The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-10
northern Correspondence.

, Northern Correspondence.
New York, Sept 3d. 1913.
Broadway. nowadays. presents its most attractive and
pendent appearance of all the year Take walk with
up that framed thorOughfare. Cross over from the
BATTERY gates the where stands the residence of
Mr. Mayor Mickle ancient pile, (aneen for Amer
ca) built originally for the colonial gubernatOral palace
and occupied such by Sir Henry Clinton, and by the
British commanders during their occupation of New York
from the disastrous week following the battle of Long Island
down to - Eyacuaioq day
When the British ran away"
as the old schoolboy rhyme hath The architecture of
tose days was of more permanent character than marks
our hasy times Th brick walls of this old house. for in
stance keep their perpendicular, and the ceilings their
exact horizontal without a need of repair; while
structures Of far later date and more ambitious preensons
have long since become quite dapidated. Just off at
back the stately that faces the Bowling Green and
looksso supecousy up Broadway if announcing to the
world in general that there nothing up there that
could hold candle TO the ime-honoTed dignity Of
houses standing the oldest settled spots of Manhattan
The Bowling Green Fountan-what think you of it I!
All Judge by its present dry and desolae look. When
the gushes out and rolls the rocks in cacadish
little rs and the big spout lifts itselfas high the taest
trees, then you might have better opinion OF this fountain
Peoples judgments yet remain divided about its merits
approve the design. and Others pretending 10 equal
taste condemn il vile blotch. One thing must be
knowledged by all that when left arid and bare the dull
gray rocks and dry bed Of the surrounding excavation make
of the unsighty specace that pair of need
look upon.
AS we pass up Broadway we behold happy bits
of solid and tasty architecture Some eight doors from
Battery place. that tall dwelling entrance guarded by the
same big lions bronzed that held watch the spot
the former house burnt down in the great fire of A.
Here few doors further where Mrs. David Hale formerly
keptan excellent boarding house stands DemonicOs whts
Ofgeous furniture fit fora palace Then comes long row Of
ouses Con the e venerable and fashionable but
still inhabited by of old KniekerbOcke families,
and d rich propietOH and merchants To the right hand
commercial men. The U. s. Bonded Warehouse occupies
the site Of the old avery Hotel and some beautiful stores
have been put up still further down.
Now begin TO the tide of fashion. Our New
York bellies fit along gracefully; you may know them by
that 1.-the and easy walk and unmsakabe dash of style and
elegance You may always confidently count seeing
greater proportion of feminine beauty the Venus of
Medc model during hours walk along Broadway, than
any where else out of Paradise Among the notice
of the cosmopolitan influence than ever; genuine
New Yorker indeed may be known by his possessing
characteristic trait The pecuantes of all nations are
5oftened and blended in him.
Trinity Church here lifts its head; majestic and sombre
pile whose proportions true and chase that the be-
holder at first does not realize its magnitude-tor that's
of the results Of an proportion of parts architecture
The interior Of this church nober than the outside
there in the arched inner roof: have often
spent half hour in roaming that roof and
along the great rear window, which pOuays the Saviour
and Apostles of e-size. Come along here any Sunday
morning, and will hear the bells Ginning meniy it
a pity they don't get competent player upon them,
however. Merely
peang that continually but substitute for the real
music that might be drawn from the bells There at the
trance inst the left the brave Ld0reRces burial place
and monument, marble sarcophsgus above the surface,
with several half buried perpendiculary around
and supporting iron chain. On side Of the
ment is the following inscription:
The Hero whose remains are here deposited with his
dying breath expressed his devotion TO his country Neither
horrors Of approaching death could suBdue his gallant spirit
His dying words were-DOn't gi0e up the shipP'
Still vending way onward the current increases be.
coming Dense and its elements affords study enough
Just walk Broadway and behold emixture character
and appearance spread the sidewalks The shops and
their gtteing wares-the foreign sights the fashions
both masculine and feminine all together of inferior in
terest to the humanity one sees in Broadway:
Youth, with pale brow and slender Frame
And dreams of greatness in thine eye,
Or, early in thy task to die
:" Keen son Of trade, with eager brow,
Who is now Hutenng in thy snare
Thy golden fortunes, tower they now,
Or melt the gllttenng shapes to air
~. Who Of this crowd tonight shall tread
Who sorrow DER the unimely dead
Who wrthe in throes OF mortal pain
Some. famine-struck shall think how long
The cold dark hours, how slow, the light;
And some who fiaunt amid the throng,
Shall hide in dens of shame tonight"
Expressive verses those, ain they and in Bryants
concise, smooth, scuptuary style
At our left hand and right the windows OF thick plate
glass that like vanished air. Some Of those panes
cost hundreds OF dollars and, inside, behold the riches OF
all chimes and and nations Hats of gloss darker than
te m waters that lie in the shade of mountain chasms
patent leather boots dttogaments with the royal signe
of Broadway every and od-books and such books
% then indeed are be envied particularly if looks in at
Wey's or Putnam's, ALPHABETICALLY beautiful
thaR Shas and Suans wore because arranged with
civilized taste-and five hundred other things and
far far too many to menonthese line the sides of Broad
way fenced in hom the operation Of cOmunpist pnnc.
pies by iron sticks and the aforesaid plate glass
Let us pause moment on the tagging before ST. Paul's
This crowd which surrounds see, composed
mostly of foreigners and counyfok They curousy
gazing at the pictures which pacad the walls of the Amer
can Museum Opposiepiotures of fish, flesh and fowl and
Of some objects which surely before in earth
sea or air The Mammoth Boys" and the Real Tong.
Gong Minstrels" are. doubtless, especially attractive
though their counterfeit preenments there would hardly
enrapture artist.
Perhaps the nOisiest part Of Broadway from the Astor
House 10 Chambers There resounds incesSant
oang like the roar of an endless battle, with dust match
somenles-oppose, lies the Park, with its thrifty trees and
lis lovely fountain ever gushing. Amid the rumbing
from moment TO moment distinguish the dull click of the
iIon gates the Park falling to from the myriad of in and
OatEOers The massive square walls OF the Asor, which
agesto will probably look we look now, are
adorned here and there by the gancng out OF pleasant faces
from the Wiudowsvomen and childehs faces Just be-
You'd gmpsea Of appearing through the trees, shows the
dirty white of the CITY Hall Justice up ao far out of
the way was possible to put her and where not one
human being Of thousand could possibly reach her
So much FOR hasy transcript Of part OF ones inn
prsssions 10 Broadway We viii the rest for another
sPstle- MANHATTAN