the Levee; runs out Canal\\nto Baronne, to Howard avenue, to St.\\nCharles averue, to Carrollton avenue,\\nto Jeannette, to terminus at Jeannette\\nand Dublin. Returns by same route.\\nJACKSON AVENUE LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts\\non Canal, near the Levee; runs by\\nCanal to Baronne, to Howard avenue,\\nto St. Charles avenue, to Jackson ave-\\nnue, to Gretna Ferry Landing. Re-\\nturns by same route.\\nNAPOLEON AVENUE LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nStarts on Canal, near the Levee; runs\\nby Canal to Baronne, to Howard ave-\\nnue, to St. Charles avenue, to Napo-\\nleon avenue, to the river. Returns by\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2same route.\\nANNUNCIATION LINE, VIA\\nSOUTH PETERS STREET\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts\\non Canal, at Camp; runs by Canal to\\nTchoupitoulas, to Annunciation, to\\nToledano, to Tchoupitoulas. Transfers\\nfor Audubon Park. Returns by Tole-\\ndano to Chippewa, to Race, to Annun-\\nciation, to Howard avenue, to South\\nPeters, to Canal, to Camp.\\nSOUTH RAMPART, DRYADES\\nAND PETERS AVENUE LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nStarts on Canal, near the Levee; out\\nCanal to Rampart, to Calliope, to\\nFranklin, to Jackson, to Freret, to\\nLouisiana avenue, to Dryades, to Pe-\\nters avenue, out Peters avenue to\\nMagazine, to the barn at Arabella\\nstreet. Returns by Constance to Pe-\\nters avenue, to Dryades, to Dufossat,.\\nto Baronne, to Louisiana avenue, to\\nHoward, to Jackson avenue, to Frank-\\nlin, to Calliope, to Dryades, to Canal.,\\nto the Levee.\\nCARONDELET AND UPPER\\nCAMP LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on Canal, near\\nthe Levee; out Canal to Carondelet,\\nto St. Andrew, to Brainard, to Louisi-\\nana avenue, to Camp, to Henry Clay\\navenue, to Magazine. Transfers for\\nAudubon Park and Carrollton. Re-\\nturns by Henry Clay avenue to Coli-\\nseum, to Louisiana avenue, to Dry\\nades, to Julia, to St. Charles, to Canal,,\\nto the Levee.\\nD R YAD E S AND RAMPART\\nLINE Starts on St. Charles, corner of\\nCanal; runs by St. Charles to Lee\\nStatue, by Howard avenue to Dryades,\\nto St. Andrew, to Baronne, to Eighth.\\nReturns by Rampart to Philip, to Dry-\\nades, to Felicity, to Rampart, to Canal,.\\nto St. Charles.\\nLINES BOTH UP AND DOWN\\nTOWN.\\nBARONNE AND CARONDELET\\nLINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on Elysian Fields street,\\nat Decatur; runs by Royal to Clay\\nStatute, by St. Charles to Lee Statue,.\\nHoward avenu? to Baronne, to Eighth,\\nReturns by Carondelet to Canal, byr", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "11\\nBourbon to French Opera and Espla-\\nnade avenue, by Esplanade to Deca-\\ntur, to Elysian Fields street.\\nCLIO AND ERATO LIN E\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts\\non Elysian Fields, at Decatur; runs\\nout lidysiau Fields to ltoyal, to Clay\\nStatue, uy St. Charles to JL.ee Statue,\\nby Howard avenue to Rampart, to\\nClio, to Magnolia. Returns by Frato\\nto Carondelet, to Canal, to isourbon,\\nto French Opera and Esplanade ave-\\nnue, by Esplanade avenue and Decatur\\nto Elysian Fields.\\nDOWN-TOWN LLNES.\\nLEVEE AND BARRACKS LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nStarts on Canal, opposite the United\\nStates Custom-house; runs by Canal\\nto North Feters, to Lafayette avenue,\\nto Chartres, to Poland,, to Rainpart.\\nTransfers for the United States Bar-\\nracks. Returns by Poland, Royal,\\nLafayette avenue, North Feters and\\nCanal.\\nRAMPART AND DAUPH1NE\\nLINE Starts on Canal, at Clay\\nStatue; runs by Canal to Rampart, to\\nEsplanade avenue, to Dauphine, to\\nFlood, to North Feters, to the Slaugh-\\nter-house. Returns by North Feters\\nto Delery, to Dauphine, to Poland, to\\nRampart, to Canal, to Clay Statue.\\nESPLANADE AVENUE LLNE-\\nStarts on Canal, at Clay Statue; runs,\\nby Canal to Rampart, to Esplanadt\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2venue, to Bayou St. John and Fah\\nGrounds. Returns by same route.\\nESPLANADE AND FREiNCH\\nMARKET LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on Canal,\\nopposite the United States Custom-\\nhouse; runs to North Peters, to Espla-\\nnade avenue, to Bayou St. John and\\nFair Grounds. Returns by same route.\\nVILLERE LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on Canal,\\nnear the Levee; runs by Canal to Vil-\\nlere, to Lafayette avenue, to St.\\nClaude. Returns by same route.\\nCANAL AND CLAIBORNE LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nStarts on Canal, near the Levee; runs\\nby Canal to Claiborne, to Elysian\\nFields, to St. Claude, to Lafayette ave-\\nnue. Returns by Urquhart to Elysian\\nFields, to Claiborne, to Canal, to the\\nLevee.\\nBROAD STREET LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts ou\\nCanal, river side of Clay Statue; runs\\nby Canal to Dauphine, to Dumaine, to\\nBroad, to Laharpe, to Gentilly Road.\\nTransfers for Fair Grounds. Returns\\nby Bayou Road to Broad, to St. Peter,\\nto Burgundy, to Canal, to. Clay Statue.\\nBAYOU ROAD LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on.\\nCanal, river side of Clay Statue; runs\\nby Canal to Dauphine, to Dumaine,\\nto Bayou St. John, to Grand Route\\nSt. John, to Sauvage, to Fair Grounds.\\nReturns by Sauvage. to Grand Route\\nSt. John, to Bayou Road, to Broad,\\nto Ursulines, to Burgundy, to Canal,\\nto Clay Statue.\\nACROSS-TOWN LINES.\\nCANAL AN D CEMETERIES\\nLINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on Canal, near the\\nLevee; runs by Canal to Metairie\\nRoad, to Half-way House and Ceme-\\nteries. Returns by same route.\\nTULANE AVENUE EINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts\\non Canal, near the Levee; runs by\\nCanal to Rampart, to Tulane avenue,\\nto Carrollton avenue. Returns by same\\nroute.\\nFRENCH MARKET LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts\\nat Laharpe and Gentilly Road; runs\\nby Bayou Road to Broad, to Ursu-\\nlines, to Decatur and French Market.\\nReturns from Decatur by Dumaine,\\nBroad and Laharpe to Gentilly Road.\\nTHE LAST MULE-CAR LINES.\\nGIROD STREET LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on\\nFront, at Canal; runs by Front to\\nGirod, to Liberty, to Poydras, to Clai-\\nborne, to Tulane Avenue. Returns by\\nClaiborne to Perdido, to Carroll, to\\nPoydras, to Fulton, to Canal, to Front.\\nCANAL AND BAYOU BRIDGE\\nLINE Starts on Metairie Road, at\\nCanal; runs by Metairie Road to the\\nCity Park and Bayou St. John, along\\nthe Bayou St. John to Southern Park.\\nReturns by some route.\\nALGIERS AND GRETNA LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nStarts from the First and Second\\nDistrict Ferry Landings; runs by\\nBouny to Pelican avenue, to Powder,\\nto Opelousas avenue, to Brooklyn ave-\\nnue, to Periander, to the river, along\\nthe river to Upper Line of Gretna,\\nalong Upper Line of Gretna to\\nFirst street, to Copernicus avenue,\\nnear Jackson Avenue Ferry. Returns\\nby same route.\\nSTEAM LINES.\\nCANAL, CEMETERIES ANI\\nWEST END LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on Canal,\\nnear Carondelet street; runs by Canal\\nto Metairie Road, to West End, along\\nthe New Basin Navigation Canal. Re-\\nturns by same route.\\nSPANISH FORT LINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on\\nNorth Basin, at Canal; runs by North\\nBasin and Bienville to St. Patrick", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "12\\nstreet, to Metairie Road and the City\\nPark, and by Orleans avenue and the\\nlake shore to Spanish Fort. Returns\\nby same route.\\nPONTCHARTRAIN RAILROAD\\nLINE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Starts on Eylsian Fields, near\\nthe Levee; runs by Elysian Fields\\nstreet to Milneburg.\\nroute.\\nReturns by same\\nIn this connection it is proper to men-\\ntion the Ferries plying between New\\nOrleans and the suburbs of Algiers, or,\\nrather, the Fifth Municipal District.\\nCommunication with them is main-\\ntained by the following\\nFERRIES.\\nTHE FIRST DISTRICT FERRY\\nruns from Canal street to Algiers.\\nTHE SECOND DISTRICT FERRY\\nrune 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 one from Upperline\\nstreet, one from Carrollton and one\\nfrom the Barracks.\\nTABLE OF DISTANCES\\nTHE FOLLOWING WILL BE FOUND OF INTEREST:\\nMiles. From Clay Statute, via Ram-\\nAlong the river front, from the P a and Esplanade streets,\\nBarracks to city limits, above Louisiana Jockey Club VW\\nCarrollton, about 12 1-* Width of Mississippi river, from\\nFrom head of Canal street to\u00e2\u0080\u0094 bank at j ac kson Square to\\nBarracks 310 Algiers Point 42\\nCarrollton 9.-W The following is a regular tariff of\\nMetarie Ridge road 3.60 charges fixed by city ordinance (No.\\nWest End 6 63 UB7, A S-) f r\\nFrom Clay Statue, up St. HACKS AND CABS,\\nCharles to and the stranger should see that\\nLee Place 70 he is not imposed on by unscrupu-\\nJackson street 1.47 lous drivers, and would confer a ben 3-\\nNapoleon avenue 2.93 fit on the public by reporting to the\\nAudubon Park 4.15 police all cases of overcharging.\\nCarrollton 4.70 For carriages drawn by two horses,\\nFrom Canal street, up Maga any distance not exceeding one mile,\\nzine, to or twelve squares, for one or wo per-\\nJackson avenue 1.70 sons, $1 each.\\nLouisiana avenue 2.54 For every such carriage hired by the\\nNapoleon avenue 3.30 hour, $3 for the first hour, and $2 for\\nAudubon Park 4.84 each succeeding hour, or fraction there-\\nFroni Clay Statue, via Ram- of, for the use of the entire carriage.\\npart street, to For cabs or carriages drawn by one\\nEsplanade avenue 97 horse, any distance not exceeding one\\nNortheastern Railroad Depot. 1.02 mile, or twelve squares, for one or two", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "13\\npersons, 75 cents each, and for each\\nsucceeding mile, or less, 50 cent s.\\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 caD or car-\\nriage.\\nThese rates apply from sunrise till\\nmidnight. From midnight till sunrise,\\nthe rates shall be fixed by agreement,\\nbut in no case shall double the rates\\nbe exceeded.\\nAll public vehicles are compelled 10\\ncarry numbers on their lamp?\\nThere are, however, few parts ot the\\ncity that are worth seeing wh ch may\\nnot be reached by street cars.\\nCHAPTER III.\\nSOMETHING ABOUT THE CITY\\nIn order to see and appreciate New\\nOrleans, it is necessary to know some-\\nthing of its history. Much of the\\ncin.rm of Paris, Venice or Rome de-\\npends upon the associations which their\\nnames suggest. New Orleans has a\\ngreat deal in common with these Old-\\nWorld cities, much more so than any\\nother city on this continent. It may\\nnot have so many treasures of art and\\narchitecture as a few others, but it has\\nwhat no other city in America has a\\ndistinct flavor of ancient history about\\nit.\\nAlthough settled nearly a century\\nlater than New York or Boston (being\\nfirst laid out by the Sieur de Bienville,\\nin 1718), it has not had, as they, a con-\\ntinuous historic development from its\\ncolonial conditions to its present state.\\nInstead, it has undergone three tremen-\\ndous revolutionary changes, each of\\nwhich has left its mark upon the char-\\nacter of the city, and each of which\\nthrew the preceding era into the do-\\nmain of ancient history-\\nFrench New Orleans, as founded by\\nJean Baptiste Leinoyne de Bienville\\nand known to his successors, was\\na totally different place from\\nSpanish New Orleans as molded\\nby the iron hand of Don Alex-\\nander O Keilly; and American New\\nOrleans, developed after the cession of\\nLouisiana to the United States, is al-\\ntogether different from either. Again,\\nthe war of 18U1-65 threw the wealthy,\\ngay. ante-bellum New Orleans\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the\\npetit Paris, with its gigantic com-\\nmerce and aristocratic habits into the\\nirrevocable past.\\nThere are several excellent works in\\nthe Howard Library, corner of How-\\nard avenue and Samp street, from\\nwhich the student may gather in detail\\nthe eventful story of the city. In this\\nGuide the barest\\nOUTLINES OF ITS HISTORY\\nmust suffice.\\nThe city was located in 1718 by\\nBienville, the first Governor of the\\nProvince of Louisiana, which then com-\\nprised all that stretch of country from\\nthe great lakes in the north to the\\nGulf of Mexico in the south, and west-\\nward from the Mississippi to the Rocky\\nMountains. The first French colony\\n\\\\v,is founded by Iberville at Biloxi,\\nbut, owing to its inaccessibility as a\\nseaport town for the headquarters of\\nthe province, Bienville, his succes-\\nsor, selected the present site, New\\nOrleans, and left fifty men to\\nclear the ground and erect the build-\\nings. Much opposition to the removal\\nof the seat of government was made,\\nboth by the directors of the Mississippi\\nCompany and the military. In 1719\\nthe embryo city was threatened by\\nan inundation from the river, which\\nrose to an extraordinary height. It\\nwas not deemed expedient for a time,\\nhowever, to protect the site by dikes\\nand levees, as it was not until Novem-\\nber, 1723, that Bienville conveyed the\\ncolony from Biloxi to New Orleans.\\nFather Charlevoix, writing of the city\\nin that year, says that it consist-\\ned of 100 cabins, placed with little at-\\ntempt at order: a large wooden ware-\\nhouse, two or three dwellings and a\\nstorehouse, which had been used as a\\nchapel. The population did not exceed\\n200.\\nDuring the same year a party of\\nGerman immigrants, having been un-\\nable to settle upon the lands granted", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "14\\nto John Law in Arkansas, descended\\nthe Mississippi to New Orleans. They\\nhoped to find a passage here back to\\nEurope; but, finding it impossible to\\nexecute that desire, settled on what is\\nnow called the German Coast,\\nin St. Charles parish. Small grants\\nof land were apportioned among\\nthem, and for a long time they supplied\\nthe city with vegetables, each raised\\nthereon. Many of their descendants\\netill reside in the vicinity of the city,\\non the lands inherited from their an-\\ncestors.\\nIn September, 1723, the capital\\nwas devastated by a hurricane,\\nwhich destroyed the church, the hos-\\npital and thirty houses, and three ves-\\nsels which happened to be lying in the\\nharbor. The storm proved so destructive\\nto the crops and gardens that a scarci-\\nty of provisions ensued, and the dis-\\ntress was so great that several of the\\ninhabitants abandoned the colony.\\nIn 1724 a boys school was opened\\nin a small house adjoining the church,\\nand the first schoolmaster who ever\\ntaught the youth of, Louisiana was\\nFather Cecil, a Capuchin monk.\\nIn the summer of 1727 the Jesuits,\\nand the Ursulines made their advent\\ninto the colony. The fathers were\\ndomiciled upon a tract of land in the\\nlower part of the faubourg St. Marie\\nwhat is now the upper side of Canal\\nstreet. The nuns were temporarily lo-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2cated in Bienville s country house,\\non the corner of Chartres and\\nBienville streets. The company which\\nthen administered Louisiana for\\nthe king immediately began the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0erection of a convent for them\\nin Chartres street, between Ursu-\\nline and Hospital, to which they\\nremoved in 1734. Here they re-\\nsided till 1824, when the enhancing\\nvalue of lands induced them to\\nsell a greater part of the surrounding\\ngardens. In the same year they re-\\nmoved to their present convent, about\\ntwo miles below the city. The original\\nbuilding is now used by Archbishop\\nJanssens as his palace.\\nIn 1730 Governor Perier devised a\\nplan for protecting the town by levees,\\nand the first embankments were built\\nin that year.\\nIn 1743 the Marquis de Vaudreuil.\\nthen Governor of Louisiana, desiring\\nto protect the colony from the disas-\\ntrous effects of the annual overflow of\\nthe Mississippi River, issued an order\\nthat the planters should place their\\nlevees in a safe condition under the\\npenalty of forfeiting their lands. The\\norder was obeyed, and was the begin-\\nning of the magnificent system of levees\\nnow built a .ong both sides of the great\\nriver.\\nIn 1763 the Jesuits were re-\\ncalled from the dominions of the\\nking of France. The community was\\nconsequently obliged to leave New Or-\\nleans. Its property was seized and\\nsold for about $180,000. The dor-\\nmitory of the monastery was situated\\non the spot now occupied by a whole-\\nsale store, corner of Gravier and Maga-\\nzine streets. A few years later the\\ndecree was reversed, and the Jesuits\\nreturned to Louisiana, and have ever\\nsince been strongly identified with its\\nreligious and educational progress.\\nThe city was visited by an epidemic\\nof yellow fever in 1769. From that\\ndate till 1878 there were twenty-eight\\nepidemics. The fever was introduced\\noriginally by a British vessel, which\\nbrought a cargo of slaves from Africa.\\nIn 1763 the colony was ceded by\\nFrance to Spain, and Don Antonio de\\nTllloa, the first Spanish Governor, was\\nsent to take possession in 1766. The\\nFrench colonists strongly opposed the\\ncession, rose in arms against the Gov-\\nernor, and gave him three days in\\nwhich to leave New Orleans. He em-\\nbarked for Havana on the Spanish\\nman-of-war Volante, lying in front of\\nthe city. Finally the Snanish King con-\\ncluded to send to New Orleans an\\narmy large enousrh to chastise the in-\\nsult to the Snanish crown, and in 1760\\nDon Alexander O Reilly arrived with\\na considerable military force to take\\npossession of the city. The French\\ncolonists were very oval to their\\nmother country and resented the\\npresence of the Spanish Gover-\\nnor. Therefore Don Alexander showed\\na disposition to opnress his sub-\\njects, and this occasioned continual\\nfriction between himself and the citi-\\nzens.\\nAt the same time the Spanish govern-\\nment put into force certain restrictive\\nmeasures which greatly injured the\\ncommerce of the city. These restric-\\ntions were removed in 1778. In that\\nyear the city underwent a memorable\\nconflagration, which destroyed 900\\nhouses. In 1782 the mercantile inter-\\nests of the place secured from the\\nSpanish king some privileges of trade,\\nwhich greatly stimulated business.", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "15\\nThree years later a census was taken,\\nand the population was ascertained to\\nbe 4780, exclusive of the settlements\\nin the immediate vicinity.\\nIn consequence of the commercial ad-\\nvantages already alluded to, several\\nFrench merchants settled here, and\\nBritish trading vessels began to touch\\nat the port. The Americans also\\nbegan to trade through New Orleans\\nwith the west.\\nThe year 1781 was signallized by\\nthe arrival of the first troupe of French\\ncomedians. They came from Cape\\nFrancois, where they had escaped from\\nthe revolted slaves.\\nBaron Carondelet, who was governor\\nin 1792, divided the city into four\\nwards, employed watchmen and in-\\naugurated a system for lighting the\\nstreets. His revenue was insufficient\\nto defray the expenses occasioned by\\nthese improvements, and he according-\\nly levied a tax of $1 upon each chim-\\nney.\\nCarondelet also remodeled the forti-\\nfications and built a fort on the spot\\nnow occupied by the United States\\nMint. Another was built near the\\nsite of the present custom-house. At\\nthat time the river flowed immediately\\nunder the walls of the fort; but the\\naccretion of silt, by which the land was\\nslowly built up. gradually changed the\\nshore line to its present position.\\nThe year 1794 chronicled an impor-\\ntant agricultural event in Louisiana.\\nIn that year Etienne de Bore, a\\nplanter living about six miles above\\nNew Orleans, in the spot where Audu-\\nbon Park now stands, succeeded in\\nraising the first crop of sugar cane\\never raised in Louisiana, disposing of\\nthe crop for about $12,000. The cul-\\ntivation qf the cane was first intro-\\nduced in 1751 by the Jesuits; but up\\nto 1794 no planter had been able to\\nmake the syrup granulate, and so con-\\nvert it into sugar.\\nThe honor of this triumph is due\\nto Fti^nne de Bore. His portrait\\nhangs in the Sugar Exchange of this\\ncity. The cultivation of the cane has\\ncontributed more to the prosperity of\\nthe State than that of any other of\\nher products.\\nIn February, 1792, the inhabitants\\nwere given permission to trade freely\\nin Europe and America, wherever\\nSpain had formed treaties of commerce.\\nIn 1795 permission was granted to\\ncitizens of the United States, during a\\nperiod of ten years, to deposit mer-\\nchandise in New Orleans. The city\\nwas visited by another severe fire in\\nthe next year. This reduced the tax\\non chimneys so much that recourse was\\nnecessarily had to assessing wheat,\\nbread and meat to defray the expenses\\nof the lighting and the watchmen.\\nThe government house then stood at\\nthe corner of Levee and Toulouse\\nstreets. It was burned in 1826, after\\nthe sale of Louisiana to the United\\nStates. The section now occupied by\\nthe First and Fourth municipal dis-\\ntricts, comprehending the most de-\\nsirable business and residence portions\\nof the metropolis, were used in 1795 as\\na plantation by a wealthy citizen\\nnamed Gravier. His name is perpetu-\\nated by a street running parallel to\\nCommon and Canal streets.\\nIn December, 1803, the French com-\\nmissioner, De Laussat, formally sur-\\nrendered the colony\u00e2\u0080\u0094 which had been\\nretroceded by Spain to France only\\nthree years before to the commission-\\ners appointed by the President of the\\nUnited States. Claiborne was appoint-\\ned governor, and until 1812 the prov-\\nince was administered as a territory\\nunder the constitution of the United\\nStates.\\nOn April 8. 1812, the state was ad-\\nmitted to the Union. On Nov. 24.\\n1814, in consequence of the war be-\\ntween the United States and Great\\nBritain, a British army under Paken-\\nham sailed from Jamaica to attack the\\ncity of New Orleans. General Andrew\\nJackson met the invaders at Chalmette\\non Jan. 8. 1815. and inflicted a severe\\ndefeat. The Chalmette monument\\nmarks the spot.\\nThe next important event in the his-\\ntory of the city was the secession of\\nLouisiana from the Union in January,\\n1881, by which, for the fourth time, it\\nchanged masters. In April, 1862, a\\nfederal fleet, under Admiral Farragut,\\nsucceeded in forcing the passage of\\nForts St. Philip and Jackson, after a\\ndesperate conflict. The city surren-\\ndered, and was held by the United\\nStates troops till the end of hostilities.\\nNew Orleans suffered severely during\\nthe war. and still more severely from\\nthe \u00e2\u0080\u00a2misgovernmont of the Carpet-Bag-\\ngers. Her commerce was virtually de-\\nstroyed, and for many years, both\\nduring and after the war. business was\\nto all intents and purposes at a stand-\\nstill. The revival began less than\\ntwenty years ago. and has been aston-\\nishingly rapid. Every year now finds", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "16\\nthe city further idvanced on its career\\nof prosperity.\\nIt often puzzles the visitor to heat\\nthe \u00c2\u00bb.mes of Jefferson City, La-\\nfayette, Carrollton and Algiers\\napplied to particular sections of New\\nOrleans. In former days the city\\nwas surrounded by a number of towns\\nand villages, each under a distinct\\nmunicipal government. Jefferson City\\nand Lafayette were then quite populous\\nlittle corporations, the limits of which\\ncorresponded roughly to those of the\\npresent Fourth and Sixth districts.\\nAlgiers is now the Fifth district. All\\nthe city above Upperline street was\\nthen the municipality of Carrollton.\\nThe uninhaoited spaces which sepa-\\nrated these towns from one another\\nwere gradually built up and then the\\ntowns were absorbed by New Or-\\nleans, of which they now form\\nan integral part. There are still,\\nhowever, a number of suburbs not as\\nvet annexed, although immediately ad-\\nlacent to the city. Of these, Meehan-\\nicsville, McDonoghville and Gretna lie\\non the southeastern bank of the river,\\nabove Algiers. Bucktown, to which\\nillusion is sometimes made in the\\nnewspapers, is a negro settlement at\\nWest End.\\nThe city exercises jurisdiction over\\nthe whole parish of Orleans, an area\\nof 187 square miles. A large portion\\nthereof, however, is swampy and un-\\ninhabitable. The populated section\\nembraces about 50 square miles. Lake\\nPontchartrain is situated in the rear\\nof the city, and its level is about 15\\nfeet below that of the river during the\\nspring floods. The city slopes gradu-\\nally from the river to the lake, and\\nconsequently some parts of it are be-\\nlow the river level at certain seasons\\nof the year. The early years of the\\ncity were marked by frequent and in-\\njurious inundations.\\nAt the present day the levee system\\nhas been perfected to a degree that ex-\\ncites the wonder and admiration of en-\\ngineers. The city is surrounded on all\\nsides by huge walls of earth, the height\\nof which along the river front averages\\n20 to 25 feet. Between Louisiana\\navenue and Press or Clouet street ex-\\ntends an almost uninterrupted stretch\\nof wharves, along which lie hundreds\\nof ships, taking oh or receiving cargo.\\nThe levee here has been graded up\\nfor several hundred feet, so that the\\nrise is imperceptible. The scene along\\nthe levee is at all times extremely\\nanimated especially so at the foot of\\nCanal street and in the vicinity of the\\nFrench market.\\nThe curious circumstances which at-\\ntended the growth of the city are sug-\\ngested at every turn by the names of\\nits principal thoroughfares. There has\\nbeen comparatively little change in the\\nNOMENCLATURE OF OUR\\nSTREETS\\nsince they first received their titles.\\nThis fact has already been made the\\nsubject of pleasant magazine articles.\\nWe have the nine muses in a row,\\nbeginning at a point just above Lee\\nCircle; and in the French quarter his-\\ntory, romance and religion have been\\nexhausted for characteristic names.\\nNew Orleans is, in fact, the most pict-\\nuresquely named city, in the matter\\nof streets, in the country. What is\\nthere lacking when you learn that a\\nbeautiful prima donna lives on Calliope\\nstreet; that the pink domino you met\\nat the bal-masque dwells in Terpsi-\\nchore street; that the little lost child\\ncrying at the street corner only knows\\nthat she lives on Goodchildren street;\\nthat the snarling couple who are do-\\ning New Orleans have been shopping\\nin Felicity street; that the priest who\\nofficiates at the mass in the Cathedral\\nmay dwell in Piety street, while the\\ndescendant of a French king inhabits\\nan entre-sol in the rue Bourbon, and an\\nIndian herb-doctor lives in a cottage at\\nthe upper end of Tchoupitoulas street.\\nA.s a matter of fact, you may pursue\\nthe course of Love till you come to\\nDeeire. Madness runs into Insanity.\\nBetween Law and Virtue may be found\\na Magistrate, backed by Liberal Force.\\nAgriculture and Industry yield Abund-\\nance and Pleasure; Benefits conduce to\\nthe development of Humanity. In the\\nvicinity of Dublin and Vienna dwell\\nSocrates, Byron, Cato and Brutus.\\nCalhoun and Henry Clay march along\\nside by side. In soldierly array are\\ndrawn up all the generals of the Mexi-\\ncan war. On the other hand, there is\\nno canal on Canal street, though there\\nonce was. Bayou Road, the fashion-\\nable drive of old Creole days, is now\\nno longer a road, but a well-paved\\nthoroughfare; and in Rampart street,\\nthe fortified line of old New Or-\\nleans, there are no fortifications to-\\nday. Solon street is very far\\nfrom the City Hall. Finally, Na-\\npoleon is commemorated not only", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "17\\nin the avenue which bears his name,\\nbut by half a dozen streets in the im-\\nmediate vicinity christened after his\\ngreatest battles, such as Austerlitz,\\nJena, etc.\\nStrangers are often amused and mys-\\ntified at the method in vogue among\\nthe Orleanians of pronouncing these\\nnames. For instance, Melpomene is\\napparently a Greek word, to be ac-\\ncentuated as in that language. But\\nin New Orleans it is pronounced as\\nthough spelled Mel-po-meen, with the\\naccent on the last syllable. In the\\nsame way Terpsichore is shortened of\\na syllable and becomes Terp-si-chor.\\nThese changes are due to the fact\\nthat these names, when originally con-\\nferred, were pronounced in the French\\nway, and the same custom still main-\\ntains, though somewhat modified to\\nsuit the lips of Anglo-Saxons.\\nSTREET NUMBERS.\\nWithin the last year or two the city\\nstreets have been renumbered through-\\nout, on the decimal system. The num-\\nbers begin at Canal, and run up or\\ndown, as the case may be, on the\\nstreets parallel with the river. The\\ncross streets are numbered from the\\nriver. There are supposed to be 100\\nnumbers in each block, so that at every\\nintersection a fresh century is begun.\\nIn this way the visitor who knows\\nthat a certain house is situated at\\nNo. 1100 street, knows that it\\nis on the river side of the street. 11\\nblocks from Canal street, or\\nfrom the river. The renumber-\\ning is in some places incomplete, and\\nit ifc necessary to allude sometimes to\\nthe old numbers. There is also a\\nmeans of indicating locations much\\npracticed among the natives. That is,\\nto specify the wood side or the\\nriver side of a street, or the down-\\ntown or up-town corners. Street\\nnames are posted conspicuously on\\nevery corner.\\nNew Orleans is often called The\\nCrescent City. The name had its ori-\\ngin in the shape of the city, which, at\\none time, was disposed along a bend\\nin the river greatly resembling the\\ncrescent moon. The growth of the city\\nhas rendered the name rather inappro-\\npriate, as the river front now approxi-\\nmates more nearly the shape of an S\\nthan of a crescent.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nOLD NEW ORLEANS.\\nMost visitors imagine that they have\\nexhausted the interesting features of\\nNew Orleans when they have seen the\\nCarnival, been to the lake, had the\\nproverbial fish dinner, seen the ceme-\\nteries, made the trip to Carrollton, and\\ndone the Jockey Club and the French\\nMarket.\\nIt is, perhaps, unnecessary to say\\nthat the most picturesue and interest-\\ning part of the city is that termed col-\\nloquially The French Quarter. This\\nis the city of Gayarre, Hearn and\\nCable. TheiT genius has made the\\nQuarter famous wherever the name\\nof New Orleans is known. Many of\\nthe fictions put forward by these au-\\nthors, though obviously the product ef\\nimagination, have been accepted as\\nveracious, and are now part and pareel\\nof the legendary lore of the town.\\nIn this way the story of Bras-Coupe\\nand his flogging has become indissolu-\\nbly associated with he Cabildo, and\\nTintin Calendro and his wonderful fid-\\ndle has been added to the ghostly\\nhabitues of the Old St. Leuis Cemetery.\\nThis practice, while materially enlarjjf-", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "18\\ning the stock of traditions, has cast an\\nair of unreality over the history of the\\nquarter.\\nThere are, however, many points of\\ninterest within the limits of the vieux\\ncarre, the legends associated with\\nwhich have been verified by careful\\nhistorians. The vieux carre com-\\nprises the area circumscribed by Canal,\\nRampart, Esplanade street and the\\nriver. It was originally the space in-\\nclosed by the city walls. The city was,\\nin colonial times, fortified on all sides,\\nand the names of these three streets\\nare derived from military terms in use\\nin those days.\\nThe growth of the city above Canal\\nstreet has taken place within the pres-\\nent century. Where the office of the\\nPicayune now stands was, a hundred\\nyears ago, the swampy plantation of\\nthe Jesuits, on which the good fathere\\nmade the original experiments with in-\\ndigo and sugar cane. Near the spot on\\nwhich the Custom-house is situated was\\na fort, the guns of which commanded\\nthe river approaches. Royal street was\\nthen the main street of the city. The\\nfashionable section was in the vicinity\\nof Jackson Square.\\nBearing this fact in mind, the tourist\\nwill do well to begin his explorations\\nalong\\nROYAL, STREET.\\nIt opens from Canal street just to\\none side of the Clay Statue. At the\\ncorner of Royal and Customhouse may\\nbe seen a large building of white stone,\\nornamented with tall, granite columns.\\nThis is the old Auctioneers Exchange\\nbuilding. In this house the United\\nStates District Court once held\\nits sessions and in it was\\ntried the celebrated Central Amer-\\nican filibuster, Gen. William Walker.\\nJust around the corner, in a\\nbuilding, the precise location of which\\nis not now known, Lopez organized\\nan expedition against Cuba, the disas-\\ntrous result of which aroused a great\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0deal of attention in 1851.\\nThe square on the river side, between\\nCustomhouse and Bienville, was once\\nthe site of Bienville s country-house.\\nIn the vicinity of Bienvi le street will\\nbe found a number of quaint auction\\nmarts, where the wares chiefly sold\\nare old furniture, antiquated bric-a-\\nbrac, and dingy family relics of vari-\\nous kinds. Tt will repay one to look\\nthroiurh these places, where many curi-\\nous things will lie found.\\nThe large building on the upper,\\nriver corner of Royal and Conti is the\\nMORTGAGE OFFICE.\\nAdmission is unrestricted. It is a\\ncurious sight to find the interior filled\\nwith standing desks, on which repose\\nhundreds of huge folios containing the\\nreal estate records. The other three\\ncorners of the streets at this\\npoint were formerly occupied by\\nbanks the Bank of Louisiana, the\\nLouisiana State Bank and the United\\nStates Bank but they have long since\\nremoved, although one of the buildings\\nis now a branch depository of the State\\nNational Bank. This is the structure\\nat No. 403 Royal, corner of Royal and\\nConti. It was once occupied by the\\nLouisiana State Bank. In this same\\nbuilding was housed the first bank\\norganized in the Mississippi valley.\\nIn the middle of the block, between\\nConti and St. Louis, at No. 417 Royal,\\nPaul Morphy, the celebrated chess\\nplayer, once made his residence. He\\ndied in his bathroom, on the second\\nfloor. The building may be recognized\\nby the beautifully worked iron bal-\\ncony, and by the circular lunettes\\npiercing the wall, just under the eaves.\\nThe ground floor is now occupied by a\\nplumbing establishment. On the upper\\nfloor resides an American family who\\ntake pleasure in exhibiting the inter-\\nesting parts of the dwelling. One of\\nthe most picturesque courtyards in\\nNew Orleans is in the rear.\\nAround the corner, on Conti street,\\nbetween Royal and Bourbon, will be\\nfound a dealer in bottles. Eugene\\nField, whose untimely death we were\\ncalled upon to mourn only the other\\nday, used to say that there was no\\ngreater curiosity in New Orleans than\\nthis individual and his shop. He paid\\na visit to the shop in the company of\\nthe distinguished writer, Mrs. Mollie\\nE. Moore Davis, and, as an outgrowth\\nof their rummagings through its olden\\nshelves. Mrs. Davis wrote the poem,\\nThe Bottle Man in Conti Street,\\nand dedicated it to Eugene Field. Hit\\nreply was one of his most happy\\nefforts.\\nAt No. 40fi Jackson made his head-\\nnuartres, in 1815. and from this point\\ndirected the preparations for meeting\\nthe English army under Pakenham.\\nIt is now the home of Mrs. Mo lie E.\\nMoore-Davis, the distinguished novel-\\nist.", "height": "3394", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "19\\nThe next point of interest is the\\nHOTEL ROYAL.\\non the corner of Royal and St. Louis.\\nIt was formerly called the St. Louis\\nHotel. It was built in 1835, at a cost\\nof $1,500,000, from a design by De-\\npouilly, an eminent architect. The\\nentrance is now on Royal; but\\nnot many years ago the office was\\nin a rotunda, to which access was had\\n.through the stately portico on St. Louis\\nstreet. Before the war this rotunda\\ndas sometimes used as a slave\\nmarket, and there may be dis-\\ntinguished, carved in the wall, the\\nnames of the auctioneers. The build-\\ning is the property of the State, and\\nwas at one time used as a meeting-\\nplace for the Legislature. In recon-\\nstruction days it was the headquarters\\nin turn of the Warmoth, Kellogg and\\nPackard governments. In 1S74 a revo-\\nlution occurred, the citizens rising\\nagainst the oppressive administration\\nof Packard. The Radicals were con-\\nfined to the hotel for several month*,\\nfighting taking place in and about the\\nbuilding. When the garrison capitu-\\nlated, the building was found in a ter-\\nrible state of desolation and filth.\\nThe visitor should see the beautiful\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2domed banqueting hall. The frescoing\\nhere was done by a nephew and pupil of\\nthe great sculptor.Canova. In this apart-\\nment many brilliant gatherings have\\nassembled, and a great deal of post-\\nprandial oratory let off, the most noted\\ninstance being the dinner at which\\nHenry Clay delivered the only speech\\nhe ever made in Louisiana. By the\\nway. this repast cost $20,000. and\\nthere were 600 guests. General Bonlan-\\nger, the man on horseback, was en-\\ntertained sumptuously here, and only\\na year or two ago President McKin-\\nley sat down to a supper after an\\nevening s arduous campaigning. The\\nballroom is also a noted spot. One of\\nthe most beautiful state balls ever\\ngiven there was in honor of the visit\\nof the Prince of Brazil, grandson to\\nthe late Dom Pedro, who a short while\\nafter was dethroned.\\nBetween St. Louis and Toulouse, at\\n(old) No. 115 Royal street, is an arch-\\nway flanked by cannon imbedded in\\nthe ground. This was the\\nCOMMANDFRIA.