Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-08
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into the muddy streets or dark dism 81
sheds Now the thing is being changed
Up at Forty-second street there ia being
built depot to accommodate all the rail
roads coming into the city. 1t is a mon.
ster building, I think twenty of our de.
pots could be easily packed away in it.
The great Central Park is too large a
concern for me to write about.
Stewards wholesale and retail stores
ditto. This beautiful marble palace on
Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fourth street is
not excelled on the globe, is worth a
journey here to see, if not. walk up
Fifth Avenue on a Sunday afternoon,
when pleasant, to see the beauty. chivalry
shoddyism and funkeyism will.
Going along Pearl street one day / en-
countered Col. -. The veteran SOL
diers who have survived the June train
ing day wars of 1880, 81 and '32 will re-
member little black eyed urchin dealing
out commissary stores from his suttlers
box which he carried under one arm
while he pulled out the candy sticks and
took in the pennies driving smart little
trade. Whether that little box of the
Coloneps was made of india'rubber or
what it was made of do not know, but /
do know that it has swelled TO a colossal
size now. saw in it and vouchers for
100000 bushels of grsio, 100000 lbs of
wool and 400 bales of cotton. The Col
still has longing after the flesh pots of
old Vermont on bis table for Thanksgiy-
ing dinner wac turkey fatted in Rnt-
land and baisted with Rutland butter.
Rutland eggs were in his pantry end
pork and potatoes and apples in his cellar.
And when evening came we sat down
over q mug of Rutland cider and talked
down the hours till the clock in a neigh
boring steeple struck twelve. "sss
Sixty Thousand people come to New
York every day, except Sunday, and as
many leave it every day; besides few
score of little strangers who arrive with
positively nothing to wear, aud a score
or two who leave via Green
wood. This city and the coun-
try would be far better of, if 100
600 of these poor people were scattered
over the country, and taught to work for
decent living, instead Of eking out a
miserable existence here; but as a rule
they would rather starve here. than 90 in
to the country. Riding on the box with
an omnibus driver one morning, told
him it had been years since I Lad been
New in York. He looked at me in utter
amazement, and said be wondered how I
could have kept away so long. He was
born in the city and always lived here.
1 asked him if he had ever been in the
country; Yes? he went away once and
staid two weeks! He got along very well
in the day time, but when night came, it
was so still he could not sleep; so he
came back, mounted his box and was
driving to his grave.
Leading off from Broadway, opposite
Trinity Church is little alley way or
lane, called Wall Street, not so long or
wide as Center Street in Rutland, yet
this street, small and narrow as it il,
controls the financial affairs of conti-
nent. There, fortunes are made and lost
every day. If the Emperor Napoleon has
the gout, gravel or belly-aohe, every pain
in his body is felt here in this street, and
stocks rise or fall with the pulse of ono
man 1000 miles away, with an ocean be-