The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-02-26
NEW ORLEANS.
Some Of the Important Gestures Of
the Crescent City.


the Crescent City.
New Orleans is the tenth in point
of population and the fourth in piont
Of commercial Importance in the
United States. Population, one
quarter of a million. In extent, it
is largest city in the world-cover-
ing An area of 155 square miles
six square miles more than London.
1t has $50 miles of streets, lighted
by 4,5S8 gas lamps, 1000 oil lamps,
and 1872 electric lights.
Among the leading points of in
terest are the cemeteries, the City
Park, the French Market, U. S.
Mint, Custom House, the Old st.
Louis Cathedral, Chalnette, the
battle grounds of Jan. 8th, 1915,
the old parish prison, the sugar
sheds and leVee, the Lee, Clay,
Jackson, Franklin, and Lafayette
monuments; the Spanish fort, West
End, Milnebury, Lake Pontchtrain,
and the Worlds Industrial and
Cotton Centennial Exposition.
Those who visit the city should en-
deavor to see as many of these pla-
ces as possible. l would like to
give description Of them all, but
will have to conine my space to
Mardi Gras and the exposition.
Owing to the beautiful, clear,
spring weather, and grand exposi-
zion occasion, the exhibition of
Mardi Gras was the most important
one ever witnessed in the city.
The city beautifully decorated with
Variegated electric lights, ever
greens and bunting. 9 Lafayette
Square fronting st. Charles street
was beautifully arranged with seats
and the balconies, awnings and the
principal streets were, crowded for
several miles.
There were three grand process
sions--one in the day and two at
night. The first, on the night OF
the 18th, WAS the Krewe Of Poteus,
presenting the Mythes and Won der
of China; the second, on the after
noon of the 18th, was Rex, repre-
senting The King Of the Carnival
The third on the night of the 18th
was the NEST brilliant carnival
procession. 1t represented the
knights of Momus; the leading
chariot was a transparency with
the large inscription The Legend
Beautiful. Each procession
consisted of eighteen beautiful
chariots. If any one desires pic
lures Of the professions, they can
get them for ten cents per copy by
addressing the Times-Democrat
An idea can be formed from the
following statement: The N. O.
st. Railway, 160 cars averaged $2i
per day for each day during Mardi
Gras.
THE EXPOSITION.
This is beyond desciption-at
least it is for one so incompetent as
myself.
The grounds embrace an area Of
PAT acres, bounded north by St
Charles avenue, south By the Mis-
sissippi. The building front east
toward the main portion of the
city. There are 81 acres under
cover, and over four miles in walks
laid with shells and asphalt. Total
cost is estimated at $2,700,000, and
it is supposed by the close, May
31st, that the exhibitors will have
numbered 10000 and the visitors
10000, 900; thus making the largest
worlds exposition ever held. One
of the lmost important features is
the ex position of the colered people,
as it is the fret public opportunity
that has been given the to show
the world the progress they have
made since their liberation from
slavery.
The main building is 1878 feet
by 905 feet, and covers an area of
SO acres. 1t has no partitions, is
supported by forty pillars, and is
surrounded by spacious galleries,
twenty-three feet high, reached by
twenty elevators. From the gale
ries can be seen more than two miles
Of shatting running every known
character of machinery. Besides the
machinery exhibit, the main build
ing contains the general, foreign,
and agricultural exhibits; also, the
music hall which seats II, 900 with
a platform for 600 musicians, and
the largest organ in the world,
The government building, $50 by
500 feet, covering twelve acres, is
in constructive like the main build
ing. There every state and terri
tory, including Alaska, is fully rep
resented. The,exhibits in this build
ing are arranged in continental
groups representing the geographi
cal division of the worlds com
merce, etc.
The p. O., treasury, war, navy, in
terror, fishery, justice, bureau Of ag
riculture, bureau of education, and
the Smithsonian Institution, are
all magniicently represented. The
horticultural hall, 600 by 1914 feet,
is the ;slargest conservatory in
the world. 1t is a substantial
building, becoming a permanent
feature OF the beautiful moss cover
ed, live oak grove in which it is 10
Gated. Surrounding the centre is
tower, 80 feet high, be-
meath which is a grand fountain.
Around the hall is arranged an in
finite variety Of rare tropical plants,
flowers and shrubbery, such as the
Central American, Flori-
da, and California gardens not yet
complete. The hall contains 90
900 plates of fruits, also a tropical
hot house, 250 by %, feet in which
are the most delicate flowers from