New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-24
THE STREETS WE LIFE IN.

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TIE STREETS WE LIFE IN
If il he true that is known by the company
he keeps why should not people be know n by the
streets they live in Something at least of the
characteristics of the peoI lie might be gathered from
the nomenclature of the streets. The names Of
London streets, for example. with their heaping up
on one another of Rows and Places aud Streets and
Courts are descriptive of their antiquity and of
the conservative character of the English people
who are always ready to add to what has gone
before bat slow 10 abolish the past, whatever form
it has assumed. The names of French streets
especially OF those IN Paris, have artistic SIM
p'lcty and completeness quite Characteristic IN
their way They incline to the picturesque and the
ideal. The American street nomenclature, on the
other hand, Is like the American himSelf-pTactica
clear, straightforward, and-shall it be said p
sometimes monOntonOus The American names his
streets very much rs he lays them out-in straight
lines. When he has exhausted the short list OF
conventional names, ne often falls back npon NUN
bers. and sticks TO the arithmetic until his streets
give out.
directory OF all the streets in the lettercarrier
cities of the Union, which number 10. has been
prepared under the direction of the Postmaster
General 10y Mr.. +. j. Dallas. Chief of the Dead
Letter ONCE at Washington The directory is
directed or nsuiheiently directed. Under the
name of each street arc grouped the names Of the
cities having such a street and with the help of
other htte details it is usually easy tell to what
city letter bearing. say. only street address
without city address. having the wrong city
address, should 60 The book is a curiosity in its
way as well as great convenience, show ing "a il
does al'post at glance the names that have been
selected to distinguish Tho streets in the cities of
Of bf.l,a
growths aud therefore show principle of selec
ton In names more clearly perhaps. than in older
countries. Nearly ninety ont of the 40 cities
have their Nashingi on-st.. and more than thirty
Washngton-aye. Fifty cities have an Adams-st
while Old Hickory has no less than seventy-seven
named after him. There arc over sixty Madison
streets and over seventy Jeiersons Polk has a poor
hitecn. while Lincoln. in spite of the short time
allotted for this form of canonization, has named
nearly fifty, and Grant over fifty One city
Clevoiand-has already Garleld-ave The Ameri-
can honors his Presidents when he laws ont
streets or is it because their names come handy :
New York outsrips all competitors of course
in the numbered streets. but what city Is il that
contests most If the way with her3 No other than
the metropolis OF Bloomington, Ill.,. which has a
noble series of streets" whose excellence is ofci
ally recognized by the Post Office Department
numbered all the way To One-hundrcd- and fourth
ST. Brooklyn N Y. and Galveston, Texas. keen
even with bloomington. which had IN the census of
1870 population of $4,000. up 10 SiXtieth-st
bat from Sixtieth ST. TO One-hundred- and fourth
st. Bloomington alone keeps step proudly with
New York. This is surely typicay American. In
The 10 cities, there City Broadways. over
sixty Main streets, the number of Front
streets seventy five High streets, and so on through
HE list of stock Names There is not a great
deal of invention shown. Henry. john George and
William, those exemplary names, arc conferred
upon about fifty streets each. and on.
some oil the queer names are more interesting lust
az queer streets are apt TO be attractive than
tho most brilliant of the conventional thorougb-
fares. In Augusta, Ga. for example. there is y
Pigtaii-alloy and three cities, Washington, Baiti-
more ana Petersburg, boast of Pig-alley. New
Orleans has n Piety-st, and Providence a Benevo-
ient'st. Richmond and San Francisco have a
Charity-st. In Lowell there is a Carpet-lane. ami
IN httsburg Gistst. There are ten Ivy streets
one OF them in New-York. Meporicne-st is I'm
New Orleans, and Isis-St in San Francisco
Melindy-alley and Palallax-st. in Cincinnati. and
Paallao-st. in Cleveland. There arc over sixty
state streets, Trusteo-st. is in Chicago. and
Trust.allcy ia Baltimore. There are Pine. pln,n.
Elm, Maple, Walnut. and Oak streets without
number. -Four cities have a Frendship-st.. Nav
Orleans has Nirtue-st., Boston "a Peace ablo-st
three cities Peacest., two cities n Lowest ono n
Love-allcy one LOve-avc. four "a Love Lane and
one Lynn, Mass.--a Lovers Lcap-ave, which last
ought TO be forever sacred to timd swains Lontv's
lace is in Philadelphia, ana Tombs Row i'm Cam
den, n. }. Longitude lano is in Charleston s G.
There are five Juno streets and two called Justice
Jo-st. Is IN Providence, and Joe-st. in Savannah
while Go Bill Read is in Worcester. PerkonGne's
Court is In Philadelphia. Perkiomen-ave in Read.
ing, and Picnc-st. in Cleveland. New-Orleans
like Providence. abounds in the most edifyinv
names. Humanitv-st, Is one of them Therc Il a
Wealthy-ave. in Grand Rapids where no ono but|
milhonaires ought to venture TO reside. phadel.
ph'a has Piacid Place. and there are no less than
torty-hve streets Pleasant in name whatever
they may be In fact. Boston has u Maudlin- at.
while Cincinnati, Grand Rapids aud Paterson
atone for this with streets that are "called
straight" with more propriety perhaps than that
OF Damascus Young poets and aspiring politicians
may be glad to know that Fame Court is in phi,s
delphia. Some misanthropist with knowiedee of
Biblical nomenclature named street in Cleveland
Msrah. Probably there is u private history in
father-st and Mother-st of Detroit. Boston bas a
Moon-st, four cities have Star-st and Cinmnnoti
and Philadelphia have respectively Sun-sllav
and Sun Court. There are two Good Children
streets-in New.Orcans and San Francisco. phi,a-
delphia claims Orthodox and Evangelical xtreets
Boston Salutation st., and Cincinnati Tozzer.st
Minority-st. is in Charleston. and Terpsicbere.st
aud Euphrosyne-st in New-Orleans where thev
seem to havo been fond OF the Jolly Greek poa and
goddesses. Mobile has Hercuesst. ma we'll "A
New Orleans. Torn ination-st ;s IN ~ -.