The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-21

| apprehended.
| sabbath Recreation and the Sanitary Conn
mlttee Of the Legislature.
Exercise country acknowledged to be important
lis sanitary ELECTS; but when where the masses
to enjoy this element for th Improvement and prcscrva
ton Of health?
In london, Paris, yicnn and Berlin every facility is
...a. ls people OF those cities to escape from crowae.
streets to the country aon Sunday railroads wheel
TO rural retreats, where they ENJOY
arr cheerful views OF natural scenery who afterwards
turn 10 ber habaiions contented and better cit
....
In london, although under the rule of established
religion there attempt made prevent the egrcss
nopuaiion to the country. On Sunday which the
aUcins c1scs much enjoy there are railroad trans
stages and steamboats,, gong cry direction y
visit by the railways Sunday Windsor Castle and
hampton Court; you sa miles up the Thainc
and dine at Richmond Tor you can. proceed down The
Thames, visit Blackhcaih 4 Greenwich Hospital, 90
| TO woolwich andS 10 Gravesend twenty miles
below London to Mgate watering place ON the sea.
| shore.
.1o--anls upon thousands Of mechanics, shopkeepc,s
and people Of every variety Of! pursuits, week
emerge fine Sunday weaher rom the narrow streets
and confined dwellings, and, escaping from the smoke in
winch they have performed weeks hard toll proceed
by Of the public conveyances an excursion 10
breathe the country air Ron thesc Sunday mgraiions
they are usually accompanied by their and children
with baskets Tiled with lunches The appetite ,mn
their return These generally eaten some green
spot beneath tree, in neat retired country mn
after they have had their Lungs refreshed by the nh,la
ton Of iresh mir, they return to their homes better
health better coutentcd renewed and nvgorated "a be
| cn another weeks work.
p,ra tho visiting md sur
rounding country equally great You can go to Yer
sa s and walk through the saloons hung with spcn lid
paintings; you VISIT vnccnncs, st. Cloud other
prominent places, while E;rt galleries in The city
opcn 70 Gree pubic Inspection. t
There is large city tie Continent which docs not
afford facilities for the tong to go country
on sunday-he only day in the week which they can pos
siby lind opportunity for dong-thus fulfilling the
declaration that .'the Sabbath was made for man. and
not man for the sabbath"
Tie absolute governments Of Europe hnl iha by Civ
INC the people in cities facilities visit the country with
the privilege Of enjoying innocent Sunday
IL condgces to their health and happiness and renders
| their goyernn, much easier
II has been reserved for the government Of New York
in republican country, where there established re
gon impose unnatural and forced restrictions on the
liberty OF the people sunday Ever since the descend
Of the Arians have obtained ccthoii this State
and city they have been constantly work endeavoring
10 their dogmas by legal on the con.
sciences Of the people They for shutting up the labor
ing in narrow street, and In epemen, houses on
Sunday or 10 70 70 the "convcnticlev They design
that the blacksmith, tailor carpenter and other
mechanics, whose muscles have been exercised in
| labor all the week. and whose wife and children
have been shut up in impure air in badly ven.
tla,ed rooms, shall them on Sunday exclad.
ed from the light and .utshle of the country. To these
blue hght disciples matters that the poor mans
children may he afflicted With Diseases or that
confined and ovcrwork saprng the health Of their
parents which might he acvia,ed by breathing the pure
Of the country yet they cut OF from enjoying
far as their influence 20 The wife and children arc
confined the streets q the city while tho husband cafs
in grogshops mcpcs and sleeps home prey to mor
dcoutent and but half renewed for his on Mon
| day.
We would advise the Senatorial Sanitary Committee Of
the legislature, sitting in this city inquire into
this subject and how the health aud moral
" a the people affected by the o cgrcss the
pure air of the country Sundays.
strue a few persons can be jammcd into our oiy
ralrcai Sunday, apd after dusty ride, may
drng lager bier within the grounds Jones' Wood ~
vsi Harlem o. the Quarantine grounds staten saud
bu, os getting twenty thirty miles into the country
| BY land, i y out az the question.
ties to s over crowded population visit the country
sunday than Now York Il Is the centre of no ess than
haif DOZEN railways penetrating tho county every
direction with any amount of water communication; yet
every locomotive engine made "a stand stl Sunday
except those forced ont 10 carry the mails And attempts
| have been made, again and again, 10 stop these.
Instead of bccuming liberal becoming
bgotcd or more subject 10 bgotcd rule aud nngsuce.
some few years since the New Jersey Railroad
sun lay aud thousands visited the country that d.
rcc,on the profit tho people the road snd 10
the country: but that stopped Ivy the Presbyterian
influence in that state.
Tho Harlem Railroad used Sunday twenty and
thirty miles into the country, which great relief 70
the p,opc The road average about VI 900
per Sunday about SIS 900 per snnum which being
bard pressed for means a great relief TO Il. bat
beotry got the upper hand in its management stopped
| lis Sunday travel, cut on the people from the
| country, and sacrificed the receipt Of sis0oo per
annurn Now there is not an engine employee
| in conveying the people 10 The country ON sun.
| day from the city whereas they all ought
at least during the spring, and mouths
10 run trains twenty thirty miles into thc country every
| hour on Sundays Were The New Jersey, the Hudson
RIVER the IIarcm New Haven Long Island Railroads
10 do this thousands upon thousands people would visit
me country and breathe ia fresh air who probably
40 no. do 80 once IN a twcIvemonth.
such circulation of the population Sundays would
conduoc to lis health and morality, and contribute 70
ement Of railroad property, well enhance the
value OF country real estate
Let the Sanitary Committee examine into the subject,
and report upon I as uportut sanitary measure