The Opelousas courier., 1883-11-03

rs IDestirsed TO be tine Final worlds
Met. oDOlGs. N
a striking article in the ce'tgry j
Nv. c. gonant's inquiry, "Wil New
York be the Final World Metropolis
which he answers in the affirmative.
''The pivot of the whole development
of the metropolis he says, sis on the
eastern side, at the lower end OF Man.
haitian island. Here is the permanent
financial center. 1t will not move, for
all the world seeks it where it is. Wall
street will preserve it's character as
long a the cosmetropolis endures.
Banking, exchange, stocks, insurance,
capital and merchandise brokerage,
speculation, and financial and CONNER
cial agencies from all parts of the
world, will circle around Trinity
church until it's walls crumble. Off
ces of railroad and mining companies
of steam and other shipping, of tele-
graphs, of staple imports and exports
(stores and warehouses crowded into
the distance and for the greater part on
the Jersey flats next center closest
around the financial hub, attended by
manufacturing and miscellaneous cor
porations, lawyers without number,
brokers, courts, newspapers, and, far
ther up, the importers Of foreign and
agents of domestic manufactures. The
physiognomy of this part of the city Is
fixed, and will only become more pro-
nounced in time by the crowding out
of small manufacturing concerns and
warehouses for the storage Of heavy
products. The jobbing trade will con-
tinue its march up town, and perhaps
halt around the Hudson river tunnel
depot to be opened near Washington
Square. The retail dry goods trade,
following the tide of fashionable life,
will go northward until stopped or
turned by the corner of Central Park.
"After finance and foreign con-
MERGE, fashionable trade and society
will eventually be the chief features
of the central city. The Capitalization
of true metropolitan commerce, which
is to make lower New York the Lon
don of the future, will make upper
New York it's Paris. Exclusive socie-
ty in New York al scarcely be said
to have any fixed and distinct habitat
at present. 1t is in transitory lodgings,
looking about, as it We're; ready poised
to take wing for some choice new
quarter, well walled from vulgar intru-
sion. Where that quarter is to be,
however, can hardly be a question.
One suitable spot remains, that is 80
beautiful, so isolated, SO admirably adj
apted, that n is almost constrained
to believe that the susceptibilities of
sublimated snobbery are not beneath
the Providence that cares for the spar
row. Four square miles have been
laid out by nature on the peninsular
upper end of the island, between the
Hudson and the Harlem, at an eleva-
ton of from fifty to a hundred feet
above plebian street grades, expressly
for the "court" quarter Of New York's
future aristocracy. 1t is a ridge about
a mile wide, with abrupt sides and a
broad top; overlooking at once, on
either hand, the magnificence of the
Hudson between the Palisades, and
the romantic hooks of the Harlem and
Spuyten Duyvel, with the glittering
reach Of Long Island sound; swept by
the purest airs from land and sea; all
most self-drained, and drained again
Of drainage at its base; inaccessible,
in short, to the odors of the common
world, to the heavy wheels of COM
merce, and to the enterprise of specu-
lative builders"