The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-07-28
THE CRESCENT CITY.
Its Surfaee Drainage Enough to
Give the Yellow Fever
"liOOd Aargaretta."

New orleans, La, July 10.
Especial Correspondence. This city
has surface dra n ,ge or sc ~erage of
o! the principal streets. The accumu-
lated filth in these bitches is quite
sufficient to give one the yellow fever
or cholera.
/ went out to investigate them this
morning and found in the back of the
city toward these curb bitches run q
place in which filth had accumulated
60 that the aroma and looks of il
made me sick. 4. is simply terrible.
/ visit-d the home of The murdered
Chief OF Police, Mr.. HenDessy and
stood upon the spot on which be fell
first, in front Of his gate.
The house was q SIN Ill two story
frame house and enclosed in front
with a high wooden picket fence.
1 notices. several bullet holes in the
fence.
The neighborhood is. l consider a
bad enc, 1t is am ing dagoes md ne.
groes, and now in q very filthy condi-
ton. His mother now lives in this
house and it has been guarded until
quite recently by police.
Canal street is the principal street
in the city, all other streets run into
it and in whatever part Of the city |
find myself just take a street Car
and remain 10 it and l find myself in
Canal street by the Clay monument,
three blocks from St. Charles hotel
The Clay monument is about thirty
feet high and h IS large representa-
ton of Henry Clay standing upon it.
The representation is too large and
looks more ike giant than it repre-
sents a man. 1t is dark bropz'
color, with head uncovered.
The Robert f. Lee monument Is
far out in tie city and is made of thin
slabs of lime stone.
The ground is graded up to repre-
sent hi and on this a foundation is
built some ten f, ct high, and on this
foundation a seveuty.five or eighty
feet hollow column, made circular Of
lime stone slabs. being placed upon
their ends and on top of it stands r.
E. Lee in citizens dress with sword
by his side.
In the lower part of the city is
Jackson Square, a beautiful park, in
which Gen. jackson is repre,ented by
an equestrian statue, elegantly made,
and as natural "a life.
In the cemetery stands the statue
Of GOOD Margsrette," holding the
hand of an orphan.
This Marguerite was an old Irish
woman who lived here and made an
immense fortune by running a
bakery.
She made donations to all charit..
BILE institution, assisted the poor and
daily sent large baskets of bread to
the orphan asylum for the children to
eat between meals.
Bernado Klotz, a boy whom she
raised, now one of the wealthy
men of this city, inherited
her vast future with pro-
vision in the will that the orphan asy-
lum was daily to receive this bread
for luncheon. This he continues to
do.
This bakery and cracker factory
has capacity of 400 barrels of flonr
daily.
Each private dwelling has a thing
behind it like q water tank on rail
road. There are called cisterns. From
these the families of the city get their
supply of water.
The pavements in the city are in
bad condition. They are paved in the
principal streets with large blocks of
lime stone rock, and are exceedingly
rough to drive over.
But few streets are numb red, and
these sre down underfoot at
crossings, moulded in iron slabs.
South American ships run here,
carrying bananas and cocoanu.s,
also cargoes Of lemons which ere emp
tied into the large warehouse and
auctioned of to the highest bidder.
They are then boxed and shipped tn
various ports.
| saw car loads of cocoanuts being
loaded into the cars from the steamer
and also trains of bananas.
II more bananas are brought to
the ship than are contracted for by the
ship in South America, or more than
a cargo, the ship buys all and pays
for them, has them brought aboard
and then has the crew take large,
cleaver knives and cut the punches in
two and throw them out into the
ocean where they drift far out to sea.
This is done to keep up the price
and to keep out other ships from get
ting cargoes in that port.
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