The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-01

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marks are wiped out and modern innova-
| tons and architecture, and. let us not be
30 unjust as to omit to add, modern COM
| forts and conveniences and rational SAM
| tary provisions are substituted for them.
| The delightful winter climate-there IL a
feature OF the old South which even hustle
| cannot take away.
There are those among our migratory
| sybarites who follow the sun down the
| Gulf and from the Gulf back to the North
| ern mountains and shore resorts-there are
among these many who prefer to have the
| life and movement and theatres ana me
restaurants and bright shops OF CITY
combined with the pleasant climatic con-
ditions which they go Southwark In winter
to seek. There are many Southern people
who find New York the most delightful
Of summer resorts for the same reason
that many Northern people prefer New
Orleans o any other place OF winter ABODE
The number of these winter residents
here is rapidly on the increase Already
the hotels are utterly inadequate To accom-
modate them and the transient tourists
en- route to Mexico and California VINO
perch here a few days going and coming IN
their flight. TO say nothing Of the thousands
brought here by NeS Orleans's enormously
increasing business activities The win
ter hotel accommodation here IL absurdly
disproportonate to the demand.
People by the hundred are every day
turned away by hotels already packed to
the roof and even their servants quarters
turned into apartments for dodgers. only
those who have written or telegraphed
DAYS in advance have the remotest chance
of getting n room and even they often find
themselves away down the line in waiting
list of applicants. One OF the largest
hotels here Is building an addition OF 800
rooms, but it will be instantly swamped
Just a. the hotel now is in its present dmen-
sions.
ANOTHER RIVIERA
And this does not apply merely to the
immense throngs Of Mard Gras week either
II has been the normal condition right along
all though the winter, and year by year
it grows more marked a. visitors here
increase The result of this inevitably will
be the erection Of number of new and
finely appointed hotels here. That Is one
of the cert ainties Of New Orleans's near fut-
ure.
And here il may be mentioned that along
the Gulf shore, between here and Mobile,
there seems destined TO he built up another
Riviera like that Of the east coast Of Florida.
The climatic conditions. the adjacent coun-
try and the aquatic attractions are all
there. All that it needs is another Flagler
to rise up and set the ball rolling. Bay st.
Louis. Mississippi City and half dozen
other places along the Gulf shore have
within them possibilities for transforma-
ton into charming winter resorts which
can hardly remain long undeveloped
But even with this entire Gulf coast
transformed into another hotel paradise
like Florida. New Orleans always will re-
main the popular place Of winter abode
that il now il, for the reason that it is not
merely New Orleans's climate, but New Or
leans itself that those who get the habit OF
coming here in winter like. There are
hundreds Of people from New York and
other cities OF the North and Fast who come
here regularly every January and remain
straight through until May. 1t is the city
itself that is the magnet with these birds
Of passage and their number every year is
on the increase.
NEW DRAINAGE SYSTEM.
That which more than anything else put
New Orleans abreast with the onward
movement that is sweeping all over the
South, was the intelligent and spirited
way with which the people here rose up
to the problems OF drainage and sewerage,
the solution Of which has transformed the
city from one of the most unhealthful TO
one of the most healthful communities in
the country.
New Orleans IN now expanding some
SIS. 600, 900 in drainage. paving, sewerage,
waterworks and similar public improve
mcnts, the money for which il actually
provided and much of the work il either
completed or in course Of construction.
The problems Of drainage and sewerage
here were perhaps more complicated than
in any other large city in the world A Is
well known, the city lies actually below
the surface of the Mississippi Indeed,
there ara several large areas of land in the
heart Of New Orleans that 'ually are
below the level Of the Gulf Of Mexico.
Further than that, the problem was
complicated by the fact that at certain
times Of the year there are torrential tropi-
cal rains. which are almost in the nature
Of coudbursts and are utterly beyond
the capscity OF any system ~ sewers
10 ndUult, ~ Wa Hr'--TNh w pI'Nih' "a
distinct drainage system for this contin-
gency and 10 prevent the flooding Of the
city. which in the past was ~ disastrous
to property and 80 Diet rimcntal TO the pub
lie health.
So two distinct systems Of drainage
have been built The surface water by
series Of canals and by pumps ls raised
up and thrown into Lake Pontchartr.aE.
But INFO Lake Pontci a-irIn the o.
binary sewerage 81 the city could not
be carried for that would have made a
roeking oeSspooi right at the city's hack
door Another system 81 canals and
pumps vas necessary Ia carry and raise
thi- sewing. Ia point where II could bc
hung into the Mssi.slppi. and the river
gor% by here with Il five-inilr current and
IA trenrndOup volume
HEALTH AND BUSINESS
IL IL not wholly coincidence thai ia.
beginning ~ this great work. about siA
years ago, Ma ooincident with the begin.
nins ~ IA. latter day development of IA.
clty with ia" beginning ~ thai swelling
tide al industrial aud commercial pfogras
xhirh IN CARVING New Drrann ~ .Alftly