Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-08
Letter From New York.
CHARITIES FOR ART EXHIBIT.
TION-A RUTLAND COLONEL
THANKSGIVING DINNER.

| Kdit05' Rutland Herald Born, bred
and grown to mans estate in Rutland, |
have often boasted of the enterprise,
thrift and intelligence of my native town,
but come to sojourn for few days in this
great Babel of city L must say as Topsy
did, 81 never was born, 'spect growed.n
L have heard Western men say that New
York was ''too far from Chicago
to become much of a place." and
yet it is big city neverthe-
less, Twenty-Five years ago, when I first
came to New York, Trinity Church, the
Astor House, the Croton Reservoir, Castle
Garden, the Battery, and the Park, a
small yard in front of the City Hall, in
shape and a little larger than a fat iron,
Were all the wonders and sights to be
seen. Now no one sees these unless it be
Trinity Church. The Battery has become
the dumping ground for foreign i'm
migrants. The City Hall Park succumbed
to the onward march of progress, and the
tomb-like looking Astor House is eclipsed
by far mere imposing marble structures,
like the Grand, Central, Metropolitan,
Fifth Avenue and Saint Nicholas Hotels.
The land from Stewards retail store on
Broadway northward was then used for a
COW pasture, now it is mostly covered, for
two miles, with brown stone residences,
rivalipg in regal splendor anything to be
found in the old world.
How nearly million of people live on
this little island is a mystery to me, as I
doubt not il is TO themselves. The men
spend their time talking politics in club
rooms and hotels, and stock on change,
The ladies toll not, neither do they spin.
yet Solomon in all his glory was not ar
rayed like one of them. New York is a
very wicked city, 80 is Rutland village a
very wicked village, doubt if New York
is any more wicked in proportion to its
size than any thrifty village in Vermont.
New York is very good city. There
may be found societies and associations
formed by noble men and women, for
the benefting of all sorts and conditions |
of men. In this city are the fountain |
heads of those streams of benevoence |
which flow in rivers to the uttermost parts |
of the earth, making glad the hearts OF
the people of God. On the corner of
Thirty-third street and Fourth Avenue is
a building being erected for the benefit of
sewing women.
The building is 200 feet square, Fix
stories high. The outer walls of iron and
inner ones of brick. Not a stick of wood
in or about the building. 1t is a noble
piece of architecture, noble monument
to the great heart Of its founder, A. T.
Stewart. who bestows. it at cost of four
millions of dollars.
The Young Mems Christian Association
of the city numbers $500. They have
put up building costing $500000. /
On the east side Of the Central Park,
near Fourth Avenue, is to be erected at q
cost Of thirty millions building of glass
and iron for the exhibition of art, science
and mechanics. The art gallery alone is
to be $50 feet wide and 3,760 feet long,
and have !, $40 feet of wall room on which
to exhibit paintings.
New York has never had rail depot
worthy the name Of one. Hitherto pas
sengers have been landed from the cars'