New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-04
sOME POINTS ABOUT NEW YORK..
NOTES OF AN OBSERVER.

Baggage Is coming into vogue The ttlied >a-er
Ccn.s shows that ouF uclcAOor OF Newark Turns O4l tN9
million dollars worth OF trunks and valise> annually
Ncw-Yor MAKES Only three quarters o. million worth
portion Of your baggage is, Of course your umbrella
AMI Npw-Yolk makes these 10 the amount o. three
nations ana hAi every year ana Newae4 b Lay Te yI
should exhaust her elf IA tie trunk business ana New
1oLG exec , ID b.I INC 1sEc formerly mis-
took heir bonDets FOR umbrellas they turn out three
million dollars worth year But oil uunA9 ana '~Ises
they make = bare S-sO,oOO worth
searching further among the statistics Of cites Il
occurs TO nc that outside Of New-York aad Pha1e1aa
nobody has an umbrella Gnc outside Of Newark and New
York nobody has any baggage Brooklyn for Instance,
only makes Scs. 900 worth Of umbrellas and canes Qef
au and has not 500 300 invested IN trunk and vai>c
factories. Newark prominent IN Miscellaneous ID
,,er - 900 900 Der auum Her Leather product is
I'll 100000 she makes S2,j00.00O worth ~ L"i-,
$1,000 900 Of clothing NcW-lOik has only SH,OQO,0JU
Ol miscellaneous industries
NETWORKS product in sldJgheIins and meat packing
Is S3oO0OOoo, Of printing S2Z00o,Oo0. OF brewing
@2OOOOOOO Of lard 81 100000, Of ta,ioW S7oOoo9o,
Of furniture slO,OO0OOO, Of machinery sl5,oooo0) OF
mems and woIreu's clothing tie astonishing sum Of
ssOOGOOOO OF artificial flowers aud feathers over
al goo 600 OF awning s3,5O0o0o, Of hookDindne and
blank books 5000 900, OF hoOs and shoe, pphOpH
OF bakery products SlO,00O,OOO. OF csrPentering
100000, of wagons $4,000 900, Of eonieehonety
sJO00OGO aud Of combs, take care Of tile head only
$4,000. We are the most uncomUed poop IN tie coun-
Try, IL would seem. We maze about e4OJOOOO Vi0us'
SGDOOOoO Of flowers, 3j.OO)OO0 %, iurs, >5qJOoOJ o
cod 81 900 900 Of hal. and caps - OOoO 900 ofiewey
5000 900 OF lead stun, ;6000,OVO OF etoHe-woIk
900 OF pianos and footing things, ana S0,jOoVOO q! the
delicious oleonargarluc. We MAKE S30OOOo0 Of pants
medicines, - 100000 OF perfumery, Sl,0oO0o0 of
photography, Sl.0o0,000 OF pretty things for the
one SHIRT 20 90 the entire round of the state
Ss,0OO.000 of silks T4"o@O00 OF soap ana candle
200 Dpf tain
syrup aud s2j,OOOO00 o. toOiecO and cigars
The large orphan asylum building on the Riverside
Park drive not far the New> ORR Central elevators
+, not the Coored Orphan Asylum which is also the
Hudson Rive, bat about three miles further up The
former institution is now seventy year. 3D. ana
IS creator and long superintendent JOHANNA Betnnne
died at OF nincytwo, the year before The Re
bci0n. Starting in little hired house IL the oI1 quar-
ter Of New York. this corporatonforiacIy had tsmcet-
ss inihe City Intel lower Broadway and there the
children, who numbered about twenty, were palaGed
and the subscriptions thus obtained procured site In
Greenwich business man by the name Of Jacobs
gave the society some Broadway and Wsrren-st and
Pearl-st property. and the Request amounted at the
time 10 only about 81 900 and lawsuita that early
day as now laid against the donor the >uppositon
being that a man who would give anything for charity
when lie had rich children must nc insane. Similar srgu-
uents we're often used in the slave states when man
emancpaied his negroes, and the jies were haiangued
Judge 10 declare that the endncphOf oi negroes
necessarily must be weak minded The orphan asylum
spent $4,000 get the property, which in the mean
time had SO much adv anced i'll value that became the
basis OF the revenues Then came the cholera Ia 1884
and the orphan asylum 10 Broadway far out OF the
city, but III the OF forty years the big ubic drive
went past aud this land which cost only $1,000 Is be
Deyed TO be worth over a million, and some time ago
three acres and half, e nOie than one third or
the whole, sold for 100000. on thus Island II j.
not so much Learn to labor 10 taxes and wait
Since am looking at improvements on the Hudson
River side may mention the great Bioominedale h-y-
u for Insane which seems 10 De sort OF suburban
palace for some great magistrate. People driving within
sight of IL ask each other what II - Wh that me lgi0-
rance so haNtual In great city Ike ours which mis- up
with peOpie everywhere When this DlO0InDgdaie
Asylum Vas ready for inmates IN 1921 was considered
the finest building OF ITS nature In the world Jhe man
had Designed 10 build II VI white marble hut came
down TO brown stone reluctantly. Al n later dsts new
budngs added and these in 1904 were greatly en-
arged and the prime expense 10 that time was about
$40 600 IL said that this institution viii one day be
removed 10 White Plains considerably north OF New
Work County. houeNAeTe between three hundred and
Sor hundred inmates believed 10 be IN This lnsttu-
ton which is really branch OF the old New-1ork Hos
pa that had department IN the early part OF THIS cen
tTv solely devoted the insane, and neatly seventy
years ago the Legislature appropriated over s-oooo
wear 10 this branch Bloomiugdac was IN tue vicinity
Of the present institution; II was reahy 10 receive
seventy patients more than seventy years ago