Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1903-05-29
The New Orleans Reunion.

ure of going to this grand re-
union, will give you a few de-
tails from observations. The
Crescent City, the queen city Of
the south, the loyal city, South
ern to the backbone, did her
whole duty and did it's best to
make everyone within it's limits
have a good time. We old Rebs
are justly proud of New Orleans
and her people. The addresses
of welcome from the various
officers of the city, state and vete-
ran organizations, as we'll as lady
societies made US feel free and
easy as well as to anticipate de-
lightful time, and our apprehen.
sions were abundantly verified.
The meeting of hundreds of old
soldiers, some who had not meet
in thirty seven years or perhaps
longer, made it a veritable re-
union. We met twelve from
South Carolina; boys of my youth
three supposed to be dead. Old
memories were revived and days
gone by were recalled. To show,
what pleasant surprises were in
store I will quote little incident
as a sample among a thousand
others: / was having a good
time with a number of old South
Carolina friends when some one
commenced shouting and pound
ing me on the back who turned
out to be Fighting Bill Morris,
who was reported dead fifteen
years ago. Such scenes occurred
daily, hourly. Young friends,
that's what our reunion means to
U. G. VS..
One feature of how they treated
us was the Mississippi Hall.
table 1850 feet, 10 ranges, 5 feet
10 inches, 10 boilers 40 gallon
each, 6 dishpans, 5 feet diameter,
12inches deep, 18potato steamers
capacity | to 2 bushel sack each.
Is cooks, 25 dishwasEers, 10 head
walters, $50 walters, 73 2O.gallon
cans milk used each day. 4500 \
sit at each table, Stables to break
fast, dinner and supper or 1850
each meal 8 times day.
Breakfast -Sirloin steak, but
tered sauce, fried potatoes, bana-
mas, grits, coffee with or without
cream, louisiana molasses, rice
and bread.
Dinner-Roast mutton, boiled |
jacketed potatoes, Boston baked |
beans. pickles, sauces, bread.
Supper-Tenderloin steak, boil
ed Irish potatoes, rice, Louisiana
molasses, stewed prunes, bananas
bread, coffee.
You can see they believed in
the old adage "the nearest way to
mans heart was down his throat"
The city is historic from center to
circumference. The principle
points of interest we saw We're
City Park, Soldiers Homes, Chal-
mette, Confederate Memorial
Hall, jackson Square, st. Louis
Cathedral, Audubon Park acres
Of tropical plants and flowers, U.
S. Mint, Custom House, covering
one square, fire proof, 6 stories
high which had sunk one story
since being built. West End
park, where DR.. Mimms and my
self got a candidate of our county
put of trouble by promising to"be
good" until he got home.
,12 miles river front at wharfs,
ships from every where loading
Ind unloading. French Market
ind Povdras street market, fish
meats, fowls, vegetables, water.
Melons, egg plant, cucumners,
,reen corn, etc. on market. Bana
las 25 cents per bunch on work
Other tropical fruits equally as
,heap. .
Quaint old houses of many
FABLES, some over 200 years old.
like kaleidoscope the scene was
'yer changing. Always pleasing
o the eye. Well, as this is al
eady too long, will close by say
ng that the person who went to
Iew Orleans and did not have a
,ood time, would grumble if they
we're in Paradise.
"Old Reb." {
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