The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-20
A LAND OF ALL LANDS
Louisiana the Most Cosmopolitan state on
the Continent.


New Orleans Cor Courier-JOurnall
II the great Worlds industrial and cot
ton centennial exposition was located in
New Orleans for no other reason, the
widely diversified and cosmopolitan char
acter of its inhabitants would be reason
enough Not in any other city on this
continent are as many nations and
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 nationalities,
France is not far behind In point of in
fluenCe, and these three form the control
ing sentiment In our foreign born element,
and are notably powerful In local politics
In our census returns. however,
there are no blanks. Any nation
that has representation in any state
of the Union is represented here.
Settled by the French little more than a
century and three-quarters ago, Louisiana
early absorbed large numbers of German
and Spanish, and East and West India
people Her German coast and lake ard
Bayou des Allemands bear testimony to
the staying qualities of the former. The
Spaniards have wildly impressed their in
dividuality upon the most permanent of
our past century development, while all
taria, still exist the groups of people, close
keeping and isolated, who attest the ten
acity of the latter'S growth when trans
planted upon our soil.
A large italian colony, many thousands
strong. monOpoliZe 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 Chandaleurs doubt
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on the island-dotted coast of the western
Adriatic The Canary islanders Of St
Bernard divide their time between garden
ing and fishing The Frenchmen from
the Pyrenees-the Gascons-are the
meat sellers of the markets. The
red sign of the industrious Chinese
washer men are conspicuous in a
hundred places in the city, The colony of
Chocktaws, from their tribal commune
across the lake, in ST Tammany,
supply the market with baskets and bead
work and herbs and medicine roots. Per
haps the only wellkept Greek church on
the continent is maintained here by the
Russian colony, where strangers are wei
coined with the traditional hospitality of
this faithful people. Of Mexicans,
Cubans and Central and North Americans,
many hundreds here are our cigar makers
and sellers. A Malay colony was planted
before the war. They live by themselves
under their own strict rules, knowing no
law and violating none, selling fish to the
city markets, and comfortable in their
bamboo matched cabins built after the
model of those of their ancestors 1000
years ago.
Representatives of the most enlightened
of these nations have their social and be-
nevolent OrganiZations-the British,
French. Spanish, Italian. Portuguese.
Russian, German, Scandinavian, etc
and will be prepared to extend to their
fellow-countrymen a sincere and hospit-
able welcome as they come hither to at
tend the exposition. No one can come
here from abroad without the greeting of
his own spoken tongue, and the hearty
tender of hospitality's bread and salt
even though they come from far Cathay.
from frozen Greenland, or the sands of
Araby.