New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-13
nuy TRBUNE SUNDAY NOVEMBER SHEET

! ouent visit TO the city. 1t is highly probable
| that he sees more Sunday travel" Mt home
relative to populatiOn--than goes on III
the city. He needs to learn that, for the
greater part. people in the city cannot
afford buggles, and have to make their neceS-
sary Sunday pgrimages in street-cars.
Encouraged to think on our mercies,' 1t oc-
Cured to us to look about among these two
millions of people and discover whether there
is any Sunday in New-YOrk and Brooklyn.
The result was so pleasant that we venture 10
disclose some of its details. We began Wlth
Broadway, a thOroughfare so full OF vehicles
on weekdays that policemen are kept busy
helping foot passengers to cross it. We found
that ON Sunday little children could safely
plav in it from the Battery to Union Square.
The men and horses of three omnibus lines
were resting. the foot passengers had disap-
pcnred from the broad sidewalks, the innumer-
able trucks, stages, express wagons, etc, no
longer struggled with each other to get
through the street Then we turned into the
great wholesale quarter to the west OF Broad
way. Closed doors and silence in the vast
piles of buildings crammcd with goods. We
seemed to be at least "twclve miles from
lemon" so completely were the restaurants
and bars closed and locked Then we tried
The next busiest quarter, Wall-st. and its
wholcsaling neghhors No country village
can show such impressive Sunday silence as
the whole region below the Post Once keeps on
SUNDAYS. Fulton-st might be country lane
with n border OF silent buildings in place OF
the silent green fields. Then we said "Surey
the shipping interest is busy on sunday and
proceeded to the river fronts. The first dis
covcry here was that the streets were open ana
travcrsablc, which is never true on a week
dav In West-st.. where, on weekdays, car
conductor would commit yOu to an insane asy-
lam if Won asked his time from one point to
another, the stiffness was almost equal to
broadway. We scrambled ont upon several
piers and found some work going on; but not
more than onc-twcnticth rs much a. is visible
ON Il Saturday. Then it occurred to us tha
three hundred thousand girls, boys men,
women. work in the light manufacturing that is
carried on in Ncw-lork. We explored for
these people. but none of them could be found.
Plainly. they were all resting after six DAYS
work. The great shopping centres then at
tractcd orr attention. All shut mp. Their fifty
thousand >hop-gjrls and clSh-boys were at rest
The quiet of the upper part OF the city and OF
al the residence quarters oi brooklyn couIu
not bc surpassed i'm thc most model oil model
villages. Eut thcrc was some work going
ON 2" Yes, bat, relatively To- the population
very little Here and there drinking place
or store" or restaurant was open in
lancuid sort Of way with about ouc-Gith OF the
weekday working force. 1t WAS not altogether
n maf,cr of virtue: the customer, of the week
dav, were away at their homes in New
Jersey. Wc,tchc,tcr. and the residence quarters
Of thc cities The >trcrt-car lines were running
one c,r in rprr: the ferries one boat in five.
We rnnrL gan. Of men repairing the pave
mcnt # tine ferry on The Brooklyn side; and it
would hr -imrly impossible to repair it in the
Clll tide OF weekday travel. -Four other gangs
of Lahorcr, were encountered; hut they were