Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-03-09
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French Opera House, where the
opera LA Traviata' was rendered
by a splendid company, and while
we were unable to understand the
words, the music was greatly enjoy
by all.
Friday noon an "oyster steam"
was given the association by Mr..
Lawrence Fabacher, president of the
Jackson Brewing Co. which was q
rare treat, and that afternoon we
were guests of Captain Streckfus
on the fine excursion steamer ~. S."
in trip about the New Orleans
harbor, where the many sights of
interest were viewed.
One of the most enjoyable events
Of our stay in New Orleans was the
witnessing Of an aeroplane flight at
the aviation meet by Nj. Paulhan,
the French aeronaut, who holds the
worlds championship airship record.
After a close inspection of his Far
man aercplane, the machine was run
out onto the field and soon we saw
him spinning along the ground
few yards and then quickly rise into
the air, when he began a series of
circular flights, rising constantly
until he assembled to. a height of 800
feet, and in twenty minutes had
travelled fifteen miles, repeatedly
passing directly over our heads. He
descended gracefully TO the ground
and alighted, and in a few minutes
assembled again, this time describing
turns and angles of all sorts with
ease.
The members of the association
also had the pleasure of meeting
James j. Corhett, the great pugilist,
who was in the city during our stay
there, and Friday evening witnessed
the magnificent production of Lit
tie Memo at the Tulane theatre.
New Orleans was founded by Jean
Baptiste Lemoyne, Sieur De Bien-
vile in the year 171S. Bienville
came over from the Biloxis with a
small band of voyageurs and came
out upon the low banks of the
Mississippi River where Jackson
Square now stands. On that plot he
builded butts and founded the colony
out of which grew the potent cosmo-
politan New Orleans of today-the
great southern gateway to the Gulf,
to Mexico and the West.
With a street railway service en-
celled by none in the United States
and cars, every one of which cross
or enter the central artery CT Canal
street, it is easy for the tourist to
reach any portion of the city and
any point of interest.
On Chartres street will be found
the bird and animal stores, where
anything from South Pacific
cockatoo to a big Louisiana alligator
may be bought. Royal street, one
block further from the river, is the
hive of the curio and antique shops.
Down Charities street seven
squares one comes to the center of
the original city, Jackson Square or
the old place d'Armes," in front of
which rears the yellow old st. Louis
Cathedral, with it's spires and
chimes. Thanking the square are
the long. three-storied buildings
erected by the Baroness Pontalba
daughter of wealthy Spanish
nobleman and colonel of provincial
troops. The building to the right is
the Cabildo, the scene of one of the
worlds most famous and historic
transactions-the formal delivery of
the immense province of Louisiana
from France to the United States,
December 20, 1903.
A few blocks below Jackson
Square, stands the old convent of
the Ursuline nuns, now the palace
of the Archbishop of New Orleans,
built by Bienville In 1888. Directly
across the way is the quaint colonial
house, once the home of the noted
Confederate soldier, General p. T.
G. Beauregard, where the MARQUIS
de Lafayette and General Jackson
were guests.
On the corner of Royal and Bar
racks streets is the Haunted House,
where the beautiful but cruel young
Creole, Madame La Laurie, is told
by the chroniclers of the time To
have beaten and starved and tortur-
ed her slaves to death. One block
beyond, at the corner of Dauphine
and Orleans streets, is the house of
the Tree of the Dead" in the
grounds of which the exiled brother
or the Sultan of Turkey was stabbed
to death, in 1927, by emissaries
from the Ottoman palace.
The old lugger landing, at the
head of the old Basin or Bayou
st. John, is just to the left, and here
a large part of the seasons catch