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Title: Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs, with map : illustrated with many original engravings, and containing exhaustive accounts of the traditions, historical legends, and remarkable localities of the Creole city
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
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Publisher: New York : W.H. Coleman
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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never mentioned, even ifthought of. So it remained until the spring of 1869, when, one April day, a little white yawl was launchedon the old Bayou St. John, in which was the nucleus of a new era. Within a few days followingher advent a rowing club was suggested, and the project was so eagerly pursued that in the firstdays of May a meeting of about seventy of the best young men in the city resolved itself Intothe now flourishing St. John Rowing Club. The inauguration of the St. John Club, the formation of the Pelican Club, and subsequentlyof the Orleans, Riversides and Howard Clubs, brings us down to the celebrated regatta ofSept. 14th, 1874, which occurred at Carrollton at the same minute that the bloody conflict wasgoing on between the police and citizens on the levee, and which resulted in nought but disputesand recriminations among the participants, and was followed almost immediately by the disso-lution of the Louisiana State Rowing Association, under whose auspices it was given.
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GUIDE TO NEW ORLEANS. 237 CHAPTER XXVIII.-STEAMBOAT RACES ON THE MISSISSIPPI. FAST TIME ON THE MISSISSIPPI—THE BEST RECORD TO ST. LOUIS AND CINCINNATI—THE FAMOUS CONTESTS BETWEEN THE LEE AND NATCHEZ. Back in the thirties, is often referred to by old boatmen as the period when steamboatraces, either with each other or against time, were most exciting. There being no parallelImes of railroad, passengers depended on steamboats for rapid transit, and the boat that couldmake the quickest time in her particular trade was the most popuiar with fie traveling public.Racmg on the rivers was so common an occurrence as to attract the attention of only those whohappened to be on board the contesting boats, except when one or both lowered the record ofprevious performances. The runs against time were usually to test a boats capacity for speed,and by tois means improvements were suggested from time to time by which greater speedwas continuaUy being obtained, until the building of a railroad rend

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