New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-06

less fashionable, now decidedly less. All quarters
nave been fashionable, when they are old.
Stand on tho Brooklyn Bridge and looking New
Yorkward to whore you fancy .Cherry-st. to be
you see square mile Of rottenness with other
miles Of outlying shabbiness as a fringe. For the
most part 10 is this fringe that the roads cut. All
towns decay at the core, each after fashion of its
own II you want measure for the degree and
state Of shabbiness OF any given part of New-York
here IS ono infable as Dickens found the state
Of the cruets I'm fixing the standard Of English inn
look at the outside blinds. They Like the
whalebone tips where first umbrellas need repair
First the green paint turns sickly blue; then
comes an eruption of unseemy incrusatons like those
in which strange shell-ish TO delight then the
movable Stats move every way but the right one.
resent long years Of peepng and twddling by refus
ing 70 move any more forever; finally the upper hinge
respectable owner has long since done, and your
fashionable mansion is "colored1 colony or a
caramnserai of intending citizens scarcely less
highly oolored from the Provincial dl NapOlL
What would the old uncle' say, who, even IN his
last hours could not be brought 10 believe in heaven
where the black man would not have 10 shineD the
white mans boots If he could how completely the
sunny Italian" almost Invariably Neapolitan, has
usurped this brthright? The Italian comes out in
queer ways; IN the groesque ornamentaton by means
Of brass nails driven into the footboards of their
stands" for instance. No two are alike. Every
man tacks down his own fancy.
Have you ever thought Of one of the most potent
OF the various causes that brings many of these
poor immigrants to shoresl That there IS hardly
a town on the Continent OF Europe that will employ
suffer to be employed a mechanic laborer from
any other towns When trade goes bad particular
occupation is overdOnc, 1t is therefore America
starvation.
BY the way, there is particularly healthy looking
foreigner, by profession North Of England perhapsD
who to find amusement and profit In putting
this narrowing conundrum 10 unwary strangers Of
respectable and benevolent appearance: SIR he
will say, "you look like benevolent gentleman,
all events gentleman, and will speak 10 you" "a
little like Hamlets for addressing the parental
ghost perhaps, but let that pass.l "When man
finds himself stranded in this city, without money
and without friends, is he to sarve 70 death or Jump
overheard. 1 ask you that, sir.' On Monday night,
on Fifthave, under the shadow p the reservoir, thus
he took half dollar from the srowler-an old Cali
fornian of tho days when fourbts and twenty
we're the only coins LnOwn on the coast" But on the
next night this acute quetioners lluck would have
the GROWER. Began TO put rather for no sooner
had he got as far as Sir you look like benevolent
gentleman than the impetuous Growler interrupted
him with, Last night did, not tonight, but have
slept upon your conundrum, and should now reply,
when my four-bits gone, jump, without moments
hesaton' Sir" said this ingenious stranger, like
a Hash, the contingency has not yet arrived"