The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-06
LETTER From NEW YORK.

LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
TorrfE EDITOR or THE NEW NORTHWEST:
The tendency in this city is constantly /
toward more steady habits and less os- |
teuiatious hospitality. New York fam
lilies probably entertain as little company
as anywhere in the country. The desire .
Of all people TO visit this city has made 4
resident life so onerous here that thou
sands Of house-holders resort to hotels, /
where they can decline without UNI
bragg. To give a dinner here is as COM
mon as anywhere in the world, but il is .
generally at a cafe. New York men eat .
their largest meal down town about one 4
o'clock, when the first lull comes in F.
business, and the women pick up what
they can find at home. The prices of
all things are scrutinized more than
formerly. a luncheon for two persons
at Delmonieo's, with a quart Of cham
pagne, will cost about six dollars From
this one can 60 to an Italian restaurant
and get eteight courses and a bottle Of wine
for one dollar. ! was passing up Broad
way a few days ago, when well-known
hotel clerk called me. He showed me a
neat, refined little hotel next door to the
Rossmore Hotel, with excellent bedding
and all the appurtenances OF a costly
hotel in miniature, for the sum Of two
dollars a day per head, including three
meals and room. Even at the Brevoost
House, which is too far down town TO
be attractive to fast people, I am told
that good suite of rooms and meals can
be had for about thirty dollars week,
about the cost Of the same thing four or
five years ago for two days. In the Ger
man restaurants, where the cooking is
quite as good as at the French, though
the natural meats are perhaps coarser,
good fare can be had for about d dollar
and a half day. Ro m rent in New
York is very low. From two 10 five
dollars a week will get a very respect
able room iu a good quarter Of the city.
The large houses on Fifth Avenue which
were formerly Inhabited 10y single
family, are in many cases let out in
these dsys, the owners retreajing to the
top story or living in Europe, or travel
ing somewhere, as to California or the
Black Hills, and sutsisting on the rent
of their apartments.
Edlson's electrical gas seems 10 have
stuck. The trouble appears 10 be TO get
aflash OF Ii yhtning to measure itself of
in small doses. You have seen your
lady blush, for example, a sudden rush
OF circulation to The temples. How to
get that blush 10 be mathematical, and
20 10 fixed spots at viii and stand there
10 be counted, is the problem Edison
thought platinum would fix. That seems
10 do for false teeth, but not for bushes.
There ought to be some way to catch all
the waste lightning and sell il by the
pound. Years ago I thought that the
lightuing-bugs were saving it up, so it
wouldn't hurt anybody. Mr.. Tennyson
got 10 before Edison, and said just how
il was:
"Our currents rol from soul t1 soul,
aud Goat forever and forever"
In this age if a ghost would come back
lie would be scared to death, and would
not annoy anybody more than a Rip
Van Winkle Imagine Hamlers father
coming on the battlements Of I1lslnore.
An electric light would be put on him
in three minutes, and three grains Of.
dynamite would hoist ghost aud castle
together.
Mr. Talmadge began his series Of ma
tonal sermons yesterday morning at
the Brooklyn Tabernacle, beginning
with Washington, the city Of political /
power After a number Of laughter /
proVohiug preliminaries, he said. 81 |
come 10 tell you what Is considered 10
De the moral condition Of this country
as inferred from Washington, the eitvof
Polucal power, Boston, the eitv of cyl-
'u's .'i'a1-'nhia. the city OF beautiful
oiuef' Ohicasa, Tie city Of miracBlops
gIo"'n' New York, the city ofeommer-
cial supremacy, Brooklyn. the city of|
homes, aud so on, stoppiu. ,nl,, ~, -.
Sunday 10 have a few vyo,.i. ....,l.
critics in regard to what is tbst..
sion Of the Christian miuister
cities go, so goes the land. Let me f.sl
the pulse Of the cities and will tell 49,,
the pulse Of the land. God gives -
every city, as to every individual, a mis-
sion. Interlocked with the welfare and
the very existence Of their nation stands
the city of Washington on the Potomac.
planted there by way Of compromise.
At Hamilton's table il was agreed that
II the national government would as
sumo the State debts, then the North
would agree to have the capital on the
Fotomac instead Of the Delaware. Just