Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-05

NEW 4Orh lu6b uOW lS uuUoudllt ploaShuG and attractive. It often happens that dur ing July and August walls and pavements
 become so heated that the whole city might serve az foundation stratum for national clam-bake. This year, however, the sum- mer has been 80 cool, aud such deluges of rain have fallen, that no disagreeable summer heat has been left over. Freezes from the
 bay puff gently around street corners and are not interspered with waits which seemed to come from the unseen mouths of fiery furnaces. The city is bright and clean. The air is sparkling with health and happiness. You meet more jolly people on block than on ten blocks of London or Paris The shops are at their best. The theaters are at their liveliest. Lots and lots of people are here who were never here before. You see their bright and inquisitive faces at every step. They are all dressed up. They have come to town with husbands and daddies. While husbands and daddies are wholesaleing, wholebuying rather, down town they are stocking up with frocks and furbelows with which to shine during the winter at Oshkosh, Kalamazoo, Chicago, Philadelphia, and oth- \ CT places of promising provincial growth. What tremendous place New York is. How grand and glorious it's life.
 5 New York is not a metropolis, but a cos ! mopolis. It is not the mother of cities, but
 belongs to the nation more than it belongs \ to it's State. A citizen who has acquired
 fortune or renown in his native town natur ally finds his way to New York and helps te crowd out the failures. The principle of the "survival of the Attest" has full swing. Il 1 is the proper desire of every American man, | woman and child to have some kind of a E footing in New York city. Here wealth can ] be the most advantageously displayed. Here merit will meet with its ! quickest and fullest reward. Here
 latent energies are aroused and unsus- | pected capacities discovered. Judge Hoadley and ''Sunset" Cox were not at their best till they abandoned Ohio and set themselves up as New Workers The list of those who have
 been similarly inspired would fill diction- ary. Herein is the reason why New York is not metropolis. There are so many out siders desiring to become New Workers and
 willing to make any sacrifice necessary to &C., complish the object of their ambition that
 continually changing. New York takes
 character to greater degree than it imparts
 it. It most naturally follows that these inn ported outsiders have no local pride in the city. They care for 1t for the facilities it
 affords them for advancement. and for nothing else. And as they are the leaders,
 local pride is necessarily suppressed
 that corresponds to the pride of Ia "New Haven town-borner." The 1 proportion of "town- borners" Is less to pop.
 ulation in New York than in any other east
 ern city with the exception of Washington
 There is less of active city pride and spirit in New York than in Boston, Philadelphia ol | even Baltimore.
 Look over the list and see where the lead- ing men of the day came from. How few to
 the "manor born" The grandfather of the Astors was an ignorant German pelt peddleI from the Pacific coast. The grandfather ot 1 the Vanderbilts commenced life ferryinp
 folks about the swamps of Jersey. J. Gould first meets the blaze of history amid the Cats 1 kills, doing chores for Mrs. 0. McIngersoll's
 father. Russell Sage was raised on New
 England farm. Belmont came from over the
 water. His wife came from Rhode Island D. O. Mills graduated from livery stable 1T
 Sing Sing. These and their fellows are th'
 people who to-day rule New York, socially
 and financially. Nor do they care much for i
 even as place of reaidence. They have
 their palaces up the Hudson, at Newport ant
 at Bar Harbor. There they are at homo and
 pay their personal taxes. Where are thu
 Liyingstones, the Schuylers, the Schermer
 horns, the Stuyvesants, the Beekmans, th'
 DePuysters, the Brevoorts and the DeRuy
 ters, lords in the early days, and who shoult
 be lords stilla You never hear of them an,
 more in public matters. You rarely see on
 unless you stumble over him. No suct regime in other eastern cities. In Bostor
 the Quincys and the Adams are as publicl. prominent as they were century ago. Il ! Philadelphia historic names and moderl |. influence are still inseparable.
 These characteristics of the city are mani festing themselves unpromisingly in the dis ! eussions about the great 1899 show. Every body recognizes the fact that New York the one place for holding the show; but, 8 far at least, New York does not seem to car a snap of its fingers whether it has the sho' or not. Reasons, apart from lack of loos |. pride, are not hard to discover. In the frs , place no show can Iadd to, or detract from
 New York's pre-eminent position. It woul
 be an immediate boom for Chicago; but Ne, s | York needs no boom. Its prosperous If the show. It's political, financial and socis 3 supremacy is fixed. Nothing can affect r but one of the great ethnologiosl revolution , of. history. Another reason is that in th
 opinion of 8 great many New Yorker 5 the show would be great bore. A show t we'll enough at convenient distance. Phi v ! adelphia for instance, where you can go an 7 1 see it now and then if you happen to be in . olined. But to have plebeian show direct t ly under one's aristooratio nose; to be ez | posed to be regarded as part of it as 6 ! were; to have the show for months abor
 one's house, filling one's streets and crowd
 ing one's sidewalks; "By love, you can @ stand all that, you know!" This is tt |, swell's view of the matter. Nor is Wa street enthusiastic. A show of the magnitud t anticipated might alter values, temporarily l '. be sure, but uncomfortably. It would cel |. | tainly change rates of exchange. The none drawn to the city would be no compensate for the disturbances of credits and loan l. Even some shopkeepers are in opposition d Their trade would be upset. Let we IA enough alone. If they were not to go i >. they would certainly suffer- And if tn, f' went in, it might cost them more than y comes to. Conservatism is holding bac se Places of amusement are united against tl 10 enterprise; for all money that could
 spared for amusements would certainly 8, dehected to the show. The hotels and ra i'll roads alone are unanimous in enthusiasl
 Another point, and strong social poi
 | &io fhfno js that if rvou1d ha "a,