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I
A WORD BY WAY OF WELCOME,
I offer yoii
It makes
omelette
au
not
souflee,a palm leaf fan and
the sliglitest
dilierenee
a
!
rose
"what is one's first impres-
eion of this quaint and sunny
old citylying half asleep,blinking as it
her luminous
skies,luxuriously lounging on the elbow of
were, under
the great yellow river
is
the end one
; m
she spoke, when
firsther tender
message
it was
invitation
ail
soufllde and
omelette
an
year,
something
like this
breatiied
was
"
:
that when
to conclude
sure
I offer you
a
into the ear,
palm leaf fan,
rose."
a
late in the season
in th"
and young
It is early in the morning,
this old, half-French, halfbut it is the time of all times
when
her
beautiful
and foreign ways,
women
gardens, pink and bloomy, is at
blue than
the lid of Italy is overhead, and
the dull grey
belfries,the leaping steeplesand
of her sanctuaries; roses
her iron balconies,
blossom
on
gilded crosses
of bloom
balustrade
is at the edge of her red tiled roofs in the
a very
musty French quarter, tlie perfume of the sweet olive interpenetrate*
all Jier shady places,and the sense
of a new, different and foreign life
impresses the stranger.
The very tankle of her street car bells has a novel and enticing
here to enjoy
Bound, and in a littlewhile one realizes that one has come
closer
and
human
to
to
be
nature
to
to
over
life, get
glad
nature,
the beauty of things and to melt the heart in the shining of the Avarm
with
in with,
to see
a city ten. riled
sun"
tropic vinos and framed
of singing birds.
Of Avhat account
roses, and a life all set to the music
of
tlie
calls
the
stock
or
on
change
exIS It, t!ie current
wheat,
price
? Rather let us know
what
is to be sung to-night,and
opera
shall we
take lodgings m an entresol of the French
quarter or m one
ot the big and Southern-looking hotels, or in a rose-grown
cottage of
Spanish
town
of ours,
her odd, grim houses
her best. A sky more
against it are limned
the Garden
lovely rose
district.
New
is
with
and
Orlea;;s is unlike
any
other American
city; her
very
name
of gayeties,her breath
is as sweet as a willow
copse in
of
the opera
something :vbout her always makes one think
a souvenir
June, and
and
the bal masque,
and the rose.
souliKe
the
carnival, the palm
leaf
known
in
She is not to
be
fan, the omelette
a
day, and
she
Avill
unfold
herself slowly, petal by i)etal,growing in charm
each day, as
Venice does
in
be
not
to
an
eye-flash.
surely
comprehended
North where
When
you started forth from that beautifu',frozen
"
there
are
icicles for daggers and
tucked
skies pent Avith ram,
you
and you
trunk
thought
how
snow
an
when
banks
for roses,
organdy
you
goAvn
came
and
often
doAA^n
South
grey
into your
you
M
would
perhaps
wear
red
a
violets
of other
charms
city, sprawling
like
opaline lakes
a
lily on
red
and
her
dim,
the
grey
think
of
other
side
of the
world
her
with
superstitions, her
the
of
pastime
herself
to
delightful dawdling
way
how
may
native
and
convents
The
grow
people
churches,
aesthetic
one
upon
the
grow
end
of Verdi
will
The
ed
Dudley
the
on
culture
walls
and
charm
amusement
the
inexhaustible
It
;
they
and
the
like
tie
place;
her
lane
dewy
colors
rose
house
end
the
"
of
at
on
sic
mu-
month
a
of her
eyes
or
all
is
an
here.
of the
and
a
The
heart
opera,
that
Koy-
Orleans
wisteria
purple
roses
pink
French
of
rue
New
trees, the
against the
sweet
Cherokee
in the
the
or
magnolia
in the
city
set with
entresol
is
are
jilaster-
town
;
the
of
fashionable
the
zest
of
foreign tongues,
is
like
no
other
society, the brilliancy
theatre
of
days.
beautiful
the
may
of her
town
the
at
by
way
the
opera
Delphine,"
lie primly
of good
charm
her
and
"
A
Madame
branches
and
of the
the
of
in this
inexhaustible
you
of
her
confections
charm
Creole
weaiing
music
pent-roofed cottages
of the
a
streets
Only
and
of
too
know
to
iAm
are
and
only by dint
only in this
sweet,
week
up
balcony.
?
Warner
all the
sunny
of
Bohemia?
"
;
not
is
not
be.
can
fabrics
are
blooms
fine hospitality
does
come
lovableness
of Cairollton,
of
Orleans
it is
mansions,
daggers,
your
or
suburb
through
sides
upon
her
on
rising
She
may
Madrid
Meyerbeer
Spanish
Arcady
sweet
New
threaded
red
rose
it be
of Charles
and
you
Orleans
end
the
and
genial she
of her
her
pace
Gounod
by the
roses
you
and
cimeti^res,
the
days.
one,
and
and
the
and
in ten
of New
geniality
by her
in the
al ?
s
ing
upris-
roses
life, her
generous
siiops
customs
At
th"
courts
gorgeous
city between
a
historical
coat, singing
and
Shall
the
one.
day
swear
women,
the
upon
of ten
her
ladies
the
in
a
of cypress
narrow
her
churches
and
her
attractions
as
tlie lapel of your
you
her
outings that
sunny,
of
daggers,
environment
and
homes,
does
Orleans, Paris
legends
shops, and
charms,
importunate
in
curious
her
continent
idle
that
out
New
to
the
at
get
you
find
alone
and
et, and
sw(
you
who
an
of old,
of Araby.
ways,
a
float like
Spanish
in
southern
and
sun,
in the
charm
of Chinese
and
;
world
southern
tourist
a
of the
freely reveal
well, and
dusky
picturesque localities, her
down
going
her
her
invasion
an
spicy perfumes
Orleans,
and
for
old
and
the
sibility
pos-
southern
does
wondrous
a
the
old
petals dipped
truth, she
palms,
of
gloom
find
skies
the
to
its
In
streets
one
all the
New
lifts to the
she
we
with
of Parma
realized
you
belonging
river.
bunch
velvety
a
believe
as
Regia,
yellow
great
make
churches
balconies
Victoria
a
the
pin
not
climate
piercing the
swamp,
from
But
and
churches,
narrow
genial life. Thedwaif
latanias
green
belt
I do
old
and
strange
at your
than
lakes, and
and
roofs
rose
throat.
at your
city
life,
in
the
world.
A
French
world-famous
fine and
opera
a
;
gayety,
the
solemn
of every
and
opera
carnival
the
equaling the
parade and
pomp
picturesque
Catholic
ceremony
community
) these
house,
a
of
of
the
the
are
splendor
in
Roman
firemen's
Lenten
such
of
season
usual
brilliant,
and
acteristic
char-
celebration,
season,
bids
(a
ure
feat-
for favor.
There
saints
nos,
goldeu
with
laden
lighted, and
paths
parks
iiuiy
brewed
toffee
*'
you
lligoletto"
and
of fashion,
NeAV
the
Behind
city.
jsits and
The
are
the
cheerfulness
As
peculiar
and
go
Less
of pine, the
white
Acadian
are
18
near
the
in
it is
a
hand,
is this
walk
never
Canal
lor
the
even
population,
that
lihe
1
can
street
of
a
"
no
street
our
and
health
breatlies
get
and
the
the
and
sense
inducements
life aud
ture
cul-
of any
health-giving
the
tle
gulf, the quaint lit-
gulf
way,
of
wearies
The
coast.
hunting
Teche
grounds
Tchefuncta
of browu
this
down
attractions
are
Mexican
of
to
life.
the
are
all
soul
beyond
tlie
roses,
artist
negro,
one's
cannot
distant
knees
ing
tlie trail-
ft)r the
invites
in
;
the
liver
winter
route
Orleans
Xew
to
itself,
wonderlands.
many
that
most
Avith
its
city,
time
of
the
upon
fortune
southern
as
mortar
times
sheltered
parks
this
in
bits of virgin
of tlie olden
have
beauty
one
our
of
fascinating
thousand
the
and
I
it all.
