Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-24
NEW YORK.
Something About the Famous Thorough.
fares Of GOtham-Br Oadway-Bow.
cry - Five Points - Baxter
Street-Fiftii Avenue.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
New York, December lS.-The
streets of this great city are very at
tractive now. Crowds upon crowds of
people iostle one another, each utterly
obliyious of all el,e save his own
thoughts If you can picture human
being walking about twice as fast as
we do In Fort Worth, and imagine q
daddy's dollar suspended few inches
i'm front of his nose and the eyes OF the
human on the dollar, you will have
fair likeness of New York men as they
appear on the streets of this city. or
course reference is not made to the
sharks, of whom | will speak in q sub
seuuent letter, but the great minority
of the males in this cosmopolitan city.
I would attempt description of the
women. but fear my pencil would get
wound IN in IA mass OF intricacies.
1t has been estimated that ten thou'
sand peop,e rise up every morning IN
this city with the intention of getting,
if possible, somebody's purse by some
| means or other, and your COWBOY
| friend considers himself lucky II ne
gets back to the hotel with his, all y
| k. But started out to describe the
streets and got Off on the people. i
was talking with n friend some days
ago about the streets running In SO
many directions, ana he laughed ana
took me on a Journey to show nue. some
| of the crooked ones. Leaving Broau'
way Mt Ninth ttfeet, we went west
crossed Fifth avenue, and walked, its
| supposed, in a straight line, with M
occasional divergence, where the stieel
walking for more than a half hour,
saw a Misunderstanding building anc
said: "That looks like Stewards oio
building on the corner of Ninth stree
and Broadway My friend laughe,
and said il was. We had turned
completely around, without tull
ing perceptible corner
Broadway Is the grandest street Oh
earth. Standing on the eminenc'
where Leonard crosses it, you can SCI
miles each way. There are no avn W..
ings or swinging signs to obstruct TN
view the buildings loom up five ant
six-stories high on either sidei COUNT
less thousands of pedestrians move vi
and down rs far as the eye can see,
dense mass of vehicles of every de
scription stretches up TO Fourteenth
above the Battery aud Castle Gaiuei
on the south. ] stood here the otbe
day Just before IL m. and saw Il mum
Der Of men standing with watches u
hand gazing toward the south.
asked policeman what all this meant
He said they were watching to see w
time bdN drop in the tower above IN
Western Union building. He points,
out the tower and set my chronome
ter exactly at twelve with my niger
on the key. Suddenly / saw the Dal
drop, and the crowd pocketed the,
watches and passed ON. SO muei
interested was / that when though
about starting my watch, IL was u
least five minutes past twelve,
have seen Broadway blocked NJ
with solid mass of wagons, trucks
buses, etc, etc, for twenty or thiil
blocks. The other day while standiii
on the corner of Fulton street am
Broadway, ! saw q hcavily.lanei
truck turning the corner just Us
Fulton Ferry bus was entering Fultoi
street. The wheels of the two veni
cles became locked and In few miiu
utes there was jam viii h extenue
many blocks each way. The driver
of u hundred teams cursed and swor
In many languages and pedestrians "
either side of Brt adway shouted az
yelled themselves hoarse In telling "
drivers how to get out OF the JAZZ
Talk about confusion of tongues. NJ ~
tower of Babel, 1t isn't u drop Ia IN
bucket compared 10 the confusion !
tongues In Broadway jam. Az w
corner once stood bridge, with star
ways at the four corners for the con
vcn'enec of pedestrians. for u u.
quently happeus thai ,oo
passengers cannot cross ihes
corners for hours at q lh,
The bridge is u memory of the pas
II got TO be a loanng place for. thieVt
and tramps, and it was found not
answer the purpose for which u W.
built, so II was torn down. a iamVu
actress once rode wild steed over w
bridge us an advertising scheme.
Wall street Is n short, plain, unpt,
tentious looking place, and l hctua,,,
walked through IL the other day VIII
out Gould, Vanderbilt, Sage, or ~
of the other millionaire specuia'o'