Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-30
Gimp SEES OF GOTHAM.
THE LIGHTS and SHADES OF NEW
YORK LIFE.s

TIE LIGHTS and SHADES OF NEW
YORK LIFE.
The Multitude of People, How they Work
from Down Town to Up Town-The March
TO Events, Including Hotels and Theaters-
Vanderbilt 3 Public he DID Six Cent
Railroad-Scenes on the Avenues-G0r-
geous Equipases and Fiunkeyism-Plug
Hats and Big ButtOns-Refections.
Especial Correspondence st. Paul Globe.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-A cursory observ-
er might almost wonder what so many
hundred thousand people find to do in
New York, and why, even with all New
York proper contains, there should be
other thousands in Brooklyn, Jersey City,
Newark, Elizabeth and host of other
suburbs who do their work in the city. But
if one takes the trouble to inspect New York
the mystery can soop be solved. Every.
nook and corner of the lower business por
ton of the city is occupied with business
of some description. Oftentimes 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 street, and rag pickers' stores in
the top stories Of buildings in the same vi
cinity. This is eminently appropriated 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 eleven tn 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 saw them actually tearing down
one large building on Fulton street. II
"oo PAOOoOAy O1AOAS0 oOWA
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 tke 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 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
York to spread itself marvelously. In
no one thing is this more noticeable than
in the hotels and places of amusement. II
is only few years siroA Ninth street was
regarded as "away ypahssan," and now it is
counted almost as faf Town 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 a 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 Filth Avenue hotel
at the junction of Broadway
Fifth avenue and Twenty 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, corne,
Fifth avenue and Forty -sixthstreet( twenty
three blocks above the Fifth avenue) o,
the Buckingham, which is almost up te
the sasrance to Central park at Fifty-nintf
street.o2
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 blythe march of other places Of
an usement up town to Thirtieth street
T .rty third and beyond.
n 1868 Barnum's then great museum
one Of the prominent places ofamusement
in New York, was located at the corner Of
| Broadway and Ann streets, nearly two
blocks below the City Hail. When Bar
NUNS museum was destroyed by fire in
the year named, a bitter quarrel sprung
up between the elder Bennett, of the Her.
| aid. and Barnum, relative to the control OF
the site, Bennett desiring it for his news.