New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-08
4 CORRESPONDENTS IDEA.

A gentleman living in this city and On old SUBJ
scriber to The Tribune sends us letter concern
ing the evolutionary changes now working them
selves out in the Sew-Yorl1er. lie writes:
have felt much Interested in tho subject Of the
being orSugnt about IN Us Hy tf ~ can
world conditions under which we are compelled to
live Your idea that we shan eventually Z, develop Noss
ure probable obviously the man in an elevated car
who can readily lay hold Of the ventators Will have
better chance for life than the passenger mercy sus-
s sSd therefore 'G by tho law Of the saf
every New.York man viii be able 70 slip his arm
through tho lamp supports IN the cars and fde with
able at first sight, but viii not another cause, namely
the great pressure to which we are subjected In being
crowded in the cars 50 that the company can make
living and keep out Of the poorhouse, cause our
bodies TO elonga,o fully as rapidly IN proportion as
who suffers the greatest msefes IN the, II were
hydTaucly PACKED cars, while the long, slender man
IS comparatively free from pain. May not The New .
York man OF the future considerably resemble bng
and attenuated stoyeplpef
There seems to us to be food for thought in the
idea so ingenously put forward by our correspond
emit No one who is daily compressed in the cars
Of our elevated system, which some humorist
whose name for the moment escapes us, has called
rapid transit but has felt that the NEWCOMER OF
the future must be very different creature from
the enc Of today though the theory Of the stove
pipe man may be rather startling 70 him at first.
Indeed IL seems TO u.s. and we feel certain that any
man who has ever ridden from McComb's Dam
Bridge 10 the Battery with the elbow Of an I'M
known man working about in his four-in-hand
tie, will agree with US that the New-Yorher Of the
future will not be apt to develop the rounded
and IN measure graceful outlines Of the stoveppe,
but rather that he will be considerably gnarnd
and twisted, owing TO the inequality Of the press
urc on different parts Another thing which Will
greatly modify his development is that a man must
so frequently stand on the edge Of the crowd next
TO the seats with his feet in the aisle and his head
resting against tho side Of the car, owing 20 the
fact that, from the very nature Of things the COM
pany con pack more feet the door than attached
bodies in the space directly above, Indeed, the
seats placed along the sides OF the cars among
the worst things the passenger has 20 conte nd
with. We cannot understand why IL has never
occurred 10 the company 20 remove them, especially
as IL would cost little and they might very likely
be sold 10 the city for use in the parks
One thing that the company should be warned
OF is that, when the elongated race Of men our
correspondent believes will result from the system
is fully developed, 10 may find that IL viii be
obliged 10 provide higher cars, modelled something
on the plan OF the travelling cars now provided
for circus giraffes. In fact, IL would seem that
tho future race Of NEWCOMERS may 20 a certain
extent resemble this tall and naughty quadruped.
Tho girafIes peculiarly heightened physique was
brought about by his eccentric habit OF dining on
the leaves Of lofty trees for, being poor climber.
he has been forced 20 reach; and the New-YorlI
man certainly has more cause for q decided change
in bodily shape than had the giraffe, being subject
ed 20 great lateral pressure and constantly com-
PEELED 20 reach after straps far above his head
the leaves OF the CRATES favorte tree above
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