. The Creole tourist's guide and sketch book to the city of New Orleans, with map . ardi Gras lapsed into oblivio,n. The last, most brilliantand most successful of all, delighted and amused the town, after sev-eral years quiescense and neglect, on the Mardi Gras of 1852. A number of New Orleans first young men determined to get up aprocession, on the occasion alluded to, that would equal in numbers,in order, variety, elegance and piquancy of costumes, any that thechronicles of Mardi Gras in this country could record. The announce-ment of this intention, through the press, excited universal cur
. The Creole tourist's guide and sketch book to the city of New Orleans, with map . ardi Gras lapsed into oblivio,n. The last, most brilliantand most successful of all, delighted and amused the town, after sev-eral years quiescense and neglect, on the Mardi Gras of 1852. A number of New Orleans first young men determined to get up aprocession, on the occasion alluded to, that would equal in numbers,in order, variety, elegance and piquancy of costumes, any that thechronicles of Mardi Gras in this country could record. The announce-ment of this intention, through the press, excited universal curiosity;and s\^hen the memorable day came. New Orleans boasted of an ac-cession to her population, in the shape of visitors from the North,West and South, that has not been surpassed since. The procession traversed the leading streets of the city, whichwere positively jammed with admiring throngs, and at night the oldOrleans Theatre was the center of attraction for all that the Crescent 94 THE CREOLE TOURISTS GUIDE Citv held of beauty and fashion. The maskers of the day there re-. ceivel their friends; ani that bewildering ball was long remembered AND SKETCH BOOK OF NEW ORLEANS 95 as the gem of many such jewels clustering in the diadem of theQueen of the South. In these days, however, the celebration of Mardi Gras was can-fined mainly to a number of maskers who walked or rode around thestreets. It was a great day with the boys, also, who, clothed in olddominoes and masks, with a stout hickory club in their hands and abag of flour by their sides, would march around the streets, lookingfor an available victim on whom they could throw their flour, andwhom, if they resisted, they would punish with their shillelaghs. Someof the wilder boys, conceived, however, the idea of substituting limefor flouf, and as this on more than one occasion came very near pro-ducing blindness, the police had to step in and arrest the boys. Thissurveillance was kept up for several years, until both the fl
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