The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-11-30

of the world, exporting annually nearly
two million bales. To receive. store,
sell and export this enormous amount
requires an army Of men and furnishes
occupation for nearly two-thirds OF the
population. The value of this crop an
nually exported is estimated at $780,
100000. Here is the center of several
large steamship lines. and the loading
OF cotton, rice tobacco and sugar on
| the levee is one of the characteristics
sights of the city. Sugar is next to
cotton as an export. and Is claimed to
| support half of the population of
| Louisiana--called the sugar Bowl of
| the Union Here Is the largest rice mar
ket i'm the world--the product of over
| 1900 plantations. employing some 10000
| hands-centers here. Cotton however,
| IL king and covers about one-third of
| the cultivated ground of the state one
| parish alone raises more cotton per acre
| than any other region in the world.
| one of the great sights of the city are
| the cotton presses, the cotton seed oil
mills and sugar refineries. etc, which !
will describe in another paragraph.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
New Orleans has several imposing
and historic structures, among them
| the venerable cathedral and custom
| house. the cotton exchange. the sugar
| exchange. chamber of commerce, city
hall. the mine. produce exchange, the
universities. converts, churches and
| Masonic temple. The custom house is
the principal government building, sit
uated on Il square. bounded by three
streets. with II frontage of over 800
feet on each and over so feet in height:
is constructed OF Quincy, Mass. gran
tie, and although more than S4,OO0OO0
have been expended on it, another mil
lion will be required to complete it,.
Its marble hall Is said to be the finest
room in the world, and thoroughly fire.
proof This room is 81 feet high and
95X125 feet. with fourteen marble Cor
inthian columns II feet high each cost
ing $4,000.
Lack of space fUrestalls a description
of the other above named public build
ings worthy of any city in the Union,
save the mint, which is an interesting
place to visit. 1t is capable of coming
$5.ooO,OO per month. From the roof of
the mint. one William Mumford. who
tore down the United States flag in
1862. was hung. by order of General
Butler and on the very spot where the
flag was torn down
BEAUTIFUL PARKS
New Orleans has some twelve
squares or parks, improved and unin-
proved. The latter left in their nat
ural wild state. have features very at
tractive to the tourist. Here are
groves of gigantic live-oak trees, their
branches loaded down with the long,
gray Spanish moss. which grows so
luXuriantly in the South. In one park
called "The Oaks" was for years the
favoritc dueling ground of the city,
and where many desperate conflicts
have been witnessed and chivarous
gentlemen have been KILLED on the
field of honor To the credit of New
orleans dueling is Il thing of the long,
dead past. Audubon Park is the larg-
est and finest in the city. containing
go acres celebrated for it's groves of
live oak trees Here is located the
"I.OuiSiana state sugar experimental
station" In it is the largest conser-
vatury in the New World. This park
will interest the tourist
CHURCHES. SCHOOLS AND COLI
LEGES.
The public school system and its
school buildings are the equals of those
of most any city North or South. Here
are seven universities, eleven converts,
ten medical colleges, eighteen clubs,
seven theatres eleven newspapers-six
dailies and five weeklys--of the dailies
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both progressive sheets, continually
leading the way in the advocacy of the
various projects for the upbuilding and
improvements of the city. Right here,
| acknowledge my Indebtedness to the
Picayune for valuable information.
New orleans has. all told, forty five
churches. many of which are elegant
structures The ST. Paul (EpiscopaD
and the First Presbyterian are the
most imposing. The latter is a large
Golhic structure. 15N90 feet, with CELL
ing rorty-two feet high. and a slender
and graceful steeple 2la feet from the
ground The pulpit is still filled by
Rev. DR.. benjamin +. Palmer. Although
past the age of eighty, his discourses
burn with the same fire as during the
Civil war, and later. when it was our
privilege, WltH W. II. W. bIiitS, 10
listen to his wonderful oratory. No
man ever welded IA greater influence
among II people than DR.. Palmer. and
he stands today pre-eminent among
the Protestant clergy of the South.
WATER SUPPLY-DRAINAG AND
SEWER.
The great dlAwback to the health
and comfort of the city is the lack of
an ample water supply, street drainage
and Il sanitary house sewer system.
The system of water for New Orleans
is very deficient. At present the water
is pumped from the Mississippi (Which
is often extremely muddy into II tall
stund-pipe and reservoir for distribu-
ton throughout the city, but owing to
its muddiness it is comparatively little
used, except for cleaning streets and
H.. til. H..