Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1883-12-05
For the Smyrna Time,
Letter from New Orleans.


NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. %, 1888
DEAR TIMES While the weather
reports bring tidings of snow storm,
and closing of navigation at the North
the people in the Crescent CITY. unde,
clear skies are reposing in their shady
bowers amid the fragrance of newborn
roses and balmy breezes, for New
Orleans is famous in the months who's,
very name symbolic suffering and los,
OF life to all that is unprotected from
the chilling blasts of old boreas in the
Northern States.
They are looking to the South and
writing for Winter quarters, and New
Orleans is offering more attractions as
years roll by. Many of them have be.
come histOric-her bulevards. fine
cafes, attractive operas, luxuriant
hotels, animated and loquacious streets
the old French market. once seen
never to be forgotten, the polyglct
tongue, the carnival season, the grand
Mdrdi GrdS, the public squares. OBJ.
Jects OF interest to tourists and the his.
torlan, fishing and game present an
array of diversions sufficient to while
away the Winter months.
In New Orleans the Winter is not
only the time for festive pleasure but
for business; the largest cotton mart
IN the world and the largest sugar pro-
Queer in the United States, her pie
thoric store houses are receiving and
shipping general merchandise in
amounts excelled only by New York.
The success of the jetties and the
completion ofthe Southern Pacific, the
New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad
connecting with the CINCINNATI South
ern Railroad, coupled with the settle
ment and improved condition of the
South and Southwest give this CITY a
scope and Importance she never DOS
sessed before. Business men are on
the alert; permanent and valuable i'm
provements are being rapidly made,
and no more rapidly than they are de-
manded. Merchandise from every for
eign port forces itself in here while no
contagious disease is lurking around.
and in fact, in all the cities on the
Southern border, the Winter is their
most active business season.
This year has not yielded an album
dant harvest, two-thirds of crop of
cotton, but the area was larger and
general results not so small too little
falling rain on the growing crops and
the water famine has not vet been
broken up, affecting even the products
OF the mine, where they cannot have
enough of the aqueous fluid to wash
the shining dust from its impurities.
This does not apply to Louisiana but
to the mining fields through which we
passed in the Carolinas and Georgia.
New Orleans is going to get I'D a
grand international exhibition of cot
ton and Southern products in 1884.
A movement is on foot now to build a
new hotel for that event to cost four
hundred thousand dollars, A new
granite cotton exchange building has
recently been finished with all modern
improvements, costing three hundred
thousand dollars.
How marked the change of political
federation. The freedom of the CITY is
now advertised and thrust upon the
world; the day was when non-resi-
dents not slave holders were not al
lowed the freedom of the city and all
men now rejoice at the happy consul
nation and see in it the dawn of a new
era, whose brightness shall eclipse the
glory of the past. Two new cotton
factories are in successful operation
here now paying dividends. A new
shot tower has been finished of recent
date and an additional sugar refinery,
added to the industries of the city.
Founderies and machine shops have
long been in successful operation, and
coopering by improved machinery is a
grand addition which is necessary to
meet the great demand for tierces, bar
rels and hogsheads for the crops of
rice, sugar and molasses, long lines
of which may be seen laying ON the
Levee and in the store houses near the
docks. 1t is said that the South is
capable of producing ten times as much
in all of the above staples by energy
and improved methods, which, when
added to the yield of wheat and live
stock from the prairies of the West.
we will then offer for sale, possibly,
more than any nation on earth.
RAMBLER.