Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs, with map : illustrated with many original engravings, and containing exhaustive accounts of the traditions, historical legends, and remarkable localities of the Creole city . vants dining-room, pantry, scullery, kitchen, ladies ordinary and the variousparlors and drawing-rooms. The cold service of the hotel, estimated to be worth $16,000, should not be forgotten. It is,of course, only used on extraordinary occasions. The best season of the hotel is during the carnival, when the building is always filled tooverflowing. During the rem
Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs, with map : illustrated with many original engravings, and containing exhaustive accounts of the traditions, historical legends, and remarkable localities of the Creole city . vants dining-room, pantry, scullery, kitchen, ladies ordinary and the variousparlors and drawing-rooms. The cold service of the hotel, estimated to be worth $16,000, should not be forgotten. It is,of course, only used on extraordinary occasions. The best season of the hotel is during the carnival, when the building is always filled tooverflowing. During the remainder of the busy season the St. Charles averages about 300guests a day. THE ST. LOUIS. When the idea of building the St. Louis Hotel was first conceived, 45 years ago, there wereonly two hotels of any consequence in the city—the Strangers Hotel, presided over by a famouscaterer named Marty, and the Orleans Hotel, by Mrs. Page, a lady famed for her beauty andwinning manners. These houses were situated within a few doors of each other, on Chartresstreet, but only the former, at its original locality, still survives the vicissitudes of half a store of Judah Touro was located on the ground floor of the Orleans ^f(EOtE,.eo^G^ GUIDE TO NEW ORLEANS. 77 As the prosperity of New Orleans was about entering upon the fullness of its meridiansplendor, her coffers rapidly filling with the profits of the sugar and cotton traflBc and herstreets with strangers from other States and climes, the scheme of building a hotel on a scalecommensurate with the growing splendor and importance of New Orleans was advocated, andeagerly caught up by the enterprising officials of the Improvement Bank, one of the financialcolossi of those days, and a suitable site for the edifice was sought. The selection finally fell upon the square bounded by St. Louis, Toulouse, Chartres andRoyal streets, in the heart of the then business portion of the city, and it was at first intendedto erect a st
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