West-Jersey pioneer., 1868-05-15
NEW YORK CITY.

will enable New Workers to see them.
selves as others see them:
Seven hundred and twenty-six thou.
sand three hundred and eighty-six human
beings lie down to sleep in the city Of
New York and rise up to eat; and not one
of these thousands produces a grain Of
food. Yet to eat is what they desire above
all other things. OF these 726 1856 human
beings there are 80, ,056 more females than
males. 1t follows, therefore, that all are
not and can not be married Indeed, it
appears from the last census that 423, (, ,12l
persons in this city are not married.
The question will be asked, Why are
these peopleiin SO unnatural and danger
GUS condition. The answer is most
complex; and no two persons would give
the same reply. Nevertheless the priim
capal reason is precisely because they do
not want to raise the food they eat.
Not only is there no food produced in
the city Of f'New York, but water to drink
has to be brought some forty miles; and
the bursting Of pipe across the High
Bridge at the Harlem River would pro,
duce temporary panic, Sixty millions
of gallons Of water come daily pouring
into the city, through great pipes Of ma
sonry forty miles long, tapping the Croton
River; which water the people drink and
waste. These Croton water-works have
cost about $4,000, 900; and for the use
of the water they now pay every year
about 81, ,000, 900; which, added to the
interest on the cost, makes near s3,0O0,-
600 annually-that is what aoater costs in
New York. But it is not only this $3,-
000, 900 worth of water that they drink;
they are, under the new license law, some
1000 grog-shops, which dispense every
kind Of drink, except water. known
under the sun. As there are about 81
600, 900 gallons of whisky brought into
the city yearly, besides what is made
there and what is brought from Europe,
it follows that the people do not go dry,
But, in addition to the water aud the
whisky, there is imported from foreign
countries vast amount of wine, brandy,
gin, rum, arrack, cordials, and other
curious preparations, to induce the people
of New York to drink; and they do
drink to an incredible extent. The i'm
portations of these articles into the Uni
ted States, for the year ending June 80,
1866, amounted to 5000, 600. 1t is
significant when one-ffth of the whole
imports is of this character. m eaos,
The population of New York implicitly
rely upon having enough to eat every
day Of their lives, and yet they do not
produce one ounce, of food. Wheat is
grown and flour is made in Tennessee
ois, and Missouri, and Maryland; and
some 100000 barrels of -four, and g.
100000 bushels Of wheat come to the
city, of New York annually. And SO
with every thing else. There is not an
OK in Texas, hog in Kentucky, a
grouse in Iowa, sheep in Vermont, a
woodcock in Jersey, chicken in Bucks
county, an egg in Nebraska, an oyster in
the Chesapeake, shad in the Savannah;
smelt in Maine, an apple in the whole
thirty-six States of the Union, which
may not arrive at the supreme felicity Of
being eaten by some one of the 726, 1856
good people, whose happiness it is to live
in the city of New York.
There was once saying in Europe,
that ssall roads lead to Rome" All roads
in America lead to New York. Some
$4,000 miles of iron rails stretch out
over the land, extending from the Ken
nebec river to the Colorado Mountains.
and upon these the iron horse which
never tires, is dragging, day and night
the live-long year, heavy loads of food,
all Of which tends to the great cities, a
great part Of which reaches New York.
The beautiful New England coast is full
of little bays and inlets, and from every
one dart out sloops and schooners laden
with food for the hungry New Yorkers.
They come, too, from the coast as far
down as Florida; and from the isles OF
Bermuda they bring potatoes; from Cuba
oranges; from Smyrna figs; from Turkey
prunes; from Newfoundland fish, The
great Erie Canal also pours in its wealth
of food, and the broad bosom of the
Hudson is covered with boats and barges,
Fastening forward with it for the use OF
the city. !. But when it arrives, it has not
yet got to the millions Of hungry mouths.
What then
Washington and Fulton markets are
the great distributing centres. Do, not
visit them; they are shabby, slovenly,
dirty, vile, and disgrace to New York.
But somebody gets from their rentals
100000 year, and somebody will vio-
lently oppose any change. From the
early hour of three o'clock in the morn
ing, until noon, every day of the year,
excepting Sundays, throng of wagons,
trucks, and carts crowd, and swear, and
collide, every body busily intent, amidst
all the confusion; on furnishing breakfast
and dinner to the expectant citizens. -
And SO New York is fed day by day
How is all this food paid for? Here
is great question, which it is impossible
to answer. We can only indicate and
suggest But the reader must bear in
mind that the smartest men and women
get to great cities, and that their grea,
purpose is to get other peoples money
fairly or foully.
There are in the city from $4,000 te
25, 900 persons or firms, who are engaged
in HOO different trades, professions, Of
occupations in the city of New York
These $4,000 employ many hands; and
range from judges on the bench, to yer
min exterminators = from great publish
ers, to Masonic emblem makers, of whom
there is recorded one. It may be curious
to know what profession enlists the larg-
est numbers. The business Of drinking
comes first! The wine and liquor dealers
are as many as $3.50. Eating comes
next. Grocers, about 2950; butchers,
about 1900; bakers, about $50; confec-
tioners, about 300 Then come - lawyers,
about 1000; brokers Gall kinds), about
1860; doctors, about 1850; druggists
their providersl about $50; boot and
shoemakefs, about 1900; tailors, about
1000. But the hair.dressers, $50, about
equal the Clergymen, who number 556;