The
public, the
oughfares,
thor-
familiar
face
not
am
fashionable
one
composite
that
"
of
first experience
manners
veritable
advantages
streams
in
and
door, famous
very
scenic
southern
brick
one
the
resorts
when
huge
familiar
grow
have
beautiful
along
faces
beaches
of winter
the
of
varied
of
for
and
Creole, tlie dialect
offers
sire
vacation,
a
and
of clambering
rule
and
taking
is delightful, its social
Mexico
way,
the
Avomau
best
jars
will,
city
writer, the rich
courts
light-hearted
at
head
over
their
promise
one
famous
of departure
point
I
the
city's suburb,
California
A
seaside
is
country
at
pink
a
at
public
hour's
an
and
scenery
that
courtly
Its climate
than
mass
and
alike
many
the
of
its attractions
fishing villages aud
and
the
of
of
ings
olive, the soft breath-
doi6
water
green
this
resort
it alone.
to
cit3\
forests
and
gaj^ety
unexcelled,
^eat
royal ; iu the
winter
a
chanted
are
bois
mahoganies
birds, the beauty
of uncaged
songs
the
worker
quarter
the
are
blue, and,
French
church
eyes
lic
pub-
music
all the royal family,
stucco
blood
where
of
cup
a
opera
sea,
are
shops
sunshine.
in
electric
the
In
the
southern
of
from
the
loafing day
from
queen,
French
his coming;
sleepy charm
awaits
here.
luggers
house
beautiful
busy
yellow
over
by amber
and
vines
stall
of
Dompa-
ways
are
flame.
in
sweet
and
character
the
iu
atti actions
are
Mexican
the
world,
and
left
of the
of princes
as
tender
king,
pink
second-hand
the
a
the
fragments
torests,
the
of the
the
from
southern
of tall houses
crust
the
ballroom
picturesqueness
and
architecture
shrined
there
market
in
in
the
the
of
man
The
resorts.
brazier,
and
is tlie veiy
Orleans
are
pineapples
there
blue
sky.
artist, the invalid, the idler, the
the
cessary
ne-
who
bandanas;
the
the breath
radiantly
For
at
salt wind
sweet,
luminous,
rose,
in
everywhere
the
of
hardly
and
firefly winks
Huguenots,"
of incense,
and
on]y
a
Les
or
it is
bizarre
are
bananas;
the
charcoal
a
"
perfume
domino,
have
on
and
oranges
where
chefs
with
and
calico, garlic
and
cauliflowers
there
;
stalls piled
tlie picturesque
markets,
the
city, that
with
restaurants
of gourmets
memories
the
in
old
famous
are
the
to
them.
ot
speak
to
ciinls
iuvitutioii
published
well
"uch
of
faces
floating
its
reminded
to
jostle of the
courtesy
and
"
regret
people,
good
hu-
"brilliant dressing
the
mor,
the
music,
baned
vendors
flower
for
forty and
delightfully it
women"
Duluth
from
cotton
the
greasy,
of
pink-cheeked,
with
red
a
handsome
shop windows
the
masques,
and
the
all, who
people,
can
by
best
ribbon
every
;
the
or
queen
fabrics
Havana;
and
queen,
love
so
the
opera
Creole,
its Rex
manses
the
gesticulating,
shimmering,
with
the
heart,
in the
the
tesque
gro-
its
fetti
con-
town
who
place for omelette
cathedral, but
the
coffee
the
town
the
under
tunnels
and
and
of sweet
snows
of entrances
pictures of
peels
pecans
big house,
and
su"n'ed
the
soufl^e,
the
one
other
the
look
old
The
as
with
age,
of
tankles
and
tlien
I
and
A
roses.
the
car
a
silver
on
the
of
bloom,
conserves
or
dwells
king
conies
her
to
funnel
in
slept
once
of
Barataria
a
charcor.l
the
the
of
whisper
oysterman
pent
and
roof
at
wooden
a
halt
an
yard
grave-
waits
a
grown
plump
street
politely
its
ling
tumb-
John's
A
a
as
and
rod,
golden
early hour
of
caress
southland,
sabots.
the
from
a
I
;
wings
with
skin
the
of JIadame
and
the
and
broken
old, faded
Indian
an
schooners
the
it kisses
rod,
the
wind,
in
of
trailing like
moist,
in the
clacking
open
poet
A
by the dingy houses
see
sails
seif-planted
goes
catboat
of love, it is
cottage, trembles
woman
basin,
warm
touch
is that
breath
gray
air is
the
ghost lives.
black
coui-ts
birds
A
be
to
of purple
noir.
salt-crusted
the
see
their
on
leaf
rose
fringe of
soon
narrow,
song
beds
ket,
mar-
where
chamber.
the
on
her
of caf6
a
way
long,
The
her
cup
and, pvessednp
way
Mississippi bayous"
tender
the
and
sail
life.
there
the
At
give
town
concocts
haunted
way
The
French
has
diuner
across
red
Avails by the
gull.
vendor
after
yonder
the
or
in
are?
tiny cafe
a
plantations,
blossoms.
praline vendor
and
in
I look
steamer,
violet
for your
this
grand
were
orange
is
for perfume.
foreign-looking
most
the
yonder
sold
once
houses
to
here, the
live
opera
that
convents
are
and
bottled
be
might
thoroughfare
the
of
out
one
as
knows
the most
only place for Italian macaroni, the garden where
roses
the way
electric light shows
to
the opera,
The
the French
the
of
ed,
full-throat-
like
French
from
tion
sugges-
perfume
every
and
belle
organdies
old
subtle
a
the
one
the
a
odors, hearing
distance
a
of
be
carnival
its
on
at
girls ; the
after
Yet
working
of the
haunts
of
a
path betwecB
a
oranges,
laughing
may
pineapple
mosses
such
Faust
eyes
coming
pageants.
knows
who
may
black
suggest
To
shows
be
district
garden
the
in
rose
of
eyes.
that
coat
with
woman
tourist
just arrived
bear, panting, transported
threading
hue
Frenchman,
his
on
of Honor,
Legion
of the
of velvet
shaven
ilower
by the
conveyed
smile
swift
violets, the
one
polar
sniffiug the sugary
contains
Everything
lingo.
negro
easy,
this
bud
rose-
hand
wheezing
gans"how
orseeing and hearing it all
sealskin-coated
a
a
fat, Frenck
the
one
like
with
of
way
barrels,
sugar
southland,
a
tlie
breath"
the
I envy
stageplanks
in
impress
Penobscot,
and
bales
the
must
tropics; how
the
to
of
envy
or
yellow
adornments
scant
Howl
first time.
the
pralines and
mxiral
the
lagniappe,
for
roasted
of hot
of pink
dispensers
the
everlasting blare of
celebrations, the peddlers and
chestnuts, the amber-hucd,
tur-
women,
and
processions
constant
loafers, the
the
of
ket
mar-
car
bell
while
a.
irould-be
forgotten.
Up in
and
columns
and
Tine, all is sunshine
shade
"treets, the
in
Iry lane
that
impression
Toyal family,
And
this
of winter
desires
routs, who
"melette
that
soufHee,
gateways
One
wander
may
head
never
if
as
are,
jessamine
the quiet
down
the
king,
mansions
with
this
were
of the
weary
the
Orleans,
and
products
her
she
her
and
opera
co'un-
some
view
lose
nor
the
all the
and
queen,
and
fan
her
commerce,
and
theatres,
offer
shall
leaf
palm
a
southern
trellised
has
she
resorts.
all her
so, with
for something
big,
the
over
and
is New
Ane buildings,
her
and
arching
English shire,
an
where
and
flowers.
trees
lier house
into
district
Garden
the
tiieir verandahs
Dack
nxsnes
passenger
marts
and
balls
than
better
anything
you
busy
her
an
rose?
a
-^SOME OF OUR PECULIARITIES.^^'
The
visitor
"f it best
lie
from
seen
the
"all, every
from
floating down
remembc
must
of
"clang
have
he
portion
one
shoon,"
wooden
tliat there
another
cars,
windows
may
in
set
Canal
on
is
at
of
a
is
Orleans,
parrot
every
chanson
gay
tiled
queer
portion
only to
one
which
stop
note
every
get lost in Kew
cannot
starting point
Orleans
know
f :)ot, where
on
dormer
that
r
their
a
city should
street
by lazy loitering
seen
"ars
old
to this
roofs.
as
all
He
street
street.
street
into two
distinctly cut by Canal
phases of
modes
of
life, two epoclis of history, two styles of architecture, two
Canal
Below
the
faxous
of
thought.
street,
shopping thoroughfare
the city, the old world
the
architecture, the jalousicd verandahs,
which
in
and
olive
marble-flagged courts
stately palms
"unny,
grow
and
trees
of tongues,
the
huge magnolias, ti;e mosaic
odalisque
of
the women,
the
of convents,
concourse
l)eauty of many
chapels,
New
and
"emeteries
In the
UTOught
courtyards
and
stone
and
mullioned
that
houses
rose
arched
as
are
about
tourist
cool
with
roofs
upper
containing
wide,
"f-gold
below
beautiful
The
homes,
Orleans
iron
book
liere the
New
with
faith, appeal
th:
well
as
of
Canal
famous
section
will
the
in
known
hand-
street, the
Spanish-looking
tunnel
as
teristics.
charac-
charming
Canal
the
work,
has
to
entrances
kets,
mar-
houses
windows,
and
jalousies
if Baedecker"
had
printed
see
most
street
known
is the
as
charr.ctei
new
the
portion
Garden
istic and
of
the
city,
District, and
beautiful
southern
in tropic plants, and
lovely lawns, bowered
and
galleries draped with wisteria, yellow jessamine
vines.
a
m.
side
set
a
charm.
of delicate
peaked
^uide
Catholic
fine, old Spanish houses
enriched
are
the
balconies
the
and
of
of architecture
matter
The
all
churches,
continental
"trange,
fliat
is
with
cloth
6
Let
he
sees
follow
us
of
our
First
to be
and
milk
it
a
Spaniard
the
On
hand
she
holds
A
steadily
like
arranged
else in the
now
we
almost
enough,
French
side
are
matinees
it will be
than
idlers, gamblers,
of
thrown
in for
dressed
air.
