Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-12-11
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
4 PLAIN ACCOUNT OF HOST
 POETIC FACTS.
The Electricity or Modern Life As ExempIifed by the Grace and GtOVv of
 the Queen
 City.
Special Cor. of TIE HERALD.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec 3, 1884.

| a paradise Of fruits, flowers, Batmy l breezes, rainbow robed women and | perdetual street parades. We came from Cincinnati by the new inc or,
 as il is poetically called, the Queen and Crescent. Last night, being Sunday, was paradox in our eXpe : rienee, for everything was an em-
 phasis of electric light and boom
 of movement that suggested merri-
 ment The theatres were pouring
 out crowds on the broad banquettes
 already lined In the morning the
 churches poured out equally well
 for this is the most religious city in
 the country, and the churches, ac>
 cording to statistics, are far better
 attended than elsewhere. Monday
 morning after a hearty breakfast on
 pompano, brochette of chicken liver
 Creole eggs, coffee and oysters de
 coIleitee, we sallied forth and took
 mule car on Canal street.
 A mule car will carry a visitor
 from Canal stree. to the Exposition
 gate for nicBel-"half dime" as
 the street peddlers say. If one
 happens to take the Prytania street
 line he can see an attractive part of
 the Garden District In this locali-
 ty are fine residences, and the gar
 dens that surround them and seem
 to keep them in and intruders cut, are rich in foliage, redolent of
 flowers and resplendent with ripe oranges, like multitudinous photos graphs of his majesty, the Sun.
 After an half-hour ride, the car swung round on side street like a ship entering harbor through an
 irregular channel, and the City Park came into view, or al least part of it, and there q half mile away was the Main Building, looming up in all its grandeur. It stood out ln stereoscopic sharpness against the blue and golden sky, and did not seem to be dwarfed at all by the buildings near by, almost as impos- ing and imperial. A stranger with a harsh Velce, who had evidently been sampling bad whisky success 1 fully, said: "Take a good look at It gents, for you cant see it when you get to it, 'cause it's so big" In few minutes we were at the end of tic route and descended from .he ear, not two hundred feet from the
 front door of the United States aud State Exhibits Building. This structure is enormously large, but is second in size If he exposition group Of buildings We looked about for moment or two and per- ceived on the tight, in the direction of St, Charles avenue, one of the large iron hotels. six hundred feet long, only begun two weeks ago and yet nearly completed. On the left were number of temporary erec> tions of wood, where the relall deal, CTS in beer, sandwiches, hard boiled eggs, pies and such things awaited the arrival of the pic-eater.
 We entered the great building and found. active preparations for he opening of the exposition going on h every direction. The majority of the State collective exhibIts have arrived.
 Nebraska claims notice as being the first to open and display her ex- hibit in the building. In the Lou 1 isiana department was a large and | interesting forestry exhibit, calula- ted tc arrest the attention of the | northwest lumber kings. In every direction carpenters and workmen were busy building receptAcles, shelves, tables and racks for the proper display of the exhibits that were piled mp here and there In the centre of the building were many cases containing Q part of the government exhibits. There is a wide gallery that extends entirely lround the inside of the building.
 As we left the building by the ear entrance, we noticed that the headquarters for live stock on the opposite side of the park were get Ing a winter, no, a summer overcoat rom the painters. We hurried over o the main building, passing by the Michigan furniture building, and Ilso the building for public comfort, where visitors will be able 10 obtain lunchen while making a tour of he Exposition
 In the Main Building We discov~ Ied the busiest scene. Men were iurrying 10 and fro Platforms for he display of exhibits were Ill curse of construction as far as the ye could reach; pavilions, of vari> us sorts and of every conceivable were being or had been rectod. We went into the Machin- " Hall, where there was more din nd pounding than elsewhere. At ne end we found the refrigerator nd cold storage apparatus. As we teod there an engine backed a train f cars loaded with exhibits into our lidst.
 Next we inspected the reservoir hat is there sunk in the ground and alf filled with water. Crowds of isitors passed or filed by in single . rder. all intent on see1ng the nearly $ ompleted Exposition. An elderly ldy asked her young companion 2 hat the water was for. q sup- ose, :" said the young lady, looking p in roguish manner, as with arasOl she pushed a lump of the