The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-01-10
TRIP TO NEW ORLEANS
Dudley Taylor Describes Visit to the
Queen City of the South.


Mrs. L. J. Taylor, Of Ais Park street,
is in receipt Of some interesting let
tiers from her son Dudley, who is a
Chicago attorney, describing trip to
New Orleans. Parts Of the letters
follow:
Dear Mothcr-I am very nicely To-
Gated on the south side. take my
meals with the Goulds, and their home
life is so pleasant that l could not
help enjoying the change. 1t is snow
ing hard today and for awhile it was
raining. That is rare combination
for Chicago streets.
l hardly feel equal to describing my
New Orleans experiences. i think you
would have enjoyed my visit to the
levee where they load and unload cot
ton and other things, and where the
darkies are as thick as flies in butch
er shop. And l have no doubt that
you would have "chinned" with few
of them. They call each other "Old
sassy, black niggers," and take things
as they come, easily, do not hurt them
selvesiiworking. White men urge
them on but notice they do not use
a whip these dayswith which to per-
Suade the darkies.
The French quarter is the older part
Of the city and it seems anything but
American. / went into an immense
building once known as the Royal
Hotel, but now unused. Ithas ban
quet room that must have been gor-
geous in its day. All the noted men
have been feted there. Only a few
years ago Mckinley was responding to
toast there and incidentally giving
one of his campaign talks.
saw the haunted house where In
anti-bellum days woman tortured her
slaves to death. 1t is a fine house and
she was very wealthy but the people
became so incensed when they learned
of her cruelty that she had to work
ruse in order to escape and go to
France.
/ saw a monument Of Jackson in
Jackson Square upon the base Of which
Ben Butler when he took New Orleans
had inscribed, 1.-THE Union must and
shall be preserved" He was a true
prophet. / visited the u. S. mint and
the Soldiers Home. l saw forest of
ook trees where any one of the trees is
three or four times as large as our ma
pes These oaks are always green and
are called live oaks.
! attended high mass in a Jesuit
cathedral and heard quantities OF fine
music there, to say nothing OF a
frightful orthodox sermon on predes-
tf6ation, hell and damnation and sun
dryIother unpleaSantrieS. / also saw
a cathedral about two hundred years
Old, where they observe the old
military customs and where a prayer
is said at every service for Don
Some one or other who donated the
money which the cathedral was built
l started out to feast on raw oysters
and as result, could not touch one
after the first day.
| visited the cemeteries, where they
haven 'tIany graves, but people are
laid away in tombs and on shelves
above the ground. One man named
Moriarity, achieved notoriety by hav-
ing an immense shaft erected over his
body with his name cut into the stone
in huge letters. That was all that
was known Of him, so far as could
learn. But a poor woman named
Margaret, lost her husband and child,
so she gave everything she could for
the benefit Of the orphans. She
embarked in business, made fortune
and devoted it to the one purpose.
She also has monument with this
everyone knows its story
without looking for the name.
DUDLEY