She
with
sight
a
tables,
vege-
tells
along th"
not a word,
says
lottery
to be
you
lagniappe."
walks
filled
her
her head, in her
on
Canal
of
seen
ticket*
where
no
are
side
the north,
on
is
the
in any
women
and
peddlers
or
favorite
promenade.
lounging lookersbeautiful
other
women,
city in the world
who
strangers
Curiously
lower, and
street.
with
people, with
with
drawing-room,
a
see
you
shops
this
packed
it is somewhat
heart
the
fine retail
street, and
gaily dressed
with
in
up
all the
of the
to whom
more
Surely this is
fan.
paper
are
so
"
milk.
price she
in the
up
hands
a
higk
invariably
The
neatly
hands
air
by calling
goes
shallots
It is
country.
And
After
a
seem
j ast visible between
is poised
of radishes.
Her
the
hi)ld the
woman
some
in
up
driver, almost
and
big basket
woman
both
on.
The
market
a
on,
high
up
bunch
holding
street
marches
the
bunch,
a
wheels
to drive, his head
"
really
before?
seen
in front
a
with
its like
up
Her
scarlet
a
little further
crowded
but
by
near
that
sights
ever
fashion.
set
are
fine."
and
picayune
a
on,
street
wliat
see
soil.
two
stands
that
fresh
and
artist
an
odd
many
Was
hy.
mighty
a
Dago,
a
urns
the
"
is
or
tall,tin
are
above
set
in
to tower
seems
there
rattles
cart
lieels of
at the
to this southern
cart
box
tall,green
while
a
town.
foremost
indigenous
A
for
carnival
have
to
come
;
see
sights.
Here,
a
on
for the
and
Carnival
The
jeweler's shop.
in its window
sceptre, necklace
crown,
a
because
its window,
about
is
corner,
that
ornaments
and
Queen
crowd
is three
deep
displayed the jewels, the
are
will
be
have
been
made
by her
worn
pressly
ex-
Carnival
on
night.
rows
Along the curbing next
one-horse
of low, open,
that
common
In
red,
may
little cozy
a
sits
windows
a
and
green
her
upon
juice
fine.
She
buy
her
Her
other
made
or
but
will have
is too
is
name
and
in round
squares
for sale
balls
mighty
on
soaked
the
sweet
well
bred
the
are
They
are
angle
of
long-
up
cles
vehi-
public
like
those
and
or
ia
her
seems
woman,"
and
so
pecans,
chief
stock
of
or
quadrooa
a
been
course
sugar
in trade.
yellow sticks of molasses
cut
to
you
Let
Indian
baked
in a thin molasses
of pecans
candy
there
small
white
of
Also,
paper.
squares
in molasses,
soaked
clear
are
custom.
blue,
a
invite
gently
pretty oval
of her
her
had
features
to
shoir
with
only
as
if she
solicit your
to
sugar
are
as
fine
two
woman,
coifed
color
a
and
"Praline
sugar,
quadroon
turban
is
shallow
flat cakes,
the
by
old
of amber,
out
for sale in the
of cocoanut
petals, cut
cut
smiles
wares,
has
formed
corner
quaint,
yellow bandanna
She
shapely head.
and
she
drawn
are
These
Orleans.
New
amber-hued
in tobacce
what
ground
Paris.
in
use
neutral
barouches.
in
commonest
are
the
us
se*
basket.
pralines
and
ros"
she
Then
and
are
served
precorn
pop-
candy, and
at
the
times
to bi'uise
love
of paper,
of death,
the
designated
all
lampposts
to the
At
and
the
on
it is
it.
form
stools
beside
wares
and
around
elias lie
of sweet,
bristling in
do
women
pale
turn
A
streets.
Italian
and
waltz
song
Bp
Tinder
stand
and
find
remain
who,
with
They
sit
prim
low
on
of
marble-like
female
as
gle
sin-
a
floral nails
cam-
hard
quets
bou-
grenadiers,
The
petticoats.
that
their
in which
like
stiff,round,
paper
ment
mo-
flower
baskets
studded
the
open,
a
the
and
ourselves
for their
in the
quadroon
down
flower
and
roses
olets
vi-
the
cobbles
skirt, the
flowing
the
and
French
is being
ter
quar-
from
ground
by
It is the
peasant.
a
the
corset, chenille
green
Venetian
sails down
coin
famous
step briskly along
women
on
head-piece
piano plays,
silver
a
will
little boutonnieres
leave
of
the
as
be
The
up
they
the
wears
linen
eaves
and
do.
piano
in Faust
at a
card
handle.
white
wares,
to
mechanical
the
an
fastened,
is
ladies
are
the
cotton,
Turbanned,
white
and
just for
enter
street
Dainty
olive
over
violets
cornei
girl,who
shawl
It
double
a
one,
will
buildings.
and
big
bowls
wicker
embroidered
town.
artist
ment
announce-
funeral
to
French
the
of
of white
daffodils
a
dead
door
Canal
elderly
and
call their
We
be
will be
the
of
copy
of
of sweet
rim
purple
not
of the
an
a
their
and
are
adornment
soft beds
on
the
of
row
bit
basket's
the
on
tarletau
city the
passer-by
lying.
prettily crowded.
are
rosebud
for
shallow
th jir
a
feature
chief
the
wares,
will
it the
of the
of the
dead
the
fat, silent,
a
and
parts
interesting
women,
printed
or
crape
gate,
some
where
There
residence
the
of its kind.
one
common
and
and
pole
the
funeral
acquaintances to attend
telegraph poles
are
posted on
custom
city, and it is a quaint, native
common
of the carnival
city.
of respect
room
An
epicures
notices
or
In
a
notices.
black,
and
of mourning
door
mark
a
the
their
house
above
pinned
folk
kindly
the
token,
the
over
which
and
These
hour.
telegraph
a
not
were
funeral
age
name,
is
street
with
chili," and
"
p^.ates.
if it
as
all friends
to
dinner
with
bordered
invitation
a
ated
deco;
called
pepper
the
eagerly,
it
curiously
only
of
corner
stops to eye
sheet
their
upon
the
Ou
is
little rod
famous
high balcony
straight to the
away
music
dler's
ped-
pretty brown
Let
the
us
go
wide,
glass, and
arched
How
the
cool
eoliimns
palm.
through the
doorway,
for
pause
beside
red
a
thus
"
au
the
the
shore
and
in the
"
hand
the
music
that
coaxed
the
;
how
the
where
patched
with
of
Maggiore
blue
shadowy
blow
roses
down
it from
in
rails of
into
her?
the
like
!
house
under
of
colored
would
huge
a
old
up,
not
jars and
iron, and
after
old
some
There
of the
stair leads
street
But
old
panes
color
comer
Who
eaves.
spidery
of the
small
pink-plastered court.
sunny,
Spanish-looking are the tall
jar. A wide, winding
wrought,
leans wistfully looking
over
in
floor looks
under
rooms
troisieme
with
corridor, all
on
garden wall
gallery everywhere,
a huge, stone, water
balconied
entrance
moment
brick
the
tunneled
mullioned
where
her
blacksmith's
bits of
are
stands
court
up,
up
delight
vines
a
ian
Ital-
to the
to live
clamber
little child
silver
coin
sign
and
hangs
10
the
At
Checkers
nearly
house,
cue
and
largest
Ohess
in the
finest
and
city,having
members.
thousand
one
of the
is tlie Whist,
Canal
and
of Baronne
corner
club
designed by a
Canal, was
Baronne, near
interior of
The
architecture.
of
style
moresque
The
altar cost
beautiful.
it,in a
the church
is most
$14,000; over
of the Virgin Maiy,
marble
statue
a
niche under
the dome,
s' ands
intended
of France, ond
!Marie
of Queen
Amelie,
made
at the order
The
Jesuit
church,
Jesuits'
x)riest. It is
Orleans
New
Tuilleries.
in the
royal chapel
for the
on
a
ladies
it
bought
for this church.
streets
to
from
back
vicinity, running
Dryades, is the gi-eat
tills
In
red
Baronne,
where
they
Rev.
churches
and
The
street, follow
A
at Carrollton.
above
residents
whole
Two
into
Circle
St. Charles
and
noblest
the
and
Sixth
At
Hospital,
open
on
for the
route
is
Charles
of
Calliope
and
of
corner
church.
