Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-07-02
For the Delagare Inquirer.
NOTES OF A SHORT JOURNEY IN VARIOUS
DIRECTIONS.
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city of New York, and with my indispensable
little satchel in hand, was numbering up tn,
street.
Having no particular object in view, nor nj
distinct direction marked out for my footsteps
| trudged carelessly along, until found my
self at the great, open, ugly waste, known as
=" Castle Garden" Seeing nothing in the SO.
called ''Garden," that could give it the sha-
dow of title to its name, did not think il
worth walk of exploration, so turning away
from its iron portals, made my way up
Broadway. Broadway is the great artery Of
the city, compared to which all other streets
are mere capillaries. In this immense thor
oughfare, the vitality of the metropolis con-
stantly GIBBS and fiows,-a living, moving, un-
ending current of mortality. Broadway of il
self is a miniature world, where the seven
ages of man are constantly exposed to view
from the helpless infant, pulling and puking
in its mothers arms'' to the decadent ''old
man, sans eyes, sans teeth, sans everything"
Here the Jew and the GENTLE the Levite and the
Samaritan-men of every kindred, tongue and
nation, are jostled promiscuously together,
each bent eagerly and intently upon his own
pursuits and wholly unmindful of the others
interests. The great struggle of life is here
open to view and the war for wealth on every
hand is tiercely waged. With stolid face and
steady tread the col9-hearted worldling wends
his resistless way along the living tide and
sees nothing, thinks of nothing but piles of
gilded treasure and the temporal power there
by conferred. AT his side, trudges YEARLY
along, sone stricken child of poverty,-per-
haps of despair. 1t may be the attenuated
form of needle-woman, whose miserable life
has been dragged out in an obscure garrett, or
amid the choking dampness of dismal eel
lar, where day after day and night after night
she patiently tolls for the bare bread of her exits
tence. But what cares great man for the
suferings of his fellow mortals, particularly
for unprotected and uncared-for women
What, if in moments of desperation and de-
SPAR they should throw aside their tattered
vestments of purity and put on those of sin
full splendor-what if they should in those
moments of wretchedness depart from the mar
row paths of womanly uprightness, andplunge
headlong into the ever-gaping vortex of fe-
male des.ruction--it cannot effect the fortunes |
of those great men whose gold is, already |
boarded aud whose life and soul havelong since
been coined into dollars and cents.
There is not a better place perhaps, in all
he world, tostudy the phases of life, than in
Broadway.
But must return to my stroll through the
metropolis.
Among, the throng, through which had to
make my way, noticed an incredible number
If small traders, who carried their wares ON
heir persons, and persistently solicited thepa-
roMage of the people as they passed.
| was saluted at every step with "buy
o oth-pick sir, y "have dog collar "sweet
ranges, only two cents apiece, . "any cheap
sir ~ ''buy fine comb" cline
zen knives, key rings, hair pins" &c., &C.,
put being obstinately determined not to make
my money by trading, | politely declined
Ill business overtures and pushed along up
he street. With the determination of spend
ng day or two with the good people of New
York, bent my steps in the direction of the
Park, which soon reached. Entering one
If the large hotels which there abound re-
,orded my name on the docket of the insti-
ution, and began to look around me.
The apartment was large, and well furnished i.
Nth all the appliances of good Hotel. The
lerk was an exceedingly well dressed young
'erson and seemed wonderfully adapted to the
POSITION lie filled. He was sober, civil, atten-
i've and altogether agreeable and conde-
cending. Hotel clerks of the large cities, as ,
distinct class of the genus homo, are mostly ,
ude upstairs, who, having risen, meteor-like,
rom some grovelling depth, know no more
low to treat a gentleman, than they would
lnow how to appreciate Heavenly beatitude
t suddenly translated to the endless realms
If light. This clerk, however, had the air !
Ind behavior of wel-bred man and did credit
% thep position he held. The Hotel seemed too, !.
well and comfortably appointed, a
number of polite looking servants heing in at
endance, ready to execute the commands of
he patrons. Expressing wish TO re-
ire 10 my room, | was shown upstairs, to
neatly furnished apartment, proyided-as the
advertisements say-with all the modern i'm
provements including an abundance of fresh
lir and neyer-ending supply of pure Croton. a.
After thorough ablution and a slight change
of apparel-very slight descended to tho
main room and emerged into the street.
The flag advertisements flying from the tops
Of the omnbuses first attracted my attention.
This new-iangled method of business adyer-
Using is adopted chiefly by the play houses
and patent medicine men, but now and then
the same means are used for making public !,
other matters. As stood upon the sidewalk ,
looking out upon the passing cavalcade and l
reading the flaming invitations flying from
one which told of "German Festival at Elm ,
Park" In twinkle soliloquised thus,
My object in coming here is to see what can ,
see, I'm after comfort, never was at Ger
man Festival and by lingo I'll co." So shout
ng TO the Heabby'' to hold up, in less than !
iour seconds from the moment my eyes first ,
rested on the flag was securely seated in the ,
omnibus between two immense dutch women ,
and on my way to the Saternalia. did not ,
much like my Acknowledgements that object ,
ed to the women because they happened to be !
iutoh-but belonging, myself, to Pharoah's ,
lean kline, have an insuperable dread of fat ,
folks and my present circumstances were not