\\nor headquarters of the army, during the\\nSpanish domination. Around the cor-\\nner, on Toulouse street, between Royal\\nand Chartres, stands the ruined Citi-\\nzens Bank. It was erected in 1837,\\nafter a design by Depouilly. The bat-\\ntered pediment contains statues of\\nAgriculture, Commerce, Abundance,\\netc., all sadly mutilated.\\nIn the vicinity will be found a num-\\nber of curio and second-hand shops,\\nwhere the antiquarian and bibliophile\\nhave often picked up treasures. These\\nstalls are extremely inviting, remind-\\ning one, in the nature and value of\\ntheir possessions, of the bookstores\\nalong the Seine, in Paris. It is said\\nthat more rare French and Spanish\\nvolumes are to be found at these\\nplaces than anywhere else in thi\u00c2\u00bb\\ncountry.\\nAt the corner of Royal and St.\\nPeter streets will be found a four-\\nstoried structure of stuccoed brick. It\\nwas built in 1819, and was the first\\nfour-storied building ever erected in\\nNew Orleans. It figures in one of\\nCable s romances as\\nSIEUR GEORGES HOUSE.\\nBy this name it is almost universal-\\nly known. It is a handsome speci-\\nmen of the old city residences of the\\ngreat Louisiana planters.\\nRoyal street presents nothing of ex-\\nceptional interest below St. Peter,\\nuntil we reach Orleans street. Orleans\\nbegins immediately behind the garden\\nof the French Cathedral, the high,\\nspiked iron fence of which occupies\\nthe space between Orleans Place, on\\nthe south, and St. Anthony s Place, on\\nthe north side.\\nThe visitor will do well to turn aside\\nfrom Royal street, at this point, and\\ninspect the Cathedral and the adja-\\ncent buildings. New Orleans has\\nnothing more intensely characteristic\\nthan these. It is impossible in this\\nplace to sketch, even roughly, the his-\\ntory of the Cathedral. Almost every\\nimportant event in the annals of the\\ncity transpired either within or under\\nthe walls of this venerable structure.\\nIn the following chapter, at the\\nproper place, will be found brief allu-\\nsions to the principal points on which\\nthe visitor should be informed in or-\\nder to appreciate the significance of\\nthe Cathedral. It suffices in this place\\nmerely to allude, in passing, to this\\nlandmark of old New Orleans.\\nImmediately across the way from\\nthe Cathedral gardens, at No. 705 Or-\\nleans street, on the corner of Royal, up\\nstairs, is the office of the Orpheon", "height": "3394", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "20\\nFrancais, a French musical society,\\nthe concerts of which are well known\\nin the city.\\nOn the same side of the street the\\nvisitor will notice a large, two-storied\\nbuilding, with handsome walls covered\\nwith brown stucco. A cross surmounts\\nthe roof. This is the Conveut of the\\nHoly Family. In other days it was\\nthe\\nORLEANS THEATRE.\\nHere took place those quadroon\\nballs which were, at one time, cele-\\nbrated throughout the world. Prob-\\nably no more beautiful race of women\\never existed than the quadroon women.\\nThe slight negro taint was betrayed\\nonly in the soft olive of the skin and\\nthe deeply increased brilliancy of the\\neye; while no one, unless versed in the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0igns by which the Louisianian almost\\ninstinctively recognizes the person of\\nmixed blood, could distinguish in form,\\nfeature or hair, any resemblance to\\nthe African type.\\nBefore the war the balls occurred\\nweekly, and the gallants of the city\\nwere wont to flock thither. Under the\\ncircumstances, it was not wonderful\\nthat duels frequently followed the\\ndancing, and many a party of gentle-\\nmen, after having quarreled in the\\nballroom over some fair dancer, ad-\\njourned in the early morning to the\\nOaks. where coffee and pistols for\\ntwo were served. By a curious\\ntransposition, the theatre has now be-\\ncome a convent for colored women.\\nThe visitor should observe the hand-\\nsome marhle fittings of the main en-\\ntrance, which is on Orleans street.\\nThe Cafe lea Exiles, made famous\\nby Cable, stood at the corner of Royal\\nand St. Ann.\\nOn Dumaine, between Royal and\\nBourbon streets, will be found the\\nhouse bequeathed by Mr. John, of the\\nGood Children s Social Cltfb, to Zalli\\nand Tite Pouletto, as veraciously set\\nforth in one of Cable s stories. The\\nbuilding has no other claims to inter-\\nest. It is a low-browed frame house,\\nwith two dormer windows, and a long\\nveranda supported by a brick base-\\nment.\\nAt No. 1122 Royal may be seen a\\ncourtyard surrounded by old Spanish\\nportales. They are all that remains\\nof the old Spanish Barracks. The place\\nis now used as a seltaer water fac-\\ntory.\\nThree or four blocks beiow Dumaine\\nis Hospital street, so named because,\\nin colonial days, the military hospital\\nwas located thereon. At No. 1140\\nRoyal street stands a fine old house,\\nwhich has a history as strange and\\nterrible as any German castle. This^\\nis the\\nHAUNTED HOUSE.\\nThe entrance is a remarkably well-\\npreserved specimen of early Louisiana\\narchitecture. Here, in 1831, lived a\\nMme. Lalaurie, who was very wealthy\\nand moved in the most aristocratic cir-\\ncles of the time. She possessed numer-\\nous slaves, whom she treated with the\\nmost abominable cruelty, starving and\\ntorturing them to death, 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 the\\nghosts of the murdered slaves, who\\nhold high carnival there at times, Few\\nvisitors come to New Orleans with-\\nout taking a look at The Haunted\\nHouse.\\nCable has written a spirited account\\nof this singular occurrence, and in-\\nserted it in Strange rue Stories of\\nLouisiana. There are, however, sev-\\neral accounts of the manner in which\\nMme. Lalaurie effected her escape,\\none of which is that, after the mob\\nhad wrecked the house, she caused\\nherself to be nailed up in a coffin,\\ngave out that she had died of fright,\\nand was taken in a hearse out the\\nMetairie road to a point a little be-\\nyond the Halfway House. Here a\\nschooner was in waiting, on which she\\nemharked for Covington. La., and\\nthence made her way to France.\\nwhere she died. The principal ghost\\nhaunting the house is that of a\\nnegro girl, who committed sul-\\nfide by leaping from, the roof to\\nthe courtyard, in an endeavor to escape\\nfrom her mistress. On certaia nights\\nthe frhost is said to appear near the\\ncupola on the roof. In the courtyard\\nis a well, where Mme. Lalaurie was\\naccustomed to bury the victims of her\\ncruelties. Most of her murders were\\nperpetrated in the loft immediately\\nbeneath the roof.\\nThe visitor should diverge from\\nRoya street at Ursulines, and walk\\none block towards the river, to Char-", "height": "3394", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "21\\ntree street, where, on the corner, he\\nwill find the Archiepiscopal palace.\\nThis is an exceedingly interesting\\nplace, and the oldest building in the\\ncity. A full description will be found\\nin the following chapter. Continuing\\nout Ursulines to North Peters street,\\nthe levee is reached, and, by boarding\\nthe Levee and Barracks car, a pleas-\\nant ride may be enjoyed through an\\ninteresting part of the city, a portion of\\nwhich is in view of the shipping. The\\nvisitor should then continue out Ursu-\\nlines to North Peters street, which will\\nbring him directly .to the levee. Here\\nwill be found the Levee and Bar-\\nracks cars. By taking one of them,\\nhe will enjoy a pleasant ride through\\nan interesting part of the city, a por-\\ntion of which is in view of the ship-\\nping, and the latter part of which is\\nthrough the lower section of Chartres\\nstreet.\\nWashington Square lies between\\nElysian Fields and Frenchmen streets.\\nThis park is surrounded by a\\ntall, iron fence, supporting at reg-\\nular intervals large gas lanterns,\\nand interrupted here and there by\\nmassive gates. Foremrly all the\\nsquares in the city were similarly\\ninclosed, and at night the gates were\\nlocked by the watchmen. The custom\\nstill maintains at Washington Square,\\nand. punctually at 9 o clock, each even-\\ning, the police clear the walks and\\nbolt and lock the entrances.\\nEight blocks below Elysian Fields\\nthe cars cross the tracks of the North-\\nEastern Railroad, the passenger sta-\\ntion of which is located at the head of\\nPress street. This building occupies\\nthe site of the celebrated Natchez Cot-\\nton Press. Many of the presses and\\ncotton sheds are in this vicinity. A\\ngreat many were used during\\nthe civil war by the Federal authori-\\nties as prisons for the confinement of\\nConfederate prisoners.\\nOne Royal street, near Clouet, is\\nthe ornate wooden building where\\nerstwhile dwelt the\\nOLYMPIC ATHLETIC CLUB.\\nIt stands in the yard of an old cot-\\nton press, the walls of which form\\npart of the supports for a huge prize\\nring, capable of seating 10,000 or 12,-\\n000 people. The Olympic Club is now\\nno more, the cause of its demise being\\na law passed, a few years ago, by the\\nState Legislature by which prize fight-\\ning was prohibited in Louisiana. But,\\nin its day, there was no more noted\\nrendezvous of the sporting fraternity.\\nUnder its auspices many of the greatest\\nfistic encounters of the century took\\nplace, among them the Fitzsimmons-\\nCreedon and the Sullivan-Corbett fights.\\nThe latter took place behind the club.\\nMount Carmel Female Orphan Asy-\\nlum is located on Piety and\\nRoyal, four or five blocks below\\nthe Olympic Club. The city in\\nthis neighborhood is not very thickly\\npopulated, and the houses begin to\\nstring out into the Gelds. It is very\\ncharming down here in the early\\nmonths of the year, when the trees are\\nfresh and green, and the queer, un-\\npaved, deeply-rutted streets begin to\\nsprout in grass.\\nCHAPTER V\\nCHARTRES STREET AND VICINITY.\\nChartres street is very picturesque,\\nnot merely to walk along, keeping the\\ngaze at a level; but to halt and look\\naround at the oddly furnished bal-\\nconies that appear to be in perpetual\\nconfab with each other. And one must\\nhalt and peer into doorways, even pene-\\ntrating slyly a yard or two into some\\nof the dark, tunnel-like entrances which\\nlead into paved courtyards with\\narched porticoes, such as one may see\\nin Venice, under the shadow of St.\\nMark s.\\nThe inhabitants of these grim houses\\nare very kind; they will see the stran-\\nger in your eyes and smile graciously,\\nwhile, with a pretty air of mingled\\nsraciousness and reserve, they motion\\nyou to look your fill. In most of these\\ncourtyards will be found plants in huge\\npots, pomeganate trees, flowering\\nshrubs; sometimes a battered bronze\\nstatue, or yellow earthenware pots as\\nbig as those in which All Baba hid on\\na certain memorable occasion. Char-\\ntres street opens from Canal one block", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "22\\nnearer the river than Royal street.\\nIn the first three or four blocks the\\nbird stores, with their wonderful col-\\nlections of brilliant, spoon-billed ibises\\nand other native birds, may be seen. All\\nalong the street are queer .odging-\\nhouses, much frequented by. the poor.\\nAt the upper corner of St. Peter\\nstands an old building, once occupied\\nby the Louisiana Saloon. It is two-\\nstoried, and has a gallery extending\\nover the street. In other days this was\\na very swell resort for the jeunesse\\ndoree. At an earlier date it was used\\nas a hotel, and, in fact, may be called\\nthe oldest hotel building in the Missis-\\nsippi valley.\\nThe St. Louis Cathedral stands\\nbetween two of the most pict-\\nuresque buildings in New Or-\\nleans the old Court Buildings.\\nThe upper one, situated between St.\\nPeter and Orleans alley, is now\\nused by the Supreme Court of Louisi-\\nana, which holds its sittings in the\\napartments on the second floor. Like\\nall edifices erected by the Spaniards,\\nit is constructed in a very heavy and\\nsolid manner. It was originally used\\nas the meeting place of the Cabildo,\\nor Municipal Chapter. The name of\\nthis august body has been transferred\\nto the building itself, and it is general-\\nly spoken of as\\nTHE CABILDO.\\nWithin its walls all but one of the\\ncransfers of the country from one sov-\\nereign to another have been accom-\\nplished. Here, representing the King\\nof France, the proud seigneur, in\\nperuke and knee-breeches, absolved the\\nOrleanais from their oaths of allegiance\\nand handed them over to the swarthy\\ndelegate of his Catholic Majesty of\\nSpain. Here also was effected the\\ntransfer of the colonies to the United\\nStates, and from the balcony of the\\nCabildo, Claiborne announced the event\\nand displayed the American flag. In\\n1826 Lafayette visited the city an I\\nwas received here. At present the lower\\nfloor is given up to the Second Re-\\ncorder s Court and a police jail.\\nThe police jail is the Third Precinct,\\nand is at the right hand corner of the\\nupper building. In one of the cells\\ncan be found a pair of old-fashioned\\nstocks, a relic of Spanish domination.\\nThe St. Louis Cathedral was\\nnamed after the patron saint of France.\\nThe architecture is a mixed Renais-\\nsance. The present is not the first Ca-\\nthedral that has occupied the spot.\\nThe first was a structure of wood and\\nadobe, erected shortly after the founda-\\ntion of the city. It was destroyed in\\nthe fearful hurricane which visited the\\ninfant city in 1723. A new edifice-\\nwas built of brick in 1724; but this\\nwas consumed in the memorable fire\\nwhich, on Good Friday, March 21,\\n1788, burned nearly the whole city.\\nThis conflagration was so disastrous-\\nthat the colonists could not at once re-\\nbuild the Cathedral. For a long time\\nmass was celebrated in a temporary\\nbuilding. In 1793, Don Andres Al-\\nmonaster y Roxas, a wealthy Spanish\\nnobleman, determined to rebuild the\\nCathedral at his own expense, on con-\\ndition that a mass be said every Sun-\\nday for the repose of his soul. The\\nstructure cost $50,000. The design\\nwas of the usual heavy Spanish style,\\nwith three round towers in front, like\\nmany of the church buildings erected\\nby the Spaniards in Mexico and South\\nAmerica.\\nIn 1851 the building was remodeled,\\nand on the towers steeples were raised.\\nThe facade was considerably changed.\\nThe present portico, with its columns\\nand nilasters. dates from this time.\\nIn 1802 the interior was frescoed by\\nHumbrecht. In the center of the ceil-\\ning St. Peter is represented receiving\\nthe shepherd s staff from our Lord,\\nand in the panels around are the four\\nevangelists. The main or high altar\\nof colored marble and wood has a\\nreredos of columns supporting a cor-\\nnice on which are the words, in silt let-\\nters, Ecce Panis Angelorum. The\\nstatues which surmount this cornice\\nare Faith, Hope and Charity. The\\ncentral one leans upon a cross said to\\nbe of pure gold. The large mural\\npainting under the dome represents\\nSt. Louis, King of France. Proclaim-\\ning the Crusades. On the ceiling of\\nthe chancel is painted The Sacrifice\\nof the Divine Lamb. Beneath the\\ncentral altar is a large vault in which\\nthe prelates are buried. Around\\nthe sides of the chancel are the stalls\\nof the canons of the Cathedral and\\nthose of the wardens, called mar-\\nguilliers. To the left is the archle-\\npiscopal throne, surmounted by the\\ncrossed keys and miter, in gilded wood.\\nThe throne is flanked by fauteuils.\\nwhich are, on occasions of state, occu-\\npied by the archbishop s attendants.\\nOn the walls appear many tablets in-", "height": "3394", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "24\\nscribed to the memory of former bish-\\nops and archbishops. The fresco over\\nthe organ loft represents St. Cecilia\\nresting on a bank of clouds, with this\\ninscription: Sing the Praises of the\\nLord on Reed and String Instruments.\\nThere are two side-altars. The one on\\nthe left is dedicated to the Sacred\\nHeart and to St. Francis of Assisi.\\nThe other altar is dedicated to\\nour Lady of Lourdes. The water\\nwhich trickles over the altar per-\\npetually is supplied from the mirac-\\nulous spring of Lourdes, in France.\\nOn the walls are suspended many\\nvotive offerings in memory of cures\\nwrought through the intercession of\\nOur Lady. The altar is surmounted\\nby a statue of the Immaculate Concep-\\ntion. Many persons of note are buried\\nIn the aisles directly before these\\naltars. Don Andres Almonaster sleeps\\nbeneath a large slab, on which\\nis a long inscription in Span-\\nish. Several members of the family\\nof Mandeville de Marigny, distin-\\nguished in colonial history, are also in-\\nterred here. The tomb of Jean Ches-\\nneau, who aided Don Andres in found-\\ning the Cathedral, is also of interest.\\nMany quaint customs maintain in con-\\nnection with the Cathedral, not the\\nleast curious of which is the beadle,\\nor sexton, called the suisse, who at-\\ntends with sword and halbert at all\\nservices. He wears a cocked hat and\\nred sword, and his function is to main-\\ntain order and escort strangers to their\\nseats. Every Saturday night chimes\\nare rung from the towers in memory\\nof Don Andres. Pontifical high masses\\nare said by the archbishop on Christ-\\nmas, Easter Sunday, Whitsunday and\\nother important festivals. On these\\noccasions the congregation does not\\nwithdraw until the procession escort-\\ning his grace passes down the main\\naisle and out of the Cathedral. The\\nprocession includes all the priests and\\nofficials, and before the archbishop is\\ncarried, according to an old custom, a\\nlighted candle. Many notable events\\nhave transpired within the Cathedral,\\nmost notable of which was the solemn\\nhigh mass offered by Bishop Duboure.\\nat the request of General Jackson, in\\nthanksgiving for the victory at Chal-\\nmette. II was attended by General\\nJackson and his army, and at the\\nclose a solemn Te Denm was sung.\\nThe anniversary of the centennial of\\nthe Cathedral, in April, 1893, was a\\ngreat and memorable event, and was\\nattended by all the bishops and arch-\\nbishops of the vast territory which con-\\nstituted the Louisiana Purchase, all\\nthe priests of the diocese, the Governor\\nof the State, the officers of the su-\\npreme and city courts, the foreign con-\\nsuls, military, etc. Another imposing\\nand memorable event occurred on the\\nlast Sunday of Lent, 1896, when, for\\nthe first time in American history, tw\u00c2\u00ab\\ncardinals united at the offering of the\\npontifical high mass, which marked the\\nopening of the Catholic Winter School.\\nThe annual opening of the Catholic\\nWinter School is celebrated by mast\\nin the Cathedral on the last Sunday in\\nLent, and the visitor will do well to\\nwitness that imposing and magnificent\\nceremony.\\nThe St. Louis Presbytery, which ad-\\njoins the Cathedral, is also worthy of\\na visit. Here may be seen several\\ncurious old portraits, among them the\\nonly one in existence of Don Andre*\\nAlmonaster, and rare pictures of Pere\\nAntoine and Mgr. Penalvert, the first\\nbishop of New Orleans.\\nTHE LOWER COURT BUILDING,\\nsituated on the lower side of the\\nCathedral, between St. Anthony s alley\\nand St. Ann street, resembles in a\\nmarked degree the Cabildo, but is not\\nso old an edifice. It is now occupied\\nby the civil courts, which sit on the\\nupper floor. The office of the Civil\\nSheriff is on the lower floor. In former\\ntimes the site was occupied by a Ca-\\npuchin monastery, the monks of which\\nwere charged with the service of the\\nCathedral. The gardens of their con-\\nvent extended back several squares.\\nPere Antoine resided here for many\\nyears. He was a Spanish priest, who\\ncame to the colony towards the end\\nof the last century, and who lived\\nfor many years in the odor of\\nsanctity, universally beloved. The\\npersonality of the father seems to\\nhave been a singularly sweet and lov-\\nable one, and he, like Father Dago-\\nbert, another Capuchin, has been vir-\\ntually canonized among the saints of\\nthe Crescent City. Pere Antoine s\\nname was for many years associated\\nwith a palm tree which stood, until\\nrecently, in a wood yard at the corner\\nof Bourbon and Orleans street. The\\nspot formed part of the land belonging\\nto Pere Antoine while he lived, and\\nthe palm tree stood at the foot of\\nwhat was his garden lot. Innumera-\\nble tales were told of how the tree", "height": "3394", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "25\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2came to be here, not the least roman-\\ntic was one which alleged that it\\n\u00c2\u00abprang from the heart of a young girl\\nwho died dreaming of her native palm-\\nfringed shore.\\nThe above venerable and romantic\\nbuildings overlook\\nJACKSON SQUARE.\\nThis is a noted place in the history\\nof New Orleans. It was originally\\ncall the Place d Armes. When the\\nJackson Mounment was erected in the\\nmiddle of it, taking the place of the\\nflagstaff from which in turns the\\nflags of France, Spain and the United\\nStates had been unfurled, the name\\nof the victor of Chalmette was be-\\nstowed upon the square. The name\\nPlace d Armes, however, is conse-\\ncrated by a thousand historic as-\\nsociations of the early city. Here\\nwere held, from the very be-\\nginning, those public meetings where\\nall matters of common interest\\nand public policy were discussed, and\\nthe first settlers of the city, though\\nloyal, even devoted subjects of the\\nKing of France, learned those first\\nlessons 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 1766. and here\\nmet the resolute band of patriots under\\nthe heroic Liafreniere. who renounced\\nthe authority of Snain. declared their\\nindependence in 1768 and sent the\\nSpanish governor packing back to his\\nown country. And right here, to the\\nhonor of the old square be it said, this\\nwas the first declaration of inde-\\npendence made on American soil.\\nIt was here that Captain Gen-\\neral Don Alejandro 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,\\nall the leaders of the French patriots,\\nbut Villere. who died in prison.\\nIt was in this same Place d 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. Though but a\\nt oy, scarcely 21 years of age. he held a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2commission as Captain General and\\nGovernor of the province, but he\\ntold the citizens, with his sword\\nin his hand, that he would not\\naccept the office without their con-\\nsent and promise of loyalty. They\\nclamorously confirmed his appointment,\\nand it was from ,uis same Place\\nd Armes that he led an army of 1500\\nyoung Creoles who responded to his\\nappeal, Let those who love me follow\\nwhere I lead, to some of the most\\nnotable victories over the English that\\nwere ever won on this continent.\\nJackson Square is one of the few\\nremaining public places which are in-\\nclosed. It is shut to the public\\nat 9 o clock at night. It has long\\nbeen under the management of a spe-\\ncial board of commissioners, who\\nhave greatly beautified the parterres\\nby planting them with tropical fruits\\nand flowers. The fountain near the\\nChartres street entrance is equipped\\nwith a mechanism by which the jet\\nmay be illuminated at night. The two\\nlong rows of buildings, drawn up like\\ntwin regiments of red-coated soldier*\\non either side of the square, are the\\nPONT ALB A BUTLDINGS.\\nThey were built early in the century\\nby the Baroness Pontalba. daughter of\\nDon Andres Almonaster. and are still\\nowned by her descendants. At one\\ntime it was considered a sort of mark\\nof gentility to reside in the Pontalba\\nbuildings. The tide of fashion has,\\nhowever, long since flowed away from\\nthem.\\nTHE STATUE OF GENERAL\\nJACKSON,\\nin the middle of the square, was made\\nby Clark Mills, at a cost of $30,000.\\nThe artist has been highly praised for\\nthe manner in which he has succeeded\\nin balancing such a mass of metal.\\nNearly all equestrian statues have\\nprops beneath them, but the absence\\nof any such support under this one\\nwill be remarked. In this position the\\nstatue has withstood the storms and\\nhurricanes of almost half a century.\\nThe statue weighs over 20,000 pounds.\\nThe inscription on the granite base was\\ncut by General Benj. Butler s orders\\nduring the Civil War\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Union\\nmust and shall be preserved.\\nThe visitor should turn into the two\\nnarrow streets which run from Chartres\\nto Royal on either side of the Cathe-\\ndral. The upper one is called Orleans", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "26\\nPlace; the lower, St. Anthony s Place.\\nThe State Arsenal is in the dilapidated\\nbuilding at No. 613 Orleans Place. At\\nNo. 625 St. Anthony s Place will be\\nfound the archives of the Cathedral\\nand the residence of the clergy.\\nAfter leaving Jackson Square the\\ntourist should proceed directly to the\\nARCHIEPISCOPAL PALACE,\\nsituated ou the corner of Ursulines\\nand Chartres streets. This is the odd-\\nest building in Louisiana. En-\\ntrance may be had through a\\nquaintly constructed portal defended\\nby double gates and piercing the palace\\nwall in the middle of the Chartres\\nstreet front. The buildings face a\\nspacious lawn. They were erect-\\ned between 1727 and 1734 for the\\nuse of the Ursuline nuns, who\\ncame over from France at Bien-\\nville s solicitation in 1727 to take\\ncharge of the Charity Hospital and\\nestablish a school for girls. The\\nnuns resided here till 1824, when they\\nremoved to their present domicile, a\\nmile or two below the city. Bishop\\nDubourg, who used to spend his win-\\nters in New Orleans and his summers\\nin the northern portion of his vast\\ndiocese, lived in a house belonging to\\nthe Ursulines on the part of their\\nChartres street property nearest the\\nriver. Its site is now occupied by Sam-\\nbola s macaroni factory. In 1S31 the\\nconvent was occupied as the State\\nCapitol, and the Legislature held their\\nsessions within its walls. At present it\\nis used by the Archbishop of the Dio-\\ncese of New Orleans as his resi-\\ndence. The building remains ex-\\nactly as it was erected. The visitor\\nshould remark the ancient staircase,\\nthe steps of which are single, massive\\npieces of timber, deeply worn by the\\nfeet of many generations. There is a\\ndelightful old garden in the rear of the\\nconvent. The Archbishop s apartments\\nare on the second floor. In the build-,\\ning are preserved portraits of all the\\nprelates of the diocese. The office of the\\nChancellor is on the ground floor. The\\nChapel contains a little oratory and\\nshrine. The reception room on the\\nlower floor is beautifully paneled in\\ncypress, and contains a curious old\\nclock. The shutters of cypress over\\nthe main entrance to the palace are\\nover 160 years old, and are still per-\\nfectly sound.\\nAt the corner of Hospital and Char-\\ntres streets, where a small grocery now\\nstands, was the ancient burying ground\\nof the Ursuline nuns. From 1727 to\\n1824 all the departed members of the\\ncommunity were buried in this spot.\\nWhen the convent was removed to the\\nnew quarters at the Barracks, the re-\\nmains of the nuns were disinterred and\\nreburied in the present graveyard at-\\ntached to the ancient convent. The\\nremains of the slaves they owned, and\\nwho were buried in the spot on the cor-\\nner of Chartres and Hospital streets,\\nhowever, were not disturbed. It is\\ninteresting to note here that the slaves\\nowned by the Ursulines chose to re-\\nmain with them rather than accept,\\nfreedom after the emancipation of the\\nblack race, and that, some eight or\\nnine years ago, the devoted nuns\\nburied the last of their slaves, a ne-\\ngress a century old.\\nThe church adjoining the Palace is\\nSt. Mary s. It is the oldest church in\\nLouisiana. Archbishop Janssens says\\nmass here every day when in the city.\\nChartres street in this vicinity is-\\nlargely occupied by Italians, who main-\\ntain a number of basket manufactories\\nand macaroni shops.\\nAt No. 1231 Chartres street is the\\nConvent of Our Lady of Lourdes,\\nwhere four quadroon sisters live with\\ntheir mother according to convent\\nrules. At their death the order will\\nbecome extinct, as they are forbidden\\nto accept recruits.\\nOn the corner of Elysian Fields and\\nthe levee, and visible from Chartres\\nstreet where it crosses Esplanade, is\\nthe massive brick building, with a\\nlofty smokestack, used as a power-\\nhouse by the Claiborne Street Rail-\\nroad. The power-house occupies the\\nsite of the old Mandeville de Marigny\\nresidence. This was the residence of\\nthe Philippe Marigny who is buried be-\\nfore the altar in the St. Louis Cath-\\nedral. Marigny was a grand seigneur\\nin every sense, and when Louis Philippe\\nwas in America, before his accession\\nto the French throne, he entertained the\\nexiled prince for some time in magnif-\\nicent fashion. Lafayette, Moreau and\\nother celebrated personages were his\\nguests at other times. All this portion\\nof the city was, in those times, known\\nas the Faubourg Marigny.\\nSt. Mary s Orphan Asylum is situ-\\nated on Chartres street, near Mazant-", "height": "3394", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "EXCHANGE ALLEY.\\nOn the lower, or northern, side of\\nCanal street, between Royal and Char-\\ntres, the visitor will observe a narrow\\nand little frequented street. This is Ex-\\nchange Alley. It extends from Canal\\nto St. Louis, where it terminates imme-\\ndiately in front of the main (now dis-\\nused) entrance of the Hotel Royal.\\nNear Canal, at No. 110, is the Louisi-\\nana Club.\\nThe street is now full of queer, old-\\nfashioned houses, labor agencies, ob-\\nscure restaurants and similar pictur-\\nesque places. The house on the wood\\nside corner of Exchange Alley and\\nRoyal has a belvedere of wrought\\niron on the roof. It is often\\ncalled the Napoleon house. This\\ndesignation properly belongs to the\\nhouse on the corner of Chartres\\nand St. Louis, which formerly be-\\nlonged to Nicholas Girod. Mr. Girod\\nwas Mayor of New Orleans in 1814.\\nHe was an ardent admirer of Napoleon,\\nand engaged in a plot with a number\\nof enthusiastic Frenchmen in this city\\nand in Charleston to libeiate the em-\\nperor from St. Helena. They built a\\nwonderfully fast clipper yacht called\\nthe Seraphine. She was commanded\\nby a certain Capt. St. Ange Bossier. The\\ndesign of the conspirators was to bring\\nthe yacht near the island some dark\\nnight and spirit the emperor aboard.\\nThen the marvelous sailing qualities of\\nthe little ship would enable them to\\ndistance all pursuit and bring the hero\\nof Austerlitz to America. There is\\nevery reason to believe that the plot\\nwas directed and approved by the cap-\\ntive of Longwood, and might have suc-\\nceeded had the emperor s death not\\nprevented its consummation. Girod\\nbuilt the house, intending to present it\\nto the emperor on his arrival in New\\nOrleans.\\nIn the alley, between Canal and\\nCustomhouse streets, is the Armory of\\nthe Fourth Battalion, L. S. N. G.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nURSULINE CONVENT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 BARRACKS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 CHAL-\\nMETTE BATTLE EIELD.\\nThe Rampart and Dauphine car will\\ntake the tourist to the rear entrance\\nof the Ursuline Convent, on North\\nPeters, between Manuel and Sister\\nstreet. The convent occupies a large\\ntract of land, upon which several build-\\nings are erected, each communicating\\nwith the other and with a chapel at\\nthe lower end. The main building faces\\nthe river, and, being very long, and\\npainted white, is a prominent land-\\nmark. Groves of oaks and pecans sur-\\nround the buildings. The nuns preserve\\nthe strict cloister and occupy them-\\nselves with educating young women.\\nTheir school, established in 1727, in\\nChartres street, is the oldest institute\\nfor the education of girls in America,\\nhaving celebrated 169 annual com-\\nmencements. The Ursulines were the\\npioneers of the religious orders\\nin the New World. It was to\\ntheir present home that the nuns\\nremoved in 1824 from the building\\nnow the archiepiscopal residence of\\nMgr. .Tanssens. The chapel is very\\nbeautiful. Within is the altar especial-\\nly dedicated to Our Lady of Prompt\\nSuccor. The statue of the Virgin\\nholding in her arms the Holy\\nInfant, surmounts the altar. It\\nis of wood, richly gilded. It was\\nbrought from France early in the pres-\\nent century by a pious Ursuline. Her\\nname was Agnes Gensoul, known in\\nreligion as Mother St. Michel. She dwelt\\nat Montpelier, France. She felt called\\nupon to take up the work in Louisiana\\nafter Mother St. Monica Ramos, su-\\nperior of the Ursulines in New Orleans,\\nresigned her post to return to Spain.\\nMother St. Michel accordingly wrote\\nto Pius VII for permission to go to\\nLouisiana. At the same time she prom-\\nised before the statue of Mary in her\\napartment that, if a favorable answer\\nwere speedily received, she would see\\nthat the Virgin would be venerated\\nin New Orleans under the title of Our\\nLady of Prompt Succor. The Pope re-\\nplied within a month and granted the\\nrequisite permission. Mother St. Michel\\naccordingly perpared for her long jour-\\nney, carrying the statue of the Virgin\\nwith her. She reached New Or-\\nleans Dec. 31, 1810, and was", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "28\\nformally installed in the con-\\nvent. A curious fact may be noted in\\nthis connection. Before Mother St.\\nMichel and her statue arrived its place\\nwas occupied by a smaller image,\\nbrought in 1786 from Pont St. Esprit.\\nMother St. Michel s was exactly like\\nthis one, except that it was of a larger\\nsize. The statue was carved long prior to\\nthe year 1700. Many prayers to the\\nVirgin of Prompt Succor have been an-\\nswered, and through her intercession\\nthe Ursulines believe that their convent\\nwas preserved from destruction in the\\nterrible fire of 1812. The most re-\\nmarkable circumstance connected with\\nthis statue remains to be noted. On\\nJan. 8, 1815. Father (afterwards\\nBishop) Du Bourg offered mass in the\\nUrsuline chapel in honor of Our Lady\\nof Prompt Succor, and the Ursulines\\nvowed to celebrate annually a thanks-\\ngiving service if, through her interces-\\nsion, the American army under Tack-\\nson should vanquish the British under\\nPakenham, at Chalmette. At the mo-\\nment of the Holy Communion a courier\\nentered the chapel to announce the\\nvictory. Father du Bourg then intoned\\na Te Deum. The next day General Jae-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0on wrote to Father du Bourg acknowl-\\nedging the signal interposition of\\nheaven. Archbishop Janssens succeeded\\nin obtaining a bull from Pope Leo\\nXTTI by which Our Lady of Prompt\\nSuccor was made the patroness of Louis-\\niana, and on Nov. 10, 1895. amid scenes\\nof extraordinary ecclesiastical and civil\\npomp, the statue was formally crowned.\\nThe diadems on the Virgin s and the\\nInfant s heads are of gold, and the jew-\\nels were given by Catholics of New Or-\\nleans from their family treasures, the\\nwhole representing a value of about\\n$20,000.\\nThe next point of interest below the\\ncity is the\\nSLAUGHTER-HOUSE.\\nIt is just across the lower boundary\\nline of Orleans parish, in St. Bernard.\\nThe idea in placing it without the\\ncorporation limits is to avoid the heavy\\nmunicipal taxation. The slaughtering\\npens, or abattoirs, are in full operation\\nabout 3 o clock p. m., and are usually\\ninteresting to visitors. Adjacent to the\\nabattoirs are the pens where the cattle\\nare confined pending execution. Most of\\nthe cattle received and butchered here\\ncomes from Texas. The butchers are.\\nfor the most part, Gascons, who speak\\nthe peculiar Spanish of the lower\\nPvrenees.\\nThe\\nUNITED STATES BARRACKS,\\nofficially known as the Jackson bar-\\nracks, is the terminus of the Rampart\\nand Dauphine cars. The barracks may\\nalso be reached by the Levee and Bar-\\nracks line. The entrance is at a gate on\\nthe river front, in a sort of outwork be-\\ntween two heavy brick towers over\\nfifty years old. The Barracks consist\\nof a series of brick buildings, disposed\\nabout an esplanade, the whole inclosed\\nin thick brick walls. The corners of\\nthe walls are all defended by towers\\npierced for musketry. It is an interest-\\ning thing to see the twilight gun fired,\\nand the flag in the center of the grass\\nplot saluted and then hauled down for\\nthe night.\\nThe battle field of\\nCHALMETTE\\nlies about a mile and a half below the\\nbarracks. There are various ways of\\ngoing there. One may take the Ram-\\npart and Dauphine cars to the terminus\\nat the Barracks, and then a car-\\nriage and drive down along the\\nriver front. On pleasant days the\\nwalk is exceedingly enjoyable. The\\nvisitor may also take passage on the\\nShell Beach Railroad from th\u00c2\u00b0 depot\\nat the corner of St. Claude and Elysian\\nFields. This will bring him within a\\nshort distance of the field. The battle\\ntook place Jan. 8. 1815. The American\\ntroons were drawn up within five miles\\nof the city, a one the borders of the\\nRodriguez and the Chalmette planta-\\ntions, extendins from the river bank\\nto the swamp. A parapet of earth,\\nrevetted with plank, in some places\\n20 feet hieh. extended along the posi-\\ntion for nearly a mile, on the brink of\\nan old coulee or saw mill race. About\\n3200 Americans took part in the fight,\\nincluding a detachment of Lafitte s\\npirates, who manned the suns. A\\ntradition says that these men made\\nan esplanade of cotton bales\\nto support their guns, which would\\notherwise have sunk hub-deep in the\\noozv earth. The British army under\\nGeneral Pakenham numbered about\\n12.000 men. The attack was made at\\ndawn, and lasted till 8 o clock, when\\nthe enemy was finally repulsed, having\\nlost nearlv 3000 men. among them Gen-", "height": "3394", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "29\\nerals Gibbs and Pakenham. The Ameri-\\ncans lost six men killed and seven\\nwounded.