The New York herald., 1876-09-22
BROADWAY BREEZES.
TWO Hundred Thousand
Visitors.
ThrOnged Hotels, Crowded Steamers, Rail-
roads and FerrybOats.

There is inspiration in tho crowds that surge
through broadway these bright September days and
exhilarating nigh.A No of tho present genera
the meaning that Pennsylvania avenue, in Wash
ington. Tor Instance Is dull when Congressmen and
lobbyists and tho administration have deserted what
the Official note paper Of tho State Department and
tho proclamations Of the Executive IL curiously
called the Capitol Broadway at all times and under
nearly all circumstances is beautiful and bright Chest
nut street, Philadelphia ID never bright or beauti-
ful. except for few blocks and what s
true Of that principal Of grow
ing suburb 10 true OF all the principal streets
Of tho other cities OF the continent Broadway is CO.'S
mopolitan. There 10 nothing like 1t this continent,
and In the nature Of things there cannot be- To find
anything ike 1t We must 60 to another hemisphere,
and there It cannot be rvaled Chicago and Gin
cinnati, 8. Louis and Philadelphia Boston and Bati-
sevsrally point to ono or two leading
thoroughares, but compared with Broadway the best
Of them is tame and leless thing 1t essentially
provincial tho first place. On the principal street of
the great Southern metropolis, as 1t is called. one
meets tho average Maryiander, rather poor specimen
OF humanity; the nervous, long haired long-leggcd
bg-footed Virginian; the nondescript Delawarcan
occasional North and South Carolinian the West vir
gnian; stray travellers from tho extreme South,
and now and then brawny. brainy Ohioan who seems
amazed at the dull, leaden ethargy of the
slowest Of American cities Chicago when It
is bright and cheery is made mostly by
New Workers. and the Of other Eastern towns who
visit II upon business pleasure For the most part
however II is purely typical city. II is the capital
OF tho great Northwest it is called and the North
west Is nothing II Is not great Exactly what the
greatness consists has been able very clearly to
Ind Tha 10 truo oft tha rim
streets of all other leading towns They each
and ali representative Of their section. Broadway alone
is national, not only national, but international.
BROADWAY EXPOSITION.
During these centennial times Chestnut street. in
PHILADELPHIA, has In some measure almost become for
short time what Broadway Is and in all probability
will be forever Hundreds Of thousands Of people visit
our suburb every week to see the great Exposition,
with all its wonders Of scicnce and triumphs
of art, and the strangers who have thus
been drawn there give to Chestnut street
something Of the air Of Broadway. But when
the great buildings sold to railroad companies,
at least Of them will be, broken up lumber
sent to the Junk shops, all this new found glory Of
Philadelphia will pass away and until the commemo-
ration of the second century OF birth it win
be rs thronged with the men and women Of all nations
and peoples it is At present Not SO with New York
who pass through imperial street at the present
time plainly Indicate Like the greatest street the
City Of Brothory Love, Broadway has not been for
some years crowded il Is at present i has been
said tho Is crowded because Of the Centennial Tho
other is crowded because from end of the year
the other 1t is great exposition in ITSELF roof
OF glass thrown over 1t from tho Battery
where its palaces Of trade and merchandise begin
to where 1t mclts away into tho beauties and
glories of the park, and 1t would be the magn-
ncent exposition the world All that is in
Machinery and Agricultural halls in the build
ing in the park at Philadelphia has It's duplicate in
Broadway or In the streets that down from 1t to
meet the crcumamb bient Hudson This is not written
to dissuade any one from going to Philadelphia All
who can ought TO do but the New Yorker who
not win not in the end havo missed great deal if he
rich and rarc and beautiful IN China and SPAIN in
France and Italy, in the OLD World and the Now may
be the shop fronts OF Broadway II is because
OF this fact that our great street is crowded
to-day; thronged with men from the North
and the South and the East ana the West.
One hundred hotels, many Of them large small
towns with retinues OF servants great the
of the small German Princpates that used to be;
with furniture and equipments imperial palace ever
had architectural pretens,ons which fow royal
houses can aspire, all OF them turn away day after
day and night after night thousands OF visitors from
their doors, pack them away In cots" along corr-
dors and in parlors the unfortunate content
wait thcir chances OF tho usual accommodations the
to our great Centennial Exposition along the queen
avenue OF the continent Broadway is
THE TYPICAL STREET OF AMERICA,
the typical OF the whole world Tho current Of
the worlds c surges through to-day. Only short
half generation ago It was entirely American or
properly speaking, 1t was to coin word New Yorkan
In these early autumn days the men upon 1t,
the who have contributed to make IL what Is,
who control politics. who lead its Bar who preside
It's literature and art, who write its lcdgers and
keep the record of its in and
merce with all tho countries OF tho world Ia out
ward appearance all entirely different people from
those OF fifteen years ago. Then they all, nearly ALL
hats Ut Panama and SCOTS of patent leather Now
and then, coming down To us from earlier age,
might have been seen the Revolutionary garb and the
Continental buckles and hrecchos
Panama hat now-not even the officers OF police
New fashions new notions and new ideas in dress
and everything else have Cynical persons,
who prac about the downfall Of tho Republic and tho
early faith and the early purity, say that tho change
which has is all from the country OF tho
Georges or from the land which the last Of the Napo
Icons ruled to its rum. But II changed condition
Is examined closely 1t Will be found that all this IS
pure nonsense. New YORK and Broadway and Dress
think and act differently from the New York and Broad
way OF hfteen years ago. but thor thinking and acting
and dressing are not English French. They
thing peculiarly and distnctivcly their The limo
that divides the New World IRON the Old Is clearly
and distinctly drawn to-day ever II was Our forms
OF government are not more clearly defined than our
habits and IDEAS. Tho tact Is New York ana Broad
way-New Yorks representative strect--has thrown
its arms into every nook and OF the world and
appropriated whatever IT found worthy OF appropra-
ton From all lands and peoples 1t has taken what
over was worth the taking, and, blending them to-
gethcr, has wrought out the wondrous civilization TO
be seen on overy understanding that Is not copy
nor yc' au o'isin"'' sohc'Eihg that was anu u NOT
apd that IN our march onward and upward is and will
not bo II Is SIMPLY Huxleys survival OF the dttcst
In this centennial hour II Is the best that bo
anywhere But by and by there will be mower and
frcsher development and tho first evidences OF 1t will
be secn on and IN this great highway OF Two con-
tincnts.
BROADWAY GREAT PICTURE GALLERY.
During the late upward OF sixty seventy thou
sand men went out from Nav York to win glory or meet
death on southern battcneds. No one missed them
al the time SO far as sho throngs the street went
large sized city, or, to speak more properly, popu
lation sufficient to mako city, had becn taken out OF
New York. and 10 all appearance our population was as
large as ever. The mass meetings In Union Square
were the largest gatherings of New York's populaco
ever held. Theatres and parks and iorry boats and
street cars were rs crowded thcy During
tho at twenty or thirty days there comcs In and goes
out oil Now York every forty-eight hours number "
men and women sufficient to make city OF the second
class. To be satisfied Of this facs need only
watch the railroad depots and the ferry
landings. AZ tho Grand Union depot
a small village il down and taken away every
counle OF hnnrs Euerr avenno Nax Yarl and from