Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-10
AT NEW ORLEANS.
The Advance Guard of the Worlds
 Exposition Arriving.
\ City 10th Ancient and JEOdern- The Excmplar or Different
 CIViiszasioas-Weciks of
 1Iarti Gras Display.

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 5Iar1i Csras Display.
 ! New Orleans Cor. Kansas City Journal | Thc World exposition will be throwa l open within. fve seks. md already lhe adEance gudrd of the thousands of ex- {, .l .lsssss .rss ssskG tO- srr5ve. The | ,ty is alr5Juy codmelcing t0 Ifil uD -Wlth hose who are Co make displays. and hotels and bCar,ling-hOuses arc full of .hese. One meets strange faces at every urn, ard on Sundays the ~old town. or French quarter. Is full of sight -Seers. Some of the quaint and curious things in this part of the Ci,y | have told you of. but Co mention all of them is the task of Inc magazine or historical writer. For strangers. T O city richer in attuctiveneSs than New Orleans. For continental Europeans perhaps. the air of novelty is not SO viyir. but for English people and for citizens of distant parts of the United States it possesses charm which it is difficult tO express in words There is a strong foreign flavor tO the whole that brings old world life and old world GUS .oms right Co the eyes of strangers.
 The dwoller iu Chicago. Boston. or any other large city north of Ms ln and DiXon's line may find New Orleans slow He may object Co scarcity of evidence of modern progress, Jud see ia the per petuati0n of the ancient buildings and GUS toms d dlSCOuragiug si-u of StIguatiOn and inertia, compared with the brisk and busting towns north and west-tOwns Elitlcrin- with fresh paint and looking so siariliugiy new as Co resemble eXhalatiOns more than the results oi man handiwOrk,
 ftv.f.. n. seems slow and -Poky. and behind the Iimcs. The alert and pushing western man wonders Low 60 commercial city in this go-a-h,ad age cla afford Co give 80 much space ta onc-stGry houses of no special use or conspicuous merit. lie asks himself vhy thc place is not built up in fine hoUSgs Una, tower toward the sky mountains Of brick and stone. and miracles of luxury. He argues unfavOra- bly Go New Orleans and her prospects be- cause the conditions presented tO him are strange and he knows not how Co weigh them
 But New Orleans is all sort of a city. IL k both ancient and modern lt is Ameri- can and foreign. It is the home of many races, and the eNCmplar of different civili- cations. The picturesque old French quarter is tO New Orleans what the broken and prostrdte Colosseum is Co ltaly-nOt tine evidence of itS present state. but re- hinder of the past About those grimmy walls and dcCayei roofs cluster 1000 graceful and pleasant memories. TheJ soften the harsh and selfish effects of the modern rush for wealth, and teach that money getting is not the only thing in the world that deserve, ones thoughts and iS worthy of ones best efforts They make men feel that other generations have gone before. other thoughts have reigned, other hopes lived and died They are the footprints of history the land marks of time And Co those who come within our gates every winter. these old relics, these leedCicS of the buried thousands who have gone before. have peculiar interest
 There has been iuaugratcd within the past week 90 movement on the part of the larger mercantile and business houses to secure. for the coming season at least. an abro-atiOu of the custom of CrOwding the Mardi Gra- displays into a single week. In former years these displays have brought tO the city au average of 100, 900 visitors and. of course, next year this num- her will he treblcd or quudrup.cd. How tO house and provide for all these people is the problem that VcXcs the minds of the community just now Accommodations will be plentiful for the tide of visitors which will commence Co blow thlther- ward early iu December. but we want to make ever body comfortable and to do this it is deemed best Co divide the MaTdi Gras celebration or rather, Co stretch out over three or four weeks that which is now crowded into two days. We spend almost sl5U. OOO ou these things every year. and this cNIcusc comes back tO Us four fold and more. iU increased trade relations besides that money that i5 left in the city by the visit B.
 The Naru Gras is an institution that hGurishcs nowhere on the American con tiuent save iu New Orleans. Al the close Ot one. the plans and drawings for that of the next year are prepared and there is not month in which some body Is not under salary by the associations who made the paTddc> aJd working hard for the one Co come. The Vartic- who made up these mystic associations are our most respect able and richest men. gentlemen who are conspicuous in the world of business as they are i'm that Of society On Inc night of tbc VaridC- al these are absent from their cu-iomI-y hauHts. and if an inquiry is mad, for Mr. Blank. @ friend will smile. sLrur Li- -Ln-s.lar- sad point Co the pass iu- parade iu 30 significant manner
 WhiIe it fs a well known fact that Mir Blank k prime mover in the mystic circle. there i- -.i'I that flavor of uncer-
 uinty a- Co which particular society he belongs Co. which makes a hunt for him very mtllc~tiu- He is never found, how ever. for ,h. m.-t sacred law in New Or lcaus-thuu-l ir is u0t on Che statute book -is that which prohibits interference with the ma-Aers and it ], pretty sure guar autee of rough fr Jtueut Co use violence towIrd- those who wear masks and dOmi- nos Tho question of separating the MarIi Gr.s celebration has not yet been srttl.d. but public opinion is decidedly favorable Co ir. aud it will pretty surely be done