\\nGeneral Pakenham, after having\\nbeen mortally wounded on the field,\\nwas carried to the mansion house\\non what is now called the Corinne\\nplantation. This is now the property\\nof E. P. Fleitas. The gallant English-\\nman died here, and was buried beneath\\nan immense pecan tree near the house,\\nalong with Colonel Dale, of the Ninety-\\nthird Highlanders, and another officer.\\nThe tree still stands. The burial was\\nmade by a colored man named Wil-\\nliamson, who was accidentally drowned\\nabout eight years ago.\\nDuring the battle General Jack-\\neon, the American commander, made\\nhis headquarters in the residence\\nof Wm. M. Montgomery, a rich mer-\\nchant, who owned a suburban villa on\\nthe Rodriguez plantation. This build-\\ning subsequently passed into the hands\\nof Dr. Bonzano, and is commonly\\nknown to-day as the Bonzano house.\\nIt is now owned and occupied by Mr.\\nRene Beauregard, a son of the famous\\nconfederate general. The original struct-\\nure was partially destroyed by fire a\\nyear or two ago, but has been carefully\\nrestored. It was here that the Marquis\\nde Lafayette was first received when he\\nvisited New Orleans, early in the cen-\\ntury. He landed in a small boat imme-\\ndiately in front of the house, and was\\nreceived in a room on the second floor\\nby the then governor, mayor and prin-\\ncipal officials.\\nCHALMETTE MONUMENT\\nis situated in the grounds adjoining\\nthe Bonzano place. The spot is now\\nunder the care of the Association of\\nthe Daughters of 1776-1812. The erec-\\ntion of the monument was begun\\nbetween 1830 and 1840, under an\\nappropriates from the State. When\\nthe shaft reached a height of about 60\\nfeet the money was exhausted, and the\\nwork abandoned. Nothing hag been\\ndone to complete the monument, though\\nthe society in whose charge it is now\\nhas made a number of improvements\\nin the vicinity. A spiral staircase in\\ngood repair is within the shaft. The\\nvisitor may ascend to the top and\\ntkenee command an excellent view of\\nthe surrounding country.\\nA short distance further down wit.\\nbe found the beautiful", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "30\\nCHALMETTE CEMETERY.\\nThe United States purchased, in 1865,\\na portion of the old battle field and\\nconverted it into this lovely burial\\nplace. The grounds, covered with hun-\\ndreds of little white marble head-stones,\\neach marking the grave of some un-\\nknown soldier killed in the Civil War,\\nare laid out in a tasteful manner, with\\nshelled walks and avenues of trees.\\nThe cemetery was laid out by Captain\\nBernard. There are 12,192 graves, of\\nwhich 6913 are classed as known\\nand 5279 as unknown. The military\\nmonument in the center was built by\\nthe Jos. A. Mower Post No. 1, G. A.\\nR., in 1883. On Decoration day (May\\n30) the local posts of the Grand Army\\nof the Republic unite to hold memorial\\nservices on this spot. The earth-works\\noutside of the walls of the cemetery\\nwere erected by the Confederates dur-\\ning the Civil War as part of the de-\\nfenses of the city.\\nAbout a mile below the cemetery\\nthose interested in New Orleans term-\\ninal facilities will find the extensive\\nplants of the New Orleans and Western\\nRailroad, known locally as Port Chal-\\nmette. Its name is taken from the\\nbattle field just above. Port Chalmette\\ncontains the most elaborate terminal\\nfacilities in the city. It was\\nbuilt in 1895 by a syndicate of\\nEnglish and American capitalists.\\nThe elevators, warehouses and com-\\npresses cover an area of nearly\\na square mile. The wharves are con-\\nstructed in the most modern style and\\nhave a frontage on the river of nearly\\na mile. They are covered with sheds\\nand afford ample accommodations for\\nshipping, either receiving or discharg-\\ning cargoes. The place represents an\\ninvestment of about $2,000,000. It\\npromises to be the nucleus around\\nwhich will spring up a thriving indus-\\ntrial town. The company employs here\\nabout 2500 men. The compresses are\\nthe biggp\u00c2\u00abt in the south. Tb^ visitor\\nwill be interested in the system of rail-\\nways operated within the limits of the\\nport. The motive power is compressed\\nair. Port Chalmette may be reach-\\ned by the train from the Shell Beach\\nRailroad Depot, on St. Claude and\\nElysian Fields.\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nVARIOUS SIGHTS IN VARIOUS PLACES.\\nBourbon street is the continuation of\\nCarondelet Though not so character-\\nistic as Chartres and Royal, it is still\\ninteresting to the visitor. At the south-\\neastern corner of Bienville and Bour-\\nbon is the\\nOLD ABSINTHE ROOM.\\nit dates from the year 1798, and has\\nbeen doing business since 1826. The in-\\nterior is exceedingly quaint, the low\\nceiling being supported upon pillars,\\nupon which rest one gigantic beam of\\nsquared timber. Near the corner of\\nToulouse stands the\\nFRENCH OPERA HOUSE.\\nIt is an immense structure, three\\nstories high. The ground plan is very\\nlike that of a gridiron. It was built in\\n1860 from a design by Gallier, a cele-\\nbrated architect. The central part is\\nthe theatre proper, or la salle. as it\\n5s technically termed. There are small\\ncourtyards on either side, and, on the\\noutside, wings occupied by dressing-\\nrooms and administration offices. The\\noffice of the comptrolleur is at the\\nfoot of the double staircase. Here\\ntickets should be purchased. The au-\\nditorium is oval-shaped, thus giving it\\nextraordinary breadth. It seats about\\n2800 persons. There are four\\ntiers, each of which retains its peculiar\\nFrench name: for instance, the dress\\ncircle is called les loges: the balcony,\\nles secondes; while the gallery is\\npopularly known as le paradis. The\\nboxes on the parquet floor are termed\\nbaignoires grillees.\\nThe origin of the Opera in New Or-\\nleans is exceedingly curious and inter-\\nesting. It seems that between 1808 and\\n1811 there were two French theatres\\nin successful operation, one in St.\\nPeter street and onf in Royal street.\\nAt the latter neriori John Dav a\\nFrench emigre from St. Domingo, built\\nthe Orleans Theatre on the snuare be-\\nhind the French Cathedral. Davis en-", "height": "3394", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "31\\ngaged in Paris, in 1813, the first French\\nOpera Company ever brought to this\\ncountry, and it produced many of the\\ngreat classics of the operatic stage for\\nthe first time in America. The enter-\\nprise proved highly successful, and ou\\nthe death of Davis his son assumed\\nthe management, and most ably con-\\nducted it for twenty-two years. Under\\nhis management Fanny Ellsler and\\nDamoreau were brought to New Or-\\nleans. In those days the troupe usually\\nwent from New Orleans to New York.\\nIn 1859 Charles Boudousquie, who bad\\nsucceeded Pierre Davis as manager,\\nfound himself unable to renew his lease\\nof the Orleans Theatre. He was accord-\\ningly forced to form a stock company,\\nby whom the present splendid building\\nwas erected. It is impossible in this\\nplace to review, even briefly, the his-\\ntory of the French Opera House. Here\\nAdelina Patti made her debut in Le\\nPardon de Ploermel. Here, too, were\\nheard the dying notes of another great\\nItalian artist, Mme. Frezzolini. Etelka\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Gerster sang here; so did Fursch-Madi.\\nDevoyod, Dumestre, Delabranche, Am-\\nbre, Pical, Michet and Orlius. During\\nthe Civil War, of course, the opera\\nwas suspended. After peace was re-\\nstored, the management was intrusted\\nto Marceline Alhaiza, but his adminis-\\ntration was exceedingly unfortunate.\\nThe enterprise was then undertaken\\nby a brother of the deceased, who at-\\ntempted the revival of the opera in\\n1868. The attempt proving unsuccess-\\nful, an Opera House Association of\\nleading capitalists was formed. Cala-\\nbresi was engaged at a high salary to\\nmanage the opera, but the artists he\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2employed, with a few exceptions, such\\nas Michot. Castlemary and Dumestre,\\nproved lamentably incapable. After two\\nseasons the association was forced to\\ngo into liquidation. The following sea-\\nson (1871-72) Placide Canonge. a dis-\\ntinguished Creole journalist and play-\\nwright, obtained a lease of the Opera\\nHouse and re-established the old\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0brilliant traditions of this temple of\\nthe lyric art. Other managers who.\\nwith various fortunes, have essayed\\nthe difficult task of managing the opera\\nwere Durieu, Mauge and Charley. The\\nhouse contains many curiosities, in-\\ncluding magnificent collections of music\\nin MS., and scenery, among others the\\noriginal sets for Aida, as produced\\nin Egypt before the Empress Eugenie.\\nNew Orleans is the only city in Amer-\\nica which has maintained uniformly an\\noperatic troupe, and. in view of the\\nmany premieres which have been given\\nhere\u00e2\u0080\u0094 of which, to cite a single ex-\\nample. Keyer s Sigurd is a striking\\ninstance\u00e2\u0080\u0094 may justly lay claim to be\\nthe home of music in America. There\\nis a handsome foyer, capable of hold-\\ning 1000 persons, on the second floor.\\nThe great carnival balls take place in\\nthis building.\\nAt the corner of Orleans and Bour-\\nbon used to stand a place of amuse-\\nment known as Faranta s Theatre.\\nThe spot is now occupied by an asylum\\nfor colored orphans, cared for by the\\ncolored Sisters of the Holy Family.\\nThree blocks farther down, on\\nthe corner of St. Philip and Bour-\\nbon stood the famous smithy of the\\nbrothers Lafitte. Just around the cor-\\nner from Bourbon, at No. 817, is the\\nConvent of the Salesian Missionary\\nSisters, one of the many religious or-\\nders in which New Orleans abounds.\\nThey conduct a free missionary school\\nfor the elevation of Italian emigrants.\\nNORTH RAMPART STREET.\\nThe visitor can return through some\\nof the curious side streets abounding\\nin this vicinity to Canal, and proceed\\nthence out to Rampart street. This is\\na handsome avenue, with a neutral\\nground shaded by trees. At the corner\\nof Customhouse and Rampart, the Eye,\\nEar, Nose and Throat Hospital will be\\nobserved. At No. 224 Rampart is the\\nhandsome home of the Young Men s\\nGymnastic Club. Admission is by card.\\nThe club possesses very elaborate\\nmarble baths, swimming tanks and a\\nmagnificent gymnasium. The little\\nChurch of St. Antony of Padua stands\\non the corner of Rampart and Conti.\\nIt was built in Pere Antoine s day as\\na Mortuary Chapel, and from it Cath-\\nolics buried their dead. The shrine\\nof St. Bartholomew here is very\\nfamous, and about it are placed\\nmany offerings from those whose\\nprayers have been answered. Among\\nthem are waxen hands, arms, legs,\\nfeet, and under a glass case is the\\nhead of a young boy. as large as life\\nand neatly colored. The statue of St.\\nBartholomew, carrying his head and\\nskin in his hands, is on one of the side\\naltars. The frescoing is modern, hav-\\ning been executed by an Italian artist\\nwithin the last two years.", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "32\\nThe ornate two-storied brick struct-\\nure between Dumaine and St. Philip\\nis the Hall of the Union Francaise.\\nThe celebrated French Literary So-\\nciety, D Athenee Louisianaise, holds\\nits meetings here. The large open\\narea on the side of Rampart, between\\nSt. Peter and St. Ann, is\\nCONGO SQUARE.\\nThe spot was first occupied by Fort\\nSt. Ferdinand. After the fort disap-\\npeared it became a favorite resort of\\nthe negroes. During slave times a\\ncannon stood in the center of the\\nsquare, and was fired every night at 9\\no clock, after which any negro found\\non the streets without his master was\\narrested. In those days a vast green\\nexpanse stretched beyond the square,\\nand the negroes termed it the Congo\\nPlains and held their bamboulas upon\\nit. Until within comparatively recent\\nyears these strange African dances\\nwere given, and the African songs sung,\\nby people who had once been slaves.\\nOn Sunday afternoons the bamboula\\ndancers were summoned to a wood-\\nyard on Dumaine street by a sort of\\ndrum-roll, made by rattling the ends\\nof two huge bones upon the head of an\\nempty cask. The male dancers fastened\\nbits of tinkling metal or tin rattles\\nabout their ankles, like strings of copper\\ngrisgris worn by the natives of the\\nSoudan. After the Congo Plains were\\nbuilt up the name was restricted to\\nthe square. Of late years the city has.\\nby ordinance, renamed the park Beau-\\nregard Square. The old name, how-\\never, remains in common use. Readers\\nof Cable s romances will remember\\nthat it was in Congo Square that Bras-\\nCoupe was lassoed while engaged in\\na bamboula. and that Captain Jean\\nGrandissfme lay hiding\u00e2\u0080\u0094 secure in his\\nwhite man s skin to foil the witch-\\ncraft of Clemence, and that Posson\\nJone made his eventful attack on Cay-\\netano s circus. There still live in the\\nneighborhood of the square many for-\\ntune-tellew, voudoux, etc.\\nThe visitor should cross to Or-\\nleans street. where, just behind\\nthe square, used to stand the Parish\\nPrison. This building occupied a whole\\nsquare, but was recently removed^ to\\nmake way for a sewage plant, which,\\nhowever, has not yet been erected. The\\nprison was the scene of the t^lebreted\\nMAFIA LYNCHING,\\non March 14, 1891, when two Italians\\nwere hung to nearby lamp posts, and\\neight others were shot in various parts\\nof the building. These men were sus-\\npected of having murdered the chief\\nof police of the city on Oct. 15, 1890.\\nThe lynching led to international com-\\nplications, and resulted in the payment\\nby the United States of heavy damages\\nto the relatives of the slaughtered\\nmen. The Mafia, it should be said, is\\na secret society io which Italians, Corgi-\\ncans and Sicilians belong. The Treme\\nMarket, at the further end of Orleans\\nstreet, is well worth visiting.\\nAnother point of interest easily reach-\\ned from Congo Square is the\\nOLD BASIN.\\nSt. Claude street, which traverses\\nthe side of Congo Square parallel with\\nRampart, will take the visitor to Caron-\\ndelet Walk. The canal terminus is\\nlarge and square, hence the name of\\nBasin. The charcoal schooners and\\noyster luggers discharge their cargoes\\nhere. The scene is exceedingly curious\\nand has often been sketched by ar-\\ntists. The canal empties at Hagan\\navenue into the Bayou St. John, by\\nwhich access may be had to Lake Pont-\\nchartrain at Spanish Fort.\\nReturning to Congo Square, and\\ncrossing to St. Ann, the visitor will\\nfind on the latter thoroughfare, be-\\ntween Rampart and Burgundy, the\\nhome of\\nMARIE LAVEAU.\\nIt is a queer, tumbled-down, one-story\\nstructure, with a roof even more deep-\\nly-drooping than Mme. John s. Marie\\nwas the Voudou Queen, but, before\\nher death, abandoned her dignity and\\nbecame intensely religious. She used\\nto gather from the streets the young\\nchildren whom no one else laid any\\nclaim to and give them the shelter of\\nher charitable roof. Marie was the\\nlast of the Voudou Queens, and after\\nher death the direction of the society\\nwas assumed by Jean Mallarne, th\\nGongre Noir. Jean was succeeded\\nby Pedro, Prince of Darkness, the\\npresent incumbent. The Voudous are\\nneither so numerous nor so much re-\\nspected now as formerly; but one hears\\noccasionally that St. John s Eve has\\nbeen celebrated in the swamps along\\nLake Pontohartrain with all the usuaI", "height": "3394", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "33\\nrites. It is practically impossible for\\na stranger to obtain admission to the\\ncelebration, which is always wrapped\\nin dense mystery.\\nThe Convent of the\\nDISCALCED CARMELITES\\nis situated on the northeast corner of\\nRampart and Barracks. There are only\\nfour convents of this order in America.\\nThe rule of the Carmelites Is\\nextremely rigid. They dress in the\\ncoarsest serge and fare in the\\nsimplest manner. Mass is said every\\nmorning at 7 o clock in the chapel,\\nto which the public is admitted. The\\naltar is a double one, and extends into\\nthe nuns chapel, where the sisters are.\\nStrangers and devotees kneeling in the\\nouter chapel experience a peculiar sen-\\nsation when these invisible women\\nehant the service. They chant entirely\\non one note.\\nThe handsome white building at the\\ncorner of Rampart and Esplanade is\\nSt. Aloysius School. Immediately be-\\nhind, on the corner of Rampart and\\nKerlerec, is\\nPOLAR STAR HALL,\\nthe home of a Masonic Lodge, which\\ncelebrated the one hundredth anniver-\\nsary of it6 organization several years\\nago. At No. 3506 i6 the.Female Orphan\\nAsylum of the Immaculate Conception.\\nThere is a handsome house in the\\nsquare bounded by Rampart, Clouet,\\nLouisa and Urquhart streets. It was\\nthe home of Pepe Llula, the noted\\nduellist. One room is full of trophies\\nof his battles. His daughter lives there\\nnow.\\nFRONT AND ESPLANADE.\\nThe best way to see the river front is,\\nA course, to walk along the levee.\\nIt is a long walk, however. The visitor\\nwill, therefore, do well to take the\\nelectric car marked Esplanade and\\nFrench Market on Canal street, in\\nfront of the United States Custom-\\nhouse. This car turns down North\\nPeters street to Esplanade, and runs\\nout Esplanade to the Bayou St. John.\\nThe attention of the visitor will be\\nfirst attracted by the long railroad\\nfreight sheds and the buildings of the\\nSugar Refineries. The car passes the\\nriver front of Jackson Square, and at\\nSt. Ann street reaches the\\nSUGAR EXCHANGE.", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "34\\nINDIANS.\\nFRFNCH MARKET.\\nThere is perhaps do more remarkable\\nand characteristic spot in New Orleans.\\nThe market is open daily between 5\\nand 12 o clock m.. but Sunday morn-\\ning, between 8 and 9 o clock, is\\nthe best time at which to visit it. Near\\nthe head of the market, in the outside\\naisle, and also at the end of the vege-\\ntable market, will be found the cele-\\nbrated coffee stands, where, for 10", "height": "3394", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": ")5\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2cents, may be obtained, at all hours,\\nthe delicious Creole coffee and a pecu-\\nliar, wafer-like pastry, called coffee-\\ncake. The French Market compre-\\nhends four distinct and separate divi-\\nsions, called, respectively, the meat,\\nfruit, vegetable and fish markets.\\nBetween the divisions are sev-\\neral small open spaces, occupied\\nby Indians, fruit peddlers, tinners,\\nand notion dealers. As the pop-\\nulation of New Orleans is very\\nleans, which was destroyed in 1723 by\\na hurricane. The butchers are princi-\\npally Gascons. The open space between\\nthe meat and bazar markets is usually\\noccupied by the Indians, and here may\\nbe purchased the compound called\\nfile and used by Creole cooks to\\nthicken gumbo. Here also the negresses\\noffer for sale pralines, pain-patate\\nand callas, the latter a species of soft\\ndoughnuts made of rice and flour. The\\nbazar market is of iron, and was erect-\\nSELLA CHEAP.\\nmuch mixed a great many nationalities\\nare seen and a great many different\\nlanguages are audible among ih j\\ncrowds. The Indians are remnants of\\nthe Chocktaw tribes, and sell herbs,\\nplants and roots, like the sassafras.\\nThe meat market was erected in 1813\\nat a cost of $30,000, on the spot of the\\nfirst market ever erected in New Or-\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2(1 about twenty-four years ago. Just\\nacross the street is a triangular market\\ndevoted to fruit and poukry. The\\ngreat vegetable market comes next.\\nI lii fish market is constructed of iron\\nand glass. The variety of fish offered\\nEor sale is often a subject of remark\\namong visitors. The vendors here are\\nSpanish or Italians. Near the end of\\nthe fish market is the game market.", "height": "3404", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "36\\nNot far from the market, on Deca- is called the Picayune Tier, or\\ntur, between St. Phillip and Dumaiue, lugger landing. The Dago fishermen\\nis Vendetta Alley. from the lower coast land their cargoes\\nThe levee in front of the fish market of oranges and oysters here.\\nTIN-A-FIX:", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "37\\nUNITED STATES MINT.\\nIt occupies the site of the old Fort\\nSt. Charles. The building cost $1S2,000.\\nThe Mint is capable of turning out\\nJackson stood on the rampart of Fort\\nSt. Charles to review his army as it\\nmarched past on its way to meet the\\nBritish at Chalmette. In 1862 Wil-\\nliam Mumford was hung in front of\\n$5,000,000 per month. Admission to\\nthe mint is easily effected, and a polite\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0official is always ready to show the\\nvisitor through the various depart-\\nments. In December, 1814. General\\nthe Mint, by order of General Benj.\\nF. Butler, for tearing down the United\\nStates dag from the roof of the build-\\ning when the Union army took posses-\\nsion of the city.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "38\\nTHE OLD SLAVE QUARTERS,\\nwhere slaves were brought from all\\nsections of the southern states, but\\nprincipally from Virginia and Mary-\\nland, to be sold at auction in New\\nOrleans, were located at the corners\\nriver side of Ghartres street; from\\nEsplanade to Peace street; on the side\\ntowards the woods in the same bound-\\nary, stood a long row of frame build-\\nings (two-story), with iron balconie*\\nreaching to the banquette, and a three-\\nstory kitchen with little pigeon-hole\\nwindows guarded in by iron bars. Both\\nGARBAGE ANGELS\\nof Chartres and Esplanade streets. The\\nlarge brick building, now one of the\\nfinest residences on the avenue, was\\nerected on the site of the long row of\\nbrick buildings which stood on the\\nof these sides of Chartres street were\\nknown as the slave quarters, and mill-\\nions of dollars changed hands in this-\\nslave traffic.\\nAt the northeast corner of Esplanade\\nand Chartres street it may be interest-", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "ing to know that Joseph Bruin, a fa-\\nmous trader of old days, had his slave\\nquarters, and on the adjoining side of\\nEsplanade and Chartres streets the\\ngreat trader Wilson had his slave quar-\\nters in the large frame building men-\\ntioned; adjoining this wece the slave\\nquarters of a man named Smith, who\\nwas a large dealer. In several small\\nframe houses down Chartres street, in\\nthe same section, negroes w re kept for\\nsale. The trade in all these quarters\\nwas very large, and buyers preferred\\nthe negroes kept by these traders, a*\\nthey were of a better class for the field\\nor the house than those sold elsewhere\\nin the states between Louisiana and\\nMaryland and Virginia. Beard\\nMay were the slave auctioneers of\\nthose days and did a thriving business.\\nThey were famous auctioneers and\\nwere known the south over.\\nThe handsome brick church on the\\nlower side of Esplanade, between\\nMarais and Villere, is St. Anna s Epis-\\ncopal Church. The house (old) No. 255\\nEsplanade, near Derbigny, is that in\\nwhich General P. G. T. Beauregard\\ndied. The small triangle contain-\\ning a terracotta fountain, on Es-\\nplanade, between Miro and Tonti, is\\nGayarre Place, so named from the dis-\\ntinguished historian of Louisiana. The\\nGreek Church of the Holy Trinity is\\non a street known both as Del-\\nhonrle and Dorgenois, not far from\\nEsplanade. Services are not held regu-\\nlarly. The ornaments on the altar were\\npresented by the late Empress of\\nRussia.\\nlp::\\n-e^ J\\nAl r^vo\\nmu))WMHhuW u bWh\\niDJJUiiWPJ\\n1\\ni\\nITOW^ l\u00e2\u0080\u009e, ^Pt W^U^\\nLOUISIANA JOCKEY CLUB,\\nThe Jockey Club is on Esplanade,\\nnear Bayou Bridge. It occupies a whol\u00c2\u00ab\\nsquare on the lower side of the street\\nIt is one of the most attractive spots\\nin the city. The mansion was formerly\\nthe residence of a Mr. Luling. The\\nhouse is in the French style, with two\\nstories and side wings on a terrace.\\nIn one of the wings is a bowling alley.\\nThe house stands in the midst of gar-\\ndens, which, on gala occasions, are illu-\\nminated with Chinese lanterns and elec-\\ntric lights, presenting a scene of ex-\\nquisite and enchanting beauty. The\\nclub is also the home of the Country\\nClub, an exclusive bicycle club, mem-\\nbership in which is restricted to mem-\\nbers of the Jockey Club. Admission is\\nby card from members.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "40\\nIn the rear, and a little to one side\\nof the Jockey Club, are the Fair\\nGrounds. These contain a race\\ncourse, and grand stand capable\\nof seating 8000 people. Horse\\nracing, under the auspices of\\nthe Louisiana Jockey Club, takes\\nplace here annually, there being usual-\\nly a winter meeting extending over\\n100 days, in which the best horses and\\nmost famous jockeys participate. The\\ncourse was formerly called the Gentilly\\nRace Course. During the season the\\nOrleans and the Esplanade cars both\\nrun directly to the course, depositing\\npassengers at the entrance. These cars\\nboth start on Canal street, near Clay\\nStatue. The race track is esteemed\\none of the best and fastest in the\\nUnited States.\\nThe cemetery adjoining the Jockey\\nClub grounds is the new St.\\nLouis Cemetery. Some of the\\ntomgs are very handsome. James\\nGallier and his wife, Marie, lie\\nbeneath a tombstone which records the\\nmelancholy history of their deaths.\\nThey were drowned in 1866 in the\\nwreck of the steamer Evening Star.\\nGallier was a celebrated architect in\\nhis day. Other notable tombs are those\\nof the Menorguina Society, dating from\\n1850; the Young Men s Benevolent\\nSociety, from 1866. and the Slavonic\\nSociety, from 1876.\\nOn Bayou St. John. 300 yards\\nfrom Esplanade, will be found the\\nSoldiers Home, or Camp Nicholls, as\\nit is sometimes called. It derives the\\nlatter appellation from Ex-Governor F.\\nT. Nicholls, under whose administra-\\ntion it was founded as a retreat for\\nmaimed and disabled Confederates.\\nThe place is noted for the beauty of its\\ngardens.\\nCrossing the bayou by Bayou bridge\\nthe visitor has the agreeable conscious-\\nness of being in the immediate vicinity\\nof the spot where Bienville effected his\\nfirst landing on Louisiana soil. It is\\nnot possible to identify the spot exact-\\nly now. In 1718 Bienville, with some\\nfifty followers, landed from his voyage\\nacross Lake Pontchartrain and down\\nthe bayou. It is to be regretted that the\\nlocality was not commemorated, for\\nsurely it deserves to be marked by a\\nmonument.\\nThere are some curious shipyards\\nalong the bayou, one of which, at least,\\ndates from Spanish days. The hand-\\nsome oaks of Southern Park will be\\nnoticed. This is a place of resort where\\npicnics are often given on Sunday\\nevenings. The Louisiana Boat Club and\\nthe Crescent Boat Club have quarters\\non the bank, and hold an annual re-\\ngatta here. The walk hence to the\\nCITY PARK\\nis along Metairie Road, among mar-\\nket gardens and dairies. The dis-\\ntance is not more than six blocks.\\nThe park contains 160 acres, only a\\npart of which has yet been improved.\\nThe groves of live-oaks are greatly\\nadmired. They are draped in the gray\\nSpanish moss to which allusion is so\\noften made by Louisiana poets. The\\nlake was formed artificially by en-\\nlarging Bayou Sauvage, which former-\\nly ran through the park. Near the lower\\nextremity will be seen the tomb* of\\nAllard, of whose plantation this sec-,\\ntion was formerly a part. John Mc-\\nDonogh, the philanthropist, purchased\\nthe land and donated it to the city for\\npark purposes. The Oaks where the\\nduels were fought are the grove on\\nthe side of the park farthest removed\\nfrom the road. A thousand stories are\\ntold of the bloody encounters which\\ntranspired here. One of the most char-\\nacteristic is of Pene Llnla, a noted\\nfencing master of the olden time. It\\nhappened that New Orleans was all\\naflame with sympathy for the filibus-\\nters who had made an unsuccessful\\nattempt to free Cuba from the control\\nof Spain. Pepe was an ardent Spanish\\npartisan, and issued a manifesto, chal-\\nlenging all the- Cuban sympathizers.\\nMany of them took up the glove. Pepe\\nmet them, and. making iise of a thrust\\nfor which he was famous driving his\\ncoliohemard into the lung and giving\\nit a vicious twist there killed each\\nof his antagonists. The result was that\\nafter a while the Cubans refused to\\nmeet him.\\nThe visitor can return by taking the\\nmule car one of the few which still\\nrun in New Orleans\u00e2\u0080\u0094 up Metairie road\\nto Canal street, where he can either\\nspend an hour looking through the ceme-\\nteries or take the plectric car back to\\nthe center of the city.\\nELYSIAN FIELDS.\\nComparatively few find it worth\\nwhile to visit Flysian Fields for the\\nsake of the sights to be se =n there.\\nThe Levee and Barracks car. which", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "41\\nruns from Canal down North Peters\\nstreet, will take the visitor to the head\\nof the street. Here will be found the\\nPontchartrain Railroad Depot. It may\\ninterest the visitor to know that this\\nis the second oldest railroad in the\\ncountry, and that along its line were\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0erected the first freight platforms ever\\nused. It is a curious fact that in old\\ndays the cars had sails attached to\\nthem, like a boat, and when sufficient\\nsteam could not be generated the sails\\nwere used to propel the trains. This\\nreads like a fairy tale; but the story\\nwas vouched for by the late Judge\\nGayarre, the Notary Guyol and others.\\nThe road now runs along Elysian\\nFields and Gentilly Road to Milneburg.\\nThe visitor will do well to make the\\ntrip. On the way the train passes a\\ndrug store on the upper side of Es-\\nplanade, corner of Rampart. The build-\\nings look very modern now, but the\\nlower portion is of brick, and dates\\nback to the time of the Spanish domina-\\ntion. It was then the residence of one\\nof the Baratarian pirates, and it was\\nhere that Lafitte. the pirate, and his\\nmen often met. Smuggled goods were\\nkept here, to be sold to the old Creole\\nresidents as opportunity permitted.\\nWhen the old building was remodeled.\\na few years ago, many curious relics\\nwere unearthed, among them being\\nan ancient flint-lock pistol, on the\\nbarrel of which was, inlaid in silver\\nletters, the name Lafitte. Miss King,\\nin her charming volume. New Orleans\\nthe Place and the People, devotes\\na chapter to Lafitte and his men. His-\\ntory gives no certain account of his end.\\nHe disappeared from Louisana in the\\nearly part of the century, and there\\nare traditions in the quarter which\\naffirm that he served on board the ship\\nInconstant, which brought Napoleon\\nback from Elba. It is also said that\\nLafitte perished in a naval battle with\\nan American admiral whose grand-\\ndaughter resides in this city.\\nThe Shell Beach Railroad Depot will\\nbe noticed at the corner of Elysian\\nFields and St. Claude streets.\\nThe train stops at Gentilly Station.\\nThis name is corrupted from Chantilly,\\nwhich was the original designation of\\na village and road on the outskirts of\\nthe city. Nearby is an old Jewish\\nburying ground called the Hebrew\\nRest. Beyond will be seen scattered\\nmounds of earth. These are the re-\\nmains of fortifications erected in war-\\ntime by the Confederates to defend\\nthe rear of the city.\\nRP7ER FRONT.\\nIt only remains to be said that before\\nleaving: the French quarter the visitor\\nshould see the shipping and the sugar\\nsheds. The latter are between Custom-\\nhouse and St. Louis, on the levee. The\\nSugar Exchange, where the speculators\\nconduct many of those operations which\\nregulate the price throughout the\\ncountry, is on the corner of Front and\\nBienville.\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nNEW ORLEANS OF TO-DAY\\nTHE BEST WAY to see the Ameri-\\ncan quarter of New Orleans is from the\\nstreet cars. New Orleans has over 186\\nmiles of electric street railways. All\\nthese lines converge towards Canal\\nstreet, and the visitor may find\\nin that thoroughfare, within half a\\ndozen blocks, cars to any part of\\nthe town. Canal street is one of the\\nmost characteristic streets in the world.\\nIt divides New Orleans into two worlds,\\ntwo civilizations. It is the principal\\nbusiness thoroughfare of the city. It\\nbisects the city from the river north-\\nwest to the New Basin Canal. It Is\\n170 feet wide. The celebrated levees.\\nwith their vast stores of cotton, sugar,\\nand other products, lie at the head of\\nCanal street.\\nThe small, ornate wooden building on\\nthe river bank is the Algiers Ferry-\\nhouse. The ferries cross the river,\\nwhich is here about 2000 feet wide, at\\nshort intervals. The fare is 5 cents each\\nway. The ferry-house contains also\\nthe Harbor Police Station.\\nThe visitor will notice nearby the\\nhuge sugar refineries that, in the sea-\\nson, run day and night.\\nThe small triangular square at the\\nintersection of Canal, North Peters and\\nTchoupitoulas streets is called", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "-\u00e2\u0080\u009442\\nLIBERTY PLACE.\\nThe monument was completed in 1891,\\nand marks the spot where the cele-\\nbrated battle of the 14th of September,\\nbetween the Metropolitan Police and\\nthe citizens, took place. Hard fighting\\ntook place in all the streets around\\nabout and on the levee. The names on\\nthe monument are those of the citizens\\nwho fell in action.\\nThe Fruit Exchange is at the corner\\nof Tchoupitoulas and Ganal.\\nThe long low building just beyond\\nthe square is the passenger station of\\nthe Louisville and iNashville Railroad.\\nThe visitor will be impressed by the\\nsight of the huge granite\\nCUSTOMHOUSE,\\nwhich fronts on Canal, and occupies a\\nwhole square between North Peters\\nand Decatur street. The spot where\\nthe building now stands was formerly\\nthe site of the old Spanish aduana,\\nwhich then stood on the bank of the\\nriver. Constant accretions of soil have\\nextended the batture and pushed the\\nmighty stream further to the southeast.\\nThe present edifice was begun in 1S48,\\nafter plans made by A. T. Wood. The\\nmaterial is granite and the architecture\\na modified Egyptian. Over $4,000,000\\nhave been spent on the structure, which\\nis not yet entirely finished. In 1874\\nit was the headquarters of the Metro-\\npolitan Police, who were here be-\\nsieged by the citizens. The mag-\\nnificent entrance staircase of white\\nmarble is imitated from that in Kenil-\\nworth castle. On the second floor is\\na superb apartment, called the Marble\\nHall. It is said to be the finest busi-\\nness room in the world. It measures\\n125x95 feet, and is 54 feet high. There\\nare fourteen marble Corinthian columns\\n41 feet high, each of which cost $23,-\\n000. The columns stand upon attic\\nbases and the capitals vary slightly\\nfrom the strict principles of their order\\nto follow designs indicative of the pur-\\nposes of the room. At the top of each\\ncapital is a bas-relief of Juno and\\nanother of Mercury, and designs of cot-\\nton and tobacco plants. These are ar-\\nranged so that each faces its opposite-\\non every other column, and by looking\\nat four capitals from any direction all\\nthe designs may be comprehended at\\na glance. On the same floor, in the de-\\npartments overlooking Decatur street^\\nare the United States courtrooms. On\\napplication to the janitor access may\\nbe had to the roof by an easy stair-\\ncase in the right-hand corridor, near\\nthe elevator. From the roof may be\\nobtained one of the most satisfactory\\nviews of the city. Portions of the Cus-\\ntom-house were used during the Civil\\nWar as military prisons, and after the\\ncapture of the city by the Federals\\nmany Confederates were confined here.\\nThe visitor should see the monument\\nto Binville over one of the entrance*\\nto the Marble Hall. This is the only\\nmemorial in the United States to the\\nfounder of New Orleans. The building\\nmeasures 340 feet on Canal street by\\n207 fret on Decatur, and 81 feet from\\nthe sidewalk to the cornice around the\\nroof. The corner-stone was laid by\\nHenry Clay, in 1847. In building it\\ngreat difficulty was experienced in mak-\\ning the foundations secure, and an\\nenormous number of \u00e2\u0084\u00a2les were driven,\\nover which, according to an uncorrob-\\norated tradition, cotton bales were\\nplaced.\\nThere are a number of handsome\\nbuildings along Canal street. The\\nMorris Building, at the corner of Camp\\nand Canal, was one of the first of the\\nmodern office buildings to be erected\\nin New Orleans. It contains the offices\\nof the New Orleans Clearing-house.\\nOn the lower side of Canal are many\\ndry goods stores, full of pretty things,\\nand with windows that are unfailingly\\nattractive.\\nBetween Royal and Bourbon, on this\\nside of the street, are the Touro Build-\\nings. They were built in the second\\nquarter of the century and formed\\npart of the estate of the celebrated\\nphilanthropist, .Tudah Touro.\\nThe Jefferson Democratic Club is at\\nNo. 620 Canal street, near St. Charles.\\nMoreau s Restaurant, celebrated\\namong gourmets the world over, i\u00c2\u00bb\\nat No. 718 Canal, near Carondelet.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "CLAY STATUE.\\nHENRY CLAY STATUE\\nstands at the intersection of Canal.\\nSt. Charles and Royal streets. This is\\ncommonly regarded as the center of the\\ncity. The statue was erected in 1856.\\nIt is of bronze, 12 feet high and was\\nsculptured by Joel T. Hart, of Ken-\\ntucky. The inscription on the base was\\ncut by order of General Ben. Butler.\\nThe monument stood formerly on a\\nbase approached by five or six immense\\ncircular steps, and surrounded by an\\niron fence. The base was remodeled in\\n1893. Clay monument figures in the\\nannals of the city as the great gather-\\ning place of the people when bent on\\nbusiness of serious public import. The\\ngreat revolution of 1874 was precipi-\\ntated by a speech delivered at Clay\\nSiatue; and the lynching of the Mafia\\nmembers in 1891 resulted from tw\u00c2\u00ab\\naddresses pronounced in the same spot.