The Portland daily press., 1863-12-31
Is New York a Civilized City 2

II the following which we clip from the
New York Evening Post, is not base libel
npon the common humanity Of the Empire
City-and the Post says the statements are
facts, and Avouches for their not being exag-
gerated - then indeed there is no need Of
sending missionaries to foreign lands to find
heather who need converting - converting
even to the first principles OF humanity-for
the refined, aristocratlc, hieh-born and high
bred circles that take their daily airings In
Central Park, afford a field a. barren of cult
walton and a. much in need Of the humaniz-
ing influence Of Christianity, as the far-off re-
gions OF New Zealand OF the unsubdued wilds
of South Africa. The Posts article Is headed
Central Park Proprieties,' and is as follows:
Last summer two young men, riding in a
light wagon In the park, were thrown out BY
the horses running and SO upsetting the wag-
on. A gentleman who saw the accident from
distance drove up, and after considerable
delay, one OF the young man, who was consid-
erably hurt, was sent home In carriage. The
park was throDged with riders and drivers,
but not one OF the passers stopped to ask
after or to aid the man who was lying by the
road.
In the same month q carriage, in which
were two Cuban ladies', was upset, the ladies
thrown out and SO injured IS to be unable to
rise. A gentleman from California, riding on
horseback with his young daughter, LETT his
horse, . spirited animal, TO care for the suffer-
ers. The daughter left her seat to secure her
fathers horse, aud stood for more than half an
hour at the roadside holding the horse. Hun
dreds of people rode by. Three men stopped
at Intervals and inquired Of the young lady
why she was holding the horses. She replied
that her father was assisting the injured la
dies. No one offered to assist her. No one
stopped TO help the sufferers or the kind Cali
fornian.
Last week two young ladies were thrown
from light carriage near the arsenal, and
both were seriously hurt One of them lay,
unconscious and apparently dead, In the road
where she was thrown; the other, blinded by
blood from her forehead, tried to do some
thing for her companion. Two lady like look
Ing persons stepped from their carriage, went
to the sufferers, looked a moment, and TUNED
and drove away without word. Ladies and
gentlemen, riders and drivers, crowded by,
but no one stopped. No woman was there
with woman's heart to care for or TO minister
to the mute suffering that SO strongly called
for sympathy and assistance.
After more than twenty minutes kind Ger
man physician-may God bless him for kind
and intelligent and successful services came
up; and, with gardener and two of the police
carried one and assisted the other into the ar
senal, where they succeeded In restoring the
one to life, ifnot to consciousness, aud where
their many wounds were carefully dressed.
carriage was found, and the young ladies'
carefully attended to their homes. OF all who
saw the accident not one offered any assist
ance. More gentle than any fair hand which
crowd the Central Park, the police and the
gardener were left to do what We should have
supposed every lady there would have insist
ed on doing.
Truly we have as people, reached a high
point In refined civilization when such facts
can be told Of New York men and New York
women. That they are facts and that they
are not exaggerated we know.