The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-11
GREAT AMERICAN CITIES,
TEEIR LEADING PECULIAE111.S
PITHILY DESCRIBED.

time, and while the porter was engaged
in esfxing" the berths for the passengers
of retiring habits the drumineFs wv
into and around the smoking-room. ihe!
all knew every corner Of the united
States, and where trade could penetrate
or a customer be found, were acquainted
with the peculialities OF every city anu
could give pointers on all the notes Oh
the country. The idea occurred TO a
converted newspaper man, VINO was
| squeezed into a corner behind the ice
water can, that it would be a good thing
to get from all these fellows OF free opln-
ions a collection of their ideas as to "haV
constituted the prominent characteristics
of the chief cities of the nation. The SUD
iect was accordingly introduced ana III
dorsed, the plan adopted being to men
ton the name of the city, and then for
each man present to give his verdict,
The result, standing as the consensus OF
| opinion concerning the salient Singular
ties of New York, Brooklyn, Phlladel-
| mia. Boston, Washington, Cincinnati,
New Orleans, Chicago, Baltimore, st.
| Louis. Louisville, and San Francisco, is
as follows:
New York-Its rush and elevated
roads. M~agniicence of stores. For
meeting every one you ever knew. Head
center of theatricals. Matching Tor
treats and loud talking In bar-rooms'
| The best in the world. Dollars, dollars
| and dollars. Amusements, races and
| clubs. Its police and hotels. More
business per hour than in any other city
in the world.
Philadelphia-Long, straight streets.
Brick houses and white marble steps.
| Closing shutters at night time. Few
restaurants. Magnificent public build
ings. Want of style about the stores.
Fine art galleries. Thriftiness Of the
atrical managers. Cars running but one
way On a street. Home comforts. Dis
lance YOU can ride for five cents.
Boston-Crooked streets. Mixed
architecture. Women with cufls. Eng
lish fashion in mems clothes. Flourish
ING condition of art and music stores.
Fine stores generally. Parks and grave
wards. Commonwealth avenue and Dart
mouth street. Geniality of society and
stanch friends. Number of country peo-
ple on the streets. Drives in neighbor-
hood. Pork and beans and east wind.
Athens of United States and self-suftl-
cheney of literary men.
Washington-The Capitol. All the
poor people growing and half the women
in nublic Office. Saturday matinee
parades. Magnificent streets, lettered and
numbered. Their cleanliness. The dis
tances between residences. Number of
green squares. Capitol being turned
wrong way. Good singing of colored
bows on the streets. independence of the
coiored people. Splendid teams and
chance to get acquainted with the looks
of big folks. Innumerable statues and
hotels.
l.. Cincinnati-Amount of brown stone
used in buildings. Good drainage but
dirty streets. Sunday matinees. The
Rhine and never knowing when you
reach it. The inclined line to Eden.
Donkeys, beer and Germans. Musical
talent. Pork. The city of hacks.
New Orleans-Colored people and
French. Stepping stones instead OF
c~ross-walks. Foreigners from every
where. SIuices for rain. Rains ike the
deuce and dry again in a couple OF hours.
Splendid BARRIERS. Old buildings and
pretty young women. French coffee.
Water if you dig two feet. A postoffice
built on cotton bales for piles. Awnings
on Canal street and Shell road. Mardi-
gras. Levees and Cotton Exchange.
characteristic and stores. Immor-
ality. Sunday matinees. The coming
city. Bad sidewalks and streets, and
distance between curb and cobble. The
crowd on State street ON Christmas Eve.
Number of theaters. Best hotels in the
country. stockyards and big papers:
Hog killing and soft coal. Bridges and
roWdies, Nextto NeMaferk.
Raltimore-Its quiet and good oysters.
~Y-velv women. Good society. The
splendid complexion of the women.
stoop parties. Good dressing of the
women First-c1ass markets. The
"wednesday Club. A city of brick. The
terranin and the way it is cooked. Its
had smells in summer-the American
Cologne. Monuments and bad sewer
age.
The crowding together of the rough and
the cultured. The extent of the trade on
the river. The makeup of the women.
Too much whitewash. Wanted
Il @4&E CI,,zte" - fNo,sIcYao 81 The
summer heat. Its vanity and envy OF
Chicago.
Louisville-Whisky and beautiful
women. Stock raising and good hotels.
Brooklyn-The number and magnif.
cence of its churches. Prospect Park
and Coney Island. Absence of business
hustle.
San Francisco-Tts cable cars and hills.
Its pretty women, although they make
up too much. The bounce of its young
girls. Its variety of pavements on a sin.
gle block. Winds, fog and sewel
smells. It's late hours. The fascination
of its climate, tough as it is. Its flower
gardens and park. The metropolitan
character of its papers. The crowds OF
the streets Of an evening. It's determine
ton to have and see the best of every
thing. The absence of poverty AM
plague of peddlers. Its Western indie
pendenee in manners, customs and cos
tunes and Judgment. The amount Q
whisky drunk and the eheapness of It
wines. It's romantic past, its prosai
present and its wonderful future.-Sa
francisco Chronicle.