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "44\\nSECTION OF INTERIOR, D. H. HOLMES STORE.\\nA time honored landmark in (anal st. is\\nthe mammoth emporium of 1). II. Holmes\\nand the Guide to New Orleans\\nwould not be complete without\\nsome reference to this ancient\\nestablishment, which, like a stanch\\nold oak, has withstood the storms\\nand changes that have swept\\nover the Southland for the last half-\\ncentury, growing stronger and more\\nbeautiful with the years, and, like the\\noak, stretching out its broad branches\\nuntil it now covers an area of fifteen\\ncity lots, and is not only the largest\\nstore in New Orleans, but the largest\\nemporium of its kind in the entire\\nSouthwest. Holmes Store, as it is\\npopularly known, dates back to a mem-", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "45\\norable day in April, 1842, when Mr.\\nT H. Holmes, a young and enter-\\nprising New Orleans merchant, opened\\nat No. 26 Chartres street a large dry\\ng\u00c2\u00bbods store, which at once grew in\\npopular favor. In 1849, following the\\ntide of progress which had broken\\nfrom the old Creole lines and trended\\nupwards, Mr. Holmes moved to the\\npresent site, No. 819 Canal street, and\\non this spot formed the nucleus of the\\npresent great emporium, which num-\\nbers 36 different departments, gives\\nemployment to over 800 men and\\nwomen, and has representatives in\\nevery city of note in the old world.\\nStrangers in New Orleans should not\\nfail to visit this establishment, which\\nis to New Orleans what Macy s is to\\nNew York, Marshall Field s to Chi-\\ncago, and Barr s to St. Louis. From\\nthe street one eann#t gather the faint-\\nest idea of the exquisite architectural\\nbeauty and arrangement within. With\\na true Southern appreciation of the\\nartistic, the effect of applying Gothic\\narchitecture to business purposes is ob-\\nserved in every department of in-\\nterior construction, and this pure vein\\nis not only unique, but gives the store\\nthe appearance of a beautifully decora-\\nted home.yin whose delightful environ-\\nment every comfort and convenience\\ncan be found, from the parlor to the\\nkitchen, from the boudoir to the\\nlibrary. The entire gamut of man s\\nwants in luxurious household appoint-\\nments and personal comfort i* struck\\nin the quaint, cross-shaped interior,\\nwhich stretches from Canal to Custom-\\nhouse street, and across the square\\nfrom Dauphine to Bourbon. These\\nfour main aisles converge to a common\\ncenter, and. looking towards Dauphine\\nstreet, one gets n splendid view of\\nwhat is considered the finest silk room\\nin the United States. Sumptuous par-\\nlors and reception rooms are fitted up\\nfor the accommodation of visitors, and\\nall are welcome to come and rest; to\\nleave bundles and have them checked\\nwithout charge; to make shopping ar-\\nrangements, or to come and go at their\\nown convenience.\\nA half-century in Canal street is a\\nrecord of which the veteran establish-\\nment is justly proud. Holmes store\\nhas seen all the big stores which were\\nafr the zenith of power when it en-\\ntered Canal street pass out of exist-\\nence, and, of all which were the pride\\nand glory of the old days, it alone re-\\nmains to tell the tale. It has wit-\\nnessed the birth of all the mammoth\\nemporiums which now make the street\\nthe great cosmopolitan thoroughfare of\\nthis delightful city. The most inter-\\nesting and beautiful memories cluster\\nabout its ancient walls. Within its\\nparlors almost every Queen of the\\nCarnival for the past twenty-five years,\\nand nearly every Queen of Comus since\\nthe inauguration of the New Orleans\\nCarnival, have stood and donned for\\nthe first time the magnificent robes\\nwhich dazzled the eyes of the multi-\\ntude on Mardi Gras night. What se-\\ncrets those walls could divulge from\\nyear to year of prospective queens and\\nmaids of honor and duchesses of one\\nnight s reign! But the old store has\\nkept the confidences of its court, and\\nnever once has a name been betrayed\\nere the eventful Carnival night. For\\nupwards of fifty years the white\\nbaptismal robes and first communion\\ngowns and bridal robes and ball\\ndresses aye, even the mourning\\nrobes of half No\\\\^ Orleans\u00e2\u0080\u0094 have\\npassed from its center. The old\\nstore has heard all the songs\\nand stories of those who laughed and\\nthose who sighed, of those who crossed\\nits threshold when life was young\\nand was beautiful, and who came\\nagain when age had left its furrows\\non their snow-crowned brows. And\\nso it stands, a trusted landmark that\\nhas seen the rise and the fall of many,\\nand which bids fair, from present indi-\\ncations, to stand fifty years hence a\\nliving eyewitness and exemplification\\nof the sturdy growth and honorable\\nprogress of New Orleans.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "The handsome building on the corner\\nof Carondelet and Canal, n 6w occupied\\nby the Pickwick Hotel, was bui .t by\\nthe Pickwick Club, and was the dom-\\nicile of that organization until recently,\\nwhen it was partly burned. The club\\nThe Pickwick Club is located\\nir- a handsome three-storied struct-\\nure of lighr ilvied brick and stone,\\non the upper, side of Canal street,\\nbetween Dryades and Rampart. To\\nthis home the club removed in 1896.\\nPICKWICK CLUB.\\nthen sold it and found quarters in the\\nhandsome new building on Canal, neai\\nSouth Rampart.\\nAt No. 816 Canal street i* the Coin-\\nn ercial Club.\\nThis club dates from 1S57. Its\\nfirst president was General A. H.\\nGladden, of South Carolina, a veteran\\nof the Mexican War. who fell at Shiloh\\nwhile in command of the 1 irst Con-\\nfederate Regulars.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE BOSTON CLUB,\\nthi oldest institution of its kind iB\\niVpw Orleans,- occupies the building at\\nNo. 824 Canal, formerly owned by the\\nMercer family. The Boston was organ-\\nized in 1834 and named in honor of\\nnil old-fashioned game of cards erst-\\nA hile very popular among the solid\\nbusiness men of the community. During\\nthe Civil War some of the members in-\\ncurred the animosity of General Ben\\nButler, and his provost marshal seized\\nits quarters and disbanded the organ-\\nization. It was reorganized in 1867.\\nAmong its presidents were John Hew-\\nii ft, Temple Doswell, S. H. Kennedy,\\nPhoenix N. Wood, Victor Burthe, Gen-\\neral Dick Taylor and Dr. Samuel\\nChopin. It has entertained many dis-\\ntinguished guests, among them General\\nU. S. Grant and Jefferson Davis.\\nThe Chess, Checkers and Whist Club\\noccupies a handsome three-story build-\\ning at the corner of Canal and Baronne\\nstieets. The entrance is on Baronne.\\nIt was organized in 18SO, and among\\nthe celebrities who have played the king\\nof games within its hospitable walls\\nmay be mentioned Captain George H.\\nN aokenzie, Wilhelm Steinitz, Zuker-\\ntort and Morphy.\\nThe Continental Guards, a unique\\nmilitary organization, have Iheir head-\\nquarters at No. 0 6 Canal.\\nBetween Dauphine and Burgundy\\nstreets is the Grand Opera House. It\\nwas opened about 1871, by the late\\nLawrence TEtarrctt. Barrett remained\\nin charge of the theatre for a number\\nof years, appearing for the first time in\\nthat classical repertory which he after-\\nwards made famous. Subs\u00c2\u00b0oTiently the\\ntheatre was manasred by Mr*. Chan-\\nfrau and then by the late David Bid-\\nwell. It is a famous old Dlayhonee. and\\nmany a name immorta in dramatic\\nliterature lias appeared on the bill\\nboards in front of it. The staircase,\\nwhich consumes a space of almost 100\\nfe\u00c2\u00b0t, is one of the most bea ntiful in\\nany American theatre. The bouse be-\\nlongs to Lps Varieties Cub. which has\\nro.oms on the Canal street front.\\nAt Basin and Canal street its the\\nSpanish Vc*-t Railroad Depot.\\nAt No. 1023 Canal the Elks have a\\nclubroom.\\nOn Canal, between Vil ere and Rob-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ertson. stands the\\nHALF-WAY HOUSE,\\non rht New Basin Canal. The Half-\\nWay House is. so called because it is\\nvery nearly half-way between Clay\\nStatue and the West End. The Canal\\nstreet electric carsi stop here. This is\\nMetairie Ridge, one of the highest\\nparte of the city. The cemeteries here\\nare very picturesque. A full description\\nof them is given further on. The Sports-\\nman s Park, where baseball games take\\nplace in summer time, and football\\ngames in winter, adjoins the Firemen s\\nCemetery.\\nThe old Oakland Driving Park is on\\nthe shellroad adjoining the Metairie\\nCemetery. During a part of the season\\nthe trotting races take place here, but\\nthe park is now comparatively little\\nused. The shellroad which crosses the\\nBayou St. John on an iron bridge at the\\nHalfway House is a toll road and leads\\nto West end.\\nRICHARDSON MEMORIAL\\nMEDjCAL SCHOOL,\\nbuilt in 1894 and presented to the Tu-\\nla ne University by Mrs. Ida Slocum\\nRichardson, widow of the late Dr.\\nTobias G. Richardson. It is a\\nhandsome building of white stone,\\nequipped with every modern ap-\\npliance for the prosecution of\\nmedical investigation. It cost up-\\nwards of $100,000. A bronze tablet,\\nbearing a profile of Dr. Richardson,\\nornaments the wall of the entrance\\nhall. The museum is remarkably rich\\nin medical curiosities. The Medical\\nSchool is famous throughout the Union.\\nIt constitutes a part of the Tula no\\nUniversity. Tt was organized in 1834.\\nThe students have access to the Chari-\\nty Hospital.\\nOn the corner of Tfobertson. diagonal-\\nly ooposite the Richardson Memorial,\\nis the medical school conducted under\\ntho auspices of the New Orleans Uni-\\nversity for coiored youths.\\nStraight University occupies a whole\\nsquare on Canal street, between Tonti\\nand Rochcblave. Tt is fully equipped\\nfor the higher education of its matric-\\nulates.\\nOnnal street in this vicinity is lined\\nwith residences, many of them embow-\\nered in trees and vines.\\nTh- pretty little Church of the\\nSacred Heart of Jesus, at the eorner of\\nCanal and Lonoz. was built entirely at\\nthe expense of one philanthropic Htizen\\nof this city, the late Mr. T A. O Brien.\\nCanal street terminates at the", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "48\\nTURANE AVENUE.\\nThe Tulane avenue car, taken on\\nCanal street, turns into Ranipart, and\\nthence into Tulane avenue, at the in-\\ntersection of Rampart and Common\\nstreets. This street is finely paved)\\nand is gradually growing in favor as a\\nresidence section. At the corner of\\nBasin and Tulane stands the new", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "49\\nCOURTHOUSE AND JAIL BUILD-\\nINGS.\\nThey eecupy a whole square and were\\nerected between 1893 and 1895, at a\\ncost of about $350,000. The criminal\\neonrts are on the second floor, over-\\nlooking Common street. On the lower\\nfloor will be found the office of the\\nChief of Police, the First Recorder s\\nis on Gravier street. Permis-\\nsion must be obtained from the\\nCriminal Sheriff (whose office is in the\\nbuilding) to enter the jail. The ex-\\necutions take place in the large payed\\ncourtyard in the angle formed by Basin\\nand Gravier streets. The newness of\\nthe place precludes anything curious\\nor romantic about the building; but tht-\\nPARISH PRISON A.\\\\:) NEW CRIMINAL COUliT HOUSE.\\nCourt and various other administrative\\noffices. The rest of ilm square is oc-\\ncupied by the Parish .tail. A high brick\\nwall surrounds this portion. A criminal\\naccused of a capital crime enters th i\\ninstitution at the time of his first ar-\\nrest, and, if convicted, never leaves it\\ntill after his sentence or execu-\\ntion. The entrance to the jail\\nhistory of the former jail (located on\\nOrleans street, near Congo Square)\\nwas full of romance and horror.\\nThe white building on the corner\\nof Common and Liberty it the New\\nOreans Polyclinic.\\nBetween Locust and Howard will\\nt e seen the long facade of the", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "50\\nCHARITY HOSPITAL.\\nIt is one of the oldest charitable in-\\nstitutions in America. The first Char-\\nsettlement in Biloxi, and transferred\\nto New Orleans, with the seat of Gov-\\nernment, in 1723. In 1727 seven Ur-\\nI\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I\\no\\n03\\nity Hospital in Louisiana was founded\\nin 1721, by Bienville, at the French\\nsuline nuns tame from France to take\\ncharge of the household management", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "51\\nand nursing. The hospital adjoined the\\nold Ursuline Convent in Chartres\\nstreet. In 1737 Jean Louis, a sailor,\\nIn gratitude for the tender nursing of\\nthe TJrsulines, left 10,000 livres for\\nthe founding of a Charity Hospital.\\nThe building was erected outside the\\nmeans furnished through the liberality\\nof several citizens, supplemented by\\nState appropriations. It was modeled\\nafter the Shrewsbury Hospital, Eng-\\nland. The original building, 30 feet\\nlong by 50 deep, stands in the center\\nof the square, and was surrounded by\\nDEPARTMENT FOR TRAINED NURSES, CHARITY HOSPITAL-\\ntown limits, on the west side of Ham-\\npart, between Toulouse and St. Louis\\nstreets, and was the original of th\\npresent immense establishment in How-\\nard avenue.\\nThis institution should be visited.\\nIt9 erection was begun in 1S31. with\\nbeautifully-kept lawns and gardens.\\nMuch of the space is occupied by out-\\nbuildings, etc., added from time to\\ntime to the main structure. The pa-\\ntients were removed to this site in the\\nwinter of 1833-34. Tan. 6. 1834, over\\n63 years ago, the present household", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "52\\nmanagement, the Sisters of Charity,\\nwas installed, in response to an earnest\\nappeal from the Board of Adminis-\\ntrators. They are under the super-\\nvision of the house surgeon and his as-\\nsistants. The hospital is divided into\\nfour general departments, which are\\nsubdivided into 46 free wards. The\\nhospital is managed by a Board of\\nAdministrators appointed by the Gov-\\nernor. The first story contains the\\nsurgical and ophthalmic wards (two of\\nwhich are for colored patients), the\\nlaboratory, apothecary s office, mess-\\nroom and storerooms. In the right-\\nhand wing are the women s wards.\\nThe operating room of the hospital is\\ncalled The Miles Amphitheatre, in\\nmemory of the great surgeon. Dr. A.\\nB. Miles, who was for some years\\nhouse surgeon here. This amphitheatre\\nis most perfectly equipped and most\\nthoroughly fitted for its woak, beinsr\\nregarded among those competent to\\njudge as the best of its kind in the\\nUnited States, if not in the world.\\nThere are about 850 beds. The hospi-\\ntal handles about 7000 cases annually.\\nThere is an admirable system of free\\nclinics.\\nAcross the street, on the corner of\\nFreret, is the building occupied by the\\nAmbulance Corps and the resident\\nstudents of the medical corps.\\nAt No.- 1616 Tulane avenue, near\\nVil ere, is the Memorial Home for\\nYoung Women.\\nThere is a curious market at the\\ncorner of Tulane and Claiborne ave-\\nST. JOSEPH S CHURCH\\nIs the immense structure of brick on\\nthe corner of the n and South\\nDe rbigny street. It is noted as being\\nthe second largest church in the United\\nStates. The foundation stone was laid\\nby Archbishop Perche in December,\\n1871, and construction was immediate-\\nly undertaken. The church is Gothic-\\nRomanesque, 225 feet deep and 150\\nfeet high. The p .ans were drawn by\\nKeeley, of Brooklyn, N. Y. During\\nthe construction of the walls the foun-\\ndations settled, and the building was\\nalmost totally wrecked; but the de-\\nfects being overcome, the structure\\nwas competed, with the exception of\\nthe spires, which were to have been\\n200 feet high. The church was conse-\\ncrated in 1892 by Archbishop Jans-\\nsens. The bas-reliefs on the facade\\nare of Pius IX and Archbishop Perche\\nniches with statues and an iron cross-\\n25 feet high are among the exterior\\nornaments. The nave is 215 feet\\nlong and 95 feet high. The rose-win-\\ndow in the organ loft was made\\nin Munich, is 21 feet in diameter, and\\ncost $1800. It represents Christ and\\nthe twelve apostles. The church has a\\nseating capacity for 1000. The sta-\\ntions of the cross along the walls were\\ncarved in Munich.\\nTHE HOTEL DIEU,\\nan admirable institution, occupies the\\nM\u00c2\u00abck between Bolivar and Johnson.\\nThe entrance is on Tulane avenue.\\nIt is a private hospital, under the man-\\nagement of the Sisters of Charity, and\\nthe outgrowth of the old Hotel Diei*\\nestablished by the Ursulines in Bar-\\nracks and Old Levee streets in 1727.\\nThe curious iron structure at the cor-\\nner of Broad and Tulane avenue was,\\nuntil recently, used as the Boys\\nHouse of Refuge, a municipal\\ncorrectional institution. The build-\\ning was previousy asied by the\\nUnited States for a marine hos-\\npital. It is partially abandoned to\\nsquatters now, and is one of the most\\npicturesque ruins in the city.\\nAt the corner of Hagan and Tulane\\navenues is the Penthouse. Smallpox\\nHospital, etc. Formerly the Lepers\\nHospital was located here.\\nThe Garbage Works are not far\\naway. The refuse collected from the\\ncity is reduced by the Simonin process,\\nand fertilizers are manufactured from\\nthe oils thus extracted. The plant is\\nquite elaborate, and a visit is not unin-\\nteresting.\\nThe electric cars stop at Hagan ave-\\nnue. The visitor can return by Tu-\\nlane avenue to Rampart street. Leav-\\ning the car here, he may walk over the\\ncontinuation of the avenue, known as\\nCommon street, into the heart of town.\\nBy doing so he will be enabled to see\\nthe\\nCHINESE QUARTER.\\nlocated in the vicinity of Rampart and\\nCommon. The Chinese Mission, a\\nunique religious establishment, is at\\nNo. 215 Liberty.\\nThe visitor will pass on Common, be-\\ntween Dryades and Baronne, the-\\nbuildings formerly occupied by the\\nTulane University of Louisiana.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "53\\nTHE STATE LIBRARY\\nis in the building on the corner of Com-\\nmon and Dryades. It contains about\\n40,000 volumes, of which 5000 are in\\nforeign languages. It is open daily,\\nfrom 9 a. m. to 5 p. m., except on Sun-\\ndays. The structure in the mid-\\ndle of the block, with a por-\\ntico supported by Greek columns,\\nwas the home of the Medical School\\nfrom 1847 to 1893. Tulane Hall,\\naround the corner, on Dryades street,\\nbetween Common and Canal, is spoken\\nof further on.\\nBARONNE AND ST. CHARLES\\nAVENUE.\\nSt. Charles street extends from Canal\\nto Lee Circle. Above the circle the\\nstreet broadens out; there are\\ndouble drives and a neutral ground,\\nand it becomes SI. Charles avenue,\\nsaid to be one of the finest\\nstreets in America. The Carro lton\\nRailroad traverses the thoroughfare\\nfrom the circle to Carrollton avenue.\\nThis line was built in 1833. The cars\\nwere orginally double-deckers, and\\ndrawn by mules. Steam dummies were\\nonce used.\\nThe visitor should take the car on\\nCanal street. The visitor will see a\\nnumber of handsome buildings on Ba-\\nronne; near Canal is the Hotel Grune-\\nwald.\\nOn the other side of Baronne is the\\nJESUIT CHURCH.\\nThe present handsome structure oc-\\ncupies the site of an unpretentious\\nlittle chapel built in 1848. The church\\nis known officially as that of the Im-\\nmaculate Conception. It is in the\\nMoresque style of architecture, and\\nwas designed by Father Cambiaso, a\\nJesuit priest. The building is 133 feet\\nlong and 60 feet wide. The twin\\nsteeples have never been built. The\\ninterior is graceful, with galleries rest-\\ning on a series of horseshoe-shaped\\narches, supported by slender iron col-\\numns of Moorish design. The sub-\\njects represented in the small, round,\\nstained glass windows are the sta-\\ntions of the cross. The stained glass\\nin the lower windows represents scenes\\nfrom the history of the Jesuits. The\\nmain altar as of gold. and\\nwas executed in Paris, at a\\ncost of $14,000. A dome 180 feet\\nhigh rises above the altar; and in the\\nwall is a niche in which stands a\\nwhite marble statue of the Virgin\\nMary. This statue was ordered by\\nMarie Amelie, Queen of France, for\\nthe royal chapel in the Tuileries; but\\nthe revolution of 184S drove the Queen\\nfrom France, and caused the statue\\nto be offered for sale. It was purchased\\nby a Creo e gentleman and brought to\\nNew Orleans. At his death it was pur-\\nchased for this church at a cost of\\n$5000. Its original value was esti-\\nmated at $30,000. At night services\\nthe statue is surrounded with gas-\\nlights. In the chapel on the right is\\nthe altar of St. Joseph, and on the left\\nis the altar dedicated to the Sacred\\nHeart of Jesus. The bronze statue\\nof St. Peter, near the main entrance,\\nis modeled from the famous figure in\\nthe Church of St. Peter, in Rome.\\nIn the galleries are many beauti-\\nful memorial windows, among oth-\\ners one erected by the soldier-\\nJesuit, Father Hubert, to the sol-\\ndiers of the Confederacy. The church is\\nce ebrated for the excellence of its\\nmusic, and at high mass on Sundays,\\nat 10 a. m., the grandest compositions\\nof the greatest composers are rendered\\nin faultless style.\\nAdjoining the Church is the College\\nof the Immaculate Conception, con-\\nducted by the Jesuit fathers since its\\nestablish ment by them in 1848. The\\nschool contains a library, in which is\\none of the largest and best collections\\nof books on canon law in the United\\nStates, and the largest and best col-\\nlection of French authors in the United\\nStates.\\nAt No. 349 Baronne is the News-\\nboys Home.\\nTHE POYDRAS MARKET\\nis on the right-hand side of the car as it\\ngoes uptown. It occupies the central\\npart of Poydras street. Its name Is\\nderived from Julien Poydras, a famous\\nplanter of early days in New Orleans,\\nafter whom also the street is named.\\nThe market is very picturesque, and\\nis noted for the excellence of its meat.\\nThe coffee-stands here, though they can-\\nnot compare with those at the French\\nMarket, are much patronized. On\\nwceV days there may be seen stand-\\ning in the middle of the market rows\\nof co ored women waiting to be em-\\nployed to wash or scrub.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "54\\nLEE CIRCLE\\ncontains an imposing monument,\\ncrowned with a bronze statue of the\\ngreat Confederate General. The shaft\\nis 106 feet 8 inches high, and is com-\\nposed of white marble blocks, resting\\ngood likeness. The monument cosi\\n$4\u00c2\u00a3,000. Lee Circle was formerly-\\ncalled Tivoli Circle, and Howard ave-\\nnue was once called Triton walk, but\\nwas renamed in honor of a public-\\nspirited citizen.\\nThe quaint, old house on the circle,\\nbetween Howard and St. Charles, was\\nformerly the Peabody Normal School,\\nNEWSBOYS HOME.\\non cypress piles driven deep into the\\nearth and bolted together. The col-\\numn contains a staircase, and just\\nunder the statue there is an observa-\\ntory. The bronze was molded from\\na design by Doyle, and is esteemed a\\nkept by the late Prof. Robt. M. Lusher,\\nAt the corner of Calliope street\\nand St. Charles avenue is the\\nNorthern Methodic church, where\\nGeneral Grant worshiped while he\\nwas in New Orleans.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "ob\\nTHE YOUNG MEN S HEBREW\\nASSOCIATION\\noccupies the stately structure at the T. Keauregard\\ncorner of the avenue and Clio street.\\nNo. 1319 St. Charles was at one\\ntime the residence of General P. G.\\nThe building was erected in 1896, from\\nplans by the late D. Einsiedel. It con-\\ntains a public hall, called the Athe-\\nnaeum, where concerts and theatricals\\nare given.\\nThe handsome shingled house on the\\nright-hand side of the avenue, at the\\ncorner of Josephine, is the home of\\nMr. Harry Howard.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "56\\nAt the corner of Jackson and St.\\nCharles is the\\nHARMONY CLUB.\\nThe clubhouse is of white marble,\\nformed by merging together the\\nDeutscher Company and The Young\\nBachelors Club, about 1866. Its\\nmembership is mainly among the\\nIt\\no\\no\\nand was erected in 1896. The club wealthy and refined Hebrews of the\\nTirtually dates from 1862, having been city.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "57\\nOn Howard avenue, near Dryades,\\nis the Convalescents Home.\\nThe First German church is on St.\\nCharles, corner of St. Andrew.\\nThe beautiful Whitney residence is\\nat No. 2233 St. Charles.\\nThe mansion at No. 2508 St. Charles\\nIs not only a handsome specimen of a\\nSouthern home, but was the residence\\nof E. Richardson, the most celebrated\\ncotton merchant of his time. He was\\nknown as the Cotton King.\\nCHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL.\\nChrist Church is the handsome white\\nedifice at the corner of St. Charles\\navenue and Sixth street. The pioneer\\nProtestant congregation of the South-\\nwest is that of Christ Church. It was\\norganized in January, 1805. At that\\ndate the Protestant population of New\\nOrleans was so small, and belonged\\nto so many different denominations,\\nthat it was found impossible to build\\nchurches to accommodate each sect by\\nCHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL.\\nAt No. 2618 is the Hutchinson resi-\\ndence.\\nAt the corner of Third and St.\\nCharles avenue is the house where re-\\nsided John A. Morris, the man who be-\\ncame wealthy and famous as the head\\nof the Louisiana State Lottery Corn-\\npay.\\nBetween Fourth and Washington\\nstreets is the clubhouse of the South-\\nern Wheelmen. This club is only a\\nyear or two old, but has a wide circle\\nof members among the local cyclists.\\nitself. A meeting was, therefore, held,\\nand it was decided that a ehurch be\\nerected, and the determination to what\\ndenomination it should belong was \u00c2\u00bbet-\\ntled by lot. The Episcopalians won;\\nthe church was built, and all other Prot-\\nestant sects joined their communion.\\nThe church was originally attached to\\nthe diocese of New York. In 1847 the\\noriginal structure was found too small.\\nDr. Hawkes, the then pastor, caused\\na new one to be erected at the cornar\\nof Canal and Dauphine, from designs", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "58\\nby Gallier, and at a cost of $50,000.\\nThis church was sold in 1886, and the\\ncongregation removed to its present\\nbeautiful home. The church was built\\nfrom designs by Valk, and the chapel\\nand guildhouse from plans by Sully.\\nThe interior is very handsomely fres-\\ncoed. The stained-glass windows in-\\nclude memorials to the Slocomb family\\nand the late Bishop Galleher. The en-\\ntrance in the lower door of the tower\\ncontains old tablets of che former war-\\ndens, among them those to Richard\\nRelf, a warden for many years, who\\nwas a friend and executor of Daniel\\nClark, father of the famous Myra\\nClark Gaines. Christ Church is\\nthe pro-cathedral of the parish, and\\nthe dean acts as rector. The residence\\nof the Bishop, Rt. Rev. D. Ses-\\nsums, D. D., adjoins the cathedral,\\nwith which it communicates through\\nvine-grown cloisters. The dean s resi-\\ndence is in the rear of the church.\\nOn St. Charles, between Amelia and\\nFoucher streets, is the residence occu-\\npied by the late Durant da Ponta, a\\ndistinguished journalist and capitalist\\nof New Orleans.\\nAt No. 3607 is the gray stone New-\\nman residence.\\nSimon Hernsheim s home is at 3811\\nSt. Charles.\\nOn the corner of St. Charles and\\nGeneral Taylor is the Rayne Memorial\\nMethodist Church, a beautiful brick\\nbuilding.\\nTwo blocks beyond St. Charles, on\\nthe corner of General Taylor and\\nBaronne, is the New Orleans Road\\nClub, an organization of bicycle riders.\\nThe square fronting on St. Charles,\\nbetween Jena and Cadiz, is occupied\\nby the Academy of the Sacred Heart.\\nOn the avenue, between Duiossat\\nand Valmont, is the Asylum for the\\nDestitute.\\nIn St. Charles avenue, between Leon-\\ntine and Peters, is the New Orleans-\\nUniversity, a well-equipped institution-\\nfor the education of colored youth.\\nAt the corner of Peters avenue and-\\nSt. Charles is the commodious\\nJEWISH ORPHANS HOME.\\nA block or two from St. Charles, and-\\nvisibie from the car in the perspective\\noi iNasbville avenue, is the\\nSjUAlvSr liiAiti^ ALMSHOUSE,\\nwUere Uie penuiiess and decrepit poor\\nmay Dnil a retuge. It was built by\\nxuayor SUakspeare, ten or twelve years\\nago. The large brick building in the\\n.dLiinsnouse inclosure was erected for\\nthe use of the .tsoys blouse of Refuge.\\nAuuubon bark is the next point of\\ninterest. JLUe visitor gets a view of a\\nportion of tne park. On the other\\nside of the avenue are the buildings of\\ntbe\\nTULANE UNI VERS LT1\\nof Louisiana. The main building is\\nretired from the street about 100 yards.\\nBehind it are the physical and chemi-\\nca laboratories, and, further removed,\\nare the workshops. The University of\\nLouisiana was founded in 1847, and\\nreorganized in 1882, on receipt of a\\nbequest from Paul Tulane, a wealthy\\nmerchant. The Tulane bequest amount-\\ned to more than $1,000,000 The name\\nof Mr. Tulane was bestowed on the\\nschool in 1884. The university has\\nreceived other bequests from time to\\ntime. It contains university and col-\\nlegiate departments, both for men and\\nwomen, and law, medical and techni-\\ncal schools. There is a Library in the\\nArts and Sciences Building, where may\\nbe seen a copy of the Tripitaka, pre-\\nsented to the university by the King\\nof Siam.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "59", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "6\u00c2\u00a9\\npq\\nxn\\nK\\nI\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\no\\nQ\\nx\\nEh\\no\\no\\nI\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I\\nO", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "61\\nNear the college the visitor will no-\\ntice the Jesuit Church of the Holy\\nName of Jesus.\\nLeland University, for colored males,\\noccupies the square on the avenue be-\\ntween Audubon and Walnut.\\nSt. Mary s Dominican Convent is\\non the avenue, between Broadway and\\nPine.\\nAt the head of St. Charles avenue\\nwill be noticed a small open space,\\nnow surrounded by a whitewashed\\nfence, and having over the gate a sign\\ninviting bicyclists to enter. In other\\ndays this was the Carrollton Gardens,\\na very popular resort. It was first\\nopened when CarrcJlton, now the up-\\nper portion of the city, was a separate\\nmunicipality, separated by long unin-\\nhabited spaces from the nearest City\\nof Jefferson. Where St. Charles ave-\\nnue now extends ran a road called\\nNayades street. The grounds were\\nvery beautifully laid out, and there\\nwas a restaurant where Thackeray and\\nGeneral Boulanger were each enter-\\ntained during their memorable visit\\nto New Orleans. Some years ago it\\nwas found advisable to build a levee\\nthrough the garden, and the old restau-\\nrant was dismantled and sold. At\\npresent the spot is not very reputable.\\nThe car here turns out Carrollton\\navenue to Jeannette street, the way\\nbeing through a very choice lesidenoe\\nsection.\\nThe return to Canal is over the same\\nroute.\\nThis ride takes the visitor through\\nthe heart of the Garden District.\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nCAMP. PRYTANIA AND MAGAZINE STREETS.\\nPrytania street is one of the most\\nbeautiful residence thoroughfares in\\nNew Orleans. The Prytania street\\ncars turn from Canal into Camp, and\\ncontinue up the latter to Calliope,\\nwhere Prytania begins. En route are\\nseen the handsome stores and banks\\nbetween Poydras and Canal.\\nThe large brick hardware store on\\nthe river side corner of Camp and\\nCommon occupies the site where at\\none time stood the City Hotel,\\nin its time a famous resort.\\nIt played a conspicuous part in the\\nstirring drama of reconstruction days;\\nbut was demolished, to make way for\\nthe present structure.\\nIn the block between Gravier and\\nNatchez Alley stands the Picayune s\\nfour-story granite building.\\nTHE PICAYUNE\\nis, with the single exception of the\\nFrench daily, L Abeille, the oldest\\npaper in the State. It shares, with\\nL Abeille and the Dutch Zeitung, the\\nhonor of being the only publication in\\nNew Orleans which survived the civil\\nwar.\\nThe Picayune was founded in 1SH7\\nby George Wilkins Kendall and Francis\\nA. Lumsden, two practical printers,\\nwho conducted it for many years with\\nsignal success. Mr. Kendall was a\\nbrilliant journalist and a man of great\\nactivity and enterprise in his profes-\\nsion. He accompanied the celebrated\\nTexas Rangers, then commanded by\\nthe famous Ben McCullough, with the\\narmy of invasion to Mexico during the\\nwar of 18-16-47. and employed his op-\\nportunities in securing and sending to\\nthe Picayune the freshest and most\\nreliable news of the military opera-\\ntions, thus leading the way in the en-\\ntire history of journalism as a war\\ncorrespondent in the field with the\\nforces.\\nThe Picayune was subsequently edit-\\ned by many able and often distinguished\\nmen who constantly improved its ex-\\ncellent qualities as a news vehicle. It\\ngrew in influence and importance, and\\na controlling interest in it was\\nacquired eventually by Mrs. fi.\\nJ. Holbrook Pearl Rivers a lady\\nfamous not merely as a poet of singu-\\nlar merit, but a!so as the first woman\\never known to hare successfully\\nessayed the editorship of a great metro-\\npolitan daily. The remaining interest\\nin the Pieaynno was held by Colonel\\nGeorge Nicholson, whom she subse-\\nquently married. Mrs. Nicholson s la-\\nmented death, on!y a year ago, Feb. 15.\\n1896. following so closely upon that of\\nher husband and business associate,\\nwho only ten days before preceded her", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "62\\nto the grave, is still fre6h iii\\npublic memory. The paper is now\\nmanaged by the adminstrator of\\nher estate. The Picayune s com-\\nplete offices of publication contain\\nthe most improved machinery which\\nscience has yet devised for the\\nproduction of newspapers. Its able\\nand skilled corps of editors and\\nreporters, thinkers and workers, com-\\nbine to make it what it is\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one of the\\ngr?jit American dailies and chief of all\\nthe journals of the Southwest. The\\nPicayune issues annually three special\\neditions, called The Carnival Edi-\\ntions, one issue being devoted to each\\nof the mystic organizations ^and their\\npageants: Rex, The Krewe of\\nProteus, and the Mistick Krewe of\\nComus. The editions are printed\\non heavy plate paper from plates spe-\\ncially prepared by talented artists and\\nlithographers. The illustrations are\\naccurate, down to the very details of\\nthe floats and costumes, and greatly\\naid the spectator to understand and ap-\\npreciate the subject presented by the\\nmaskers. An immense number of these\\npapers are printed and circulated\\nthroughout the Union. They retail at\\n10 cents each at the news stands, or\\n12 cents by mail. A full set of three\\npapers will be sent to any address for\\n34 cents. The Trade Edition of the\\nPicayune, issued annually on Septem-\\nber 1, is an exhaustive review of the\\nfinancial and commercial transactions\\nfor the year. Its statistics and articles\\nare prepared by experts, and are re-\\ngarded as of thp greatest value. The\\nPicayune is equipped with type-setting\\nmachines of the most modern pattern,\\nand the printing press, by Hoe, is one\\nof the sights of the city. Parties not\\nexeepding eight who wish to see the\\nlinotypes, stereotyping room, etc., are\\nwelcomed.\\nCommercial Alley, which runs\\nthrough from Camp to St. Charles, in\\nfront of the Picayune, Is lined with\\nlawyers offices.\\nPoydras street is worth a visit. It\\nis particularly interesting near the\\nriver. When he has leisure, the visitor\\nwill do well to walk out that way. and\\nobserve the lively traffic maintained on\\nthe sidewalks in country produce, be-\\ntween the retailers and the commission\\nmerchants.\\nThe Produce Exchange is at the cor-\\nner of Povdras and Front.\\nThe building at No. 504 Camp, now\\noccupied by an afternoon publication,\\nwas in 1874 the headquarters of the\\nWhite League, an organization of citi-\\nzens who took a great part in the\\nrevolution of September 14.\\nOdd Fellows Hall, on Camp street,\\nbetween Poydras and Lafayette, con-\\ntains many of the lodges of that order.\\nThe second floor is occupied by a large\\nhall, often used for concerts, theatri-\\ncals and balls.\\nThe iron structure, two story high,\\non the corner of Poydras and Camp,\\nin an Oriental style of architecture, is\\nThe Moresque Building. It was\\nbuilt in 1859, by J. C. Barelli, and\\noriginally contained 6ix stores, and a\\nballroom 68x147 feet. The building was\\nunfinished at the beginning of the war,\\nand was suffered to go into decay.\\nJohn Gauche bought it subsequently,\\nand restored it, at a cost of $215,000.\\nThe whole exterior is of iron, and was\\ncast at Holly Springs, Miss. It is an\\nimitation of the Alhambra. It is con-\\nsidered to be one of the most beautiful\\nspecimens of architecture in the South.\\nImmediately in front of the Odd\\nFellows Hall is\\nLAFAYETTE SQUARE.\\nIt was named after General Lafayette,\\nbut the statute in the center is of Ben-\\njamin Franklin. This work is from\\nthe chisel of Hiram Powers, and was\\npresented to the city and erected\\nin 1872. In the square stands the\\ngeodetic stone erected by the Coast\\nand Geodetic Survey. By it is located\\nexactly latitude 29:56:58 N. and longi-\\ntude 90:04:09 W. The handsome\\nDrown church on the upper side of the\\nsquare is the First Presbyterian, gen-\\nerally called\\nDR. PALMER S CHURCH.\\nfrom the name of its venerable pastor,\\nwho was called to preside over the\\ncongregation in 1856, and who is one\\nof the most learned and elo-\\nquent pulpit orators in the South.\\nThis stately edifice was erected in H35.