Show new orleans conducts business over coffee pew few affairs of importance have been discussed in new orleans except over a cup of coffee writes ralph A graves in tile the national geographic magazine here as jn ln the near past east business seems to function more easily to the accompaniment of sips ot of the bitter black french drip than tn in any other and the most harassed executives will pause tor for ten minutes in mid midmorning 11 morning leave their offices and go to the restaurant or the hotel for a cup of coffee nothing more on the top floor door of one of the most progressive banks in the state and in countless other establishments no doubt there Is a special kitchen and dining room to which the employees retire when the bank closes at three after their cup of coffee they return to their desks in one big manufacturing plant every workman brings with him each morning a small coffee pot which he deposits under hta his pet steam leaking valve so BO that as the condensing hot water drips constantly he provides himself with small quaffs of the bev bei er a ge throughout the day |