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NEW ORLEANS ILLUSTRATED.
a street, aud these spaces are, during market hours, literally covered with stands on which every conceivable nic-nac is offered for sale. Then such a confusion of tongues; French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, German, and scores of other loreign marchands, extolling, each in his native patois, the quality and cheapness of his article of trade, or, perhaps, in disgust at your ignorance of foreign dialects, trying to tell you the merits of his wares in English that bids utter defiance to etymology.
Trench Market.
To see the French Market in its glory one must go there on a Sunday morning between five and ten o’clock, and, if at all sensitive, put his corns in the best order, his temper ditto, then there is no fear. An hour spent in this modern Babel will furnish the visitor, particularly if he be a stranger, with odd sounds aud scenes enough to supply subjects for speculation and amusement, for many a day at least. By all means visit the French Market.
POYDRAS MARKET.
This smaller and second edition of the old time markets, was built in 1837 on ground ceded by the Carrollton Railroad Company, “ for the accommodation of the inhabitants in the rear of the second municipality.” Xow buildings extend for miles in the rear of the market, while in its immediate neighborhood are some of the best business locations in the city.
ST. MARY’S MARKET.
This market derived its name from the fact of having been built for the convenience of the residents of the “ Suburb St. Mary ” and was, for quite a number of years after it erection, considered very far up town. It is a very extensive building, but owing to the rapid spreading of the city in the up river direction, and the consequent removal of families, not over two-thirds of the space is now occupied ; newer and more central markets taking the lead. Among these the
MAGAZINE STREET MARKET,
situated between St. Mary and St. Andrew streets, Magazine and Old Camp streets, is one of the best supplied and patronized.