New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-01

+" was hard, thankless bitter work We Yankees
doing 1t answered to Napoleon's brother Joseph
Bonaparte. when Napoleon made him King OF Spain
and he took the exactions off the Spanish contrary
to his brothers orders. Napoleon wrote TO nin
You have ceased to be Frenchman and have not
succeeded in becoming Spaniard'" Tom bowes
gave the great lava bed decision in the ceieDrateu
IA ilroad conflict over the right OF way up inc Ar
kansas Canon. THE man who imputes paltlali'y
or favor to me has heart as barren OF sensiD5y do
the lava-paved streets of hell"
THE FUTURE METROPOLIS.
The consolidation of New York and Brooklyn has
not hitherto been much agitated because they have
had so little autonomy. but the Importance OF the
ocean front of Brooklyn to New-YOrk people ana
police law for summer recourse, and the opening Oh
the suspension bridge next fall will hasten the ag-
tation. The growth of the City of New-York shonld
be lateral as well lengthwse and but one side Is
available under our State jurisdctOn-tbat OF Long
Island 1t is erroneous policy to increase the COST Oh
rent on Manhattan Island while not CIV
ing facilities to much OF our populatlon
to live in Brooklyn If New-fork
ever ceases to grow 1t will not be because OF facln
ties to leave The island, but because they are not
provided, while the conditions OF life upon the
island are nearly insuferable. One-hah the earn
ings of family Is often paid here for house rent
and one-thrd is usually paid. The riches OF the
city are not in its expensive rents but In Its trade
There will always be a sufficient premium unuer
any circumstances upon New-YOrk resideDce' puI
there are vices and burdens inseparable from ex-
trayagant rent to be found not only in the crowded
tenement but in mansions where want and Vexa-
ton. inspired by rent day, lead to temp
tations. to taking in miscellaneous dodgers, and
all the forms of shabby Gentility. 1t is to our in
terest that we broaden the area Of inhabltancy Dy
steam communication with the great city overlook
inp us. so that our teuement-hOuse districts shall
thin out thereby making more room for respectable
homes on this island and increasing the number OF
thrifty householders. Trains ought to run every
minute or two from Brooklyn to New-YOrk by way
of bridges on BlackwelPs Island.
Chicago, which is fest lessening the difference IN
population with us, affords comfortable homes for
from $500 to $500 year. Brooklyn has plenty of
pleasant homes for 500 TO 81 ,O00 But New-YOrk
decent house Is hardly to be had under $1,000
year. London has commodOus houses in pleasant
neghborhoods for el00 year and taxes, the ten
ant there paying the taxes-nOt the landlord as
with us. Noble dwellings are to be hired in the new
parts of the West End of London, adjacent to Hyde
Park. and the passenger railroad system there
makes four millions of people less crowded and OPP
pressed for shelter than the two millions in New-York
and Brooklyn. We already have the reputation of
being the dearest city the world and it isno bene-
fit to u.s. At one of the hotels in this city family Of
two persons is said to pay $4,000 year for a
preferred suite of an5 separate table and'ex-
elusive joints of meat. l know Of several cases
where furnished houses rent for $4,000 apiece, and
in one instance the tenant pays 81 pound fer all
his beefsteaks requiring them to be choice Profll-
gacy and social disease must be result of such IN
equality. and the problem for both philanthropy and
capital is to widen the island of NewYork BY taking
In the remaining shore. JOHNNY BOUQUET.
The Conservatory Feb, IS, 1881.