. The Creole tourist's guide and sketch book to the city of New Orleans, with map . omhouse street (now Iberville street), received itstitle, not from the massive granite customs house that now standsthere, but from the old wooden building, devoted to the same pur-poses, erected by the Spaniards a century and a quarter boundary streets of the city, which marked the line of the old?wall, all bear military titles referring to the old fortifications. Espla-nade street was where the troops drilled; Rampart, rue des Ramparts,marks, like the boulevards of Paris, the destroyed walls; while
. The Creole tourist's guide and sketch book to the city of New Orleans, with map . omhouse street (now Iberville street), received itstitle, not from the massive granite customs house that now standsthere, but from the old wooden building, devoted to the same pur-poses, erected by the Spaniards a century and a quarter boundary streets of the city, which marked the line of the old?wall, all bear military titles referring to the old fortifications. Espla-nade street was where the troops drilled; Rampart, rue des Ramparts,marks, like the boulevards of Paris, the destroyed walls; while Canal cA THE CREOLE TOURISTS GUIDE street was the old fossee or canal which surrounded the city andwhich was continued as a drainage canal to the lake, and filled upyears ago. Of the old streets only two have disappeared—rue de IArsenalinto Ursulines, and rue de Conde into Chartres. There have been some few corruptions in the old names. The ruede Dephine, named after the province of Danpriny, in France, has-dropped the accent on the e, and became simply Dauphine (pronounced. Audubon Place, in The Garden District. Daupheen) street, as if it were nam^ed after the Dauphins wife. Thestreet named in honor of Due du Maine, has got the prepositionforever mixed with the noun, and is, and will be ever, Dumaine, instead of Maine street. In naming the streets of the city as it grew beyond its originalboundaries, a dozen different systems were pursued. The gallantryof the French Creoles is commemorated upon old city maps by a AND SKETCH BOOK OF NEW ORLEANS 35 number of streets christened with the sweetest and prettiest femininenames imaginable. Some of these were christened after the favoritechildren of rich parents, but again not a few were named after favoriteconcubines. The old maps of New Orleans were covered with suchnames as Suzette, Celeste, Estelle, Angelie, Annette, and others;many of these have died away into later titles, but not a few stillsurvive. The religious tendency of
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