Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-21
" THE CRESCENT CITY.
rorvFIattering Description of
N0' ,he city of the south
,.,,oto constitution Interview

,,onts constitution Interview.
~. A CLAYTON has returned from
Mr.; o sIl,,r and is RECALLING his friends
, SsT spicy talks on ms eNPeI nes;tion Will
%l,TC Irlescent City and the ENPo Is
the eT T,H about the extorhon, he re-
"ial 5 IN "a group of listening friends re-
markeu. nav. n Orleans is full OF it. Every
cenII3}!; ,nt known to civilized creation is
eNpe.',JJ'it, 70 to chisel the stranger out of
reSoIIy '',t ~ The clearinghouse on and
his dual Ta'ai street seem to be the arch
near an +ba business. The tony French
helus - also come in for a share of
ISS,I sgwindling For instance the unsus-
tnls ,; s"' INIT hungry stranger enters res
pec.ns7 He finds no bill OF fare, but he
tauraI' r.anatbinc to eat, and when he
ORDER his hin is Mortified and shocked. "
ASKS y IUL Orleans must be fast town ?"
Nc" ,,o Td in the course OF the con-
ye l';t !. tbe fastest town l ever saw.
IT Z 20 nnwards of forty gambling
IheIe e, a IN fuII blast night and day. The
l RoTs1 81 the population have an utter dis
OuLh . u Of fl fine Sabbath day. Stores are
IeSalu u work goes on just as during the
open "'' Won can't tell it's Sunday except
% We tbo dates in the newspapers. Of
u! 'd'' there are a large number of
C G.,re5os and people who are inclined to
ul .-s5jn can attend, but the religious ele-
WITS ,nt seems to be overshadowed by the
rJIians. Most everybody seems to
I-Iand smoke fine cigars and gamble,
strou seldom SEGA drunken man. The
,ibts As a rule are mild and the people
,g,o1t-doorS of night almost as much as
thew are during the day At this time
tbo1slnds OF idle men may be seen
hanging on Canal street night and day. |
Thew are men from a distance out of |
work who have focked to New Orleans
in the hope OF making money, In the /
main they have been sadly left.
"It is not an uncommon thing for |
thirty or forty men to be sent up for va
rancv in one day, and the other night
loo tamps were arrested for being found
asleep on the gambling tables. That
occurred at Is Royal street, the largest
gambling house in the United States,
where every night not less than 500 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 $40 or $50 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 5000 year. There is a
strict statute against gambling, but il does
not seem to be approved by public senti-
nent, and is not enforced. The Louisiana
state lottery is the arch-gambling insti-
luton OF the State, and pays $4,000 a
ear for the support of a charity hospital.
was sngularly struck with the army of
JOmen and girls who have come to New
DrIeans from all parts OF the world, seek
lg employment. How they live is a
ompete mystery to me-"
How about the Exposition ?"
The universal comment of people
no have visited New Orleans and seen
e Exposition, is that the exhibit is mag
icent, but the management could not
worse"