THE BATTALION.
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su li c Pe p R T AN N N uM ICE ’} COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS MAY 1,1894. ^ Vol. i, No. 8.
R Trip to Central Hmeriea.
“See here, Puss, lets’? leave this old
hole and see what the world is like?”
“All right, I’ll go you one ; where shall •
it be?” After this much discussion fol
lowed and South America was the coun
try among others singled out for
our wild goose chase. Our prepara
tions for a hurried and rather undignified
departure were soon completed, and
after a few days sojourn in Houston we
went to New Orleans whence a steamer
was to carry us to the land of our expec
tations. But man proposes and God
disposes. After a diligent search and
much consultation of various volumes
containing all the steamship lines in the
world, we found that we would have to
go by way of either New York or Am
sterdam to reach our destination. This
did not suit us at all, and we cast about
for other opportunities. In the mean
time we were enjoying a winter in the
South amongst blooming orange trees
and sweet scented flowers, for winter in
its severest form is not known in New
Orleans, the Crescent City of the South
West. The climate of the city is very
much and unnecessarily abused. It is
not half so unhealthy as people would
make you believe. Those who get such
an idea from a casual glance of the city,
generally do not get beyond the docks
and manufacturing part of New Orleans.
I shall not try to glorify those, but it is
surely true that any city of its size has its
dirty corners and gloomy streets. Hav
ing seen Broadway, Unter den Linden
and Canal street, I think that the last
compares very favorably with the former,
it being at once roomier than Broadway
and at least as imposing as Unter den
Linden. And in regard to the people
congregating there ; I have never seen
so much beauty in so short a time as I
did when strolling of an evening along
its pleasant promenades.
But this is swerving from the sub-