New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-24

know that the fashionable ladies In the metropolis who
7us take their afternoon drive In Broadway are look
ing forward with intense expectation 10 this granite
millennium and equally certain THAI the worthy
City Fathers, when they become aware Of this, VIII
push on the good work they have begun and 80 relieve
glorious Broadway from the inconvenient stigma OF
being built on both sides OF an impossible gully
Thus had we written on Broadway when friend 10
whom submitted it broke out with the following
.posfrophe which we took down IN short hand, and
insert Is a part OF the slice.
We could rail al you Broadway by the hour What
scamp. of high or low degree what hard hearted
woman Of fashion--whai knsyish politiclanwhat pom
pous man Of wealth-sman oficial-blackleg-wha
painted bawd smooth.faced hypocrite-wha idealess
dandy or sicky girl Of sentimentin word, what form
Of folly or crime have you not lent yourself to-made
much of Giving the benefit OF your sunshine and
promenade-side 10 every Of them in their newest
gloss Oh the villains thou hast entertained Broad
way The men Of preience newly arrived Viscounts
returned exquisites celebrities nooreties iniamies
Of every color and degree And yet, turning to the
other side Of the ledger there is large credit for thee
for thou hast shown the great bearded Turk, John
Chinamsn the Choctaw in his blanket prophets, long
haired reformers and whatever else Of strange and
wonderful ia character the world could furnish Thou
hast the fret Of everythngof General returned from
the great fnersls-iti you that open wide your
and give a welcome 10 great men from every quarter
Of the land No matter what the complexion Of their
politics: its all the same to you. You look with
equal pride an equal smile Of satisfaction Webster
and Jackson. on Scott and Clay. Has any man ever
undertaken to estimate the notabites who have been
irretrievaby swallowed up in its ever.fowing wave
OF a few Of the humber we can recoect within the
few past years that deietic phenomenon the ginger
bread man. who in spite OF the energetic buttoning Of
his coat 70 the throat and the strides he was
used 10 make was Overtaken and submerged And
Poshewaite Page the mighty calculator OF the func
ton Of in the tap of beerbarrel as affecting the
siderea system, where is he And Mario that modest
incubator of Hebrew at 100000 douboons per lesson
The long bearded man with the nexhaustible long
nine And the whitewash man Alas these have all
persisted from the sight.
Strange to say, although this mighty medium for the
exhibition of all that singular and eccentric Broadway
cannot claim single peculiarly for itself THERE'S not
sin gle feature by which you define itno one quail
ty By which is distngushable from the commonest
street You can say of it, il is great sheet Of glass
through which the whole world is visible as in trans
parency In fact rest you content in Newfork, and,
making pilgrimage r time 10 time TO this thorough
fare we will engage you shall see in due succession.
whatever your hearts set on. The world will come to
you from every part in Broadway You have heard per
haps of an elephant In Siam of exceeding size wonder
full docity, the temper OF an ansel-you would give
finger to have a sight Of him day trumpet is
blown, you prick up your and making for Broad
way behold Siam" Just arrived and marching In state
at the head OF a
The celebrated Musical College OF La Scala Milan, is
in high enthusiasm with the singing Of Signorina Luni
Shall we hear her will her countrymen part with
herl You fear, never turn Of the wheel, and the
Signorna is seen, through coachwindow, taking her
first drive in America in Broadway. so Of dancers'
jugglers lords warehouses; panoramss, cosmo-
ramas dancing birds In questions OF apparel, Broad
way has an equal variety and preference II there's
peculiar hat born and worn in Bondst London new
Revolutionary blouse in Paris extraordinary pair
of trousers in Berlin or special style of beard among
the Persians or Russian whiskers Roman nous
ache-in its and when each has attained its
rpeness-look for it in Broadway and you shall find IT.
The whole world in the of It's life aocks
10 Broadway And yet nothing sticks
There is not in all Broadway memorable building
-tshal we except Trinity Church, and Mr. stewards
Dry Goods Store D-not monument-not sight
worth the seeing It's chief Characteristic is that all
things shall be brought to a certain webred and i'm
movable level Mark the passengers not as the PEG
pie. in other more Democratic precincts, scramblne
freely about dashng to right and left taking across the
way AT an anrle-but all moving in right line, 10 the
right up 10 the right down All dressed in about the
same decent habiliments all carrying heads up, and
observing the decorum of the with due gravity
and steadiness Broadway never, or rarely has It's
gentlemany propriety disturbed by the rush OF hre
engine or drove OF cattle or the tramp OF target
excursion.
For real life and the display OF numbers Broadway
is in full force through Sunday and with an increased
power on Sunday evening. IL is then that the nice
dressing of New Workers is TO be seen in the highest
perfecton-a solid mass from Grace Church to the
Battery perfect Mississippi, with double current
up and down of glossy brosdcloth and unblemisbed
De LANES An army on the march to battle could not
move with stricter precsion-a procession OF monks
and nuns bound convent.wsrd with more sacred gray
ity New-York in Broadway, on that day, makes
mighty sacrifice to soemny requng Itself little in
tn evening by stepping aside into the shops and gar
dens and rapping for nnumerable ice creams
It's above all other streets localities and positions
the test of responsibility II you touch your hat
TO fifty people in Broadway, your character IS o. x
vou are an established man But beware of cuts
They are dealt about in that thoroughfare with an aw
h,l nrofusion II you are in doubt about yourself If
Won are under cloud, if your hat is rusty or your
Goa, going if you have been parsgraPhed as having
failed or IS involved in any little unfortunate matter
shun Broadway as you would fire. You will be shot
down on your first appearance ike an outlaw. You
will not have minutes mercy allowed you You viii
nc, pass ten steps before some kind gentleman sud
denly obivious of your countenance, will bring home
TO YOU painfully sense of your miserable condition
Til Fortune befriend you, sneak through the eide
streets.
There are hundreds and thousands in New-iork
who cannot live out of Broadway who must bresthe
its air at least in the day or they gasp and per
ISL They are creatures OF conyennonality, whose
sole luxury whose chief enjoyment in this world, IS 10
have certain hats touched them every day Of their
life in Broadway This is their mornings anticipation,
their evenings Renaissance and when at length they
find this wori and is affairs closing upon them, they
call confdeaual friend their bedside and whisper
in his esr. as they going. Let the funeral 60
through Broadway I"
IT SLICE XIX. will tell the reader something
about The Firemen'
For To Tnbun..
To the Writer Of /" New-York In sIires.-
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