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NEW ORLEANS LEARNS ABOUT CONVENTIONS AND ATHLETIC
EVENTS BEING SUCCESSFUL DURING SUMMER, OFFSETTING LOCAL AND NATIONAL FEARS OF YELLOW FEVER IN SUMMER 1892
Daily Picayune - September 18, 1892 - p *+ c 3
NEW ORLEANS AS A SUMMER RESORT
Aside from their interest to certain classes, there have been two very important general occurrences in New Orleans during the past few months. The first was the annual meeting of the Train Dispatchers' Association. The second was the triple pugilistic event of the Olympic Club. Both served to establish the reputation of the city as a summer resort.
Unhealthiness in Summer Disproved
There has been a groundless fear, spread by rival cities and sensation mongers, that New Orleans was an unhealthy place during the months from June to October.
The residents never found it out. They enjoyed a cooler temperature than the dwellers in almost all the other large cities.
The city was almost entirely free from disease, and the stay-at-homes regarded with pity the followers of fashion, who sweltered in less favored localities at considerable expense.
The visitors to the two affairs mentioned were agreeable surprised and learned for themselves a pleasant f-ct of which New Orleans has failed to boast. They found a city in which sun stroke is almost unknown, where the Gulf breezes temper the summer heat and where lake and river combine to aid in belting the metropolis with salubrity, besides furnishing places of resort for a people who are excellent judges of the quality of any amusement which bids for their patronage.
Quarantine of New York Helned
The presence of so many strangers, their thorough enjoyment of the weather, of the many attractions, of the pleasures of the table for which New Orleqans is famous, cannot but fail to be of benefit to the city.
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It is the most satisfactory indorsement which the Quarantine system could receive, and will be a strong denial of the stories of infection which find their way around the countrv from time to t^me
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