National Republican., 1883-04-23
WOODWARD & LOTHROP,
Boston DRY Goods House.
bades. The people want big hotel and they

shades. The people want big hotel and they
expect to fill il with northern residents dur
ing the winter. The papers are full Of the
undeveloped capabilities Of the city, but
don't remember its ever being brought to the
fore as good place to spend the summer in.
This reminds me that on the first of next
month the port goes into quarantine. The
old residents will tell you that such little dis
turbances as smallpox and yellow fever don't
count. Smallpox has been, and is now, cpl
demic but they are not doing anything posi-
tive to prevent its spread. The infected
houses have to hang out yellow flag, and
| that and the "peth house ends 1t.
The patrons of the street cars are agitating
tho smoking question. On every line of
street railway certain cars are called smokers
| and are conspicuously .placarded, and on the
| Others the legend runs that smoking is posi-
lively prohibited. The fact that smokers do
not discriminate in their choice of cars, but
take the first that comes along, has led to tho
| discussion Of the abolition Of the smokers.
| 1t isn't just the pleasantest thing in the
world for n car full of ladies to be invaded by
q couple of cigarette smoking dudes, and the
result will likely be wholesale prescription.
When New Orleans wants TO enjoy itself IL
goes to the west end or tho Spanish fort A
line of steam cars runs from the city to these
places, which have been carved out of the
swamp on the shore of Lake Ponchartrain by
the railway companies. They are about a mile
apart tho resorts), and have every appliance
in the way of pistol galleries, bathing houses,
bar rooms, &c. to get away with your shekels.
At the Spanish fort they have a geological gar
den. in small way, and at both places walks,
drives, flowers and plants make it n very
pleasant thing to go there on any OF the hourly
trains.
No other suburban resorts exist, and it is
not possible, from the nature ofthe surround
ings, to have them. As a consequence these
two are we'll patronized.
One great drawback to the material pros
perity of New Orleans, and indeed OF the
whole state of Louisiana, is its absenteeism.
A great many of the proprietors Of the plan
| tations in the state, aud the industrial insti-
| tutions in the city, are non residents, and in
any community this condition begets natural
and unavoidable evils. Probably the climate
has something to do with this, but doubtless
bad management Of municipal and state
affairs contribute literally to this end. have
| already referred TO the bad condition of the
city in a sanitary point of view, and this can
certainly be remedied. Then the entire city
of nearly 100000 inhabitants is left unpro-
tected by all but about seventy-tve police
men. The public school teachers are not reg
ularly paid, and a ring holds the reins of gov
ernment in tho city. The cry for northern
capital TO come here can never be realized
until better condition of things exists.
A good many northern men are here, hav-
| ing come Just after the war and since, but the
men who build cotton mills and railways and
the like have not come yet. Some people in
| the north have old fogy notions about having
stores open on Sunday, and object to cock
| fighting and running theaters on the Sabbath
| If New Orleans laughs at these notions, all
right. But business of the better sort does
not thrive under these conditions.
However d vast deal of commerce is car
ried on through this port. Ships from all
nations, having ships lie moored at the
wharves or levees loaded with cotton and
other native products, and very considera-
| BILE import business is done. Judge Mer-
chant, the newly appointed postmaster
seems TO be very acceptable to the people
here. He means business and will, doubt
| less, make good postmaster The city post
Office does greater business, in some of its
departments, than some northern cities of
the same size. 1t is admirably conducted in
every detail.
Next to the Spanish fort and the west end,
one of the most interesting sights is any one
of the graveyards, OF course every reader
knows that when you dig hole in tho
ground here ii Immediately fills up with
water. Hence when people die they arc laid
away in vaults built for the purpose, and
some of them are pretty expensive affairs,
costing $4,000 or $4,000, according TO the
taste and wallet of the prospective occupant.
| Then again the poorer and poorest people
can't stand that sort Of thing, and good
many of them are splashed into hole. The
graveyards are as pretty sight, with their
orange and magnolia trees, as New Orleans