The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-16
NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.
Valuable Information for People Who
Intend Visiting the Crescent City.
The Complete Arrangements for Securing
Accommodations for Strangers
Demanded for Lodging and Board.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec 13 Already between
% 900 and 20 900 people have arrived here for the
exposition and been stored away. They are not
visitors but mainly persons connected one way
OF another with the machinery Of the exposi-
tion-commissioners, exhibitors agents, etc
They have come for long stays most OF them to
remain until June and they want, naturally, to
make themselves comfortable and to secure
rooms somewhere in the immediate vicinity of
the Exposition Park and from which they will
not have far to CO. With the exposition opening
at 10 A M, and closing at 10 p. NJ, there will
not be much time for them to rest if they have
any great travelling to do, so they have made
for all the spare rooms in the vicinity of the
park and have secured them. There is scarcely
an available room now to be had in tie entire
Sixth district, and the visitors who come later
will have to find quarters further down town and
trust to the streetcars to carry them
to the the park. 1t is safe to say
that there is not room for 1000 more people
within two miles of the exposition, while the
bulk of the hotels and boarding houses are four
miles away. Fortunately, however, there are
five lines of street-cars to the grounds, The
only objection will lie in the delay for the New
Orleans horse cars, or rather mule cars-as the
latter animals ale almost universally used here
are very slow in their travel, and seldom move
at more rapid speed than five miles an hour.
To go from the center of the city, the hotel
region, to the exposition never takes less than
forty FIVE minutes. and may take an hour.
There is no trouble about getting accommoda-
tions here. The city it is true, possesses few
frstcIass hotels and the full extent of its hotel
accommodations is under $1,000, but it is strong
in boarding houses, furnished rooms and private
boarding with families. In this way it
accommodate without trouble between 10000
and 40, 900 persons this winter, and there is not
likely to BE any very serious crowding except
during the gay season of the carnival.
The safest thing for stranger to do when he
arrives here-and il is what those here for the
exposition have done-is to go at once to first
Glass hotel unless he has through a friend,
made some arrangement for rooms and board
elsewhere, He will not find the charges high,
the hotels having agreed not to raise their rates,
which range from s.. 30 to 81. Once settled at
a hotel he can secure permanent quarters
somewhere else This is a matter of only hour
or SO, and easily ranged. At the Office of the
Exposition Company, on Graver street, is the
bureau of information and accommodation,
whose special duty it is to care for visitors. 1t
Is branch Of the exposition itself, paid by it
and making charges for its services Its
duty is to keep full list of all the rooms for
rent, the board offered, and similar information.
1t keeps, for this purpose, a registry of 10 900
Or 10000 rooms, with their location, situation,
character, and the prices charged. Large maps
on the wall will show you the exact situation of
the house, its convenience to street railways,
theaters, etc. Telephones connect with branch
Offices and will place one Immediately
in connection with the house, so that
he arrange matters at once. There is no
quarreling over prices, because these are fixed.
They are very reasonable, as the bureau refuses
to list any rooms where extortionate charges are
made, They make furthermore, a careful ex-
animation of the house, and will not allow any
b appear on their rolls which are not above sus-
Ftcion. The prices range from Is cents to $3.50
day for rooms, and from $15 to $40 month
Board is about double this-from 81. 80 to So
day; or from $50 TO $50 month.
DESIRABLE LOCALITIES
1t ia always best TO see the room before you
accept it. If you can get one on a paved street
do 80, as the dirt streets of New Orleans are
very disagreeable during the heavy rains pre-
vaiing here in December and are often over
flowed and impossible. Choose the central por-
ton of the city, between Magazine and Baronne
streets. 1t is the brightest, livelest and health
lest Further back you are too the swamp
and the malaria Get front room, if possible
one facing toward the south; that is, toward
the river. You will find it the coolest on hot and
the warmest on cold days, for the breeze from
the gulf is always refreshing and pleasant
You get, moreover, the morning sun, and that is
a great matter in New Orleans. The climate
here is so damp that any room into which the
sun does not pour is unfit for residence The
ground is saturated with water the air filed
with moisture, especially during winter. If you
have sunless room. you can test its unhealthi
ness by the green moss or fungus on your shades
la the morning. For the same reason avoid the
superabundance of foliage to be found at so
many houses in New Orleans. They are wild
about trees and vines down here. and let them
grow over the entire house front 1t is pretty
and picturesque enough, but none the less I'M
comfortable and unhealthy. Again, a frame
house is always preferable to brick one, because
it Is iess damp. There is a marked rainy season
in New Orleans, not quite as much as in the
tropics, but then a rain or fog is of almost
daily occurrence. This season begins in Deem
Der and Lasts into January. After that it clears
up and you are treated to the most delightful
weather for five months to be found anywhere
in the world, not even excepting the Riviera of
Italy. Christmas is nearly always rainy, and
you are often treated during this month and the
next to very unpleasant fogs, when the houses
sweat until it looks rs if a heavy rain were fall
ing. the walls drip water the pictures get
notified, and little puddles form on the stairs.
On such occasions, light fire and throw open
your windows. Everything will be dry in a few
minutes, but you cannot keep out the moisture
Height is not objection in a room here.
The higher up You go the purer and healthier
the air. You will find. too, that the mosquitoes
never rise above a certain height so TINT IN the