Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-11-24

was born.
Take your stand in imagination upon
that great bridge, whose supporting
pillars rest upon the solid granite,
whose stately towers and graceful lines
combine strength and beauty in in
comparable proportions, across which
two great cities, who have long wooed
each other across the waters, now clasp
hands in wedlock, and throw yourself
back in thought some ninety years.
New York had then but 10000 people,
just about the same number as your
own beautiful bride of the Hudson.
Brooklyn was small village; the
heights now crowned with fashionable
residences were then clothed with trees,
and farms spread where now are
thickly built up streets. City Hall
Park was then a garden. The north
ern limit of the city was Chambers
street. The people dressed in home
spun garb; and Wall street, where
bulls and bears growl and fight, wa;
the place where stood one of the fash
ionable churches, to which the qulet
burghers with their families went t.
hear Paul fighting with the beasts a
EpheSus. The elite of the city, whose de
scendants now live on Fifth avenue
and pride themselves upon their Knick
booker blood, then lived on Bowling
Green. Mr.. Dodge, as anSillustratiol
of the smallness of the city years late
than the birth of Mr.. Cooper, tells
story of young clergyman who wa
pastor of Wall street Church, and be
ing afflicted with dyspepsia, went anC
hired a house just built in Whit
street, thinking that the exercise o
walking to church might do him good
but the congregation, with that kindl
interference in their minister's bushes
which Is still practiced-so much t.
the minister's comfort, by the way
made such fuss about their paste
living out of the city, that 1t cam
near forcing him to resign. Lool
then from that bridge, and see al
above Chambers street, farms, gardens
or uncultured land. No great ferry
boats, cutting with broad keel tn
sleeping breast of the Hudson no rail
roads; no mighty steamships, heavil
laden with the products of the soil
swiftly steaming out to the ocean.
Then, look again! What a change
Now, far as the eye can reach, statel
buildings-the temples of commerce
rise on every hand. The waters tina
girdle the fair city bear upon thei
bosom the navies Of every land, and
score of national embloms hutter in tn
breeze. The once quiet farms are nov
thronged with busy men, andging wit
the tread of a million feet; the ono
solitary nights are crowned with tn
homes of vast people-splendid pa
aces witness the wealth of its merchar
princes the placid waters reflect tn
domes and spires of the temples of Go
from Trinity to Harlem and lines {
railroad reach out across the vast pra
ries of the west, over the cloud. kisse
heights of the Rocky Mountains, to til
golden strand which is caressed by til
Pacifc's waves. Could a man of tt
last century have seen in vison Il
changes of the present-its marvelol
inventions, its new applications of natl
raj forces, "the steamship taking Il
place of the sailing vessel, the railroa
train of the wagon, the reaping m
chine of the scythe, the threshir
of the fail could he have heard IL
throb Of the engines that, in obedien,
to human will and for the satisfactiC
of human desires exert a power great
than that of all the beasts of burden
the earth combined; could he ha,
seen the forest tree transformed in
finished lumber--into doors, sashC
blinds, boxes, or barrels, with hard
the touch of human hand;" in shol
. could he have seen but part of t
e useful inventions with which we a
r familiar-seen the mighty machine
which today moves the working worl
the earth opening and shooting illun
l. MATING oil ND like an exhaustless for