Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-06

lice al D. m. told me that il was long az
ter dark before be got rid OF bis load. Inc
/ most Of these shipments were To tAe
/ West, although the south was well repre-
scented.
Similar lines OF trucks, however, wound
/ through the streets like great snakes
from the piers of steamships running
/ South and elsewhere. The Pacific Mail
| steamers headed the list. Its procession
( of loaded trucks was nearly as long as II
/ used TO be in winters when the Paclfc
railroads were blocked with snow. The
crush at the piers was simply immense,
| The unladen trucks became mixed in al
most inextrcable confusion with the
laden ones, interspersed with hacks on
their way TO European steamships and
the Boston boats, and the whole lower
part Of the city seemed to be in a snarl.
Ladies at times stood at the street cross
ings for half an hour or more, awaiting an
opportunity TO continue on their way.
The howl of the drivers, the bTandishing
OF clubs by the police, and the occasional
call Of horse drew clusters OF pedes-
tIians in narrow streets, W no rOared with
laughter and added to the general confu-
sion.
IL has been years since the fall trade
has opened 80 early and with such vigoT.
The South, am told, is unusually prefuse
veloped with the Territories. Every little
town in New York and Pennsylvania
seems TO have doubled its usual ORDERS"
said Claflln salesman at the Metropoli-
tan the other night. "You don't have TO
bait buyers. They seem to want the
goods more than you want to sell them. l
never saw anything like it,"
1t looks odd to see big merchants back
from their vacations SO soon. They
a,a, a
rushed back with nOstrils distended and
ears pricked TO attention. More odd than
all is it to see brigade OF drummers, who
are usually securing the country at this
season, forced to do duty as common
statesmen at home so as to promptly fill
all orders. The news OF the boom has
reached Europe and returning steamers
are laden VITA birds who are returning to
their business rOosts.
But the business boom does not stop
at the mercantile mark. 1t has reached
manufactures of nearly all kinds. The
water is really rising, and it has no
muddy color. the great iron, leather,
carpet, furniture, piano forte, aud other
firms all agree that the tide OF prosperity
has at last set in. Ii looks, too, like the
beginning OF an era Of substantial pros
perity and not one Ofreckless speculation.
Certain it is that the prOpltious wind is
not yet tanning Wall street into breeze.
Every body, however, predicts an active
market in the fall and a rise in the specu.
lative thermometer. When this does come,
add TO it the active political fermentation
already under way and New York VIII be
twice as lively as IL was in October last
year. Musical and theatrical managers
have already seen the bow of promise in
The sky, and are beginning to Inundate
the city with a series of startling novel
ties. / venture the assertion that the
balls, dinners and routs of the coming
winter In New York will exceed in cost
Illness, extravaganza and magnificeuce
anything of the kind seen since the war
Everything indicates good times. No
buzzards are in the air and not the croak-
ing of crow is heard. New
York Is the business heart OF
the country. The enriched blood
here must flow to the extremities OF the
nation, and give II renewed life. The har-
binger Of prosperity in the country is good
times in New York, and we are going TO
have good times here this winter if there
is anything in clear sky and bracing
financial weather.
AMOS I CTrATNfJNCG