The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-01

the trades in every community. and
even labor, notwithstanding the neces
sity 1t staggers under to secure food
seems to relapse into q condition cate.
lepsy, and to give itself up to the ruling
passions OF the hour. No better evi
denoe OF the truth Of this can be
found than the condition of al
classes here during the Packard
reign in the st. Louis Hotel
Capital stood idle, trade languished
and malcontent labor stood still await.
ing the denouement. But now, judging
from q stroll on Canal street, there
seems to be change, and this change
Is particularly noticeable in that new
branch Of industry, the taffy candy
trade. 1t would seem that Packard's
so-called government was particularly
hard on the taffy men but now, relieved
Of the incubus, they are conf ng out
with renewed vigor.
TO the ordinary wayfarer it Is not a
little difficult to choose from the several
stands that line the sidewalks just what
taffy is the best. In fact, old residents
declare that no one as yet has been able
| to determine accurately just which taffy
man vended the superior article OF this
| sacharine product, and some go as far
rs to say that it is all alike. These re-
ports are not worthy OF consideration,
however, for q cursory glance at the
placards displayed over these portable
| dispensaries sets the matter at rest at
| once.
First, we see a good-natured looking
| boy, with pimple on his nose. proba-
| bly, the mark OF Eve long lost chee-ild'
holding forth behind a tray supported
on kind Of saw horse, who, with some
vanity, points TO his sign, Champion
Crescent City Taffy, Home Made. "
Then one comes across another urchin
| who plays jackstones with any passing
boy so disposed, who keeps the flies off
q stand with rows of this candy, neatly
dressed In q surplce Of white paper,
and who, elbows on his placard of
The only True Champion Excelsior
Tafry in the South, one stick for five
cents" all in gilt letters on u black
background.
A little further down q full-grown,
able bodied man benignly looks down
on q tray with some forty yellowish
looking sticks Of hybrid molasses candy,
and with q show of pride brushes the
dust off u glass sign with the words
Gold medal taffy; the only original
in the South" upon it. 1t would almost
seem that the cause of oil our troubles,
all our deferred hopes, our struggles to
rid our State from the rule of rascality
and thievery was due to the fact that
people heretofore did not indulge
enough In taffy.
Leaving the big chiefs Of the trade out
host Of little tafryites hedge in Canal
street. Little fellows, with only card
board inscribed Pure Taffy." Real
Old Taffy," Louisiana Taffy," and
such like subalterns, hang on the out
skirts.
We have had our eye on these taffy
men, boys and girls for long time. and
memory only recalls one purchaser Of
their ware, and that was newsboy
when the trade first opened. He saw the
sign, and, calling to % brother in the
news vending business, exclaimed :
-" 'Ere's go, Bill, let's us buy some OF
that there taffy. / heard Billy Vickers,
wat runs our ward. say nobody could
give him taffy, and now let's us see what
she is
II anybody else has made purchase
Of this new product Of intelligent in-
dustry, it must have been done surrep-
titiously when nobody was around.
The business thrives, however, and now
that politics are settled, we may look
out for corners" bulls and bears" in
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