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MARKETS.
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EXPOSITION BUILDING
This elegant building, situated between Julia and Girod streets, has a front of 85 feet 011 both St. Charles and Carondelet streets, and runs through the square by straight lines 341 feet. Besides other large well finished rooms for various purposes, it has a concert hall 170x81, with ceiling 41 feet high, in which the King of the Carnival gives his receptions and balls on Mardi Gras. This is decidedly the handsomest room of the kind in the South.
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■Tp^lIK markets of New Orleans form a distinctive feature in its customs, and the isl stranger who fails to visit them during hours of sale, misses a variety in trading that cannot be found elsewhere.
FRENCH MARKET.
This, the pioneer of public markets in New Orleans, was located during the Spanish supremacy. The first building, on the site of the preseut meat market, was destroyed by the hurricane of 1S12. The present one was built in the following year, according to the designs of Piernas, Citv Survevor, at a cost of about $30,000.	“
The French Market, taken as a unity, is of an irregular ground plan, having been constructed at different periods, aud may be described, in general terms, as a very plain specimen of the Roman Doric order, supported by brick pillars, plastered, and covered with a slate roof.
There are three distinct and separate market places comprised in this one mart, the Meat Market, the Vegetable Market, and between these, the Bazaar Market. The first is what its name implies, a place where meats are exposed for sale. In the second, vegetables of all kinds, aud fish, game, fruit and flowers, have each their separate departments, while in the Bazaar, every possible article in the dry goods line may be procured. Each market is separated from the other by