Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-11

aelcs mausrIai eiviiIzation anu mscnan-
zeal ingenuity To the arrangements for un-
loading vessels and the working of ports, and
the general management of traffic III ports
and harbors. Would you believe it, that
neither in Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
nor Baltimore did clap eyes upon a single
hydraulic machinei Everything is done by
steam, nothing by hydraulics. / could not
believe 1t, and went everywhere hunting TO
find some specimen of hydraulic machinery.
They don't seem TO have heard Of such a
thing In England we use water pressure
where great force, speed, and steadiness of
motion are required. OF course you have
heard the usual talk about the costly drain
age Of the wilderness, capable of driy-
ing all the mills in the union. Perhaps
il is, but all l know is that when our party
visited Niagara l was disguised like anyone
else with the attempt made by the Americans
to utilize the enormous water-power that has
been running to waste there since tue days
OF Adam. They have disfigured the falls by
perching number of ugly factories, paper
mills, and the like. on the very edge OF the
great cataract There, if anywhere, we
must surely expect this boundless water
power to be thoroughly utilized. But what
do see, To my utter amazementi Every one
of those factories had a tall chinIney-stack
blackened with smoke, as when issuing pre-
cisely as it issues from Lancashire mill
stack Going a little furth her, found trucks
discharging Goals to feed the boiler fires and
thus found that actually on the very brink
of Niagara our acute cousins were driving
their machinery by steam.
Il think 1 was more disappointed in
Broadway, New York, than in anything else
| saw i'm America. Every one knows how
New Workers have cracked up Broadway.
There never was such a street and there
never will be, even in New Jerusalem.
Having heard so much about it, l naturally
expected to find spacious and handsome
thOroughfare which would throw Regent
street far into the shade 1t is, therefore,
not surprising that when I reached Broad
way did not recognize it; needed, had
to be repeatedly assured that this was
really Broadway before could realize what
a fraud had been practiced upon the con-
fiding British public. Why, Broadway is
not as wide as the Strand and not half as
handsome, and it Is jsmmed almost from
end to end Of its buster portions by an un-
ending line of tram-cars following each other
almost as closely as carriages on railway
train.
Crossing the streets at right angles are
other tram lines, along which the cars strug-
gle as best they can, with the result that
blocks are of constant occurrence and in
fact maximum of Inconvenience for the
general public and minimum of advant-
ages, either in appearance or locomotion, is
better secured in Broadway than in any
other thoroughfare that know. Then there
is Fifth avenue, q street that We have been
taught to believe was bristling with palaces
erected at lavish expense by the most magni6
cent millionaires of this or any other age.
When you are set down at Fifth avenue you
rub your eyes and ask yourself where are
those palacesi You need to go seeking foi
them with candle as Diogenes used to seek
for an honest man"