The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-30
TIE HACK CLOUD.
on for Kansas mt tast-Fiys Hundred
Meals a Day-stnl More Immigrants.
I5t. Louis Republican,


The swarm Of coorsd colonlsts from the
South, who have filled the Cbristy Avenue
churches for the past week, have disappeared
temporarily. and there IL great flourish ~
mops, brooms and stids In their late abiding
PLACES. A fRepnbhcon reporter, who passed
through that locality yesterday, nOtiGsd
couple Of furnlttirs cars loading up In front 81
the church on Eleventh street. lbe
church was empty, and the last fsw btlndles
of baggage were just finding their way into
the furniture cars.
What's become ~ the emigrantsY was
asked " muatto who stood In tho corner
smoking cigar.
Gone down on the levee,' WINS the reply
"All OF them gOueH
"Yes nil skinned out dis IDprDin.'
"Havs they taken another place there, or
what are they going " dnf
why, dsy's moved Dogs gone To Kan
sag."
con st1aner2'
Eyes. dsy's all goin' off to-day up river"
"Are they gone from tho other church toof
YES: all gone
Passing down Eleventh street the reporter
met q. H. Tandy and Alt. Carter. They said
the enigrants had oil sucessded I'm making.
arrangements for transportation To Topeka
Both of them said the colored people 81 81.
Louis had never encouraged these Southern
negroes to come here, but that when the
crowds had landed they thought IT only com
mon humanity tn try To make them as com
Portable MS possible Thu1y said tho st:
Louis Colore1 people had taken very g0od
Care Of tho refugees.
Glow do Won think they will get along In
Ennsas2" nsksd the reporter
II guess they Will get through hli right,
only There Is too many ~ them ut ones.
The Kansas papers say there is nothing
for them to do
"Well, We couldn't get them 81 go anywhere
else There was an offer Of $50 n month for
500 II them to work on ~ railroad In Iowa,
but they didn't know whsra Iowa was. lhsy
we're afraid It WIS down South somewhere.
and they wouldn't go anywhere else but TO
Kansas"
"Are there none u them left ut allF'
~ don't know Of any. We think they are
oil under way
"I,ut hundreds more will come In n day or
two. Can, you, do as well by them as you
h.ve by theseY
"Wsll they ought not tn come too fast. We
don't whnt them to come any faster than they
can manage 10 find places for themselves
At this point the corner of Eighth street and
ChrIsty Avenue was rehched, ana The hev >.
g. Anderson WIS discovered leaning against
the door post Of his temple. cloud VI dust
was visible within. and the sound which
reached the ear seemed to indicate that n
vigorous sweeping WAS IN progress.
at must be quitsa relief ~ you to 10 have
your dodgers off your handsf' WIS the salu-
tatlon.
Eyes, indeed" was the reply. I'VE have
been mighty busy here"
"IIow many did you entertain"
ave gave five hundred meals day ever
since Sunday, 80 you ean tell what time we
had Of It,"
"Tt must have been grent inconvsnlence,
too turning everything upside DOWN.
"Yes; ! reckon II costs about $40 tn
straighten up. I've got four men at work
now"
"Don you think" asked Garter, that We
ought to send word South for them not To
come 90 fastY n they came 81 few ut time
they could get along without making any
trouble"
But Mr.. Anderson was altogether too wary
to commit himself on 80 important topic,
and this reporter made his way 10 The leyee.