Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-27
LIFE IN NEW YORK.
The DANGERS OF WIRES, sANpBAo-
GERS, AND VARIOUS TRAPS.
The SECOND " City in the World Gothsn's
Ambitiou-A Glimpse ~ tho New
York Press-Ths Cathedral.
Correspondence Of tho Richmond Disps,ch.l

is apt to drop on you OF any time: you
| can scarcely cross the streets without i'm
minent risk of being run over by the null
titudinous and ever-passng vehicles; you
are liable at any moment to be blown sky
high by an explosion of the subway heat
| ing pipes, while. added 10 these little me-
| tropolitan pleasures is the chance of being
| sand-bacred or bludgeoned by footpad
| should Won accidentally stray out of proper
| limits. The various traps that always
| exist for unsuspecting Ignorance or vanity
] do not mention. But with all these
drawbacks the metropolis is TO many, N.Y.
self included, place OF unfalllng attrac-
| ton and interest. never tire OF the
| mighty. ceaseless throb and hustle OF the
huge and ever-growng city or of it's as
poets of magnifcence and sdualor, happi-
| ness and misery, ambition and hopeless
ness, virtue and crime. The new census
| gives the CITY population of about 800
600. 1t is the centre, however. of communi-
ty of about $500 900 souls, and the project
Is rapidly taking shape TO unite all OF these
people under one government, which would
at once make New York the second city in
the world in size. with the prospectof be-
coming the fret at no very distant day,
which with all true Gothamites is con-
summation devoutlv TO be wished. Rich
mond ought 10 do the same thing IA to an
nexaton. There are thousands OF people
around her who enjoy all the benefits of
municipal life without its costing them a
cent. This hadn't ought to be-
NEWSPAPER ROW.
Iobserve considerable important changes
in Park Row-or Newspaper Row." as it
10 often called-since was last here two
years ago. At that time the Tribune occu-
pied the post of honor as possessing the
biggest, tallest. and costliest building of
any paper Now il has dropped to third
place. First, the Times went to work and
overtopped it with a truly magnificent
building. Then Brother Pulitzer got his
back up and mounted above Brer Jones.
The World building ia whopper and no
mistake. II is, / think, twelve stories
high. with very tall and big
cupola above, in which will be To-
Gated the editorial rooms. People should
hereafter expect only high and noble
thoughts to find expression in the World, If
the altitude at when a man writes has
saws. Pulitzer has certainly got the
bulge" on his rivals. and how he can be
surpassed. at least in the matter of height.
il Is hard TO see. Next door to him is
Daddy Danas little shanty. four stories
high, while on the other side is the coro-
Der's office. / do not know whether there
was anything Intentional about this ar
rangement or not. Daddy Dana 10 getting
old now. and cannot be expected, no nat
ter how provoking Brer Pulitzer may be-
come. to display much of the courage for
which in his younger days he was so noted.
SHAM BATTLES.
All these great newspapers-the Times
the Tribune the sun. and the Worid-dwell
right alongside of each other and 1t must
be extremely embarrassing sometimes for
the great editors when they accidentally
meet, as they must do occasionally.
and especially for Daddy Danna. If
what he SAYS in his paper can be relied on,
if there is one person he hates worse than
he does Brer Pulitzer, it Is Brer Jones, of
the Times, or maybe Brer Godkin, of the
Ecen,ng Post. only little further off, and
to be constantly buttlng. against these
rivals must be awfully disagreeable-tha
is. if these pen-and-ink attacks are not only
sham battles after all, as | suspect is the
case. Perhaps these doughty warriors ofthe
laugh over the gullibility of the people
who think they are as thirsty after each
Others gore as they seem 70 he. To give
the devil his due, | must say that old Dana
still gets out the best paper, TO NV mind,
barring his abominable politics The Siet,
as newspaper. hasn't been beaten vet. and
don't think it soon will be. The next pa
per to go into the building business will be,
rumor says. the Herald. Mr.. Bennett is re-
ported to have his eye on several eligible
uptown sites. IL he means to 60 Brer
Pulitzer one better, he will have huge
contract on his hands.
SOCIAL CALL.
I took a stroll up Fifth avenue yesterday
Il 1a1 trsA Il l.f1t ag
never fail 10 do when | visit the city. I
don't know whether he has grown deaf
since my last call. but it seemed that he
didn't hear me, or at least didn't hear him
answer. Van and / were school-bovs to-
gether. though we didn't attend the same
school, and II is only natural that | should
call on him when / como to town. Per-
baps some day ! may really pay him visit.
am rather fond OF visiting the tombs of
great men, and should Vans millions
crush him before mine, may stand by his
grave yet and solicit the return of that
plugged three-cent piece l loaned him to
buy ginger-cakes with. | observed man
haunting the sidewalk before the door.
and fearful for my friends safety
was about 10 call the police. when
the mans character suddenly dawn
ed upon me. / recognized something ia
miliar about him. He was dun. | at
once understood why Van didn't come
when / called, and / svmpathized with
him keenly. A fellow feelingin Lis pocket
for " little bill" against US makes Us all
kin. Knowing it was useless to expect 70
see Van while this spectre continued to
haunt his door, as he. or il. would doubt
less do until tho bill was paid, of which |
thought there was little prospect, | went
across the street, and seeing the door of
the grand, new Cathedral standing in
vitincly open | entered and looked over
the church. | found several other people
dong the same thing. The Cathedral
seems to be open topublic inspection.
THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.
It is indeed a magnificent edifice. and I
regret that | am too ignorant OF architect
ure and architectural terms to attempt to
descr belt. 1t is. | have no doubt, the
grandest church building on this CONT
nent. 1t was only recently finished, hav-
ing been building for many years, perhaps
fifteen or twenty, and cost about the same
number of millions. Ii Is OF white marble.
with two extremely beautiful tall spires in
front. and many smaller ones jutting up all
over the roof, all highly ornamented and
very graceful. The exterior reminds me
strongly of pictures | have seen of the
Cathedral at Milan, though whether any
similarity between them was intend
ed I can't say. The interior is Won
derfully grand and even awe-inspiring
There are four rows of immense marble
columns extending the entire length of
the church and containing am afraid 10
say how many columns TO the row, each
column gracefully fiuted and in girth be-
ing about equal TO acknowledgement.
(My Virginia friends will best appreciate
this mgainiy comparison.) The concave
ceiling is covered with a network of
branches, which are combinations of the
columns. The windows are of stained
glass. each representing some biblical or
other sacred subject. The quiet grandeur
of this beautiful interior would inspire
solemn emotions and thoughts in the
most hardened wording. When You take
structure like this and the one adjoining
st. Luke's Orphan Asylum-and consider
that there are thousands and thousands of
reflections of them-some grander, some
everywhere, and think of all the
high and holy lives and deeds that have
been inspired by the one class. and of the
unreasonable good which has been done
by the other. and that both appeal only 70
the good and pure side of human nature,
what an unanswerable argument you offer
in them to the jibes and scoAines of the
Ingersolls of earthi Whether Christianity