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5A BATH Tor! HIGH FOR POOR PEOPLE TO INCREASE NEW ORLEANS PERMANENT, RESIDENT POPULATION, A BATHING ESTABLISHMENT AT LOW COST, GARDENS, PARKS ARE NEEDED — AMUSEMENTS ARE NEEDED FOR POOR AS WELL AS RICH PEOPLE
June - 1838
N.O. Daily Picayune - June 29, I838 - p 2 col 1
We agree with the "Courier," that "if the Rail Road Company vould reduce the price of passage to the Lake to 25 cents, more money would be made, and the owners of real estate in Port Pontchartrain would be benefit ted, as it would tend to enhance the price of their property by inducing more visitors and more residents.
The fact is, all our extra enjoyments in this city are purchased at too dear a rate for persons of moderate means to indulge in at all The remark is especially applicable to our bathing establishments.
As long as it is customary to charge ^fty^cen.ts^pfii^rsingle iath;* we shall continue to see that a large portion of our pepplat'ion mil prefer swallowing in;*their"filth.^ We need never expect to secure a rapid increase of the permanent, resident population, till some way is devised to render all the little enjoyments of life accessible to poor men and their families.
If some public benefactor, or if the city itself, would endow an extensive bathing establishment, where clear running water could be enjoyed by the mass for a mere trible. it would be a greater public blessing than any institution that has ever yet been founded in this city.
Then, if there were gardens, or parks, or other places of general resort, convenient to the city, the tax levied to keep them in order would be fully compensated for by the good effect they would produce upon the community. Amusements are necessary for the poor, as well as for the rich, and we firmly believe that our municipal legislators will ere long turn their attention to this subject.
The energy with which they have up to the present time discharged the more immediate duties required at their hands by the public interest, is to us a sufficient assurance that they will*never flag in their exertions, while anything remains to be done, conducive to the comfort, health, and general well-being of every part of the population.
JI- OOZ'79