What to see in America . st woman in the Ignited States honored by a monu-ment was a dweller in New Orleans named MargaretHaughery. For a time she was a laundress at the Hotel. Later she bought two cows and opened adairy, and herself drove a cart to deliver the milk. Presentlyshe bought a bakery and peddled bread instead of bakery grew to be a factory and she gave up of each day she was to be seen sitting in the open door-way of her factory office, and nearly every one who passedhad a word with her. Rag-amuffins, newsboys, clerks,porters, and great merchantsan
What to see in America . st woman in the Ignited States honored by a monu-ment was a dweller in New Orleans named MargaretHaughery. For a time she was a laundress at the Hotel. Later she bought two cows and opened adairy, and herself drove a cart to deliver the milk. Presentlyshe bought a bakery and peddled bread instead of bakery grew to be a factory and she gave up of each day she was to be seen sitting in the open door-way of her factory office, and nearly every one who passedhad a word with her. Rag-amuffins, newsboys, clerks,porters, and great merchantsand bankers all called herMargaret and nothing always wore a calicodress, had a small shawl overher shoulders, and her onlyhead covering was a sunbon-net. Margaret was thrifty,but not selfishly so. Herhobby was orphans, and theepidemics from which NewOrleans suffered left a multi-tude of parentless little gave food and col-lected it from others, and she gave money constantly. She a New Orleans Street. 292 AVhat to See in America never learned to read or write, and she signed with a markthe will that distributed her thousands of dollars among theorphan asylums of the city. When she died in 1882 a fundfor a statue was at once collected and, almost before she wasmissed, there was the statue representing her in the familiarold chair with a little shawl over her shoulders as the peoplehad so long seen her. Both cholera and yellow fever have devastated NewOrleans. In 1832 the two diseases raged at the same time,and in twelve October days a sixth of the population recently the city has provided good drainage, an excellentfiltered water supply in place of her old mosquito-breedingcisterns, and modern sewers in place of cesspools. Rats havebeen killed by the hundreds of thousands, and many otherthings have been done to make the city healthful andattractive. The famous carnival of Mardi Gras is celebrated in NewOrleans annually with great splendor just b
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