{"1": {"fulltext": "y/V6Lr6/ y^ (_\\n7\\nY 5 .1/n/.^\\nerf A evV O^le-o^n", "height": "2808", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00ward_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONOR\\n014 645 048 c", "height": "2740", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00ward_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "F 379 \u00e2\u0080\u009e_^ _-^-\\n\u00c2\u00b0r,^\\\\A^ ORLEANS.\\nCopyrighted iSSs, by WARD BROTHERS, Columbus, Ohio. \\\\iftJ^.^f\\nNew Orleans is a city of the United States, situated on the left%ank of\\nthe Mississippi River, one hundred and seven miles from its mouth, in longi-\\ntude 90 and latitude 30, Stale of Louisana.\\nAt this point, the river bends abruptly southward, then east, then north\\nand again east, thus portioning off the low concave land, which is alvv^aj^\\nhighest at the river s margin, a shallow basin not unlike the palm of ones\\nhand. This deep, three sided bend, some nme miles in length, is the harbor ofl\\nNew Orleans, and on the low tract walled in by the levee that lines its bank\\nand by a similar defence where Lake Poncthartrain, some four to six miles to i\\nthe northward, shuts in the fourth side, lies New Orleans, the great seaport of 1\\nthe Mississippi Valley, and a city of 250,000 inhabitants.\\nThe river at this point varies from two thousand to three thousand feet\\nin width, and has a depth almost from bank to bank of sixty to four hundred\\nfeet. Around the margin of this fine harbor a line of steamers, and shipping\\nextends for eight miles on either shore, moored in the busy season, sometimes two\\nand five abreast, to the outer end of short, broad unsheltered wooden wharves\\nthat rest on piles driven firmly into the tenacious clay of the river bed. The\\nspeed of the current averages four to five miles an hour.\\nThe poor little Franco-Spanish American port of the seventeenth cen-\\ntury, being the key to that vast system of waterways of which the Mississippi\\nis the main artery, was in 1803 purchased hy the United States and with it\\nthe entire State of Louisana.\\nAs the dispenser of the products of this greatest agricultural valley of the\\nworld. New Orleans has grown from the wild, indolent town of 10,000 people,\\nit then was, to the dimensions of a great metropolis. Along its winding har-\\nbor front one sees, in the season that follows the harvests of the South and West,\\nthe energies of an exporting movement not excelled in volume or value on the\\nAmerican continent, save by New York City. The le\\\\ ee, the wharv^es and\\ncontiguous streets teem with strenuous lite, and are gorged with the raw staples\\nof the countries far and near that lie about the Mississippi and its greater and\\nlesser tributaries; sugar, molasses, rice, pine lumber, tobacco, corn, wheat, oats,\\nhay, resin, turpentine, tropical fruits in immense quantities, and above all,\\nnearly one third of the whole world s entire supply of cotton; all other move-\\nment is insignificant. The import tr^de consists largely in the productions of", "height": "2642", "width": "2238", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00ward_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "i-^ n\\nNlFvn^\\nthe tropics, and is ra^.i^Vy.Ihcreasfng from year to year. Manufactures are\\nnot extensive; there ar^ no fisheries of importance; no large transit of Emi-\\ngrants; no notable vgovernment establishments, except a branch mint and a\\ncustom house.\\nNo large city in America is so laid open to the sunshine and air. New\\nOrleans covers an area of one hundred and fifty-six square miles, much more\\nthan that of any other city on the continent On any hand it requires but a few\\nsteps aside from the current of commercial movement, to carry one into the\\nbowery repose of a huge suburb, rather than of a city, or if of a city, a city\\nof villas and cottages, of umbrageous gardens intersected by over five hundred\\nmiles of unpaved streets, shaded by forest trees; haunted by song birds; fragrant\\nwith a wealth of flowers that never fails a day in the year, and abundant in\\nseason with fruit the fig, the plum, the pomegranate, the orange and the banana.\\nNew Orleans is exceptionally interesting among cities of the United\\nStates, for the picturesqueness of its older sections, and the language, tastes and\\ncustoms of a large portion of its people. It was founded in 1718, by Jean\\nBaptiste Lemoyne de Bienville, a French Canadian, Governor of a French\\nColony which had been planned in 1699, by his brother, on the Gulf Coast\\nnear by at a point now called Biloxi The history of the settlement from that\\ndate until 1803, is highly romantic, with frequent changes of fortune, varying\\nsovereignity, dependence, independence, and wars, both defensive and aggres-\\nsive, while the colony was slowly growing into importance vmder the\\nrule of the sturdy Bourbon, the gay Spaiard, or easy going Creole. In 1803,\\nwithin the lapse of thirty davs it passed from Spanish to French and from\\nFrench to American rule, then as now in its customs, its people and its archi-\\ntecture the least American of all the cities west of the Atlantic.\\nThe Creoles of New Orleans and the surrounding delta, are a handsome,\\ngraceful and intelligent race of decidedly Gallic type, though softened in fea-\\ntures, speech and carriage; they are brave, proud, courteous, slow to offend,\\nquick to resent, fond of pomp, and display an ardent fondness for pageantries\\nsuch as offer a strong hint of their Spanish American relationship.