Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-08-21
SUMMER ON THE GULF.
Pleasure. Comfort. HenIth and Business I'm the Crescent City --kOmething about the " or ld's Exposition

spe cial sorres ponddnce to the HERALD
 NEW ORLE.Ns, August 16-
 The Crescent City has already 1 passed the line of summer heat
 The thermometer, which one day ir
 July marked a temperature of nine 1 ty-four and seven-tenths, the highest
 point in years. averaged the pas,
 month eIghty>five and three>tenihs
 but for fortnight now the mercury
 has barely passed sevcnty-tive de
 grees. Our nights are cool, and bed
 coverings nre essential to comfort |.
 The evening breezes begin to come
 aden with the rich perfumes of our
 etc dor of the semi tropics. Our
 days are shortening and are endin g
 with the richest sunsets of cream ana crimson.
 The always famous first bale of
 cotton reached us from the Texas
 interior two weeks ago. Mississippi
 was next heard from, then Ala bama and then North Louisiana, and now every train on ihe six railroads that reach out like fingers fiom our southern metropolis, and gather it's treasures into It's commercial palm, brings it's loads; while the steain-
 boats that paddle through our thousands of miles of our unbrage- ous bayuus and shallow lagoous come in l, aded down with the pro> duct. need and power of which makes cotton king.
 Tine summer of enforced idleness which has been marked peculiari- ty of this city in Olden times is be- ing done away with. New Orleans has come to find plenty else to do for her willing hands besides trund- ling cotton through her wareh ouses 10 her wharves and extorting a tare for the handling. Once four fiiths of her population subsisted literally on cotton; but since the war other industries have developed, so that three-fifths of her bread>winners are supported by other labor and we'll supported all the year round.
 The curse of ab enteeIsm," which has sanpe.i much of the blood from the heart of Louisiana in years past, is becoming only a tradition Louisiana has bt come good enough home for any man to live in. | is proved that Its climate is cooler and its cities healthier than those a thousand miles to the north and east of us, while within easy reach we have a iIne of seaside suburbs such as no northern state possesses, and which. lay ing on the highway be- tween morotonOus Florida and the sparkling Crescent City, are becom> ing popular as winter resorts fOr the people ot the north as they are the resorts in summer Of the Orleaners. It is not 10 our prejudice that the Irregularities of the freemen and the cross-Ioad hooulums have brought about feeling of hostility to the liquor traffic so earnest that | some of the most obscure of our | country parishes have adopted pro- hibitive laws as rigid as any red | village can er.fnrce.
 There is nothing in the Louisian- ian that holds him back from high | save. opportunity and occasion and in the change state | of affairs in the new south oppOrtu- nifty and occasfoo SC em to be coming | nearer and nearer 10 him all ihe | time. The creole boy has no trouble 1 when he goes ahro al, as is shown | by the careers Of thousands of living | men of this city all over the north | and in Europe. Generations ago New Orleans gave to the world an G"ttschalk, a Menkin, and a Murphy, each supreme In an line. Her native singers and actors of more or less note are scattered all over the land. and Creole boys ornament the journal> ism of the continent, from Bangor to Santa Barbara.
 The time is rapidly approaching when the doors of the great World's will be thrown open to he people of all nations In less han ninety days all ihe exhibits, by he rules of the exposition managers, must be in position and ready for inspection.
 The displays of rare and curious .hings and manufactured articles by he foreign nations of Europe, Asia and Africa and of the Central and South American republics will be