The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-19
WHAT OTHERS THINK or rs.

The correspondent Of the Pittsburg Dis
yatch has recently been On YIsit 70 SeH
Orleans, and writes a long and interesting
letter concerning onr city and people, from
which ne take the following:
pYE or THZ CLRASHsT N AMFEIcAS CfTIR7
New ORLEANS though not laid ont IN
checkner board style, Ike Philadelphia, il
still regularly built city, ~ streets being
ali straight and confOTmable ~ a general
plan, the chief object Of which appear ~
be IT, 1ecure means for ~ thorough and
effective drainage ~ The topography of the
place viii admit. And that thI- end has
been attained no one that takes the tronble
10 examine the matter can tor moment
<iouit for, though from it's situation "A most
difficult city ~ drain, il stands "a well in
this respect A. any city know Of, and il
perbap, to-day the cleanest Of IT. popula-
fi1n IN the United States.
Ia most towns located on large rivers the
fall il generally toward the water, and With
q proper system Of sewerage Thorough drain
age il easily effected. IT. New Orleans,
however, where the water 81 the Mississippi
~ several feet higher than the business cen
IRE Of the city, thi- cannot I've done and the
surface water or rain fall, instead of being
carried into the river, il conveyed BY open
sewers, or canals rather into which
the CUTTERS empty, to bayons, which extend
into the town, and is carried thence into the
lake outside. There are no sewers proper in
the city, the ground being too low ~ admit
of their construction, bat these drains or
canals answer quite IA we'll, and, it il
claimed, are ia a sanitary point Of view
preferable.
In the older parts Of the city the streets
are rather narrow, and many Of the houses
are antique, if not grotes1ne in style, and
decidedly European in their appearance
In the newer districts, however the streets
wider, many Of them being much broad
cr than any We have in Pittsbnrg, and the |
buildings are for the most part substantial
structures Of iron, brick or stone, and in
point Of design, appearance and capacity, |
will compare fayorably with the average Of
similar buildings in New York or Philadcl- |
phia. The style gci rally used IL not 80
ornate ~ that in vot 10 in the East or West
but there Is apparently greater solidity, IA
IL the owners cared more for /
strength and durability than for
mere display. In the more aristocratic
quarters Of the city the residences are very
fine palatial in all their surroundings and
appOintInents--and in the suburbs are many
beautiful villas, Of handsome design and
finished seemingly without regard 10 ex-
pense Indeed, it would be difficult to
ing, or with more beautiful surroundings.
than the residences Of the moneyed arts
fOcracy Of New Orleans. Yet the climate
IN such that they rarely occupied more
than seven or eight months in the year
their owners pTcfcrring the cool breezes of
Northern watering places q trip to Europe
during the summer months, to a season Of
ennui in their own luxurious homes, with
visions Of "ycllow Jack" to haunt them.
R.n th.rs tar ,,,t 81,
HOUSE KESTs At HIGH FIGURES.
While on the subject Of houses, ! ought
perhaps, TO state that rents here are enor-
IIOusly high, and, notwithstanding the al
legged depressed state Of business there seems
no tendency to decline. You cannot rent
any sort Of q moderately decent da Hing
under $1,000 year, while houses Co., Jnld
rent with us Mt from $500 to $3.50 r.ua here
from xl2OO to $1,000. FirAt-claa. No .4 fcnt
anywhere from $1,000 to $4,000 !. wr.y ne I
cOrding To size and location, and 70 Ira 9
choice ones u higher figure is obta de
With business houses il is the same. lad
TO visit n hair dresser to-day who q
Dccrpcd q store near the hotel that even up
On Fifth Avenue would not command more =
than 5000 year, yet he informed me that
his rent was $4,000, and that he had been mott t
lied that 10 would be $500 more next year. a
Property owners are memorable. The taxes, I
hey say, have reached such figure, - per o
cent, that they must have q corresponding ]
Increase Of rents or loose their property, and 0
~ they arc not the kind Of men to make u
my such sacrifice, they stick il on to suit h
themselves, and tenants have got to pay or II
int. Thhs appears . hard sta,c Of affairs,
ret cannot see that il interfercs seriously n
with tho renting Of houses, az there are a
'ery few buildings unoccupicd in the city, g
md during ride Of some eighteen miles u
through IL streets, doubt if I saw alto Il
,cthcr dozen "To Let's" up. This would u
IMPLY ono of two things: either there is not il
'onse room enough for the people, or tho d
ents demanded are, all things considered, ii
'ot no oPpressively high as represented. We d.
rave given the f,cts, and our readers can d.
lraw their own conclusions u
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