\\nThe famous annual carnivals of New Orleans, which generally continue\\nseveral days during the early part of February have become world wide\\nin historic interest on account of the grandeur, extravagance and immensity\\nof the festivitcs, the processions, and the enthusiasm with which all the citizens\\nseem to enter into the pleasures of the occasion. Many thousands of visitors\\nfrom all parts of America, come yearly to see the glittering array of citizens\\nattired as knig its, dukes, lords and ladies, fairies, angels and mythological\\ncharacters as they parade the streets in oriental pomp. The season usually\\ncloses with the grand Rex Ball to which are always invited many thousands\\nof the most distinguished guests.", "height": "2636", "width": "2215", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00ward_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "In addition to the Creole population $here is a strong admixture of the\\nGerman, Iri^h, French, Spanish and Ilajrain.. A visit to the old French\\nMarket will almost necessitate a knowledge of at least live languages, for un-\\nlike other American cities, in New Orleans many people transact business in\\ntheir native tongue rather than adopt the universal English as used elsewhere.\\nThe French Market is an unhealthy collection of huge sheds along the\\nO levee near Jackson Square, where venders offer for sale everything from\\nT a banana, a meals vituals, or a paper of pins, to a piano, silk dress, or set of\\nfurniture. On a Sunday morning the confusion of tongues, the bustle of the\\nQ crowds, the smell of the offensive, the lack of religious regard for the day, and the\\ngeneral don t care jostling and pushing of one and all, form an experience that it\\n1^ is far more pleasant to read about than pass through. Of the 50,000 colored\\npeople in New Orleans a goodly portion converse only in French or Spanish.\\nBurials in New Orleans cemeteries, owing to the undrained condition of the\\nsubsoil, are made almost exclusively above ground in tombs of peculiar build.\\nVery costly and beautiful are some of these, while others consist of long\\nalleys of four, six or eight shelf ovenlike walls, into which the bodies are\\nplaced and sealed with only a marble slab about two feet square in front,\\nviews of which are given in this work.\\nThe climate is very similar to that of southern Italy. The thermometer\\nrarely passes above 95\u00c2\u00b0 or below 27\u00c2\u00b0 F., but in the winter an occasional\\nNorther, assisted by the breezes from over the wide reaches of water and\\nwet lands that lie about the city, gives the air a penetrating chill that feels\\nmuch worse than the mercury indicates, while in summer the gulf breezes\\nseem warmer than they really are.\\nYellow fever makes its visits more rarely than in early history, during the\\nlong summer season, when the air is pereptibly though not excessively debili-\\ntating.\\nFrom November to June, when the commercial activity is at its height, the\\naverage temperature is 63\u00c2\u00b0 F., and with the exception of an occasional rain or\\nNorther, affords the pleasures of a prolonged spring time, which adds much\\nto the attractions for the tourist, the visitor and the invalid.\\nTHE NORTH, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN EXPOSITION,\\nWill open in New Orleans, November 10, 1SS5, and close about April i, 18S6.\\nIt will be held under the auspices and immediate management of a char-\\ntered company of citizens of New Orleans, with a capital of .$500,000, and as-\\nsisted by commissioners from each of the United States, thus assuring a com-\\nplete exhibition of the natural resources and various industries of this country.\\nThe Exposition will be a fitting supplement to the World s Industrial and\\nCotton Centennial Exposition just closed; and as it will inherit all the property", "height": "2642", "width": "2238", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00ward_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "of the late organization, including the grounds and commoiious buildings\\nerected in the City Park, with then entire complement of apparatus and neces-\\nsary appliances for cenducting an exposition on the grandest scale, exhibitors\\nand visitors can rest assured of a thorough completion of all details and ar-\\nrangements in advance of the date of opening.\\nThe grounds upon which the Exposition is located comprise 274 acres con-\\ntiguous to the city and known as the Upper City Park. They are beautifully\\nshaded with massive live oaks, which have already become famous in connec-\\ntion with the late World s Exposition. In addition to this attraction, all that\\nthe art of the landscape gardner can efteci has been accomp i\u00c2\u00bbed by judicious\\nexpenditure of labor and money, until it is now conceded that they are the\\nmost beautiful in the United States, and certainly the best adapted for the pur-\\npose in every respect. Fronting on the Mississippi River, with ample wharf\\nfacilities for the largest steamer that floats, connected with the city by anew\\nand thoroughly equipped steam railway, and by six lines of hon^e cars, and\\nalso by magnificent excursion steamers on the river, while all the trunk\\nlines leading into Ncav Orleans are connected with the grounds and buildings,\\nit will be seen at a glance that the tacility desired by exhibitors and visitors is\\nfully provided. The main building is the largest on record. It is 1378 feet\\nlong and 905 feet wide with an iron extension 320 feet long and 125 feet wide.