\\nat a cost of $57,000. It was subse-\\nquently enlarged and improved, bring-\\ning the total cost up to $75,000. It was\\nburned in 1854. The present church\\nwas completed in 1857, at a cost of\\n$87,000.\\nAt the corner of Camp and Lafayette\\nis the large, yellow-brown building now\\noccupied by the", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "63\\n-CITY FREE CIRCULATING LI-\\nBRARY.\\nThis structure was formerly knowu\\n.as St. Patrick s Hall. Here was en-\\nJan. 1, in that year, and the Demo-\\ncratic members marched in a body to\\nthe Hotel Royal, then the State House.\\nThey were refused admission, and\\nfound the entrance guarded by armed\\nacted, in 1877, some of the most re- men. They retired to St. Patrick s\\ninarkable scenes in the history of the Hall and organized. On Jan. 8, Gover-\\nstate. The Legislature assembled on nor Francis T. Nieholls and Lieutenant", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "64\\nGovernor Wiltz were sworn in in this\\nbuilding. At the same time S. B.\\nPackard and C. C. Antoine were in-\\naugurated in the same offices at the\\nHotel Royal. On the day after in-\\nauguration Governor Nicholls directed\\nthe citizen-soldiers as they took posses-\\nsion of the public buildings in the city.\\nThe Paekard government was besieged\\nfor over two months. The inaugura-\\ntion of Governor Nicholls was perhaps\\nthe turning point in the later history\\nof the state. The new library was\\nopened in January, 1897. It contains\\nabout 30,000 volumes, of which 7000\\nare in foreign languages. It was cre-\\nated by merging in one the library es-\\ntablished under the Fisk bequest and\\nthe old city library, formerly in the City\\nHall. It is said to have the mo6t per-\\nfectly lighted reading-room in the\\nworld. Here may be seen the two vol-\\numes of the Vie de Caesar, by the\\nEmperor Napolean III, presented by\\nthe author to the city.\\nThe Christian Woman s Exchange is\\ndiagonally across from the library, m\\nthe corner of South and Camp streets.\\nBetween Girod and Julia, the visitor\\nwill remark the Gothic\\nST. PATRICK S CHURCH.\\nThis structure, whether considered\\nmerely for it6 size or for the splendor\\nof its architecture, is worthy the seri-\\nous attention of the artist or the stu-\\ndent. The plans were imitated from\\nthe famed York Minster, and are re-\\ngarded as being the happiest effort in\\nthis field in the United States. The\\nmaterial is brick, rough-cast to simu-\\nlate uncut stone. It was erected early\\nin the fifties by the Irish colony in New\\nOrleans. Though great care was taken\\nwith the foundations, they proved in-\\nsufficient to support the enormous\\nweight of the building, and the tower,\\nshortly after its construction, com-\\nmenced to settle, so that it became\\nnecessary to brace it up. The tower\\nis 250 feet high; originally the inten-\\ntion was to make it much higher. The\\ninterior of the church is Gothic,\\nwith comparatively little ornament-\\nation. There are three altars, the\\ncentral (or main)^ altar standing\\nin a recess tn the rear wall.\\nThe reredos is very beautifully orna-\\nmented. Behind it is a very effective\\npainting copied from Raphael s Trans-\\nfiguration. This is flanked on the\\nright side by a picture of St. Peter\\nwalking on the waves, and on the left\\nby one showing St. Patrick baptizing\\nthe queens of Ireland in the Halls of\\nTara. The architectural decoration of\\nthe alter is of wood, in the Gothic\\nstyle, and on festivals, when illumin-\\nated with many lights, is very impos-\\ning.\\nAt No. 725 Camp street are the Bible\\nHoase buildings.\\nImmediately adjoining this building\\nare the\\nCONFEDERATE MEMORIAL\\nHALL\\nand the Howard Library- The forme!\\nis a neat structure, of simple and pleas-\\ning appearance, built of pressed brick,\\nand now overgrown with creeping\\nplants. The interior is finished in hard\\nwoods, and contains a magnificent col-\\nlection of relics of the civil war. Among\\nthe more interesting may be mentioned\\nthe uniform and sword of General J.\\nB. Hood; the saddle of General Bragg;\\nthe library of Jefferson Davis; por-\\ntraits of Confederate generajs, etc.\\nWashington s telescope is in one of the\\ncases in the center of the hall. The\\nbuilding is used by the camps of the\\nUnited Confederate Veterans as a\\nmeeting place. Frank T. Howard\\nerected the edifice and maintains it.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "33\\nrites. It is practically impossible for\\na stranger to obtain admission to th\u00c2\u00bb\\ncelebration, which is always wrapped\\nin dense mystery.\\nThe Convent of the\\nDISCALCED CARMELITES\\nis situated on the northeast corner of\\nRampart and Barracks. There are only\\nfour convents of this order in America.\\nThe rule of the Carmelites is\\nextremely rigid. They dress in the\\ncoarsest serge and fare in the\\nsimplest manner. Mass is said every\\nmorning at 7 o clock in the chapel,\\nto which the public is admitted. The\\naltar is a double one, and extends into\\nthe nuns chapel, where the sisters are.\\nStrangers and devotees kneeling in the\\nouter chapel experience a peculiar sen-\\nsation when these invisible women\\nehant the service. They chant entirely\\non one note.\\nThe handsome white building at the\\ncorner of Rampart and Esplanade is\\nSt. Aloysius School. Immediately be-\\nhind, on the corner of Rampart and\\nKerlerec, is\\nPOLAR STAR HALL,\\nthe home of a Masonic Lodge, which\\ncelebrated the one hundredth anniver-\\nsary of its organization several years\\nago. At No. 3506 is the\u00c2\u00bbFemale Orphan\\nAsylum of the Immaculate Conception.\\nThere is a handsome house in the\\nsquare bounded by Rampart, Clouet,\\nLouisa and Urquhart streets. It. was\\nthe home of Pepe Llula, the noted\\nduellist. One room is full of trophies\\nof his battles. His daughter lives there\\nnow.\\nFRONT AND ESPLANADE.\\nThe best way to see the river front is,\\njf course, to walk a]ong the levee,\\n(t is a long walk, however. The visitor\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2vill, therefore, do well to take the\\nelectric car marked Esplanade and\\nFrench Market on Canal street, in\\nfront of the United States Custom-\\nhouse. This car turns down North\\nPeters street to Esplanade, and runs\\nout Esplanade to the Bayou St. John.\\nThe attention of the visitor will be\\nfirst attracted by the long railroad\\nfreight sheds and the buildings of the\\nSugar Refineries. The car passes the\\nriver front of Jackson Square, and at\\nSt. Ann street reaches the\\nSUGAR EXCHANGE.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "INDIANS.\\nFRENCH MARKET.\\nThere is perhaps no more remarkable\\nand characteristic spot in New Orleans.\\nThe market is open daily between 5\\nend 12 o clock m., but Sunday morn-\\ning, between 8 and o clock, is\\nthe best time at which to visit it. Near\\nthe head of the market, in the outside\\naisle, and also at the end of the vege-\\ntable market, will be found the cele-\\nbrated coffee stands, where, for 10", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "35\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2cents, may be obtained, at all hours,\\nthe delicious Creole coffee and a pecu-\\nliar, wafer-like pastry, called coffee-\\ncake. The French Market compre-\\nhends four distinct and separate divi-\\nsions, called, respectively, the meat,\\nfruit, vegetable and fish markets.\\nBetween the divisions are sev-\\neral small open spaces, occupied\\nby Indians, fruit peddlers, tinners,\\nand notion dealers. As the pop-\\nulation of New Orleans is very\\nleans, which was destroyed in 1723 by\\na hurricane. The butchers are princi-\\npally Gascons. The open space between\\nthe meat and bazar markets is usually\\noccupied by the Indians, and here may\\nbe purchased the compound called\\nfile and used by Creole cooks to\\nthicken gumbo. Here also the negresses\\noffer for sale pralines, pain-patate\\nand callas, the latter a species of soft\\ndoughnuts made of rice and flour. The\\nbazar market is of Iron, and was erect-\\nSELLA CHEAP.\\nmuch mixed a great many nationalities\\nare seen and a great many different\\nlanguages are audible anion.!; th i\\ncrowds. The Indians are remnants of\\nthe Chocktaw tribes, and sell herbs.\\nplants and roots, like the sassafras.\\nThe meat market was erected in 1S1H\\nat a cost of $30,000, on the spot of the\\nfirst market ever erected in New Or-\\ned about twenty-four years ago. Just\\nacross the street is a triangular market\\ndevoted to fruit and poultry. The\\ngreat vegetable market comes next.\\nThe fish market is constructed of iron\\nand glass. The variety of fish offered\\nfur sale is often a subject of remark\\namong visitors. The vendors here are\\nSpanish or Italians. Near the end of\\nthe fish market is the game market.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "36\\nNot far from the market, on Deca- is called the Picayune Tier, or\\ntur, between St. Phillip and Dumaiue, lugger landing. The Dago fishermen\\nis Vendetta Alley. from the lower coast land their car S\u00c2\u00b0 e\\nThe levee in front of the fish market of oranges and oysters here.\\nTIN-A-FIX:", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "37\\nUNITED STATES MINT.\\nIt occupies the site of the old Fort\\nSt. Charles. The building cost $1S2,000.\\nThe Mint is capable of turning out\\nJackson stood on the rampart of Fort\\nSt. Charles to review his army as it\\nmarched past on its way to meet the\\nBritish at Chalmette. In 1862 Wil-\\nliam Mumford was hung in front of\\n$5,000,000 per month. Admission to\\nthe mint is easily effected, and a polite\\nofficial is always ready to show the\\nvisitor through the various depart-\\nments. In December, 1814, General\\nthe Mint, by order of General Benj.\\nF. Butler, for tearing down the United\\nStates flag from the roof of the build-\\ning when the Union army took posses-\\nsion of the city.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "38\\nTHE OLD SLAVE QUARTERS,\\nwhere slaves were brought from all\\nsections of the southern states, but\\nprincipally from Virginia and Mary-\\nland, to be sold at auction in New\\nOrleans, were Located at the corners\\nriver side of Chartres street, from\\nEsplanade to Peace street; on the side\\ntowards the woods in the same bound-\\nary, stood a long row of frame build\\nings (two-story), with iron balconie*\\nreaching to the banquette, and a three-\\nstory kitchen with little pigeon-hole\\nwindows guarded in by iron bars. Both\\nGARBAGE ANGELS:\\nof Chartres and Esplanade streets. The\\nlarge brick building, now one of the\\nfinest residences on the avenue, was\\nerected on the site of the long row of\\nbrick buildings which stood on the\\nof: these sides of Chartres street were\\nknown as the slave quarters, and mill-\\nions of dollars changed hands in thifr\\nslave traffic.\\nAt the northeast corner of Esplanade\\nand Chartres street it may be interest-", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "39\\ning to know that Joseph Bruin, a fa-\\nmous trader of old days, had his slave\\nquarters, and on the adjoining side of\\nEsplanade and Chartres streets the\\ngreat trader Wilson had his slave quar-\\nters in the large frame building men-\\ntioned; adjoining this weep the slave\\nquarters of a man named Smith, who\\nwas a large dealer. In several small\\nframe houses down Chartres street, in\\nthe same section, negroes were kept for\\nsale. The trade in all these quarters\\nwas very large, and buyers preferred\\nthe negroes kept by these traders, as\\nthey were of a better class for the field\\nor the house than those sold elsewhere\\nin the states between Louisiana and\\nMaryland and Virginia. Beard\\nMay were the slave auctioneers of\\nthose days and did a thriving business.\\nThey were famous auctioneers and\\nwere known the south over.\\nThe handsome brick church on the\\nlower side of Esplanade, between\\nMarais and Villere, is St. Anna s Epis-\\ncopal Church. The house (old) No. 255\\nEsplanade, near Derbigny, is that in\\nwhich General P. G. T. Beauregard\\ndied. The small triangle contain-\\ning a terracotta fountain, on Es-\\nplanade, between Miro and Tonti, is\\nGayarre Place, so named from the dis-\\ntinguished historian of Louisiana. The\\nGreek Church of the Holy Trinity is\\non a street known both as Del-\\nhonde and Dorgenois, not far from\\nEsplanade. Services are not held regu-\\nlarly. The ornaments on the altar were\\npresented by the late Empress of\\nRussia.\\nwm mmimw B mmm^ wm^ m^m i\\nLOUISIANA JOCKEY CLUB.\\nThe Jockey Club is on Esplanade,\\nnear Bayou Bridge. It occupies a whol\\nsquare on the lower side of the street\\nIt is one of the most attractive spots\\nin the city. The mansion was formerly\\nthe residence of a Mr. Luling. The\\nhouse is in the French style, with two\\nstories and side wings on a terrace.\\nIn one of the wings is a bowling alley.\\nThe house stands in the midst of gar-\\ndens, which, on gala occasions, are illu-\\nminated with Chinese lanterns and elec-\\ntric lights, presenting a scene of ex-\\nquisite and enchanting beauty. The\\nclub is also the home of the Country\\nClub, an exclusive bicycle club, mem-\\nbership in which is restricted to mem-\\nbers of the Jockey Club. Admission is\\nby card from members.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "40\\nIn the rear, and a little to one side\\nof the Jockey Club, are the Fair\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Grounds. These contain a race\\ncourse, and grand stand capable\\nof seating 8000 people. Horse\\nracing, under the auspices of\\nthe Louisiana Jockey Club, takes\\nplace here annually, there being usual-\\nly a winter meeting extending over\\n100 days, in which the best horses and\\nmost famous jockeys participate. The\\ncourse was formerly called the Gentilly\\nRace Course. During the season the\\nOrleans and the Esplanade cars both\\nrun directly to the course, depositing\\npassengers at the entrance. These cars\\nboth start on Canal street, near Clay\\nStatue. The race track is esteemed\\none of the best and fastest in the\\nUnited States.\\nThe cemetery adjoining the Jockey\\nClub grounds is the new St.\\nLouis Cemetery- Some of the\\ntomgs are very handsome. James\\nGallier and his wife, Marie, lie\\nbeneath a tombstone which records the\\nmelancholy history of their deaths.\\nThey were drowned in 1866 in the\\nwreck of the steamer Evening Star.\\nGallier was a celebrated architect in\\nhis dny. Other notable tombs are those\\nof the Menorguina Society, dating from\\n1859; the Young Men s Benevolent.\\nSociety, from 1866. and the Slavonic\\nSociety, from 1876.\\nOn Bayou St. John, 300 yards\\nfrom Esplanade, will be found the\\nSoldiers Home, or Camp Nicholls, as\\nit is sometimes called. It derives the\\nlatter appellation from Ex-Governor E.\\nT. Nicholls, under whose administra-\\ntion it was founded as a retreat for\\nmaimed and disabled ^Confederates.\\nThe place is noted for the beauty of its\\ngardens.\\nCrossing the bayou by Bayou bridge\\nthe visitor has the agreeable conscious-\\nness of being in the immediate vicinity\\nof the spot where Bienville effected his\\nfirst landing on Louisiana soil. It is\\nnot possible to identify the spot exact-\\nly now. In 1718 Bienville, with some\\nfifty followers, landed from his voyage\\nacross Lake Pontchartrain and down\\nthe bayou. It is to be regretted that tin*\\nlocality was not commemorated, for\\nsurely it deserves to be marked by a\\nmonument.\\nThere are some curious shipyards\\nalong the bayou, one of which, at least,\\ndates from Spanish days. The hand-\\nsome oaks of Southern Park will be\\nnoticed. This is a place of resort where\\npicnics are often given on Sunday\\nevenings. The Louisiana Boat Club and\\nthe Crescent Boat Club have quarters\\non the bank, and hold an annual re-\\ngatta here. The walk hence to the\\nCITY PARK\\nis along Metairie Road, among mar-\\nket gardens and dairies. The dis-\\ntance is not more than six blocks.\\nThe park contains 160 acres, only a\\npart of which has yet been improved.\\nThe groves of live-oaks are greatly\\nadmired. They are draped in the gray\\nSpanish moss to which allusion is so\\noften made by Louisiana poets. The\\nlake was formed artificially by en-\\nlarging Bayou Sauvage, which former-\\nly ran through the park. Near the lower\\nextremity will be seen the tomb of\\nAllard, of whose plantation this sec-\\ntion was formerly a part. John Mc-\\nDonogh, the philanthropist, purchased\\nthe land and donated it to the city for\\npark purposes. The Oaks where the\\nduels were fought are the grove on\\nthe side of the park farthest removed\\nfrom the road. A thousand stories are\\ntold of the bloody encounters which\\ntranspired here. One of the most char-\\nacteristic is of Pene Llula, a noted\\nfencing master of the olden time. It\\nhappened that New Orleans was all\\naflame with sympathy for the filibus-\\nters who had made an unsuccessful\\nattempt to free Cuba from the control\\nof Spain. Pepe was an ardent Spanish\\npartisan, and issued a manifesto, chal-\\nlenging all the Cuban sympathizers.\\nMany of them took, up the glove. Pepe\\nmet them, and, making use of a thrust\\nfor which he was famous driving his\\neoliehemard into the lung and giving\\nit a vicious twist there killed each\\nof his antagonists. The result was that\\nafter a while the Cubans refused to\\nmeet him.\\nThe visitor can return by taking the\\nmule car one of the few which still\\nrun in New Orleans up Metairie road\\nto Canal street, where be can either\\nspend an hour lookins through the ceme-\\nteries or take the electric car back to\\nthe center of the city.\\nELYSIAN FIELDS.\\nComparatively few find It worth\\nwhile to visit Flysian Fields for the\\nsake of the sisrhts to be se^n there.\\nThe Levee and Barracks car. which", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "41\\nruns from Canal down North Peters\\nstreet, will take the visitor to the head\\nof the street. Here will be found the\\nPontchartrain Railroad Depot. It may\\ninterest the visitor to know that this\\nis the second oldest railroad in the\\ncountry, and that along its line were\\nerected the first freight platforms ever\\nused. It is a curious fact that in old\\ndays the cars had sails attached to\\nthem, like a boat, and when sufficient\\nsteam could not be generated the sails\\nwere used to propel the trains. This\\nreads like a fairy tale; but the story\\nwas vouched for by the late Judge\\nGayarre, the Notary Guyol and others.\\nThe road now runs along Elysian\\nFields and Gentilly Road to Milneburg.\\nThe visitor will do well to make the\\ntrip. On the way the train passes a\\ndrug store on the upper side of Es-\\nplanade, corner of Rampart. The build-\\nings look very modern now, but the\\nlower portion is of brick, and dates\\nback to the time of the Spanish domina-\\ntion. It was then the residence of one\\nof the Baratarian pirates, and it was\\nhere that Lafitte. the pirate, and his\\nmen often met. Smngg ed goods were\\nkept here, to be sold to the old Creole\\nresidents as opportunity permitted.\\nWhen the old building was remodeled,\\na few years ago, many curious relics\\nwere unearthed, among them being\\nan ancient flint-look pistol, on the\\nbarrel of which was. inlaid in silver\\nletters, the name Lafitte. Miss King,\\nin her charming volume. New Orleans\\nthe Place and the People. devotes\\na chapter to Lafitte and his men. His-\\ntory gives no certain account of his end.\\nHe disappeared from Louisana in the\\nearly part of the century, and there\\nare traditions in the quarter which\\naffirm that he served on board the ship\\nInconstant, which brought Napoleon\\nback from Elba. It is also said that\\nLafitte perished in a naval battle with\\nan American admiral whose grand-\\ndaughter resides in this city.\\nThe Shell Beach Railroad Depot will\\nbe noticed at the corner of Elysian\\nFields and St. Claude streets.\\nThe train stops at Gentilly Station.\\nThis name is corrupted from Chantilly,\\nwhich was the original designation of\\na village and road on the outskirts of\\nthe city. Nearby is an old Jewish\\nburying ground called the Hebrew\\nRest. Beyond will be seen scattered\\nmounds of earth. These are the re-\\nmains of fortifications erected in war-\\ntime by the Confederates to defend\\nthe rear of the city.\\nRIVER FRONT.\\nIt only remains to be said that before\\nleaving the French quarter the visitor\\nshould see the shipping and the sugar\\nsheds. The latter are between Custom-\\nhouse and St. Louis, on the levee. The\\nSugar Exchange, where the speculators\\nconduct many of those operations which\\nregulate the price throughout the\\ncountry, is on the corner of Front and\\nBienville.\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nNEW ORLEANS OF TO-DAY\\nTHE BEST WAY to see the Ameri-\\ncan quarter of New Orleans is from the\\nstreet cars. New Orleans has over 186\\nmiles of electric street railways. All\\nthese lines converge towards Canal\\nstreet, and the visitor may find\\nin that thoroughfare, within half a\\ndozen blocks, cars to any part of\\nthe town. Canal street is one of the\\nmost characteristic streets in the world.\\nIt divides New Orleans into two worlds,\\ntwo civilizations. It is the principal\\nbusiness thoroughfare of the city. It\\nbisects the city from the river north-\\nwest to the New Basin Canal. It Is\\n170 feet wide. The celebrated levees.\\nwith their vast stores of cotton, sugar,\\nand other products, lie at the head of\\nCanal street.\\nThe small, ornate wooden building on\\nthe river bank is the Algiers Ferry-\\nhouse. The ferries cross the river,\\nwhich is here about 2000 feet wide, at\\nshort intervals. The fare is 5 cents each\\nway. The ferry-house contains also\\nthe Harbor Police Station.\\nThe visitor will notice nearby the\\nhuge sugar refineries that, in the sea-\\nson, run day and night.\\nThe small triangular square at the\\nintersection of Canal, North Peters and\\nTchoupitoulas streets is called", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "42\\nLIBERTY PLACE.\\nThe monument was completed in 1891,\\nand marks the spot where the cele-\\nbrated battle of the 14th of September,\\nbetween the Metropolitan Police and\\nthe citizens, took place. Hard fighting\\ntook place in all the streets around\\nabout and on the levee. The names on\\nthe monument are those of the citizens\\nwho fell in action.\\nThe Fruit Exchange is at the corner\\nof Tchoupitoulas and Canal.\\nThe long low building just beyond\\nthe square is the passenger station of\\nthe Louisville and Nashville Railroad.\\nThe visitor will be impressed by the\\nsight of the huge granite\\nCUSTOMHOUSE,\\nwhich fronts on Canal, and occupies a\\nwhole square between North Peters\\nand Decatur street. The spot where\\nthe building now stands was formerly\\nthe site of the old Spanish aduana,\\nwhich then stood on the bank of the\\nriver. Constant accretions of soil have\\nextended the batture and pushed the\\nmighty stream further to the southeast.\\nThe present edifice was begun in 1S48,\\nafter plans made by A. T. Wood. The\\nmaterial is granite and the architecture\\na modified Egyptian. Over $4,000,000\\nhave been spent on the structure, which\\nis not yet entirely finished. In 1874\\nit was the headquarters of the Metro-\\npolitan Police, who were here be-\\nsieged by the citizens. The mag-\\nnificent entrance staircase of white\\nmarble is imitated from that in Kenil-\\nworth castle. On the second floor is\\na superb apartment, called the Marble\\nHall. It is said to be the finest busi-\\nness room in the world. It measures\\n125x95 feet, and is 54 feet high. There\\nare fourteen marble Corinthian columns\\n41 feet high, each of which cost $23,-\\n000. The columns stand upon attic\\nbases and the capitals vary slightly\\nfrom the strict principles of their order\\nto follow designs indicative of the pur-\\nposes of the room. At the top of each\\ncapital is a bas-relief of Juno and\\nanother of Mercury, and designs of cot-\\nton and tobacco plants. These are ar-\\nranged so that each faces its opposite-\\non every other column, and by looking\\nat four capitals from any direction all\\nthe designs may be comprehended at\\na glance. On the same floor, in the de-\\npartments overlooking Decatur street,\\nare the United States courtrooms. On.\\napplication to the janitor access may\\nbe had to the roof by an easy stair-\\ncase in the right-hand corridor, near\\nthe elevator. From the roof may be-\\nobtained one of the most satisfactory\\nviews of the city. Portions of the Cus-\\ntom-house were used during the Civil\\nWar as military prisons, and after the\\ncapture of the city by the Federals-\\nmany Confederates were confined here.\\nThe visitoi should see the monument\\nto Bienville over one of the entrances\\nto the Marble Hall. This is the only\\nmemorial in the United States to the\\nfounder of New Orleans. The building\\nmeasures 340 feet on Canal street by\\n297 f c et on Decatur, and 81 feet from\\nthe sidewalk to the cornice around the\\nroof. The corner-stone was laid by\\nHenry Clay, in 1847. In building it\\ngreat difficulty was experienced in mak-\\ning the foundations secure, and an-\\nenormous number of ~iles were driven,\\nover which, according to an uneon*ob-\\norated tradition, cotton bales were\\nplaced.\\nThere are a number of handsome\\nbuildings along Canal street. The\\nMorris Building, at the corner of Camp\\nand Canal, was one of the first of the\\nmodern office buildings to be erected\\nin New Orleans. It contains the offices\\nof the New Orleans Clearing-house.\\nOn the lower side of Canal are many\\ndry goods stores, full of pretty things,\\nand with windows that are unfailingly\\nattractive.\\nBetween Royal and Bourbon, on This\\nside of the street, are the Touro Build-\\nings. They were built in the second\\nquarter of the century and formed\\npart of the estate of the celebrated\\nphilanthropist, Judah Touro.\\nThe Jefferson Democratic Club is at\\nNo. 620 Canal street, near St. Charles.\\nMoreau s Restaurant, celebrated\\namong gourmets the world over, i*\\nat No. 718 Canal, near Carondelet.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "4:]\\nCLAY STATUE.\\nHENRY CLAY STATUE\\nstands at the intersection of Canal.\\nSt. Charles and Royal streets. This is\\ncommonly regarded as the center of the\\ncity. The statue was erected in 1856.\\nIt is of bronze, 12 feet high and was\\nsculptured by Joel T. Hart, of Ken-\\ntucky. The inscription on the base was\\neut by order of General Ben. Butler.\\nThe monument stood formerly on a\\nbase approached by five or six immense\\ncircular steps, and surrounded by an\\niron fence. The base was remodeled in\\n1893. Clay monument figures in the\\nannals of the city as the great gather-\\ning place of the people when bent on\\nbusiness of serious public import. The\\ngreat revolution of 1874 was precipi-\\ntated by a speech delivered at Clay\\nSiatue; and the lynching of the Mafia\\nmembers in 1891 resulted from two\\naddresses pronounced in the same spot.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "44\\nSECTION OF INTERIOR, D. H. HOLMES STORE.\\nA time honored landmark in Canal st. is\\nthe mammoth emporium of 1). 11. Holmes\\nand the Guide to New Orleans\\nwould not be complete without\\nsome reference to this ancient\\nestablishment, which, like a stanch\\nold oak, has withstood the storms\\nand changes that have swept\\nover the Southland for the la6t half-\\ncentury, growing stronger and more\\nbeautiful with the years, and, like the\\noak, stretching out its broad branches\\nuntil it now covers an area of fifteen\\ncity lots, and is not only the largest\\nstore in New Orleans, but the largest\\nemporium of its kind in the entire\\nSouthwest. Holmes Store, ae it is\\npopularly known, dates back to a mem-", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "45\\norable day in April, 1842, when Mr.\\nD. H. Holmes, a young and enter-\\nprising New Orleans merchant, opened\\nat No. 26 Chartres street a large dry\\ngoods store, which at once grew in\\npopular favor. In 1849, following the\\ntide of progress which had broken\\nfrom the old Creole lines and trended\\nupwards, Mr. Holmes moved to the\\npresent site, No. 819 Canal street, and\\non this spot formed the nucleus of the\\npresent great emporium, which num-\\nbers 36 different departments, gives\\nemployment to over 800 men and\\nwomen, and has representatives in\\nevery city of note in the old world.\\nStrangers in New Orleans should not\\nfail to visit this establishment, which\\nis to New Orleans what Macy s is to\\nNew York, Marshall Field s to Chi-\\ncago, and Barr s to St. Louis. From\\nthe street one cannot gather the faint-\\nest idea of the exquisite architectural\\nbeauty and arrangement within. With\\na true Southern appreciation of the\\nartistic, the effect of applying Gothic\\narchitecture to business purposes is ob-\\nserved in every department of in-\\nterior construction, and this pure vein\\nis not only unique, but gives the store\\nthe appearance of a beautifully decora-\\nted home, in whose delightful environ-\\nment every comfort and convenience\\ncan be found, from the parlor to the\\nkitchen, from the boudoir to the\\nlibrary. The entire gamut of man s\\nwants in luxurious household appoint-\\nments and personal comfort is struck\\nin the quaint, cross-shaped interior,\\nwhich stretches from Canal to Custom-\\nhouse street, and across the square\\nfrom Dauphine to Bourbon. These\\nfour main aisles converge to a common\\ncenter, and, looking towards Dauphine\\nstreet, one gets a splendid view of\\nwhat is considered the iinest silkroom\\nin the United States. Sumptuous par-\\nlors and reception rooms are fitted up\\nfor the accommodation of visitors, and\\nall are welcome to come and rest; to\\nleave bundles and have them checked\\nwithout charge; to make shopping ar-\\nrangements, or lo come and go at their\\nown convenience.\\nA half-century in Canal street is a\\nrecord of which the veteran establish-\\nment is justly proud. Holmes store\\nhas seen all the big stores which were\\nafr the zenith of power when it en-\\ntered Canal street pass out of exist-\\nence, and, of all which were the pride\\nand glory of the old days, it alone re-\\nmains to tell the tale. It has wit-\\nnessed the birth of all the mammoth\\nemporiums which now make the street\\nthe great cosmopolitan thoroughfare of\\nthis delightful eity. The most inter-\\nesting and beautiful memories cluster\\nabout its ancient walls. Within its\\nparlors almost every Queen of the\\nCarnival for the past twenty-five years,\\nand nearly every Queen of Comus since\\nthe inauguration of the New Orleans\\nCarnival, have stood and donned for\\nthe first time the magnificent robes\\nwhich dazzled the eyes of the multi-\\ntude on Mardi Gras night. What se-\\ncrets those walls could divulge from\\nyear to year of prospective queens and\\nmaids of honor and duchesses of one\\nnight s reign! But the old store has\\nkept the confidences of its court, and\\nnever once has a name been betrayed\\nere the eventful Carnival night. For\\nupwards of fifty years the white\\nbaptismal robes and first communion\\ngowns and bridal robes and ball\\ndresses aye, even the mourning\\nrobes of half New Orleans have\\npassed from its center. The old\\nstore has heard all the songs\\nand stories of those Who laughed and\\nthose who sighed, of those who crossed\\nits- threshold when life was young\\nand was beautiful, and who came\\nagain when age had left its furrows\\non their snow-crowned brow r s. And\\nso it stands, a trusted landmark that\\nhas seen the rise and the fall of many,\\nand w r hich bids fair, from present indi-\\ncations, to stand fifty years hence a\\nliving eyewitness and exemplification\\nof the sturdy growth and honorable\\nprogress of New r Orleans.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "46\\nThe handsome building on the corner\\nof Carondelet and Canal, now occupied\\nby the Pickwick Hotel, was built by\\nthe Pickwick Club, and was the dom-\\nicile of that organization until recently,\\nwhen it was partly burned. The club\\nThe Pickwick Club is located\\nir. a handsome three-storied struct-\\nure of light li ied brick and stone,\\non the uppc side of Canal street,\\nbetween Dryades and Rampart. To\\nthis home the slub removed in 1896.\\nPICKWICK CLUB.\\nthen sold it and found quarters in the\\nhandsome new building on Canal, neai\\nSouth Rampart.\\nAt No. 81(i Canal street is the Com-\\nmercial Club.\\nThis club dates from 1S57. Its\\nfirst president was General A. H.\\nGladden, of South Carolina, a veteran\\nof the Mexican War, who fell at Shiloh\\nwhile in command of the First Con-\\nfederate Regulars.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "47\\nTHE BOSTON CLUB,\\n.th oldest institution of its kind ia\\n(New Orleans, occupies the building at\\nNo. 824 Canal, formerly owned by the\\nMercer family. The Boston was organ-\\nized in 1834 and named in honor of\\nan old-fashioned game of cards erst-\\nivhile very popular among the solid\\nbusiness men of the community. During\\nthe Civil War some of the members in-\\ncurred the animosity of General Ben\\nButler, and his provost marshal seized\\nits quarters and disbanded the organ-\\nization. It was reorganized in 1867.\\nAmong its presidents were John Hew-\\nlett, Temple Dos well, S. H. Kennedy,\\nPhoenix N. Wood, Victor Burthe, Gen-\\neral Dick Taylor and Dr. Samuel\\nChopin. It has entertained many dis-\\ntinguished guests, among them General\\nU. S. Grant and Jefferson Davis.\\nThe Chess, Checkers and Whist Club\\noceupies a handsome three-story build-\\ning at the corner of Canal and Baronne\\nstieets. The entrance is on Baronne.\\nIt was organized in 1880, and among\\nthe celebrities who have played the king\\nof games within its hospitable walls\\nmay be mentioned Captain George H.\\nMackenzie, Wilhelm Steinitz, Zuker-\\ntort and Morphy.\\nThe Continental Guards, a unique\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2military organization, have (heir head-\\nquarters at No. 936 Canal.\\nBetween Dauphine and *Burgundy\\nstreets is the Grand Opera House. It\\nwas opened about 1871, by the late\\nLawrence Barrett. Barrett remained\\nin charge of the theatre for a number\\nof years, appearing for the first time in\\nthat classical repertory which he after-\\nwards made famous. Snbs\u00c2\u00b0onently the\\ntheatre was managed by Mrs. Cban-\\nfrnu and then by the late David Bid-\\nwell. It is a famous old playhouse, and\\nmany a name immorta in dramatic\\nliterature has appeared on the bill\\nbonrds in front of it. The staircase,\\nwhich consumes a space of almost 100\\nfeet, is one of the most beautiful in\\nany American theatre. The house be-\\nlongs to Lps Varieties Club, which has\\nrooms on the Canal street front.\\nAt Basin and Canal street is the\\nSpanish Fort Railroad Depot.\\nAt No. 1028 Canal the Elks have a\\nclubroom.\\nOn Canal, between Vil ere and Rob-\\nertson, stands the\\nHALF-WAY HOUSE,\\non the New Basin Canal. The Half-\\nWay House is so called because it is\\nvery nearly half-way between Clay\\nStatue and the West End. The Canal\\nstreet electric cars stop here. This is\\nMetairie Ridge, one of the highest\\nparts of the city. The cemeteries here\\nare very picturesque. A full description\\nof them is given further on. The Sports-\\nman s Park, where baseball games take\\nplace in summer time, and football\\ngames in winter, adjoins the Firemen s\\nCemetery.\\nThe old Oakland Driving Park is on\\nthe shellroad adjoining the Metairie\\nCemetery. During a part of the season\\nthe trotting races take place here, but\\nthe park is now comparatively little\\nused. The shellroad which crosses the\\nBayou St. John on an iron bridge at the\\nHalfway House is a toll road and leads\\nto West end.\\nRICHARDSON MEMORIAL,\\nMED7CAL SCHOOL,\\nbuilt in 1894 and presented to the Tu-\\nlane University by Mrs. Ida Slocum\\nRichardson, widow of the late Dr.\\nTobias G. Richardson. It is a\\nhandsome building of white stone,\\nequipped with every modern ap-\\npliance for the prosecution of\\nmedical investigation. It cost up-\\nwards of $100,000. A bronze tablet,\\nbearing a profile of Dr. Richardson,\\nornaments the wall of the entrance\\nhall. The museum is remarkably rich\\nin medical curiosities. The Medical\\nSchool is famous throughout the Union.\\nIt constitutes a part of the Tnlane\\nUniversity. It was organized in 1834.\\nThe students have access to the Chari-\\nty Hospital.\\nOn the corner of Robertson, diagonal-\\nly opposite the Richardson Memorial.\\nis the medical school conducted under\\nthe auspices of the New Orleans Uni-\\nversity for colored youths.\\nStraight University occupies a whole\\nsquare on Canal street, between Tonti\\nand Rocheblave. It is fully equipped\\nfor the hisrher education of its matric-\\nulates.\\nCanal street in this vicinity is lined\\nwith residences, many of them embow-\\nered in trees and vines.\\nTb pretty little Church of the\\nSacred Heart of Jesus, at the corner of\\nCanal and Lonez. was built entirely at\\nthe expense of one philanthropic citizen\\nof this pity, the late Mr. P. A. O Brien.\\nCnnnl street terminates at the", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "48\\nTULANE AVENUE. streets. This street is finely paved!\\nThe Tulane avenue car, taken on and is gradually growing in favor as a\\nCanal street, ttirns into Kampart, and residence section. At the corner of\\nthence into Tulane avenue, at the in- Basin and Tulane stands the new\\ntersection of Rampart and Common", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "81\\npervious to fire in the city. It con-\\ntains nearly 400 parlors and bedrooms,\\nalcoved, single or en suite. There are\\n120 private bathrooms with porcelain-\\nlined tubs, marble floor, tiled walls, and\\nlatest hygienic structural appliances.\\nThe hotel is steam-heated and lighted\\nthroughout by electricity. The most\\nimproved Teleserue system of electric\\ncalls, whereby everything required for\\nthe comfort of guests can be ordered\\ndirectly by pressing a button, is in\\nevery room.\\nted, with entrances on St. Charles,\\nCommon and Gravier streets, within\\neasy access of places of amusement,\\ndepots and the shopping quarter.