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

The Great Metropolis.
New YoRK CRY, April 10.-This city is
modern Ninevsh in extent land before many
years it will contain the largest population
Of any city in the world, with no exception.
Brooklyn, with $4,000 souls, Jersey City,.
Long Island City, and many other outlying
suburbs will one day, it is confdsutly hspei
by New Workers, be merged is.$zose~~astS-
municipality. In few years the city OF
BROOKLYN, il her census continues to IN
crease at tho present rate, will alone CON
tain population equal to that of the whole
Of South Carolina! The population OF Now
York has increased 700, 900 since the break
ing out of the civil war. When we wit
ness this great New World phcnomenon'
the first question we are to ask is, "what
hath caused the waste places to be built up
and made the wilderness blossom as the
ross2" Wealth? Yes, in part But the foun-
dation Of this immense aggre CATION OF wealth
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. 1t resembles vast
congregation of all nations, and strikes
stranger as being one Of the most interesting
and curious sights Now York city affords.
Emigrants arc docking to tho United States
this Spring by the thousands. Just think of
it $1,000 Europeans embarked from Liver
psol for this port during the past week
These people will oil or rive here at tho bat
terry, from whence the greater portion of
them will start for-whcrc ? The Great
Northwest They will seek cold uninvit-
ing climate, to till poor aud unproductive
soil, while the fairest and richest soil that
God ever created, and the balmiost and
hsalthie.t 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 como
along Industrious Swedes, Germans,
Danes, Scots, Russians, aud other nationali-
ties ore daily focking by the thousands to
the shores of Freedom. They all come pro-
vided for, too; for if not we'll to do they are
able to take care of themselves until they
can locate. And they are all workers.
Iftho tide Of emigration ever turns South
ward, which it is rs certain to do eventually
as the sun shines, it will engulf us with a
tide of ofprosperity. 1t will change the aspect
q Of things so greatly that it will be impossible
for a white man or negro to mako living
without sweating for it, and that's what We
need. A new spirit must be infused-old
ruts filled up-mct hods chaugcd-and mod
ern idees embraced. Firstly, wo must
"blow our own horn" As tho merchant
g extols his own goods We must show up the
good points and advantages Of our country.
!. We need factorics-we can build them VIC
. need rail facilities-we can get them Then
cheap transportation and judiclous adver-
d ti.ng abroad. The result will be incvita-
ble-an influx OF emigration, and c'nse-
~ oucnt era Of growth aud prosperity.
h hone to be able to 1.-Two and see the day when
le such a thins rs "old-feld" and "worn out
ID lana win uc IA unknown legend in South
Carolina, and blackberrios anl pcrsimmons
will be the only crops that can be raised
and harvested without labor and attendance.
Il Well, So nuUh for that subject
y New York is preparing for the greatest
l. exhibition she has attempted for many years
. Wv '"ohihS'ch Inaugural SCutenDl2l.
q And when the New Yorker. set their mind
d Oh having big thing, they can eclipse the
e wsrld. On Monday the Goth Of April, the
l. celebration will open and one daily paper
i estimates that there will he 700 900 visitors
o here during the time. The present ropula
l. tion Of tho city is about 800, 900, and tho
!, least calculation places tho actual number of
Q persons to be present, especially on the
4 2nd day, 1T 100000. There is no CITY
n On this side Of the Atlantic, save
-, Now York, in which such q mighty lhrong
II could bo assembled. Every patriotic New
It Yorker is now hoping for iine weather
. next week, and if tho signal service p, cdic-
= tions are correct, we are promised that.
f Your correspondent will be on hand and
n write up the Centennial in very few words.
y from his own standpoint, so that your read
: : ders can gain slight idea of what is con-
sidered "big time" in the great Mt,rop-
oils. I