Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-28
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i Nrw ORLEANS, Aug. IL, 1884.
/ large number of tourists, on account
:, the appearance of cholera in Europe
,h;s summsr, having been deprived of
,A.ir holiday abroad. may perhaps be
IA TO consider that their own country
|. .vertb seeing. Tourists in increasing
,ombers annually seek comfort in
THE SUNNY SOUTH,
Desiring to escape from the cold blasts
=, the icy North. Those residing in
soId regions who, within the coming
tsv months, penetrate even to the Gulf
Gtatss, will not regret their determine
aOu to find a substitute for the play
uounds Of Continental Europe. there
sre several wavs Of capturing Dixie.
One may take steamer at New York
and voyage along the coast to Florida,
ar around the Keys into the broad
Gulf and steam up the Mississippi to
,bs oity Of New Orleans. Those who
urefer to travel by railway have at their
option the choice Of dozen routes,
through Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and
other States.
By far the LATEST and plsasantest way,
Il one have time, ia to float down the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers on first
clsss steamboat. The daily life on
board q river boat has certain phases
that always interest students of human
nature. Amusements of one sort or
another help to shorten the evenings.
Gambling on all respectable boats is
nov forbidden, and the professional ad-
yocstes Of little friendly "game of
draw" have disappeared, or, at least,
they work on the sly.
The undertaken buries the town, but
there is eternally number of young
lovers Of both sexes who elude him and
find time and place to meet and dis
cuss the latest questions relating to
astronomy and kindred sciences. There
nsver was better place for the young
tourist to see the ooantry than seated,
On q bright evening, beside his dulcinea
on the hurricane deck of q Mississippi
river boat. Nestled beside the smoke.
stack, the tourist oan view the world as
Il Il were huge, long drawn panorama
Of strange, dreamy land. They talk
and talk, the hours fly, boats whistle
and pass by, the low lying banks seem
toapprosch and recede; where populous
towns once stood the boat dashes
through cutoff and begins a mad
chase down narrow channel, pushing
aside overhanging branches. A settle
nent with lights or sleeping in darkness
appears to come and go. A woodpile IL
reached now and then; the noise OF the
crew Is heard making the boat fast, per-
chance to a tree; the stage plank, heavy
and long, being let down; deck hands
bringing in wood, singing as they march
10 and fro from the bank; and numer
Gus sights, sounds and incidents serve
10 while away the time of the tourists
Who travel ON western and southern wa
ssrs. At length
RATION ROUGE,
The State Capital, a pretentious town
perched on a lew hill, is reached. Its
site 10 the last of the highlands, and the
tourists Immediately perceive that the
boat 10 gliding through the Louisiana
lowlands. Somehow the moonlight in
the delta appears to be- brighter than
elsewhere. Whether its luminous power
depends upon some unknown atmos-
pherio peculiarities matters not; the fact
impresses itself upon the minds of stran-
gers; and therefore night sail on the
great river is a pleasing feature that the
visitor never forgets. The objective
point now is New Orleans, the charming
city half old, half new.
The opening Of the
woRLD's INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION
Next winter will bring tens of thousands
OF pilgrims. Those who come early
that Ia, in December or January-will
ZEE the orange orchards full of golden
fruit. and the sugar plantations AZ the
very time the years crop of sugar is be-
Ing made. The late csmers will see the
lakeside resorts thronRed with summer
visitors, who now think they cannot ex-
hs here through the summer without
open cir concerts, comic opera. lager beer
and the many pleasant diversions that
20 to make mp the life Of the northern
Voney Islands. Fortunate will be the
pleasure seeker who times his visit 70 the
worlds Fair 50 as TO take In the
MARpI-aRAs PAGRANTs.
New Orleans has had many imitators
out no rivals in the magnitioence OF her
Sarnival displays. Various clubs and
INDIVIDUALS subscribe annually from
iO,OO0 to $4,000 in order that resi-
aents and the thousands of strangers
present may enjoy the gorgeous specta-
oiea without msney and without price.
ine coming season of gayeties viii be
unusually long and conspicuous in the
record of the Crescent City. In add
tion 10 the three regular theaters. the
ofand Opera House, Academy of Music
ana the st. Charles Theater. there will
oe new claimant for popular approval
u tue shape of the Grunewald Opera
aoose, which will be completed before
ne ~ opening Of the amusement season.
Inc establishment Is on Barenne, near
OAnal street. There are, Of course, q
lumber of half-price theaters and dime
sasws that minister TO the under twenty
thousand. To persons of refinement
Gs french orera, on Bourbon street,
vii offer means of hearing singers OF
european renown in grand and comic
french opera. The auditorium and
stage are large; and the works now in
vogue In the Parisian capital will be
presented here with the best scenery,
properties and costumes that money can
procure.
lne men who. during past years. have
oeen generous and successful in man.
seinR Mardi- Gras and other amusement
snserprises in large way in this city,
wi not fail TO make the Exposition the
Greatest show on the earth, notwith.
sanding the limiting adjectives used In
ertain quarters. Ii is said by some pa.
Psfs that the Worlds Exposition OF
.otso 10 second only to the great Phil
sasirhia Centennial of 1876. Let N
aook at a few four -cornered facts. Ths
wounds enclosed at New Orleans mea
sore about fifteen acres more than VA
pnnginally set apart and fenced for tbs
n,iadeiphia Centennial. The mair
oailoine at the Centennial covered 2
see sc.ee and fraction, the one at New
Sfieans covers 50 acres and q fraction
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