\\nTransient rates are four dollars per\\nday and upward for rooms with board.\\nLiberal reductions are made by the\\nweek, month or season. The hotel is\\nrun entirely on the American plan.\\nCuisine and service are equal to any\\nin the country. The name of Mr. A.\\nK. Blakely, lessee and manager, for\\nten vears connected with the celebated\\nc/l\\n2\\nH\\nX,\\nX\\nX\\nW\\nx\\nBy a peculiarity of construction there\\nare no rear rooms, a covered promenade\\nfilled with tropical plants and shrub-\\nbery standing in lieu of the usual\\ncourt.\\nThe rotunda and dining-rooms are\\nconsidered tbe finest in the country.\\nDuring the season an orchestra fur-\\nnishes delightful music during the din-\\nner hour. The hotel is centra 11 v [r?-.-\\nWindsor, of New York, guarantees the\\naccommodation to be in every respect\\nsecond to none in the country.\\nThe railroads have their offices in\\nthe neighborhood of the corner of St.\\nCharles and Common.\\nThe car, on turning from St. Charles\\ninto Canal street, passes the Crescent\\nBiKiard Hall, a resort celebrated for\\nthe past forty years.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "82\\nTCHOUPITOULAS STREET.\\nThe visitor will see Tchoupitoulas\\nstreet best by taking the Tchoupitoulas\\nstreet car on Canal street. It turns\\ninto that street and runs up to Audu-\\nbon Park. Along the route glimpses\\nAt the corner of St. Joseph will be\\nseen the Shot Tower. At the\\ncorner of Felicity are the Morris Free\\nPublic Baths and the Sanitary Pump-\\ning Station. They occupy the whole\\nof Thompson Square, a name given\\nmay be caught from time to time of\\nthe shipping lying alongside the\\nwharves. The lower part of the street.\\nnearest Canal, is lined with large ware-\\nhouses.. To these succeed immense\\ngroceries and a number of foundries.\\nin recognition of a bequest re-\\nceived by the Sanitary Associa-\\ntion from a lady of that name. The\\nbaths were erected between 1891 and\\nIS03, by the late John A. Morris, and\\npresented by him to the city. They", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "83\\ncomprise two departments, one for\\nmales and one for females, in each of\\nwhich are very large swimming tanks.\\nThe charges are merely nominal. Un-\\nderneath the tanks are rooms where\\nthe poor may come to do their wash-\\ning. The Sanitary Pumping Station is\\nused to flush the gutters with river\\nwater.\\nThe heart of the cotton-press district\\nis next passed.\\nNear Louisiana avenue are several\\ngrain elevators.\\nTHE STUYVESANT DOCKS\\nare of great interest. The ele-\\nvator here is of gigantic size. A\\nvery elaborate system of grain car-\\nriers and railway terminals exist.\\nThe elevator has a capacity of 1,000,-\\n000 bushels, or about 1200 cars. If\\ncoupled together, these cars would\\nmake a train eight miles long. The\\nelevator can unload 250 cars a day,\\nand at the same time deliver, through\\nan unequaled system of conveyers, to\\nfour steamships at once. It is the lar-\\ngest, the best-equipped and busiest ele-\\nvator in the United States. In addi-\\ntion to the other facilities, there are\\nwharfs 1500 feet in length.\\nJust at the corner of Orange and An-\\nnunciation, the visitor will notice an\\noM-fashioned wooden residence, with\\npillared veranda and dormer win-\\ndows; this was formerly the\\nSTANLEY RESIDENCE.\\nMr. Stanley was a cotton merchant\\nof a charitable disposition. He adopt-\\ned Henry M. Stanley, who at that\\ntime was a destitute orphan. Stan-\\nley s name was assumed by the boy in\\nlieu of his own, which was originally\\nJohn Rowlands. Everybody knows\\nhow the boy afterwards became fam-\\nous as an explorer.\\nAt Jackson street the Episcopal Or-\\nphans Home, an asylum conducted\\nunder the auspices of the Episcopalian\\ndiocese of Louisiana, is passed. It\\nshelters orphaned girls.\\nDirectly across the street is the\\nMcDonogh High School No. 2, a brick\\nbuilding. originally erected for the\\nJewish Orphans Home, but purchased\\nby the city seven or eight years ago for\\nuse as a public high school for girls\\nfrom the upper districts.\\nClay Square is on Annunciation, be-\\ntween Second and Third streets.\\nANNUNCIATION STREET.\\nThe Annunciation street car fol-\\nlows the line of the Coliseum\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2car, from Canal,\\nas\\nfar\\nErato street. It diverges there to An-\\nnunciation. It will take the visitor\\nthrough a picturesque, but not special-\\nly interesting, part of town. In the\\nvicinity of Annunciation Square it\\npasses through the cotton-press dis-\\ntrict, where, in the season, millions of\\nbales of the fleecy staple are pressed\\nand stored. Long ranks of bales may\\nbe seen ranked along the sidewalk. The\\ndull rumble of the presses is constant-\\nly heard. If the visitor has never\\nseen the presses in operation, it will\\nbe well for him to visit one of the\\nyards, where he will willingly be ad-\\nmitted to see its wonders.\\nA detour is made around An-\\nnunciation Square. This square was\\npresented to the city by a private citi-\\nzen. On one side will be no-\\nticed St. Michael s Church. On the\\nother side is the beautiful residence of\\nithe late E. J. Hart.\\nJACKSON AVENUE.\\nThe Jackson avenue car is operated\\nby the Carrollton Street Car Company,\\nthe oldest company of its kind in the\\nUnited States, dating from 1833. This\\nis the same company that controls the\\nSt. Charles avenue line. The Jack-\\nson cars run from Canal to their termi-\\nnus on Jackson avenue, near the river,\\nthrough a handsome residence dis-\\ntrict.\\nOn the corner of Coliseum and Jack-\\nTRINITY CHURCH.\\nTrinity is an Episcopal church, and\\nso many of its rectors have passed\\nfrom this parish to the bishopric that\\nit is often cal ed The Church of the\\nBishops. It is of Gothic architecture,\\nand contains some very fine stained\\nglass. The congregation was organ-\\nized in 1847. The first rector was Dr.\\nC. P. Clark, who was succeeded by\\nthe Rev. F. D. Dobb. The present\\nstructure dates from 1851, and was\\nbuilt according to the p .ans of George", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "84\\nPurves, at a cost of $22,500. Bishop\\nPolk was called to take charge of the\\nparish in 1855. He left it during the\\ncivil war to become a major general\\nin the Confederate service. In 1865,\\nDr. J. W. Beckwith, now Bishop of\\nGeorgia, became rector. During his\\nincumbency the church was extended\\nand improved at a cost of $25,000. In\\n1868, Rev. J. N. Galleher, afterwards\\nBishop of Louisiana, became rector.\\nHe was succeeded by the Rev. S. S.\\nHarris, now Bishop of Michigan. In\\n1873 the front of the church was re-\\nmodeled at a cost of $16,000. Dr.\\nHugh Miller Thompson, now Bishop\\nof Mississippi, was the next rector. The\\npresent rector is Dr. Beverley Warner,\\nthe distinguished Shakspearean student.\\nThe window dedicated to Bishop Polk\\ncontains scenes from the life of the\\nSavior\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Last Supper, the Cruci-\\nfixion, and the Ascension. Trinity i\u00c2\u00ab\\nreputed to have the best choir among:\\nthe Protestant churches in the city.\\nAmbassador Eustis, when in town,\\nresides in the handsome red-brick house,\\nwith the wide verandas, on the corner\\nopposite Trinity Church.\\nThe little French Church of Notre\\nDame de Bons Secours is on Jackson\\nstreet, near Constance.\\nNAPOLEON AVENUE.\\nThe Carrollton Street Car Company\\nruns a ]ine from St. Charles, Traversing\\nthe main line of the company between\\nNapoleon and Canal, and thence to the\\nriver. Napoleon avenue is a residence\\nstreet.\\nSt. Elizabeth s Asylum is at the cor-\\nner of Prytania and Napoleon ave-\\nnue.\\nAt the corner of Camp and Napoleon\\navenue is St. Stephen s Church, a hand-\\nsome edifice in brick. It has been\\nbuilding for several years, and still\\nlacks the steep e. The interior is noi\\nyet completed, but for the past four\\nyears services have been held in the\\nedifice. The interior was frescoed by\\nan Italian artist, named Peretti. The\\npictm-es over the altar represent th\\nmartyrdom of St. Stephen.\\nThe power-house of the street car\\ncompany at the end of the line is In-\\nteresting, and may be visited upon ap-\\nplication to the foreman.\\nPETERS AVENUE AND DRYADES\\nSTREET CARS.\\nThese cars, which start on Canal\\nstreet, near Carondelet, traverse the\\nleast attractive part of the city. Go-\\ning up town, the route is through South\\nRampart and South Liberty streets.\\nAbove Louisiana avenue, where the\\ncar enters Dryades street, and in\\nPeters avenue, there will be noticed\\nindications of the rapid growth of the\\ncity. A few years ago these two\\nstreets boasted very few residences of\\nany sort; now they are being rapidly\\nbuilt up, and within a brief period will\\nbe numbered among the most attrac-\\ntive in the city.\\nThe cars stop at the upper station,\\ncorner of Arabella and Magazine, with-\\nin sight of the huge rectangular brick\\nLouisiana Retreat, an insane asylum\\nconducted by the Sisters of Charity.\\nThis building stands at the corner of\\nHenry Clay avenue and Coliseum, and\\nis visible from all the street-car lines\\nwhich run to the Audubon Park.\\nReturning, St. Mary s Dominican Con-\\nvent, at No. 1107 Dryades street,\\nand the Turnverein Hall at No. 116\\nClio, are passed.\\nAt the corner of Calliope is the hand-\\nsome church of St. John the Baptist.\\nThis is a Catholic church, and is sur-\\nrounded by convents and schools.\\nAt Howard av nue the car passes\\nwithin sight of the Illinois Central\\nPassenger Station and the head of the\\nNew Basin Canal. This canal, by the\\nway, is exceedingly picturesque, filled\\nalmost all the time with schooners, and\\nlined with saw mills and wood yards.\\nAt the corner of Lafayette and Dry-\\nades is a building of large proportions\\nand obviously once of aristocratic ap-\\npearance. It was formerly the Turn-\\ners Hall, but long ago was abandoned\\nby that organization, being subsequent-\\nly used as a manual-training school by\\nTulane University, and more recently\\nby a manufacturer of tinware.\\nOther points of interest along the line\\nare the Poydras Market: the State\\nLibrary, corner of Dryades and Tu-\\nlane. and the office of the State Medi-\\ncal Society and the New Orleans Medi-\\ncal and Surgical Journal, over the\\nway.\\nThe handsome hall in the middle of\\nthe block is called Tulane Hall, but\\nwas formerly the", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "85\\nMECHANICS INSTITUTE.\\nIt is an exceedingly interesting place,\\n.having been built in the early fifties\\nfor a technical and literary purpose.\\nDuring the civil war, when a State\\ngovernment was formed under the pro-\\ntection of the Federal troops, thl9\\nbuilding was made the State Capitol.\\nIt was used for this purpose till 1866.\\nwhen the July riots, as they were\\ncalled, dissolved the soi disant govern-\\nment. These riots were caused by the\\nunauthorized assembling of the old\\nState convention of 1864. The Presi-\\ndent of that body, E. H. Durell, who\\nsubsequently became Judge of the\\nUnited States District Court, refused\\nto call it together, as he thought it a\\ndefunct organization, without power\\nof lawfully meeting together for the\\ntransaction of business. J. Madison\\nWells, then Governor of the State,\\nthereupon being unable to decide with\\nwhich party he should side, the Demo-\\ncrats or the Republic! ns. maintained\\nn non-committal attitude, favoring,\\nhowever, the Repub ican\u00c2\u00ab. For this\\nreason only a portion of the\\nconvention responded to the call.\\nThe Democrats determined to pre-\\nvent the convention from meeting.\\nWith the countenance of the Republi-\\ncan party in Congress, they resolved\\nto drive out the State Govern-\\nment, of which, with the exception\\n-of the governorship, they held posses-\\nsion. The Mayor of the city, a Demo-\\nj crat, therefore invoked an old State\\nlaw forbidding the assembling of meet-\\nings designed to overturn the Govern-\\nment, and directed the city police to\\nact in conjunction with the Sheriff of\\nthe parish, and to disperse the conven-\\ntion. The members, supported by some\\ncolored adherents, barricaded them-\\nselves inside the building. They re-\\nfused to open the doors when the\\nSheriff demanded admission. The\\nbuilding was then assaulted and taken,\\nseveral being killed on both sides. The\\nLegislature of 1872 met in this build-\\ning, in special session, to count the\\nelection returns. W. P. Kellogg, the\\naspiring Republican Governor, tried to\\nenjoin the State officers and the Legis-\\nlature from carrying out this purpose.\\nJudge Durell. claiming that his in-\\njunction would most probably be dis-\\nregarded, signed at midnight an order\\ndirecting the United States Marshal\\nto \u00c2\u00abeize the Capitol. The Marsha]\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2took a company of United States sol-\\ndiers, seized the hall, and refused to\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2admit any but partisans of Ke logg.\\nFrom this action resulted complica-\\ntions, as a result of which Kellogg be-\\ncame de facto Governor, and was\\nmaintained in that position for four\\nyears, mainly through the help of the\\nFederal troops. The building now be-\\nlongs to Tulane University, and was\\nuntil recently used as a library and\\nmuseum.\\nMISCELLANEOUS.\\nThe Convent of the Benedictine\\nNuns is at No. 3029 Dauphine street.\\nThe French Benevolent Association\\nAsylum, St. Ann, between Derbigny\\nand Roman.\\nOn the corner of North Peters and\\nReynes is St. Isidore s College, a large\\ninstitution under the management of\\nthe congregation of the Holy Cross. It\\nwas opened in 1879 as an industrial\\nschool and model farm, and is closely-\\nmodeled upon the school at Notre\\nDame, Ind.\\nThe Frohsinn Singing Association\\nmeets at No. 612 Gravier.\\nThe Fink Home, for widowed gentle-\\nwomen, a beautiful place, is at No.\\n3643 Camp street.\\nThe Arena Club, an organization of\\nladies interested in social and economic\\nquestions, meets at the residence of\\nthe President, No. 610 Julia street.\\nThe Portia Club and the Era Club\\nare composed of ladies advocating the\\nextension of the franchise. From these\\ntwo organizations has been recently\\nevolved the Louisiana State Suffrage\\nAssociation, the first of its kind in the\\nfar South. It is affiliated to the Wom-\\nan s National Suffrage Association.\\nThey meet in the par ors of the Wom-\\nan s Club, corner of St. Joseph and St.\\nCharles streets.\\nThe Boarding-house for Working\\nWomen, an admirable institution, un-\\nder the auspices of the Woman s Par-\\nsonage and Home .Mission Society of\\nthe Methodist Episcopal Church, South,\\nis at fold) No. 78 Melpomene street,\\nnear Magazine.\\nThe Lafon Home for the Aged and\\nInfirm peonle of the colored race is lo-\\ncated at o d No. 290 St. Peter street,\\nand was founded through the endow-\\nment of Thorny Lafon. a noted colored\\nphilanthropist of New Orleans.\\nTHE MASONIC TEMPLE\\nis a statelv building of brick, at the\\ncorner of Perdido and St. Charles. It\\nwas built in 1,891. from a design by\\nJames Freret. The statue on the", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": ".86\\ncorner pinnacle is of bronze, and rep-\\nresents Jacques de Molay. The upper\\nfloors are reserved for lodgerooms; the\\nlower for offices. The Grand Lodge\\nof Louisiana has its offices here.\\nRAILROADS.\\nThe Illinois Central and the Yazoo\\nand Mississippi Valley railroads pas-\\nsenger depot is on Rampart, corner of\\nHoward avenue. The South Rampart,\\nDryades and Peters avenue cars pass\\nin front of the depot; the Dryades and\\nRampart cars pass within one block.\\nThe Louisville and Nashville Rail-\\nroad depot is at the head of Canal\\nstreet. Almost every car in the city\\npasses near by.\\nThe Southern Pacific Railroad depoi\\nis at the head of Esplanade street, on\\nthe river bank. It is reached by the\\nLevee and Barracks cars; by the\\nBaronne and Carondelet and the Clio\\nand Erato cars, and by the Esplanade\\nand French Market lines.\\nThe Queen and Crescent (or North-\\neastern) Railroad depot is located at\\nthe head of Press street, on the river.\\nThe Levee and Barracks car furnishes-\\nthe most convenient means of access\\nfrom Canal street.\\nThe Texas and Pacific Railroad de-\\npot is on the river bank, at the head\\nof Terpsichore street. The Tchoupi-\\ntoulas street cars will bring the visitor\\nwithin three blocks of the depot.\\nThe East Louisiana Railroad shares\\nthe Spanish Port Road s depot, corner\\nof Canal and Basin.\\nThe Pontchartrain Railroad has its\\ndepot on Elysian Fields, not far from\\nthe river, and it is reached by the same\\ncars as the Southern Pacific.\\nThe Shell Beach Railroad s depot is\\non Elysian Fields, corner of St. Claude.\\nThe New Orleans and Western uses\\n1he i same depot.\\nThe West End Railroad has no de-\\npot, but the trains receive passengers\\nat the corner of Canal and Carondelet\\nstreets.\\nThe Spanish Fort Railroad depot is\\nat the corner of Canal and Basin.\\nCHAPTER XI.\\n.THE ROMANCE OF THE LIFE OF JOHN\\nM DONOGH\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ON THE LEVEE. ETC.\\nThe educational system of New Or-\\nleans is unsurpassed. There are about\\nsixty public schoolhouses, which have\\ncost on an average of $40,000 each.\\nThe public school attendance, accord-\\ning to the last report, averaged 30,000\\nchildren, including the attendance of\\nthe three high schools and the Normal\\nSchool. Ten of the public school build-\\nings are reserved for the education of\\nthe colored youth.\\nSome thirty of the public school build-\\nings were either bought or built and are\\nkept in repair through the noble en-\\ndowment of John McDonogh. For this\\nreason the visitor will see inscribed on\\nmany of the finest school buildings the\\nname McDonogh, followed by the\\nnumber of the school. The history of\\nJohn McDonogh reads like a romance\\nin these latter days. He was of Scotch-\\nIrish parentage and was born in Balti-\\nmore in 17T9. He was liberally edu-\\ncated, and early in life embarked in\\ncommercial pursuits. In 1800 he came\\nto New Orleans, where he opened busi-\\nness on his own account, and was soon\\nregarded as one of the most successful-\\nand wealthy men. In 1806, young, gay,\\ndashing and a general favorite, not only\\nin business circles, but in the most ex-\\nclusive homes of the old Creole no-\\nblesse, he retired from commercial life;\\nand devoted himself to the manage-\\nment of his large estates. He opened a\\nmagnificent house at the corner of\\nChartres and Toulouse streets, kept a*\\nnumerous retinue of slaves, fine horses\\nand equipages, and was considered one\\nof the most desirable matches in the\\nFrench quarter. But young McDonogh\\naspired high, and in the privileged\\ncircle in which he moved none pleased\\nhim so well as the beautiful young\\ndaughter of Don Andres Almonaster y\\nRoxas, who had been intendant of\\nfinances during the Spanish domina-\\ntion in New Orleans. He went to Don\\nAndres and asked for permission to\\nwed the Donna Micaela Leonarda; but", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "ST\\nthe proud old Spanish nobleman in-\\ndignantly rejected the suit, declaring\\nthat a daughter of his noble race should\\nnever ally herself to a poor plebeian\\ntradesman. Stung to the heart, Mc-\\nDonogh withdrew. The lady subsequent-\\nly became the wife of the Baron vie\\nPontalba, and McDonogh s grief and\\nmortification weighed so heavily upon\\nhim that he swore he would labor until\\nhe would have more money than all\\nthe Almonasters and Pontalbas put to-\\ngether, and that his name would live\\nwhen their proud titles would have\\nsunk into oblivion. From that hour his\\nhabits and nature changed: in his\\nbitter anger he sold the contents of his\\nmagnificent house in Chartres street,\\nand moved to a small house on his\\nplantation in McDonoghville. on the\\nother side of the river, where, for nearly\\nhalf a century, he led a lonely, penuri-\\nous life, with seemingly one ambition\\nthe amassing of money. He seemed, to\\nall appearances, cold, hard, selfish, and\\nthe prejudice in New Orleans against\\nthe close, miserly life he held was\\ngreat. Wherever he passed he was\\npointed out as the miser. At his death,\\nin 1850, he left his immense fortune\\nto. be divided, share and share alike,\\nbetween the cities of New Orleans and\\nBaltimore for public educational pur-\\nposes. A long series of lawsuits were\\ninstituted after McDonogh died, but the\\nwill was finally sustained and divided\\nbetween the two cities. In New Orleans\\nthe fund has been managed by a board\\nof commissioners, and the principal\\nsome time ago amounted to over $1,-\\n000,000.\\nMcDonogh s will is an exceedingly\\npathetic paper, covering over eighty\\npapers of fools cap paper. It is inter-\\nlined with passages here and there, as\\nif in a last heartbreaking attempt after\\ndeath to justify himself before a world\\nwhose opinions he seemed to value so\\nlittle in life. He went very thoroughly\\ninto the details of the management of\\nhis bequest. No condition was attached\\nto the gift to the city of New Orleans\\nexcept the simple request at the bottom\\nof the will that the little children of\\nthe public schools should come once a\\nyear and strew his grave with flowers.\\nThe remains of McDonogh have been\\nremoved to his native Baltimore, ac-\\ncording to his request; but McDonogh\\nDay is regularly kept in the public\\nschools, the children annually devoting\\nan afternoon to memorial exercises in\\nhis honor and crowning his bust with\\nflowers.\\nAmong his papers, carefully hidden\\naway, were found a woman s faded\\nslipper and a knot of perfumed ribbon.\\nThey were all that remained to tell\\nthe tale of his early love and the dis-\\nappointment that shadowed his life.\\nMILITARY ORGANIZATIONS.\\nNew Orleans is in the First Military\\nDistrict, and most of the militia or-\\nganizations are comprehended in the\\nFirst Brigade. The Third Battalion,\\na popular organization, has an armory\\non Common street, between Camp and\\nSt. Charles, above the Auctioneers\\nExchange. The Fourth Battalion has\\nits armory in Exchange Alley, be-\\ntween Canal and Customhouse. The\\nSixth Battalion s armory is in the\\nWashington Artillery Hall, Caronde-\\nlet street side. The latest of these\\norganizations is the Seventh Bat-\\ntalion, the armory of which is on\\nUnion street, between St. Charles and\\nCarondelet, in the same building as\\nthe Camera Club, ihe Battalion\\nWashington Artillery owns a hand-\\nsome hall on St. Charles street, near\\nJulia, to which allusion has already\\nbeen made. The Louisiana Field Ar-\\ntillery, of which Battery B is a part.\\nis located in the rear of the Washing-\\nton Artillery Hall, and this armory\\nhas an entrance on Carondelet street.\\nThis organization shares its quarter*\\nwith the Naval Reserve. The only\\nforeign company, the Tiro al Ber-\\nsaglio, was specially exempted from\\nmembership in the National Guard.\\nIt has not been heard of recently. The\\nonly other military organization in the\\ncity, the Continental Guards, have an\\narmory at 936 Canal street.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "88\\nTHE LEVEE.\\nOne of the features of New Orleans\\nwhich can but prove of great intere\u00c2\u00bbt\\nto the stranger in New Orleans is the\\nLevee that is, the river front. It ia\\ncalled the Levee because it consist* 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\\nways from its original channel, so\\nthat many solid blocks of buildings\\nstand where the river flowed when\\nBienville first looked upon it; and the\\nconstant additions of the levee give a\\ngradual slope up to 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\\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\\nsights which will interest the visitor,\\nif at all conversant with commercial\\nmatters. Near the foot of Canal street\\nhe will find the Steamboat Landing,\\nwhere boats of all sorts and sizes, from\\nthe stately river packets, which trade\\nup the river to Vicksburg, Memphis,\\nCairo and St. Louis, to the little stern-\\nwheelers, which run up Red River, and\\ninto Bayou Atchafalaya and along the\\nLower Coast.\\nHere the packets lie, busily receiving\\nand discharging freight, with a throng\\nof darkies waiting about hoping for a job\\nas longshoremen to assist in the work\\nof handling the cargo, or as roustabout*,\\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\\nafford accommodation to the swarms\\nof steamboats of all classes that sought\\nher levees and carried her commerce,\\nit is rather a sad sight to watch the\\ncomparatively few now to be seen\\nthere. The railroads, reaching north,\\n\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bbast and west, with their rapid trans-\\nportation and low rates, have well-\\nnigh killed the river traffic. 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 in-\\nterest to be seen on the levee. Here, near\\nthe head of Thalia street, is the Fruit\\nLanding, where almost any day may\\nbe found one or more vessels, iron\\nsteamships mostly, discharging great\\ncargoes of tropical fruits bananas,\\npineapples, cocoanuts, lemons and\\nother things brought from ports on\\nthe Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean\\nSea. A. good deal of this fruit stops\\nin New Orleans, especially the ripest\\nof it, and is exposed for sale in her\\nmarkets at ridiculously low prices; but\\nthe great bulk of it is loaded into cars\\nright at the wharf, and a few hours\\nafter the arrival of the ship is flying\\nnorthward towards St. Louis. Chicago,\\nCincinnati, Louisville and other cities,\\nto be 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. These\\nnever fail of a cargo of sugar, mo-\\nlasses, cotton or other characteristic\\nproducts of the South. Below at\\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 or more a day.\\nFurther down is the Morgan Landing,\\nwhere, day after day, are seen ships of\\nthe Morgan Line, trading to New York\\nor to some port on the gulf, though\\nnow the most of. the Morgan Line s\\nGulf boats land at Morgan City, some\\neighty miles to the west, receiving their\\nfreight and passengers by the Southern\\nPacific Railroad.\\nClose by this is the Lugger Landing,\\ncalled also the Picayune Tier. where\\nis always to be seen a most picturesque\\nsight. Here gathers a swarm of lug-\\ngers, with their huge square saf.s tied\\ndown on their long booms, or flapping\\nidly in the breeze to dry. while their\\npicturesque crews of traders through\\n..e bayous and lakes of the lower Louis-\\niana coast Greeks. Italians. Dagoes,\\nFrench, negroes and nondescripts\\nbustle about unloading cargoes of\\noranges, oysters, fish, vegetables and\\nall the various produce of the land and\\nwater of their section, or loiter Idly\\nabout, smoking their cigarettes and\\ncooking their meals over queer little\\nfurnaces fired with charcoal while wait-\\ning for some sort of a cargo.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "89\\nAlong the levee, both above and\\nDeiow Canal street, may be seen at\\nmost seasons of ihe year, 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 care\\nnot where.\\nYonder, across the river, at Gretna.\\nand on this side at Southport, just abeve\\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, yon\\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\\n-the 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 not suf-\\nfer by passing through the warm\\nclimate 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 and\\npacked with barrels and hogsheads of\\nsugar and molasses. And, big as\\nthey are, they afford scant room for the\\nproduct that seeks this greatest sugar\\nmai r t in the United States. The har-\\n~els of sweets overflow the sheds,\\ncrowd all the warehouses in the vicin-\\nity, overrun the levee and block the\\nsidewalks. There is sugar everywhere.\\nClose by the 6heds are several great\\nrefineries, where the crude product of\\nthe sugar-houses on the plantations is\\nchanged into the beautiful white sugar\\nthat you see upon your table. It is well\\nworth while to look through one of\\nthem.\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nTHE RESORTS. ETC.\\nNew Orleans is especially well sup-\\nplied with places of open-air resort.\\nIn addition to the numerous squares\\nwhich stud the residence portion of\\nthe city, and the City Park, of which\\nmention has already been made, there\\nare the lakeside resorts and Audubon\\nPark. The lakeside resorts are West\\nEnd, Spanish Fort and Milneburg.\\nThe most popular of these Is\\nWEST END.\\nIt is reached by dummy train, start-\\ning from Canal and Carondelet streets.\\nThis train runs out Canal to the Half-\\nway House, makes an abrupt turn,\\nand follows the New Basin Canal to\\nthe resort. Another way is by car-\\nriage out Canal to the Halfway House,\\nacross the bridge, and thence out along\\nthe famous Shellroad. The New Ba-\\nsin Canal was built to enable schoon-\\ners and other small craft to reach the\\nheart of the city. The canal is State\\nproperty. It terminates at the New\\nBasin, alongside the Illinois Central\\nDepot, on South Rampart and How-\\nard avenue. West End is so called\\nfrom its position on Lake Pontchar-\\ntrain. The lake itself is a body of\\nbrackish water about 18 miles in\\ndiameter, being nearly round in shape,\\nand in no place of very great depth.\\nIt affords yachtsmen a splendid oppor-\\nportunity for small yachts opportunity\\nof which advantage is taken annually,\\nwhen, in the summer time, a series of\\nregattas are held. Lake Pontchartrain\\ncommunicates with Lakes Maurepas\\nand Borgne and through the latter\\nwith the Mississippi Sound. The vis-\\nitor will notice on the railroad side\\nof the canal a number of clubhouses.\\nThe first of these is the St. John s\\nRowiner Club; then comes the West\\nEnd Rowing Club. The former is\\nthe best known. Rowing regattas\\ntake place annually under the aus-\\npices of these clubs, the admission to\\nthe clubhouses being on those occa-\\nsions by card from the members. The\\nlarge Music Plaza, on the other side\\nof the bridge, is built on pilings over\\nthe water, and forms what is, perhaps,", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "!0\\nthe largest work of the kind in exist-\\nence. During the summer months a\\nfine orchestra plays in the music\\nmost all these buildings were burned,,\\na few years ago, and the present ones-\\nwere finished about three years ago*.\\nstand to an audience of thousands. The\\nrarious restaurants here are famous\\nfor the excellence of their cooking. Al-\\nThe crest of the levee beyond the\\nplaza has been utilized for a flower\\ngarden, where the most beautiful tropic", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "91\\nblossoms may be seen blooming luxuri-\\nantly in the open air. This garden ter-\\nminates at the parish line, and the\\nsward beyond is in the parish of Jef-\\nferson. Leading out from the plaza\\nis a long wharf, at the end of which\\nmay be seen the Southern Yacht Club,\\na social club, under whose auspices\\nmany celebrated races have taken\\nplace. It was formed about twenty-\\nfive years ago. Admission on regatta\\ndays may be had only by presenting a\\ncard of invitation obtained from the\\nclub.\\nTHE SPANISH FORT\\nis reached by train from a depot on\\nCanal, at North Basin street. On the\\nway out, the train passes several points\\nof interest. The visitor will notice on\\nthe right the basin into which the\\nBayou St. John discharges itself, and\\nthe old St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. At\\nBroad street the train passes the\\nHOUSE OF THE GOOD\\nSHEPHERD.\\nA few particulars concerning this\\nunique institution may be of interest.\\nIt is a reformatory institution, under\\nthe management of the Sisters of the\\nGood Shepherd. The buildings, which\\nare of brick, are very extensive and\\ndivided into several distinct parts. All\\ngirls placed in the reformatory are em-\\nployed in various household duties.\\nand do washing and sewing for various\\npublic institutions, hotels, etc. Admis-\\nsion may be secured on application to\\nthe Superior at the Bienville street\\nentrance. It is an experience to attend\\nservice in the chapel. The visitors\\nare separated by a grating from the\\nbody of the church, and do not see\\nthe hundreds whose murmurings are\\naudible all around. Those of the\\ngirls who show themselves qualified and\\ndesirous to enter upon a religious life\\nare admitted to the Order of Magda-\\nlens. The sisters of the Good Shepherd\\nwear robes of pure white but the Mag-\\ndalens wear a robe of brown, in dis-\\ntinction from the spotless women who\\nenter the order to devote their lives to\\nthe reformation of the outcasts.\\nAt Hagan avenue the train passes\\none of the city draining machines, by\\nwhich the rain waters are moved\\nthrough canals and expedited in their\\neourse to lake Pontchartrain. At Metai-\\n*rie Ridge the road passes the upper\\nend of the City Park, affording an ex-\\ncellent view of the old duelling grounds.\\nThe road then follows the Orleans\\ndrainage canal out to the Fort.\\nSPANISH FORT\\nis a small village, with pleasure gar-\\ndens, situated at the mouth of Bayou\\nSt. John, a stream navigable for\\nschooners. This stream connects with\\nthe Canal Carondelet, one of the\\nwaterways leading into the heart of\\nthe city. The fort was erected in the last\\ncentury by the Spaniards, and called\\nby them Fort St. John. So long as they\\ndominated the colony it was armed and\\ngarrisoned. The fortifications, built of\\nsmall brick, are fairly well preserved,\\nthe embrasures having been filled up\\nand the rampart having been made\\nlevel to accommodate seats. After the\\nSpaniards departed the Americans\\nfound that the fort was too far inland\\nto be of great service, and when they\\nacquired control of Louisiana it was\\nabandoned. Behind the fort are four\\ncypress trees. They stand near the\\ngate leading into the garden. Tradition\\nsays they mark the grave of a young\\nSpanish officer killed in a duel on this\\nspot. It was at this fort that General\\nJackson, in 1814, hastening from the\\nIndian war in Tennessee to take com-\\nmand at New Orleans, first landed.\\nHe came across the lake in a schooner.\\nFrom this place he rode to Bayou\\nBridge, and there rested before making\\nhis entry into the city, on the follow-\\ning day. During the civil war it wa\u00c2\u00bb\\nagain garrisoned, and the old guns now\\nto be seen there, some of them dating\\nfrom colonial times, were mounted and\\nused in the two or three encounters\\nwhich took place under these walls.\\nA house has been built on one side of\\nthe fort and is used as a restaurant,\\nwhere good fish dinners may be had.\\nThe foundations of some of the old\\nhouses which formerly stood within the\\nwalls may still be seen. The old torpedo\\nboat, which may be seen near the\\nbayou, was fished up out of that stream\\na few years ago. It was an abortive\\nexperiment, made during the civil war.\\nin the line of submarine navigation.\\nThe fort and the surrounding gardens\\nbelong to the East Louisiana Railroad\\nCompany. During the summer months a\\nband plays in the pavilion, and a pleas-\\nant evening may be spent under the\\ntrees. The resort is closed at 9 o clock.\\nThe last of the lake resorts is", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "92\\nMILNEBURG.\\nIt is reached by the Pontchartrain\\nRailroad, from a station at the corner\\nof Elysian Fields and Chartres streets.\\nThe Pontchartrain Railroad was the\\nsecond railroad ever built in the United\\nStates. It was exceedingly primitive at\\nfirst, but was gradually improved. At\\nthat time all the freight cars on the\\nrailroads were unloaded just as wagons\\nare unloaded; but the superintendent\\nof the Pontchartrain invented the\\nsimple platform which may now be\\neverywhere seen. The road runs in a\\nstraight line for four miles along what\\nis the shortest distance between the\\nriver and the lake. Milneburg was\\nnamed after a benevolent Scotchman,\\nwho was for many years prominent in\\nthis city. His name was Alexander\\nMilne. The resort is now little fre-\\nquented except by fishermen. There\\nused to be a famous cook here, named\\nBoudro. who managed a celebrated\\nrestaurant. When Thaokery was in\\nNew Orleans a banquet was given to\\nhie at Bondro s, to which allusion is\\nmade in ore of Thackery s books. The\\nrestaurant remains, but Boudro is gone\\nand his glory hath departed.\\nAUDUBON PARK\\nis a favorite rescrr for children at all\\ntimes of the year; for bicyclists, when\\nthe weather is propitious, and, in the\\nsummer time, for all citizens of New\\nOilcans resident in the upper parts of\\nthe city. It is a beautiful spot, cover-\\ning 249 acres. The park was originally\\npar of the sugar plantation of Etienne\\ntie Bore, first mayor of New Orleans,\\nwho introduced the cultivation of cane\\nami manufacture of sugar into New\\nOrleans. On this land was raised the\\nfirst commercially profitable crop of\\nsugar ev^r grown in the south. The\\nland underwent several changes of\\nownership, and fell finally into the\\nl);inds of the Marquis de Circe Foucher,\\nby whose heirs it was sold to the city.\\nIt was for many years suffered to lie\\nwaste and unimproved. In 1884-85 it\\nwas occupied by the World s Cotton\\nCentennial Exposition. The managers\\nof that enterprise greatly beautified\\nthe spot. Al the exposition buildings\\nwere removed except the horticultural\\nhal which still stands. The park\\nwas, about 1886, placed under the con-\\ntrol of a commission, thanks to whom\\ngreat progress has been made in beau-\\ntifying it. The horticultural hall is\\nover 300 feet long and contains a re-\\nmark aide co lection of rare plants. It\\nis perhaps the largest greenhouse in\\nexistence The section of the park\\nlying between Magazine and the river\\nis kept in perfect order. The task of\\nimproving the rest of the park is pro-\\nceeding slowly. The live oaks are\\nvery fine, especially the long avenue\\nin front and behind the hall. The single\\nmagnificent specimen standing in soli-\\ntary majesty beside the lake is called\\nthe George Washington oak. The\\npark is reached by half a dozen lines\\nof cars. In summer time a band plays\\non alternate evenings in a stand under\\nthe oaks near the horticultural hall.