Lutheran
of the
Lee
is the
This
the
At
German
the
Catliedral
is Christ
it passes
corner
churcli.
Methodist
tlie finest
R. E. Lee.
the
At
of
one
Avenue,
great General
South.
and
University,
city
point
No. 237, St. Joseph street, is
the
to the public. As
car
Howard
via
to the
St. Charles
church
is
at
the
St.
foot of Baronne
at the
rose-lined
a
Jesuit
up,
Northern
and
Andrew
St.
homes.
to Carrollton.
Avenue,
in
is the
St. Charles
It is
avenue.
b'.ocks
monument
monument
church,
Catholic
straight to the river embankment
al
charged on this route, except to actu-
street, at which
three
avenue
Eoman
two
starting also
leaving the
Children's
and
the Women
turns
or
is
way
after
Poydras
crosses
car
markets.
Jackson
avenue
Napoleon
this route,
streets, traverse
to
or
one
orphan
cars,
fare
miles, all the
seven
Via
the
double
public library.
Canal
avenue
rector;
Jewish
and
St. Charles
up
is
Carrollton
or
green
St. Charles
Snively
Protestant
and
Its chief
river, passing Trinity (Episcopal)
to the
out
Wm.
given by the late
gallery and
art
Common
Johnston.
Preston
Baronne
on
and
avenue
turn
of which
starting
cars,
Howard
and
University,
Tulane
is William
Its pi esident
Tulane.
Paul
of interest are a free museum,
features
The
Baronne
Episcopal
church.
The
is the rector.
Ewing
Bishop Sessums
joining
of the
cliurch, and also the adcopy
Sunday School chapel, a mimic
memorial
of
the
a
recent
residence
gift
womaa
were
episcopal
music
here, as at the Jesuits', is very fine
of the parish. The
member
lives
and
is
a
the
Methodist
station,"
one
Above
church.
soon
for
in the
comes
colored
University"
Shakespeare Almshouse,
(colored ) University and
On
are
In
Mr.
Rev.
and
well
this
about
worth
Carrollton
Taylor street and
Napoleon avenue,
of General
corner
Heart, the Asylum
Sacred
door.
going to hear.
worth
At
next
a
"
named
order
the
pupils;
half
the
avenue
a
block
are
off
or
"
the
of
Home,
the
avenue"
fare
the
Orleans
"New
Orphans'
avenue
second
Academy
Boys,
Jewish
Dominican
the
the
to
Orphan
for destitute
St. Charles
the
Leland
Convent.
several
famous
florists whose
dens
gar-
visit.
the
end
of the
route"
are
one
or
two
restaurant*
11
"where
had
aud
bread
rye
Canal
street
of
is here, aud
of
most
at the
House
end
the
At
of
Canal
of
street
may
houses
and
Fort
cars
over
finest
in
Spanish
at the
tomb
here.
St. Louis
The
cemeteries.
end
of the
Richard
different
No.
Gravier
cars,
riding
half
block
its
reached
crowded
marbles
oldest
St,
reared
Mrs.
gi'aveyard
street
visitor
Italian
by
or
the
this
Men's
at Con-
car
will
to this
come
Society has
Myra Clark
850,000
a
Gaines
Club
French
a."
des
one
be
may
fitted up
garden
zoological garden
Jardin
route
Gymnastic
into the
one
of admission
trict,
dis-
of Amsterdam
Plautes
of Paris
reaches
the
is to the
Jockey Club
procured by apijlying at
Many
to the
end
Tell
a
United
Dauphine
street
situation
graveyard,
chapel of St.
Gothic
and
santo
street
the
to
driver
for three
States
cars.
of this home,
old
sunny
carapo
seventy-five hospitals, infirmaries,
sk'e worth
visiting, notably the
John, reached
by the Esplanade street
line and
then walking down
the bayou
of these
Claiborne
woods
The
of the
The
so.
quaint
by the
St.
Bayou
on
or
the
Orleans
convents.
beautiful
towards
of
the
by
town
visit the
1 is the
the
is the
as
Via
cards
off into
avenues.
Zoo,"
in New
are
Soldiers' Home
The
into
street.
asylums and
with
"
gardens.
There
dropping
From
of tlie lake.
Dauphine
The
claimed
in appearance
to which
grounds,
End
here.
tomb
a
London
Kew
English
walk
first block.
Clark,
Rampart is the Young
oriental
splendor.
The
Esplanade street cars take
to the
containing
ies,
principal cemeter-
Fort, aud
and
53 N.
as
and
dead.
tlie oldest.
burying grounds are
They are all
The
well
worth
oldest,
ground.
a visit,are
father, lies in
At
of graveyards,
South
to the
West
city. By leaving
Rampart
woods
the
street and walking towards
place
the
visitor
to the
to
over
cluster
Confederate
the
a
noticeably
a
distinguished dead.
in the
193
Pickwick
above
tombs
St. Louis
wonderful
a
the
and
many
Catholic
with
with
is
and
House
Opera
The
at
at tlie
best
of the
Canal
place
to
Clay
Grand
here
are
along-
street
Henry
Many
The
is time to
; getting off,there
which
lie in clustered
groups
cemeteries,
The
her
of
streets.
street.
to the
will take
cars
go
is
of the
one
byboat
in monuments
ti
be
to
are
intention
original
like that
Caroudelet
monuments
cemetery
Spanish
the
club
street
Metairie
one
built
was
Canal
out
run
cars,
the
in Canal
are
corner
magnificent
Canal
to
It
tlie swell
including the Metairie,
Louis
cheese
creaiii
building.
bandsome
there
also steam
ground.
retail shops
famous
many
Oi^eaiis
of every
street
statues
Canal
and St. Charles
the intersection
intersection
and
cars,
neutral
the faiuoxis
Club
New
perfection.
in
most
fajuous
the
stop
past plantations down
its sweet
lovely.
is
a
stations
traverse
Washington
garden
show
of
several
street
place, and
the
;
cross,
is
tree-lined
then
walk
blocks.
Barracks
From
that
at
Roche
air
open
cars
with
is most
reached
by the Rampart and
there, in good weather, it is a lovely
to Chalmette, the National
cemetery, and
are
14
^Mch
Cable
Back
half
or
the
story in the
Century
Magazine.
street, via rueEoyal, notice the queer
sols
entre-
recently
toward
wrote
Canal
stories
in
of
some
the
tallest
Spanish-looking jalousies painted
water
jars in the
street
is reached,
picturesque
turn
to
out
houses,
the
green,
big
and
courtyards,
Congo square.
in
was
Congo
that
square
the last act
people finished
of the
along Eampait
Following
right the Italian
churchj
the
Mafia
"
Orleans
old
worth
but
Place
"
visit.
a
just uprising of the
tragedy.
towards
street
the
once
terrible
when
the
or
with
Thieves
Forty
then,
off North
Congo square,
Eampart
street,
it are
-d'Armes," and the parish prison right behind
It
houses
the
"
Canal,
city's mortuary
one
tk"
to
sees
chapel.
Ghalmette,
Chalmette
is
of the union
The
of
minds
the
cemetery
public.
It is laid out
Nearly
of
world
All
Garden
the
On
the
Imijosiug
Eloquent
A
enthusiasm.
Of
vision
the
all unsullied.
ruin
of
is the
the
January,
of the
Charles
of the
across
Some
1815.
is
almost
were
army
popular
structure
was
which
soldier
told
acres
by
of
spread.
whole
its
the
landscape may
garden, with a sandy road leading to
keeping back the attacking
ramparts
Many
shaft
whose
the
homes
are
here
made
seen.
its
waters
visit. Chalmette
of the
once
8th
canal,
a
the
narrowed
the
tents
of
is
a
entrances,
many
the
the
on
it
is
up
and
the
Now
of
"
summit
uneven
be
dim-v.^
radiance
plantation, where
Corinne
From
His
stepped,
Beyond
name.
t^
in
residence
/
and/'
dark
Pakenham
is the
below
half
to
busy
a
assisted
in that
the
British
no
Then
survivor.
scarce
of
There
stirred
was
column,
who
alongside
distance
U
the
present.
begun.
the
monument
almost
but
headquarters.
heart
sons
"
I'
won-
Bonzauo.
were
broken
a
Dr.
erection.
men
only
glories of the past, and
the
marble
its
began
stands
prise.
enter-
that
monument.
