Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-07-23
CARS ON BROADWAY.
THE TIME HONORED STAGES
GRADUALLY DISAPPEARING.

THE TIME HONORED STAGES
GRADUALLY DISAPPEARANCE.
The Devotion Of the Average New
Yorker to his Business-Mr.aWalte
Page, Late Of North Carolina, on q
Brooklyn Newspaper.
Special Correspondence Of tie Rastinsl.
New YoRK, July 2O.-It cost New
York a struggle to give up the time
honored Broadway stages. For halt
n century those Noah's arks ON wheels
had been the most conspicuous objects
in the double current of travel that
surges up and down the great thor
oughfare. No picture of Metropolitan
street life was complete without at
least one of them. Their quaint, sun
burned drivers formed distinctive
class, and it seemed impossible that
they could ever do anything except
navigate those venerable omnibuses.
To-day, however, not a stage is to be
seen throughout the whole length of
Broadway. They disappeared with
startling suddenness, and in their
place endless lines of horse-cars rattle
along their iron grooves. Much as
these cars and tracks were abused up
to the first day of their actual public
service, they scored an immediate pop
ular triumph. Sixty-fve thousand
persons rode in them the first day,
sighty-fve thousand the second, and
since then they have never lacked
their full complement of passengers.
To the surprise of many, Broadway is
not ruined, and the merchants no
longer regard Mr.. Jacob Sharp as
their dearest foe.
THE STRANGER VISITING NEW YORK
almost invariably notices the devotion
of the average New Yorker to his bus
iness. In most European counties the
merchant, broker, lawyer, or profess
sional man locks up his bushes when
he closes his office door and returns
home leaving all thoughts in the fuct-
uation of the market, the corner in
white goods or the intricate legal
points in q case at issue until the COM
mencement of work on the following
day. In this country such is the anx-
iety of the ambitious business man to
accumulate wealth that he talks shop
coming up town, chats with his wife
during dinner over the good or bad
coups of the day, and Immediately af
ter his food is bolted rushes off to the
hotel cafe or bar-room, where he is in
the habit of passing his evenings. OF
course there are some days when !. his
duty to his family or friends entails
an evening at home or the theatre,
but even then he is restless, and re-
ioices when he meets q chuE1 that like
himself, has his business at heart.
1t is q well known fact that houses
which lead the mercantile metange OF
this and other cities are those whose
head is host, affable, genial and
courtly disseminating the atmosphere
of welcome, a circumstance of vast i'm
portance to the patron guest who likes
to feel at home, while inspecting wares
and wonders on display. The consid.
Grafton due to those who give i'm
promptu confidence, is a sacred duty
80 consistent with self interest that
dealers of prominence have made the
hostship of their carefully organized
stores a study.
THE METROPoLITAN MERCHANT
who required dudish clerk to apol.
ogise to butcher for the indifference
with which goods were shown and
questions answered, learned q secret
he is not likely to forget. Merchants
of mark are just an careful to execute
the diminutive order of the day labor
er as to meet the more extended re.
uuirements of the millionaire.
Among the small number of topics
which form the stock in trade of the
professional humorist is the high
links in which servants indulge dur
ing the absence of their masters in the
summer time. In this city the habit
of leaving the servants in possession il
rapidly being abandoned and the own
ers of the palatial uptown residences
seek other methods of having their
property protected while they are
away. Many hundred honse-ownert
have electric protective apparatuses
placed in their residences when they
leave town. A fine copper wire il
tackled around here and there all over
the premises and is connected with ar
instrument which notifies the nearest
messenger Office in case it is broken
In front of each pane of glass in the
windows, of each door. around on the
floor, on the stair-cases, here only
high enough to catch the passer's knee
and beyond as high as a mans head
the wire is strong. 1t is originally
cut into small pieces, which are twist
ed together just frmly enough to pre-
serve the continuity Of the metal and
to keep up the electric current, but in
such manner that the slightest jal
will break them apart and set the in.
stFument goipg.
WHEN this precaution is taken there
need be 20 fear of sneak thieves
breaking into the house, and should
anv FIRE occur the thin wires along The
woodwork quickly break and thu
firemen are called. Not even tht
men who spread the wires can entsl
the house so arranged without ring
ing the alarm. It frequently happens
that when family goes they are anx
ious to have globe of gold o.
perhaps a canary, ip their home, whicf
will have to receive attention II
these days, when Companies will agree
to do ANYTHING and everything con
ceiyahle. all this can be arranged for
T,I.. r,ar who have charge of ths