Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-05-01
THE CRESCENT CITY
Sights To Be Seen In The
Metropolis OF The
South.
Some OF The Many Show Places.
The Costly Monu.
mentS.
The British Horse and Mule Camp.
Old Customs are
Noted.

New Orleans, April 8, Special Cor
reSpOndence): The Crescent City has
greatly improved in five years. 1t is
rapidly putting in a better sewerage
! system, which will make it healthy
city, and has now the finest street car
service OF any city, it is Claimed, in
the country All the lines center on
Canal street, the leading wide thor
oughfare of the city, and from that
street diverge in belt line trips to
every part OF the metropolis where the
traffic will pay.
There are no apartment houses in
New Orleans, and no department
stores. The lumblest laborers have
separate cottages Of one story, gener-
ally, and yard room. People cannot
live without plenty of air here, and SO
New Orleans is spread out over an
area much larger than the same popu-
lation in other cities where people are
congregated in flats. Nearly every
CJlIdSC 1ooC DltSlICo tlllll uOnC1
gardens somewhere on the lot. and
many families raise all the vegetables
they need, in the back yard. Nine
out of ten Of the humber cottages
have the front part of the house con-
structed of boards painted in imitation
of white marble, curious architecture
al fancy,
The old French part Of New Orleans
has changed but little, except that
on some OF the Streets trolley cars
have been placed. These streets are
so narrow that scarcely team can
pass. These old French and Spanish
streets are as picturesque out-of-date,
and interesting as ever, and are sell
dom improved, architecturally or 9TH
erWiSe. The Creole aristocracy still
lives on Esplanade street, on one side
of Canal, and the wealthy American
citizens ON st. Charles avenue and
other streets on the opposite side of
Canal street.
New Orleans is getting great deal
of northern capital, and the new and
magnificent st. Charles hotel, has
been full of northern men all winter
looking up prospects for money making,
which are plenty in the south. New
banks, railroads, steamship lines. and
all sorts Of commercial enterprises, are
being put in by northern people, in
connection with the wealthier class of
| the south.
New Orleans has eighteen miles Of
wharfage, and ocean and river boats
load and unload at the docks on both
sides of the Mississippi river. The
government has built large floating
dry dock, and is establishing a navy
yard at Algiers, across the river. The
fruit and lumber trade is growing
fast, and vessels leave the port every
day for all parts Of thewor1d.' Manu-
featuring enterprises have been ex-
empted from city taxation until 1910,
and while the new roads
and enterprises are being put in and
their management is under the direc-
| tion of some northern trust, yet it is
seen that it requires the combination
of capital to do the initial work, which
the experience and ability of individ-
uals of the native population would
never push to completion.
The Louisiana planters ,and the
great sugar interests OF the south are
fearing that congress will let Cuban
sugar in with less duty and the only
advantage which the country will get
from it, they say, will be the increas-
ed dividends for the sugar refinery
trust. New Orleans papers are
full of editorials and specials on the
subject and the planters are much
agitated as great sums of money have
been invested in mills. The former
bounty on sugar set many of the old
half-bankrupt planters on their feet
and enabled them to build mills, and
manufacture their own cane juice into
raw sugar and molaSSeS, and many of
them have refining machinery and
sell the completed product ready for
market to buyers who come to TIE
mill door. The government has done
great deal for the Louisiana planter
in the way OF levees, bounties and
other ways and its policy is right, hut
why such benefits should be confined
to any one portion of the nation, the
North Dakota wheat farmer has
never paused to inquire.
The municipal government of New