The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-12-08
New Englanders in New York.

4 Bohemian of the New York Evening Express
audes sneeringly to the New EDglanders in that
city as follows
The trains leading from the city are all nearly
hlled to Overlooking by visitors to the country. 1t
IS TO New England mainly that the etfluX of trav-
elers directs itself The day is in It's origin more
essentially New England holiday than national
one, and thus the grand army OF clerks, artisans
and teachers, who hail from the land of dough and
grease and come TO New York for work hasten
thltherln search Of dyspepsia and doughnuts which
they will treasure up after their return for another
year sweet "reminiscences of home and its de
lights. The tund steamers are fairly Overcrowd-
ed and II will be next to impossible to secure q
berth on any one leaving this evening"
II tins penny -a-llne young man were to overhaul
the New York directory and strike ont the names
OF New England men, prominent i'll business and
in the professions, he would find the directory
chiefly valuable afterward as guide to the rec
ord Of second and thrd-fate establishments Be
ginning with President Arthur it would be easy.
II II were worth the time and space. to go through
he list OF prominent names ard show how much
New York owes TO its carpet baggers from New
England 1t is the financial centre of the country.
but II has had no more successful hnancers than
}. Morgan Co., D Morgan, Levi ?. Nor
ton. Fiske & Hatch and Cyrus W Field and
" all street also knows the names of Peabody,
Jessup, Metcalf, Ives, Lockwood and BabcOck
Among the merchants whose names are not IN
familiar III the metropolis may be mentioned
Moses H. Grlnnell, Simeon Draper, A. A Low,
Homer Morgan, { L Tiffany, William Borden,
Isaac H Bailey, Phelps, Dodge d Co. Mitchell
Vance d Co, David BOWS. 5 b Chttendon. Arm
old d Constable, and thousand others The "a
nous hotels like the Fifth Avenue the Brevoort
and the Windsor, are either owned conducted
by New England men On the bench there are or
have been, Folger. Curtis Choate Shlpman.
a Sanford Benedict, Davis and Brown and
among the leaders at the bar recall the names
of Erarts, Choate, the Barows f ". Stoughton
George Bliss. Benjamin K Phelps, William {
Whitney. William Curtis Noyes, William Walter
Phelps, Elbridge T. Gerry DAVID Dudley Field
Dorman Eaton. Ethan Allen, Elliot { Cowdin.
{. 5 Spencer Charles Tracey. Il P HAYES Rush
{ Hawkins ard Stewart L. W oodtord Possibly
our Bohemian friend may have heard in literary
circles of George Bancroft, William Cullen Bryant
Charles A Dana, George William Curtis + C.
Steadman, J Il Holland. John Bigeow and Man
ton Marble. and among publishers, OF d F. Apple
ton d Co and a. 5 Barnes g. Co, who are,only
two Of the many In art he will find Church 4
Tiffany. and score Of others standing at the
front And if he could be induced 10 turn his at
tenuon to theology he could learn Of Beecher
Storrs. Bellows, Cheever, Osgood, Hepworth. Coe
and rockingham 1t would be as easy to tell him
Of score of eminent physicians, with Willard
Parker at the head but we have already while
mentioning only a few of the names which suggest
themselves. devoted more space to the subject
than We designed Hartford Courant