The
is
his
Jackson
illustrious
Gayarre
stretch the broad
unfinished
levee
upon
trench
English
stately
of
of
made
people
nations
modernized,
Distinguished
monument
Kuuniug
story of which
stream
and
all Louisiana's
rests
recollection
forsaken
the
hopeless
a
estate
Jackson
checked
valor
marks
and
in the
use
long before
taught
was
beautiful
changed
and
simple but
dedication. Judge
ming
memorial
declaimed.
were
people forgot, and
ivy-grown.
republic
are
ceremonies.
speeches
field, and
new
is the
grateful government
A
were
American
ago
very
its
historic
ground
plot
General
neglected
the
the
been
where
is the
rear
side
have
is still shown
Toom
burial
one
mansion
and
of
beyond
interest
an
on
years
that
on
invasion
around
battle.
derful
In
that
eighty
dash
Britisli discipline and
the
has
national
strife.
civil
the
of the plantation where
the soldiers
properly the name
placed to rest, awaiting the reveille of the resurrection.
are
mighty
year.
the
rious
luxu-
aud
sissippi.
Mis-
Some
16
the
tween
150
connecting
old, and show
Wood
rooms.
and
little sign of
work
iron
known
are
In
decay.
to
b"
those
daya
far away
city was
So tlie sons
and not easy
of reach.
of the plantation emx)loyers and
soon
employes were
taught carpentry and iron working
as
as
tliey
wield
the
to
tools.
of these
were
strong enough
Many
plantation
workmen
became
fanciful
especially skilled, wrought
designs, and
made
tlie guns
of the
they shot with, some
doing deadly
weapons
work
against the red coated invaders.
years
factories
and
shops
In the
Both
son.
the
of the
Orleans
under
the
called
now
city from
the
passage
is
Bieuvenu.
bayou
camei:it3
Villere
by his
building when
in the
were
with
in New
Governor
It
and
place
son,
ani
the
The
unaware
skilled
The
bayou
canal
section
of
the
another
broke
coat
canal.
the
Conseil
as
Gabriel, and
first red
along
was
known
was
through
latter
that
the
cut
wa?
enemy's
admit
to
of the amiy
nects
con-
English
stationed
and
presence,
engineers the ditch was
with the work.
completed in a single night, the troops moving forward
There
the
in
little
but
are
no
rear
mansion,
rooms
on
virtually
cozy
the side facing the woods
is the long
connects
dining-room, which
with
the
parlor fronting
One
his back
story
to the
the
saw
of
the
the
Pakenham
stores.
totally
was
direction
the
the
lalio Borgne,
boats
or
and
eldest
managed
was
along what
reeds
the
of
time
plantation, and
wear
convenient,
not
were
red
that
goes
fields.
the
river.
Gabriel
While
Villere
he
at the
coats
English
appear
The
soldiers
Flight
entered
kept on shaving.
He
that
it
gallantly replied
prisoner.
would
them
after he
accompany
The
olficer in charge
the
granted
the
to
batture
to the
go
formation
2G00
feet from
and
there
the
the
is
and
he
with
their
detachment
their
was
of
he
and
war
kind
mission.
per-
courteously
as
city,and
his horse
view
of trees
grove
in
by only
one
of
has
from
removed
the
to the
drive
been
the
Now
house
is unobstructed,
roadway
hundred
had
outside.
saddled
was
the
He
instant.
an
river
generous
the
water,
thick
a
formed
feet from
levee.
the
Then
mansion,
the
lined the
dense
canebrake
edge, and
a
the
the
Villere
door,
through
parlor, quickly opened
and
the
saddle
with
into
two
the
bounds,
jumped
gallery
animal
and
abandoned
the
There
he
into the cane.
crept
cleared
dashed
to the
ran
along to a point
pointer, faithful
dog refused
water's
defense
British.
measures
find
would
f voUowed
and
a
found
boat.
the
favorite
A
fugitive.
The
Villere, fearing that the canine's bark
his knife
and cut
drew
his ^hereabouts,
reveal
knew
how
to
hunter,
Villere, as an experienced
noise, found
right bank, recrossed
of the
he
knew
back, and
throat
without
he
to his master,
might
movements
proceed
where
to turn
his favorite's
cient
him
fortune
his coat
of the
glass ho
walked
bank.
arrival
told
the
was
obtained
was
by the
Mississippi rolled
plantation
or
and
in the
useless
was
with
request.
Villere's plan of escape
preparing
himself
viewing
was
window.
himself
shaving
was
to the
His
a
boat, crossed
city
and
prompt
organized by
the
notified
action
the
led
local
river, rode
the
to the
and
down
rapid
the
of the
authorities
and
efii-
military ofticials^^
17
the
of
He
window.
family
before
country
the
with
the
The
hand.
owner's
made
and
British
aware
he
installed
command
has
It is
occupied.
small
a
of the
account
It is
room,
posts, high,
mahogany, with immense
the bed only a few inches
takes
remaining
the
up
from
the
to
space
square
In the
bccui)ies half
the
and
and
doorway,
ment.
apartof solid
sleep, carved
of
body
the
of mahogany
dressing-case
A
general
really is
the
it
canopy,
floor.
the
bedroom
of
castles
ante-bellum
eral
Genhouse.
less size than
of
which
bedstead
immense
of the
Oxie
river,
appearing
senger,
mes-
When
in the
little disturbed.
is the
his
by
of the
escape
himself
been
his
made
killed
was
household.
of the
rooms
arrangement
towards
the city, facing the
corner
and
of the
rest
of the
The
on
of the
prisoners
assumed
Pakenham
not
were
abruptly, rushed
gallery and
the
through the parlor bareheaded, jumped over
His
pointer followed
through the cane.
way
thought
He
glance.
table
the
self, left
or
the
was
dinner
situation
the
comprehended
and
brother
who
younger
Villere
sat
and
young
break
first red-coat
through the
It
at
were
saw
of
boy defenders
obtained
and
differently
of the
oue
somewhat
Villeres.
family
The
alarm.
also
was
story
the
from
direct
facing the
hedge,
tells the
homes,
Louisiana
his version
gave
father
Fleitas, whose
Mr.
is also
itely
exquis-
carved.
From
Tlu-ougli doors
dark
seen
In
and
and
vases
It must
of the
have
main
charms
open-hearted
old
summer
curl
and
shadows,
for
of the
room,
it in winter
crackled
and
sputtered
well
in the
as
the
large, open
snug
closer
up
it from
near
come
received
as
to
hearth, stretching its
open
of arms,
during
his officers and
usurpers,
heirlooms
was
room
the
into
and
his
held
flame
for
Fleitas
black
and
round.
as
occupants
welcome.
Pakenham
before
of
it, and
winter,
warmth
logs
for the
andirons,
to the
added
cats
host,
the
brass
The
been
"
Even
the
was
weeks
genial
the
one
now,
of habit, and
stormy
rightful owners.
since
family, have
ting
chairs, invi-
ing
fireplace,extend-
councils
gave
pictures,
always bright.
old paintare
ings,
to the
and
forth
a
the
then,
in
arms
force
General
summer.
several
year
And
then.
same
there
the
spreading perfume
the
even
are
parlor.
tliere is not
comfortable
art, dainty,
much
friends
before
up
force
flowers
been
distance
some
by
place
no
objec+s of
siestas, and
to
an
It is
cheerful
sunshine, and
the
streams
to the
step
a
changing with the season,
through the panes,
the well ordered
home
of the present occupant
rare
in
windows
in it.
corner
it is but
bed-chamber
the
throne
of cheer.
