Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-18
IN NEW ORLEANS.
"PERLEY" PAYS A VISIT 70 THE
WORLDS EXPOSITION.
Excursion Of Washington Correspondents
to the Crescent City-On the Leyes--
The Place d'Armes-'Gaiiasher'
The Streets-1he Buildings.

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! to the Crescent City-On the Leyes-
/; The Place dArme,-''Gaiiasher'
The Streets-Ihe Buildings.
| New Orleans Cor. Boston Budget
| In due time, and pumctfaily on time, we
entered New Orleans, AMI left the cars in
which we had so iuxuriousy Travelled for
| forty-aight hours and forty minutes
| committee OF city journalists welcomed us,
and taking hacks we were soon Quarsered at
| the st. Charles hotel This Is one OF noted
quintatte of time nonprsf- hostelf3ss. thu
other four being the fremont at Boston. the
Aston, at New York, the Exchange, at
Richmond. and the Burnett, at Cincinnati.
The original st Charles was built in 1913
| and hurnei down in 1851. It was rebuilt in
49,, the house and furniture costing $780,
600. and it was. until the war, the winter
residence Of the most wealthy cotton and
sugar planters OF the Gulf states, who
came attended by their slave servants, and
who used t. spend their money iavishiy.
Then came the war Of the rebellion, and the
st. Charles was successfully the headquar-
tiers Of those WHO wore the gray and those
who wore the blue
The bar receipts at the St Charles are not
onc-fourth Of what they were before the
war. there are fewer drives over the shell
road to enjoy breakfast at the restaurants
on the shore Of the broad lake in the rear Of
the city, and gambling is not so unblushingly
carried on. But thonghtful-ooking men,
many of than with that erect carriage and
determined step only, acquired in uniform,
are to be seen at the exchange, or the counting
rooms or on the broad sloping wharf dam |
kao -
flowing the city, and on which are STACKS Of |
sugar and cotton in sheds with other mer- |
chandise.
Generally river bank slopes down. but |
hero it slopes up, and tho surface of the |
water is, should judge. three feet above |
the level II the streets. On the levee, as this |
embankment is called. is a terrible hub
hub. Carts and drays, each drawn by two |
mules driven tandem, croak along under |
heavy loads or are driven quickly when |
empty. Flags OF different ne tions float from |
the mast-heads Of the ships in the river, and |
jolly tars are, To be sasn enjoying them |
selves on shore. Groups Of business men |
converse with an animation and flexible |
information peculiar to the Creoles who, by |
the way, are the native Louisianans, the |
descendants. Of the early French settlers,
who never fancied being sold with their city
by Napoleon the Great 10 the Americans,
and who pride themselves on their descent
as do the Mayfiower families OF Massachu-
Eetts or the Virgin who trace back to
'ocah9itas. 5jIf.s -fst5:tev
The Place dArmes, between the cathedral
and the river, recalls the cities Of France or
OF Spain, with glorious Old trees which
shaded Governor O'Relly, that gallant old
Hibernian Castilian whose chivalry has been
reproduced in his descendant the poet-edi-
tor OF Boston. Crossing the square to wor-
ship in the cathe iral, tbs doors Of which are
always open, one sees the graceful Creole
demoiseliee, with their tropical aces and
large, dreamy eyes with long, silken lashes;
coarSer DANES with their market baskets;
old negro women, with their heads orna-
mented with Madras plaid handler iefs,
poor men in rags and tatters Il turn
ing from the busy walks OF ..te to
kneel before the sacred shrine, and there to
repeat their Hail Marys and Paternosters
In this square, for many a year, a nuye old
iron cannon was fired every night, as a cur
few warning to all descendants of Africans
that they must hasten home or they would
be lockei up IN the calabooSe with the mat
iIIal .choies between fine and fioggi,g. Thoss
days have passed., but the cathedral bells
jangle the quarter and half hours and strike
Tue houiS, "hho 'Hc vi" Veoes eiuster
within their sound, and rarely reside where
they cannot DO heard
Having paid my duty visit to the old
Place d Armes. always an Interesting louns.
ing place. | started for the-iet me for olce
give it its tisle-"W orld's Industrial and Cot
ton Centennial Exposition" There arc Ill
ways hacks in waiting at the st. Charles, ths
horses having the appearance Of teins
fed like chameIeons, on air. but as the
streets ara either la ily MAYED ar unnavad
carriage riding !. n ,ortura and strsa,.car,
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one drawn by mule OF melancholy aspect,
and driven by man who answer TO the
name Of Gallagher" When a car is
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