\\nThe best car to reach this part of ^he\\ngrounds is the Canal. Coliseum and\\nUpper Magazine.\\nCHAPTER XITI.\\nTHE CEMETERIES.\\nThe Cemeteries of New Orleans are\\namong the most interesting sights the\\ncity has to offer. Six or seven of these\\nburial places will be found grouped\\ntogether on Metairie Ridge, at the\\nHalf-Way House. The visitor should\\ntake the electric car on Canal street,\\nconspicuously lettered Canal Street\\nand Cemeteries. The first of the ceme-\\nteries that he will come to on approach-\\ning the Ridge is the Jewish one, called\\nTememe Direch. On the other side is\\nanother Jewish cemetery belonging to\\nthe Congregation Dispersed of Judah.\\nSt. Patrick s Cemetery is the next.\\nThe Charity Hospital burial grounds\\nare on the left-hand, and on the right\\nis Cypress Grove Cemetery No. 2. Just\\nbeyond the Charity Hospital Cemetery\\nis the Firemen s Cemetery, conspicuous\\nfor the massive Egyptian columns at\\nthe entrance. Greenwood Cemetery is\\njust opposite. Metairie is the large and\\nhandsome cemetery on the other side\\nof the neat iron bridge over the New\\nBasin Canal.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "-93\\nIt is interesting to observe the pe-\\nculiarities which render these ceme-\\nteries unique in the United States. The\\nsoil being very damp, it was long ago\\nagreed that burial beneath the earth\\nwas impracticable and unsanitary.\\nTherefore, the cemeteries abound with\\ntombs of brick or marble. These tombs,\\nconsisting of two vaults, with a crypt\\nbelow for the bones, are carefully ce-\\nmented to prevent exhalations from the\\ndecaying animal matter, and there is\\na law forbidding any one to open a\\ntomb before a certain time shall have\\nelapsed after a burial. Sometimes these\\ntombs are built in tiers, like a wall of\\nextraordinary thickness, and are then\\ncemeteries. This day is not ob-\\nserved in the Jewish Cemeteries.\\nPersons of that faith, however, com-\\nmemorate the anniversary of a death\\nby decorating the grave and hn*-nin r\\nbefore the tomb a lighted candle I^r\\ntwenty-four hours. The celebration of\\nAll Saints has been traced back to\\nthe Abbott Odilo of Cluney, who in-\\nstituted it for the monasteries of his\\ncongregations in the year 9US. It is an\\nancient French and Spanish custom in\\nNew Orleans and has been appropriated\\nby all the Christian nationalities.\\nThe visitor will be interested prin-\\ncipally in Metairie Cemetery. It occu-\\npies the site of the old\\nA CEMETERY AISLE.\\ncalled ovens. After a year or two,\\nif the tomb is required for another\\nperson, the slab is removed, the wooden\\ncoffin broken up and burned and the\\nremains, if there be any, deposited in\\nthe crypt. In this manner a long series\\nof burials may take place in a single\\ntomb.\\nALL SAINTS DAY\\nis very generally observed in New\\nOrleans. It falls on Nov. 1. On that day\\nthe tombs are decorated with flowers.\\nbead wreaths, lighted candles and\\ndraperies, as the taste of the ewner\\nmay suggest. In the afternoon reli-\\ngious services are held in the Catholic\\nMETAIRIE RACE COURSE,\\nwhich, thirty years ago, was the inos\\nfamous course in the United States.\\nThe rules governing it were gradually\\nadopted throughout the Union, and the\\nmodem code is predicated upon them.\\nPrior to 1S55 New Orleans possessed\\nfive race courses. There was the\\nI^clipse track in Carrollton, which\\npassed out of use in 1845; the Binga-\\nman course, in Akners: the Louisiana\\ncourse, on the Hopkins plantation,\\nabout twelve miles below the city, and\\nthe Union, now known as the Louisi-\\nana Jockey Club course, the only one\\nnow in existence. Many stirring anec-\\ndotes are told of the races on the", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "94\\nMetairie course, such as that of the\\nrace between Colonel Wells and Dun-\\ncan F. Kenner, both gentlemen of\\nwealth and social position. Colonel\\nWells maintained that a certain horse,\\nwhich had been beaten, would have\\nwon a race had he (Colonel Wells)\\nbeen riding it. Mr. Kenner, who owned\\nthe winner, controverted thus statement,\\nami a bet of $1000 a side was the re-\\nsult, the race to be between horses\\nridden by Wells and Kenner, 2-mile\\nheats. A third horse, ridden by an\\nEnglish gentleman named Holland,\\nwas subsequently entered, thus raising\\nthe stakes to $3000. The two Americans\\nwere stout, and, after the first heat,\\nwere considerably used up. While they\\nwere resting Colonel Wells expressed\\nhimself too weary to ride another heat.\\nThereupon, Kenner announced himself\\nready to continue the race, and, al-\\nthough in no better condition than his\\nopponent, bluffed him into a com-\\npromise. The great event, however,\\nwith which the name of the Metairie\\ncourse is most conspicuously identified\\nwas the race between Lexington and Le-\\ncompte, on April 1, 1854. The former\\nhad been reared by a Dr. Warfield,\\nnear Lexington, Ky. The latter, though\\nfoaled in Kentucky, was brought to\\nMississippi by his owner, Colonel Jeff\\nWells, on whose plantation he was bred\\nAnd trained. Besides Lexington and Le-\\ncompte, who were entered respectively\\nas champions of Kentucky and Missis-\\nsippi, there were entered for the race\\nthe famous horse Highlander, to repre-\\nsent Alabama, and Arrow, as the cham-\\npion of Louisiana. The race was 4-mile\\nheats, with twelve subscribers, three\\nfor each State, $3000: total, $20,000.\\nLexington won two heats and dead-\\nlocked a third with Highlander. The\\nresult not being considered satisfactory,\\non the following Saturday a second\\nrace was arranged for a purse of $2000.\\nLecompte won the race, greatly to the\\nastonishment of the spectators, among\\nwhom were many notable men, in-\\ncluding Ex-President Filmore. Lexing-\\nton and Lecompte met again on the\\nMetairie track on Apri 2. 1855, and\\nthe Kentucky champion was victorious.\\nThe stake of this occasion was $10,000.\\nColonel Wells claimed that his horse\\nhad not been fairly treated, and with-\\ndrew him after the second or third\\nheat. Lecompte was subsequently sold\\nto Ton Broeck. who took the valiant\\nhorse to. England, where he died soon\\nafter his arrival. Lexington subsequent-\\nly went blind, and was then sold to\\nMr. R. A. Alexander, of Kentucky, for\\n$15,000. Lexington lived to be 20 years\\nof age, and died, leaving behind him a\\nprogeny still noted on the course for\\nits fieetness and endurance. After the\\nwar the Metairie course was frequently\\nthe scene of gentlemen races, the\\ncontestants being, in a number of\\ncases, the officers of the Federal troops\\nstationed here. Captain Charles King,\\nwho won one of these events, has given\\na capital description of the course in\\none of his novels.\\nThe Metairie Jockey Club went out\\nof existence about 1870.\\nMETAIRIE CEMETERY.\\nThis beautiful cemetery is owned\\nby an association organized in\\n1872. The system of lakes and\\nand lawns was executed in 1895, at a\\ncost of $30,000. The first lake, start-\\ning near the entrance to the cemetery,\\nis called the Horseshoe; a carriage\\ndrive 32 feet wide extends around the\\nlake, and there is a shady promenade\\nfor pedestrians. The second lake is\\ncalled Lake Mott, and is 1200 feet\\nlong, or one-half as long as the Horse-\\nshoe, the third is called Prospect\\nLake, and is 2700 feet long. There\\nare many fine tombs in this cemetery.\\nNear the entrance is the mound-shaped\\nvault of the Confederate Benevolent\\nAssociation of the Army of Tennessee,\\nsurmounted by Doyle s famous eques-\\ntrian statue of General Albert Sidney\\nJohnston. The burial vault in the heart\\nof the mound contains a tablet to the\\nmemory of General Johnston, on which\\nis inscribed Dimitry s famous epitaph,\\nsaid to be one of the finest mortuary\\ninscriptions in the English language.\\nAt the entrance to the vault stands a\\nmarble statue of an orderly sergeant\\nCalling the Ro]l. also from the chisel\\nof Doyle. The trophy of arms over the\\nentrance was modelled by Perelli from\\nthe badge of the association. The\\ntomb of the Association Army of North-\\nern Virginia is surmounted by a shaft,\\ncrowned by a statue of General S^ ie-\\nwall Jackson. Near by is the monu-\\nment of the Washington Artillery, sur-\\nmounted bv a statue of their old com-\\nmander. Colone J. B. Walton. The\\ntombs of General Fred N. Ogden and\\nof Dr. J. D. Bruns. the one a conspicu-\\nous figure of reconstruction days and\\ncommander of the celebrated White\\nLeague, and the other a poet and physi-", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "i). r\\ncian, are close together. General Og-\\nden s is marked by an enormous bowld-\\ner, with the name roughly cut\\ninto it. Just before reaching these\\ninteresting graves the visitor will\\npass the Clapp tomb, which is in\\nthe form of a partly-draped sarco-\\nphagus. The Howard tomb is a\\nlarge structure of granite, with iron\\ngates, through which the visitor may\\nsee the interior, and the statue of\\nTime, seated, with a finger pressed to\\nhis lips. The face of this statue is said\\nto have been modelled from Mr. How-\\nard s. In this cemetery also will be\\nmain drive and reserved a large lake\\nin the center.\\n.HE FIREMEN S CEMETERY\\nr-outaiha a number of fine tombs, be-\\nlonging to the various volunteer fire\\ncompanies which formerly constituted\\nl he fire department of the city. Near\\nthe entrance will be seen the lofty\\nshattered column, which commemorate*\\nIrad Ferry, the first martyr of the de-\\npartment, who was killed at a fire on\\nt amp street, in January, 1837, in the\\ndischarge of his duty. The volunteer\\nCONFEDERATE MONUMENT. -GREENWOOD CEMETERY.\\nfound the tombs of Mr. and Mrs. Geo.\\nNicholson, late proprietors of the Pica-\\nyune, who died in February, 1896.\\nNear the entrance will be seen the\\nlarge receiving vault, built in the form\\nof a chapel. Among the notable tombs\\nare those of the Hernandez, Slocomb\\nand Morris families, and near the\\ncentral lake that of the McC.ui\\nfamily. The grounds were origin-\\nally laid out. in accordance with the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0plans of Major B. M. Harrod, which\\nretained the old race course as the\\nfiremen included the best men in the\\ncity, socially as well as commercially,\\nand Iran Ferry was, as the long in-\\nscription on the tomb attests, one of\\nthe best known citizens in New Or-\\nleans. On the main aisle of this ceme-\\ntery may be seen the column commem-\\norating John T. Monroe, the war mayor\\nof the city. The tomb of Perseverance\\nFire Company No. 13 is near the main\\nentrance. Maunsel White, one time\\nmayor of New Orleans, but now better\\nknown as the inventor of the pepper-", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "96\\nsauce which bears his name, is buried\\nhere. The tomb of the Bakers Society\\nshould also be visited.\\nIn\\nGREENWOOD CEMETERY\\nthe visitor will notice especially the\\nlarge tombs erected by the Swiss So-\\nciety, the Association of Alsace and\\nLorraine, erected in 1874; and the\\nTypographical Union, inaugurated in\\n1855. The beautiful and artistic monu-\\nment dedicated to the memory of over\\n500 Confederate soldiers, who sleep\\nwithin its shadows, stands at the corner\\nformed by the continuation of Canal\\nstreet and the New Basin Canal. The\\ntomb where rest D. S. Woodruff, ex-\\nforeman, and Wm. McLeod, foreman,\\nof Mississippi Fire ComDany No. 2,\\nboth killed at a fire in 1854, i6 in this\\ncemetery. A. D. Crossman. mayor of\\nthe city, who died in 1857, is buried\\nhere also. A gallant soldier and journal-\\nist, Dan C. Byerly, who fell during\\none of the heated political conflicts\\nwhich grew out of the rancors of re-\\nconstruction times, sleeps peacefully\\nhere. At the lower end oi the cemetery\\nis an artistic monument to the firemen\\nin the form of a lofty pavilion, in which\\nsti nds the marble figure of a fireman,\\ncarrying a line of hose.\\nThere are three St. Louis Cemeteries.\\nST. LOUIS NO. 1.\\nsituated on Basin street, between\\nConti and St. Louis, is the oldest\\ncemetery in the city. The graves are\\nscattered irregularly over the in-\\nclosure, and form tortuous alleys,\\nthrough which it is difficult to find one s\\nway. Many of the tombs belong to\\nancient Creole families, and many of\\nthe names on the crumbling stones\\nfigured prominently in the early history\\nof the State. Almost in juxtaposition\\nwill be found -ho tombs of Benedict\\nVan Predelles. who died in 1808,\\nand who was ;in officer of the Revo-\\nlution under Lafayette, and of Paul\\nMorphy, the gr^at chess nlayer, who\\ndied in .Tune, 1884. One of the largest\\ntombs is that belonging to the Italian\\nSociety, which is easily found on ac-\\ncount of its great heisht. and the com-\\nmanding statue of white marble, repre-\\nsenting Religion snnporting a cross. In\\nthe rear of this will be found the tomb\\nof the Societe Frnneaise, a French\\nbenevolent society. On the same alley.\\nto the right, is the last resting place\\nof Daniel Clark, erected by his friend\\nand executor, Richard Relf. Clark wa\\nthe American consul in New Orleans\\nduring Spanish times, and was claimed\\nby Myra dark Gaines as her father\\na claim out of which grew a litgation\\nfamous throughout the country. In\\nfront of the tomb of the Societe Fran-\\ncaise is the tomb of the Artillerie d Or-\\nleans, a company which served valiant-\\nly through the civil war. In an alley\\non the right is the tomb of Stephen\\nZacharie, founder of the first bank\\nestablished in the Missisippi valley.\\nNearby is the vault of the Chinese So-\\nciety. The Portuguese monument was\\nerected in 1848. lust beyond this tomb,\\non the Canal street side of the ceme-\\ntery, is a quiet spot containing a pretty\\nchapel, where the Jesuit priests\\nare hnried. On some of the tombs\\nin this quaint cemetery wi l be\\nseen this phrase: Mort sur les champ\\nd honmur, or Victime de l houneur, r\\nindicating that here sleeps some one\\nwho had fallen in a duel. In the rear\\nof the cemetery will be found a very\\nlow. old-fashioned brick tomb, hardly\\ntwo feet above the ground. It contains\\nthe remains of the late Judge Charles\\nGayarre, a celebrated historian, whose\\nhistory of Louisiana is greatly admired.\\nHe died in 1804 and was buried in the\\ntomb of his grandfather. Ftienne de\\nBore, one of the colonial dignitaries,\\nwho was the first mayor of New Or-\\nleans, the first planter who succeeded\\nin granulating sugar and who possessed\\nother claims to distinction. Among the\\nold family tombs are those of the\\nf laiboriv s, Yilleres, Fortiers, Heberts.\\netc. At the back of this cemetery, be-\\nyond a board fence, which separates\\nthe consecrated from the nnconsecrated\\nground, may be found the original mon-\\nument erected to the memory of Gen-\\neral Claiborne, the first American gov-\\nernor of Louisiana. It was once a beau-\\ntiful monument, but now decayed and\\nneglected, and possessing merely an\\nhistoric interest, as the remains of th\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb\\ngeneral were long since removed to\\na costly tomb in Metairie Cemetery.\\nThere are three other\\nST. LOUTS CFMETLRTES.\\nNo. 2 is on Claiborne stre t. one\\nblock from Canal. Tt is the next oldest\\ncemetery in the city. Here will be seen\\nthe fine tomb of Genpral I. B. Plauche,\\nthe friend of General Jackson. Plauche-", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "97\\ncommanded the Orleans Battalion in governor of the State. Dominique You,\\nthf; war of 1812, and participated in the one of Lafitte s pirates, who command-\\ndefense of New Orleans against Paken- ed a company of cannoneers at the\\nham. He was subsequently lieutenant battle of Chalmette, sleeps in a plain", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "98\\nbrick totnb not far off. The tablet bears\\nno date, but below the name is a stanza\\nfrom Voltaire s L Henriade:\\nIntrepide guerrier, sur !a terre et sur\\nl onde,\\nII sut, dans cent combats, signaler sa\\nvaleur,\\nEt ce nouveau Bayard, sans raproche\\net sans peur,\\nAurait pu sans trembler, voir s ecrouler\\nle monde.\\nA massive pillar marks the last rest-\\ning place of Alexander Milne, the phil-\\nanthropist, born in Scotland, but a\\nlong-time resident of New Orleans,\\n-where he died in 1838, aged 94, leaving\\na large fortune to endow the Milne\\nAeylum for orphan boys. Another gran-\\nite column is reared above the breast\\nof Francois Xavier Martin, chief justice\\nof the Supreme Court of Louisiana in\\n1815, and one of the earliest native\\nhistorians. Pierre Soule, jurist, states-\\nman and orator, once ambassador to\\nSpain, is buried here. An interesting\\nrelic of the days of reconstruction is\\nthe tomb of Oscar J. Dunn, colored,\\nlieutenant governor under Warmoth.\\nAmong the societies which have tombs\\nin this cemetery may be mentioned\\nthe Iberian Society, whose tomb dates\\nfrom 1848; and the Spanish Cazadores,\\nwhose tomb dates from 1830. In the\\nmiddle of the cometery is a very curious\\ncross. At the end of the aisle towards\\nClaiborne street is the tomb of a young\\nman named Barelli, who was killed in\\nthe burning of the steamer Louisiana.\\nThe accident forms the subject of a bas-\\nrelief and always attracts great atten-\\ntion. The large mortuary chapel at one\\nend of the cemetery is that of the Car-\\nriere family.\\nSt. Louis Cemetery No. 3, between\\nBienville and Customhouse, is used by\\ncolored folks.\\nTHE GIROD STREET CEMETERY\\nis reached by the Girod street car,\\nwhich starts on the levee.\\nGirod Cemetery is a sad place. It\\nwas. way back in 1844. one of the\\nhandsomest and swel est cemeteries in\\nNew Orleans, but after the great yellow\\nfever epidemics of 1853 and 1866 it\\nwas mainly abandoned, and is now\\ngiven over prinipally to very poor peo-\\nple, negroes and immigrants. The only\\nfamilies of note who still have graves\\nhere are those who acquired the ground\\nin the early days of the cemetery s\\ngrowth. Among the notab e tombs is\\nthat of Dr. Thos. Leacock, who was\\nfor thirty-two years pastor of the old\\nChrist Church in this city. A historic\\nmonument is that erected to Colonel\\nW. S. Bliss, a son-in-law of President\\nTaylor. The monument is a broken\\nshaft and carved upon it are the names\\nof the battles in which Colonel Bliss\\ndistinguished himself Resaca de las\\nPalmas, Monterey, etc. Glendy Burke\\nand his wife are buried in the central\\naisle in this old cemetery. The tomb\\nwas built in 1832. Some of the old\\ngraves date as far back as 1821 and are\\nalmost wholly in decay. One ancient\\ngrave bears the legend Mammy, aged\\n84, a faithful servant who lived and\\ndied a Christian.\\nThe Marine Asosciation and the New\\nLusitanos Society have handsome\\ntombs in this cemetery, and many col-\\nored societies have their tombs here.\\nST. ROCH S SHRINE AND CAMPO\\nSANTO.\\nThe Campo Santo of St. Roch. with\\nits exquisite mortuary chapel, is one\\nof the most notable cemeteries in the\\ncity. It is on Derbigny street, four\\nblocks below Elysian Fields street.\\nSt. Roch is the patron of health, and\\nthe beautiful chapel was erected by\\nRev. Father Thevis, for many years\\npastor of the Holy Trinity Church.\\nSt. Ferdinand street. During the dread-\\nful yellow fever and cholera epidemics\\nof 1866 and 1867, while people were\\nstricken so fast it was difficult to find\\npersons to bury them, Father Thevis\\npromised St. Roch that if the members\\nof his flock were spared from the\\nplague he would build a chapel in his\\nhonor. Not one of the congregation of\\nthe Holy Trinity died of yellow fever\\nor cholera, and when- the plague died\\naway, with his own hands, brick by\\nbrick. Father Thevis erected the chapel.\\nHe is buried beneath the altar in the\\ncrypt made by himself for the reception\\nof his remains.\\nThis is the burial place of several of\\nthe religious orders of the Catholic\\nChurch, and the chapel is noted for\\nmany well authenticated miracles\\nin 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 implore the divine blessings,\\nthank offerings for .graces received of\\nwhich are to be seen on every hand.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "99\\nIn the chapel may be seen a pretty\\n.altar surmounted by a figure of St.\\nRoch, attended by his dog, and sur-\\nrounded by panels illustrating the life\\nof the saint. Devout Catholics make\\npilgrimages to burn candles before the\\njshrine and implore the sainfs inter-\\nchurch societies. In the Campo Santo\\nare the fourteen stations of the cross,\\nwith carved wooden bas-reliefs. The\\npilgrims making a novena purchase\\ncandles at the gate, place them lighted\\nat the foot of the altar, say the litany of\\nSt. Roch and, after depositing their\\nsession to obtain divine favors. There\\nis a firmly-grounded locnl belief that\\na. prayer for a husband before the shrine\\nnever fails of a favorable answer.\\nBeneath the altar is a life-sized statue\\nof the Savior in the tomb, and around\\nthe walls are the burial vaults of the\\nalms, make the way of the cross at\\nthe several stations. In one corner is\\nthe tomb used by the nuns of the Per-\\npetual Adoration. In the rear cemetery\\nis a mortuary chapel, frescoed by the\\nOarme ite monks and surmounted by a\\nstalue of St. Michael, the Archangel.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "100\\nTHE WASHINGTON CEMETERY,\\nalso called Lafayette No. 1, is on\\nWashington avenue, corner of Prytania\\nstreet, and. may be most conveniently\\nreached by the Prytania cars. Henry\\nW. Allen, war governor of Louisiana,\\nwas buried here, but the body was sub-\\nsequently removed. The monument to\\nhis memory still remains. General John\\nB. Hood and General Harry T. Hays,\\ntwo distinguished Southern officers, are\\nentombed here. S. J. Peters, a promi-\\nnent merchant, who died in 1855, sleeps\\nin this cemetery.\\nThe\\nTOMB OF JOHN McDONOGH,\\nnow empty of its contents, the\\nremains having been removed to\\nBaltimore, is in the rear of the\\ntown of Gouldsboro, on the other\\nside of the Mississippi. It is a\\nmarble sarcophagus about 4 feet high\\nand 10 feet long. The inscriptions on\\nthe tomb were composed by McDonogh-\\nnimself, and are exceedingly character-\\nistic of the man.\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nTHE CARNIVAL.\\nThe Carnival is New Orleans most\\ndistinctive social feature. In the\\naverage mind the words Carnival\\nand Mardi Gras are supposed to be\\nsynonymous. This, however, is incor-\\nrect. The Carnival includes the ball\\nof the Twelfth Night Revelers, the\\nKrewe of Comus, etc., as well as the\\nRex ball. But the great popular feat-\\nure of the Carnival is the street\\npageants which take place in the week\\nending on Ash Wednesday. The mag-\\nnitude and splendor of these celebra-\\ntions exceed anything of the sort ever\\nattempted elsewhere. Reliable his-\\ntorians have said that the gorgeous\\ntriumphs of ancient Rome never sur-\\npassed in beauty or rivaled in cost-\\nliness these marvelous parades. The\\nwonderful success of the Carnival in\\nNew Orleans has inspired other cities\\nwith the wish to rival it; and in St.\\nLouis, Omaha and other Western\\ncities the attempt has been made with\\nconsiderable applause. In spite of this\\nfact, New Orleans retains her suprem-\\nacy, and thousands of spectators travel\\neach year hundrerls of mile to partici-\\npate in the. festivities of Pat Tues-\\nday. The Carnival parades date\\nback in New Orleans to the year 1827.\\nIn that year a number of young French\\ngentlemen, several of them just re-\\nturned from Paris, where they had\\nbeen sent to complete their education,\\norganized a street procession of mask-\\ners. A second procession, on a grander\\nscale, took place in 1837, apd another,\\nstill more brilliant, in 1889. By this\\ntime some attention was being paid to\\nthe purely spectacular part of the\\npageant. In the procession in 1839 1\\nwas seen an immense chicken cock,\\nover 6 feet high, riding in a carriage\\nand uttering at intervals a stentorian\\ncrow, to the great delight of the spec-\\ntators. A ball in the old St. Louis ball-\\nroom, followed by one in the Salle d Or-\\nleans (the dancing- room of the Orleans\\nTheatie). followed this parade. These\\nballs inaugurated the custom of the\\nCarnival balls, now recognized as\\namong the principal features of the\\nseason. From 1840 to 1845 these bril-\\niant displays were given annually.\\nThey were managed by organizations\\neffected among the best element in the\\ncity s heterogenous population. The\\nlapse of years and the vicissitudes of\\ncommercial life brought many changes,\\nand, among the social alterations which\\nfollowed, the day celebration of Mardi\\nGras was forgotten. After several\\nyears of quiescence, the last and most\\nbrilliant of these displays was given,\\non Mardi Gras, 1852. The ball which\\nclosed the Carnival of that year was\\ngiven at the Orleans Theatre, and was\\nIons remembered for its extraordinary\\nbrilliancy. Mardi Gras, however, was.\\nin those days, essentia ly different\\nfrom what it is now. It was a great\\nday with the boys, who, clothed in old\\ndomino?s and masks, armed with stout\\nhickory clubs and a bag of flour, per-\\nambulated the streets, seeking for vic-\\ntims on whom to exercise their malice.\\nTheir depredations were limited to\\nsuch as likewise wore the Carnivai\\nuniform, and consisted principally in", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "101\\nthrowing flour and confetti. If the\\nvictim resisted, however, their hickory\\nsticks were called into play. These\\ncustoms indicate the Roman origin of\\nthe celebration. Paris obtained her\\nCarnival from the Eternal City, and\\nNew Orleans derived hers from Paris;\\nso that the historian may establish the\\ngenealogy of the celebration far back\\ninto pagan times, when the sacrifice of\\nthe Lupercalia formed the great festi-\\nval of Rome. The flour, confetti and\\nhickory sticks have disappeared. There\\nmay still be seen street maskers; but\\nthe number of them grows every year\\nsmaller and smaller, so that the dis\\ntinctive Italian features of the festival\\nwill in a few decades have disappeared.\\nIt seems fitting that, since the old Car-\\nnival was derived from Paris, the\\nsystem of movable tableaux should have\\nbeen imported into New Orleans from\\nan old French city of the new world.\\nThe idea of presenting scenes on floats\\ndrawn about the streets was first in-\\naugurated in Mobile, by an organiza-\\ntion known as the Cowbellions, in\\n1831. The first entertainment of the\\nkind was held in New Orleans in 1857.\\nThe affair had been iudiciously ex-\\nploited in the public prints, and, by\\nthe affectation of extraordinary se-\\ncrecy, the curiosity of the public was\\nstimulated to the highest degree. The\\nparade was given under the auspices\\nof a society called the Mystic Krewe.\\nThis organization is now known as the\\nMystic Krewe of Comus. It is the\\noldest of the present Carnival organ-\\nizations. Mardi Gras fell on the 24th\\nof February in the year 1857. The\\nKrewe appeared at 9 o clock, in a\\nguise simulating as nearly as possible\\na deputation from the infernal regions.\\nThey then repaired to the Gaiety (after-\\nwards the Varieties) Theatre, where a\\nseries of appropriate tableaux were\\npresented, the subjects being in keep-\\ning with the character of the pageant.\\nThe first was a group of the diabolic\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2powers; the second, the Expulsion\\n-from Paradise; the third, the Confer-\\nence of Satan and Beelzebub: and the\\nlast was Pandemonium. These gor-\\ngeous stage pictures were designed to\\nIllustrate Paradise Lost. Comus gave\\n.annual parades thereafter till 1861,\\nwhen the outbreaking of the civil war\\nfor^a time put art end to all the pretty\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2gayeties of the Carnival city. In 1866,\\npeace having been restored, Comus re-\\nsumed his entertainments, which were\\ncontinued with increasing eclat till\\n1881. Since that date the Mystic\\nKrewe has almost abandoned the giv-\\nng of street parades, confining it*\\nifforts to a magnificent ball on Mardi\\nIras night. There has been, however,\\nvery grateful manifestation on the\\nl.*rt of this veteran society of a de-\\njrmination to return to the older and\\niore popular, as well as more artistic!,\\ni \\\\ictice.\\nThe second of the Carnival organiza-\\ntions, the Twelfth Night Revelers,\\nsprang into existence in 1870, and for\\nsix years thereafter paraded the\\nstreets on Jan. 6. It disbanded in\\n1877, and the parades ceased. The or-\\nganization was revived, however, and\\ngives now annually a magnificent ball\\nat the French Opera House, which,\\ncoming shortly after New Year s, vir-\\ntually opens the Carnival season.\\nIn 1872 the Knights of Monius was\\norganized, and made its debut on the\\nstreets in a pageant representing the\\nprincipal scenes in Scott s romance of\\nthe Crusades. The Talisman. The\\nparades were given annually till 1884,\\nin which year was represented The\\nMarch of Ages. Since that date the\\nKnights of Momus have restricted\\nthemselves to giving annually a ball\\nat the French Opera House.\\nThe great figure of the Carnival,\\nRex, made his first appearance in 1872.\\nThis organization was started for the\\npurpose of combining all the maskers\\nin the city for the entertainment of\\nthe Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia,\\nwho was in that year the guest of the\\ncity. The Grand Duke reviewed the\\nprocession from the portico of the City\\nHall. Through the influence of Rex,\\nMardi Gras was made a legal holiday\\nin New Orleans. Rex has appeared\\nannually ever since. In addition to\\nthe pageant or Mardi Gras day, Rex\\ngives a ball at the Royal Palace\\n(Washington Artillery Hall) at night.\\nThe entry of the King, which takes\\nplace on Monday, is another magnifi-\\ncent display under the supervision of\\nthis society. Rex is called The King\\nof the Carnival, and his court is com-\\nposed of dukes and peers of the realm\\nappointed from the best circles of the\\ncity. Like all the cither organizations.\\nRex chooses a queen at his ball, and\\nthis lady, invested with royal symbols,\\nis known as The Queen of the Car-\\nnival.\\nThe Kr i rhfs of Proteus date from\\n1882. In that year they appeared on th\u00c2\u00ab\\n(toy before Mardi Gras, presenting A\\nDream of Egypt/", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "102\\nIn addition to these organizations,\\nthere are several minor organizations,\\nwhich give balls during the Carnival\\nseason. Among these may be men-\\ntioned the Elves of Oberon, the Krewe\\nof Nereus, the Krewe of Consus, the\\nPhunny Phorty Phellows and the At-\\nlanteans. Their balls take place, as a\\nrule, in the theatres of the city. The\\noldest of these is the Phunny Phorty\\nPhellows, which for a number of years\\ngave a day parade on Mardi Gras.\\nTheir tableaux were generally of a\\nhumorous nature. After a lapse of\\nseveral years, during which time the\\nPhunny Phorty Phellows gave no\\nparades, they reappeared in 1896.\\nWhether they will or will not continue\\nthis practice is not yet definite\\nknown.\\nThe impenetrable secrecy surround-\\ning these Carnival organizations, be-\\nsides piquing the curiosity of the pub-\\nlic, serves a good purpose, by enabling\\nthem to begin their preparations long\\nbefore the time for their parades. As\\na matter of fact, no sooner is one\\npageant off the street than the plant,\\nfor the next one are under considera-\\ntion. The system of organization is as\\ncomplete in its little way as that of an\\narmy, or of an established government.\\nThe expense of a single display ranges\\nfrom $12,000 to $18,000, and sometimes\\nhigher. In one instance the cost of\\nRex s display was $28,000. Each as-\\nsociation owns twenty floats, with suit-\\nable ladders, lights, housing for the\\ndraft-horses, and disguises for the\\ntorch-bearers; but none of them have\\nany known permanent meeting place.\\nEach association has a membership of\\nabout 200, generally clubmen, some of\\nthem grandfathers. About 100 are\\nusually selected to appear in the dis-\\nplay, and the remainder are utilizer!\\nfor duties much more on\u00c2\u00b0rous than is\\nusually supposed. The first thing to\\nbe done after Mardi Gras is to sum-\\nmon a meeting, at which a design com-\\nmittee is selected. The head of this\\ncommittee, called the Captain, has\\nabsolute power. The artist is then\\nsummoned for consultation. Each com-\\nmitteeman proposes a subject for treat-\\nment, many of them being drawn from\\nhistory, poetry or mythology, and often\\nrequiring extraordinary research to\\nportray adequately. The best half-\\ndozen of these suggestions are deliv-\\nered to the artist, who makes a series\\n)f rough crayon sketches, from which\\nthe final selection is made. This is\\nalways a difficult problem, involving\\nali manner of considerations. The\\ndecision usually takes a month, after\\nwhich work begins in earnest. The\\nartist makes a cartoon of each float,\\nand prepares sketches of each of the\\nhundred costumes, drawing them in.\\nwater colors upon cardboards about\\nthe size of an imperial photograph.\\nThese studies are elaborately finished\\nand inscribed with the name of every\\nmaterial which is to enter into the-\\ncomposition of the costume. These\\nundergo the criticism of the design\\ncommittee, and, when the modifications\\nsuggested by its members have been\\nmade, the characters are distributed\\namong the members of the association\\nso as best to harmonize with their in-\\ndividual peculiarities. The cards are\\nthen backed with a memorandum giv-\\ning the height, weight, girth, size, etc.,\\nof the person who is to wear the cos-\\ntunic Then the artist begins the hard-\\nest part of his task, the designing of\\nthe floats, which is done in water col-\\nors, on a scale 18 or 20 times larger\\nthan the costume cards. In these de-\\nsigns the characters are for the first\\ntime posed as they wi 1 appear on the\\nstreets. Several sets of these designs\\nare made. One set, with each figure\\nduly numbered, is posted upon the wall\\nof the Den, as the clubroom is gen-\\nerally called, and there subjected to\\nthe diligent scrutiny of the members.\\nAnother set, with the individual cos-\\ntume cards, are then taken or sent to\\nParis, where the costumes are manu-\\nfactured. Each suit is packed in a\\ncase and numbered. These prelimi-\\nnaries are usually over by July 1. In\\nthe meantime the papier-mache makers\\nare busy molding the properties re-\\nquired to decorate the floats. The cos-\\ntumes are usually received by Decem-\\nber 1. Of late, one prominent organ-\\nization has tried the experiment, of\\nhaving its costumes made in the\\nNorth. If the experiment prove satis-\\nfactory, other organizations will fol-\\nlow, and the costumes will be received\\nhere at an earlier date. As soon as\\nthe costumes arrive they are removed\\nto the Den, where they are arranged\\non long tables, each suit surmounted\\nby its appropriate picture. For weeks\\nthereafter the members are busy, hav-\\ning their costumes fitted by tailors, ar-\\nmorers and milliners. When this task\\nhas beep satisfactorily accomplished,", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "103\\neach costume is placed in a box, duly\\nnumbered, and is then locked up and\\nlaid aside for the eventful night.\\nThe float committee has been, in the\\nmeantime, furnished with a third set\\nof designs, and in some out-of-the-way\\nplace, usually the yard of a cotton\\npress, has been busily occupied in\\nbuilding up the Uoats. In this labori-\\nous undertaking, a number of carpen-\\nters, painters, carvers, gilders, papier-\\nmache makers, etc., are employed.\\nStrange to say, the secret is, neverthe-\\nless, so well kept that the public never\\nlearns of the preparations. There is\\nalso a ba .l committee, which arranges\\nat the Opera House for the great ball\\nwhich invariably follows the pageant.\\nThe balls are opened with a series of\\ntableaux, embracing all the characters\\nthat have appeared in the procession\\nThe work of drilling the performers\\nfor these tableaux is exceedingly oner-\\nous.\\nOn the day when the parade is to be\\ngiven all is bustle at the Den. If\\nit be one of the organizations which\\ngive night parades, the preparations\\nbegin about 2 o clock p. m. At that\\nhour all the drivers, torch-bearers, etc.,\\nare being drilled in their duties, which\\nthey are forced to discharge with mili-\\ntary precision. A committee traverses\\nthe route of the pageant and sees that\\nthe streets are free from obstructions.\\nThe boxes containing the costumes\\nhave been, in the meantime, removed\\nat dead of night to some building in\\nthe immediate vicinity of the yard\\nwhere the floats are waiting. Every\\nprecaution is taken to prevent the pub-\\nlic from guessing to what purpose this\\nbuilding is applied. Exits from oth^r\\nhouses are cut into it; the windows\\nare kept darkened, and the main door-\\nways are never opened. About 2\\no clock the memb\u00c2\u00b0rs begin to arrive.\\nThey bring their formal evening dress\\nwith them. This they place in the\\nboxes in lieu of the costumes in which\\nthey proc-ed to deck themse ves. By\\n7 o clock all are dressed. The roll is\\nthen called, and the characters, all se-\\ncurely masked, take their places in\\nline and undergo a formal inspection.