New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-16
Communications Between Mexico aud the
United States.


Communications Between Mexico aud the
United States.
With the exception of two or three indi-
viduals. the American visitors including
those who spent the winter in our summer
climate, have returned. In looking over
our files we counted near two hundred
leo since the opening of the New Orleans
line. These do not comprise the entire
number, as doubtless there were near the
same number who were not recorded in the
Iwo Republics, among whom were a fair
proportion Of ladies. One general express
sion of pleasure and delight was III amt ested
by those visitors, who have carried to the
United States the most favorable accounts
OF our climate. scenery, objects of beauty
and interest," which will swell the rising
tide that is beginning to flow in this direc-
ton.
From verbal assurances, letters and the
tone of many of the American papers we
can safely count on, in place Of the hun
dreds who visited this valley the past sea-
son, thousands who will come next fall. OF
this We have the most positive assurances
from various reliable sources. The lines of
railways and steamers are preparing to
make the trips between this country and
her northern neighbor as short and COM
Portable as possible.
Next November the Alexandra line will
straighten the passage between Vera Cruz
and New Orleans to direct route, and
make the passages in three days, sending
steamer from each port every two weeks.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
Company will, in the same month, put
steamer on direct line between Galveston
and Vera Cruz, departing from each port
every fortnight, alternating with the New
Orleans steamer; and we will then have
steamer arriving and departing between
these ports once every week.
This arrangement will not Only promote
the increase of visitors from the United
States, but will finally turn almost all the
travelling to and from Europe. These lines
will give the quickest communication with
the least amount of sea voyage. The trip
to Europe can then be made as follows:
To New Orleans three days, to New York
three days more, and to Europe ten days,
making sixteen days against twenty-six.
That the European travel will turn into
this channel there can be no doubt. 1t is
as reasonable to expect travellers to go by
sea from Portsmouth, England, or Havre,
France, round the Spanish peninsula, up
the Mediterranean, to Cairo, Egypt. while
they have railway facilities across the con-
tnent, as for travellers to make long sea
voyage over the Atlantic, while they have
the ferry and railway advantages over the
American continent.
In the meantime there should be a com.
parative preparation in this city to furnish
hotel accommodations. The hotels here are
deficient IN capacity, service and accommo
dations, of which there is a universal COM
plant There are no such conve4jA2ces as
ladies and gentlemen's parlors 6fNetting
rooms, where the guests may be called
upon and visited; no smoking rooms, no
reading rooms, and there exists deficiency
of all the conveniences of modern life.
There must be some change in regard to
the hotels, or we can not expect that flow
OF tourists to our city which would evil
IDENTIFY shape its course in this direction
under more favorable hotel accommoda-
tions. We hear one general desire ex-
pressed that an American kotcl be estab-
lished in this city, to be run upon the
latest American plan, with . belief that it
will De profitable enterprise; in this we
COLOUR, aad doubt not the necessity will
produce the result. In this connection We
will observe that some such enterprise as
this will soon be on foos.-Iwo Republics.