The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-06

river. MUSIC WILL no longer DC cOuuuou " VIC
privileged few, who learned to smatter few
words Of Italian for $40 quarter four own
language will be adapted to the airs, and we
shall cease to initiate the English in despising
our native tongue. When it il built, the ragged
boys in the street will discard Dandy Jim"
and the "Old Folks at Home" and viii be
known to MARBLE snatches from "Puritani," or
whistle cavatinas from Robert" Who cares
for the opera house!
The greatest, perhaps, Of all desiderata, is .
comfortable, economical, respectable lodging
house. People who have no house of their own
are at present at liberty to choose between
living at hotel, where it costs small fortune
for bare subsistence, and taking rooms at one Of
those licensed purgatories called boarding
houses, which realize the highest possible de-
gree Of physical and moral discomfort. 1t is
now proposed to supply the deficiency by q
model lodging house on the French plan. That
it will succeed, if established on sound econo-
mical principles, and will be followed by dozens
Of other similar establishments, we see no rea-
son to doubt. Our population is increasing
with unequalled rapidity. Men, even with
large incomes, do not like to spend $500 or
$4,000 year, for mere board and lodging; and
have still more violent antipathy to entrust-
ing their domestic cares to the tender mercy
Of the ogres who preside over boarding
houses. In few years, If the experiment we
have mentioned is judiciously carried out, we
shall have hundreds of large buildings. divided
into separate apartments, in which families can
enjoy the comforts of home without mourning
q ruinous expenditure. But who is thinking
about Mr.. Sanderson or his scheme?
Again, while people with incomes Of 81 200 to
$4,000 q year need quiet, comfortable, econo-
mical residence, the working classes require Is
imperatively a public promenade where they
can breathe the fresh air and enjoy the
luxury Of an hours walk through shady
alleys canopied with green foliage London
has its parkstParis it's gardens. Shall New
York be the only great city that can boast Of
neither! Shall we, who revel in countless
tracts of available land, be more stingy Of our
acres than the English Or French, who have not
an inch unoccupied! Heaven forbid The
poor must have their park, if it cost us million
to purchase it. 1t must and will be laid out,
and thrown open, before we are many years
older. Aweek after it has been opened, nobody
will think or talk about it.
So the world wags Scheme after scheme,
project after project reform after reform, follow
each other in rapid succession. each adding =
mite to our personal comfort and happiness. So
many. SO vast. are they. that none of the num-
her can arrest our notice or retain our graft
tude for more than a few hours. Its impression
isyet fresh on our mind when it is blotted out
by new one, more surprising, more popular
still. Weforget what we owe it, and cannot for
the life Of US remember the discomfort we suf
fered before its birth. Like the acute throb of
pain that memory cannot recall after it has
ceased, the inconvenience caused by the want
of an opera house, park. lodging house, will
soon pass away from our recollection when we
have got them.