The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19
NEW ORLEANS TABLOIDS
BY c. NJ. STANLEY

lew ORLEANS, January 1s.-(spe-
IN cial)-Administered in tabloid
form, here are few of the things
that help to make New Orleans so diff
ferent from Birmingham:
Flower boys move along the streets and
into the big restaurants at dinner time
selling violets for % cents a bunch
II you have someone in your party who
speaks French and knows the walters,
you get some touches given your table
d. hote dinner at famous Royal street
place that you never dreamed Of
New Orleans uses Mississippi river
water. The rich Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio mud which settles in the immense
settling basins at the publication plant
is sold for 10 cents load as fertilizer.
On a long automobile trip Thursday
afternoon the newspaper men were es-
corted the entire distance by three spe-
cially designated motorcycle patrolmen.
They seem to have them to spare in New
Orleans.
New Orleans has a handsome monu-
ment to John McDonough, who died be-
fore the war, the most hated man in the
city.
John McDonough. dashing young fell
low, went into the mercantile business
ish nobility, and was rejected because he
was a "tradesman." He became a hard
ened misanthropic miser and money
lender, detested by everyone for his Pc
nuriousness.
When he died it was found that his will
left an estate of about two million dol
lars to be equally divided between New
Orleans and Baltimore for public school
buildings. The only condition was that
school children should place flowers on
his grave once year. New Orleans has
thirty odd public school buildings erected
from the fund and the children still COM
ply with the terms of his will
New Orleans has IL miles of municipal
front
At the Progressive union lunches the
soup 1t saves the busy mans time, you
know.
Some of the private grounds alopg
fashionable St Charles avenue have such
tropical look that the visitor would
not be surprised to see birds of paradise
fitting about among the massive foliage.
The old French opera house has four
balconies above the main floor.
The Gruenwald hotel has an artificial
cave where you can lose yourself II you
are not careful. Here hundreds of peo-
pie dine nightly amid stalactites and stall
agmites, running brooks and mysterious
underground streams and waterfalls. The
cave does not open until 1890 p. m.
| A big sightseeing steamboat makes two
daily trips up and down the entire water
| front "a distance of II or Is miles. An in
teligent and competent man with meg
aphone descants on New Orleans great
| institutions as they are passed.
! New Orleans now has the largest
sugar refinery in the world. 1t is II
stories high and cost s1OO00,000.
| New Orleans still has considerable of
| the stone pavement laid by the French.
| New Orleans has ship canal running
| from Lake Pontchartrain into the heart
of the city.
/ This canal was built in the fifties and
! is literally lined with the bones of the
thousands who dug it and We're caught
| by terrible yellow fever epidemic.
| New Orleans in less than 10 years has
built an entirely new underground sew
erage system; has built water purifica-
ton plant with 6o0o0,0o0 gallons daily
capacity and has laid over 500 miles oi
underground water mains. There are 37'
miles of sanitary sewers and 23o miles ol
storm sewers.
speaker this week referred to New
Orleans saloons as me saving stations.