The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-03

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River, which runs from the North Rive
INTO the East and makes New York ar
island. We can see the boat houses Of the
Harlem clubs, the Victorious Colum
olae among others, and further across we
can Gee the famous High Bridge, which d
only an aqueduct for crotOn water, in
which we are quite disappointed on thai
account. We can see Central Park, with
its maze Of walks and drives and numer,
Gus bridges, YoTkYille, Harlem and
ManhattanVille, formerly towns but now
In New York, can be distinctly SEEN
To the west the palisades Of the Hudson
stand out In bold relief, and behind them
and below them are Hoboken with 4 900
inhabitants, West Hoboken, Union Hill
Historic, Weehawken, and the Elysian
Fields, now a public resort for picnic p4r.
ties, lager beer drinkers and roughs, but
formerly q paradise where the young men
ofNew York did their counting and fought
their duels. Coming down the river we
could see Jersey City-95, 900 inhabitants
with the cluster Of towns and villages
on the hill within its borders. II 10 In IL.
self swamp reclaimed from the sea.
Farther yet, way down the bay, We
could see, frat, Governors Island, mill.
tary post; then Broloe's Island, unoccu-
pied; then the light house, and then Staten
Island-100,0 600 inhabitants-a great sum.
mer resort, where nanny New Workers
have their summer residences, many OF
them superb. Farther yet We could dis
tinclly see Forts Wsdsworth on Staten
Island, and Lafayette on Long Island,
which has 100000 inhabitants. They
command the Narrows, the entrance TO
the harbor Of the city. 1t being Saturday,
STEAMER DAY."
we could geo half dozen immense ocean
steamers coming in and as mapy going
out. The shipping, where we we're, look.
cd like q dense forest, and extended on
both sides oil the river for miles. 1t com.
prised vessels of every class and nation
allty. Little tugs, screaming and putting
but indeiatigable, were pulling and haul
ing here and there. We could see ships
on the dry and sectional docks being re-
paired, and caught :glimpses Of innumer-
able Terry boats crossing both rivers.
We could also see both abutments OF the
BROOKLYN AND NEW YORK BRIDGE,
which Is to be upon the East river be-
tween Rhoosevelt street, New York and
Fulton street, Brooklyn, a distance Of
three quarters ola mile. It will scarcely
be finished for FIVE or six years yet, and
Ia expected to cost about 0O00, 900. 1t is
to be built by both private and public sub.
scriptions, and its affairs are under the
management Of the bridge company. The
bridge will be for foot and horse passen-
gers, vehicles and horse carts, and will
run from the City Hall, New York, to the
City Hall, Brooklyn, about one mile and
half. The elevation of the abutments
will be so great that it will take that
length Of gradual descent to mako level
ground, although both cities recede up
ward from the river In TACT the Brooklyn
City Halls on high hill, or at least what
they call one here. 1t wouldn't amount
to much down our way, en- partntheSeS We
may remark that 1t is about
THE FLATEsr COUNTRY
all around here, for fifty miles every way,
that We ever saw. The talest ships will
be able 10 go under this bridge, which,
when It ID finished, is expected 10 eclipse
every thing Of the kind ever done before or
even contemplated anywhere. no matter
where, and the St, Louis bridge will prob
ably snap asunder from modification.
What most struck our fancy among the
vessels on the river were
THE FERRY BOATS
continually crossing from one side to the
other. They run every three to five min.
utes right into their slips, head foremost,
humping against the sides. They have
no bows or stems, the boats curViDg
equally from the centre, and run equally
we'll backward or forward. They have
two rudders. The one which happens 10
be forward IS fastened by chain and acts
as q PROV. Coming back, 1t Is loosened and
the other rudder Is chained. These boats
are very costly, and are capable Of accom-.
modating from 1000 to 1900 passengers,
distributed in the "gents" and "ladies"
cabins on either side, and from 90 10 20
vehicles, from the lightest to the heaviest,
in the middle, which is again divided by
the space where the engines work. One
Of these boats, the "New jersey" belong.
ing TO the Pennsylvania Railway Com
pany, Is valued at
HALF A MILLION DOLLARS,
and Is considered 10 be the finest ferry
boat in the world. 1t has only been on
the ferry q few weeks. New York, we
may here remark, is encircled by ferries,
Of which there are about twenty TO Ho.
boken, Guttenburg, Jersey City, Brook
Ign, and points on Long Island and Staten
Island. All the ferries twenty-five on
the East River are owned by the railroad
companies, Of which there are the Central
of New Jersey, the Pennsylvania, the
Erie, the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western, and the Morris & Essex, which
have their termini In Jersey City aud
Hoboken. By these roads. which COM
municate with Newark 10000 inhabit-
ants, Paterson (35, 5000, and smaller towns
in New Jersey, and from Long and Staten
Islands, Westchester county and Connec
ticut, business men come pouring into the
city every day, within a radius OF fifty
miles. They live in the country or out
side ofthe metropolis because it Is cheap
er, but do business in New York, and
consider themselves New Workers.
! AT NOON AND AT NIGHT.
At noon the population OF New York
Is about million and half; at night II
is about one million. Brooklyn, Jersey
City, Hoboken and Williamsburg are
simply
NEW YoRK's BED CHAMBER,
where her surplus population are driver
by the rapacity Of landlords 10 sleep
New York has made every place fol
miles around, and that Is because, thu
island being long and narrow, she has t
use the territory OF her neighbors L
spread in. II there were "rspid transit
(which Is being agitated-between thu
City Hall and Harlem, Yonkers and Man
chester towns, people would come bacE
TO live In New York State.