The
Corinne
typical and
his
than
and
the
There
is
Louisiana
in
open-handed
During that time
attention.
the
now
better
no
sugar
general
practical chemistry, is
as
is
estate
liver, no
planter. He
selecting his staff,knows
as
Before
a
weather
and
does
after
Mr.
he
more
possesses
considerable
F. P. Fleitas,
is
the
period
not
of
deter
grinding
labor
him
he
nor
has
a
king
a
upon
tainer
hospitable enterthe quality of a
of engineering
keen, if confiding, business
His
nature.
of
In winter
Louisianian.
representative
domain.
own
good
plantation
is brief
man,
but
sleep receive
considerable
and
is
trying.
much
leisure
18
for enjoyment
Carnival,
and
culture, is
New
to
comes
the
of
part
a
Orleans
often
as
city tlirong during
gay
there
as
is any
spend occasional
evenings at the club, keeps
society, takes a large interest in civic afiairs,and
with
In the
man.
his own,
the
pastime
a
class, not
when
has
of
excellent
of
studying
the
summer
that
period Gruy de Maupassant
and
tell where
he
He
to act
in ecstacy.
lavish
in the
hand.
and
to be
color,
of
grouping
are
no
There
rush
At
The
into
fairly runs
to
to the
of
class.
and
of doors
step out
and
too,
bright wits
called, and
interest
afoot, and before
sky overhead.
bloom,
the party
seems
and
but
and
sketch
a
companion,
great
a
wanderers,
points of historic
went
Nature
of form
Beauty
when
to the
tourists
is
of gay
a
of
change
seeks
This
he belongs
is
other
residence
and
during
Paris
can
found.
at home
guide
The
with
is to be
was
as
of
one
and
but
is altogether
summer
abroad.
he has
nature.
is
and
Corinne,"
library, which
books
a
wing
"
read
He
the
on
at home
resorts
master
an
he wearies
throng
merry
famed
of the
Fleitas
altliouglipossessing
season,
he joins the
at
Mr.
warm
traction,
special atgood terms
on
the
at her
stretches
and
of
place.
far they wer(?i^"
gone
best in these
Louisiana
perspective
dotted
estates.
dealt
are
with
blendin'^
where
growth
swamp
out
sometimes
tints, except
are
grass
of luxuriant
arms
the
they had
pale, delicate
assented
courteously
on
ture
na-
riot.
this time
of the
the
year
tawny
wears
queen
thick
a
veil of
each different tree
into the general
texture
weaving a distinct
fabric, shielding from the weather
and
wondrous
effects of
producing
Nor was
all the picture purely landscape.
light and shadow.
On one
moss,
side, through
as
of
low, spreading group
if locking arms
and bending
their
the
a
cows
home.
came
canal, half hidden
shrinking
and
a
the
a trio of negro
was
lying flat
were
other
fantastically dressed, with
the
rainbow
house
a
tied turban-like
giant
in
tin bucket
the
one
his
arm
hand
as
issued
brilliant
ranks, and
Each
a
to the
chickens
from
same
their
the
was
the
on
A
few
monument
stripped
den,
bur-
common
Pakenham
the
climbing
the
from
up
stood,
one
less,
motion-
all three
ground,
half the colors
combining
yards from
in itself.
It
of its branches,
heads.
As
of
the
in the
spoon
other.
He
ized
util-
with the spoon,
striking the bucket
varying
angle at each stroke and never
The
bell for the poultry.
the dinner
Guinea
marched
peacocks
hens
distinct
edge of the
their
houses,
and there was
no
commissary,
distributed, although several
spoils
the
immense
an
gong,
It
remained
company
a
fisliing. One
women
on
bandanas
about
and
in time.
movement
for
party left the
field.
He stepped slowly and
came
through the
neither
to the right nor
the left ; carried
a
large
implements
elevating
the
negro
looked
pompously,
shoulders
growth,
es,
branch-
interwoven
little ridge alongside
by the tangled, wild
stream,
crouched
On
with
trees
as
roosters
the
came
over
they
formed
confusion
when
fought
up
fence
and
even
in
body.
a
line behind
in
the
in
was
corn
pitched
the
skillfully
battles
for the
camp.
the
house
was
once
only
a
few
the
a
visitors
fruitful
blasted
found
pecan
and
a
tree
tree.
battered
which
Now
limbs
is
a
it is
pio-
19
trade, and
long gash, wliich
a
trunk, explains the
reason.
this
into
deep
tlie
gnarled
Pakenhani's
tree
entrails
buried.
TTore
After
the
British
the
retreated
from
before
the
murderous
rifles of
with them.
Pakenham
they carried tlieir wounded
his mourning
laid him
the field,and
escort
from
Americans
first taken
under
of the
shade
the
honor
with
him
the
base
of the
to the
colored
young
place,
into
tree
day to
only died
the
have
been
""x"'f
the
will be
five
which
officer
Dale, the
to
propose
like Dale
and
who,
by
rades
com-
decent
Willijimson, wlio liad been
bodies
were
of the
event
the
He
of the
officers.
Tlie tree
allowed
to stand.
of
drowned.
into
Some
dust
as
to sliow
feet
in
outside
of
would
They
ago.
however,
interest
liamson
Wil-
incidents
Uie
tlie spot all his life,
near
giant, twelve
a
is
at the
grave
related
five years
remained,
is still
It
and
found
lowered.
reverently
crumbled
only they
belts
broad
a
accidentally
uneartlied
were
dug
lived
being
ago,
England,
Portions
and
service
generations.
years
to
sent
touched.
into
tlie memory
of tlie bodies
bones
another
named
man,
several
of the
rear.
pressed
was
treasured
and
asleep. Colonel
Highlanders, who
was
to rest
else betide.
whatever
A
fell
of his men,
also picked up
were
determined
It was
to give them
head
at the
carried
and
burial
he
and
monument,
a
died
Pakenham,
Avhere
p(?can
of tlie Ninety-third
intrepid commander
on
tJie liglitning cut
Bcmeath
soon
the
as
rank
diameter,
and
its moituary
of
significance.
Governor
known
was
as
he
morning
Villere, tlie second
of
one
would
and
fire at the
never
missed.
trunk
which
nature
Around
the
The
of the
There
and
trees,
beds
constant
a
convenient
end
wounded.
of
remains
swords
were
the
sides
now
which
the
fringe the
tlu^
"tand
the
the
and
sheltered
year
of the
where
of
Once
A
bridge
garden
Every
in
spot and
same
gaping
a
memories
wound
the
in the
peach
begin
the
neatly
spot
bodies
have
the
a
syirinklers. It
where
in the
more
to
flowing
water.
and
rude
was
on
cross,
canal
other
laid
formed
brought
they expired.
digging. Belts
relics are
being
from
the
grave.
dust,
are
shaken
the
upon
designed
out
a
plot runs
was
only
and
trees
pose.
pur-
and
British
turned
stream,
is buiit, stands
by
the
back
came
the
cabbage
The
purposes.
which
to
sword
by
the
and
same
and
overshadowed
was
orchard
to the
pecan
of
centre
watering
it
the
was
is still devoted
orchard
a
ago
excavation
sides of
section.
the
at
made
]Many dieu there and \yere buried
the departed were
disturbed
brought up by the spades, and
found.
around
aimed
persimmon,
Through
years.
and
of many
The
space
and
orange
ditch dug for drainage
the
of Louisiana,
gallery, duelling pistol
rear
always
practice
tree
pecan
the
at
the
State
healed.
never
plantation.
are
of late
lie
in
marksmen
from
tree.
of vegetables.
made
finest
step down
hand,
garden
the
of the
governor
their
The
and
stantly
con-
lets,
Bulfrom
Elderberry bushes
of
crest
the
for
arms
the
bank,
of whicli
utility, but
the
30
pious imagination
hope of heaven of
The
easily transform
can
the
soldiers
it into
witness
mute
a
of
the-
slain.
turned
back, recrossed
the
rustic bridge of sighs,
passed through the house-yard and the gate leading to the fields,and
stood
tourists
the
upon
Nearing
and
where
has
river
the
down
of British
canal
canal.
has
filled
to
considerable
a
the tents
iiag floated over
cabins.
Perhaps the daily passage
the banks
and
destroyed the traces
negro
trodden
Pakenham
the
English
the
once
stand
now
of the
banks
That
engineering.
can
be
clad
and
extent,
of the
of
soldiery
the
laborers
of the
triumph
forgiven the black folks for the
sake of their ancestors.
Two
regiments of Jamaica
charged
negroes
with the British, supporting
the riglit wing
of the column
of attack.
In the very
heart of Jackson's
line, in the thickest of the fight, stood
their
gallantly by
D'Aquiu and
the
the
that
who
the
Hunters
boats
out
The
upon
occurred
at
be
the
English
The
contrast
way
the
and
ens.
broad-
the draining
and
bayou
same
to
in battle.
use
deepens
to
the
which
from
Bienveuue.
traversed
course
of the
in
the
convinced
was
tlie wide
at
was
afterwards
was
of the
act
talking
troops
embarkation
who
of this section
were
the
were
gate
small
boats
built
at the
of its value
as
a
invaders.
battle
while
The
families
could
upon
their
the
fought
the
artist
sketched
not
defense.
discipline, but when
with
the
bullet.
shoot
to raise
fowls.
