New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-05-30


7 lered g extended beyond rs original limit inc
result e lpestrcable confusion But the Lon
donors scorn not 70 have caught the idea OF num-
bornc by lots al all. but 20 have numocrca Only
the houses that actually existed when the num-
herring was undertaken; 50 that, # street nap
rored 10 be numbered when only half built mp,
everv house erected a!tcrward serves to render
confusion worse confOunded. On this account
spent an hour and a half few evenings since IN
Crn,tless endeavors to find William and Mary
Hewitt. though knew they lived at No % Up
pcr Avenue Road. which is less than half mile
long found Nos. 81. %, 30, and 81, and finally
found % also, but in another part Of the street.
with a No near II On one side and NO. 10 ditto
On the other-and this IN street quite recently
opened think New-York has nothing equal to
this IN perplexing absurdity
The Police here Is more omnIprescnt and seems
more efficient than ours. think the use oil
common and conspicuous uniform has good ei-
feet No one can mere pretend that he dehed or
resisted policeman in ignorance OF his official
character The London police appears to be
quite numerous is admirably organized, ana
seems TO be perfectly docile 10 It's supenors. Al
WAYS to obey and never to ask the reason OF
command is the rule here it certainly has ITS
advantages, hut is not well suited to the genius
Of cur people.
The Hofeis of London arc decidedly inferior to
those of New.York DO not mean by this that
every comfort and reasonable luxury may not be
obtained in the London inns for money enough
but simply that the same style Ofliving costs more
in this city than in ours. | think S. per day
would be fair estimate for the cost OF living
Servants fees included as well in a London hO
tel as YOU may live IN frst-class New-YOrk no.
tel for half that sum One main cause Of this
disparity is the smallness of the inns here A
majority Of them cannot accommodate more than
twenty to forty guests comfortably; think there
are not four in the entire Metropolis that could
find room for one hundred each OF course, the
expense Of management, supervision, attendance,
&c IN small establishments Is proporlonaby
much greater than IN large ones, and the English
habit Of eating ftfully soius instead OF at COM
mon hour and table increases the inevitable cost.
Considering the National habits, itmight be haz-
ardous to erect and open such hotel as the As
tor, Irving or New-York in this city but If II
were once well done, and the experiment fairly
maintained for three years, II could not fan to
work a revolution. Wines q understand cost
not more than half as much here, in the average,
as the do in New-York
In Cabs and other Carriages for Hire, London is
ahead of New-York The number here simmense;
they are of many varieties some of them better
calculated for fine weather than any of ours;
while the legal rates of fare are more moderate
and not so outrageously exceeded While the
average New-York demand is fully double the le-
gal fare, the London cabman seldom asks more
than fifty per cent. above what the law allows
him ; and this (by Americans at leasD Is cOnsld-
cred quite reasonable and cheerfully paid. If our
Ncw-York Jehus ccUld only be made to realize
that they keep their carriages empty by their ex-
orbitan, charges and really dOuble-lock their
pockets against the quarters that citizens would
gladly pour into them, think a reform might be
hoped for.
The Omni6Rses of London are very numerous
and well governed, but | prefer those OF New
York The charges are higher here, though still
reasonable but the genius OF this people Is not
SO well adapted to the Omnibus system as ours
is. For example an Omnibus (the last for the
night was coming down from the North toward
Charmg Cross the other evening, when lady
asked to be taken up. The stage was full the
law lorbids the taking Of more than twelve pas
sengers inside a remonSrance was instantly
raised by enc or more of the passengers against
taking her, and she was left TO plod her weary
way as she could. think that could not have
happened IN New-York. In another instance, a
stage-full OF passengers started eastward from
Hyde Park, one of the women having a basket
of unwashed clothes ON her knee. II was Ger
tany nconVcnent and not absolutely molten
siye but the hints, the complaints. the slurs,
the sneers with which the poor woman was an
noyed and tortured throughout-from persons
certainly well-dressed and whom should other
wise have considered wellbred-were a com
pete surprise to me In vain did the poor woman
explain that she was not permitted TO deposit her
basket On the roof OF the stage as II raining
the grows and witticiSmS az her expense con.
tmued and women We're foremost IN this rude
ness doubt that woman was ever exposed
TO the like in New ork, unless she were Sus-
pcctod of having Ethiopian blood in her veins.
The Parks, Squares and Pubic Gardens of
London beat us clear out OF sight The Battery
Is very coed but !, Is not Hyde Park HobOken
delightful kensngton Gardens are and ever
viii remain SO. Our City ought to have made
provision, twenty years ago, for series Of Parks
and Gardens extending quite across the island
somewhere between ThItieth and Flhieth SITS
1t Is now too late for that but al! that can be
done should be Immediately 10 secure breathing
space and grounds Tor healthful recreation 10 the
Millions who viii ultimately inhabit New York
True, the Bay, the North and Eas, Rivers. Will
always serve as lungs to our City, but these of
themselves Will not suffice Where Is or where Is
10 6c the Public Garden OF New-York where the
attractive walks aud pleasure grounds OF the