Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.
Looking for Quarter>-And Something
to Eat-COncerning the Carnival-Sun.
day I'm New Oricans-The Vast Gov.
eminent and State Exhibits They
should be Brought to Washington.
Correspondence OF THE EVENING STAR.
NEW ORLEANS La, February 81, 1SS

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New ORLEANS, La, February 81, 1885.
Arrived here Sunday morning at Z O'Clock,
after ride, by no means fatiguing, OF 46 hours
rom Washington. The railroad stations here
are, presume, no part OF the great interna-
tlonal show for the one we arrived At would
compare very unfavorably with the Baltimore
and Ohio depot in Washington, which, as well
known, Is disgrace to the federal capital.
| Leaving our baggage at the station we strolled
up Canal street to look for quarters, and were
soon located in nice, clean room, on the third
| moor OF house on Canal, near Caroncelet
street, at one dollar each. This l. in the most
| central part Of the city, from which cars start
every minute 10 the Exposition, ferries &c. For
ueaIs we mad been recommended 10 frequent
the Christian Women's Exchange lunch rooms.
| pul on going there found them closed on sun
t etEmJust as though strangers were not To be
Gtheh IN ana provided ioT on the sabbath
however, there was no difficulty in finding
soihelnihg 10 eat, for bar rooms and restaurants
WE an open and doing a thriving business.
Preparations for the carnival were everyw here
evident, especially along Canal and St Charles
s stree Inc balconies, which here mostly ex-
tenu across the footwalks, were provided with
aoditlonal props and terraccd for chairs Our
landlord had thus provided accommodation for
one hundred and fifty persons, from each of
whom he expected to realize one dollar
ON MARDI GRAs
and the day previous. During the day Span
| ish benevolent society paraded the streets pre-
ceded by band, and also divers omnibuSses
| carrying bands and placards announcing eNhi-
billions, circus, etc. The thcaters were all open
In the evening, yet the churches in the MORN
ing were exceptionally well attended We
cropped IN church of spacious size on Frank
! I'm square and found an audience OF not less
than 1000 people: every aisle and every hit OF
standing room packed full. At the close of the
sermon an organ recital OF selections from Wag-
| terry manner. Mus
On Monday we patrQnized the women's En-
cnahge Lunch rooms; On Burbon street. and so
| neat and tidy, so well cooked everything and
SO moderate In price that we really enjoyed our
breakfast, which involved an expense of 30
cents each-co1tee, tea or milk, cents eggs. 10
cents: steak, 10 cents. BY 10 o'clock the main
streets were f1llcd with dense mass of people
Hex, the King of the carnival arrived on time
| TINS year by rail, and parading with his cour-
| tiers, all masked. under escort of several mill
tary companies, among them a company OF L
;. marines, brass bands and civic authorities in
carriages, the principal streets, embarked on
one OF the large gaily decked steamers and fol-
| ioWed by some seventeen other steamboats, all
crowded with passengers, amidst salutes from
| lne war vessels lying in the stream, and the
screeching of over
HUNDRED STEAM WHISTLES,
| ne started for the exposition, where ceremonies
appropriate TO the occasion were held
| AL evening the Krewe of Proteus gave a pa
geant Illustrating Chinese mythology. No less
than eighteen floats passed in review each pre-
coded and accompanied by torch bearers to the
number of dozen or more, apparaled in scar
let cotton cloth, and bearing aloft n torch hay
ing a row OF four cluster burners, backed with a
reTector some four feet long and one foot wide,
Surmounted by gallon IeSerN DIR of petroleum
Inc ht ats were drawn by four to six mules each
| caparisoned also in scarlet cloth. The various
| costumes OF the characters represented were
| GORGEOUS In THE EXTRME:
some exceedingly expensive. Half men, half
| alligator seemed to be prominent feature
! hldeous to look at though richly decorated in
.spangles and tinsel. The pageant was declared
| by the press TO be instructive We could not
600 III.
when duslly negro next TO us declared as one
/ Oh tiie nondeScrlptS passed, Golly, dat am nat
| raj, We could not see II either on the follow
ing day the weather was beautiful and the
crowd in the streets even greater than the dav
previous Occasionally group of masuue-
raiders were encountered, but, a rule, poorly
| time announced, Rex again made his appear
ance as the patron of industry, followed
of Ivanhoe in tableaux on a series If
| floats 1t pleased the public immensely, and
the press eNtolled the success OF the representa-
ton; Again obtuseness prevented our taking
! II all in. We could not see why the character
In lVanhoe should be masked if the actors were
not ashamed of the parts they assumed to take
| We could not see AM beauty in the character
OF Rebecca being taken by masked man, or
that OF the Queen, &c, by masked men. Our
| Ideas OF architecture also confiicted somewhat
with the proportions of castles portrayed in
pasteboard and covered lumber on the floats. as
| compared with their inmates, and then we
could not understand why most of the charac-
| tiers acted either like harlequins or dancing
| masters The evening parade was given by the
knights of Momus,' and consisted of a pa
| geant on floats, representing the Legends
| Beautiful" On the whole this was decidedly
| the best of the three pageants.
| THE TABLEUX OF THE FROST KING
| deserves special mention. But again we failed
to See where the educational feature came in.
Had 1t been as correct a representation of the
voyage of the Jeanette and the trials of the
| Greedy relief party, we might have taken it in;
| but even then the instruction would have been
| expensive out of all proportion to the lesson
| taught This last nights pageant we were told
cost upwards of $50, 0OO and the two previous
| ones, including the outfit of Rex, SS1 .Ooo-a
large proportion OF which went abroad to pay
| lor costumes. 1t Is nevertheless pronounced
| GRAND SUCCESS
| by all, even some of the teachers of the public
| schools who have been teaching the past six
months, We were told, on promises TO pay
We wondered, when 1t was all over whether
the good people of New Orleans were not "pay-
| ing too much for their whistle"
Before closing, word about the great Expo
sition. Great as to quantity and quality OF eX-
| hibitS. The volumes OF instruction embraced
| in the government buildings alone is beyond
tional disgrace TO allow all this wealth of object
| teaching material to be scattered. We there
fore suggest that by joint resolution or other
| wise the President of the United States be au-
| thoriZed and empowered by Congress to confer
with the various state governments having ex-
hibitS there-including the owners of the inyalu-
able educational exhibit, the women's and color
ed peoples displays, and invite these to consent
| that their exhibits in connection with the gov
| eminent departmental display be transferred
| at the close OF the Exposition at New Orleans
TO THE FEDERAL CAPITAL
| and there form the nucleus of permanent ex-
position to embrace in time all the states and
territories the whole to be arranged for pur-
poses of ready comparison upon the plan of the
Paris Exposition of 1875 and SO constitute to
the legislators Of the country and the public at
large grand and
COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL oBJECT-LESsoN.
The building the government already owns,
and thus would be secured to the people a ten
fold repayment of all the federal and state gov
ernments have invested in this Worlds Indus
trial and Cotton Centennial Exposition at New
Orleans. L.
Killed the Cats and then Hanged Him.
self.
A Honesdale, Pa, dispatch says Slas Clapper,
aged n, living with his son on the eastern bor-
der of this county, was greatly annoyed by cats
several days last week. On Saturday he shut
several of them In the kitchen, and going
among them with heavy club beat a number
of them to death. When he got through the
kitchen floor and walls were covered with
blood, and the sight of IL Mortified the old man