'
fire 'was
could
They
Their
Mr.
of
were
It
accuracy.
was
daily.
meat
daily food
pended
de-
notliing of
given,
it almost
bravest
the
said
hunters
fresh
knew
They
firearms.
What
with
delivered
command
The
of Kentucky.
wagons
all afford
skill
every
could
No
Jackson,"
with
effective
an
boys
by necessity.
for
who
make
equals of the marksmen
Even
shots.
in them
man
of the
fitted to
bred
a
it
open
along
road.
Jackson,
by
were
men
Louisiana
of little
canal.
"
all dead
canal
guides
The
Fleitas,
the
of color, under
marked
a
to be
as
their
paddle
Battery Bienvenue,
bit of the
"
into
freemen
boats.
defended
The
or
often
of General
suggestion
place to
cold
easily make
can
landing point
opening
troop
course
fed
formed
of negresses
were
fishing,just before
there is a clear space
of running
water
andfisheraneu
by the British
a
knot
well
from
so
its
runs
is reached,
point
latter
suffered
canal
Where
wheel
The
Savary.
Jamaicans,
As
well
guns
drill
meant
for
hope
army
"
against such shooting?
the question.
History answers
A
good
behind
was
of the
British
grinding
around
packed
these, rolled
of the
on
had
them
crop.
depended
bales.
the
forward
The
upon
is only
8th
of
January
yield
respected
earth
of the
English
artillery and
the
ton
cot-
character
peculiar. The
plantations
more
was
and
like heavy
mother
The
trenched
en-
The
partially true.
fight in December.
the sugar
The
in hogsheads.
Americans
being
Americans
the
about
This
just closed
away
"
said
first defensive
works
season
was
yield and
cotton
in the
used
been
has
deal
troops
made
value
for shelter.
levied
their
of
The
on
works
breast-
the
ditch
sugar
they
31
dug
below
Dr.
visible.
The
is just
still
are
ditch,
which
the
lino
iu
the
It
during
batteries
the
Mississippi
side.
The
position
if the
have
that
the
sward
low
Bonzano's
and
climb
but
it.
tottering,
but
way
luive
been
The
down
upon
which
thiit
in
that
checked
porous
that
the
city
Jackson
drew
could
not
into
the
filled
coats
with
the
mold,
into
blood
to
bricks
the
Tliey
stretches
the
that
a
upon
Claiborne
Villere,
a
foe
tip
Pakenham
a
the
to
brick
but
many
entrance,
is
broken
the
and
summit,
of
many
sunset
different
and
famed
of
as
The
from
of
den
gar-
wrecked
the
grims
pil-
letters.
jagged
just
top
looked
of
in
the
foothold,
light
into
lovely
a
rear
iron
names
fol
plantation
uninviting
of
The
old
sentinel.
the
the
see
the
the
staircase
crest.
the
off
through
green
transformed
added,
in
a
somehow
The
grim
a
fighting
down
advance
and
as
spread
been
But
stands
ambitious
Jackson,
now
out
way
that
buildings
new
erased.
war
uneven
city.
the
has
rusting
reached
tourists
ic is
could
Red
front,
carnage.
of
The
the
cut
its
his
and
hunters
valor
willows,
of
sweeps
in.
wrinkled
stains
still
wind
to
this
Morgan's
dead
crimson
headquarters,
w^ith
visitors,
their
meant.
darker
weeping
mansion,
damp
chill
venture
many
make
A
and
trace
monument
become
enemy
the
the
beautiful
deserted
has
out
avenue,
all
the
British
boldness
across
on
carried
The
found
turned
coats
Jackson's
and
and
aim,
death
absorbed
was
different.
river
fire
when
already
plan
the
established
sounded
been
of
daring.
gory
have
which
planted,
base
of
been
gallant
The
smoothed
the
death,
liouse,
Dr.
has
over
their
the
price
Peace
from
certain
and
pit
the
was
have
fire
original
bank,
and
was
English
trench
crossed
was
over,
Pakenham
The
flanking
a
ceptions
ex-
chose
enfilading
have
attack
getting
whole
the
ditch.
the
despite
slippery
in
river.
the
the
Pakeuham's
in
of
Jackson
the
right
poured
the
side
without
to
to
the
excavation
upper
cross
had
on
the
rifles.
against
was
that
would
turned
crossed
trench
Had
result
been
time
Thornton
by
lake
and
delayed
back.
guns
from
corps
works
line
same
to
valuable
of
the
and
guard
large
the
were
taken
was
have
not
the
troops
doubtful
A
Jackson's
at
beaten
army
the
night,
opposite
route
proved
carried
off
difficult
to
have
miglit
Hues
the
up
shot
fashion
successful.
been
the
and
water
shortest
angular
an
piled
was
American
the
was
enemy.
scheme
of
the
by
w^hich
cut
was
mud
full
was
taken
and
place
Bonzano's
others
be
wing
deepened
creeping
was
New
Orleans
gathered
resistless.
almost
and
to
from
an
The
the
dyed
pros-
very
in
army
line
blood.
A Word
representing
Witkout
Orleans
and
with
many
It is
in
once
churches
many
witli
The
first church
founded,
of
nondescript
a
ancient
front
Canal
from
shape,
the
soul
are
times
this
the
of
to
by
a
the
on
fine
edral.
cath-
The
it
that
iu
and
steejjles
be
can
Chartres
river
thedral
ca-
ing
build-
frequently
sees
needle
rue
phine
seen
even
smoke-gray
a
flows
by beyond
survivor
picturesque
St.
Charles
The
church
lighted
church
bell
city had
this
their
be
the
faith.
a^
was
be,
should
church,
removed
church
the
It
city proper,
Christ
was
that
Episcojialian.
an
the
afterwards
at
in
Protestants
minister
outside
first
there
grown,
the
of
new
it
so
and
should
sanctuary
Christ
with
church
all the
congregation
are
florid, and
all
in the
crimson
It
is famous
music.
and
is
a
model
comforts.
however,
electricity, which,
the
its beautiful
he
) and
of
melancholy
church
the
streets,
stucco
And
is the
at
and
elegant
Sixth
the
Dau-
to
of
corner
( ia
street
avenue.
provided
interior.
a
erected
was
posterity
or
present
by
little
have
of
repose
Almonaster.
population,
voted
was
Canal
and
stone
its
to
church
and
Canal.
the
the
for
don.
of the
memory
of
it
established
and
Don
soft-voiced,
1805
year
cathedral
the
denomination
majority
the
The
the
in
determined
what
iu
rich, Spanish
were
Protestant
Bourbon
said
tolls
of the
of
of
corner
and
fogs
when
and
large
to
respect
the
of the
the
tiny wooden
a
friars.
aud
street,
ia
nity,
commu-
present
one
aud
that
course,
quaint, irregular
a
as
towers
into
the
Capuchin
such
the
out
the
Protestants
vote
a
The
a
fat
into
are
belfry
time
meeting
a
masses
week
every
number
and
out
of its founder,
By
and
day
cathedral
high,
put
Its
of
Of
Catholic
Orleans,
site of
realize
to
church.
ia 1794, is
but
to
square.
To
held
work
fact, built
out
the
on
the
was
putting
if resolved
Jackson
in New
It stood
bulge
to
street,
as
built
was
France.
seem
faith.
beauty^
them.
to-day
exclusively
an
of that
architecture,
in
towns
broad
possessed
in
and,
of
New
in
are
architectiu'al
estahlished
an
were
altar.
cheap
a
legends
there
attached
youngsters
was
first cliurch
real
for
and
the
there
churches
the
17^1
for
Orleans
all the
In
affair
dif"cult
New
days
and
distinguished
Orleans
New
its early
wealth,
enormous
any
histories
pretty
hit
a
Churches,
about
dark.
yellow
for
its
The
of
It is the
sometimes
elegance.
only
one
in
goes
out
and
decorations
in fres"?o
fine
modern
of
Christ
and
wood
work
organist,
Mr.
Florian
It is
the
city
leaves
church
embellish
Shaffter,
24
church
Sinai
is
handsome
a
brick
pink
and
St. Stephen's
stone
grey
avenue.
of Delord
corner
Saturday
Napoleon
in
Temple
tlie
near
is the
in the transeept,
Tvindows
Carondelet
in
synagogue
street.
It is famous
street,
for its fine music
at the
services.
SOUVEMRS"AHD BOOKSTORES.
