The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-24
Special Correspondence News
TRAMP PRINTER
In the Metropolis of the
South.
Some Of the Sights Of the
Crescent City.
The EXpOsitlOn-The Ohio Exhibit
Art Gallery The Lee MOuu-
ment-JaCksOu Square
The French Market
cold " New
Orleans.
Gaming - Pore Antoine's Date Palm
About Geo. w. Cable and His
Writings, etc.

New Orleans has been scribbled about
to such an extent during the past two
years that really but little has been LETT
to write. True, the old city is full Of
tradition and history, and legends Of
the old Colonial days, but these are
hard to fnd and more difficult still to
chronical so as not to destroy the pic
turesqueness Of their situations, the deli
cateness Of their plots and quaint dia-
| leCt of the characters. These we must
leave to the novelist and settle down to
plain business talk instead of poetry
and romance.
Within the past two years, New
Orleans has seen more strangers per-
haps, than she has ever seen before in
twice as long period
THE GREAT EXPOSITION,
Although fnanciallya failure most dire,
did much to introduce the city-always,
so to speak, half secluded from the rest
Of the Nation-to the people of the
country at large, as well as to many of
the people of other lands. Up to within
a few years ago, and before the godsend
of competing railway lines opened the
queer old city to the view of the world,
it was only the wealthy who could en-
joy the luxury Of paying her a visit, and
"a trip to New Orleans" had far-away
sound to it that involuntarily reminded
one Of a trip to South America, or "a la
Jules Verne to the moon or the center
Of the earth
As for the North, South and Central
American Exposition now in progress in
the city it is something well worth a
visit, or a number of visits, and it is to
be deeply regretted that it has not re-
ceived the patronage expected, and
which, it was hoped, would lift it out of
the state of financial embarrassment into
which it had fallen. The officials claim
it has been very dull, but no such ad-
mission was necessary when I attended
it, for 1 saw it myself In all the
spacious grounds and numerous build
ings, on a very pleasant afternoon, too,
I believe I did not meet two dozen
visitors. The management looked for
an immediate increase in attendance
from about that time, as it was thought
the weather, from that date on, would
be more settled.
The exposition grounds, which are
| four miles north from Canal street, NAV
be reached by four different lines of
dummy and horse cars. To get the best
view OF some of the incest residences,
and in order to pass the residence of
General Beauregard, one should take the
st. Charles street cars. They also take
you through the st. Charles Boulevard
and past the
LEE MONUMENT,
a magnificent shaft about one hundred
feet high, visible from many parts of
the city and supporting a heroic-size
statute of the idolized Robert E. Lee.
The Boulevard is a wide street, paved
as level as a floor. In the middle grow
rows of trees between which the car
tracks are laid.
There is really too much to see in the
exposition to pretend to write of any of
it. went hurriedly through the State ex-
hibits, and found the Ohio department,
which contained a big display Of earth
enware and a number of school reports
and essays from three or four places in
the State, among them a number of
specimens, highly creditable to both
teachers and pupils, from Greenfield.
Aside from this, the Buckeye State was
poorly represented. There were some
tall corn stalks, such as / used to wrestle
with out on the picturesque ridges that
flank the classic vale Of Clear creek, and
well not near as many other things as
there should have been.
The building that monopolized my
interest in the Exposition was the Art
Gallery, containing a varied and valu-
able collection of fine works by various
artists. 1t would take a day to do the
art exhibit justice in point of examina-
ton. There are portraits Of OLD Colo
nial officials loaned by the Creole "frst
families, y fierce mustachioeda and epau-
letted chevalieB, modern studies Of
animal life and landscapes divinely
realistic. Some great musician has said
that the only good to be derived from
hearing a symphony performed upon a
piano-forte is to be reminded of how II
sounded and the feelings it produced
] when executed by am orchestra. So II