Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-02-02
CHAPTER VII.

Tho large cities do not constitute tho real
America. To gain q correct idea Of tho coun-
try one must 60 and zee those hundreds-I
had almost said those thousands-of flourish
ing little towns which spring up day by day
Oh that immense continent.
1t is no use looking In New York for mon
uments In the sense which w attach to the
word In Europe. There are mandve build.
ings, q few handsome churches, but nothing
which arrests your gaza The houses In the
best part Of the city are built Of brown stone
in the English style. In the populous quar-
tors many are Of red brick, with green shut
ters on the outside.
The streets are horribly III paved. From
my windows, which looked on Madison square,
the carriages appear to rise and fall q II on Q
troubled sea. Drunkards have had to drop
their habits; they could not reach home from
the beer saloons
Three fne squares alone break tho monot-
ony Of all these parallelograms of streets.
Washington square. Union square and Madi-
son square.
That which strikes tho visitor to New York
L not the city itself, but the feverish activity
which reigns there
Overhead is network of telegraph and
telephone wires, on the ground network Of
tram car rails It is estimated that there
are moro than i2,000 miles of telegraphic
wires suspended over the heads Of the passers
by; about enough to 60 half round the world
The whistles of the boats that ply between
New York and Brooklyn on the East river,
and between New York and Jersey City on
the Hudson, keep up, day and night until
in the morning., a noise which Is like the roar
Of wild beasts. II Is the cry Of Matter under
the yoke Of Man. You fancy you arc living
In menagerie.
In almost every street tram cars pass every
few minutes. 1t Is an incessant procession
In Broadway alone there are more than three
hundred. The cars, as they are always called
In America, are magical, like, everything
American. Built to carry twenty-four per.
sons inside there are no seats on the top,
they are made to hold sixty and moro In
fact, no matter how full they are, there Is
always room for one moro. Tho conductor
never refuses to let you 60 on board You
hang ON the rail beside the driver or con-
ductor, II 1t Is not possible to squeeze your
self inside and hold on to the leather straps
provided for tho purpose; you gasp for
breath; 1t Is all you can do TO get at your
pocket to extract the five cents which you
owe to the car company; but the conductor
cries, In his imperturbable nasal drawl: "Move
forward, make room"
In Third avenue and Sixth avenue, you find
the overhead railway called the Elevated"
1t Is supported on iron pillars. and the trains
run along on the level with the upper win
dows Of the houses This company carries
every day the fabulous number Of COO, 900 pas
sengera
All the existing means Of transit are &C.
knowledsed to be insufficient, and an under
ground railway Is talked Of There will soon
bo travellers underground, on the ground, and
In the air. Poor Hercules, where are you
with your "Ne plus ultrar You had reckoned
without your Yankee
The streets, i'll paved and dirty, are danger
Gus In winter. Coachmen do not check their
horses for foot passengers, but neither
do they try to run over them They strike
the middle course between the London COACH
man. who avoids thsm, and the Paridsp one,
WIN sins at them