New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-02
THE GOIT AND THE MARCH or IA
PROBE HENT

Must the goat 60? The dwelrr in the suburbs
must not think from this startling question that u
general movement il being made against the goat
or that. even any one man is going about preach
ing crusade against him, for such Is not the case
Even our friends the scientists, who have taken
nearly every kind OF food from us, abolished IN"
liahning-rod and made II 50 we cannot indulge IN
d cigar with any comfort, even they have offered
no objection 20 tho goat or course the Mugwump
press has criticised the goat occasionally along with
A few other things, objecting to the cut OF his
beard. the roll OF his horns and other points In
his mnlc-up: hut no one pays very much atten-
tion 10 what the Mugvump press says, and we
think we can soy that the world is ~ peace with
the goat Nevertheless we ask, Must the goat go >
and We make the inquiry from the fact which has
been noted by everybody, that the active build
inc operations Of the last few years in the upper
part OF the city urc fast driving away our old
tim. friend. the dcvourcr of the theatrical poster
and the vnHnnt newspaper
Only few years ago ana the goat rcigned
supreme on the upper half OF Manhattan Island.
Now he is superseded by the steam drill and the
mounted policemen. The West Side pridcs itself on
liz boom Harlem is enthusiastic over ITS rapid
growth but these things are fatal 10 the goat
Nature never produced anything that hc could
not climb hut when the hand OF man rcarS ten
story hat-house and brings the reescapcS only
within twelve feet OF the ground. the goat turns
sadly away Before the civilization which rears
the bric; block nnl the 'nild rev 81 houses toe
goat shrnkS. lie turns his face toward the North
Star and journeys on where the dangers from the
premature blast and the boy with the red butcher
cart are not 40 great. lie is yearly becoming
scarcer below the Harlem he Las hecn crowded
from Firty-ninth-st 10 One Observation-Disclosures.
nd N One Inn UfpU-
and-twenty-hfth, from One-huudret-nnd twenty
9th 10 the banks Of the Harlem. and from there
he pathetrally asks If he must cross over to that
ultima thule. the Annexed District.
Even should the goat finally go en-.
tircly IL is not likely that buStrSs will languish
or the social economy he disturbed. The goat
is not essential TO civilization on Manhattan Island
but he is OF .ur most ancient lnstitutohS'
and the old New-Yorker dishkes the idea Of not
seeing him when he penetrat"s the suburbs. Inc
goat Is always philosopher and sets struggling
complaining mankind good example. When he
cannot get the gaudy covering OF the bill board,
his favorite food, he does not repine, but turns
10 the washing on the line or the Canada thistle
Should he ever he reduced 20 diet OF grass
he might complain OF his hard treatment, but
ill such time shall come he calmly lies down
on the highest and sharpest rock he can find and
rumiuates in silence. Nothing ever ruhies the
goat; lac is rs calm and self-pOssessed on the side
OF ledge OF rocks, with at least three OF his feet
resting on nothing but the unsubStnntal air, "a
when in the middle OF a level tenaore lot
The goat In New.York, like the Indian on the
frontier, is certainly being pushed ON further and
further, and II u change docs not come about II
is only n question OF time when he disappears
entirely Perhaps specimens OF him will yet he
preserved in the Park with the hippopotamus and
other curiositics, but when that time arrives the
true New-Yorker, who has long contemplated the