Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-04-08
MIR. and Mrs. w. H. Newell Make
Journey From Baraboo to Bar
ranquilla With Daughter
COULD NOT DRINK MILK
in NEW ORLEANS HOME
Letter Tells of Interesting Old
Sites in the Crescent City of the
Southland

We left our home in Baraboo Feb.
1st to accompany our daughter, Mrs.
| Maude Newell Williams, to her home
in South America
We had a pleasant journey to New
Orleans The country through which
we passed looked very different as we
progressed. We saw fields of cotton
not yet harvested, although in some
places the people were picking it and
stuffing it into sacks, while in little
towns along the way, they were un-
loading cotton at factories, to have it
baled for shipment. OF course the
habitation Of this part of our country
consists of darkies and mules or ap-
pears to so consist to traveller.
1t was raininy when we reached Jack
son, Miss. and was like muggy Aprd
morning. We arrived at New Orleans
in May weather, which became hot
July by the time we were in Panama,
and hotter than any August / ever
knew by the time we reached our jour
, ney's end, in Colombia.
Could Not Drink the Milk
In New Orleans we found that the
hotels, of which the city has many,
and very splendid ones, were crowd
ed and turning away people by the
/ hundreds. They were charging ten
, dollars q day for board. Not only
the yearly carnival but also horse
races on great scale called people
to the city at this time. We had
lodgings in a private home. in large
stone building which | judged from
the architecture and the furniture to
be over hundred years old. 1t stood
close to the street, with a graf out
side staircase running to the second
floor The first floor had evidently
been given over to the slaves, and was
dark, unventiIated, unattractive. The
second floor had long hall running
through it, and from the, hall opened
dozens of rooms, large airy, each with
a massive fireplace Of mahogany. The
furniture was of the heaviest red
mahogany, great bed-steads with
brass framed canopies and worm eat
en- velvet hangings, wardrobes, chiff-
! oniers and bureaus, houtboys, all with
large mirrors, most of them full-length
giving the impression Of room OF
mirrors Early in the morning, before
we were up, maid came up TO our
rooms with hot coffee and milk. 1t
was nice thing to do, because we,
were paying only for lodging,
but it had little value to us, because
we could none of us drink the thick,
muddy, black stuff.
Enchanted With New Orleans
We were much enchanted with New
| Orleans. We spent an afternoon in
an auto ride about the city, visiting
what are considered the most interest
| ing places. New Orleans is over two
hundred yearso1d. Most of the building
were erected in the eighteenth cen
tury and are still in condition. Parts
Of the city are eleven feet below the
Mississippi river, when the river is
normal, and twenty-five to thirty feet
below the river when it is high. If
the Ievees, which are from S5 to 6s
| feet high, should break away the
water would be 81 feet deep in many
parts of the city. The Oldest part
of the city is still called the French
part, as the people who live there,
| descendants of the earliest settlers
| still speak and live French in their
homes. Here the streets are very mar
row and the houses very quaint, but
/ beautiful. They still preserve their
French market The one erected in
| 1928 was blown down and another was
erected which covers four blocks. It
lis the most characteristic spot in the
city. Under its roof every language
| lis spoken and the buyers and sellers
are of every race.
/ We saw Napoleon House" erected
| in 1921, for the use of Napoleon by
| Nicholas Girad, millionaire ex-may-
or of New Orleans With a select crew
of pirates this man proposed to rescue
Napoleon and bring him here Then
came the news of Napoleon's death
See Sights In Old City
The st. Louis cathedral, the oldest
in the United States, was built in 1716.
by Bienville when he laid out the
city. The present one was built in
/ 1894. 1t has some wonderful and