Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-14
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ANOTHER LETTER FROM TWO sAcaA.
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MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, April 81, 1881.
Ten days in New York is but a flyer
to one who wishes to see the world at one
of its great centers. We were formally
introduced to the city this time by the
porter Of the Gilsey House. When he in
formed us that which out OF our room
window, away below, looked like an un-
slightly lot, with weird, apangled border
on the further side, was the roof Of a
four-story building with the west edge of
Broadway and its lamps, we felt that an
apology, or something, was due him.
a person will often tipd it to
his advantage to express his feel
ing in sections. Something like this
fitted mis- case. Esteemed young man We
have not been able to procure that latest
publication, Ehjah's Chart, the only
st;aight line some people are not fit for
a mansion in the skies without notice !;
our linen Is not ready for ST. Peters IN
spectlon, and you keep our baggage down
there and tell the landlord that all men
travelling without ladies are not to be
corralled In the stays quarters OF every
hotel in the country. Tie rooms IL tins
hotel are all nice, but those IN the region
OF earth are more accessible for ten-day
life IN New York" 1t IS said that in Paris
law regulates the hight of buildings; but
1t has never occurred to the average New
Yorker that any one Is interested in the
depths to which he shall burrow, nor the
extent to which he may see fit to go up.
Ten years ago, when the writer was last
here, they were experimenting with the
Greenwich street
ELEVATED RAILROAD,
Carrying the emigrants. These roads
have been changed and perfected, SO that
they are now the favorite roads for the
city people. There are two on each side
of the city-one on each side going up to
the Harlem river. The one on the west
side runs from near the Battery to High
Bridge Harlem river), some II miles, In
SO minutes, intending p stoppages. Two
hours and half each morning and evening
the fare IS five cents, and at times there Is
hardly standing room left IN the cars at
other times the fare is ten cents. The ele-
waited railroads have made the travel in
horse-cars and "huses" very comfortable,
and are having a wonder full effect in build
ing up the city above and around Central
Park. They are being built in Brooklyn
also.
Coney leland, then barren beach, with
a few bath. room sheds and the three card
monte players, is for three miles now GOV.
cred with several very large hotels and
any number of other places and means
for affording amusement and opportunities
for the industrious TO "work their money
off out of their reach. The best way
down there is by Greenwood Cemetery
gate. and is suggestive to those that come
home early in the morning.
The work on the Brooklyn bridge is pro-
crossing They are now hanging the wires
from the main cables, and fixing bridge
work to them-doing It from both sides OF
the river.
The +" hobbylisk" is still in position at
the north end of Central Park, but as
q relic fend short time ago got away
with a chip of it there are now shifts Of
policemen with Flaming sword" guarding
it, and one is not allowed to 90 within ten
rods OF it.
rHB oBELIsK.
The base on which it stands ia twelve
feet square, and the obelisk itself is FIVE
feet square at the base and some seventy
feet high, and near the top is three feet
square from that portion, IN about four
feet, it tapers from all sides to point.
The side that used TO stand to the storms
has worn quite smooth, so they have
turned il around to give old March here
show at it. But the inscriptions are all
yet plain enough for anyone to read who
understands old fashioned chain lightning,
so familiar to this country when March
dies. While at the park, we visited the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and were
well repaid for doing so. We also called
at the Seventh Regiment Armory, Sixty
sixth street It is of stone and hard wood
(oak) finish, 400 feet by 200 feet. The
building and furniture cost some $500, 900.
The lot and all is said to be worth 81, 000,-
600. The drill-room is 300 feet by 200
feet. 1t has a truss roof, and is rs feet
from the floor to top of roof. They are
fixing up this room for the Music Festi-
val, +" to come off early in May. 1t is to
consist of some seven concerts, at which,
it is said, Msdams Gerster and Carey and
Messrs. Campsnini and Whitney and other
Leading artists and a chorus OF some 1000
will entertain New York with song.
On Fifth avenue, corner Of Fifth street,
w h. Vanderbilt is building his new
BROWNS STONE PALACE,
Aud next to him enc each for mis- two
daughters (they are marriedl, the whole to
cost something like a million and half.
They are all to be connected on the first
story by corridor some 2S by 50 feet, so
the three houses can be thrown into one
for receptions. There is only one feature
about this that lie particular interesting to
us-W. H., IN order to get his corner
house better than anything We have in
California, proposes to send to Paris Tor
some ceilings, to the ends of the earth for
different finishing woods, and for his front
doors we are told, for one set he has en-
gagged party to go and get the gates of
Paradise, and for the other set the gates
of Hades. He will probably find Tweed
has the last-named IN "soak" and will
"size Vanderbilt's pile" and check his
ambition before he tempts ST. Peter.
While here we opened new account y
and charged it with an afternoon at
Barnums, Black Crook" evening at
Niblo's, one hour with Gilmore's Band
mid smoke and lager and we credited il
with "Felicia" at the Union Square, a
"Scrap of Paper" from Wallack's, and q
sight draft on Birch, Backus & Co. up
Broadway. We brought nice balance
down to our credit for not going to the
Brooklyn Tabernacle as we intended.
The above are all familiar but Barnum's
he is always new. Under his immense
roof once, the first thing you notice is q
great circle of some 3, 600 white-wood arm.
less chairs-reserved for dollar-and sc
arranged that the large man can, at the ex.
pense Of the rest of the human family, gel
his dollars worth in seat before he sees
anything. Back of these seats are nearly
asmany more popular fifty-cent ones, where
by buying field-glass you can enjoy your
self perhaps. In the large circle which thes'
white chairs surround, and said to hav'
a.