The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-12-04
GREAT AMERICAN CITIES.
THEIR LEADING PECULIAR1TIEs
PITHILY DESCRIBED.
Features of New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, Washington, Chicago,
New Orleans. Baltimore. Etc,

Llme, anu Wllle Ine porter was engaged
in 'fixing" the berths for the passengers
of retiring habits the drummers crowded
into and around the smoking They
all knew every corner of the United
States, and where trade could penetrate
or a customer be found, were acquainted
with the peculialities of every city and
could give pointers on all the hotels of
the country. The idea occurred to a
converted newspaper man, who was
into a corner behind the ice
water can that it would be good thing
to get from all these fellows of free opin-
ions collection of their ideas as to what
constituted the prominent characteristics
of the chief cities of the nation. The sub
ject was accordingly introduced and in
dorsed, the plan adopted being to men
tion the name of the city, and then for
each man present to give his verdict.
The result, standing as the consensus of
opinion concerning the salient singulari
ties of New York, Brooklyn, Philadel-
phia, Boston, Washington, Cincinnati,
New Orleans, Chicago, Baltimore, st.
Louis, Louisville, and San Francisco, is
as follows:
New York-Its rush and elevated
roads. Magnifcence of stores. For
meeting every one you ever knew. Head
center of theatricals. Matching for
treats and loud talking in bar-rooms.
The best in the world. Dollars, dollars
and dollars. Amusements, races and
clubs. Its police and hotels. More
business per hour than in any other city
in the world.
phia-Long, straight streets.
Brick houses and white marble steps.
Closing shutters at night time. Few
restaurants. Magnificent public build
ings. Want of style about the stores.
Fine art galleries. Thriftiness of the
atrical managers. Cars running but one
way on street. Home comforts. Dis
tancc you can ride for five cents.
Boston-Crooked streets. Mixed
architecture. Women with curls. Eng
lish fashion in mems clothes. Flourish
in. condition of art and music stores.
Fine stores generally. Parks and grave
yards. Commonwealth avenue and Dart
mouth street. Geniality of society s4aud
stanch friends. Number of country peo-
pie on the streets. Drives in neighbor-
hood. Pork and beans and east wind.
Athens of United States and self-suffi-
cheney of literary men.
Washington-The Capitol All the
poor people growing and half the women
in public office. Saturday matinee
parades. Magnificent streets, lettered and
numbered. Their cleanliness. The dis
tances between residences. Number of
green squares. Capitol being turned
wrong way. Good singing of colored
boys on the streets. Independence of the
colored people. Splendid teams and
chance to get acquainted with the looks
of big folks. Innumerable statues and
hotels.
Cincinnati-Amount of brown stone
used in buildings. Good drainage but
dirty streets. Sunday matinees. The
Rhine and never knowing when you
reach it. The inclined line to Eden.
Donkeys, beer and Germans. Musical
talent. Pork. The city of hacks.
New Orleans-Colored people and
French. Stepping stones instead of
cross-walks. Foreigners from every
where. Sluices for rain. Rains like the
deuce and dry again in couple of hours.
Splendid BARRIERS. Old buildings and
pretty young women. French coffee.
Water if you dig two feet. A postoffice
built on cotton bales for piles. Awnings
on Canal street and Shell road. Mardi-
gras. Levees and Cotton Exchange.
Chicago-Bustle and stores. Immor-
ality. Sunday matinees. The coming
city. Bad sidewalks and streets, and
distance between curb and cobble. The
crowd on State street on Christmas Eve.
Number of theaters Best hotels in the
county. Stockyards and big papers.
Hog killing and soft coal. Bridges and
rowdies. Next to New York.
Bsltimore-Its quiet and good oysters.
Lovely women. Good society. The
splendid complexion of the women.
Stoop parties. Good dressing of the
women. First-class markets. The
Wednesday Club. A city of brick. The
terrapin and the way it is cooked. Its
bad smells in summer-the American
Cologne. Monuments and bad sewer
age.
St. Louis-The variety of the people.
The crowding together of the rough and
the cultured. The extent of the trade on
the river The makeup of the women.
Too much whitewash. Wanted-a
promenade. Shaw's Gardens. The
summer heat. Its vanity and envy of
Chicago.
Whisky and beautiful
women. Stock raising and good hotels.
Brooklyn-The number and msgnii-
cence of its churches. Prospect Park
and Coney Island. Absence OF business
hustle.
San Francisco-Its cable cars and hills.
Its pretty women, although they make
up too much. The bounce of its young
girls. Its variety of pqvements ON u sim
gle block. Winds, fog and sewer
smells Its late hours. The fascination
Of its climate, tough as it is. Its flower
gardens and park. The metropolitan
character of its papers. The crowds on
the streets of an evening. Its determine
tion to have and see the best of every
thing. The absence of poverty ana
plague of peddlers. Its Western inde-
pendence in manners, customs and cos
tunes and judgment The amount Of
whisky drunk and the cheapness OF it
wines Its romantic past, its prosaic
present and its wonderful future.-SaF
Francisco Chronicle.