The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-02-19
THE CRESCENT CITY,
An Interesting Talk About the Euuo,,,,o
dt{dntd CJi,titufion.

AtIdnta Con,ttution.
:, DIT. Smith Clayton has returned from
New Orleans and is RECALLING his friend;
with spicy talks on his experience will
the Ctesent City and the exposition.
Talk about extortion, )" he remarked in
group OF listening friends Yesterday
New Orleans is full of it. Every expe
dlent known to civilized creation ia re
sorted 10 chisel the stranger out OF
his ducats. The boarding houses on and
near Canal street seem to be The arch
tiends in the business. The tony French
restaurants also come in for share Of
this swindling. For instance, the un.
suspecting but hungry stranger enters q
restaurant. He finds no bill of fare. but
ne orders something to eat, and when he
asks for his bill is Mortified aud shocked
A case in point: A Kentucky gentleman
went into Pezzini's on Canal street. and
carried too friends to dinner. The bill
was $3.50, and the gentleman had 10
oorrow some of the money to paw out
A travelling man from Atlanta. whose
name | shall not mention, took two ladies
into Moreau's and ordered three Guns OF
chocolate and three oyster petties-"
What's an oyster pctty?"
lts Two or three oysters cooked up in
ple-and when lie come to settle il
WAS just q cool dollar and seventy five
cents. l myself, when l was younger
ana fresher, went into Icons aud got a
half dozen raw oysters for which | was
asked to deposit thirty. FIVE cents. The
next day, block down Royal street, / got
a dHZQn tar
cents. Leon has since been burned out.
and wept over the ruins of his estab.
iishment. In this class Of restaurants
you pay for style-not for what you eat.
You pay twenty-five cents cup for coffee
five cents for coffee and twenty cents
ior style. You can get coffee just as good
for hve cents cup. In short, the atrung.
er IN New Orleans shuuld make a con.
tract before he begins to eat, otherwise he
Will be f1eeced. Especially is this true
IN the neighborhood of Canal street. An
old man named Fabacher, at the corner
OF Royal and Custom House streets, has
first class restaurant and has never
raised his rates. You can get square
meal there all the way from thirty TO
sixty cents. His coffee is five cents,
oyster stews twenty five cents. good
steaks thirty cents, and 80 on. a stran.
ger should beware of all restaurants that
do not have printed bills of fn.e."
HOW NOT TO BE FLEECED.
"HGw much can moderate man get
along with?"
Il would not advise any man to go to
New Orleans with less than ifty dollars,
exclusive of his railroad ticket. If q
man wants 10 live moderately, he should
engage room by the week and take his
meals at restaurant. II you call at
165 Gravier street, the office OF the bureau
OF accommodations, you can get room
at almost any price. paid three dollars
a week for my room. A man can get
along on ten or fifteen dollars a week
very readily, but it is not good idea to
go with 20 little money on hand. You
can spend from that amount up to two
hundred week, according to the amount
Of style you put on. At the st. Charles
they charge four dollars 9 day and give
you two meals day and q lunch. You
get breakfast there any time in the morn.
ing up to twelve o'clock, and dinner
begins at five and lasts until ten at night.
You get your lunch whenever you want
it. Single meals are 81 25."
New Orleans must be fast town ?"
ut is the fastest town / ever saw.
There are upwards of forty gambling
houses in full blast night and dny. The
bulk of the population have al utter
disregard oflhe Sabbath day. Stores
are open and work goes on just rs during
week.
The theaters are run and Sunday is q
great matinee day. You can't tell It's
Sunday except by he dates in the news.
papers. OF COZ oe there are a large
number of>churches, and people who are
inclined to worship can attend, but the
religious element seems to be overshad.
owed by the worldians. Most everybody
seems to drink and smoke fine cigara and
gamble. but you seldom zee drunken
man. The nights as o rule are mild and
The people are out dooB Of night llmost
"a much as they are during the dsy. At
this time thousands of idle men may be
seen touching on Canal street night and
day. They are men from distance out
Of work who have focked to New Orleans
in the hope of making money. In the
main they have been sadly left. 1t is
not an uncommon thing for thirty OF
forty men to be sent up for vagrahcy in
one day, and the other nigh: che hundred
tramps were arrested for being found
asleep on the gambling tables. That
occurred at No. l8 Royal street, the larg.
eat gambling house in the United States,
where every night not less than five
hundred men and boys may be seen
playing all the games of chance that
were ever invented. the great game being
keno. at this game men will sit for
hour after hour in the hope of winning
forty or fifty dollars by Investing in q
card. The betting, in tho main, is not
heavy. / was told that the license paid
by gambling. houses in New Orleans
amounts to $4,000 q year. There Is q
strict statue against gambling, but it does
not seem to be approved by public senti-
ment and is not enforced. The Louisiana
State Lottery ia the arch ga milling
intitution of the State and pays $4,000
a year for the support of a charity hos.
pital. was singularly struck with the
army of women and girls who have gone
to New Orleans from all parts of the
world, seeking employment. How they
live is complete mystery to me-"
AS TO THE EXPOSITION.
"How about the exposition?"
"The universal comment of people
who have visited New Orleans aud eeen
the exposition, is that the exhibit is
magnificent, but the management could
not be worse. The people of New
Orleans seem to take very little interest
in the exposition except to abuse the
management which they claim has mis-.
much of the funds. The
exposition has spent over two million six
hundred thousand dollars, and the thing
is three hundred thousand dollars in debt