Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-14
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
OUT OF SUNNY TROPICS INTO
COLD AND SLEET.
Success of the Exposition-Califor
Products Unrivaied-Places of
Interest About the City.
IRrconp.rxros correspondence !


New ORLEANS, February >, lSS4.-Our
return from Mexico was pleasant though
devoid of interest, save when | lost my
purse. which contained some lovely opals,
and which some wretch now has. There
was money enough also in the purse to
make him happy for days 10 come. can
only wish that those opals may bring him
bad luck for all time. Such is my regret,
for can never replace the precious stones.
On crossing the Rio Grande at Ell Paso
the whole company gave three cheers for
our ain countree," which had scarcely
ceased ere we stopped in the station, where
we found the regular train had been held
for us from . o'clock at night to A. NJ, so
over Il day. We did not find the weather
mild and pleasant as in Mexico. Through
the whole of Texas it was only rain, wind,
snow and sleet; long stretches of
dreary-loobing plains, with half-starved
herds of cattle and sheep shivering in the
cold winds: patches of snow here and there,
anon whole forests covered with sleet,
looking like fairy land to us, who were so
comfortable and who thoroughly enjoyed
ii, looking from the car window as we sped
by. At Houston we were detained with
news of a break or washout ahead, SO all
the party voted to so to Galveston. We
went and were well repaid for our trouble.
The day spent there will long be remem-
bered, not only with recollections of the
handsome city, fine streets and buildings,
the lovely Beach Hotel-a rival to Del
Monte; all these are not dearer to the
heart OF the average excursionist than the
PLEASANT THOUGHTS OF THE OYSTERS.
Why Galveston Just revels in them.
Think of oysters three bits per hundred
and large as your hand, at that
At Beaumont we had to leave our ele-
CANT palace cars and take a small boat
down the River Neches, up the Sabine to
Orange where we were transferred to
other cars They were not nice nor clean
nor comfortable. Through the stupidity
of the Superintendent, who did not tele-
graph our coming, cars were not provided !;
however, after time, we were enabled to
get all on board, and leaving there at 5
o'clock A. NJ, with ice frozen thick over
the ground-that is, what ground one
could see, for the waters were everywhere
we sped on through the Sunny South"
arriving at New Orleans at $50 on the
26th instant, one day later than we had
expected to be. We are stopping at the
St. Charles, a fine-looking old hotel, with
columns in front ike our Courthouse. 1t
looks very unlike an hotel from the out
side, bat very easy, comfortable and home
like inside
THE WORLDS EXPOSITION.
| want to enter protest and must say
at once, in order to relieve nay mind, that
our home papers are doing the great Expo
sition an injustice. They say continually
that it is a failure, and so on. Such is not
the case. There is, it is true, much to be
done yet, because a whole winter Of I'M
paralleled rain has prevented work, that
was herculean in its greatness, from being
sooner finished The Exposition is a sue
cess; at least all that is required to make
it so is the coming of people
to see the wonderful display be-
meath a roof that covers eighty
acres of ground We hear the
cry of extortion. We who attended the
fair in Philadelphia in 1876 found
prices very much the same as
here. If there is any difference it is
rather in favor Of New Orleans.
Many GROWERS seem to think the railroad
ought to give them free passes to see this
greatest of all expositions, besides paying
their board at the St. Charles. I think
most complaints come from puerile, preu-
diced and uninformed people. Those who
are familiar with international expositions.
and with whom we have conversed, testify
to the superiority of New Orleans in scope.
area of ground and roof, magnitude of
display and variety and quality Of general
exhibits. Though much remains. to be
DONE the work is being carried on with all
possible haste, and now that the weather
Is favorable things will soon be complete.
The cotton display and the machinery
for manufacturing from its crude state
as brought from the fields up to the
finest perfection, as shown in thread,
web and wocG is alone worth a
visit here. Many Of the States have made
gorgeous displays of resources, but time
and space will not permit a separate men
ton, save this, that California is equal to
the best. Though not gotten up in such
good style rs many, her various products
show for themselves, and we think stand
snriyaled. With what pride We all gather
around
TIE CALIFORNIA HEADQUARTERS
And talk, perhaps brag-though we are
fs .,f a
its products. There is one department
that has been neglected, and Mrs Lemon,
who has charge Of the womans depart
ment, is most anxious for the ladies of Cal
ifornia to send enough fancy work and
home productions to fill it up.
The past few days have been mild and
halmv. as our ideal South in winter should
be. The streets are fast drying up, and
the warm sunshine is causing the flowers
to appear, and winter in truth seems
ended There are many broad streets lined
on each side with grand old magnolia
trees, with wooden walks some ten feet or
more in width, directly in the center, for
promenading, but oh how muddy are the
drives on either side Evidently they DO
not estimate horsehesh too highly here, and
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down TO almost any depth, while il IS
an actual fact that two weeks ago $50
mules mired in one of the streets OF taa
city, and we're drowned while their owne-
went short distance for assistance.
The sewerage is all above ground, and
on the principal streets is kept well washed
bv a steady flow Of water, but the cutters
fill up often in neglected places, and then
well, things are exactly as they seem.
There is much that could be written about,
but will only speak of the pleasure we
are having in the way Of opera. We have
heard Patti and Emma Nevada, and
cannot tell you how enthusiastic
We were over Nevada, because we
had never heard her before. She is
so sweet, pretty and graceful, and then her
voice is simply exquisite. | am not
comparing her to Patti, but only speaking
Of her as she deserves. We have been
to sec Aimee also, and Grace Hawthorn