Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-02
NEW ORLEANS PICTURES.
Pecuiiarities and Personalities Noted by
 Close Observer.

yesterday morning and strolled toward the French market, where got some of the most delicious coffee have ever had the luck to taste. Its effect upon me was like that of some rare old wine It warmed, soothcd and penetrated from crown to toe. A fat old negro, white capped and white aproned, served 1t to me across O stall. Around me was the hurry and hustle of buying and selling. People passed, chattering in the creole patOis, ne- grocs cried out about the merits of their wares in shrilI, wheezy voices, flower girls were arranging and tying up little punches of flowers, horses and carts were backing and starting, drivers were showcring pro miscuous benedictions, and baskets were everywhere. So were flies.
 This Is the city of eternal sun, steady. penetrating heat and quick burial after death. A body Is kept in the house II" longer than 24 hours. Notices of death arc posted on telegraph poles If the t!C- ceased be French or of French extraction. a flying tricolor and hand rlaying m,!r- tial airs form part of t'.r .-srt wh!ch s.s.s them to their last n, lCe. To Use an Irishisn, they aI, ;,h,,vr the ground. This Is b's... |! ;hC fHct Iat New Orleans is built ,. ,.. ;I wamp. Tine burying places arc hU;gr >,9U: buildings. where the bodies Grc llii into n sort of shelf, which is aftcrward walled up. On looking at one of the shelves I was rCmind- ed of Poe's weird tale, "'rhe Cask of Amontillado," wherein MontresOr re venges himself upon his enemy by walling him up alive.
 To my mind Canal street at night pre- sents one of the most beautiful city sights in the world. It is very wide and Is lit up by electric lights, which blaze from the tops of high columns. These columns stand in the center of the street and ex- tend along for miles. Tho effect of the lights piercing in straight line through the distance is a fine one.
 On Royal street are the great gambling houses. They arc fitted up after taste full and luxurious fashion and arc open day and night, work(lay and holiday. Wheels whir, balls roll and cards shuttle on forever. The voice of the croupier as he rakes in or pays out is as never ending and monotonous as the murmur of the sea There is at least one thing that may be said in favor uf these gambling hells. They are truly democratic institutions. All may enter, it matters not how shabby the attirc, how disreputablc and low down the appearance. If a man has no money to get himself place to sleep at night, he may 20 in and sit down. He is wei come to share the light and warmth. The tramp may iostle elbows with tho rich, well groomcd blood, and there is no one i either to ccnsurc or to eject. He need not bo ashamed because of his mcanncss of dress, for no one notices or criticiscs. | The police hero look small and insiGnifi- | cant when one bcgins 10 compare them with tho we'll fed, intellectual looking l giants who Hrc at once the rulers and orna- mcnts of Broadway, in New York. The day bcfurc yesterday saw one of them ar rest man for playing craps upon the I n up to this prup of civilization ns he was marching grandIy along his beat and asked him in a civil, awcd sort of way l why people wcrc arp-stCd for gambling | when gambling was the most cherished in | stitutiOn of the state. The digniiicd cop per slid down from the starry rcalm of his l dignity and staid long enough on the solid earth to inform me curtly that if people wished tn gamble they should go to the places that the state had licensed for that | purpose. Then he resumed his noble stride and moved onward.
 On the lcvcc at night the negro ruust- ahouts collect together and sing part songs | some of them have fine voices, and the | harmonic effects produced arc often very peculiar and beautiful. They nr0 a happy 20 lucky lot of fellows, who work like dogs during the dny--fOr roustabouting on q Mississippi frcightbOat Is the hardest work
 
 over their songs On their faces is the jolly, contCntcd expression belonging to q race untouched by the scar of introspcc- tion. A long time will Clapsc bcfOrc thCfr head will bc bothered by economic prob. iems. So let the capitalist rejoice.
 IL Is odd to think of Uncle sam having citizens that cannot speak English, but it :s n fact nevertheless. Them arC people born and bred in Louisiana who arc as ignorant of tho language current in the United States as in all probability werU Bienvillc, CarOndelct and the other nd vcnturcrs who sailed ogcr from France in the days of Louis XIV.
 Not long ago I was in St. Martinsvillc, place about GO miles from New Orleans. Beforc the war it was called the Versailles of Louisiana. Around about 1t is the country that Lougtcllow immortalizd in his poem, "Evangclinc." which I read while reclining luxuriously in hammock, smoking cigarcttcs. l was charmed with the poem, but discovered that LonIfcllOw had that ethereal disrcgard for sober, solid fact peculiar to the sober, poetic soul. Readers of 'Evangclinc" may remember | this line:
 l On tile banks of the Tcche lie the towns of St. Manr and St. Martin"
 Now, as n matter of fact, thcrc is nc such town us St. Maur anywhere in or near tho vicinity, never was such town and in all likelihood never will De. SC tho oldest inhabitant around-a man with lengthy, white whiskcrs-informcd me. ''St. Maur'' is n drCam-an airy, fairy thing Longfcllow worked it in to round out tho rhyme. I noticed some other poetic licenses, but just now forget what they wcrr. Poets will bc poets
 The AcadIans-or Cnjons, % as they arC now callcd-arc n set of people principal , ly given to the bringing into tho world oi large families Their lLngunGc Is tho French of 2UO yrarS a.n corrupted and twisted out of ail iiEC,. stO the FrCnch oi today. They ar, small .nd undCrfcd look ], ing. Their faces ara of pale yellow color : because the swaiuplands in which they live are full of malaria
 i, None of them can rad or write. and they arc looked down upon by every one Even the long hceled, chicken stealing negro thinks that he Is pegs and peg: above ''dcm white trash" Fishing, hunt ing the raising of little corn and thu paying of no rcnt hro the methods by which they live. Their intelligence is O too low a cnlibcr to allow of their workins themselves to death for other people, as dS their brainy white brcthren, who enjoy life in great cities.
 In Now Orleans the fremen, after thu putting out of a flrr in the nighttime, @ along tho streets singing. IL struck me a being m otd and picturesque custom Btu, I must close, for the dinner bell i ringing in the little French rcstauran yhcro l am stopping. Outside Is the gar den, whcro there arc beautiful orang trees. New Orleans is gay city. Al revoir! BAIsr kENNEoN-
 Murd.rerS Pcnned In.
 TACOMA, Oct 2.-Thc country abor
 Puynllup Is grcatIy excited over the col bIuudsI murder of Constable John Fr!
 Two huEdrcd citizeEs ,uliy armed SUI
 rounded ike two tTTmps who commttts
 the murlcr in the thicS w o IS near NJ