Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-30
GLLMPSES OF GOTHAM,
THE LIGHTS IND SLIDES OF NEI.
YORK LIFE.


The Multitude of People, How they svo-h
and Where they Live-Transfor, n.t,ou
from Down Town to Up Town-Th . March
70 Events, Including Hotels andJ 1,e.ters
Vanderbilt IS Public be DID s,x Can't
Railroad-Scenes on the Av .enues-Gor.
geous Equipaees and Fun 6ev;sm-Plnp
Hats and Big Buttons-R' elections.
Especial Correspondence ct. Paul Globe.1
NEW YORK, NOV. zo.- "A cursory observ-
er might almost W onder what 50 manv
nunoreo 'nousa" people find to do in
New YORK; ana why, even with all New
YORK proper contains, there should be
other thousa ads in Brooklyn, Jersey City,
Newark lizabeth and a host of other
SUBURBS who do their work in the city. But
II one' AXES the trouble to inspect New York
tne mystery can soon be solved. Every,
nc ok and corner of the lower business por
Jon of the city is occupied with business
of some description. Oftentiines differ
ent branches of business are dovetailed in
the same apartment and each goes along
without apparently knowing the other is
in existence. found planning mills in the
Easements of buildings only two blocks
from Wall strickland rag pickers' stores in
the top stories of buildings in the same vi
cinity. This is eminently appropriate, for
the fellow who gets on the wrong side of
Wall street, will soon be glad to get stu
alton as rag picker and furnish goodly
stock from his own apparel.
From basement up to the sixth, seventh,
eighth. and in some cases eleventh stories
every inch in the business quarter is hive
of industry. Business aggregating
hundreds of thousands, if not millions, is
oftentimes perched up in fourth and fifth
stories. Old structures with patched walls
creak with the weight of stocks and ma
chinery. They evidently can't spare the
time to rebuild, and so patch up and go
ahead. I must note one exception, how
ever, for I saw them actually tearing down
one large building on Fulton street. 1t
was probably peremptorily ordered down
by the building commissioners.
When you go about in those narrow little
crooked lanes that they call streets, such as
Spruce, Nassau, Ann, Fulton, Pearl,
Gold, Beekman, Hanover, Liberty,
Dey, Maiden Lane, etc., your idea of
what SO many people find to do changes
to wonder relative to how and where they
all find room to live, even if they overflow
into tie suburbs. From the city hall to
| the Battery, and between the East and
North rivers, there are more people en-
ployed to the square inch than in any COR
responding space in America. Very little
space is given to streets, as it is nearly all
occupied with buildings, and still the
horse cars run on some of those narrow
streets, where there is not room between
the curbs for a car and truck or carriage
to pass. You simply have to join the pro-
cession and move on. Then when one
considers the vast amount of business
above the city hall Though, for the greater
part not so crowded. it is very easy to see
how more than million people find some
thing to occupy the time.
| THE UP TOWN MARCH.
| The elevated railroad has enabled New
i
no one thing is this more noticeable than
in the hotels and places of amusement. 1t
is only few years since Ninth street was
regarded as ''away up town." and now it is
counted almost as far down town as the
Battery was in those days. A. T. Stewards
great retail store, on the cor
ner of Ninth and Broadway,
was counted as fashionable, because
it was an up town establishment. First
Fourteenth street, five blocks farther up,
came in with its great stores and theaters
to cast shadow over such down town
purlieus as Stewards, and now Twenty
third street, nine blocks farther up, casts
Fourteenth in the shade. Five or six
years ago the Fifth Avenue hotel,
at the junction of Broadway
Fifth avenue and Twenty-third street, with
Madison square in front, was exceedingly
fashionable, and the sojourner at the Fifth
Avenue was regarded as ''away up in the
pictures" because he was in the very heart
of New York fashionable life. Now, to be
absolutely tony, one must get up in the
neighborhood of the Windsor hotel, corner
Fifth avenue and Forty sixth street, twenty
three blocks above the Fifth avenue) OIL
the Buckingham, which is almost up to
the entrance to Central park at Fifty ninth
street. 49,
The theaters all tend in the same direc-
ton, there being nothing first class below
Fourteenth street, and even Twenty-third
street with Booths theater and the
Grand Opera house, is being left in the
ade by the march of other places of
an usement up town to Thirtieth street.
7 .rty-third and beyond. ,, -,
1868 Barnum's then great museum,
one of the prominent places of amusement
in New York, was located at the corner of
blocks below the City Hall. When Bar