New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-13
Ne " ORLEANS.
CANDIDATES WHO TALK TOO MUCH-TRE
EXPOSITION GUESTS-CREMATION.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBCNE.l

NEW ORLEANS, April 12.-POliticS are still
agtang the public mind and exciting haris feelings be-
tweenetizens The first sht Of the campaign occurred
Thursday. George McClOskoY. prominent merchant
and Wash" Marks, Of tho best known brokers on
Change got into argument 10 the merits OF the rae
Ons and then began to fight They were pulled apart
Both were badly hurt The regular Democrats admit
that this hardest fight thew have had, and the
contest for State officers IL almost lost sight or In TINS
city in the struggle for parish places and for the nS
time record purely municipal canvass is being made
The parish Democratic ticket in opposition 70 the regular
nominees has strong backing, but its success IA Jeop
ardzedby the prOneness OF the on to akfor every
time that they do talk they lose votes. Both sides are
spending money freely. The Independent Democrats are
still In the field with ticket OF their There IA
suspicion that their organization has been cap
tured by the regulars and is being run TO
divide the opposition v)ts. feature OF
the campaign is the canvass for Mayor Of exLeu'sn-
an.GOvernor Penn who famous in 1874 rs the man
installed by the White League In the Executive oIce,
Governor McEnery being out OF the when Governor
Kellogg driven from it. He nominated himself for
Mayor and ran couple OF mass meetings AL alone lie
has now, however been taken up by the independents
The city preparing to receive the visitors who
pected to the Worlds Exposition. The s. Louis HOTEL IA
nous the Louisiana state House in which the celebrated
Anderson-Wclls Returning Board met and in which
the visiting statesmen assembled to listen to the test-
Eliza TDkstOn has been leased -OOuei RIVERS
Of the st. Charles and IS undergoing complete transfer
nation It is 10 be opened October az the Hotel
Royal Gt will accommodate eight hundred guests and b
the European plan There is movement on
foot TO turn the Morcsque building. thrce5iory sguct
OF iron and brick at Camp and POydraSsts into hotel
The plan provides for five hundred guests
The Board OF Directors OF the exposition early in tn
week announced that they would pay carpenters three
dollars per day the pay which had hsen demanded OF the
boss builders the city, This decision reached be
fore any formal notice had been served on the Board
This however did not satisfy the carpenters who Insisted
that all employed carpenter, should be members
Of the association. This would have complicated mat
IL the exposition management had been dependent
upon the ASSOCIATION for skilled labor for many OF tie
employed were not members but were members Of Orgln
The Board did not discharge IN se men, and the cirpeu
tiers work 10 overcome this dilemma ny inducing
the aborers the building 20 JOIN them Some OF them
DID strike Of carpenters would not emrarlsS The
Exposition management, hut ttle skilled labor " the
kind required I'm the construction of the main IIn.,
ADD such a. is needed can be easily procured.
ON saturday next Christ Church Canal-,t. the oldest
Protestant Episcopal church IN the Mississippi valley Is
ground uptown and will build new elttce The sale of
the church made necessary ~ settle debts md he
the neguborhOOd was too noisy R'lrOId trains,
street ears rafting cabs and bands music OF parlIug
societies constantly interrupted the services and distract
ed the attention OF the congregation.
The Council Committee has reported un:avlraby upon
the ordinance providing cremation OF tn" dead IN this
city. which the Cremation Society advocates
Tbs Committee doubted the power or tho Council 10 pass
Tie ordnance II - uliciSlOJi however tla tne real
Of tie action Of the Committee the opposition
from certain churches This opposition hls also c,aued
the enthusiasm OF OF the members OF the Cremation
though is said TO ne moving seAdy toward It's object
the erection of a furnace.