There
book
excellent
are
shops
bookstores
in Poydras
Roylal, and
street,
one
particularlyinviting, reminding
the
bookstores
of
along
possessions,
fringing the sidewalks
ceilings "with precious volumes.
the
Spanish volumes
and
in
be
the
with
It
found
and
nature
Seine
at these
value
New
are
of their
These
to
are
crammed
rooms
that
hand
second-
Alley
in Paris.
dingy
is said
the
Exchange
more
rare
Orleans
to
French
stalls than
city in the country.
other
any
to
are
the
in
and
found
be
Orleans, and
in New
visitor
inexpensive souvenirs
a
to be mentioned
"pineapple linen" dresses,
are
buy to take home
may
the
in
short rope
both
markets,
of
bought
a
and
file,
Indian
baskets
the
imong
set of
a
jellies,preserved figs and oranges,
stuffed tomatoes,
plants, etc., in, and
egg
garlic, guava
used
to
being
worthy
serve
used
in the
beans,
coffee
in all
second-hand
for them
The
stove.
bread
the
pudding,
market-houses
shops"
will
find
little eating
dishes
Famous
of note.
"baked
"
and
curious
many
are
a
with
is
in
the
"market-house
roasted
in French
number.
stalls
pork
generally
town,
and
and
shells,
hurt
markets
boarders
potato
delicious.
the
crab
not
tourist
"
are
salad.
Most
on
the
by
are
The
of
the
out
look-
Street Nomenclature,
of
nine
than
more
in
muses
and
a
exliausted
for
resquely
named
Calliope
dwells
characteristic
stopping
in
in
far
in the
and
the
by
up
until
Humanity.
In
and
and
and
tlie
they
are
in
a
walk
may
Madness
and
Magistrate
a
Industry
you
lives
You
Desire.
and
the
inhabits
doctor
Virtue
Brutus;
of the
generals
that
;
king
!
vicinity
the
on
confesses
herb
to
Law
you
in
masqu^
that
who
street
come
you
Between
all the
Indian
lives
crying
French
a
Tchoupitoulas
Byi'on,Cato
Socrates,
the
Agriculture
Benefits
"
and
of
What
bal
street
priest
been
ijictu-
donna
child
Goodchildreu
the
that
Circle,
have
most
the
at
tell
the
country.
j)rima
Orleans
descendant
of
Love
Force.
drawn
are
of
in hand.
dwell
array
upper
hand
Pleasure
the
end
Liberal
go
New
Bourbon,
rue
path
the
along
Insanity
and
the
little,lost
is in
and
in
met
you
the
home
doing
are
Piety street,
in
backed
who
her
is the
beautiful
pink
that
Orleans
a
that
domino
;
religion
streets,
ject
sub-
have
Lee
and
of
learn
Felicity street,
entresol
cottage
matter
street
that
knows
couple
an
the
;
snarling
lodges
you
that
Terpsichore
only
corner
-nhen
New
the
We
above
point just
a
romance
names.
city, in the
street
in
history,
quarter
lacking
at
made
been
article.
magazine
beginning
row,
already
has
streets
our
pleasant
one
French
in the
is there
of
nomenclature
The
is
yield Abundance
of
Dublin
and
enna
Vi-
finally, in soldierly-
Mexican
war.
-^OUTIKGS.)-
The
southern
Arcady
camp
rude
nestled
few
orange
and
of
hours'
of
under
the
Among
are
of the
and
away,
wliite
is nothing
Choctaw
and
with
the
all
to
Indians
bay
giilf
aboTit
blossoms
familiar
St.
over
the
with
way,
water-
The
Tammany.
fruit,
but
are
city
sprawling
great,
golden
first
haunts.
great jetties
the
the
or
of
the
Lafitte,
biit
are
trees
and
be
and
doorway,
our
of
places
enough
cally
characteristi-
if not
bej^ond
lies
hiding
near
pines
Mississippi,
ride
orchards,
cotton
"
the
old
the
Iberville
huts
Orleans
of Evangeline
land
Arcady
grounds
The
mouth
the
;
sweet
"
New
about
country
cane
a
lie
fields
plantations.
the
out
of
town
excursions
are
trips
to
Chalmette,
over
26
the
lake
Mandeville,
to
lake
the
the pine woods
to
and
Bay St,
cars
Beach, via
into the pin
cars
j hills of Mississippi, Magnolia, Chatawa, or by boat
to Bayou
the beautiful
Sara, to Vicksburg,
or
Atchaf
up
alaya river.
The
Teche
dwell
the peaceful
and
country, in vrhich
picturesque
Acadians, is less than half a day's journey by rail.
of the most
Mandeville, one
picturesque of southern
watering
is
reached
excursion
places,
steamers
from
by
Milneburg.
By taking
Louis, Pass
Christian
over
and
Biloxi, the
steam
the
train
of the L. and
N. road
morning
in
a
spend
charming day
Mississippi and
"
The
evening.
Bay" is
watering places. It is one
miles
many
the
of
beach.
town
drive
small
lines
schooners
and
rivers
Springs is
bayous,
are,
Mobile
made
famous
and
has
residences
on
landed
the
in
lake
depot, one
city in
"
at Pass
are
the
over-the-lake"
drive
lovely
a
can
the
to
of
Christian,
front.
1699, is for all the world
like
fishing village. It is the most populous and thriving
Its bay is always full of a tangle of sloops and
coast.
long piers hung with fish nets, crab baskets,
; and
and
works
lands
return
poles.
Ocean
dark
Mobile
French
the
on
oldest
Beautiful
station, also a shell
Iberville
Biloxi, where
quaint
the
at
of these
nearest
nest
some
be
the
on
the
Shell
to
in
^'Beauvoir,"
and
further
and
after
is reached.
a
day.
Mrs.
To
Moss
Mobile
Jefferson
the
come
flying through
excursion
must
one
Davis'
Then
beautiful
Point, Pascagoula, where
further
The
still.
away
home,
to
the
devote
is the
the
the
pine
places can
watering
a
day
second
sote
creo-
scented
and
a
station
night.
going
"east after
leaving Mississippi City.
Returning to New
Orleans, a pleasant railway
made
river
up
the
Jackson
road, stopping
at
Kennerville,
excursion
which
can
is
on
be
the
or
proceeding to Magnolia, Areola
Chatawa, the latter one
of the prettiesthill towns
of Mississippi, lying on
the banks
of the
dark, fern-fringed Tangipahoa.
A pleasant day can
be
spent by taking the Shell Beach
road,
which
of an hour
and
half
down
the
to
The
gives a run
a
gulf
trip
be made
in six or eight hours, carries
can
one
through plantations, a
touch
of southern
the shelving,
out on
jungle, and finally brings one
shelly beach, with the gray gulf waters
lashing and lapping at one's
feet. None
of these excursions
much
are
time
expensive or will occupy
The
Sara
to Bayou
up-river excursion
gives one opportunity to
the very
best
its orange
see
part of the Mississippi river scenery,
and
with
all
and
all occane
plantations,
cupied.
quarters
tidy
groves
negro
Tlie old town
of Plaquemine,
beautiful
the
colleges in St.
James
parish, the imposing State capitol building at Baton
Eouge,
set on
lis terraced
and a half days'
hills,all are
worthy of the two
the trip.
time, or t. I'ttle less, it takes to make
There
small boats
are
going daily to the jetties, but the luxury
of a river trip is only tested by a journey up the Mississippi.
These
bi^ boats stop continuously, and the tourist has ample
villages, and how it is t"
opportunity to see plantation life, southern
be boating r.-ong the Mississippi.
;
or
.
.
A
and
old
the
State
will
railroad
charming
graphable
made
beautiful
the
gulf.
at
or
up
ture,
much
is
all
now,
in
your
pleasure
is
the
a
bou
of
take
the
voyage
from
our
PiCAru^K
!
tugs
through
reaches
snipe
occupying
than
It
Shreveport.
you
canoe,
is
elements
steam
and
duck,
trip,
the
and
New
takes
southerri
wishes
An
outing
the
about
beautiful
four
on
Monroe
to
days
steamboat
t!ie
ing
fishthree
Orleans
land
summer
and
about
Teche.
Covington
to
trip
and
Atchafalaya
great
a
boat
lovely
river
charming
own
of
springs,
to
even
whether
and
jihoto-
"
broad
the
a
less
scarcely
Abita
to
or
has
or
little
ington
Cov-
most
Island"
"Last
to
heart
the
in
delightful
A
Alexandria,
And
is
Lafourche
is
Spiiujirs,
and
boats
on
which
by
ways,
Bayou
bayou
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