The New York herald., 1867-04-15
A METROPOLITAN SUNDAY.

once week the aspect only Of Broadway but Of
New York In general passes through metamorphcsis,
winch, were II not for certain abiding features In the
form OF animsrs buildings OF eas aud streets OF ira
dltona name and glory would lead the locker In this
venice without Doge to suppose that the New York Of
Saturday had suddenly departed and that another Now
York. quiet and coogneike had taken its place. The
week day faces Of Broadway are its Sunday faces
s week day recreations not Sunday recreaons
In fact In tho few hours between Saturday
afternoon and Sunday morning new race,
with now instincts aud Clothes for that matter,
seems to have suddenly sprung into beng ikc the odd
goblin people into Crce invocstions And these peo
ple perambulate voyage enpoiture, amusing them-
selves In way peculiar to themselves and without COM
prchensibe relation to week day modes Of amusing.
Fashion no longer TO be the street. unless
her way to Trinity the usual promenadcs thronsed
by another race, who obviously promenade in their
best only on Sunday; and generally might saunsr
along Broadway for hours the first day Of the week
without meeting single face which had haunted 1t for
the othor six
To stranger, and eved to the ken OF metropolitan,
there IL something motley and groesqre Ia the ensemble
OF squad Of Sunday promenndcrs made up It usually
Is OF Teutons with pipes tramping Hibernans
and nurses out for airing Of their graces and
fashonables of raialcas turn-all mixed In
Is astr restaurants closed and the lions ~ bns
ness 10 have laid themselves down lhair lars for
season Of arnient and II Ia not until the take sun
day notes has passed street that he reason
TO disabuss himself OF the notion that all OF New York
Except Its houses and few veteran cigar vendes has
shut doors, muied bclls and gone away to attend f-
neral.
Meantime the weather being fne-as II was not yes.
terday owing to incipent ague and premonition Of
rain in the atmospheric jannt TO the Central Park de-
vcops the fact that the New York Of Saturday has emil
grated thithcr Drives and walks thronyed the
MAJ w vahtG md hn uufth Jaofr ~
iotcrers dainty gloved indulge In the fare piazza at
every available point and Fashion makes the Park to
New York on Sunday what Compegne Is to Paris during
the summer monhs
there less Of gaet tho Park and less promenadug
than usual Not that people expected that would rain
but that there was just possibility that might and
that possibility sufficient to ague OF shiver.
ing among the class who dress In guazc, buterhyke
and who are never known to venture out except when
the sun shines For this reason yesterday dull
emigration to jersey, now the sole Sunday eysum OF
topcrs, and considerable returning about nghtfal,
coupled with the prospect Of getting up this morning
pulled volumes Of rsekng and rank tobacco smoke and
gnzzed lager to the content Of every Teuton's heart
deyng the Excise Commissioners who over Jersey hold
Still the distinction betwnen the New York OF yester.
day and the New York OF Saturday too plain and too
well maintained to be mistaken Nobody was out yes-
terday who was out the day BEFORE and nobody was IN
yesterday who was in the day before Nobody was
dressed yesterday anybody dressed tho day be-
fore there ncessant hum OF voices and roar OF
stages there the day befOre there were no gor
geous equpages In front OF Stewards az there were the
day before; and, In general nothing was done yester
day that done over and over again only the day be-
fore-a tending to confirm the theory that there are
two New Yorks on Manhattan one for Sunday and one
for evsry day in the week except Sunday. And drzze
or sunshine-be the weather what i may-New York s
once o week transmogrned for day, and, bewildered
and puzzled, wakes up Monday morning TO find her.
self again In normal condition.