The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-19
Correspondence Of the TIMES.
The Great Metropolis.


The Great Metropolhs,
New YosK CITY, April 16.-This city is
modern Ninevsh in extent land before many
Of any city in the world. with no exception.
Brooklyn, with $4,000 souls, Jersey City,,
Long Island City. and many other outlying
suburbs viii one day, tits oonfdSntly hoped
by New Yorkers, be merged <int& opss ysst-
Municipality. In few years the city. Of :
Brooklyn, IL her census continues 10 in
crease at tho present rate, will alone oon-
Of South Carolina The population ofNow
York has increased 70O,0 900 since the break
ing out Of the civil war. When We Wit
ness this great New World phenomenon,
the first question we are to ask is, "what
hath caused the waste places to be built up
and made tho wilderness blossom as the
7 Wealth? Yes, in part. But the foun-
was immigration.
| visited Castle Garden the other day. 1t
is the great receiving and distributing sta
ton for all the immigration that reaches us
from foreign lands. It resembles a vast
congregation of all nations, and strikes :
stranger as being one of the most interesting
and surious sights Now York city affords.
this Spring by the thousands. just think Of j
It $1,000 Europeans embarked from Liver
psol for this port during the past week |!
These people will all rrive here at tho bat
terry, from whence the greater portion Of
them will start for-where' The Great
Northwest They will seek cold uninvit-
ing climate, to till poor aud uuproduotive
sell, while the fairest and richest soil that
God ever created, and the balmicst and
hsalthiest climate in the United States,
the Sunny South, is passed by con the
other side" and we sit forlornly
waiting for the good Samaritan to come
along Industrious Swedes, Germans,
Danes, Scots, Russians, aud other nationals
ties are daily fookiug by the thousands to
the shores of Freedom. They all come pro-
vided for, too; for If not wellto do they are
able to take care of themselves until they
can locate. And they ale all ~orkers.
Ifthe tide of emigration ever turns South
ward, which it is as certain to do eventually
as the sun shines, it will sngulf us with
tide Of efprosperity. II will change the aspect
! Of things so greatly that it will be impossible
for white man or negro to make living
without sweating for it, and that's what we
. need. A new spirit must be infused-old
ruts filled up-methods changed-and mod
, ern ideas embraced. Firstly, we must
elbow our own horn" As the merchant
) extols his own goods, VIC must show up the
good points and advantages Of our country.
:: We need factories-we can build them. We
need rail faclities-we can get them. Then
cheap transpor tation and judioious adver-
tising abroad. The result will be inevita-
ble-an influx Of emigration, aud q conse-
r quent era Of growth and prosperity.
b hope to be able to live and see the day when
Q such a thing as "oid-feld" and "worn-out
d Ixnd wIIt pe IN unknown legend la South
Carolina, and blsckbsrrios and persimmons
will be the only crops that can be raised
and harvested without labor and attendance.
4 Well, 30 much for that subject.
, New York is preparing for the greatest
: exhibition she has attempted for many years
| eao "eohIuBtou lnouBuTai Seutenniai.
And when the New Workers. set their mind
4 on having big thing, they can eclipse the
e wsrld. On Monday the Goth of April, the
celebration will open, and one daily paper
estimates that there will be 700, 900 visitors
0 here during the time. The present popuIa.
: tion Of tho city is about 500, 900, and the
least calculation places the actual number of
! persons to be present especially on the
End day, 1t 100000. There is no city
\ On this side of the Atlantic, save
Now York, in which such mighty ihrong
/ could be assembled. Every patriotic Now
/ Yorker Is now hoping for fine weather
next week, and if the signal service predic-
i. tions are correct, We are promised that
Your correspondent will be on hand and
write up the Centennial in very few words,
from his own standpoint, 50 that your read
dsrs can gain slight idea of what is con-
sidsred "big time" in the great Metrsp-
oils. JAY.
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