\\nIt is in perfect order, completely shafted for machinery, and possesses every\\nconvenience and improvement that the latest ingenuity could suggest for the\\npurpose of an exposition.\\nThe State Exhibits Building is next in importance, although it is of itself\\none of the largest buildings ever erected for the purpose, being 885 feet long\\nand 565 feet wide, and it is also provided with every possible convenience, except\\nsteam power, as this building was not intended to accommodate any exhibits\\nrequiring power.\\nThe Horticultural Hall is the largest conservatory in the world, and one of\\nthe handsomest structures of its kind ever built. It was erect^ by the manage-\\nment of the late World s Exposition, by special contract with the city, is\\n600x194 feet in dimensions, and is a permanent building, fitted with all the latest\\nappliances for the purpose which it was intended.\\nThe Art Gallery is an elegant and artistic structure, 250x100 feet, so ar-\\nranged for mounting, accessibility and light as to present the best eft ects, and\\nwith ample accommodation for as large a collection as was ever exhibited on\\nthis hemisphere. It is erected wholly of iron, and is thoroughly fire-proof.\\nThe 1^-A1:e::2^xcjl.i t 1iT.s^Txoi TJ^iL, E^sisziBiT.\\n(Octagonal 78x78.)\\nThough small in coinparison with the various other exposition structures,\\nyet this building, of mo ;t beautiful and exquisite design, of the costliest work-", "height": "2672", "width": "2272", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00ward_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "manship, presents a strikingly at*^ractive feature. It is built of iron and glass, of\\na disign similar to a Moorish Kiosque. It is built by the Mexican Govern-\\nnrient, and will be taken down and removed to Mexico as soon as the exposi-\\ntion is over.\\nThe Mexican National Headquarters is an attractively beautiful structure\\n300x192 feet, erected by the Mexican Government in the southeast portion of\\nthe Exposition Grounds, It furnishes offices for the various Mexican officials,\\nand quarters for the famous Mexican Band, and different detachments of the\\nMexican Army on duty at the exposition. The building will be removed to\\nthe Cit_y of Mexico after the exposition is over.\\nThe Upper City Park of the city of New Orleans presents unusally\\nadvantageous features for exposition put poses.\\nThe Park is located about three and one-half miles from and west of the\\nbusiness center of the city. It lies between St. Charles avenue and the left\\nbank of the Mississippi River. It is a beautiful tract of land, high and well\\ndrained, ornamen-ed with numerous groves of the majestic live oak, orange,\\nlemon, and magnolia shade trees, and tropical flowers; laid out into walks and\\nroadways, and the whole landscape interspersed with lakes, islands, parterres of\\nflowers, shrubbery, etc.\\nThe Park is reached by one steam railway line, leading to the center of the\\ncity, and connecting with various trunk lines of railways coming to New Or-\\nleans, by five lines of horse cars, and by the river it is accessible to all classes of\\nsteam and sailing craft.\\nDuring the period of the American Exposition, from November to April in-\\nclusive, is one of unusual attractiveness; with many fruits maturing, all classes of\\nvegetables in their prime, balmy winds, blooming flowers and constant verdure;\\nit affords a locality to which people of the world can eagerly resort; while the\\nquaint city itself, with its cosmopolitan population and customs and generous\\nhospitality, furnishes special, almost irresistible attractions to the stranger.\\nThe opportunities presented by New Orleans to the visitor for pleas-\\nant and profitable experience outside of the Exposition are innumerable.\\nTheatrical and operatic attractions are always of the very highest order, and\\nincluding the best talent extant. Opportunities for excursions by land and\\nby water, inland and sea, are constantly available. Elegant steamboats ply\\nfrom New Orleans, covering the Mississippi, to its famed delta and its numer-\\nous lower tributaries, penetrating the enchanting waters of interminable\\nbayous, bordered with rich cane fields and shaded with the live oak. Steamers", "height": "2642", "width": "2238", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00ward_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "sail regularly between the city shore? of Lake Pontchartrain and its north\\nshores and sound watering places, and down the Mississippi into the gulf to\\nthe shores and k^ys of Florida, to the coast places ot Texas, Mexico, Central\\nAmerica, Carribean Isles and West Indies. By rail, the Land of Flowers\\nis reached in a few hours, and every prominent southern point even the City\\nof Mexico becomes conviently accessible. Excursion rates will be so low that\\nit will simply be a question of desire.\\nT:E^^L3iTS^=OI^T-^T I03^T.