. New Orleans, city of old romance and new oportunity. Southern railway system. ~ On the corner of St. Louis and Royalwas the St. Louis Hotel, afterwardthe Hotel Royal, erected in the earlythirties, in which Henry Clay wasentertained in 1843 at the famedgold-plate supper reputed to have costabout $20,000. Sieur Georges house, made famousby Cables stories, stands at the cor-ner of St. Peter and Royal, and atOrleans Street, where now the Sistersof Charity carry on their devotedwork, is the old Orleans theatre,where Lola Montez and other nota-bles appeared, and which was latermade famous by the w
. New Orleans, city of old romance and new oportunity. Southern railway system. ~ On the corner of St. Louis and Royalwas the St. Louis Hotel, afterwardthe Hotel Royal, erected in the earlythirties, in which Henry Clay wasentertained in 1843 at the famedgold-plate supper reputed to have costabout $20,000. Sieur Georges house, made famousby Cables stories, stands at the cor-ner of St. Peter and Royal, and atOrleans Street, where now the Sistersof Charity carry on their devotedwork, is the old Orleans theatre,where Lola Montez and other nota-bles appeared, and which was latermade famous by the wild and flamingquadroon balls. French emigres and later fugitivesfrom the insurrection in San Domingo,gathered at the Cafe des Exiles at and Royal, now a second handstore, and at the corner of Dumaineand Royal there is the former resi-dence of Mme. Poree, where the fash-ionable Creole ladies gathered in 1815to wave farewell to General Jacksonstroops as they marched out to fightthe battle of New Orleans. At Hospital and Royal Streets isthe Haunted House, its name taken. AN OLD COURTYARD IN THE FRENCH QUARTER
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