The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-26
CURIOSITIES OF CORK.
A GLIMPSE AT AN IR IsH CITY

A GDlMPoE Al AN liz lod ClI1.
Among the recent visitors to Cork is a cor
respondent of the Wheeling (West .Virginia)
Intelligencer, who thus records his impressions
of the place. 2 '
"Cork seems to be city where trade, COM
merce, and manufactures are in q fourishing
condition. Large ships and small schooners,
large ocean steamers and small tug steam
boats, are peacefully reposing at the quays
secure from the strife of ocean. The docks
and wharves are crowded with carts and drays,
and the merchandise loading and un-
stations give little indication of want or
distress. There are some fine public
buildings in Cork. The new Provincial
Bank is chaste and beautiful piece of archi-
lecture. The warehouses and business stores
are both capacious and ornamental. Its
hotels are elegant, and have all the comforts
and luxuries which the best regulated Ameri-
can hotelg can boast of. The dwelling
houses are of all sorts and conditions, from
the lowly stone, white and slated rows of
cottages of the poor to the lofty and modern
fve-story mansions of the opulent. Some
old houses may still be seen that have stood
the storm and sunshine of two hundred years.
They have quaint and ancient appearance,
but are still strong and substantial. Here We
see no frame buildings of any description,
and no shingle roofs. The houses are built
OF Dr1Ck, nara SANDSTONE, WQluStOu0 (Or
trap, which will last for ages.
''The streets of Cork ara, with few excep-
tions, wide and spacious. They have broad,
smooth sidewalks, are well paved, clean, and
at night lit with gas. One of the public
squares contains statue of Father Mathew,
the great apostle of temperance. 1t is cast
in bronze and said to be very good like
ness. One thing struck me as a novelty;
many of the houses have their side walls,
both front and rear, slated. This gave them
rather singular appearance, but it is said tc
be good preventive of dampness. None OF
the streets have shade trees or brick pave
ments, and no houses or stores have awnings
We can find no unpaved streets in this city
The streets are either we'll paved or macada
mized, perfectly smooth and level, and clear
as new pin.
''Looking at the crowds passing and repass
ing on the Streets an American is strucl
with some points of difference between then
and what he is used to seeing in his owl
cities Here we find no American (nor fo
that matter Irish) citizens of African descent
But we find mingling with the crowds @
ladies and gentlemen dressed in the yer
height of fashion, nearly an equal number G
barefooted women and children, who pas
along without exciting any remark Such
sight we never have in America. Cork ma
be said to be situated on an island of th
river Lee, which is about two miles in length
Its streets are very irregularly laid out, br
the houses of late years seem to be built wit
better taste and more uniformity. The popV
lation does not exceed $4,000. 1t is both
manufacturing and commercial city. Thel
are foundries, glasshouses, and woollen faS
tories. Being the seaport OF great agricu
tural county, it exports to England larg
quantities of grain, butter, pork and cattle