Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-11
/ CRESCENT CITY
Beautiful Parks The
'rer Resorts and Places of
Amusement.
ill., Of the 0ity-Bxtensive Prep
En-, for the Big Pair-Texas
Exhibits.


rery dull. 1t generally is,
ooe has been unusually 80.
- could have been expected
mon such a continuation Of
:, Hoods, the winter agitation
DSIexican reciprocity treaty,
nj certainly be a death blow
lana 5 sugar interests, should
1scome law, and the late
!, manic. So the principal oc-
Of our people has been to
themselves, and although the
has been very warm, still it is
u warm for the New Orleans
~ amuse itself. In fact, this
rot aroused is not itself at all.
,ssrs ago the city could not boast
n HE matter of summer recrea.
Eind amusement. The public
for long years after the war,
very uninviting condition,
wharves along the river banks
almost the only breathing
Ehlther sweltering humanity
stake itself of evenings. The
|orts we're not attractive to the
They were reached by a pro-
tedious, Only the rich or the
ii TO do could afford them.
ow all this is changed. The
nd public squares have all,
the past two years, been regen-
pntil they have become verita-
INV spots ON the face of the city
dthe moles they were. In
dthem open air concerts have
bsn, the weather permitting,
rytning of the heated term and
shoeome concerts are given
teebIll.
l n0rts on Lake Pontchartrain
~ rendered like unto fairy
1the roads, some ten miles IN
Wnnecting them with the city,
Ken put i'm tirst-class order. One
Is TO West End" Spanish
mto the "Old Lake End and
rthe sum of 15c. Every attrac-
the way If hotels, restaurants,
laloons and shade is furnished
eand scale while beautiful grassy
with beds of fragrant flowers
|aher side stretch along the
lent of the lake, past pretty lit
nese pagOdas, rising up above
aler, inviting the stroller to an
at, while there is music-music
Shere. You know there can be
~ in New Orleans without
There are beautiful scenes
|hthe electric light sheds its brill
N over by night, and it is n very
bent evening that thousands are
Ii public beats the world fer thea
ing. They do so much Of that
M eight months of the year
Il were TO be expected
lhey would not regret season of
but not so. A summer theater at
|tithe lake ends built up on piles
Die water does a great business.
are not ten-cent shows, either.
BE contrary, although nothing
heavy has been produced, still
hood attractions have been pro-
he Is one line of industry that is
tide of u great boom, that is
BIZ and building. The
inhabitant wotteth not
pTovement so general in
! have been in no part of
where one may walk two
hthOut having to leave the
lie TO escape painters or build
Improvement in real estate be-
be marked about two years ago,
y continued at augmented pace,
Is summer the Improvements are
as to challenge comparison.
rs, too, are going up all over the
lom 10 to 30 per cent.
= summer Is not now so near its
Without the usual apprehensions
How fever having been felt.
opinion is that the average all
'ear-'rOund citizen of New Orleans
as that malady as not one whit
than the typhus, scarlet fever,
lpoN, malaria, or oLher maladies
q in their season obtain almost
ideally in New York, Philsdel'
chicago, Washington and other
'Hern and Eastern cities, and Of
3 little is heard, but all 1read itf
lioni because even a few cases
9 quarantine and non-communica-
with the West and
and the exodus from the
~ those who, not acclimated
Pssl6ly leave. Each spring since
~ 1879, doth the wise man look
and predict In low tones a sickly
'Aer, and each summer since 1875
health showing of this city
lhe best of any American city Of
pulatiOn.
ilain class Of doctors seem 70
cared that the season will pass
" yellow fever, and If IL does :
az now seems assured-well, IL
y be their fault.
We heard n great deal OF unfavor'
9mment INDUCED at the expense
ae one who discovered the
Fasplcious casen so familiar IA
readers and who FASTENED 10
abroad. The general opinion
" be that he knew more then
Yellow fever than be will ever
N sgaln. The post-mortem exam
x; which proved IL TO be only 3
malaria would seem TO justify
f'lnation of his prognosis. The
Olfd catches the first worm
Ike Butler, would not appear
taught very juicy worm, All
& ue disease is now pretty well
q ! II is too late and frost will
20 soon.
v sides one hears Of the exposi-
y is the universal topic. IL Is
i'Ous, too, the amount Of work
az been done on those vast
- comprising the "City park"
HsParAtions began, Imagine