\\nUnprecedentedly low rates of transportation will prevail. The various\\nrailway trunk Imes leading into New Orleans are the largest stockholders of the\\nAmerican Exposition. Their interested participation insures the exercise of\\ntheir influence in securing from every point the lowest possible transportation\\nrates. A cent a mile will probably be the maximum from any point.\\nX3:i3^Ts To ^l^ISIXo:E^s.\\nArriving in New Orleans, remember that street cars run to almost every\\nsection of the city, starting from Canal street, and the uniform fare is five\\ncents. Canal street is the business thoroughfare of the city, it runs from the\\nMississippi River west to the cemeteries, and is the dividing line between the\\nFrench and the uptown portions, the latter beingon the south side and extending to\\nand beyond the Exposition Grounds. The river at the foot of Canal street runs\\ndirectly noith water in the gutters invariably runs away from the river to the\\nwest and north to the lake.\\nAlways make a bargain as to the prices to be paid before ordering carriages,\\nmeals, or services of any kind. The licensed transfer companies are safest for\\nthe handling of baggage. There are nearly ten thousand regular boarding and\\nlodging houses in New Orleans, and many hundreds of restaurants where\\nmeals are served both on the American and European plans, at a cost to suit\\nthe desire of any and all. The principal hotels charge .|2.oo to $4.00 per day.\\nThe prices for boarding and lodging elsewhere vary according as the establish-\\nment may bs nearer or farther from Canal street those on and nearest this\\nstreet, naturally command higher prices. A good plan is to secure a room and\\nthen get meals at restaurants wherever one happens to be; parties wishing to\\neconomize by going up town for lodgings can find rooms among thousands of\\nprivate houses.\\nThe Bureau of Accommodation and Information has had the city thoroughly\\ncanvassed, divided into districts and sub-districts, each having connection with\\nthe central office by telephone, telet^raph or messenger service. All the accom-\\nmodation of the city has been listed and classified, its character and rate of", "height": "2672", "width": "2215", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00ward_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "charges detennined, so that no imposition or extortion can prevail, and the\\npromptest information and assistance will be at all times available to the visi-\\ntor. No charge for this service is made t ither against citizen or visitor.\\nExposition season invariably brings to any city a greater or less number of\\nthe hooJlum class, street walking late at night is therefore not advisable.\\nThe publishers of this work, after many years experience in New Orleans,\\nhave selected only such views as will be most interesting to the visitor. Many\\nvisitors spend one, two or three days in constant travel getting to New Orleans;\\nthey should therefore remain long enough to see all that is worth seeing, for\\nsuch trips are in most cases one of the few opportunities of life.\\nDo net find fnilt with the peculiarities of the customs and the people, you\\ncome here to strc and learn about Southern peop e and places stay awhile and\\nyou will soon become accustomed to the ways of the city. Note the numer-\\nous porches and balconies extending around on two or three sides and in front\\nof most of the better class of residences, indicative of the climatt.\\nA good plan in visiting the Exposition is to go bv one line of street cars\\nand return by another. Be sure to go to the grounds at least once by one of\\nthe excursion boats which start every half hour from the foot of Canal street, this\\nwill aflbrd eight miles of very interesting scenery along the levee, also take a\\nboat ride down the river to the National Soldiers Cemetery and Old\\nBattle Ground, where Andrew Jackson won his famous victory in 1812.\\nPas -^ing up Canal street from the river the tirst very large building on the\\nlight is the U. S. Custom House and Postoi^ce; it occupies a whole square, is\\nbuilt of New Hampshire granite, has been over forty years in the court^e of\\nconstruction, and h-s cost the government several millions of dollars. The\\ncashier s room in the center is called the marble room and is well worth a visit.\\nThat large and beautiful red brick building at the left as vou pass farther\\nup Canal street, is ti e property of the Pickwick Club. The Illinois Central\\nRailroad Co have t eir ticket office on the first fioor.\\nThe new Cotton Exchange is a magnificent stone structure on Carondelet\\nstreet one square from Canal, it is the pride of the Cotton Kings of the South.\\nThe United Slates Mint at the foot o^ Esplanade street, is open to visitors\\nSIX days in each week, do not fail to go there to see how Uncle Sam makes his\\nmone_\\\\. Visit the Cemeteries, the West End, and the Old Spanish Fort on\\nLake Pontchartrain, the Old French Cathedral, and Jackson Square, take a\\nwalk along the levees and see the scores of steamers Irom all parts of the\\nworld loadmg with cotton, c., go through the ice factory, watch the workings\\nof the steam cotton presses,! isten to the songs of the negroes at their work,\\nbuy one of Ward Brothers Souvenir Albums and go home happy.", "height": "2632", "width": "2139", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00ward_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 645 048 9", "height": "2600", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "historicalsketch00ward_0010.jp2"}}