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NEW ORLEANS 



terest are the French Market and the ceme- 

 teries, where the curious custom prevails of 

 burying the dead in vaults rising in tiers above 

 ground, since water was found almost immedi- 

 ately below before the drainage system was 

 installed. Canal Street, the principal business 

 street, is noted for its unusual width (200 feet). 



Buildings. Among the buildings of historic 

 interest are the Cabildo (the Spanish house of 

 government), the Presbytery (the house of the 

 Capuchin priests), the Saint Louis Cathedral, 

 established in 1724, and one of the best-known 

 churches in the United States; the Pontalba 

 buildings, and the convent of the Ursuline 

 Nuns, the oldest building in the city (1730). 

 The new marble post office, completed at a 

 cost of $3,000,000, and the beautiful city hall 

 face Lafayette Square. Other notable buildings 

 are the $2,000,000 white marble courthouse, the 

 Cotton Exchange, the new Trans-Mississippi 

 passenger station, the Hennen, Hibernia, Liver- 

 pool, London, Globe and Morris office build- 

 ings and some fine bank buildings. There are 

 also many fine Roman Catholic, Protestant and 

 Jewish places of worship. 



Institutions. In addition to the eighty-seven 

 elementary schools there are eight manual 

 training schools and three business schools. 

 For advanced education the city has Tulane 

 University, with the H. Sophie Newcomb Me- 

 morial College for Women, the Loyola College 

 for boys, and four colleges for colored students. 

 Besides the Carnegie Library, with 100,000 vol- 

 umes, the city has Howard Memorial Library, 

 th- Delgado Museum of Art and the Confed- 

 erate Memorial, containing historical relics, 

 benevolent institutions include the charity 

 hospital, one of the best-equipped institutions 

 kind in the Union; Presbyterian Hospital 

 H ! Dieu (Roman Catholic hospital); 

 Jewish institutions for the orphaned, the 

 aged and the infirm; Roman Catholic asylums 

 for orphans, infants and the friendless; the city 

 ief for tin- jiKi-'l. tin- in!irm :ml the insane, 

 and a refuge for boys. Kingsley House ia mod- 

 eled after the noted Hull House of Chicago. 



Commerce and Industry. New Orleans is the 

 southernmost gateway for the commerce of (In- 

 greatest itKrirultur.-il v;ill. v in the world, and 

 millions of dollars have been expended in im- 

 proving tin- p.. it \\ln.-li :ire owned 

 and controlled >>v the people. The jetties at 

 prnvnlr a channel of 



about thirty f.-i-t. :m<l tl -.\ ill hurhor tin- 



largest vessel- are about six miles of 



steel docks, affording berth space for more 



Questions on New Orleans 



(An oiulliif v nil MI. I,- for ue with 

 N< w Orleann will be found with the 

 article "City.") 



After what famous naturalist, a na- 

 tive of Louisiana, was one of the 

 parks of New Orleans named? 



What invention or discovery, of 

 great importance industrially, took 

 place on the site of this park? 



How many cities of the Southern 

 states have a larger population? 



What distinction does the city hold 

 commercially? 



What is the Cabildo? What is the 

 oldest building in the city? 



Which is farther from the city, Mo- 

 bile or the mouth of the Mississippi? 



Which is greater, the distance from 

 Chicago to New Orleans or the dis- 

 tance from Chicago to New York? 



What effect did the opening of the 

 Panama Canal have on the city? 



How has the fact that New Orleans 

 is a seaport influenced the character 

 of its population? 



What does the name of the city tell 

 you as to the nationality of its found- 

 ers? 



What town is within the corporate 

 limits of New Orleans? 



What is the ratio of the inhabited 

 area to the total area? 



What social institution in Chicago 

 furnished the model for a similar one 

 in New Orleans? 



Why has it been necessary to build 

 levees in some places along the Missis- 

 sippi? 



What is the popular name of the 

 city, and why is it no longer strictly 

 applicable? 



How do the buildings of the city 

 tell the story of its existence? 



What is the Vieux Carre, and what 

 would you find of interest there? 



What building here was made fa- 

 mous by a well-known writer? 



What is the Mardi Gras, and how 

 is it celebrated? 



What park is named for a President 

 of the United States? What incident 

 in his life took place here? 



How do the cemeteries of New Or- 

 iii those of most other 

 cities? Why? 



Name six articles of which New Or- 

 leans exports more than any othrr 

 oty in th United States. 



Which is greater, the value of tin- 

 annual exports and imports of New 

 ins T the cost of the Panama 

 Canal? How much? 



