The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-14
For the Farmer and Mechanic.
Our New OFIea ms
den ce--A True tory.

me to give to your readers.
And after all, the letter SO long de-
signed. will have to be a bit OF patch,
work aud gossip; and the stately pages Of
nen painting wait for another day TO see
the light.
here have taught and untaught many
things.
For example certain romantic visions
have been displaced, not to the detrlment
of the Crescent City either, and certain
facts have been acquired IN their stead
For instance, the climate OF New Or
leans is not summer nor ever later
gpring-Iike III the winter. Here YOU re-
1uire precisely the same amount OF cloth
lDg and flannel underwear that YOU would
need In North Carolina for the winter
season, or in New York either. =,
For while the degree ofcotd, as marked
bv the thermometer, never reaches as low
a point as with Us, the effect OF 1t is
precisely as severe.
presume it il the consequence OF the
relaxing nature Of the climate. but the
fact remains that dressed IN "a heavy
clothes a. | would wear at home. well
wrapped up, and thickly velled, walked
along the streets here for three success
i've DAYS last week shivering with cold,
and utterly uncomfortable True 1t
never lasts longer than three days, and is
exceptional but al the same 1t comes,
and those people who visit New Orleans
burtheuad with summer clothes might as
wei leave them at home, for they will
not need them before May ! The cod al
ways makes up in heavy raina, II even
when the sun is shining there Is a peue-
trating~ dampness hat seems to saturate
vour very bones and makes fire all the
time an indispensable thing. The hu
midity OF the air i so great that | have
Frequently come in from the smoking
streets and seen til sreat drops OF water
trickling down walls and bannisters.
When i don't rain and the wind don't
blow it is lovely here, like April at home,
but then, my experience has been that
from the Sth of December till the pres
ept time j. has ralncd with cOmmendable
regularity five day out OF seven!
The houses are built for warm weather,
plenty of space everywhere. long galleries
running back, with rooms opening on
then. A large. ~cistern, and walled in court
ward makes the outlook from the gal
Ieries not pretty one bit, but On the
street fronts these galleries are balconies,
often of delicate and exquisite lattice
work, as fine as lace, and the effect is as
light aud airy as beautiful.
The streets with which | am familiar
at all, are well paved and clean, and the
rain is not a mud pie maker like it is at
homo.
Now, another point that so many
Northern people have made, and some
Southern Journals unadvisedly copied
The prices for board and lodging as an
average are fair and reasonable, and the
fare very good.
OF course in all large gatherings at a
common centre there are always sharpers
and money grabbers. AS a rule they are
adventurers who come from other places,
some, of course. are natives, but very
few 10 proportion. These, moreover, so far
as | have heard. and | have taken the
trouble to ask in every instance who
are most united for iniquitous charges
and beggardly food, are Chicago people.
They may not really be Chicagoians, but
that is the place they claim to come from
Now | board with Chicago people.
and nv experience is this, | pay 81 a
week per table board, the table is clean
and well served, and the food excellent
a. to quality, liberal as to quantity, and
remarkably vel! cooked. | am perfectly
satisfied, and my relations with the
caterer have been as pleasant as posi-
bic"
AS to 0 rent, | pay SIS a month
for a large, comfortable, neatly furnished
and de~liciously clean bedroom, and my
iandiady is as kind and considerable as
possible. | have occasion to look for
rooms and board for visiting friends and
with this result; on two of the best streets
in the city, rooms can rented for from -
cents a day and night to 81 or IS a week.
and very nice board at FROM 81 to Sc pei
week. OF course more reasonable terms
for rooms can be made by the month.
OF course, too, there are finer rooms and
more elaborate tables where much higher
prices prevail, but / am writing for the
information of the average pocket book.
Now there are various restaurants
here you can get good meals, but one
9 ace [ shall speak of particularly because
know it eXperlmentally.
At Al and 43 Bourbon street is the
Christian Women's Work Exchange
where all sorts of work are sold and done
b. that unfortunately numerous class III
the South. reduced gentle women. Con
nected with the sales room is a dining
room where hrst rate meals are served
TO any one desiring them from I a. IN,
till 9 p. III.
1t has come to be one of the, if not the,
most fashionable lunch rooms in the city
for charges are always moderate and
yiands invariably good. Such cooking az
couldn't be gotten any where else outside
OF a private family. The perfection O
coffee is served for five cents a cup, two
slices of bread, home made and delivered
with plenty Of fresh butter is cents also
A slice of cold meat 10 5 cents. Every.
thing is reasonable in the same proper
ton, and almost excellent, while you car
order delicious cake, fruit, ETC., as mucf
as you like and still in the same moder-
alton as to charge. 1t is SO clean anC
nice there. so quiet and we'll -bred tina
it is a positive daily temptation. III
dare assert that no where else in a city
of this size could such lunches, or regular
full meals, be served in.such style and 81
cheaply. 1t is to my personal knowiedg'
Just half of New York charges for tn,
same entertainment.
Let all the shriekers of ''extortion'
and "villainous fare go to the Chris
tian Women's Work Exchange and tax
meals and her If they don't write
retraction to their several papers thei
morals are hopelessly bad.
The Exposition perhaps ought to CLAIM
some notice from me. Well, | Am no
ready to talk of it yet, because l hav
only been over to the grounds and ther
it is too far from completeness to b
fairly estimated. or described. One thin
/ shall insist upon, and that is, that it
H. ,,oot mopdorf1l avhihit ovor mo0
and all the world ought to see it. Tn
immensely of the enterprise must be see
to be even partly comprehended.
Fancy if you can, (and you can't
alp 33 acres under one roof! and aisle
stretching away till the eye wearies I
space, and 10000 people look like
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