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RESIDENCES.
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being signed by the following well known and popular gentlemen: William J. Behan, W. T. Vaudry, John Glynn, Ji., Wm. H. Kenaud, Samuel Mullen, R. M. Fauquier and James Buckley.
With their usual promptness and energy, these gentlemen proceeded with the work of organization, securing and fitting up a park. The ground selected is on Bayou St. John, just beyond the long bridge, where ample room for any desired range is found. Here a handsome Club House was built, and supplied with all appurtenances for the enjoyment of this invigorating aud healthful sport.
prnHE homes of the Crescent City, although neither so lofty nor elegant in 1L appearance as those in many other large cities, are, as a rule, spacious and convenient, well ventilated and thoroughly adapted to comfort in a climate where flowers bloom all the year round in the gardens, aud, for nine months of the twelve, open windows and fans are necessities.
The houses are, generally, two stories high, with wide halls, high ceilings, large windows, and extensive galleries or verandas, which are considered almost indispensable in this latitude.
There is a noticeable absence of that sameness in appearance so prevalent in the cities of colder localities ; blocks or rows of houses all built according to the same plan, the number alone distinguishing one residence from another, are almost unknown in New Orleans. Few of the dwelling houses are without some space for a garden, a large majority have handsomely laid out grounds, many occupying a quarter, or half, and, among the wealthy, more frequently an entire square.
Statuary is not seen so often on the lawns, as in the North and West, but of rare flowers, at all seasons of the year, beautiful shrubbery and splendid shade trees there is an abundance. This separation of dwellings has often been commented on by strangers who have, at first, thought the resident portion of our city too “ scattered” looking, while, on the other hand, Orleanians visiting Phila. delphia, or other orderly cities, have been bewildered and oppressed by the, to them, seemingly endless stretches of fac-similes in brick and mortar, mortar and marble, windows all of a size, with shades of the same pattern and colors, and front doors of exactly the same type, with the same number of steps to each, precisely of the same design.
We have a semi-tropical climate, and require air, an unlimited, unobstructed supply of air, so move off from one another in order to secure it. Our cousins in colder latitudes are, hygienically, not so necessitously situated, and can live comfortably shoulder to shoulder with their neighbors, so we build differently to them, they to us.