The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-05
BROADWAY on SUNDAY.
The Great Thoroughtare Free From the Bustle
Of Business-What May be Seen and
What Nay be Heard


broadway, the greatest artery Of New York, pull.
safes hut very family with the current OF life on
Sunday. One might wander Tor hours in the after
noon OF that DAY among the massive marble ware.
houses and superb iron palaces In the lower
portion OF the street, and gazing upon these struc-
lures that fresh and vigorous people In the nine
tenth century have erected for the worship OF
their new god Mammon, believe himself with very
little aid of the Imagination standing amid the DESC
lation OF
A FORGOTTEN CITY
in the dead world OF anriquity--only these struc.
lures ure too new, and when one has
seen them spring into being within
month, one Is very apt TO smile knowingly
and speculate the length Of their stay Fortunes
male and lost too rapidly, fame is too ephemeral
and Joyce Heaths' are too abundant in America
for Americans to place much faith in antiquity or to
take more than very limited amount OF stock in
TIE hpERlsHABILITY OF THINGS.
Stil Broadway has the effect OF the great and the
magnificent upon the Deholder, with its grandly eX-
tended vista and its wonderful NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
times absolutely startling. No city in the world
presents such continuous array Of imposing build
ngs and on Sunday when all is so quiet, the street
parakes OF the character of vastness and soemnlty
which attaches TO our rivers and forests.
Buf it Is the absence OF life that is noticed most
by the chance passer-by on Sunday afternoon.
When the last crowd Of newsDoys, newsmen and
newswomen The latter not the least either
Der industry among the newsncngers-have
taken their way from the HERALD building under
the paling gas lights and into the shadows of side
streets, life seems almost 10 have died out In the
great thoroughiare. With the departure OF
THE LAST OF THE STREET ARABS
10 has hallway or home under the PIERS the drOwsy
cahman rubs bis eyes open and drives away, and
from that time till service begins in Trinity but
solitary figures pass ny.
upward stroll aud the vicinity OF the English sport
ing houses 'frce and easyS' and .'hash ioundrles
you at the corners Tor blocks around faded young
swells roughs and FOUNDERS, their clothes
WITH LEW,
so lusrous in the gasight of concert halls asr
night, al rongn AMI old locking. They are waiting
Tor chance to get their breakfast or TO "snoozen
glass OF bourbon. just above here strange sort OF
figure - seen, which casual lOoker-on would take
for that OF Il drunken man steadily observing with
that effort at sober gravity SO irresistioly comcal
the base OF q ilnpp0st. nearer approach reveals
the features, moi OF drunken man, but OF
PHILOSOPHER BERGEN,
the well known anu popular superintendent OF
Lamps and Gas Tor the metropolis. He Is bending
towards tAe base OF The lamppost, his new vel
veteen hat, win Which short time ago he startled
his neigLbors, drawn over his face and with one
hand extended, the tips Of the fingers turning down
the corner Of a showoil, he Is intent!y reading an
advertisement winch audaclous hand has
pasted on the city property, and his peculiar charge
The philosopher Is evidently soliloquizing, and,
drawing near, you may hear him mutter,
''y0U TO DLAzEs
There is a law in relation to this subject, and
won't have the lanpposts pastered over with dirty
trash like this It's a disgrace to the city Some
OF these nuisances must be stopped, and rll take
hack al this myself 4 nobody else will
At the corner OF Blocker street bevy OF duSky
females, attended by black and
Observation-Disclosures GAILANrS,
wheel into Broadway for their Sunday promenade.
They look very charming, Us they blush underneath
q r0se-colored ribbon at the lender compliments
paid to their toilet and sometimes represent the
ike roses reveal the beauties within. The centre OF
gay group Is a dashing blonde who Justly wins the
admiration Of every passer-by; her beautiful cream
ike complexion, Inherited from African ancestors,
which matches The coifrnre-an exquisite taste,
selected from an importation Of Japanese chignOns.
Her salmon colored dress Of Lyons silk, made en-
panaer. completes the illusion and renders her
No wonder when. as in the case Of Disraeis old
ladies' tea party the world had been cempassed to
produce the phenomenon.
Above IeDtn street o NUMBER Of carriages are con.
gregaJed about Grace church, and Dsothlacks and
newssoys are laughing at Thomas and Sarah, who
couple never heed the giggliAg but gaze admirlng
at the fountain and wonder It ever stops playing IN
the winter Poor things their fountain Of happl.
ness is so full they can't understand stoppage
AT MADISON SQUARE
the are ali out with the little folk. and they de-
mnrely wheel their peramoniators along the
grayeled walks and sometimes hesitate q moment
before they dirt ,Deir handkerchiefs at the good
looking young Inen who are constantly sauJng them
from little distance. Some few old men, who
lived up here twenty years ago and who
REFUSED TO BE HUSTLED UP
to 150th street 60 make way for business, may be
seen at intervals reading their morning paper In a
one who approaches them, as II they expected to be
attacked and that an attempt would be made to
drive them away BY physical force In front OF the
hotels the usual crowd OF loungers, and above,
as high Thirty fourth street, one meets numbers
OF people gong 10 and coming from Central Park.
Beyond this all Is blank.
OUTRAcEs Upon OUR FIsHERMEN.--However
much any one may dislike the RECOMMENDATIONS In
General Buffers late speech upon our foreign policy
patriotic man can hardly fail to feel glad that pub
lie attention las been sharply directed 10 this i'm.
portaDt question. General Butler may be all wrong
in his method or settling the Alabama claims and
the outrages upon fishermen, but he Is clearly
ali right In demanding something shall be done
without delay. The quiet way IN which these TIA
grant offences have been dealt with thus far can no
longer be pursued with advantage. General Butler