The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-19
The Future Of New York.

A striking article in the September
Century is W. c. Conant's inquiry.
"Will New York be the Final Worlc
MetropQlis?' which he answers in the
affirmative 1.-The pivot of the whole
development Of the metropolis he
says, rs on the eastern side, at the
lower end of Manhattan Island. Here
is the permanent financial center II
will not move, for all the world seeks il
where it is. Wall street will preserve
its character as long as the cosmetrop.
oils endures. Banking, exchange,
stocks, insurance, capital, and mer.
chandise brokerage, speculation, and
financial and commercial agencies from
all parts Of the world, will circle around
Trinity Church until It's walls crumble.
Offices OF railroad and mining com.
panies, Of steam and other shipping, q
telegraphs, of staple imports and ey
ports (stores and warehouses crowded
into the distance and for the greater
part on the Jersey fats next center
closest around the financial hub, at
tended by manufacturing and mscel-
number, brokers, courts, newspapers,
and, farther up, the importers OF for.
eign and agents OF domestic, manufac.
lures. The physiognomy Of this part Of
the city is fixed. and will only become
more pronounced in time BIZ the crowd
ing out of small manufacturing concerns
and warehouses forthe storage of heavy
products. The jobb,ng 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 lite,
will 60 northward until stopped OF
turned by the corner of Central Park.
After finance and foreign commerce,
fashionable trade and society will even
tualiy be the chief features OF the CEN
tral city The Capitalization of true
metropolitan commerce, which is TO
make lower New York the London of
the future, will make upper New York
its Paris. Exclusive society in New
York can scarcely be said to have any
fixed and distinct habitat at present
Ii is in tranSitiOnary lodgings, looking
about as it were; ready poised to take
wing for some choice new quarter, well
walled from vulgar intrusion. Where
that quarter is TO be, however, can
hardly be a question. One suitable spot
remains, and that is at once SO beauti-
full, so isolated, and so admirably adapt
ed, that one is almost constrained 10
believe that the suSceptibilities Of sub
limated Snohbcry are not beneath the
Providence that cares for the sparrow.
Four or five square miles have been
laid out by Nature on the pcnnsular
upper extremity OF the island, between
the Hudson and the Harlem, at an ele-
walton of from fifty to a hundred feet
above plebean street grades, expressly
for the court quarter of New York 5
future aristocracN 1t is a ridge about
a mile wide, with abrupt sides and a
broad top; overlooking at once. on
either hand, the magnticence' of the
Hudson beneath the Palisades, and the
romantics hooks of the Harlem and
Spuyten Duyvil, with the glttering
reaches Of Long Island Sound; swept
by the purest airs from land and sea
almost 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 commerce,
and to the enterprise OF speculative
builders. "