Other sanitary improvements have been made; and with such effect that New Orleans claims to be (during the long intervals between the occasional yellow-fever assaults) one of the healthiest cities in the Union.

There's plenty of ice now for everybody, manufactured in the town.

It is a driving place commercially, and has a great river, ocean, and railway business.

At the date of our visit, it was the best lighted city in the Union, electrically speaking.

The New Orleans electric lights were more numerous than those of New York, and very much better.