Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-18
Tbs Future Of New York.

A striking article In tho September
Csntarg is w. G. Conant's inquiry.
will New York be the Final World
Metropolis" which he answers in tho
affirmative. "The pivot Of tho whole
development Of the metropolis" he
saws, 'sis on the eastern eide. ut the
lower eud III Manhattan Island. Hero
is The permanent financial center IL
viii not move. for all the world seeks it
where 1t Is. Wall street will preserve
its character rs long as the cosmetrop.
,lis endnres. Banking, exchange.
chandise brokerage, speculation, and
financial and ooniricrcist .c-ers.ies srcs.
all parts Of the world, will circle around !
Trinity Chlreh until its walls cfnmble.
Offices of railroad and mining COM
panes, of steam and other shipping. OF
lelegraphs, af staple imports and ex-
ports (stores and warehouses crowded
Into the distance aud iur the greater
part on the Jersey ilats) next center
closest around the financial hub, at.
tended by manufacturing aud nlscel-
laneous corporations, lawyers without
number. brokers, courts, newspapers,
and. farther up. the importers Of for
eign and agents OF domestics manutae.
lures. The physiognomr Of this part Of
tho city il fixed. and will onlv become
more pronounced In time by the crowd
nc out of small manufacturing concerns
and warehouses for tho stsIngc OF heavy
products. Tie johbng trade will con-
linue its march up town. and perhaps
halt around the Hudson River Tunnel
Depot to be opened near Washington
Square. The retail dry-goods trade,
following the tide Of fashionable life.
will go northward untll stopped or
lnrned by the corner OF Central Park.
after finance and foreign commerce,
fashionable trade and society will even-
tually be the chief features OF the een-
lrai city. The Capitalization OF trua
metropolitan commerce, which - 10
make lower New York the London 'Of
the future, will make upper New York
| It's Paris Exclusive society In New
York can scarcely be said to have any
| liked and distinct habitat ut PRESENT.
| II Is In translionary lodgings, looking
about, MS il were; ready poised TO take
| wIng for some choice new quarter. wcH
waited from vulgar Intrusion. Where
| that quarter l. 10 be, however, can
hardly be question. One suitable spot
remains, and that Ii Mt once so beauti-
| ful, so isolated. and so admirably adapt
cd. that one Il almost constrained to
believe that tho susccniibilities OF sub
| imaled snobbery are not beneath tho
Providence that cares for the sparrow.
Four or five square miles have been
| laid out by Nature on the ptnlnsular
upper extremity Of the island. between
tie Hudson and the Harlem, ut an elc-
gatlon Of from fifty to hundred feet
above plebcian street grades, expressly
Tor the ..court' quarter Of New York's
future arisiocracy. 1t ID ridge about
= mile wide, with abrupt sides and q
road top; overlooking at once, on
either hand. tho magnIicenoe Of tho
| Hudson beneath the Palisades, and the
/ romantics hooks of tho Harlem and
Spu,ten Duyvil, with tho glittering
reaches of Long Island Sound; swept
by the purest airs from land and sea;
almost self-draip,d. and drained again
Of drainage at its base; inaccessible. Ia
short, to the odors Of the common
world, to the heavy wheels Of commerce.
anil to tho enterprise OF speculative
bu lders.