Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-19
m IN NEW YORK
y, idea Of the Lords Day
W, ,merIca's Greatest
City.
III one who Has Resided
~ ~ s York City for Many
Years.
l., ~ THE OLD RUS.

M ahnut, To a New Yorker
" or comment sounds, as 1t
~ .aIculous. Preachers in truly
I.ss and other provincial people
IVA ,s,.t that the metropolis is the
Ill the wickedest city ON
III ..s,ool and they generally
IN snperabundance of oil
i,~iI,ry--a sort Of inferno filled
..rd female satans OF all sizes,
~ ofprominence. Allthe bad
M nsraded In provincial discuss
sanday in New York" is, / have
sfsyorite, but threadbare topic
a IN in the country pulpits and
~ rostrums. Why the metrop.
IA be singled out
IKE BLACK SHEEP
i are many other cities equally
W .rording to population, l cannot
s,d. But such is the deplorable
sAnee."
N character of the metropolitan
not generally understood.
,grlsr idea, which is some
puritanical, places a
Oh the metropolis which
Il Justly deserve, but which in
al wrong. What is the popu-
IA New York Sunday anyway?
ture of devilment and defle-
n saloons; open and. glarlng
Satan kicking up his heels, and
dissipation and decentralization
classes of our population. This
the present pretty state OF
n the metropolis is mythical and
I'D delusion. During a resi-
3d,Ix years in the metropolis, in
have been favored with abundant
aBities, In my professional capacity
.awise, to observe how
T. OUR SUNDAYS ARE KEPT,
have seen anything to warrant
58nnptlon which the popular idea
as And l may add, without fear
fnsble contradiction, that judged
nIstion there Is no more Sunday
I, vice and crime here than in the
skricts which (erroneously) are
hd so upright and morally pure.
astant and careful peruser of the
rnss has often found proof Of the
u this assertion in reports In Mon
paper of sensational happenings
Sniry cities and villages on the Sun
Breeding.
sdo New Workers spend Sunday
Does the metropolis LOOK on Sun
Briefly the metropolis on Sunday Is
as q cemetery and our inhabitants
the day
Il IN QUIET RELAXATION
inreation. Surprising we look at
sbiect through critical eyeglasses?
NJ take Jake Sharp horse-car at
q Battery-the lower extremity OF
3lEay, and ride to Central park
Way, crowded and noisy as it is on
days, reminds us OF a deserted vii
Of more aptly still, that some terri
iemic is prevalent and that every
@ been frightened away, for only
Ersons are seen in the street In
h0ning or until the middle of the af-
lNnend in the evening. The only
ls out are the dilatory horse
Ind occasionally stray cabs knocking
.fisom curbstone to curbstone in
hi Of passengers. Only few pedes-
bare to be seen. At this season OF
'Eu less life is visible, of course,
lou Sunday in cool weather, because
|Opulation is depleted
BY THE VACATION EXODUS.
\ sI, we go along at slow horse-cal
past the postotiice anC
hall, which are exactly
lnle from the battery, but there is nj
I lieapparent than when we started
be way up "the great artery of The
fQpolis' to Fourteenth street (Unior
Pc we encounter no scenes to dis
j the monotony of the prospect OBJ
IA op all sides. When we reacl
there is more going on. Tn
u In the park there are wei
tsyen as early as 8 a. m. and crowde'
j pom, with old and young of all sta
many tramps, launching their shoul
being included in the aggregation
Fling Twenty-third street, the june
4 d three horse-car lines, the FIT
,ee hotel and Madison square, there
s5eaerably more life and OF differen
letter class.
about noon aud the lazy rounder
ast beginning to stroll out for thei
tng cocktails and to procure tn
nv papers. The park is beginnin
ek lively, Thousands are lolllng 9
4ng on the settees, while immune
nurses and servants are trundlln
'escent infants over the concrel
CENTRAL PARK.
WISH Central park and all its varie
aehons, and while this vast breathln
4 almost crowded with men, wome
'Alldren, ON foot and in carriages, "
I'VE nothing on Sunday abandoned
saage or conduct. Everybody is
llens as a church deacon. We traverE
RalA stopping at all kinds of publ
Nv frequented by ric
psor, but we fail to see anything
Y the purltanical popular ide
.ps the Bowery- where at all hou
uay and night every day in II
loa can see the ideal New York
= glory-giyes this fanciful plctul
Ieali y than IL would otherWi.
~ All sorts of
THE RouGHRR ELEMENT
ough East side may be seen In u
IVY Curing the day and evening
'ass.s u tne Jewish places Of busine
n ~ 1qted avenue are open on Sunda
Hebrew clothing concerns,
I'm. y Which "pullers in" watch 4
|sss from morning till dewy e.
49, 'le week, are closed. Sundl
|ss N the Bowery is the liyelie
4 me city on that day. But Il
= 70 the crowds, which I
~, most part are inclinI
|s,t,y lhu peaceable. Fifth avenue
bur avery duh street In SUNNI
\ s..- ~ N the afternoon, when one si
rs ana until the Murray Hill ser
Hha lassies go
|his. ouT FOR AN AIRING.
M, generally prevalent fallacy tn
ri & ! sontains only few cody pr
~ y Church tr..o..