\\nShortly after, a squad of police makes\\nits appearance, and they clear the\\nstreets and establish a cordon around\\nfour or five squares. The torchmen\\narp marshaled on the eft side of the\\nopen space. They are under the com-\\nmand of officers who are stationed at\\nregular intervals. Tn a few moments\\nthe floats drive out from the press-\\nyard. The captain calls the numbers,\\nand each man, on hearing his numeral\\ncried, takes his place upon the float,\\nwhich is driven off expeditiously, to\\nmake way for its successor. The bands\\nare then marched into position; the\\ntorchmen surround the cars, and the\\nprocession is ready to move in remark-\\nably short order. So far the proceed-\\nings have transpired in utter darkness.\\nThe captain now rides along the lines\\nto ascertain that everything is as it\\nshould be. At an appointed signal the\\ntorches are ignited, encircling each\\nfloat in a blazing parallelogram of fire.\\nThe pageant then moves rapidly to the\\nnearest large thoroughfare, where the\\nhands strike up, and a rocket, piercing\\nthe evening sky with its fiery furrow,\\nannounces to the waiting multitudes\\nthe approach of Fairyland. No matter\\nwhat route may be selected, the\\nparades usually wind up at the doors\\nof the French Opera House, at about\\n10 o clock. Here the maskers dis-\\nmount, and the floats disappear in the\\ndarkness from which they emerged.\\nThe boxes containing the dress suits of\\nthe members have in the meanwhile\\nbeen conveyed from the Den to the\\ndressing-rooms in the Opera House.\\nThe tableaux generally occupy the\\nstage till 11 o clock: though of late\\nthere has been a movement, in response\\nto a popular demand, to curtail the\\nlength of this part of the progr#mme.\\nAfter the tableaux, the maskers are\\npermitted to mingle with the crowd\\nupon the dancing floor. Fusually. the\\nfirst three or four dances are reserved\\nfor the maskers. When such is the\\ncase, no one is admitted to a seat in\\nthe parquet without a special invita-\\ntion, which is sent to the reciuient in\\nadvance of the ball. After the mas-\\nkers dances. th\u00c2\u00b0 floor is free to every-\\none. After 12 o clock the maskers dis-\\nappear, one by one. They go to the\\ndressing-rooms and change their fancy\\nattire for the conventional garb of so-\\nciety. They are obliged to present\\ntheir invitations at the door, like every-\\none else, so that it is impossible to ob-\\ntain a clew to their identity. One\\nfeature of the balls should be men-\\ntioned here. It is the custom to ap-\\npoint a lady to preside as queen. The\\nmaskers select One of their number\\nwho exercises a brief sovereignty as\\nking of the ball. He choo=es his\\nconsort, presenting her with magnifi-\\ncent jewels. For weeks before the", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "104\\nball these ornaments may be seen in\\nthe windows of some jeweler on Canal\\nstreet, or some other principal thor-\\noughfare. They are. usually made in\\nParis, and are quite costly. The\\nqueen chooses her maids of honor,\\nwho occupy with her one of the pro-\\nscenium boxes at the Opera House.\\nThe box on the other side of the house\\nis reserved for the queen of the pre-\\nceding year. At the ball of the Twelfth\\nNight Revelers the pretty custom of\\ncutting the cake is performed, the one\\nwho gets the slice containing the\\ngolden bean becoming king or\\nqueen, as the case may be. At the\\nComus ball the principal event is the\\nvisit of Rex and the Queen of the\\nCarnival to the King and Queen of\\nComus. All the forms of royalty are\\nstudiously observed. The Rex ball\\nis the popular one, the attendance\\noften numbering 30,000. Tickets to\\nthese balls are distributed only\\nthrough the nomination of members\\nof the secret organizations. Strangers,\\nwho have no friends through whom\\ntheir names may be communicated to\\nthe societies, may write a note asking\\nfor tickets, which will be duly deliv-\\nered, and, if ratified by the committee,\\nwill result in tickets being sent to the\\nwriter s address. Tickets for the Rex\\nball may also be procured on applica-\\ntion to the Mayor. Admission to the\\nballs is, nevertheless, hedged about\\nwith many restrictions, and to be hon-\\nored with tickets is supposed to confer\\na certain social rank not otherwise ob-\\ntainable. In all cases the invitations\\nare strictly personal, and must in no\\ncase be transferred.\\nThe programme of the Carnival of\\n1896 was as follows: Jan. 6 Ball of\\nthe Twelfth Night Revelers. -Tan. 10\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBall of Lies Mysterieuses. Feb. 3\\nBall of the Krewe of Nereus. Feb.\\n6\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ball of the Elves of Oberon. Feb.\\n11\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ball of the Atlanteans. Feb. 13\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBall of the Knights of Momus. Feb.\\n14r-Ball of the Phunny Phorty Phel-\\nlows. Feb. 17 Entry of Rex, and\\nProteus parade: ball of the Krewe .of\\nProteus. Feb. 18\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rex, Phunny Phorty\\nPhellows and Comus parades: Rex and\\nComus balls.\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nBICYCLING\\nIf the visitor be a devotee of the\\nwheel he will find it an excellent idea\\nto buy or rent one of those usefu)\\nvehicles and uitilize it in his journey\\nings about the city. The asphalted\\nstreets afford splendid roads. Of these\\nthe best is St. Charles avenue and\\nBaronne street, which, together, afford\\nover seven miles of delightful riding.\\nTulane avenue is asphalted from Ba-\\nronne to Hagan avenue, a distance of\\nthree miles. Claiborne street is paved\\nwith vitrified brick from Canal to Ely-\\nsian Fields. There are few streets,\\nwhether paved or not, which are un-\\nridable. The environs of the city abound\\nin pleasant places, to which the visitor\\nmay repair with pleasure to himself\\nas well as profit. One of. the most at-\\ntractive of these is\\nWEST END.\\nBy reason of its location. this popular\\nresort on the lake shore is .sought at\\nalmost all seasons of th\u00c2\u00ab year., Situated\\non lake Pontchartrain, and accessible\\nfrom the upper and lower part of the\\ncity by about the same distance, with\\nthe attractions that are offered to the\\npeople during the summer time, it com-\\nmands the attention of the largest\\nnumber of the population. The advan-\\ntage of getting there is principally with\\nthe uptown people. They have really\\nthree routes to go over, all of which\\nlead to the shell road that goes to the\\nEnd. Those within reach of Canal\\nstreet may ride out Canal street and\\nstrike the lake road at Metairie Ceme-\\ntery. Those in the neighborhood of Lee\\nCircle and some squares above it may\\ntake Washington street, and they will\\nfall into Carrollton avenue, which in\\nturn connects with the shell road. Those\\nabove Napoleon avenue may either go\\nto Carrollton and take Carrollton ave-\\nnue, or run out Washington street.\\nCanal street is a graveled road as far\\nas the cemeteries, and, after crossing\\nthe Metairie bridge, the rider will find\\na piece of shell road, which, once", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "105\\ntried, will be sought again and again.\\nIt is the smoothest piece of traveling\\nin the city as smooth as an academy\\nfloor. Canal street should be a tine\\nroad, but it has been allowed to be-\\ncome rutty, and good riding is only\\nfound close to the neutral ground. The\\nrider will find the same conditions on\\nWashington street, and also on Carrol\\nton avenue. However, for the better\\npart of the time, these roads are cer-\\ntain to afford easy riding. St. Charles\\navenue will allow the rider to ride as\\nhe wishes. It is of asphalt, and the\\nwheelmen may take to it an hour after\\na heavy rain and find things all right,.\\nThere is a petition before the City\\nGoi iicii to have Napoleon avenue open-\\ned to Washington street. When this\\nwill have been done it will afford an-\\nother short route for some of the up-\\ntowners. It will be a graveled road for\\nthe better part of the way\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in fact, it\\nis already, and lime will demonstrate\\nwhat will be done with the rest of it.\\nThe End is also accessible to those\\ndowntown. Those in the front of the\\ncity find the Vi .lere street tracks good\\nriding to Canal street, and thence out\\nCanal street to the shell road. Those\\nin the center take the vitrified brick\\npavement on Claiborne street to Canal,\\nand then to the shell road. Further in\\nthe rear they ride on Broad street to\\nCanal, and then out, as the others.\\nIf the riders in the upper portion of the\\ncity have one good street in St. Charles\\navenue, those downtown are provided\\nfor in the brick pavement that extends\\nfrom Canal street to Elyfian Fields\\nstreet. If anything, the brick pavement\\nis smoother just now. being practically\\na new pavement. These are the prin-\\ncipal avenues to the lake at West End.\\nAUDUBON PARK.\\nThis pretty garden spot is situated\\nIn the upp^r part of the city, on the\\nline of the St. Charles avenue asphalt.\\nWhile it is not just yet a garden plot,\\nit will be some day. It is one of the\\nleading resorts for wheelm\u00c2\u00b0n. Parties\\ngo thither for morning, evening and\\nnightly visits when the weather permits.\\nFrom the St. Charles avenue entrance\\nto Horticultural Hall, situated e ose to\\nthe river bank, there is a stretch of\\ngravel road that is always in good con-\\ndition for traveling a -wheel. A great\\nclump of oaks, or rather an avenue\\nof them, stretches before the hall, and\\n-similar avenues are to be found in the\\nrear. Under these the wheelmen gather\\nfor a rest at the end of a run and have\\nrefreshments. It has been selected by\\nthe riders by reason of its tempting\\nshade as one of the rests. There are\\nplans making for other roads in the\\npark, and there is something of a\\nmovement for a cycle path through the\\npark. It is likely this path will en-\\ncircle the grounds, or go winding about\\nthrough them. Then there has been\\nsome talk of an exercise track for\\nwheelmen on the site of the old race\\ntrack. Those from the lower part of\\nthe city who seek Audubon reach\\nCanrl street either by the Villere street\\noar racks or Claiborne street, and\\nthen, making in as far as Basin street,\\nhave vitrified brick as far as Common\\nstreet. Between Basin and Baronne\\nstreet the distance is only two squares,\\nand it does not matter if the street is\\nnone of the b?st. Baronne street,\\nthough rather narrow, is of asphalt,\\ntherefore good, as far as Howard ave-\\nnue, then there is a square of asphalt,\\nand an asphalt strip that connects\\nwith St. Charles avenue. Once on St.\\nCharl c s avenue, everything is smooth\\nfor the remainder of the distance.\\nAbove Louisiana avenue, to the right,\\nthe road is of grave and is frequently\\nin bad condition. For that reason\\ncyclers have been allowed to take the\\nleft side of the neutral ground going\\nand coming.\\nCITY PARK.\\nThe historic spot of the old city\\nshould not lack for a bicycle road, but\\nthere is really only one, and the ad\\nvantage is with the people of the upper\\npart of the city. Those above Canal\\nstreet have only to go a few squares\\nbeyond Carrollton avenue, when a\\nstretch of white shells shows the way\\nto th^ park. Besides, there is a sign\\nboard which directs the stranger to\\nthe place. Those in the lower part of\\nthe city make the distance along Es-\\nplanade street, as far as the Bayou\\nSt. John, cross it, and then it means\\na walk of about six squares for the\\npark, for the road is not fit to be trav-\\neled with a wheel half of the time.\\nWithin the city park there are paths\\nthat many be ridden and found easy.\\nTt is an attractive spot for a picnic\\nparty a-wheel, and many have taken\\nadvantage of the beauty and quiet of\\nthe nlace to put in n day in the coun-\\ntry there. It is really th\u00c2\u00b0 park that\\nhas the flavor of the country about it,", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "106\\nespecially in the rear portion. If the\\nwill of the commissioners of the park\\ncould be executed there would be roads\\nof the finest description leading to it.\\nSPANISH FORT.\\nThe cycler does not require much\\nroad. A little strip of it will do, and\\nif there is a smooth piece to be had\\nalong auy road, the man with the\\nwheel will discover and use it. For\\nthat reason a rider who has been go-\\ning for some time will und the going\\nto Spanish Fort good enough. There\\nare better roads, but it will do with\\nthe weather in the right sort of shape.\\nTo ride out of St. Charles avenue to\\nthe fort, the asphalt may be followed\\nto Canal street, out Canal to Claiborne,\\ndown to Esplanade, out that street to\\nthe Old Basin, and then out along the\\nbasin to the lake. The vitrified brick\\nwill be found on Claiborne street and\\nbe reached at Esplanade, where it will\\ncarry the rider to Galvez street, then\\nbe will have a stretch of gravel to\\nBroad street, and after that, if he\\nfides well, he may take the outside\\nstrip next to the car tracks, or, other-\\nwise, take the street. The street will\\nbe found fairly good riding in fair\\nweather. Leaving Esplanade street,\\nthe turn is made into the shell road on\\nthe Old Basin. Sometimes this road\\nis in first-class condition, and (mite as\\nsmooth as the going to West End. It\\nshould be well kept, if the tollgate-\\nkeeper expects to realize on wheelmen.\\nThe old fort is taking on new life\\nagain, and is bidding for the patronge\\nif wheelmen and drivers.\\nMILNEBURG.\\nThis is the oldest lake resort of\\nall, and, though a road for the travel\\nof vehicles should have been already\\nbuilt, there is at the present time only\\nan excuse for one. The rider who goes\\nto Spanish Fort and finds the tide low\\nmay ride over to Milneburg along the\\nshore, where a road has been worked\\nout. Plans are making to build n\\nshell road from Gentilly road to Milne-\\nburg. The way has been cut out along\\nFrenchmen street at a cost of some-\\nthing like $7000. The City Engineer\\nhas been requested to give plans, etc..\\nfor the shelling of the road and the\\nwork is being advertised for. The man\\nOr the woman up town or down town\\nwho seeks to find Milneburg will have\\nto look up Claiborne street and keep\\nthe pavement until Frenchmen street\\nis reached, and that street will shov\\nthe rider the way to the resort. It will\\nbe some time before ibis road will be a\\ngood subject for whet 1 men.\\nPORT CHALMETTF.\\nThe rider out for a long-distance push\\nat the pedals will find work mapped\\nout for him in a run to Chalmette Cem-\\netery and Port Chalmette. While go-\\ning to one place it is just as well to go\\nthe other. The very little distance be-\\ntween thrm is hardly worth consider-\\ning by the person awheel. If the rider\\nfrom the upper portion of the city go-\\ning down there does not desire to go\\nout to Claiborne street and get on the\\nvitrified brick, he may take Viller?\\nstreet and there have the car tracks-\\nnntil way down near the end of the\\nline, and th\u00c2\u00b0n switch out to the river\\nfront on one of the graveled streets\\nand take the car tracks part of the\\ntime and part of the road to the Slaugh-\\nter-house. After that, there will be a\\nstretch of shell road as far as Chal-\\nmette Cemetery; then, if the rider con-\\ntinues to Port Chalmette. the levee-\\nmay be ridden, or the road beside the\\nlevee. A ride through the cemetery\\nwill prove very interesting to wheel-\\nmen, and so will a run to Chalmette.\\nA party of wheelmen getting down in\\nthat part, with a desire to make a lit-\\ntle country run. can have a chance at\\nit, either running across fields to the\\nrear, or straight down the road. On\\nthat same road the rider may stop at\\nthe United States Barracks and look\\nup the Government soldiers and their\\nquarters.\\nSOTTTHPORT.\\nIf the party awheel goes to Carroll-\\nton, it is only a short distance for the\\nrun to the shipping point above the\\ncity. For the steady wheelman the\\nlevee is the place to ride. Those who\\nhave not ridden much may take the\\nroad that follows the river. A touch\\nof the country is given in the road\\nridins: in that quarter. Riding on the\\nlevee gives a view of the giant Mis-\\nsissippi, making its way to the Gulf.\\nThen the plantations on the opposite\\nside of the river present a refreshing\\nobservation. If the rider is sturdy\\nenough to stand another few miles, he\\nmay continue to Kenner. This point Is\\nstraight away from Sonthnort, and is a-\\nrun frequently made by Sunday morn-\\ning cyclers.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "io\\nGENTILLY ROAD.\\nThe early hours of a day can be very\\npleasantly put in on a ride down the\\nfamous old GentiLy road. The resi-\\ndents in the center of the city can take\\nBroad street for the first stage of the\\nride. The road that leads to the drive-\\nin gate to the Fair Grounds brings the\\nrider on the road. It is all earth, and\\nthe man who tries it wants to h.\\\\re\\nOUT OF TOWN.\\nThose who have gone over all the\\nroads in the city become anxious to have\\na try at long distances, and these are\\nmany. For such runs, both sides of\\nthe river offer opportunities, provided\\nthere has been no rain for a few days.\\nOn this side of the river, going up, the\\nlevee affords fair riding for all the\\ndistance a wheelman may care to go\\nr i\\nBICYCLE CLUB ST. CHARLES AVENUE.\\na certainty that there has been no rain\\non it for some few days, else he will\\nremember gathering mud and doing\\nwork. If there has been a dry spell it\\nwill be found fine for a long distance.\\nSome riders have gone down a distance\\nof about twelve miles, fetching up at\\nMichaud, on the line of the Louisville\\nand Nashville Road.\\nin a day. The river front is invariably\\nfollowed by a road which, having been\\ntraveled by wagons, leaves just the\\nrut that riders can get along in. Some\\nof the long-distance riders take the\\nrailroad track of the Valley Road from\\nthe start out of town and follow it all\\nthe distance between here and Baton\\ntfouge.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "108\\nDown the coast, on this side of the\\nriver, there will be fount? the kind of\\ncountry roads that are discovered wher-\\never wagons are used. It would be a\\ndifficult matter to describe them to\\nriders, and then, if they were described,\\nthey would be difficult to find. A rider\\ncan start out with a \u00e2\u0080\u00a2certainty to b\\nable to go right along as far as the\\ncountry is habitable.\\nShell Beach Road, for the better part\\nof the way, is very good going. Once\\nin the road that follows the track of\\nthe railroad the rider can go right along\\nto the end without getting astray. He\\nmay depart from the railroad for a\\npiece of the way, but will get back to\\nit by simp y keeping along. Mos-\\nquitoes will do all sorts of things to the\\nwheelman who cannot ride hands off\\non the way to Shell Beach.\\nAcross the river, both up and down,\\nthere are roads to be found. Down\\nthe coast it is a delightful run, with\\nthe levee a fine bas\u00c2\u00b0 for a wheel. A\\nman may get about twenty mile*\\nstraightway. For the up coast, both\\nthe river front and the Texas and Pa-\\ncific roadbed are used.\\nPeach Orchard is one of the points\\non the opposite side of the river that\\nwas once one of the famous resorts for\\nwheelmen. Riders cross over on the\\nLouisiana avenue ferry, ride up to\\nAmes plantation and go for the in-\\nterior. There is a ride through a\\nlimitation and through woods; but it\\nwill be well to have one who knows\\nwhen making this trip.\\nTHE CEMENT TRACK.\\nNew Orleans is noted for possessing\\na cement bicycle track the fast-\\nest, with one exception, in the\\ncountry. It is situated on Car-\\nrol .ton avenue, corner of Tulane\\navenue. The bicyclist may ride out\\nto it either along Carrollton avenue\\nor by Canal. Others may reach it\\nmost easily in the Canal street electric\\ncars, which will deposit him at Car-\\nrollton avenue, where it is but a short\\nwalk to the entrance. Many records\\nhave been broken her^. and among\\ncrack riders this tract is held in high\\nesteem. It was built in 1896.\\nROAD CLUBS.\\nPoth the Southern Wheelmen and\\nthe N- w Orleans Bicycle clubs have\\nroad clubs among their members, which\\nmake frequent outings alonsr the routes\\nindicated above.\\nCHAPTEPv THE LAST.\\nOUT-OF-TOWN JOURNEYS.\\nThe country about New Orleans is\\nnothing if not characteristically South-\\nern. The land of Evangeline lies just be-\\nyond our doorways, and Arcady, sweet\\nArcady! the old hiding place of La-\\nfitte, the first camp grounds of Iber-\\nville, are near enough to be familiar\\nhaunts.\\nThe rude huts of the Choctaw In-\\ndians are but over the waterway,\\nnestling under the pines and bay trees\\nof St. Tammany. The mouth of the\\nMississippi, the Gulf and the great\\nJetties are but a few hour s ride away,\\nand all about the great, sprawling city\\nlie orange orchards, white with blos-\\nsoms or golden with fruit, cane Gelds\\nand cotton plantations.\\nAmong the out-of-town excursions\\nwhich the visitor should enjoy is the\\ntrip down the river by steamer to Port\\nChalmette; over the lake to Mande-\\nVille and Chinchuba, over the lake to\\nthe .pine woods and Bay St. Louis,\\nPass Christian and Biloxi; the steam\\ncars to Shel Beach, via cars into the\\npiny hills of Mississippi, Magnolia,\\nChatawa; or by boat to Bayou Sara, to\\nVicksburg, or up the beautiful Atchaf-\\nalaya River. The Teche country, in\\nwhich dwell iie peaceful and pict-\\nuresque Acadians, is less than half a\\nday s journey by rail.\\nManrleville, one of the most pictur-\\nesque of Southern watering places, is\\nreached by excursion steamers from\\nMilneburg during a great part of the\\nyear, and by the trains of the East Lou-\\nisiana Railroad all the time. By tak-\\ning the morning train of the\\nL. and N. Road, at Mobile de-\\npot, one can spend a charming\\nday in Mississippi and return to the\\ncity in the evening. The Bay is the\\nnearest of these famous over-the-\\nlake watering places. It is one of", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "109\\nthe oldest and has a lovely drive: of\\nmany miles on the beach. Beautiful\\nresidences are at Pass Christian, the\\nnext station, also a shel. drive on the\\nlake front.\\nBiloxi, where Iberville landed in\\n1699, is for all the world like some\\nquaint French fishing village. It is\\nthe most populous and thriving town on\\nthe coast. Its bay is always full of n\\ntangle of sloops and small schooners,\\nand long piers, hung with fish net6.\\ncrab baskets, lines and poles.\\nOcean Springs is further away still.\\nThen come the beautiful dark rivers\\nand bayous, and Moss Point, Pasca-\\ngoula, where the creosote works- are.\\nand after further flying through the\\nscented pine lands. Mobile is reached.\\nThe excursion to the watering places\\ncan be made in a day. To Mobile one\\nmust devote a day and a night. Beau-\\nvoir, Jefferson Davis old home, is\\nthe second station going east after\\nleaving Mississippi City.\\nReturning to New Orleans, a pleas\\nant railway excursion can be made up\\nthe Jackson Road, stopping at Ken-\\nnerville, which is on the river: or pro-\\nceeding to Magnolia. Areola or\\nChatawa, the latter one of the prettiest\\nhill towns of Mississippi, lying on the\\nbanks of the dark, fern-fringpd Tangi-\\npahoa.\\nA pleasant day can be spent by tak-\\ning the Shell Beach Road, which\\ngives a run of an hour and a half\\ndown to the Gulf. The trip can be\\nmade in six or eight hours, carries one\\nthrough plantations, a touch of South-\\nern iungle, and finally brings one out\\non the shelving, shpllv beach, with\\nthe gray Gnlf waters lashing and lap-\\nping at one s feet. None of these ex-\\ncursions are expensive or wi l occupy\\nmuch time.\\nThe up-river pxcursion to Bayou\\nSara gjyes one opportunity to see the\\nvery best part of the Mississippi river\\nscenerv. its orange groves and cane\\nplantations, with negro quarters all\\ntidy and all occupied. The old town\\nof Plaquemines, the beautiful college\\nand convent in St. James parish, the\\nimposing State Capitol building at\\nBaton Rouge, set on its term rod hills.\\nall are worthy of the two-and-a-ha f\\ndays time, or a little less, it takes +o\\nmake the trip.\\nThere are small boats going dailv\\nto the Jetties: but the luxury of a river\\ntrip is onlv tested by a journey up the\\nMississippi.\\nThese big boats stop continuously.\\nand the tourist has ample opportunity\\nto see plantation life, Southern vil-\\nlages, and how it is to be boating along\\nthe Mississippi.\\nA steamboat trip can be made np\\nBayou Teche to New Iberia and the\\nold town of St. Martinsville. Some\\nof the finest sugar plantations in the\\nState are to be seen this way. From\\nNew Iberia a little railroad will carry\\none to the salt mines, an excursion\\noccupying about three hours.\\nA charming outing from New Or-\\nleans is to Abita Springs, Covington\\nand the Bogue Falia one of the love-\\nliest and most photographable rivers in\\nthe South. The visitor may make the\\ntrip by the East Louisiana Railroad,\\nor by the lake steamer Camelia.\\nBy going to Morgan City, excur-\\nsions on boats and steam tugs can be\\nmade, at a small cost down to Last\\nIsland. and through the beautiful\\nwinding ways by which the broad\\nAtchafalaya reaches the Gulf. New\\nIberia is in the heart of a great duck,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mine and fishing country. Bayou\\nLafourche is a boat trip, occupying\\nabout three days. This bayou is\\nscarcely ess lovely than the Teche.\\nAn outing par excellence is to Abita\\nSprings, to Covington and the beauti-\\nful Bogue Falia. A delightful river\\ntrip is from New Orleans to Monroe or\\nAlexandria, or even to Shreveport. It\\ntakes about four days to go up, and\\nhas all the charming elements of South-\\npr i st \\\\imhoa1 travel.\\nIf the visitor be interested in sugar-\\nmaking a visit to some of the planta-\\ntions within easy reach of the city will\\nhp found satisfying. Some of the largest\\nof these estates are on the western\\nside of the river, a few miles above the\\ncity, and may most easily be reached\\nby river. The grinding season lasts\\nfrom November to February.\\nAnother very pleasant expedition is\\nhy steamer through the swamps and\\nhayous to Grand Island. There is, a\\nvery comfortable hotel on the island.\\nCheniere Caminada. the scene of a\\nterrible disaster, caused by a tidal\\nwave in 1893. by which over 2000\\nlives Aver- lost, is not far from Grand\\nIsland. This trip occupies two days.\\nThe visitor mav spend a day very\\nnrofitablv in visitincr the town of New\\nTberia. on the Southern Pacific Rail-\\nway. The town is on th\u00c2\u00bb famous\\nRayou Teche. in the heart of the land/\\nof Evang\u00c2\u00b0!ine. The scenery is pictur-\\nesque and beautiful in the extreme,\\nFrom New Tberia to the great salt", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "llO-\\nmine on Avery s Island is only a short\\ndistance. The great comedian, Joseph\\nJefferson, has a summer home not far\\nfrom New Iberia.\\nA trip by steamboat down the Bayou\\nLafourche will well repay the tourist\\nwho wants to see the sugar country\\nin its perfection. It can be made at\\nsmall cost in about twenty-four hours\\nby taking a boat down the bayou to\\nThibodaux, and thence back to the city\\nby rail.\\ncola. There are several coal yards\\nalong the river, at one of which is a\\nmodern iron and steel coal elevator,\\nwith a bucket capable of lifting over\\na ton of coal at a time. In the lower\\npart of the town is located the great\\nplant of the Southern Pacific Railroad\\nand Steamship Company. Its exten-\\nsive system of wharves, over twenty-\\nfive hundred feet long, and all covered\\nwith substantial roofs, furnish a land-\\ning for the company s fleet of magnifi-\\ncent steamers running to New York,\\nTEMPLE SINAI, CARONDELET ST\\nALGIERS.\\nNEAR HOWARD AVE.\\nThis is a part of the municipality,\\nand comprises the Fifteenth Ward. It\\nis located on the right bank of the\\nriver, and was incorporated in the city\\nproper many years ago. It has a popu-\\nlation of about thirteen thousand. The\\nprincipal points along the river front\\nare the dry docks, of which there are\\nthree, and a large one, capable of ac-\\ncommodating the large ocean steam-\\nships, is now in course of construction,\\nhaving been brought over from Pensa-\\nHavana, Central America and Mexico.\\nJust back of these is a series of build-\\nings, workshops, foundries, store-\\nhouses, etc. The machinery plant is\\nso complete that a perfect locomotive\\ncan be turned out. The company\\nbuilds all its own freight cars here,\\nand makes all necessary repairs to pas-\\nsenger and rullman coaches. When\\nall departments are at work, it is esti-\\nmated that as many as three thousand\\nmen are employed there at one time.\\nAlgiers boasts also of a brewery, and\\nan ice and electric plant.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "Ill", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "112\\nSTATISTICS.\\nFollowing are some statistics, which\\ngive an idea of the size and business\\nimportance of the city:\\nPopulation in September, 1896\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nAs estimated by the Registrar of\\nVoters 300,000\\nAs estimated by the publisher of\\nOity Directory 275,000\\nMiles of Paved Streets\\nCobblestone, mostly laid prior to 1888. 39.01\\nBelgian blocks 1-20\\nSquare block pavement 29.25\\nGravel pavement 50.07\\nAsphalt pavement 13.05\\nVitrified brick 6.33\\nMiscellaneous 6.75\\nTotal paved streets 140.26\\nMiles of electric street car lines 237\\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 -322\\nCapital invested $21,185,358\\nValue of manufactured products.... 35,535,590\\nWages paid 10,048,264\\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 growth to have\\nbeen the same, however, its present\\ncondition may be stated as follows, in\\nround numbers:\\nManufacturing establishments 3,200\\nHands employed 43,500\\nCapital invested $39,500,000\\nWages paid 19,000.000\\nValue of product 68,000,000\\nThe substantial growth of the city\\nis shown by the fact that during the\\nyear ending Sept. 1, 1896, new bui fl-\\nings were erected to of $2,-\\n506,000.\\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.\\nThe drainage of New Orleans in the\\npast has been about as bad as it could\\nbe, being mostly mere surface drain-\\nage in the gutters of the streets, helped\\non by a few pumps to raise the drain-\\nage water from the low-lying main\\nditches to the level of the lake. All\\nthis, however, is being rapidly changed.\\nA comprehensive plan for the drainage\\nof the city, prepared after long consid-\\neration by a competent board of engi-\\nnees, has been adopted by the city.\\nThe total cost of the work is estimated\\nat $7,938,691. This drainage is to be\\ndischarged into Lake Borgne.\\nNew Orleans has long been known\\nas one of the chief commercial centers\\nof the country, and the few statistics\\nfor the commercial year ending Aug.\\n31, 1896, given below, will give some\\nidea of her importance in this particu-\\nlar:\\nImports $13,643,899\\nExports 83,622,696\\nTonnage Handled by the Six Princi-\\npal Railroads\\nForwarded. Received.\\nPoands. Pounds.\\nSouthern Pacific 974,813,000 1,142,491,000\\nTexas and Pacific. 304,756,517 819,345,896\\nIxmisville Nash e 571,838,300 079,582,800\\nIllinois Central 444,238,000 1,763,240,000\\nMississippi Valley 189,046,000 900,266,000\\nN. O. and N. E... 434,028,000 894,684,000\\nTotal 1895-96 .2,918,719,817 6,199.609,696\\nNumber of vessels entered 1,205\\nTonnage 1,665,927\\nNumber of vessels cleared 1,205\\nTonnage 1,670,759\\nBanking capital $8,134,650 36\\nIndividual deposits 19,113,466 55\\nLoans and discounts 18,600,194 80\\nBank clearings 498,816,183 00\\nCotton bales received 1,911.281\\nAverage value per bale $40\\nTotal value $76,451,240\\nSugar Received\\nHogsheads 35,572\\nBarrels 1,082,458\\nMiscellaneous Products Received\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nIlice, barrels 442,528\\nFlour, barrels 650,152\\nWheat, bushels 1,533,738\\nTorn, bushels 20,754, 110\\nCOtTee, bags 25U,46\u00c2\u00bb", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "113\\nINDEX\\nPage.\\nAcademy of Music 76\\nAcademy of Sacred Heart 58\\nAnnunciation Street 83\\nArchiepiscopal Palace 26\\nAuctioneers Exchange 18\\nAudubon Park 92\\nBayou Bridge 40\\nBicycling and Bicycle Routes 104\\nBienville s Country-house 18\\nBoard of Trade 70\\nBoston Club 47\\nCafedes Exiles 20\\nCamp, Prytania and Magazine streets.. (II\\nCarondelet, Magazine and St. Charles\\nStreets 71\\nCarondelet Street Methodist Church 72\\nCarrollton Gardens 61\\nChalmette Battlefield 28\\nCharity Hospital 50\\nChartres Street 21\\nChess, Checkers and Whist Club 47\\nChinese Mission 52\\nChrist Church Cathedral 57\\nChurch of the Messiah 74\\nCity Hall 74\\nCi.ty Park 40\\nCivil Court Building 28\\nClay Statue 43\\nColiseum Place 69\\nCommercial Club 46\\nCommercial Place 62\\nConfederate Memorial Hall 64\\nCongo Square 32\\nConvent Discalced Carmelites 88\\nCotton Exchange 71\\nCotton Press District 88\\nCourt House and Jail Buildings 40\\nCustomhouse 42\\nD. H. Holmes 44\\nDuels 40\\nEcclesiastical Square 69\\nElysian Fields 40\\nEsplanade Avenue 33\\nExchange Alley 27\\nEye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital.... 31\\nFair Grounds and Race Course 40\\nFerries 12\\nFisk and Free Public Library 63\\nFrench Market 34\\nFrench Opera House 30\\nGrand Opera House 47\\nGreek Church 89\\nHack and Cab Fares 12\\nHalf Way House 47\\nHarmony Club 56\\nHaunted House -JO\\nPage.\\nHistory of New Orleans 13\\nHouse of Good Shepherd 01\\nHotel Dieu 52\\nHotel Royal 10\\nHoward Memorial Library 65\\nJackson Avenue 83\\nJackson s City Headquarters 18\\nJackson Square 23\\nJesuits Church 53\\nJewish Orphans Home 58\\nJockey Club 39\\nJohn McDonogh 86\\nL. A. W. State Consul 71\\nLafayette Square 62\\nLafayette Presbyterian Church 70\\nLafitte s Town Headquarters 41\\nLee Circle and Monument 54\\nLouisiana Avenue Methodist Church 78\\nLouisiana Retreat 84\\nMadame John s Legacy 20\\nMagazine Market 69\\nMagazine Street 70\\nMargaret Place 66\\nMargaret Walk 69\\nMarigny s Home 26\\nMarie Laveau s House 32\\nMasonic Temple, 85\\nMcDonogh High School for Girls 83\\nMechanics Institute 85\\nMetairie Race Course 93\\nMilitary Organizations 87\\nMilueburg 92\\nMoresque Building ti2\\nMorris Free Baths 82\\nNapoleon Avenue 84\\nNew Basin Canal 84\\nNewsboys Home 53\\nNew Orleans of To-day 41\\nNew Orleans Road Club 58\\nNew Orleans University 5s\\nNinth Street Market 70\\nNorth Rampart Street 81\\nOakland Driving Park 47\\nOdd Fellows Hall 02\\nOld Absinthe Room 30\\nOld Basin 32\\nOld Citizens Bank 19\\nold Slave Quarters 38\\nOlympic Athletic Club 21\\nOmelette Souffle, a Palm-Leaf Fan and\\na Rose 8\\ntrlcans Theatre (Convent Holy Family) 20\\nOut of Town Journeys 108\\nPaul Morphy s House 18\\nPepe Lluia s House 33\\nPere Antoine 24", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "114\\nINDEX\\nPago.\\nPeters Avenue and Dryades Street 84\\nPickwick Club 46\\nPicayune Tier ii\\nPolar Star Hall 33\\nPontalba Buildings. Jackson Statue 25\\nPort Chalmette 30\\nPortia Club 85\\nPower House of Carrollton Railroad 84\\nPoydras Market 53\\nPoydras Street 62\\nProtestant Orphans Home 83\\nPrytania Street 66\\nPythian Hall (Perdido street) 72\\nRayne Memorial Church 58\\nRailroads 80\\nRichardson Memorial Medical School.. 47\\nRight Way Synagogue 72\\nRiver Front 41\\nRoyal Street IS\\nShakespeare Almhouse .58\\nSieur George s House 19\\nSlaughter House 28\\nSome of our Peculiarities t\\nSophie Newcomb Memorial College 78\\nSouthern Athletic Club 07\\nSouthern University 78\\nSouthern Wheelmen 57\\nSpanish Barracks 20\\nSpanish Commenderia 19\\nSpanish Fort 91\\nState Board of Health 71\\nState Library 53\\nSt. Anna s Asylum 00\\nSt. Anthony s Alley 24\\nSt. Anthony of Padua Church 31\\nSt. Charles Hotel 77\\nSt. Charles Theatre 75\\nPage.\\nSt. Elizabeth Orphan Asylum 07\\nSt. Joseph s Church 52\\nSt. Louis Cathedral 23\\nSt. Michael s Church 83\\nSt. Patrick s Church 64\\nSt. Paul s Espicopal Church 09\\nSt. Stephen s Church 84\\nSt. Theresa s Church 69\\nSt. Vincent s Orphan Asylum 70\\nStraight University 47\\nStreet Numbering 17\\nStuyvesant Docks 83\\nSugar Refineries 33\\nTable of Distances 12\\nTchoupitoulas Street 82\\nTemple Sinai 72\\nThe Cabildo 22\\nThe Carnival 100\\n.The Cemeteries 92\\nThe Levee 88\\nThe Picayune 61\\nThe Sugar Exchange 41\\nThe Voudous 32\\nTouro Infirmary 67\\nTouro Synagogue 72\\nTrinity Church 88\\nTulane Avenue 4S\\nTulane University 58\\nUrsuline Convent 27\\nIT. S. Barracks 28\\nU.S. Mint 37\\nWashington Artillery Hall 74\\nWest End 89\\nWhite League s Headquarters 62\\nYoung Men s Christian Association 74\\nYoung Men s Gymnastic Club 31\\nYoung Men s Hebrew Association 52", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "The Daily Picayune\\nIs a real newspaper. No expense is\\nspared in producing it. Its telegraphic\\nservice is unsurpassed. Its news gath-\\nerers cover all places of interest. Its\\nmechanical appliances are modern and\\nthe best. Its staff of talented writers\\nand artists is complete. Daily, includ-\\ning Sunday, $12 a year.\\nThe Sunday Picayune\\nIs a household treasure of news, infor-\\nmation and literature, illustrated and\\ntastefully presented. $2 00 a year.\\nThe Weekly Picayune\\nIs peerless as a country family news-\\npaper and literary journal, and no\\nhome in the south should be without\\nit. 81 00 a year.", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "WWs\\n^0 c P\\n0*\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2o v t\\n.1...\\nV\\n.0\\n1V\\n4 o,\\nv t *i/-nk a.\\nM -til\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a22*", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "r oV\\n,f\\nbV*\\n*o\\nC, vP\\nv*", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3389", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "picayunesguideto04newo_0136.jp2"}}