The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-11-18
THE CITY 81 BRooKIYN:
How It Compliments and Promises
to Surposs New York.

How It Compliments and Promises
to surpass New York.
The growth of Brooklyn is the most
amazing thing in this part of the
world. It dwarfs all the tales with
which the western borderland has noiir.
ished us during the past quarter of a
century. Never q Deadwood nor a
weed flourished as it is fourishing. As
one rides on the elevated along the
roof line of the houses one sees literal
ly miles of dwellings in course of erec-
ton in slender rows. in solid squares.
in detached units. In keeping with the
unique character of the town. most of
these houses are little two or three story
dwellings,. In keeping with the age We
decorate. the majority are deceptive,
fraudulent. pretentious-mere shells
plated, SO to speak, with a coating of
brown stone in front and trimmed in
side with cheap pine stained like maho.
gany. 50 that poor man may boast a
brownstone house: And they have al:
cove bedrooms and marble buffet
inches and factory-made stained-glass
door-panes. so that the clerk may live
like the shadow of millionaire. In
mockery of the elbow-room that Long
island offers. many of these buildings
the poor call tenements and the rich
dub apartment houses-the product of
crowded pauperism in the old world
and in the new world, q tribute to those
women who would reduce the cares
of housekeeping to minimum and the
opportunities for dressing. shopping,
and social intercourse to a maximum.
Built-up Brooklyn is already much
larger than Manhattan island and has
more than half as many inhabitants.
When the last census was taken it
boosted $4,000 souls; and to-day its
people are firmly of the opinion that if
they could get their rights they would
share the benefits of tho new law fixing
the price of illuminating gas at 81 so
per thousand feet in cities of 100000
population and over. Other cities are
compile III themselves. and rich and poor
and middle class folks arc all together
in them, but New York is not complete
without Brooklyn; that is the middle
class part of New York. 1t must be the
most moral town in the country. 1thas
been said that the churches run it, but
they don't, except as tho women run
the churches, and then the churches
run the town as the women direct.
There are no houses of ill repute there
that are known to the public, no pub
lie gaming halls, no thieves dens or
''fenccs,' or dubious places of enter
tainment, or concert saloons. It's all
as good as pie-a paradise of trees and
flowers and homes, and women and
babies.
In the daytime the men are in New
York, and Brooklyn is a buzzing female
beehive. The women swarm in the
streets, and support half dozen shop
ping stores that the world knows moth
Of, yet three of which are as large as
any New York three. The most
strang thing about Brooklyn, though,
is that the men who live there don't
like the place. Their hearts and spare
dollars are left in New York. But the
women like Brooklyn, and their likes
prevail, of course. They are so much
prettier than the New York women
that it's wonder, after all, that more
men don't live thore.-JuIia,s Ralph in
the WOshin0t0n Post.