The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-17
Our ExpOsitiOn Letter.
From our Special Correspondent.
NEW ORLEANS. Jan, 3. 1S

NEW OhLEANS, Jan. -, 1000,
There has been a superabundance
of rain the past week; and while the
weather north was below zero it was
very mild in the south. Old residents
say it has been the wettest spell this
winter seen here for many years. 1t
cleared up fair and cool yesterday with
light freeze.
New Year was ushered in with the
noise and good cheer incident on such
occasions. In this city ii was observed
mostly by the Creole population. How
ever many other citizens celebrated the
advent of the new year by receiving
callers, when wine, cake and other re-
freshments were dispensed with that
peculiar warm. southern hospitality.
At the Exposition grounds quite a mu-
sical entertainment given by the official
band on New Years eve. The old
year rung out while 1885 was welcomed
in by the chimes in the tower Of Main
building by Prof Widows. The in
candescent electric lights in music hall
were turned on in full force, which pre-
sented very cheerful appearance.
Nearly all the school teachers have
left after a most agreeable visit here.
Numbers triumphantly bearing their
notebooks filled with items and ideas
for future reference. Many thoughts
were recorded during their brief So
journ in the city and at the Worlds
Exposition to which they will often re-
fer with profit, pleasure, pride.
The car drivers strike which occurred
last Saturday, greatly annoyed the pub
lie, as it was difficult for the crowd ut
the Exposition to reach the city. 1t
lasted for three days, when differences
were adjusted. This is the second
strike within two months, but is not
likely to occur again.
While the attendance at the ExpOsi-
ton is not excessively large, it increases
daily and the railroads centering here
are already adding extra cars, their pas
senger agents inform us that extra
trains will be put on in few weeks.
Several passenger steamboats, are fit
ting out to accommodate the public by
river travel.
One point Of great Importance to
those who will attend the Cotton Cen
tennial, &c, is TO get information re-
specting board and lodging; conse-
quently your correspondent called upon
Messrs. WOLF * Moulton. % Carondelet
street, New Orleans, who make a spec
ialty of furnishing accommodations for
from one TO one thousand visitors. and
was told that comfortable and agreeable
quarters could be had for Sl.5O to $3.50
a day.
Another feature to be inaugurated
during the season is that Of frequent
pleasure excursions by rail or water up
and down the noble Mississippi, tn the
beautiful lakes and CULTS, even to Mex
leo, Central America, or Cuba, at tritiing
cost.
Your correspondent celebrated New
y ear OH the Exposition grounds, visit,
ing departments not yet mentioned in
these letters. 1t would require a whole
column in this paper to properly inform
your readers of even the smallest Of the
| dozen separate riaces of interest outside
of the Government and Main buildings
which are IN themselves each little
world.
Work continues oD the extensive
machinery sheds connected parallel
west from Main building. While they
are i'm course of completion, machinery
such as cotton gins, compresses, and
hundreds of other kinds, is being placed
in position. so that when the building
is finished the machinery can be started
up Immediately, which will require q
week or two.
A visit to the livestock stables is vel
worth the attention Of all. Illinoii
seems to be ahead in point Of number.
at this writing. Indiana. Kentucky
Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan show
fine stock but now limited in quantity
The horses are Clydesdale, Norman
Percheron, interspersed with few
Shetland ponies for contrast. Som,
thoroughbred racehorses are arriving
There are dozen fine Jacks ant
Jennies to he seen. The cattle ar,
mostly Fat beef. exhibiting a bloodet
class OF Galloway, Hereford, and Jersey
But few hogs are yet shown; among
them we noted Chester, Suffolk, Essex
Jersey and Berkshire. Some sheep ap
pear to good advantage. A lot of do
mesticated deer and fawns are prett,