The New York herald., 1878-11-18
GOTHAM BY NIGHT.
DR.. Talmage's Experiences in a Tour
Through the City.
CHILDREN OF MISFORTUNE.
The Daily Paper the Mightiest Engine
Of Modem Times

DR.. T. De Witt Talmage continued yesterday morn
ing At the Brooklyn Tabernacle TO preach his series
OF sermons on the night side of city life He init
mated that the series had lasted longer than he had at
first expected. but his words were causing such
trepidaton in the ranks Of Satans army he thought
best to continue the assault Before he gets through
he will preach the glorious daybreak Of Christian
reform that is now making New York and Brooklyn
the best places on earth to live in. The usual num-
Der of hymns and prayers were indulged in. after
which Mr. Talmage advanced to the front Of the plat
form and announced his text from Revelation. xii,
t2-"The devil is come down unto you, having great
wrath because he knoweth that he hath but short
time,'
In some way, said Mr.. Talmage, the enemy of all
good has found out the hour OF his dismissal from
our world. 1t is healthful symptom that in day
Satan is unusually active in cities 1t seems that
he is winding up business. That Satan is in q par
oxysm Of excitement is proved to me every day. The
fact is that nearly all his establishments are bank
rupted plain man stands in church and speaks
a plain word against them they all iutter A few
nights ago. riding through Broadway. asked the
driver to stop street lamp that might examine
my memorandums. 1t happened to be place
of amusement. and man rushed out with anxious
and alarmed manner, saying to the driver. "Is that
Tamage you have inside there?" Great laughter1
Men i'll large commercial handwriting send me letters
protesting. evidently disturbed lest in of their
midnight carousals they may meet some Christian
explorer. started with the idea Of four five
sermons the night side of city life but find the
powers of darkness worried that plant anew the
batteries for still further assault. This Satanic
citement is described in the text.
NEW GAsLIGHT.
New York last Tuesday night. approached from
the Brooklyn, side by South Ferry, q of pic
neas.a md bean
sprnked the heavens to suggest the street lamp
of the city which hath need Of the The
masts of the shipping against the sky gave
mopolitan feeling l said "all the world is here"
and the spires of ST. Paul's and st. Georges and
Trinity pointed upward to the only complete
of help for the dying thousands Of our metropolis
Long rows Of lamps skirted the city with fire. The
ten thousand gas lights of the streets, united with
those kindled in towers and the top stories of estab
ishments that keep great industries IN perpetual
motion. threw on the sky, from horizon to horizon
the radiance of vast illumination. Entering New
York by South Ferry confronted with the
worst nuisance and the greatest relief that New York
has experienced for the last thirty yearshe elevated
railroad. structure which, having much to do with
the commercial, has more to do with the moral pros
perty of the city. Ruin and death to the streets it
runs through, 1t is the means of moral salvation to
the packed and snothered tenement houses which
killing their thousands every year. Was there ever
such commissioning Disagreement and scarifcation
of carpentry and engineering productive Of such
blissful result The shape of New York has been its
mightest obstacle to good morals-more than nine
miles long in many places it is in places only
mile and half wide. The immense water frontage
Of more than twenty miles is grand for commerce.
but the small width makes crowded residence for the
population unless rapid mode of transit whirl
them to distant homes at night and whir them back
again In the morning. They must be near their
work. They don't like fcrriage. They afraid of
water. The looks of some of their hands and faces
show they are afraid OF water Uaughter) When
the lights Of the rushing rail train flying through
the air the frat practical alleviation of the
ment house system But let not such an improve
ment be made at the expense of those whose prop
erty is being destroyed under the catter and bang
and whee2e Of md-air locomoion. Let cities, like
individuals, pay for the damages wrought. also for
the horses frightened out of their harness and the
carriage smashed against the curbstoncs New York
and Brooklyn want what London acknowledgement
railroad communication without danger and without
nuisance and without hndrancc the people set down
every morning and every night just where they want
to be.
nEMIsIscEScEs OF JENNY LIND
Coming up in the sotarness of the night
passed left the Castle Garden place coLnpar
atvely sqnalid But passed by the scene
rushed to my memory when all the places leading
thereto blocked with splendid eqnipages of
New York and Brooklyn and Castle Garden was filled
10 suffocation with people who had paid $li for
seat to hear Jenny Lind sing. suppose God could
have afforded many artists in century just like
her, but He does not give moie than one. Having
ard her sing would have no right to complain Il
ie never heard any more music till lie heard the tox-
olo1y OF the hundred and forty and four thousand.
While this is on the left on the right we pass the
once fashionable Bowling Green. where bcfore
day the mghticst wealth OF the city fourished tho
gay drawing rooms now occupied by steamship
companies where passengers book themselves for
Glawgow Liverpool, the elegant inhabitlns Of
those homes in odcn tmelpns ago booked for longer
voyages.
Up and on! As the solitary catter of our horses
hoofs rang out on the night air passed Wall street.
and looking down two rows of lights revealed to us
that not foot was stirring. But we could imagine
that there came up ON tho night air the cachna-
and the sigh Of the obbers whose hands the stocks
had gone down Only half mile long that street. yet
the avenue of fabulous accumulation and appalling
bankruptcy and wild swindle and suicide and catas-
trophe and death. The clock ut the head Of the
toled ninethree for the bankrupted three for
the swindled, three for the dead.
THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS.
fastening on, up few blocks, what are these ma
jestic buildings all abaze from foundation to cap
papers We get out and 80 in and go up from edito
rial rooms to type settlers and proof readers loft
Of public opinion are forged great torrent Of
opinions, OF accidents. of crimes, Of po-
avenged character Who can tell the mightness for
good evil of daily newspaperY Fingers of steel
picking of the end teegraphic wire the facts OF re-
Hgion and philosophy and art and information from
the four winds of heaven. The Associated Press be-
gan iu 1855 to pay s2Oo.O00 for news, some of the
newspapers paying $50,W0 extra for special
dispatches. and others, independent of the Asso-
ciated Press, with their wire rake gathering up
the sheaves of from all the world. II is high
time that good understood that the press is the
mighticst engine Of all the centuries. BY the high
water mark the type you can tell the ebb or
aow the great tides OF civilization aud Christianity
The combined circulation OF New York daily news
papers in 1885 was only 10000 day. Now IL is
300 0OO and at the estimate that fve people peruse
each paper, they have 250uO0o readers per day. IL
used TO be q mystery how, according To the Bible
statement, nations were to he born IN day. II
seems to easy Get TIN tclcgraphic operators
and the editors converted and in twentyfour hours all
nations will see the salvation of God In midnight
In New York there nothing full of solemn inn
port than the midnight printing press. But with
what aching eyes and exhaustion OF health the work
goes on. noticed that night that not more than one
out of ten seemed to have brawny health. The NAL
odors of ink, howcver complete the ventilation, and
the necessity Of toll at hours when God has drawn
the curtains Of the world for natural sccp the press
ure OF publishing every morning or evening, what
ever breaks down; the temptation to intoxicating
gtmulants I'm order to keep the nervous system