The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-01-09

= -. -
3. :
I Nf rfWE1 IfftHA Aaaai ~ ss3ss na
& 4 - ~ ffssssaasSF ssNa ssA
II 4. y.
Il 1sssei' sss s''sss sie9s s.
=. =. .-!1.
Ntw x0nx cffr4ISssKxrgvF ANDi
rs'.'s Il sa sGlsAN1epl-s ETg .-ss.sTs1 i.
r. nenrlaties of Nev Youk. thoueh nov
over ons niIEoa incladipr IL drpsnd dsneies,,
- not ao 70 nsrkablN & featuts: fot thess
are ut;es = Eurcvs t~iSe e. ,hSss ejssss ias
sisa ~ ahafs isfbst oss sEew Yesk. and
b.t one Broadway - -the world. Other
c;t;As nave 4Neit xfeet edinee6 A4a nv III
which -. thsis nsaskeA md peculiar foa-
turas mt New York s an im,nepse city Of
edi6ce.-vtrscts. whose walls, sixty or sew
entv feet hich On either side. Arc but con-
tinTtion spd succsssion Il masble and brown
stoee uelssss fss miles. A psssos 10 visit
Nev YorL nov. who has been sbsent for ten
years. would be filed with astonishment.-
He would not recoeIsiss single square ID
Broadwsy. The Old Hand marks % familiar
to the rcsidens ten ysars ago, have disap.
psatsd, apd their plases, been, SLED b. stn-
pendous iron. marble, or brown, stone struc-
lures 80 immense and eofkeous as to bewilder
and assouish fhs behoIdef. And VI the work
Of tearing down what were 6at sscsatiy
splended brick and stone buildings, and
erecting in their stead, marble annd iron
fronts three or four times their size, and ten
times their cost, is going on with an impet.
uosity and rush unequslled By any former
year.
r n. A. - ~.
magnitude Of New York including ita subur-
ban cities, the reader will consider the fol-
lowing facts and figures:
J 1t contains over foxrtesn hundred miles Of
sidewalk, enough to reach from New York
across the Atlantic TO Liverpool. II has
foyfv.fsco Ahousand lamps to light those
streets, consuming over one million one
hundred thousand cubic feet Of gas every
night.
1t possesses shipping wharves and piers
around the Bay, including the North and
East rivers over eight miles and a half in
extent, at which lie more than three thousand
ships, large and small, including ocean
steamers. Eighty-fve ferry boats ply be-
tween New York proper and BROOKLYN, Will
iamsburgh, Staten island, Jersey City, Ho-
boken and other points, carrying daily on
an average. one thousand passengers each.
or eighty thousand in the aggregate, making
the enormous sum of over twenty millions
human beings in one year. .5g Rl} n
Broadway swarms with 800 omnibusses
carrying on an average l6O persons each,
per diem, making one hundred and twenty
eight thousand persons, most of whom ride
along Broadway every day. amounting to
the round sum Of thirty eight millions per
annum. These omnibusses are drawn by Eve
thousand horses. worth AZ low estimate.
six hundretl and iifty thousand dollars. which
are worn out and have to be replaced eyery
year. This riyes the stock grower in the
conntrv .ome Sdeo What becomes of the horses
that are hronoht east. Each omnibus max kes
nine t6ousand six hundred omnibus,es pass-
inc Barnum,s Museum from six O'Clock in
the morning until twelve at night. These.
however. are not more than one-third part
of the vehicles which trayerse Broadway. %
there are hacks. carts. market and exnresa
wagons in endless and indiscriminate pro-
fusIon. recurring ns much practical skilf for
a nerson to Get safely across Broadway Of 4
rainy Afternoon. AZ "a navigate Z steamboat
ON the Miasissinpi river. - sr-.
We have also branching Of from Broad.
wav through the different great arteries of
the untown citv. forty miles az citv railroad.
with l5O horse and mule cars. CAPABLE Of
seating so person. each. and when iammed.
as is customary. will hold 100 PERSONS
Some double- decker. carry $50 messengers.
These railroads average to the car three or
four hundred nassenoers per day. or in the
aeerepote. over thirteen millions per annum.
Then there are eight mail railroad. radiatinp
from New York. with numerous auxiliary
branches as they permeate the regions round
about, all of which pour their foods of pas
sepeers and produce into this CITY. It is es-
timated that not less then ten thousand per-
sons per day enter and leave New Yerk by
means of these great modern thoroughfares.
Resides these. the River. Raw. and Sound
Steamers, from 80 to 100 in number, bring
into the city and take away nearly. n not
quite as many as the railroads to say nothing
Of the hundreds OF passenger, clipper ships
and ocean steamers, which arc constantly
entering and leaving our port loaded With
human freight. -
We turn now to our markets. OF the
structures containing tnem we nave hothing
to say, farther, than a more scaly, dingy.
patched-up, filthy appearing set OF buildings
never disgraced modern city. Yet, they
contain the article that makes q hungry man
laugh, in any conceivable abundance. Think
Of one city devouring three thousand i've
hundred beef cattle, twenty-seven hundred
yeals, forty-ive hundred sheep, and three
thousand hogs in one week, and you have a
slight conception OF the number and extent
OF the New York meat markets. Besides
these more substantial animals, wo consume
over i've thousand fowls OF different grades,
and the round sum OF thirty tons OF hsh ev-
cry day. AZ to vegetables, our arithmetic
caves in. We have no means OF knowing
the quantity of potatoes, cabbage, 6ccts,
turnlps, onions, &C., but they unquestlona-
bly, bear family resemblance to the other
items IN the count. As to the stan OF lie,
We can give at least the approximat'ng tg-
ures. We have eleven hundred bakeries
which deal out to the public on an average
each 400 loayes OF bread per DAY, or the IN
credible quantity OF one hundred ana Sky
million loaves per annun, amounting u s'x
cents each to the snug little sum OF nne
millions six hundred thousand dollars.