Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-04-16
The Worlds Exposition.
NAPOLEON, o., April -, 1885.

Mr.. EDITOR:-Since our return home
| will pencil you few more thoughts
concerning our trip to New Orleans.
After writing you Friday morning.
March 9th, we started out to see some
OF the sights in the city. The first place
of note was the Levee along the river
and boat landings, which is a live scene,
and consists of drummers for passen-
gers, receiving and discharging freight
from and to river boats and ocean ves-
sells, and insurance teams transferring
freight; sugar and cotton being the prin-
cipal luggage, they being the chief pro-
duets of the country. The laborers are
mostly colored men. We took a look
through very fine new steamer be-
longing to Mexicans, which runs be-
tween New Orleans and Vera Cruz; it
is of late pattern, and lighted by cleo
tricity, the officers and crew are all
MeXicans.
Next we visited what is known as the
French Market, which is quite extern
sive and principally managed and pat
ronized by the French, or what is more
commonly called Creoles. This market
is very busy place. We then visited
the French Cathedral and the Courts
and Public Square, in the center of
which is large granite base on which
is bronze life size statue of Gen. jack
son on horseback, on which is the mot
to, 1.-The Union Shall and Must be Pre-
served" From there we went to the
U. s. Mint where they were coming
eighty silver dollars per minute, we
were shown through the entire build
ing. We closed the afternoon by giving
the show windows look and the ladies
done some shopping, retiring to
our hotel at o'clock very tired. Sat-
urday proved to be very pleasant and
we went to the Exposition, spent most
of the day in the Government Building
which was very interesting. The states
and territories have made fine displays.
We met Mr.. Palmer and G. G. Miller,
both Napoleon gentlemen. The next
day being Palm Sunday, we went to the
Catholic Cathedral, it was amusing to
watch the Creole boys and girls offer
punches of bay leaves for sale at SC a
bunch already blessed. It being ada
cent to the French Market, we took a
walk through that place, Sunday being
the best business day in the week fol
them. After dinner we took steam cal
to what is called west end, 6 miles out
located on Lake Ponchartrain in a low
marshy country, where they have fine
clu ) houses, plenty of row boats to let
I""d where you can go sailing; it is red.
e ~ place, particularly so on Sunday
VI our way back we stopped at one of
..,o cemeteries, or what can be Justly
termed city of the dead, the vaults be.
ing all on top of the ground. We re-
turned to our hotel quite fatigued.
I Monday the 30th we took passage on
a river steamboat to the Exposition
round trip tickets 25c, which was a
pleasant ride and we made the trip in
20 minutes with a nice view of the city
Visited the Horticultural Hall. Here
am in want of language to describe
this department. The size size of the build.
ing can't give, though it has a wooden
frame and glass sides and roof, the dome
=, is probably 100 feet high, in the center
is nice water works throwing one jet &C
feet high. In this building is undoubt
edly the largest and rarest collection O.
plants ever exhibited, there are 217 diff
ferent kinds of cactus, one twenty-five
feet high. The fruit and cane exhibits
are also in this building. A large va
riety of oranges, but all other fruit was
rather limited; there was about SO va
rietys of cane, vegetables were scarce
We went out to get lunch and ! thel
made tour through the brick and tile
department which shows up nicely witt
improved machinery. Next came til,
saw mills which are extensively shown
hup with some very important and use
full inventions, such as feed gear, dogs
&c. Went back to city by boat and wa!
favored with some fine music and good
singing while aboard. On Tuesday
March 31st, we again visited the Expo
sition wind mill exhibit, which was
4 good. Met a gentleman from Marion
county, Ohio, looking after fine dis
play of bees and honey. We again en-
tered the Government building and Wis
tied the gallery, where we found a very
! fine show of skeletons and stuffed wild
animals. The Greely expedition il
finely shown up. &