{"1": {"fulltext": "F 379\\n.N5 U18\\nCopy 1\\nNEW ORLEANS.\\n7/\\nPHILADELPHIA:\\nJ. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY,\\n1891.", "height": "2912", "width": "1908", "jp2-path": "neworleans00walk_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2876", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "neworleans00walk_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS.\\nc\\nOCT 5 rj91\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0uc\\n\u00c2\u00abJ\\nPHILADELPHIA:\\nJ. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.\\n1891.", "height": "2876", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "neworleans00walk_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "Copyright, 1891, by J. B. Lippincott Company.", "height": "2876", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "neworleans00walk_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS.\\nNew Orleans, the chief city of Louisiana, and one\\nof the most important commercial cities in the United\\nStates, is situated on both sides of the Mississippi\\nRiver the greater portion on the east bank 107\\nmiles from its mouth. Its corporate area is 187 sq. m.,\\nbut a large portion of this is market-gardens, forest,\\nand swamp, and only 48 sq. m. are built over, fronting\\non the Mississippi, and running back from half a mile\\nto 3 miles. The city proper has a river frontage of\\n13 miles, and its western district, Algiers, of 3 miles.\\nThe Mississippi makes two bends here, giving the old\\ncity a crescent-shaped fronts whence its former title,\\nThe Crescent City, but it is now the shape of the\\nletter S. The river is from 600 to looo yards wide,\\nand 60 to 240 feet deep. The bar at its mouth was\\nremoved in 1874-79 by the Eads jetties in South Pass,\\nand vessels of 30 feet now easily reach New Orleans.\\nThe commerce of the city is large (;^5 50,493,3 15 in\\n1890), and it is second in the United States in exports.\\nNew Orleans is the terminus of three canals, and of\\nsix large railroads (total mileage, 17,842) and three\\nlocal lines, while twenty lines of steamships connect", "height": "2876", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "neworleans00walk_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "4 ArElV ORLEANS.\\nit with other American and foreign ports. Since 1875\\nit has made great progress in manufactures, particu-\\nlarly in cotton goods, cotton-seed oil, machinery, lum-\\nber, furniture, fertilisers, sugar-refining, rice-milling,\\nbeer, cigars, c. Its factories increased from 554 in\\n1870 to 898 in 1880, and 2100 in 1890; and their\\nproduct from $8,450,439 to 1^44,500,000.\\nThe land upon which New Orleans is built is per-\\nfectly flat, and lies from 3 to 6 feet below the level of\\nthe Mississippi at high-water, and is protected from\\noverflow by levees or dykes of earth. Similar levees\\nin the rear keep out the waters of Lake Pontchartrain.\\nThe soil is saturated with water, and cellars are im-\\npossible. The climate is warm and damp, the mean\\ntemperature for the year being 69\u00c2\u00b0 F. The summer\\nis tempered by winds from the Gulf, and is not op-\\npressively warm. On account of its situation, the\\ncity is badly drained. It is without sewers open\\ngutters carry the rain-water into canals, and thence\\ninto Lake Pontchartrain, but they are insufficient, and\\nthe streets are frequently flooded after a heavy rainfall.\\nThe health of the city, however, has greatly improved\\nwithin recent years; the death-rate has been reduced\\nfrom 59 per looo in i860 to 24*80 in 1890.\\nWhile it possesses few imposing buildings. New\\nOrleans is a picturesque city. There are several parks\\nlittle improved, but with handsome monuments or\\nstatues of Jackson, Lee, Franklin, and others. The\\ncustom-house of granite cost ^4,500,000, and is the\\nlargest and most imposing building in the city. The\\ncathedral of St. Louis, a Gothic church erected in\\n1794, is a good sample of the Creole-Spanish archi-", "height": "2876", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "neworleans00walk_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "NEW ORLEANS. t\\nlecture. The archiepiscopal palace (1737) is the old-\\nest building in the city. Other noteworthy structures\\nare the cotton exchange, United States mint, St\\nCharles Hotel, and Christ and St Patrick s churches.\\nThere are 188 churches, and 78 public schools, with\\n430 teachers and 21,136 pupils enrolled. Tulane\\nUniversity (known as the University of Louisiana from\\n1834 to 1883) has 59 professors and 683 students.\\nUnder its control is the Sophie Newcomb Memorial\\nCollege (i 887), for the higher education of girls. The\\nCollege of the Immaculate Conception (under the\\nJesuits) has 228 students. There are 4 colleges for\\nnegroes, males and females, with i860 students. The\\nHoward Memorial (1888), Tulane, and Louisiana state\\nlibraries, all free, contain together 120,000 volumes.\\nThe Charity Hospital (1784) is the largest institution\\nof its kind in the United States, with accommodation\\nfor 800 to 1000 persons; and there are 54 other hos-\\npitals, asylums, c.\\nThe site of New Orleans was first visited in 1699\\nby Bienville, who in 17 18 laid the foundations of the\\ncity, and in 1726 made it the capital. In 1763 it was\\nceded to Spain by France, with the rest of Louisiana;\\nbut when in 1765 the Spanish governor, Ulloa, at-\\ntempted to take possession, he was driven out, and\\nthe people established a government of their own.\\nIn 1769 New Orleans was occupied by the Spanish,\\nand the leaders in the late movement were shot. It\\nwas ceded to France in 1802, and transferred to the\\nUnited States a few days later. Incorporated as a\\ncity in 1804, it was divided in 1836 into three separate\\nmunicipalities, in consequence of the jealousies be-", "height": "2876", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "neworleans00walk_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "6 NEW ORLEANS.\\ntween the Creoles and the Americans but the three\\nwere again consohdated into one in 1852. Since then\\nNew Orleans has annexed the neighbouring towns of\\nLafayette, Jefferson, Carrollton, and Algiers. Other\\noutstanding events in the history of the city have been\\nthe battle of New Orleans (see Jackson) in 1815 its\\ncapture in 1862 by the Federal fleet under Admiral\\nFarragut (q.v.); and serious political troubles in 1874\\nand 1877, resulting in the former year in a battle on\\nthe levee between the citizens and the police and\\nmilitia, in which 46 persons were killed and 216\\nwounded. In 1880 the capital of Louisiana was re-\\nmoved from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.\\nPop. (1769, when it was transferred to Spain) 3190;\\n(1802, when it became American) 10,508; (1840)\\n102,193; (1880) 216,190; (1890) 241,995. The city\\nis very cosmopolitan in race and language. Only 19\\nper cent, of the population is of American or English\\ndescent, 17 of Creole or French descent, 14 German,\\n12 Irish, 8 Italian, 5 Spanish, Scandinavian, Jewish,\\nc., 16 negroes, and 9 of mixed races, Indians, Cliinese,\\nand Malays.", "height": "2876", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "neworleans00walk_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2876", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "neworleans00walk_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2876", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "neworleans00walk_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2876", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "neworleans00walk_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS\\n014 645 044 1", "height": "2876", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "neworleans00walk_0012.jp2"}}