The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-22

Daiiohs 81 some osr, though overloaded with oTBa-
mem ana ue nc" dwelling house Of A. T. stewart,
which. though soo heavily laden with oruau,sut ID
PROBABLY one OF the moss expensive private residences
s., Thomas ebuc sone ~ so,t ,us o ana seaso.
ttfees, mss heen loeted OF the way by
InnHy, - Fsups and others the business quar-
trade, will have ia viii A dozen years since
Castle cafden Vas opera honse and lnded 70
ne carols Of Jenny Lind carrier wen: the old Park thea
we later passed away the &cll OF Pamos Opes House,
where sang halOrau, stsrApoaL the elder Patti and
otlers .nons Tue pioneers Of the opera, TO whom New
YORK Ia ls'enec aud whom though business has bad
memory The metropolis still Asor place s
no longer stylish and Clinton Hall the haunt OF
operac ceieorsies has been given up TO persn ped
iefs Ca lsias business knocks the door OF all build
lngs Within ts beat and demands adnitance; knocks
year after year and II not admitted finally begins work
OF ueih ot4oh and packs of building and occupant tose
thsr fuDiiestion houses unable 10 compete with dry
goods houses Tor room Broadway, have gone OF in
nsro 10 broohie street. having straysd into
mercer street and some few into Grand street and
presently broadway will have publication houses and
not BOOK store from end 10 end-though what with
ressung second class English novels anu leaving Amer
can writers TO tho tender msrces of the wolf OF hunger
publishers are mskng tolerable incomes and keeping
tpcm, without literary venture libsrality
Thus business, with its cry OF more ROOM il grad
uaiiy iorcing all things out Of Broadway from end
enc ana WI BY and by have lis will in all things per-
tanning " the me.r0polis-busncas which has way OF
taxing penny IN ia hand aud increasing Il from itself
py sort OF geonetrcal progression. and which thus
these source OF profit; business. bitter eli, which
often upssts the calculations OF aud leaves
me greenhorn to win in spite Of the experience OF hs
opponents business which is really the arbsr OF tho
destiny OF nations. XII
AT Hx TIE MORNING. ,,
BUSINESS - IN early riser aud often gets up and has
thing done before Fifth avenue begins even to yAwn
having been up late the evening before visit to
Masploston Market from five O'Clock TO seven, before
anybooy mas came down would give New Yorker
who rises late, some ideas Of what ia going on
before he Is ready for breakfast The stad business
on Broadway near Fulton street. have not even ink
ing OF the sscre;ng and jamming and shouting and
of ST. Ra. Ts o@ % IL vs Ai hours ".
tops Of the houses, and shadows still liIsd the
street AT the intersection Of Fulton street and Broa1
way is probably the worst point 10 the vicinity, but
At Washington Market the hurry bury Is simply un-
bearable Carts Of every ensemble loaded with every
Of marketable commodity line the streets for squares
aooutcarts hudded together seeming to be wedged
together In every concsivsbe sort OF confusion New
by yawn, and nobody Is that army OF queer
people with carts and cabbages have come 70 town In
her scarlet pillow and pu, the question: "what time is
nr They are here, howeyer--Quaint strange people,
who, with the single exception Of the fact hat they
swear IKE other people, have AIM ty for the
army that takes their place at ten They are every
wne,e'hsse distributors q bests and cabbages, Of Gu
cumOs.s AND sqssshss and New York would want for
Ihey put down their burdens here and there, and
early as seven and half O'Clock the last has
drive out into the country long before Fifth avenue
mas waked up. Thus an army OF benefac-
.ots, sAey stehi into the city At the dusk or
dawn, and an army Of individuals with empty
carts and emptier horses, they steal out again;
and nobody sees them, nobody hears them,
nobody aware that they have boon here except that
the vegetables and salads not wlted dinner They
flock in and down town from every northward direo-
ton-why cannot New YORK have respectable markets
located where they should beY-and back again they
u0cY tnI9ngn Peope!ess streets with from six To eight
layers OF humanity browsing at the right and ct the left
Then begins the work OF Observation-Disclosures being
the real Wholesale marketand before nine IN The morn
Ing cabbages just pucked have travelled to parts Of
the city; While sqaashes melons and the ike ex-
posed every corner grocery from the City Hall TO the
PARK And thus what was brought silently 10 town
In the morning has found its into every hotel and
dwelling house and restaurant ut The unloading
distribution and general dissemination Of eatables has
been work Of only few hours, and the picturesque
people who we're here herds this morning VIII be here
In herds To- morrow with fresh supply. -.
The next thing that ought to be driven up town the
new YORK markets miserable shAntes with endless
Q49r OF decay about them in the very midst Of popuous
city and yet New York In its progress hos driven them
northwad though not many years allotted TO
them. Business gradually expeling from it, sirs
and dens below Blocker street. will II be long before
business pulls down, from sheer disgust, buildings
like the general tenor OF New York markets II Is bus
ness that works out tho problems Of civilization and pro-
gression upon which philosophy has specialized long,
and, left TO itself, business will work the destiny Of
Hanhattau.