The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-12-17
Registration for Raleigh.
SEEING NEW
Postmaster Willis G.. Briggs Tells OF
the Big City and OF the
ok There.

Postmaster w. q. Briggs, president
of the North Carolina Postmaster's
Association, returned from New Or
leans Friday, where he delivered an
address before the Louisiana State
Postmasters' Association.
THE Crescent City is called the
winter resort of the South he re
marked yesterday, and its population
of $4,000 is thoroughly cosmopolf-
tan. The theatres ave their open
ing nights on Sunday and there is
racing 365 days in the year. l read
q statement in the newspapers from
the mayor of the city to the effect
that he did not know of gambling at
the courses; they call it book-making.
Wednesday afternoon, in company
with a friend, / visited the Crescent
Jockey Club and the pit was crowded
with hundreds of men stalking their
bets. The club appoints a manager
of the book makers and he controls
and directs the fifty or more stands
where one may age from one dol
lar up. The previous night in the
st Charles Hotel / saw Mr.. Paul Nor
ton. president of the Equitable, whose
salary is said to be $4,000 a year,
but on the race course a young man
was pointed out who had been known
To bet more han that amount on a
single race. But he had certainly
seen better days from his looks on
W iiAoiiS IN " VI u
a dozen or more Chinese, for they are
the greatest gamblers on earth. Men,
and women too for that matter, were
there from Concord, New Hampshire;
New York State. Chicago, ST. Louis,
Los Angeles and Texas, making bets
on the thoroughbreds. The modern
thoroughbred is fit for nothing except
the track. He is a greyhound of a
horse and knows no pace except a
dead run. When he Is out-classed on
the track I am told that he is of no
value. He is not built for harness
work: in the saddle only a jocky can
ride him, and if one tries him for a
fox-hunt h horse thinks he is sim
ply in q race and goes crazy.
New Orleans is %ponulous and
growing. Mr.. Carries Fish, s~on-in-law
of Col r. T. Gray, Of Raleigh. is To-
Gated there as manager for an i'm
mense steel structure as annex to a big
hotel. The millionaire owner of that
hotel, I am told, began in New Orleans
as a cobbler, and even now cannot
speak the English language. Col.
Peter Pescud, a Raleigh man, has for
floor of the building adjoining the
stock exchange.
The temperance wav has in a very
limited measure reached New Orleans.
There is an effort to increase the Ii
cense from $50 to $3.50 a year. There
are now few restrictions The news
papers are devoting considerable
space, however, to the temperance
question. One of the candidates for
Governor in the election next April ad-
vocates prohibiting gambling and
some temperance measures. Horse
racing without gambling I heard one
man remark, would be like a bowl of
soup without salt
New Orleans has great natural ad-
vantages. and, with the construction
of the Panama Canal and other inn
provements, may yet attain a popula-
ton of more than a million within the
next quarter of a century, which en-
thusiastS are predicting. The Gulf
oysters are superb and are served on
the half shell for only 10 and Is cents
a dozen"