Show NEW ORLEANS TRIP W D sutton writes interestingly es of sight seeing on way to and at the mouths carnival city the first of 0 the week the record received from mr W D sutton button who with mrs sutton Is taking a panama trip four special editions of the carnival bulletin published at new orleans giving in colors the many magnificent floats in the different parades of the great mardi grau recently given in that city A letter was also received from mr sutton giving a brief account of hla his trip as far as new orleans from which we wa glean the following we left park city sunday feb and after our long and weary run to evanston the rest of the short trip to new orleans was made without a hitch at denver deaver we remained a few hours and enjoyed taking in the many places of interest in that busy city only short stops were made between here and st louis at the latter place we did not do much sight seeing because of bad weather it had snowed quite heavily the day before I 1 our arrival and the weather was very cold and disagreeable the ride from st louis south was very interesting and the country was new and strange to us from what we saw from the train did not impress us very favorably the principle places of abode were nothing but the worst kind of shacks most of them did not even have windows and those that did had them boarded up tho the children go around halt clothed and barefooted and many of the parents amble around in the same condition we arrived at new orleans on the evening ot of the we soon found comfortable quarters but not at the hotel we expected to stay one had to pay ten dollars and up a day for any kind hind ot of a room at the big hotels it Is mardi grau gran week and the city Is overrun with every hotel and rooming house crowded the alarde grau festivities are something entirely new to the nort northerners berners and intensely interesting the parades were simply magnificent and vast sums bums ot of money are spent by the different organizations participating each striving to outdo the other many norths are spent in designing and building some of tho the floats there Is a parade every day and on the last day of the carnival every body gets out all are masked and go about in groups of from abr three e to twenty five who form little parades of their own and high j jinks inks results the whole city Is turned everything is wide open saloons are as numerous numerous as tho the sands of the soa sea and are patronized by men women and children who go in and out the same as in any store the people think nothing of drinking in public on these occasions th the favorite drink is beer notwithstanding the saloons are orderly and well kept and you can go all day long and scarcely see a drunin drunken person new orleans has many old land marks with a history and very interesting to visit the new orleans hotel covering a whole block Is now all a complete wreck many notable history making meetings have been held at this hotel it was here the great slave market was before the war the same old block Is ed where the slaves stood when the were auctioned oft off the cemeteries here are different than in other places the dead are all buried above ground because of the tact fact that the water la Is near the surface the wealthy people build vaults some costing as high as the remains of poor people are placed in cavities in the brick wall which forms a fence around the cemetery those who are put in the vaults soon decay and then others of the family as they die are put on top of those gone before and in this way ono one vault will suffice for the entire family no matter how large there seems to be more money spent in building and keeping up cemeteries than in building up the city another interesting sight in this city is the unloading of bananas banan as they are received here from all the semitropical semi tropical countries and distributed all over the world they are unloaded from the big boats by an endless chain or elevator an ordinary load tor for a boat la is to 40 bunches cottee coffee comes into this pert by boat loads it is unloaded and carried into store rooms by biggers nig gers they carrying with apparent ease sacks weighting pounds on their heads it Is quite a sight to see scores of 0 these black unloading the steamers wo we sail tomorrow to morrow february 25 for cuba I 1 am looking forward tor for a pleasant visit from our old friend F A parker who Is going to try and meet us at havana As Is well known the gentleman Is badly crippled and an intense sufferer from rheumatism and it will be quite an effort tor for him to travel from pinar del rio to havana yet I 1 hope he be will be able to do so that we may have a chat of olden times so far we have enjoyed our trip very much and we look forward to several weeks more of real pleasure W DI D SUTTON |