New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-26
GROWTH AND GRANDEUR OF NEW
YORK.

advances OF IUTls lot tNc ldSt tHtho 1eaAb oic
/ invariably connected with the name Of Loui,
Napoleon. The American traveller who goes
thlther, after an interval Of twelve years eX-
Claims not only how large, majestic ard oppor-
tune are those avenues, reaching so far IN right
lines, and doubly fanked with fine houses;
how admirable are the changes and improve
ments in the Louvre Palace how well ar
ranged aud inviting the accessions to the Bots
de. Boulogne. But 10 adds, with an exhaustive
expiration Of enthusiasm: WHAT great soye-
reign. what q great man. is Louis Napoleon
And the travellers friend, and the friends friend,
and the friends friends freud-a select party
Of four, dining at the Cafe Trois Freres-echo
,eyerally in English, Italian aud German: What
n great man is Louis Napoleon So tie mat.
ter ID setIled--s confirmed with Moet's Impe-
rial, aud letters private and gazotted follow
, with the opinion recorded. So, too, the Ro-
man Caesar said, that h. found the capital Of
wood, and be left it Of .tone.
All this greatness Of men who level old rock
cries and slums, and put up new houses and
new streets, with the liberty Of laying on the
ociroi and tho taxes generally up 10 tho last
screw OF the fnalca iuruicut, proves too
much. 1t shows simply how little freedom,
mo!ye-power, activity, intelligence. aud cohesion,
au entire community must have, when one
man can get all the credit due TO capitalists,
architects a1d masons. as housebuillers and
strect-layers.out in general. We are prone 10
ash, for what were given OIL the organs OF
sight, touch. smell, taste, If one man stands
municipal. sponsor for their exercise Did il
never occur 10 these Travelled critics that New
York is growing. and IL the great Crescent of
all modern cities Did they never find
out that Broadway as whole, though
yet composed of full fifty per cent Of old,
ragged, cheap, and disgraceiully ugly low
thtce-stOry houses, is with the Improvements
made upon il the finest business street in the
world We would like to learn. where in all
Paris there is such u Wholesale shop as the old
Stewards, or such a retail-shop as the new
Stewards, in Broadway. We wish to have
pointed out any such colossal jobber's entrcpot,
as Clann, Alellen & Co.'s, cotangent with
Broadway, and the wide range and cunula-
ton Of mercantile palaces that weary the eye
in their numerous multiplications in the streets
running from Broadway to the rivers. Have
the same travellers never remarked the
stately avenues in the more northern
parts of the city, spreading straight and
beautiful "a the fight Of the arrow from the
strongly -twanged bow, which are bestudded
with thousands Of the finest private dwellings
not equred we affirm in all particulars as n
whole in any city in Europe Any one such
house has often figured in foreign novels of the
Old school as the superlntive home of the su-
perlatiyc heroine; emphasized IA though it were
a rarity aud something to DO desperately en-
yled-wbile here ia Now-York such mansions
so abound that the writer of domestic fiction
would fail 70 make hit if she spread himself"
upon any such detail. Have these travellers
too never encountered the Central Park We
do not hesitate to say that when it ia finished
or put into reasonably good trim--it will be
tho finest of It's class in tho world. Then for
our theatres: for their size they are the COM
pletest anywhere to be found. We do not us
pire to cathedrals-but our newest churches
for neatness and comfort, and in tho require
ments Of the spirit of the age are superior
altogether. OF other public buildings we have
nothing to boast, as the product Of the last
twelve years.
All these improvements however Of New
York are made by-Nobody. Nobody is
responsible for laying-ont vi improving
the city. Nobody can be accused of rapidly
doubling the number Of the bulldogs aud giving
them fifty -iold OF the outward and inward splen'
dor they had few years ago. Nobody can h
quoted On Il great mau ilon. Most trno We
huyr 10 ercei mcp. Mea ne sr'al R1ort.'