The evening world., 1888-07-23
FROM THE CITY'S WHIRL.
DRIFT CAUGHT BERE AND THERE BY
EVENING WORLD" REPORTERS.
New Yerk's Threnss and What y Little
Thing Gathers Them.

New yerk,s Threnss and what . Little
Thing Gathers Them.
The everlasting crowd which bustles to and
fro in New York's thoroughfares Isl h source
of never ending wonder to the country visi-
tor. Nowhere else in the world Is there q
spot where 20 many people pass in their daily
walk as the corner of Broadway and Fulton
street.
Two policemen stationed for the purpose
recently, at the opposite corners Of Fulton
street, counted the vehicles entering Broad
way and passing out in a day from 7 in the
morning till 9 at night, and the result showed
that nearly twenty-six hundred vehicles had
turned these corners during the day.
Stand on the Bridge over Park row at the
elevated railway station from 8 TO 7 O'Clock
low and all around you aggregating lbo. 600
people.
They go to Brooklyn, come from Brooklyn,
embark on the l. trains, disembark from
60 across and come across City Hall Park.
and they can be hkened only to q swarm Of
bees or q colony of ceaselessly active ants.
An EVENING WORLD reporter made an ex-
show to a friend how quickly and on how
trifing a pretext q crowd could be gathered.
The two stopped on the curbstone and the
reporter simply tilted his head back, and,
raising his hand, pointed towards the heav-
ems, with a movement of the body as If the
eyes were following something above.
HIS friend also gazed upward.
Almost instantly others cast their eyes
aloft, and, seeing nothing. came alongside
the original gazers to obtain a better view.
Others came and looked at nothing. and in
two minutes there were at least one hundred
men, women and children, their necks all
awry, intently staring into space.
The visitor laughed, nd, taking the arm OF
~ulating, - IT'S a great town !"
A Discoverer Whose Modesty MAJ Hide the
Merit. Of His Find"
Under q recent date. and from Brooklyn,
" @. s." writes to The EVENING WORLD as
follows:
] am 4 poor man. have discovered some medi
cine that can cure blindness and rheumatism.
Please inform me what way II can be Of any beneni
for me.
The first and most natural though,
upon reading this little note is that If thu
inventor, there is little hope that it will hell
This thought is superseded ON further med
itation by the Consideration that the author
of the ills he think his medicine can cure.
If this be the state of the facts O.. 8. mus
refer to a pecuniary benefit, and in that cas-
he has started his remedy on too modest
basis. While it is undoubtedly true tina
blindness and rheumatism are win evil
under the Republican form of government
particularly in a Presidential year, they b.
no means comprise the whole or even tn
chief part of the catalogue Of our ills as
people.
In order to reap his full reward as a bringe
of good tidings and new pills to men, g. 8
must enlarge the list of diseases over whicl
his remedy is potent. No self<espectinI
printer of medical circulars. pamphlets an
other advertisements could bring his Who'll
heart to the taste of displaying the merits o
q preparation which could only boast of vic
tories over two foes.
t Let @. s.. take his compound In ha nd q
once and thoroughly. Train it IN each com
: ponent part until It shall be able, all in il
Q own streneth, to wrest 9 to finish with ever
. stalwart Ill in the lists, from bliudnes, an
!, rheumatism to the White House fever an
!, , protective tariff chills.
! Then. and not till then. will the harvest 0
the discoverer serve to fill his yawning cof
, ers with gold and his inward soul with tn
t satisfying sense of having done q good thin