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Title: Winter journeys in the South; pen and camera impressions of men, manners, women, and things all the way from the blue Gulf and New Orleans through fashionable Florida palms to the pines of Virginia
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Hammond, John Martin, 1886-1939
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Publisher: Philadelphia & London, J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ot only see across the stream but one can almostdistinguish the names of vessels on the other side.It needs some reflection and some tuition in the factsthat the river is ninety feet or more deep here, andthat its current is so swift that if one jumps off aferryboat on the way across, it is almost impossibleto rescue one or find his body, to make one realizethe volume of this greatest of American rivers andto restore it to its old place in ones imagination. That which the ordinary visitor most closelyassociates with New Orleans, and its greatest adver-tising factor, is, no doubt, the Mardi Gras. Whilethis is an advertising factor of first importance toNew Orleans, it is a debatable point whether it isan advertisement of the proper character. Nodoubt the Mardi Gras draws many people to thecity for a brief stay every year, but it concentratesthe average outsiders attention upon just onetheme of the citys activity, and does not emphasizeits real enduring charms. To me, personally, the118
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A TYPK Al, SIDE STREf:T IV KUEXCH NEW ORLEANS THE OLD IN NEW ORLEANS Mardi Gras was not the most conspicuous ofthe pleasures which I derived from my stay-in New Orleans. I would not go back to the citysimply to see the Mardi Gras; but I would go backagain just for the pure sensuous pleasure of itsbalmy days and nights, its pleasant people, andthe quaint pervasive flavor of its old French sec-tion. These things I consider New Orleans great-est assets. The Mardi Gras, to give a few words of ex-planation of this period of festivity, occupies alto-gether about one week culminating in a grand racketShrove Tuesday, which is the eve of Ash Wednes-day, the beginning of the Lenten season. Strictlyspeaking only Shrove Tuesday is Mardi Gras. Therest of this time is the * Carnival. As a matter offact, however, the whole period goes under name ofMardi Gras. The general scheme of the thing began in 1837when New Orleans held its first street procession.Immense sums of money are spent both by the cit

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