The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-12-02
HIGH BUILDINGS.

q note of it.
HIGH BUILDINGS.
The mania now running among
those who build at all is altitude.
Some years ago the Equitable Life
Insurance Company a up a building
that doomed above anything else on
lower Broadway, and since that
height has run in the minds of every
BODY. The new Tribune building
is nine immense stories high, with a
tower almost touching the sky; the
new building of the Western Union
Telegraph Company is almost as
high the Domestic Sewing Machine
Company IS eight; the new Post-of-
fee cannot be counted in stories, but
it is an immense building, and so on.
The view of the city from the Jersey
CITY Ferry is becoming particularly
pleasant. These buildings, with the
scores of others, tower up above
their surroundings, relieving wonder
fully the monotonous uniformity
which formerly wearied the eye.
Those tall buildings do not pay-in
fact, every one of them is a dead loss
above the fourth story; but, never
theless, l hope the building of them
will 90 on. They beautify the city,
and the public get a benefit whether
the proprietors do or not. 1t is a
fact that none of these buildings pay
three per cent. on the cost of con-
struction and present price of ground;
but the prcprietors all live in hope of
the future. Hope springs eternal
in the human breast"
THANKSGIVING
was more generally observed in the
city than ever before. All business,
except the saloons and restaurants,
was suspended, and the day was de-
voted to iollity, hilarity, and what
was better, charity. The various
charitable institutions of the city
were supplied with more than usual
l~iberality, and every deserving poor
person 10 the city got n good square
meal. At the three mission houses
in the Five Points over 5000 people
were Fed. The prisons all gave the
inmates q special dinner, and all hos
pitfalls. charities and all other institu-
tons did likewise. The ~newsboys'
homes and lodging-houses had a
grand time. The little ragamufins
were bathed, their hair combed, and
their clothes busted, and a good din
ner given them, and for one day in
the year they were happy. 1t is to
the credit of the citizens that, hard
as the times are, the contributions of
provisions and other supplies were
far beyond those of any preceding
wear. 1t went q long way toward
restoring confidence in human ma
ture. 10 see the enormous piles of
meats, cakes, bread, butter, and every
other possible thing to eat, piled up
before the doors of the charilies-all
the free gifts of citizens, and unso-
licited, except by the usual announce
ments in the newspapers. There is
some good in humanity yet.
Services were of course held in all
the churches, and to the credit of
New York let it be recorded that
they were all crowded. Possibly the
extra decorations and the unusually |
superb music had something to do
with the attendance.
The sermons were, al a rule, nom
sectarian, the pastors devoting them
selves largely to the grandest of all
the virtues-charity.
Beecher's church was literally jam
med, and thousands were turned
away. Business being suspended
all the strangers in the hotels went
to see the hero of the great scandal,
which, in addition 10 the usual at
tendance, made a mighty throng.
BUSINESS
continues to improve as the season
goes on, much to the qualification of
the merchants. Buyers begin to be
absolutely lively, and something of
the old time has come back again.
THE WEATHER
is as pleasant as it con be. 1t is not
especially cold, and the skies are
bright and the air bracing and
healthy; consequently there is very
sickness in the city. If bust
were only better, and employ
ment for the laborers was not so
scarce, The season would be q delight
full one. But we can't have every
PIETRo.