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everywhere one foot below the surface. 
On one of these houses of the dead I 
copied this inscription; ‘Jean Bore, 
Born 1741— Married 1771 — Died 
1820.’ Another one of these houses 
of the dead contained the remains of 
two Americans, elected by the people 
of Louisiana after the purchase. 
Their names were Joseph H. Walker - 
and John L. Lewis. In the back part 
of the cemetery I saw a coffin in 
pieces on top of the ground, bones 
and boards worm eaten. 
Here in the ceurt of the St. Charles 
Hotel is a palm garden 100 feet long 
and 50 feet wide, covered with a glass 
roof. There are palms, ferns and 
flowers in great profusion. 
New Orleans imports opera com- 
panies from France and patronizes 
them well. Sunday afternoon and 
evening there are operas, the theatres 
running in full sway. The French 
and, Spanish quarters are the same as 
in the old world. The band is now 
playing and has been during the day. 
The weather is most balmy. 
On our trip today we went to the 
residential part of the city. The palm 
trees are 35 feet in height, grass is 
green and trimmed and roses and 
calla-lillies are in full bloom (Febru- 
ary). I read in the papers Boston is 
buried in snow and bitter cold. 
Canal street is the principal street 
in New Orleans and is over 100 feet 
in width. Its levees are along the 
side of the Mississippi. There are 
‘cotton steamers, also cotton and sugar 
storehouses. It is, indeed, an up-to- 
date city. 
I was much impressed with the 
great respect shown the name of 
General Jackson. The Sisters of 
Charity on the 8th of January each 
year have a holiday and place a wreath 
on the large bronze equestrian monu- 
ment erected to his memory. In the 
old St. Louis cathedral, which is di- 
rectly opposite where he defeated the 
British, both he and his soldiers 
offered up thanks to God for their 
victory. A monument is also erected 
here to John McDonough who estab- 
lished the first schools in New Orleans. 
There is a fine monument to Robert 
E. Lee, whom the South so loved, 76 
ft. in height,. also monuments to 
Henry Clay, Benjamin Franklin and 
Lafayette. 
New Orleans is eleven feet below 
the Mississippi river and all the drain- 
age runs into the gutters along by the 
sidewalks. The gutters are flushed 
twice eacfi day with water and they 
are now putting in a system of drain- 
age which is to be pumped into the 
river, and this will work wonders for 
the city. 
It is a quaint city; there being 
nothing like it in the United States, 
and no traveler should miss visiting 
it. We will start tomorrow for San 
Antonio and E] Paso, Texas. 
Prizes Awarded. 
The Manchester boys and girls 
who have been collecting brown-tai! 
moth nests this winter and spring 
lave been awarded for their efforts 
the past week, and the winners oi 
the various prizes offered by the 
North Shore Horticultural society 
have received their rewards. 
More than 73,000 nests have h>- 
collected by the children, and as the 
Horticultural society offered tr - 
15 cents per hundred for all nests 
collected, more than $100 will h- 
+ _. paid out, besides prize money 
Money will be paid to 66 children. 
The numbers collected by grades 
follow: 
eaneday OF lateness th ere ree ON 8,100 
Repo de Vil been cee ree. : 18,500 
Cpa eee cen tie pvaneer cot 11,300 
regen, Vi Grits eter trer ae as 11,500 
(Grae SUV eae ae os 7,700 
Gradewhi hi Sek sin. guts dint 8,300 
Grader] Tea tct eae ae 500 
Sradeu le ase ea Se ee oe 200 
Pigiichool...4) saree. re. 7,006 
The ten children heading the list 
to whom the prizes were awarded are: 
Harold Purdy, 9,200, $5.00 prize 
George Killam, 8,900, 4.50 
John Spinney, 8,200, 4.00 
Everett Robbins, 5,900, 3.50 
Clarence Menkin, 5,085, 3.00 
Elmer Smith, 4,300, 2.50 
Lester Haskell, 3,100, 2.00 
Lizzie Coughlin, 2,800, 1.50 
Roland Kitfield, 2,700, 1.00 
Arthur Jackson, 2,400, .50 
It is to be regretted that public in- 
terest in this matter has been such 
that only $84.92 have been subscribed 
to the society toward carrying on the 
work. The amount of money paid 
out by the society to school children 
and for the lecture on brown-tails this 
winter amounts to $165.00. The de- 
ficiency is $81.08, and the society is 
open to contributions from any who 
may feel like promoting the good 
cause. 
JOB PRINTING 
fi OF EVERY DESCRIPTION 
North Shore BREEZE 
PULSIFER’S BLOCK el 
Manchester, Mass. 
Society Notes. 
Major George F. Barstow has again 
leased the ‘‘ Roberts Cottage,” known 
as the “Old Corner,’ at West Man- 
chester for the season, this being his 
seventh summer at West Manchester. 
Mrs. Andrew G. Weeks will occupy 
the ‘“‘Larcom Cottage” at Beverly 
Farms this season for the seventh con- 
secutive year. ‘‘Old Homestead ”’ is 
one of the most picturesquely located 
houses on the shore, it is near George 
Lee’s beautiful Venetian villa. 
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Ames have 
moved out to their country place at 
North Easton, where the went last 
fall after closing their Pricde’s Cross- 
ing house, but they will be at their 
North Shore estate long before the 
first of June. Mrs. Ames has just re- 
turned from a visit to Washington. 
Among the Boston folk noticed at 
West Manchester the early part of 
the week were Mrs. E. A. Whipple, 
who was down Monday, Arthur M. 
Merriam, T. Dennis Boardman and 
his daughter, Mrs. Wallace Good- 
rich. Mr. Boardman and Mrs. Good- 
rich came down Sunday and _ en- 
joyed a drive along the shore. They 
will open their house at West Man- 
chester probably week after next. 
Miss Marion Fenno and Miss 
Eleanora Sears of Beverly Farms and 
Boston, both of whom are among the 
most popular of the North Shore 
younger set, have gained new laurels 
for their athletic feats in the tennis 
contests at New York this week. 
Both won exciting contests, defeating 
all comers. In the finals for mixed 
doubles the honors were carried off by 
Miss Sears and her partner, Robert 
D. Wrenn. 
At Cambridge Harry Tweed of 
Beverly Farms has been doing some 
excellent work at baseball. He is 
considered one of the most probable 
candidates for substitute back stop on 
the ‘Varsity nine, which practically 
assures him an “‘ H”’ before the season 
is over, and a possible chance for 
catcher on the nine next year. Mr. 
Tweed is an all round good athlete. 
Hie father has had the Dr. Hooper 
cottage at Malt Hill, Beverly Farms, 
thoroughly remodelled and refitted 
this winter for his son’s exclusive use 
the coming months. 
Charles Cobb Walker, son of Mr. 
and Mrs. W. B. Walker, who have a 
delightfully pretty place at West Man- 
chester, has just bought at7 Arlington 
street, Boston, through Mr. Boardman, 
the well-known real estate man, a town 
house where he will henceforth make 
his home when not at Manchester. 
