The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-02-19
THE CRESCENT CITY.
An Interesting Talk About the Exposition
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
Mr.. Smith Clayton has returned from
New Orleans and is regaling his friends
with spicy talks on his experience with
the Crescent City and the exposition.
"Talk about extortion," heremarked in
group of listening friends yesterday
"New Orleans is full of it. Every expe
dient known to civilized creation is re.
sorted to chisel the stranger out OF
his ducats. The boarding houses on and
near Canal street seem to be the arch
fiends in the business. The tony French
restaurants also come in for share oil
this swindling. For instance, the un-
suspecting but hungry stranger enters a
restaurant. He finds no bill of fare, but
he orders something to eat, and when he
asks for his bill is horrifed 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 to
borrow some of the money to pay out.
A travelling man from Atlanta, whose
name shall not mention, took two ladies
/ into Moreau's and ordered three cups of
chocolate and three oyster petties-"
"What's an oyster petty?"
It's two or three oysters cooked up In
pie-and when be come to settle 1T
was just cool dollar and seventy five
cents. I myself, when I was younger
and fresher, went into Icons and got a
half dozen raw oysters for which | was
asked to deposit thirty. five cents. The
| next day, a'block down Royal street, got
half dozen oysters just as good for ten
cents. Leon has since been burned out,
and wept over the ruins of his estab.
lishment. In this class of restaurants
you pay for style-not for what you eat.
You pay twenty-five cents cup tor coffee
five cents for coffee and twenty cents
for style. You can get coffee just ass good
for FIVE cents cup. In short, the strang-
er in New Orleans ehould make con-
tract before he begins to eat, otherwise he
will be Aeeced. 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 bis rates. You can get a 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 so on. A stran-
ger should beware of all restaurants that
do not have printed bills of fare"
HOW NOT TO BE FLEEcED.
"How much can a moderate man get
along with?"
81 would not advise any man to go to
New Orleans with less than ifty dollars,
exclusive of his railroad ticket. If q
man wants to live moderately, he should
engage room by the week and take his
meals at a restaurant. If you call at
l65 Grayier street, the Office OFT the bureau
of accommodations, you can get room
at almost any price. 1 paid three dollars
week for my room. A man can get
along on ten or fifteen dollars week
very readily, but it is not good idea to
90 with so little money on hand. You
can spend from that amount mp to two
hundred a 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 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 $l.25."
"New Orleans must be fast town."
"It is the fastest town ! ever saw.
There are upwards of forty gambling
houses in full blast night and day. The
bulk of the population have an utter
disregard ofIhe- Sabbath day. Stores
are open and work goes on just as during
week.
The theaters are run and Sunday is
great matinee day. You can't tell It's
Sunday except by the dates in the news.
papers. Of course there are a large
humber ofchurches, 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 cigars and
gamble. but you seldom see drunken
man. The nights as rule are mild and
the people are out doors of night almost
as much as they are during the day. At
this. time thousands of idle men may be
seen touching on Canal street night and
day. They are men from distance put
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 or
forty men to be sent up for vagrancy in
one day, and the other night one hundred
tramps were arrested for being found
asleep on the gambling tables. That
occurred at No. l8 Royal street, the larg.
est 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 a
card. The betting, in the main, is not
heavy. was told that the license paid
by gambling houses in New Orleans
amounts to $1,000 year. There is a
strict statue against gambling, but it does
not seem to be approved by public senti-
ment and is not enforced. The Louisiana
State Lottery is the arch.ga milling
inIitution of the State and pays $4,000
year for the support of a charity hos
pital. I 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 and seen
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-
appropriated 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