New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-05-22
THE VNLOyED CITY.

1OTh dS luc Dooy VI "NANN SN,'''
modern Sodom, doomed to O terrible destiny. New
York is the Unloved City. The Boston boy never
abandons the hope of again going to Boston, and
nothing in the wide world can replace the dear, dis
tracing streets, the perplexing waterpnyliegeS'
Faneuil Hail. where Liberty has had such pro-
tracted rocking and the large-headed people VINO
know so much lie carries with him pervading sense
of Boston, and tells you in glowing rhetoric that IL
is the eve Of America, Athens was the eye Oh
Greece, and dies in the hope of reappearnS IN some
celestial Beacon street wandering forever III
heavenly Common. The Philadelphia boy never ior'
gets that Philadelphia is the straghteSt city IN the
world. that Independence Hall still remains where
the old liberty bell may be SEEM with its mourn
full ssurr that there arc hundred houses in which
Penn lived with the Paramount water-works-the
first wonder of this wonder-creating wOrd-and
Franklin's messy, crumbling gravestOne. The reek
of Pittsburgh only reminds the grim denzen tnat
it is blessed as the Birmingham OF America
Richmond is sacred to the Indian ancestry
of numerous first families. New-Orleans never
forgets the many scepterS that have held II III
dominion and will tell you that to see Paris IN
America 90 to Hippolites and sip abSnthe, or 10
the quaint old cemeteries where Spanard ana
Frcnebman and Creole and Yankee sleep in their
mural tombs or to the wooded plain Of Chalmette,
where a mob of Americans routed mob oil Enghsh'
men one day and made Western lawyer ana militia
man immortal. Great, striding, voracious, BUSTING
New York-who loves it Irving speaks tendery OF
Mannahhtta; but the Mannahatta of his loye-where
il it, Does anybody know who Jonathan Oldstyie
vast Does anybody read Salmagundii On, Time
Time, must our very estS become moldy aud the
humor of to-day have grayelike Odor to our child
REM Do we know that there is a Revolutionary
monument in Trinity or that Old Toms ghost still
mngles gravy for his beefsteaks that in this park
which probably grows it last grass this Summer an en-
thusiastic young Rebel once made speech when all
histories tell about or that just beyond the river under
rock where ferry boats whir aud shrek, and great
ostorcs emit unpleasant gases, he suffered himself 70
be taken out and shot. You can see the place LOT
dime and have your reflections about 1t ana the
foolish men who did murder there that sad July
morning and the vast city that has crept around II III
the intervening sixty years. and still continues creep
ing--heaven knows where
How shall we, doomed to New-York, manage
to live in the Unloyed City Within ten miles oil
TIE TRIBUNE a million and half of human beings
reside Perhaps we should moderate the word and
say manage to live. Toward this center q million
and half are attracted by some fascinating law oil
gravity. How to reach the Maestrom and how to
escape it, without giving our lives to the task is the
problem of each days existence. Thirty years ago
:, rrso an coy stop from the City Hall TO home
Now, it is journey. Every Spring we find street
after street is sold to the highest bidder and those who
cannot bid high must either sink into the slums with
~. e. lilo
neat highway, a little Begravia OF our own, and tip
our doors aud windows with brown stone, and feel
that We are very sedate. To come within the
charmed circle is the ambition of good society. And
so for five years reign in condition Of sublime
and satisfied responsibility. Byandby dentist runs
out his silvered sign Then mysterious people, who
receive company at all hours and exclusively adver-
se in The Herald take the next door mansion, and we
have ruifanly midnight callers and strange questions
asked at the door, Then tavern and millinery store,
and gambling saloon, and pawnbrokers shop until
we find that Trade and the Devil have out-bid Fash
ion that the world has gone off, and that we must
take our gig and fly. What Blocker and Bond-sts.
are now the Ffth-ave will in time bccome-speedily
indeed if corporation ruffans TO carry pistol and
pickax to every mans door and dismantle his DO
main.
What Of those who cannot measure purses
with Trade, Fashion and the Devil We may cross
to Hoboken and the Jersey shores but since the Ex
else law was adopted, these jersey shores have be-
come Sunday Pandemonium. Jersey must do as
We have done, or become a prey to the Huns and
Vandals. Around the shores of the Bay there
thousands of spots where neat houses might be
placed, as well as along the line of the Harlem and
the Hudson Railroads. Fashion has seized on the
Hudson, and the jolly Dutchmen around Spuyien
Duyv and Sleepy Hollow are striving 10 500 Low
much they can make NewYork pay for their r:y md
the Palisades. Ii you would know the elasticity of
Hudson River conscience look at the real estate lists.
Houses rented for as much per annum their alb
solute value and there is no indication OF reduction.
Along the Harlem Road it is bad enough, but the IIar
lem Railroad policy which makes westchester County
a hidden earth after shutdown, keeps thousands from
going into the towns and villages along that Road. So
with Staten Island and that beautiful tract of jersey
land toward the ocean. While the landlords are al.
vancEg their rents to starvation prices, and driving
everything but Trade, Fashion and the Devil out of
the city railroad men and erymen refuse TO take US
out Unless we melt the hearts of the landlords,
Or teach common to the common carriers. there
IS no knowing what will become of us-nothing in the
future, indeed, but cheap lodgings and tenements
Unloved New-York; unloved because Of your very
larshuess,
Ii our common carriers were but wise, how happy |
i would be for ALL If law were passed making it |
imperative to run twenty trains day on each leading
road with not more than three hours difference be-
tween each train, thus giving us at least two trains
about midnight, and il the same rule were applied to
very ferry boat, what relief it would be! The me-
hauc might have his acre of Strawberries and potatoes
4 m .u.kk c... a.. o,l IA