The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-23
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

tween the French and American quar- ters
 In the French quarter are located the greater portion of the historical build ings and sites.
 am stopping at hotel nearby to many places of interest.
 The French is "downtown"-to the north This is due to the fact that the Mississippi river. as it passes the head of Canal street, flows directly north. Hence the residents speak of uptown" and downtown" instead of north and south The French quarter is most interest ing. The old quarter is bounded by the river, Canal, Rampant and Esplanade, and here are found the quaint and mas sive old French and Spanish houses, the wide, paved courtyards with tropical veg citation and flowers, the antique stores, famous restaurants quaint shops pos sessed by quaint people, nearly all speak ing the French language in preference to English.
 l have Just come in from stroll. I saw doll hospital carrying minia- 1 ture Red Cross sign. If any little miss has doll with broken arm or leg, let 1 her send it down here for attention. | A bird store, or rather store dealing in pets of all kinds, birds, rabbits, dogs,
 cats, snakes, turtles, alligators and other varmints, was full of interest to 1 me.
 The place of greatest interest, however, was the old French market I could spend happy days puttering around in it and watching the sellers and buyers chaffing over their trades. I have just run across W. H. Kettig, who has been down on the federal re- serve bank matter. He told me he had to hurry back home to whoop up the bond issue.
 Yes, went to the old Absinthe house. founded in 1926, and set down in the guide books as the one-time headquarters of the famous pirate Lafitte. Then a pilgrimage to the Haunted house, said to have been occupied at diff ferent times by Marshal Ney, Lafayette and Louis Philippe. Here fellow gets his moneys worth. If he doesn't believe In ghosts, then he can fall back on his- torical myths about the famous person. ages who have slept, or tried to sleep in the haunted" rooms
 Beauregard's home, once the residence of the famous Confederate general shares with the Archbishopric as one of New Orleans show places. The latter is said to be the oldest original building west of the Alleghenies erected in 1727 for the Ursuline nuns, nine years after the founding of New Orleans.
 l got on to bit of new history so far as I am concerned At Chartres and St. Louis streets a residence known as Ma poleon house stands It was erected to receive the prisoner of St. Helena, who, in 1921, was to have been rescued by French patriots of New Orleans. Before their vessel reached St. Helena, Napo- leon died. The Kaisers friends had bet ter take notice and be looking out for a place for him in some neutral country.
 
 Some people have a dread of being put beneath the sod. To all such I say como to New Orleans, for here it isn't permitted. The vaults are all above the ground. The cemeteries of this city arc among the show places. The old St. Louis cemetery is the last resting place of many of the Spanish and French col onists. St. Rochs is peculiarly dear to the Creole Catholics, who make pilgrim ages to the shrine to pray for things de- sired.
 Chalmette cemetery is located near the old, historic battlefield where the bat tie of New Orleans was fought between the British and American forces, on January 8, 1S15 This is a national ceme- kept
 Metairie cemetery is the handsomest in the city. It contains many beautiful monuments, among which may be men, toned those of General Albert Sidney Johnston and General Stonewall Jack son, also the tombs of the Army Of Northern Virginia and the Army of Ten nessee.
 The monument erected to the gallant Albert Sidney Johnston got my scholarly Virginia friend, Dr. R. H. Pett. editor of the Religious Herald, into trouble On a. visit to the city he went out to see it and wrote back an article filled with the tender and patriotic feeling which came to him at the thought he was standing by the body of the brave general.
 pr. J. William Jones, one of Lees chap lains, and a historian of the Confeder- acy, took him to task for not knowing that the body was inferred elsewhere Dr. Pett was telling me about this on a street car when handsome woman smiled and said: You needn't worry my mother takes flowers and decorates i the grave every Memorial Day in spite or our trying to tease her about the body being elsewhere" e. Yes, I have been to see the other show places and buildings of historic interest, but anybody can get a guide book and read about them The thing that has given me the greatest ioy ia just to