The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-06-18
.noRLEY.s, LETTER FROM NEW
YORK.
BY Our Special Correspondent
NEW YORK. April .. 1879.
THE SITE.


Where The Worlds Fair of 1883
shall be located is a question Of no
mean proportions, especially when
the peculiar shape of New York City
il considered. 1t is not as though an
inland city, capable of expansion in
any direction, were locating a fair
ground. New York is the longest
aud nerrowest city in the New World,
and 10 vacsnt ground is to be had
except at the upper end Of the island.
AT bess, the great bulk Of visitors
must ride Q long distance, aud every
half mile added TO such a trip means,
for many million people, az aggrega-
lion of human discomfort which
should not be thuughtlessly or need
lesely inflicted. The Committee have
named Port Morris, u point on the
Sound, above the Harlem river, cut
Of the way and accessible only after
a long and tedious ride. If it is Sc
%riously proposed to locate there | can
promise the Committee more atten-
ton from their fellow-citizens than
private citizens usually obtain. The
Herald proposes Harlem Flats. a low,
lily drained, malarial region, where
denizens shake with fever and sgue
the year round. Others urge Central
Park itself, but a storm of opposition
rises at the bare mention. West and
northwest Of the Park lies what is
becoming known as the West End
Plateau, a high, rocky ridge, over
looking the Park on one side and OBJ
tanning q fine view of the Hudson on
the other, An elevation Of 80 or 60
feet gives q view of the Sound, the
whole city and the Bay.
This spot is without controversy
the most eligible on the Island. The
open lots begin almost opposite the
lower end OF Central Park, and ex-
tend two miles or more in length By
almost q mile 10 width. There is
ample space, perfect drainage, the
Park IN front for a foreground and
additional attraction, and this spot is
pre-eminently the most easy of &C.
cess and nearest to the heart of the
city CT any open space within it linz
its. Two elevated roads travers il,
seven lines Of horse cars run almost
to it, the Hudson River Railroad is
within one. quarter mile and the river
but little further. That this ought
to be the location is clear to every
impartial examiner, and as it is yet
comparatively uneneumbered with
buildings, it seems quite certain TO be
finally selected, unless private inter-
ests are to be paramount to public
convenience.
DECORATION DAY IN NEW YORK.
4 procession over four miles long
marched through u streets to deco
rate the soldiers monument and scat
ter flowers upon the soldiers graves.
Business stood still New York for
got her manufactures, her commerce,
her politics; even Wall street ceased
its wild scramble after the almighty
dollar while the tramp Of armed men,
and the less elastic tread Of unermed
veterans, went by u doors. The
broad ranks, the brilliant uniforms,
the glistening steel and martial mu-
sic Of citizen soldiery forced our adj
miration ; the thinner ranks Of the
Grand Army, with here and there
the empty sleeve, or hal;ing gait, and
everywhere the "age marks" of SER
vice, called out our warmest sympa-
tbies; but the sight tina: stirred our
blood the deepest that day was the
tattered battle flags. Oh, how elo-
quently those riddled ensigns told of
the lurid glare of battle, Of manly
breasts barred to the iron hail of death;
of patriotic endurance on march and
seige and charge, of heroic yielding
up of life that the heritage of our
fathers might be transmitted unim.
paired to our children! We vainly
try to choke back the tears that dim
our eyes as those silken rags go fiut.
terjng by; their mute appeals sink
deeper in our souls than all the sill.
v%er-tongued oratory of the hour, for
those of Us who know what battle is
cannot forget how the death-angels
cluster about the %regimental %colors,
and brood beneath their rustling folds.
War is an awful thing. God spare
our land another like the last-bui
spare US first the crime Of forgetting
what we owe our Nations Dead
spare US alike from sectional animosi.
ties, on the n hand, and from any
degree of tolerence with a spirit of
disunion on the other! These are
the lessons of Decoration Day, and
the growing disposition OF the PEG.
pie to observe the day shows how
these vital convictions are sinking
deeper into their hearts year by
yearl
BETTER TINES.
Times grow better Enthusiastically.
Not that men are making fortunes in
a month not that ordinary invest.
ments pay 10 or Is per cent. !; not
that ordinary business profits arc
large enough to justify reckless luxu.
ry of livinp : not that avery planSibIe