Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-23
ct THE SOUTH.
THE TWO SACRAMENTO MERCHANTS
ABROAD.
What They Saw in New Orleans, savan-
rah, Charleston, Richmcnd,
Washington, Etc.
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Washington, Etc.
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NEW YORK CRY, April 6, 1881.
is local wonder, and well worth visiting
The first day is devoted to the reception of
the Rex arrival of the King). The mill
tary companies visiting the city join the
local and escort the REX to the Grand
Opera House, where he is formally received
and given the keys OF the city. Speeches
of welcome and congratulation, patriotic
aud stirring, are exchanged. Cards of in
vitation limit the attendance at all enter
tainments indoors, day or night. The first
evening and next day and night the excite
ment of the reception is followed by grand
street pageants and indoor receptions and
tableaux, conducted by four principal asso-
Rex parade the second day is the
longest. There were some
TWENTY CARS
And numerous other chariots, chair and
horse squads, all illustrative of the Arabian
Nights Entertainment. We were CON-
fortably located at the uptown residence
of leading merchant of the city fan
"ex-King' OF the Carnival we belIevel,
and the procession was an hour and a
quarter passing that point. A large
punch bowl located at the front gate was
occasionally found TO be in their way, but
it upset nothing, nor did it cause any
great delay. Then there was an associa-
tion-the ''Phunny Priority Phellows de
voted to burlesquing DR.. Mary Walker, "
Woman's Suffrage" ETC., twenty or
more illustrations also the ".M Sick
Krewe of Comus, of the same magnitude,
picturing the myths of the Northland y
again, the q Knights OF Momus," that paid
their attention to scenes from popular sub
jects, such as "Don Juan" 4" Hiawatha,
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,
etc. The night pageant, brilliantly illumi-
mated, was as interesting as the one by day.
They use the regalia, designs and costumes
only once. They sell what they can OF
them to smaller towns, who will next
year get up their own little Mardi
Gras." In short time committee
will be sent to Paris to get up designs
for next years display. The view of the
streets, as it were, thrown together, and
having only line of trees, sta.uary and
reserved ground between them-is one not
to be seen anywhere else in this country.
Every available foot of street, store, statu-
airy and tree, as far as the eye can reach,
even the tops of the buildings from points
next the street, is crowded with mass OF
people
IN HOLIDAY ATTIRE.
1t is estimated that there are 10000 visit
ors in the city. The money spent for
this hullabaloo is enormous. Every body
is interested in it, and, what is most
singular, the leaders in it are mostly men
who came from the North. It is grand
scheme to have slots of fun, and get peo-
pie to come and visit them and leave their
good-wishes and their stamps behind,
for every nine out of ten visitors
will 60 heme and affirm that the New
Orleans people are generous, hospitable,
whole-seaied people, and deserve all they
can get. The peculiar people that were
there when Ben. Butler discovered
the town are nearly all dead. Mard
Gras done, and then followed, as q
let down, the fremens parade, another
| local pride. Guests from Chicago for this
particular occasion were there, and the
way the boys turn out with bedecked en-.
| gines, and richly Inverted horses with
bronzed name and tail and gilded hoofs,
etc., was an evidence that their hearts
were in it and their guests must be hon.
ored. The French opera house and its am
pie appointments, filed with people, was
viewed by us from the second or dress cir
Gle, which extends well out into the middle
of the Immense building, and is thus ar
ranged First, toward and fronting the
stage, low partitioned boxes, then two
and half feet promenade, both extending
entirely around then follows, back OF
! these and more elevated, chair seats sew
eral tiers; back of all, large private boxes
close up to the next circle. 1t is so ar.
| ranged that between the acts guests can
visit any one in this circle and have their
social chat without disturbing any one
else. We saw the circle filed with the
beauty of New Orleans in splendid attire,
and gentlemen in full dress The best OF
an interesting entertainment was when the
drop-curtain was down and New Orleans
was face to face and soul to SOUL We
visited by rail
WEST END AND SPANISH FORT,
Some six miles from the city, nearly in the
same direction, and both beautiful lakeside
resorts with extensive accommodations.
The latter place is historically interest.
ing. We also visited Chalmette Cemetery
jackson s battle. field) and regretted to see
that Jackson's monument, one-third fin
ished, IS going to ruin, the covering
tottering off, and the marble base slabs
that I'LL the lookouts stolen away. 1t casts
at monday an ugly dragged shadow over
the head stones of the nations dead. For
shame the lot should be added to the
national grounds, the monument car
ried well toward the clouds and put un.
der the charge of the same superintendency.
The city cemetery is novelty for North.
ern people. Owing to the grounds being
troubled with water near the surface, the
dead are all placed in vaults above ground.
Some of the vaults are elegant, others plain
and substantial. This is a fair sub
stitute for those who are not quite recon-
ciled to the better plan of having the
crematory prepare the ashes for the sacred
urn of the family. The beeswaxed box.
the hackman's bill and the hole in the
ground have had their day long enough
CITY PROBLEMS.
The city debt ard its surface sewerage
are its problems, but they are now being
worked out by energetic men, who are
bound to succeed. She has empire enough
for great trade. Texas is improving rap
idly, and soon they will be able to cele-
brate the unity OF the Gulf with the Pacific.
Then will New Orleans be sister city to
Sacramento, and of like interests and sym.
pathies. Leaving New Orleans in the
morning by the Mobile Railroad, going
east leisurely, with the waters of Lake
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