Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-03-03
THE CRESCENT CITY.
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New Orleans, yet the number of
people who are constantly asking me
for plans and specifications Of what
they ought to do and what they
ought to see when they 90 to the
Exposition is so great that | am com
PEELED in self-deftnse to write some
thing of statistical letter TO winch !
may,rcfor them when they ask me.
In the first place, then if you are
going TO New Orleans and have
friends there, write them at what
time and on what train you will
arrive, so they may meet You at the
depot. Get them to secure rooms
for you So on your arrival you may
90 at once to the place they have
provided. Let them get rooms either
with or without board, as they think
best. For my part l should prefer
rooms without board, as there is no
lack of facilities for getting something
TO eat. If there are ladies in the
party, sou had best, for obvious
reasons, go to private boarding
house where meals and lodging both
are had. Excellent board may be
had for man and wife occupying one
room at So per day for both, includ-
ing lodging, meals, attendance and
fire. Board may be had cheaper
than this of very good quality, but
this is cheap enough for the best.
If you have no friends there to
whom you can apply YOU had best 60
to a hotel Immediately upon your
arrival. The St. Charles and the
Royale are the two principal hotels,
the latter being on the European plan.
1t is also newly refilted and furnished,
and is altogether one of the most
elegant houses | ever saw. The
hackman will want dollar head
for taking you there, but make him
content himself with fifty cents, as
that is the lawful price. If you get
TO the city in the daytime, and have
no trunk, go on a strcet-car or walk
and hire boy to carry your gripsack.
Anybody will very gladly tell you
the way to 90.
After you get to your hotel make a
break for the Bureau of Information
on Gravier street, near the St. Charles
Hotel. When you buy your round
trip ticket the railroad agent will
give you small pamphlet, with the
mmber of this place and various
other items of information in it. If
he doesn't, or you should lose the one
you have you can get one on the train
just before reaching New Orleans.
At this Bureau Of Infoi nation you
will be courteously received and your
wants attended to. They keep a
register of all the people who rent
rooms or take boarders, with location
and price. You can there consult a
map of the city and select such places
as you think likely to suit you
We preferred to get as far as possible
into the French Quarter, because we
wished to saunter about and study
the foreign life and admire the strange
old fashioned houses down there.
But most people will want to be near
the center, so get your rooms as near
Canal street as you can. Along
Dryades street is perhaps the most
desirable, and in the ncighborhood of
Mechanic Institute some excellent
rooms may be found.
CoLoRED LANDLADIEs.
Don't be surprised if you find your
landlady to be colored woman.
Many of the best houses You come
across will be kept by quadroOns.
They will not hurt you. They are
perfectly respectable, and honest
will exhibit the best of breeding, and
not obtrude themselves upon you in
any way. + am told by residents
that the attendance and service is bet
ter with them than elsewhere, and
that it is not considered at all out of
place for white people, both gentle
men and ladies, to have rooms with
colored landladies. l saw for myself
that their rooms are kept neat and
clean, and occupied by white people,
who, so far as 1 could ascertain OF
observe, were perfectly respectable.
When you find rooms to suit you
engage them at once and pay for
them. Then call carriage, have
your baggage brought there and you
are at home. Don't be afraid to ask
questions, and don't hesitate to make
bargain with hackman or anybody
else. AT the Bureau of Information
they will answer all the questions
you ask, and will not allow any sharks
to get hold of you. If any one no
known to the officials comes in ther,
and accosts a stranger they fire hin
out at once. They aim to protec
you in every way possible. If yol
want to make a gorgeous ass o
yourself and won't be protected, tina
is a free country, just like it is any
where else.
| After you are settled in your rooms
unless you board in the house, tn
next question is about your eating
If you like such things, you ca
probably get your landlady to includ
: 'coflee" with your rooms withou
extra charge. That means that yo
will be served with cup of stron
, coffee and French roll before yo
get out OF bed in the morning. 1t
said TO be great luxury, but W
) didn't try it because we didn't hav
: that kind of a landlady. shoul
think that it would be an excellen
idea to have it. 1t really constitute
a Creole breakfast, and all th
: natives, believe, follow the custom
/. AS a rule take coffee whenever yo
: can get it. You will probably 500
+ conclude that you never drank coift
+ before; thoughts is mnch like Periqu
: tobacco. its flavcr is divine and
: small quantity of it at time will d
: you. Ifyou really love coffee pl
s one lump of sugar to the cup and II
| milk--you will not get chance
s put any cream in it. Everowhel
: there, except, perhaps, in the hotel
II the coffee is good-they don't kno
J, how to make any other kind.
h 1t, however, you want breakfa'
Y YOU can have no trouble to get 1t.
YOU want a morning cocktail, or VIII
l. is much preferable, a bottle of Ill