The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-11
NEW YORK.
The Elevated Railroads-Their I'D.
Vantages and Disadvantages.
FOrtune.Tellers and Similar Frauds
Fill Up the Measure OF
Their Folly.

New York is unlike London in
the matter of metropolitan railways
In London they run Underground,
under the feet o. millions; in New
York they tear along over the heads
OF the pedestrian public. There was
an effort made once to inaugurate
an underground railway, and some
tunneling was done under Broad
way, but the immense cost OF re-
moving sewers. gas pipes and water
mains, and of securing the right OF
way under whole blocks of build
ings. doomed up before the specu-
Iators, and they abandoned
the enterprise. The idea was
then suggested to travel over
instead OF under New York
The obstacles which had impeded
progress below did cot threaten
above, and in 1878 fine new road
of elevated rail say ran from the
Battery to Central Park, distance
of five miles. TO show how this
scheme was received $4,000 persons
rode over the road the day Of its
opening. Another was soon after
built from the Battery to Harlem,
running through Third Avenue on
the eastern side of the city. One
after another OF these aerial lines
was established until now they
form a SPIDERS web of iron Extend
ing over all the principal parts of
the city.
The roads are built strong and
substantial-thati is considering now
we Americans generally build any
thing. They are supported by
rolled iron pillars. we'll set down be-
low frost, and are strongly brsced by
girders and other strengthening ap>
paratas known to the
ARCHITECTURAL ART.
1 cannot say that I like
their appearance, however. They
destroy the beauty of the city hide
up many of the fine buildings, and
give a general appearance of deere
gard to the customary harmony pre-
vailing in other cities between the
useful and the comedy. But these
roads, like all other railroads in
time show that they are of great
benefit to the city in general way.
REAL ESTATE
has wonderfully increased in value,
owing to the facility low offered for
up town residences. Over 500
houses were built in one locality
alone In the city, principally to rent
to working people who had before
the advent of the e. r. ". been
obliged to live in New Jersey, and
other parts dista At from their work.
This has increased the population in
the city by many thousands in a
few years, and saved much time in
travelling to and fro. Trade and
business have received a conse-
quent impetus. The revenues of
the city have thereby largely in
creased, and the constantly extend
ing improvements by building, etc..
furnish employment to mechanics,
and the labOring population, which
are
THE BONE AND SINEW
Of aIl countries. The city has in
creased It's limits in consequence of
the superior capacities for travelling,
afforded py this mode Of travelling
over and above the tardy transit by
buses and tram cars. So that while
the smoke of the steam engine flies
into the second story windows Of
the tenement houses, and the oil
and water drop upon the faultle SO
frills and furbeloWs of the female
pede striaus, the great financial in
terests Of the city, and the livelihood
of many a stalWart son OF toll have
been greatly enhanced by the much
abused elevated railways of New
York.
THE FORTUNE TELLERS.
Side by side with the workers and
thinkers who benefit society, we see
the parasites who lander to human
weakness and fatten on human
folly.
Among these are the fortune tell
ing com munity, Of whom q swarm
infest this leading city OF America.
One would naturally suppose
such creatures could not thrive
in the sensible society of New York,
But there is a vein of superstitious
weakness running through human
nature. Some posse So it more fully
than others. Among
these are JovesickImaidens and seek
ers after speedy riches. On these
two classes the leeches Of card prog
feed constantly.
"They say" which is always non
that
COMMODORE VANDERBILT,
the father of the present Cornelius,
and the ouuder CT his fortune, &C
tuslly con6ded in the pre- lotions OF
these fortune~teIIing frauds. Per
haps the worst phase of the evil Is
the spirit medium business, for in
this the frauds touch the holier
Of people. It may moi be
30 bad to shuttle a deck of well-worn
cards, and tell a gentle damSel that
a fair-haired young man is "dying
in love- with her; but when a man
like Charles Foster will declare he
sees your