The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-21

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grounds should not be longer Than from the Battery
Fortic,h street-say forty mlnutes--t Is now, In
most cases. an hour. This, at least, IS the
experience Of the writer, who timed himself
on several occasions, and found that with
waits and slow running and changing cars ho could
not make the trip In less than hour. This i'm
poriant matter 70 those who wish live In the city.
But the efcc; has been to throw all who desire to
the show the suburbs, OF the hotels
or villas which have been built for tho Centennial
You imagine what "a hoter' built six months
will be. Long Branch harms are palaces in COMPARE
The Trans Continental and the Globe, the two
largest are said to be well kept but for the rest,
what says Even II these hptes were as comfort.
able your best In New York, to DO
thrown into the town Of Conference.-The, il may
a'name, for his evening and morning life. The show
closes at six and opens nine and those who live in
Centcnnalvic have nothing do but sit around the
barrooms the risk OF tho ague by strong about
the pnzzas 60 to the CITY, which Is long RIDE and
assurance when you will ind bring you home.
Now IL the promises the earlier days had been kept
this would not happen. AS II Is, tho Exhibition is
really city by ITSELF In contennialvilie and there
Is as much trouble In going and IRON Philadelphia
as in going New York to Newark White Plains.
TaE SUNDAY QUESTION.
This 10 one OF the troubles that comes from an inter-
Then comes tho Sunday question. Philadelphia asks
all tho world here foreigners especially.
The common sense OF civilized mankind has consc-
Grated tho Sabbath to and vrtuous enjoyment.
that there is Puritan Sentimental sentiment
that forbade bull-baiting Sunday not because Of
she pain il gave 10 tho bulls, but OF the pleasure
1t gave the spectaors-which still rescnts this. But
that steadily reccdcs before OF
rational Christianity With tho exception perhaps Of
few Scottish friends who como nero with their Sab
bath notions, there foreigners who do not
regard the Sabbath the day Of innocent and vruous
enjoyment Philadelphia closes every door 10 tho
foreigners except the doors or churches She closes
the Exhibition, and suspcnds every form OF life but
devotion and uppllng. Gun you think OF anything
more forlorn than Fronchinan Spaniard doomed
to spend Sunday in PHILADELPHIA he do nothing
but 70 to Presbyterian church and sleep, or 20
up some side alley into back building grog shop and
drink Now, asks Philadelphia to adopt tho
customs OF Paris Madrid TO please her foreign
friends She might answer, properly enough:-"Do
/, gu wish me have Sunday horse race and a bull
fight for foreign guests because they have Sunday
races at gchnmps and sunday bull fights Seville ~
no one proposes this. But why open the EXPOSE
tionp These gentlemen here to study this vast
exhibit II has only brief life ut best In SIX
months il will have vanished like tho budding spring
"
In six months there will DO no sign OF what
has cost much money, tilnc and labor: Why, thcn
because OF obsolete sentiment deny them this priv
ilcge this right? And in doing you deny TO tens
Of thousands of workingmen, whom Sunday is the
only day they can give to the Exhibition There Is a
strong feeling In favor Of the Centennial opening on
Sunday do not think Philadelphia viii permit it
The Of the question has been itimcd pre-
mature and calculated prevent very result that
wins desired There may be compromise by opening
the grounds and closing the buildings but that will
amount little. As It stands the only privilege
loft open to the Sunday visitor TO tho Exhibition
grounds is 10 look through the bars at the policemen
and few favored persons who permitted 10
wander about ut wi and hen go over to some OF tho
grog shops and got drunk
rHx CITY " HoMgs-rHE LODGING QUESTION
Philadelphia means do her best by the Centennial
people This IL city OF large hosptality-a city Of
cordial sinccre generous people, who weary in
courtesy. There honest quality about PhiIadel-
phia hospitality winch you mot 1nd In other ctos
The Now Yorker will givc the stranger dinner At
Dclmonico's the club, send HIM opera box and
ict.him mind his business Philadelphia opens
her gates and bids him sit In the chief place. Her
principal citizens lavish In entertainment, and
they mean keep their houses open during the sum-
mer But whilc this agreeable and to tho honor OF
large Gloss who here without tho introductions
necessary ind their way into tho rich mems houses
and Who perhaps, DO not for hospitality.
read figures about tho city having accommoda-
tons for So 600 &C, 00O don't know how many
thousands extra people. Butt do SEQ IT, There
aro six good hotels where you have
class entertainment do not now refer to being piled
up seven IN ROOM or dumped away cots in
corridor but comfort, good air and good table. III
hotels take or 5000 people they should be
cared for should be surprised. Them as to private
lodgings The one city ia tho Union where, as gen
cral thing you lind private apartments odg
nes Philadelphia This, In certain sense is TO her
IN Now q no a0ss
as IN Paris Every Philadephinn, even Il hc digs in
ditch, lives on his own doorstep. II is 70 the
glory OF Pnadelpha that you may
miles of small houses where the laboring
lives with as much necessary
Philadephian cannot understand Is lodgings" He
understand giving you bed and plate and sending
letting out money and asking money for cof-
fec and bread the Philadelphia mind does not compre-
bend IT. s not respectaD'e and rather than not he
and Mr.. Borie, would march TO the Centennial
grounds. lire 10 tho buildings and sing 'Old Hun
LIMITATIONS OF PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL CITY.
So when you come to Philadelphia unless with a
friendly chalk mark upon your bat, mako up your mind
that you come tho Centennial you will SEQ
II under many disadvantages You will see beautiful
CITY, especially u you 50 INTO INC new suburbs You
Independence Hall and tho original Declaration
In an iron safe You will that the maker OF this
gave the city, and allowed to bazon with
his advertisement You will tho very cradle of
liberty senpost--and one In Philadelphia cry.
upon the sacregc. You will sec the Quaker meet
in2s " you ia time You will the Sunday
papers IN city where Sunday still observed with
Puritan severity and you will marvel who reads them
You will cheapest newspapers the country
cheap respectable and calm which discuss questions
OF science and history in the exciting times and
never nudo politics current until they
become history. You will the grave OF Franklin
sacred spots Of the land and II Philadephian
can tell you whore IL. mark him OF sual
assortment; for the average Philadephan does not
know anything about IL You will. perhaps. Henry
G. Carey. a great man, living monument 10 protec-
ton pyramid Of obsolete political economy, and
you viii then remember that you the capital Of
protection city which shares with Madrid the
honor al being its metropolis. You will lind tho
bootblacks engcr to discuss with you tho commercial
moral political and social decadence OF New York,