New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-25

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who do their work 80 well, ana earn 30 little
in proportion.
We do not, therefore, criticise the newsmen OF
Newark for their desire to make living proht
on their business. We want them to make a
profit. The TRIBUNE has done Its share
toward securing the nesnlt. Its rates to news
dealers have always been deliberately adj
justed with that object in view; and we have
gwen them a class of customers on whom
they themselves say they never lose dollar
of money. In view of these facts. they
should permit us to gain the advantage
of the reduced rate to the public. We say
nothing of the papers that allow only frac-
ton Of cent copy. The TRIBUNE allows
them one cent and it should be sold for
three cents, daily and Sunday. The public Of
Newark have right to ask this, under the
circumstances. Customers will be justified in
insisting that it shall be done.
THE END or THE SUMNER SEASON
The holiday season is over, so far as
the great migrating public is concerned.
Those who move in narrow circle have no idea
of the general upheaval caused by this mod
ern freak of going out of town. 1t is not TOO
much to say that part of all well-to-do Western
families betal1e themselves now yearly 20 the
sea-coast OF some Eastern place Of fashionable
resort, while the same class in the East empty
the towns and trainple down the country.
To accommodate this migration totally new
set of industries has sprung up. lnnumer-
able enormous wooden carayaDsariesereett their
castellated turrets on every hilltop each has
its force of officials walters, servants and
wOrkmen, and each brings new current OF trade
and labor to the neighboring village and
farms. The summer bonrder has become as
large aud sure a crop in the National revenue as
wheat or oats. But it lasts n brief season. The
huge pasteboard inns stand locked and empty
in these September days. or half-dozen be-
lated guests cover about the fire in the de-
serted ballroom while a solitary bell-boy mods
in the office. Ii ia new feature in our American
landscape and social life, and suggestive one.
What becomes OF the busy swarm that make
their living in these hives, in winterf Their
occupations gone with the first touch of frost
Why should it be gomez What are we all
doing in town. There are the vast sweeps
of forest, just beginning to redden and
burn-the golden rod, the royal purple OF
the iron weed, orange sunf1owers, elderberries
glistening like clustered gnrnets are massed in
every hedge and ditch; every leaf and
weed has put on imperial color and thrust the
pale field flowers Of the summer out of sight
But there is nobody to see them. The thunder
clouds drift over the mountain peaks and de-
seend unLoticed; the mighty tides OF late Sep
TENDER roll up empty sands: the marshes
brown and deepen and take on bloody and yell
low tinges, while we BhD a month ago were
swarmine over them and singing ardent
paaus to Nature have gone back 20 the
sitting bvxes in which we live, to our up-
holstery and Chinese curiOs and little squares
of canvas on which are feeble suggestions OF
the sea and the mountains which we have left
behind. to our goSsips and jealOusies and selfish
indoor life.
AS long AS the mass of Americans hurry back
To begin TO En life in the most beautiful season
of the wear, there is every reason to believe
that it is fashion, not love of Nature, which
drives them ont of town at all. The fact is, love
of Nature is a new trait in our people and but
recently developed. 1t does not belong TO Us,
Naturally, as 10 the lldlltu VI c"ioo' VI tno
first hundred years we locked upon the forests
and hills rs enemies to be overcome, and were
so proud OF the towns we had built that We were
satisfied to sit down and worship them-be
burned in them in summer aud poisoned by
their foul air. When Fashion tempted us out
of them, it was TO huge places of Iesort where
the same sacrifices to dress, gambling, show and
yulgarity went on. Gradually we are becoming
educated TO understand the meanings OF
Nature. aud to Ice willing to sit ut her feet and
learn them. With every year the number in
creases who make homes for themselves III the
country, and in another decade We may hope
TO find society civilized enough to require even
the summer hotels to be kept open during the
fall. The higher class OF every nation, as 1t
advances in refinement, seeks its permanen
homes in the country, and makes the town
brief visit during the year. London, Tor ex-
amr1e. is the home of even the tradesman and
Only until he can afford to buy
cottage out of town" Then, in imitation of
the nobility and gentry, he sinks the shop and
betakes himself to green fields and quiet. We
are hardly advanced enough as yet to prefer the
fields to the shop. But the world always moves
and 50 does every people in it,
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