New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
LIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD


REFLECTIONS on COLLEGE COMMENcEMENrs.
Sad Aiaryantha to Inc yesterday, she was cut
| ting out and tying boutonnieres:
"Carthagenian, DO you like like New-Yorl
houscs9p
That depends" said |. "Thc new Vanderbilt
houses do like, very much | hope William
viii not present me with one of 'en, howe YER and
| forget to add the funds to run il. There's the
1wombly house, for instance, in Gothic and lime
stone: methinl>s could keep II up by taking my
position on that lovely bale NY over the front cor
and selling flowers OF afternoons and SUNDAYS /
could let them down by II string and puli the
money up in a cake basket. They might label me :
Lazarus mcrcful To Diyesp"
con, noon - exclaimed my belle spvr "You are
nothing ii not mcrcenary. | meant do You like
New-lork meRdge as well rs Philadelphia houses or
| Boston houscsg"
"Thc Boston houscsr said l. as they have been
heretofore remind of blocks Of barrels painted
red, with funeral trappngs The Philadelphia typi-
cal house is much like toy, and the game played
with IT is to wash it with hose several times day.
1t is the Gle nest and most Inexpensive house in the
world, like Philadelphia girl"
WE'LL" SAID my accomplished connection,
nave seen times whcn hose and clean water
eXcrtcd YOU would improve your expression!
Now Newly orl house, mean the typical high
Stoop house-isa lean slice of palace entered by
stcphddcr. Ii is beautiful brownstone to the eve
but half century OF frost chips il. The parlor is
on stills the kitchen is underneath the paror and
its stews arise there; the dining-room is on the
street, level with the pave, and tcmpts all the
hcggars. For my part think the abused Philadcl-
ph'a house is more sensible. There the paror is
only two feet above the pave, and from the win
dows you can whisper with your friends in summer.
Under the parlor is Il cool dry cellar with heater
for winter, which does not roast Your dining room
The diningrOom itself is level with The parlor
but a side yard mdentS the extension of the house
there leaving only hallway and giving your back
parlor window light in this rear building is the
kitchen, on the ground level next to the allcyway in
the rear Everything gross goes aud comes by the
rcar-coa Stops butchcr-boys and beggars. There
lore Philadelphia houses arc homes; New-Yorl
houses are wells and dormtorics"
The laying ont of the streets Mary Ann" said J.
determincd the household architecture and
economy Ncw-Yorl blocks are lid the hack
Yards touching, and hence alleys are almost M
known on Manhattan Island. If we extend the
houses back. in Philadelphia we give them hardly
tencmcnt-housc light, nor is it agreeable to have
your back building open all its windows into those
OF yonr side neighbor, that he can hear you talk
Inc ioNe OF sunlight - the characteristic of New
York of the shade of Philadelphia. Tho use of
the front street for hauling and fetching is n
necessity from the surveyor, and our high stoop
conceais or DISCUSSES the menagc. Chicago the
largest city and the newest large city of the interior
has adopted the Ncw-Yorl stoop house Cincinnati
and st. Louis follow the Philadelphia PLAN have
sometimes thought that the kitchen nuisance was
10 be obVatcd here by building low onc-story
kitchens at the rear of the wards connecting with
the front stoop door by a hall or colonnndc: this
would give Il lighted basement AMI rear DINING
room. but then how would you get the ,floLc in RIA
to the housctupsw
Why,' said my accomplished belle srar :. by in
venting the Queen Ahne cluster cmmbly, joining
He kitrhens OF nrghb1rS and running beautiful
towers up To u hiHh point AMI topping of 'cm with
Florcntine vases or Dutch storks' nests Then rs.
your chmbiys for telegraph poles and tclcrhonc con-
nectlons. lWoud be mogninquc ic,thct,c chiqnc
The storks would do The scavcngcr.ng free Beam
tiul telcgIaph-cnhors would conc 10 the kitchen
to ascend and compliment the cooks who could
scream so Interestingly when the young men went
up the outNte OF The chimbly. tn, chimblyn con-
cludcd Maryantha, lis the orphan feature of the
mouse ana must be made something Of Think of
al that heat going away in the mir for morning..
Wheh II might warm vines ~ they railup the chin
bly, shafts and keep the storks nests warm as ne
The stork, reflected, beng the chimney Lar of our
Dutch founders, would become Ncw-York. thou,,l,
ms migratory ways require some winter climate like
Cuba or Mexico Yet the Brazilian white stork
once domcsticaicd here, would return and in winter
we would not need him n soavongcr SO said
Naryantha, if your spelling was ~ good rs yonr
observation. you would bc altogether too pcrlect
''''"'''' h"N'N'i, "uSHl 10 ne ON The hOu,ctOpS,
ana IN the general use ofclcctricty it might lit
elevators up from the street door during the day.
when the same fluid would not be needed for gas"
CHILDREN or WAILENsrEIN
Trend OF mine has Il huge cigar factory with !
wen on I" 1000 hands working in it. women and
men, too. The work Of stripping the tobacco which
Is the only uncenn task, il done in Il separate build
ing by girls chiefly, and the air is full If snuy par
tIcl"s But in the long where the men sit in
rows, at regular desks forms" M in school each
with slab of lockwood before him. on which to cut |
ana his tobacco IN three piles his knives at his |
fght, ms refuse here his drawer open below and |
MS cigars IN corner the picture is uoat rs artists,
drawing and cngraycrS cutting in an at.licr Stoop
10 almost any OF those and ask him a question
III English! He cannot understand Your languapc |
ne ~ Il bohemian, 'rhaps He is one of ~ many
hohehlihS III NeW-Nork City as Inhabit the capital
ol l'"hena itself We say: "IIow ignorant of these
'oh'hllHhS 10 llVe among us so numcrousv and !
know not our language!" Vt how IGNORANT are We |
VINO permit tens OF thousands of Bolcmians To be !
or hclghbors and possess hardly the least knowl-
cage ABOUT them or their country, Americans are |
only less pIghcaded toward foreigners than are the
English. We have the more tolerance but the less
knowledge OF foreigners. L. there anywhere a book
upon the foreign clements of NeW-Yorll l-;urcy as
feai ana AZ picturesque subject as pottery or rugs
do we know ~ we pass the st. Georges church |
towers or the Fifth ave. synagogue that Boheln-
lah' EIdlitz, made them, the came who made the |
gorgeous new Assembly Chamber mt ALBANY DO
we know That almost every paror in Ncw-York is
hcu WIN Bohemian glass, much of il made directly
lor America and the whole product now many mill
IONS OF d"llaIS Il year Are we aware that the
hrst sketch ever drawn and preserved of New-Yorl
ll and IL a..tyl