Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-01-16
A LAND or ALL LANDS.
Louisiana the Most Cosmopolitan state ou
the Continent.

New orleans Cor. Coulicr-Iournall
If the great Worlds industrial and cot.
ton centennial exposition was located in
New Orleans for no other reason, the
widely diversified and cosmopolitan char.
act'r of its inhabitants would be reason
enough Not in any other city on this
continent are rs many nations &hd
peoples gathered together, maintaining
their national individual characteristics
and at the same time blending as part of
generous American citizenship.
While Germany and Great Britain are
largely in excess of all other Hajioualtic',
France is not far bchmI in point OF in
llucncc, and these three form the control
ING sentiment in our foreign born clcmeHt,
and are notably powerful in local politics
I'm our census returns however.
there are no blank. Any nation
that his representation in any state
of the Union is represented here
Settled by the French a little more than II
century and thrcc-quartcrs ago, Louisiana
early absorbed large numbers of German
and Spanish. and East and West India
people Her German coast and lake ard
lavou dies Allcmand. bear testimony
the STAYING qualitic, Of the former. The
Spaniards have wildly impressed their in
our past century development, while all
over the state from la Chiuth to l}ara
taria, still exist the groups Of people, close
keeping and isolated, who attest the ten.
acity of the lattor's growth when trans
planted upon our soil.
A large Italian colony, many thousands
strong, monopolizc the retailing of nuts
and fruits. Austrians. Turks and Greeks
by the hundreds haunt our waterways
and gulf coast, our fishing banks, and our
oyster reefs, where the thandalcurs doubt
less remind them of their own archipelago
on the isand-dottcd coast of the western
Adriatic. The Canary islanders of st.
Bernard divide their time between garden
ing and fishing The Frcnchmcn from
the pyrcngcs G@sCons-arc tho
meat sellers of the markets. Tho
red sign Of the industrious Chinese
washer men are conspicuous in n
hundred places in the city The colony Of
Chocktaws from their tribal commune
across the lake in It Tammany.
supply the market with baskets and bead
work and herbs and medicine roots, Per
haps the only wcl:-kcpt Greek church on
the continent is maintained here by the
Russian colony where stranger, are wei
coined with the traditional hospitality Of
Cubans and Central and North Americans
many hundreds here are our cigar makers
and sellers. \ Malay colony was planted
on the shore Of Barrataria bay many years
before the war They live hy themselves
u Ter their own strict rules knowing no
law and violating none, selling fish to the
city markets, and comfortable in their
bamboo thatchcd cabins b lit after the
model of those of their ancestors LOCO
years ago,
Representatives of the most enlightened
of these nations have their social and be
ncvolent organizations-thc British,
French, Spanish, Italian Portuguese,
Russian, German, scandinavian, etc
and will be prepared to extend TO their
fellowcountrvmen sincere and hospit-
able welcome as they come hithcr to at
tend the exposition. 80 one can come
here from abroad without the greeting OF
his own spoken tongue, and the hearty
tender of hospi)aitys bread and salt
even though thct come from far tathay,
from frozen Greenland, or the sands OF
Araby