River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

boat, has accepted a position as pilot
on the upper Nile river for one year.
Orlando hurry of this place mas taken
command of the ferry.
Letter from New Orleans.
| 1--WE are permitted to copy the following in
| teresting communication from Miss Myra Par
/ ker, OF this city. who has charge of the Carleton
| College exhibit at the Worlds Expostion.l
| NEW ORLEANS, La, Apr. %, 's5.
DEAR GIRLS: I am at last in the land of
roses, oranges, fg-trees. &c, and | am glad to
be here now, though / wasn't this morning.
Last night | began to be rather sea-sick, from
riding and sleeping on the train so long, but /
have nearly got over that now. 1 could eat no
supper or breakfast, but began to recover my
| appetite on arriving at the Exposition grounds,
where l bought two oranges and banana for
sc. For wonder, we arrived on tme at nine
O'Clock this morning, but Miss Norton, who, l
expected would meet me, was nowhere to be
| seen, so got one of swarm of little boys, all
| trying TO get my satehel, to carry it to the Ca
nal street car-rode some time in that then
| got off, walked two blocks to the Camp and
| Prytaina line and that took me to the grounds.
L went in and had no difficulty in finding the
| MINI. Dept. 1 soon met gentleman who
proved to be Mr. Gibbs the head manager, him
| self. He was very pleasant and asked me if
had found my way there alone said 1 was
| very brave and took me to Miss Norton. 1t
| took about an hour and half to go from the
| depot to the grounds and only cost 10 cents.
Don't you want me to send you some bananas?
| They are a cent apiece
April 9th.
This morning Miss n. and l went down town
| before we came to the Elk. and made some pur-
| chases-they cannot keep kid gloves through
| the summer here, SO are selling cheap. got
| some good ones for soc. have some roses in
my button hole-would you like one? l board
at Prof. Porters. Mrs. Marston (Head of Wo-
mans Dep't) and several others also board
| here. 1t is about seven blocks from Elk. so we
can walk when we wish to, or ride any time,
| for the ears run both ways by here, every five
| minutes. We have breakfast at :: 30 lunch at
II, and dinner at G. but usually ii does MT pa AZ
| come home to lunch, for it is too hot to walk
| and we would pay 10c to ride, while sc would
pay for fruit enough Tor lunch there. 1t is very
! pleasant here. just outside the dining room
window are fig trees, which are said to be usG-
ally the best bearers in the city, but this year
| there are very few figs on them. In front of the
| house is large space just filed with roses of
different kinds, and scattered about the yard
| are orange and magnolia trees. The first thing
we hear in the morning is the music of the
hooking birds, which is delightful, except that
| there is usually an accompanying racket of
street cars and fruit boys On this same car
| line going down town are trees with running
| roses just covering them and hanging down
| from the branches. There are some very fine
residences the line, which are built of stone.
| and kept very cool and comfortable by opening
| doors and windows in the morning, and clos
| ing them in the hot part of the day. The resi-
| dents never go out in the middle of the day.
| The Creoles are the most aristocratic class in
| The city. had no idea what they were until |
| came here, but everybody told me to get one
| and express him to Mortified as a curiosity.
| They are French claim to be descended from
royalty and qutef fine looking, dress well, &c.
| All the water there is here besides river wa
| ter, is that caught in cstems, for there are no
wells. The cisterns are the first thing you no.
1 tice when you get here they are all above
| ground very TALL round barrels, about as high
| as the house. and sometimes one place has
| three or four of them. They draw the water
from these, from faucets near the bottom, and
| as the cisterns are never cleaned. you can i'm
agine how nice the water is. At the EXPOSE
ton the water is filtered and iced, so it tastes
perfectly good, but it is river water. Yesterday
at lunch time we got some iced tea, made at a
a Chinese stand. That was nice. To morrow
| we are going to take some chocolate at the
French chocolate stand. Everybody goes and
gets some whether they like it or not.
Apr 26, Sunday.
To-day we went TO DR.. Palmers church
Presbyterian, where Miss Porter usually attends
1t is nearly an hours ride, but one car takes us
there The church is very large and the music
fine, but the preaching is long, which in ho
weather is not conducive to good temper, anC
besides it just poured all the way home
| think shall be glad to see streets again will
something i'll them besides street cars, it is 81
tiresome. Nobody ever drives here, but all us
the cars. Yesterday we spent neaIly the who'll
day walking about We went to see the oil,
Liberty Bell'' which stands on a car specially
J for it and surrounded by railing so that nobod
can touch it, and shaded by live oak trees, witt
Spanish moss hanging in festoons from then
; Also visited the Russian Dept, where the
= have most beautiful statuary. saw some per
fectly lovely opera glasses, made of pearl, in
laid with gold-also some distractlngly prett
tea sets and ice cream sets, made in imitatio
OF shells, of different tints, and costing abou
/ @4U.UU per stt. Oildli uIlhS you OHtG
The whole process of silk making is repre-
| sented. from the worms just beginning to max
the cocoons, till the silk is in spools. Did 70
S know the Minnehaha Falls are here? Repre-
9 sented on a small scale, but real falls, wate
!. falling u or IA feet all the time. Every morn
ing the Minnesota men cut baskets of rose
: | from our yard and carry them to the ground
| and what they have left after making all til
: boquets they want. they put behind Minnehah
9 | Falls The whole space there is one mass
! roses all the time 1t is nice cool place to s
: on the benches in front of the falls and you ca
| imagine yourself really there. The who
Greedy expedition is represented here-fgurC
y | dressed Just as they were, and their sledge
1 utensils. sc. In the afternoon the wonderfl
Mexican Band played in Music Hall. The Mez
leans are not as handsome as l had heard thel
| represented to be-are rather short and quit
| dark, but their music is grand. Some of tt
Chinese and Japanese are quite good lOokin
| ffor them) At one place for an advertisement
+. they give away, to anyone who comes for it,
| eup of hot tea Ii is delicious. We had lettuC
and string beans for dinner tonight and hay
had green peas. send you orange leaves-se
how fragrant they are when crushed.
!. Monday, Apr. u.
It was extremely hot this forenoon, bit ha
been raining in torrents, and is quite cool nov
| This morning, TO and four of our clocks stop
/. ped. and all the others more than a minute GU
. | done. l suppose, by people meddling with tn
| switches. | think | shall break the electri
? connection, when l leave, after this, and
folks can not let things alone they needn't Sc
, the clocks working. Once before, some on
had meddled with the Howard Clock on
. main and only stand by" and it had stopped
but after considerable trouble we got fixed be
! fore the time balls dropped.
! have to make the trip round the Mai
: Building and Government Building three time
a day. but cannot stop TO look at things yer
closely. When if / feel like 1t. stay in the al
ternoon and spend the time in looking In 90
| ing from Main to Govt Building / pass pho