. Gli Stati meridionali. ery-giorno consumo come sono l'assenzio ela sigaretta del creolo. Di piazze e monumentsNew Orleans possiede la sua piena condivisione,che spaziano dal famoso equestrianstatue di Jackson, rivolta verso la Frenchmarket e sostenuta da San Luigi Cathe-Drai, al monumento eretto a Mar-garet, una donna philanthropical di localfame, e la prima donna in America a behonored con un monumento. Quindi thereis il ben noto Henry Clay statua onCanal street, dove grande pubblico meetingshave state detenute per decenni passato,e che ora è in procinto di essere rimossoper poter più un luogo appartato a

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. The Southern States. ery-day consumption as are the absinthe andthe cigarette of the Creole. Of public squares and monumentsNew Orleans possesses its full share, ranging from the famous equestrianstatue of Jackson, facing the Frenchmarket and backed by St. Louis Cathe-dral, to the monument erected to Mar-garet, a philanthropical woman of localfame, and the first woman in America to behonored with a monument. Then thereis the well-known Henry Clay statue onCanal street, where great public meetingshave been held for decades past, and which is now about to be removedto a more secluded spot through themachinations of the electric street rail-way companies, despite the protests ofan indignant public. The Lee statueup St. Charles street cuts a magnificentsilhouette against the blue sky, toweringhigh above the streets upon a beautiful, chaste shaft. Facing thelevee at the head of Canalstreet is a slendermarble shaft raisedin commemora-tion of the recon-struction period, when an engage-ment took placeon this spot and. ON KSPLANADH STRKKT. NEW ORLEANS: THE SOUTHERN METROPOLIS. 405 a number of lives were lost. In LafayetteSquare, nearly in the centre of the city, rises a statue erected to the Americanphilospher, Benjamin Franklin, whilestatues and monuments of minor impor-tance are scattered throughout the city.The famous squares of Congo, Jackson, Coliseum and Lafayette are onlyexcelled in historical reminiscences bythe natural floral beauties of suchpublic parks as Audubon and LowerCity Park, the former squares beingcelebrated bygreat mass meet-ings touchingpublic questionsof importance, and AudubonPark as the sceneof the WorldsExposition, nowtransformed in-to a magnificentpublic resort, while Lower CityPark possesseswonderful natu-ral beauties aswell as romantictraditions as theonce famous localdwelling groundof the Creolepopulation. Asvolumes mightbe written onthese parks andsquares fromeither an histori-cal or sentimen-tal standpoint, the mere enu-meration of themis sufficient

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1890
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• booksubjectagriculture