The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-06
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY DECEMBER g. 1s6-TRIPLE


tity and productivmess 10 active industry and IN
telligent energy excels them all.
York Is one OF the greatest cities OF globe is at
THIS day the time is near at hand when she Will out
America, as Paris is OF France; but she viii be more
London u the metropolis OF Great Britain but Great
Britain ts not England alone. Her colonies and
dependencies stretch around the earth, with almost
four hundred millions of people Of all races, and OF
this one is tempted to say world Of nations London
TO this vast expanse OF Londons connections with
the world, and that with steadily pursuing policy
which may De Termed the very opposite OF one pre-
eminenty English. America needs not to conquer
zero Ell t0ne-with iron and fre-distant countries
and nations; she colonies and renders them tribu-
zing influences Of commerce and civilization; and
this tie Of well fostered interest and not OF blood
once woven cannot be rent asunder.
Here, first in order, Ii to be maintained our own
achievement Of modern times--the Pacific Railroad.
across the dreary waste Of the high plateau Of the
centre OF our continent peopling and fructying it
ing the country, and until it finally reaches the
Golden Cater And how long win 1t be before to
TINS central route will be added parallel lines Of rail-
and to the south, with branches to the Californian
Gulf and the rich metallic deposits Of MexiooS There
And what else these iron arteries to be but so
many more ,S links O. the far on extremi
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Their. 1t seems to have been an inspired
thought that named the entrance to the harbor
untold wealth Of the East is to enter to
tracks Of our Pacific railways, and to be hence
distributed over the rest OF The world And 1t Is
again here IN New York that we shall concentrate,
to return to the East Its SHARE When steam ferries
shall ply as numerously and as regularly on the Pa
cifc as they now do on the Atlantic Ocean-and the
time VIII and must come when they Will be as nu-
merous, comparatively, as ferries now are on the
Francisco, to Guayamas, to Oregon City and Van.
C0uver and years to come to Sitka, shall press the
earth as nunerously and as regularly now to st.
LOUIS or ChicagO-and who dare say that they will
not2-when the miraculous lightning shall enable the
New York merchant TO communicate with his agents
moment that he receives his orders from his Gus
toners in London, Paris, Bremen and St. Petersburg
ana an inns now ~ Inc course o. reazaao1 tnoaHn
no longer be the the metropolis Of America only, but
the metropolis Of the whole world.
write tins Of her future. All the circumstances and
devepuiefiss II t6 dar end all the lessons Of past
ss!oN oonf to L as o. 6ityiabie Result N tfade
SHs ss ias sSsss IRON ION
historian as this country has produced while vet an
editor and before railroads and teegraps were even
thought Of wrote in the ST. Louis Inquirer, in 1919
series OF essays on this subject urging the building
OF wagon roads TO the Pacific to make bid for this
trade. Visionary 1t was thought ut the time; 1t is
And New Workers know it. They are preparing
for 1t. Go through the streets Of New York to-day
all sides with what was being done twenty years
ago. and you will lind wondrous change and that
this change has been wrought intuitvely and with
purpose that may have been felt only as q sort of
presentiment without being fully comprehended.
1t Is especially in regard TO the buildings for CON-
merclal purposes that this remark is made Twenty
years ago warehouses were erected with u rapidity
that led foreigners to suppose that we Americans
were careless Of '1e auure Inese buildings were IN
time than 1t took to lay the foundation OF substan-
tal stOrehouse In Europe. Some few, intended TO be
an ornament to the city and in which their owners
generally banking companies and other corpora
lions, would symbolic their own stability and SOL
vency, were an exception.
But now widely different system meets our eve
everywhere The most massive structures, II in
tended for ages are being raised the best and
durable materia-iroa, granite marble-are used,
and care and time are taken to have the whole 1t
were, well knit together. And the style OF
stead Of plain walls like barn fronts, with
plain rectangular openings for windows, the
Srs Of T % ,iS as ana
and Indictment Of building New York, like Venice
was OF old, win become the modern city OF palaces.
Koh-inoor Is not set in clay, and city destined
to become the centre OF the worlds commerce and
should greet its visitors with appropriate beauty.
few remarks on some Of the buildings lately
erected or now IN course or erection here Will prove
that nothing said above Is 0ycrdrawn.
NEW BUSINESS BUILDINGS, ETC.
improvements on the west side OF Broadway have
been numerous and costly. Any one who has not
visited New York for some time would BE- astounded
at the extent to which new buildings have encroaced
upon the shells of old. Mercer and Church Streets
only few years ago among the most disreputable
in the city, have been redeemed and palaces OF trade
now line those streets either side to very nearly
their termination, in Canal street. And ali this has
been done within few years, the owners OF pro-
perty foreseeng that with greater accommodation
I'M tfnrf md And TN
built there are not OF that nimsy nature against
which foreigners used to rail IN times past but they
tectnral appearance they are an ornament TO the
city and help to the trade And the cross streets
from Barclay TO Walker and from Broadway to the
North river have also undergone vast transforma-
ton. Where old and insignificant brick houses once
obtruded their ugly countenances now splendid
marble and freestone edifices stand, q convenience
to business and an adornment also. These improve
ments are still going on. On Leonard and Worth
and Franklin streets on Walker street. and further
west, on Desbrosses street, on West broadway and
Hudson street, ON Washington and Greenwich
streets wherever, in this neghborhood the eye may
buildings and the debris OF those torn down.
On Canal street, west Of Broadway, there are O
especially on the corners OF Thompson and Greene
Streets which, some with marble frontings, others
with Ohio freestOne, and all supported by massive
iron columns, are but the beginning OF what Canal
street. with It's width Of curb and easy accessibility
will be IN less than a generation.
The east SIDE OF the city, south OF Canal street, has
not been SO extensively modernized as the west: the
for this backwardness the part OF the own
ers IL IL dcult to discern; yet even mere some gi
gantlc buildings have been erected On William
street, near spruce for instance, the Ledger build
ing on the corner OF william and Spruce Streets or
pure MARBLE indicating perhaps, the pure morality
accommodating within Its walls. On Water street
there are new Gothic stores, built by firm In Alba
ny OF philadelphia pressed brick, with Jersey free
stone dressing. which may be lesson to others In
the interior that to locate New York is but to
crease their business facilities.
On New Canal street there have lately been put MP
splendid sorehouses, OF stone and iron, and on
walker street, branching of westward towards
Broadway, there are now building eight stores four
OF marble and four OF freestone and each five stories
in height, than which there no warehouse better
adapted to commercial purposes.
While speaking OF the improvements In the lower
part OF the city, there are several buildings meritng
especial mention. The two buildings one on the
corner OF Cedar street and Broadway the other on
the corner OF Leonard street and Broadway viii
each, on account OF massiveness OF structure and
completeness Of architectural finish outrval any-
thing yet seen In tnis city. They both intended
for insurance, banking and other business offices,
pct uad IN ho IN