Identifier: creoletouristsgu00creo (find matches)
Title: The Creole tourist's guide and sketch book to the city of New Orleans, with map
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Creole Publishing Company
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Publisher: New Orleans : Creole Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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eorge Holland, the Placides, Chippendale, andOwens. As a raconteur he had few equals, and columns could befilled in reproducing the amusing stories and anecdotes with which hekept his friends or listeners in a perpetual state of merriment. Sogreat was his enjoyment of social pleasures that he often invitedfriends and acquaintances to his palatial parlors with the expressunderstanding that no game should be played, entertaining them witha sumptuous feast, at which the wit was as sparkling as the wine. 84 THE CREOLE TOURISTS GUIDE It was in the beginning of the late war, and during the early-stages of that conflict, that he fairly exhibited the shining qualitiesof his loyal and generous nature. Ill health and a delicate constitu-tion not permitting him to undergo the fatigues and hardships ofcamp and military life, he more than compensated for this exemptionby aiding several organizations of New Orleans, supplying them withmoney, clothing and equipments. Nor did his good and loyal deeds
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Sugar Cane Cutting, 18 Miles from New Orleans. stop there, for he contributed generously to the families of those whoremained at home. At the same period that the popular house of Sherwood & McGrathflourished, there were several other large and elegantly apointed gam-ing houses which attempted to compete with it for popularity. Oneof these was owned and conducted by Lauraine and Cassidy. They, AND SKETCH BOOK OF NEW ORLEANS S) no tdoutit, were very popular, and secured some share of success, asthey had made their estahlishment very attractive by profuse liber-ality in their entertainments. Their supper service was of massiveembossed silver, and formed <a feature of the house. At this estab-lishment it was that a prominent Greek merchant, the representativeof a large Greek commercial firm having branches in all the largecommercial cities of Europe and America, lost very large sums, whichembarrassed his firm and led to his recall from the city. The loss atone nights play was repo

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