Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-06-23
new Y0RK'S BEDROOM.
BrOOklYn'S Relation to the Great
Metropolis.
One Babel Devoted to Business, the
Other City Of Homes.

Correspondence OF Sah FRANCISCO chronicle.
New YORK, May 24.-While New
York is virtually great bazar of trade,
Brooklyn is city of dwellings; while
New Yorks 1,250,000 people are, for the
most part, packed in narrow, steeple like
tenements, in ill-kept streets, with little
room for the city's g,s5Ntll, except sky.
wards, Brooklyn's 800, 900 people inhabit
frame dwellings, set in ample gardens, on
wide, long streets that have all of Long
Island to extend upon. Grocers, drug
gists, milliners, tailors and furniture men
are the principal business men of Brook
lyn, and so much is store-keeping subor-
dinated to housekeeping there that the
meanest features of the city, instead of, as
in New York, the grandest. 1t used to be
literally true that Brooklyn was the "bed
room of New York, since all there was
to Brooklyn was the homes of those who
drew their living from the metropolis
The only reason this is not true now is
that land being much cheaper there than
in New York, many New York manu-
facturers have moved their factories
across the river and have thus added a
small manufacturing one to the other in
terests there. But while this keeps
thousands of Brooklyn's workers in that
city, the great multitude still cross to
New York every morning and back again
every evening. The big fan-shaped su-
burb has greater water front on East
river than New York has, and
eight lines of ferry boats, start
ing comparatively close together
from New York land, far apart in Brook
lyn. The river, though narrow, is pos
sessed of rapid current and is so busy
with shipping that the ferry navigation
difficult and not always quickly accom-
plished. One of the most remarkable
features of life in the metropolis during
the past thirty years has been the sight
presented by these white turtle shaped
boats coming to New York every morn
ing literally packed with men. They
stand even with the iron bound edge of
the boat and are packed solid to the
cabin doors. The cabins are packed just
as full This lasts from $3.50 o'clock until
10 o'clock every morning, and after the
last named hour the big suburb remains
for all day long city of women.
CITY TAKEN CARE OF BY WOMEN.
Women attend the stores and the
street booths, run the errands, sweep
sidewalks in front of the stores and are
to be seen on every hand, almost to the
exclusion of men. The swarm in the
streets, fill the cars, rattle about the
boulevards behind fast horses, roam
about at night with perfect impunity
and by their influence make Of the great
city blooming garden in the summer
and quiet, village-like community the
year around. They include in theil
number n greater proportion of pretty
faces and forms than are to bt
found in any eastern seaboard city, but
strangely enough, the beauty is, in the
main, rustic and ruddy, appearing il
rosy complexion, strong frames and ac
companied by vigor and confidence o.
motion and carriage not even limited a
among the paler faced, slender girls o
the crammed city only half mile distant
There is great deal of wealth in Brook
lyn, great deal more of simple comfor
and very little absolute poverty. Blu
the wealth that is in Brooklyn is no
Haunted as in the metropolis. 1t has fal
len into the hands of old-fashioned an'
quiet people, who have grown rich il
Brooklyn or have gone there with thei
fortunes in order to be quiet. Cheap a
the land and rents are, the very poores
people not only stay in New York
but their numbers in that city CONSTANT
increase. 1t is getting to be an axior
that none but the very rich and the yer
poor find New York homes within thei
means. The middle class inhabit Brool
lyn. 1t is vast collection of the modes
, homes of purely ordinary workaday PEI