The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-06-26

.SDA 4, > ONE 70, l0JO.
NEW YORK: ITS CENSUS.
POPULATION CNE MILLION SIX
HUNDRED THOUSAND.
COsm0politan CL racteristics..Vis to
the Herald Offi.e..Type.Setting Ma.
chines..Immensity of the Printing
Business.
Editorial Correspondence
NEW YORK, June %, 1e90.-Tne CEN
sus has just been completed here, and it
is found that there are upwards of 1:60O,-
600 people in this great city-or quite as
many on this small island as in the great
State of North Carolina. Speaking of
the census, I saw lady yesterday whose
answers to the questions shows how
these people travel and how truly Co.'S
mopolitan they are. Her father was
born in Scotland, her mother in Eng
land, she in Western State, and of her
children no two ere born in the same
State. <
am particularly desirous of study
ing the present census of the cities of
the North to ascertain how large pro-
portion of them are native-born. am
not linguist, and it is only with diff
Guilty that can make out the directions
which are given a stranger. The Ian
guage is so foreign to the English, and
is mixture of two or more, that it is
difficult to understand much of what is
said.
Some weeks ago, prominent citizen
of North Carolina visited relative in
New York. He walked about the
streets-he lounged in the parks, he
rode on the elevated railroads, he went
| to Coney Island, and everywhere be
found an active, restless, bustling crowd.
They were always going, but most of
those he saw were doing nothing at all.
He confded to his relative that for his
life he did not understand how half OF
these people earned their bread. His
failure to understand this fact is not
strange to me without reflection. When
ever come here it fills me with wonder
until reflect that what is made in New
York is sold in every quarter of the
globe. We get almost everything we
eat, drink, wear, use or read from this
metropolis. Take the reading alone, and
see what an army of men and women
are employed to furnish the world its
Intellectual pabulum.
| l went into the Herald Office yester-
day-and what an immense establish
ment it is2 Paper bought by the room
full, ink by the 100 barrels, men and boys
employed without number in every line.
And all this immense establishment
runs absolutely without the least fric-
ton or worry. Every conceivable publ
cation is issued here. The cost of thei.
publication is being cheapened by the
use of the type-setting machine. This
machine costs $4,000, and with it two
women can do the work of ten men. II
is used in only few Offices here, and
really has not yet been fully perfected
But publishers here say that it is only 9
question of short while when all read
ing matter will be set up ty the use o1
these machines. But the printer neei
f not despair. He is not yet an Othellt
with his Occupation gone" Machines
cannot set up advertisements and the.
are the e'fat" which delights the printer
heart. Suppose the cost of type-settint
! could be reduced six-eighths, as is tn
a estimated saving of these machines, ho1
!. cheap books could could be sold at
: And newspapers would multiply ant
get so large that it would require dra
y to haul single paper. Then indee
could we say ''of making books there
4 no end"
4 have been for long time firm be
lever in the law of compensation, and
believe in it now more firmly than evel
n When l reflect that here on Long Islap
live as many people as reside throughor
the length and breadth of North Carol
na-many of them living in tenement
l. crowded together in uncomfortable an
: often unhealthy quarters-I feel
T. thank God that live in the generous ol
st State where though poorer, slower,
le man has an abundance of fresh air an
N the poorest man can have fields ar
/ lawns upon which his children can ROM
a play and grow rosy-facej, strong al
ot supple jointed. O! it Is pitiful
= keee how miserably the poor live he
m and the hard, outcast look tn
m No makes their eyes haunt you. An
n though worth their millions, the me
~ chant princes and benefciaries of Trus
live crowded and jammed witho
enough yard for horse to turn aroul
in comfortably. passed the Manhs
tan Club House this morning. It is Il
=. A. T. Stewart mansion, and is one
the handsomest places in the world
= said to be, and it cost mint Of none
But it hasn't enough yard to let t
ne children play hide and seek. A
At though costlier, it isn't half Ito my I
a., tion) so desirable a residence as M.
lg- TUcKER's in Raleigh or Mr.. DUKES
Durham. 1t hasn't any grass or lawr
These will make an old house look Ii
a home--a place Of rest and repo
But these great marble and brow
;, stone structures have, to me, no ho
ne look, but they look like place wher'
on | c%ovs on1 c1oonc TIono1 11v cl10h