The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-11
ABOUT In NEW YORK.
ITS EDENs AND WLDERNEsSES
CHARACTERS AND ROMANCES.

q Notable Duel-A May Day II Gen.
trail Park-Dr. Phillips Brooks as
Orator-Politicians as Road Sweep
ers-Our Arisrocracy on the Drive.
(Copwight)
NEW YORK, May 10-This ever whirling
New York of ours has sauntering places &c
fit every mood, if only we know where &c
find them when we want them. It's down
town maslstrom everybody knows, money.
makers and money losers anyway, and be
tween them they are pretty nearly every.
body nowadays. The uptown realms OF
swelldomsi e. the money made. is almost
as well known, at least to US Gothemites,
Just as we cherish the hope Of getting there
ourselves some day, a lower preliminary to
the higher paradise. In our dollsr-tinc-
tured moods these neighborhoOds may do
well enough for a stroll, but the poetry
of New York lies neither in its
. ups nor downs. There is a golden mean in
everything. If you want to forget the
hurry-scurry of the lower regions and rid
your soul of ths mUnCtonous gaudiness Of
Brownstonia, seek out the middle domain
that includes Washington square on the
west, Madison square on the north, Stuy-
vesant square on the east, and st. Marks
cover an old-tine town, built in the good
DAYS gone By. when houses were homes and
homes had roomy rooms. GrameTcy park
comes within this area. and adds its own de-
hghtful flavor of repose and refinement TO
the grand old churchy and Quakery square
that perpesuaoes old Peter Stuyvesant's
name.
just now, when the May buds have given
up mere pee ping at the sun and are opening
their hearts to his winsome smile, these old
fashioned hooks are 50 many Edens OF bliss
for the nOise-jaded sojourner. Yet the
noise-lover may &C times enjoy a real feast
after his own heart even in Quaker Stuy-
vesant park, judging by my own expert
ence, for it was only the other morning that
a deafening gas explosion blew out two
windows and the door Of one of these
serenest mansions when ! happened TO be
within few yards Of the spot.
As look out of my window in this mel
lowed quarter, whose every red brick
house is haunted with romantic memories
of half a century. I see living romance in
petticoats and trousers strolling over the
way in the setting sunlight. A singularly
attractive women leans heavily on the arm
of a man Of dignifed mien. She has beauty
still, enough to make you sympathize with
the rival lovers who fought duel over her
years ago Not fre-eating soldiers. but men
of rare gifts. 1t was away in Germany or
Pushkin, was shot by Lasalle, the famous
socialist, in their fierce rivalry for the hand
of that radiant, golden-haire5 woman you
now see across the street, and who is the
man who is escorting her so tenderlyq No
other than Sergius Shevitch, the Russian
exile and-so far as talk goes-the bitterest
foe OF all organized government. A clear
thinker, mastery orator, years and ex-
perieLce may bring their mellowing inf1u-
ence Never mind about opinions now; our
sole purpose is to quiz men, manners and
movements as the panorama OF the streets
rolls along.
Have you been to Central park at this
time of the year! If not, 60. If you don't
care for green trees, go and have your fun
out of the green folks who parade for your
special delectation- Rare place for an
imals, CentFai park. Across the drive you
have the menagerie, the wild beats under
lock and key. II l said behind bar, the ed
itor would be deluged with libel suits from
all the saloons. On the drive we see the
aristocracy Of the four-legged kingdom
trotting, galloping or crawling at the within
Of their hOmelfer looking owners. And
right here, kicking our corns as we sprawl
full length in our majesty of ease, are the
unclaimed deniZsns of the human zoo, pea
cocks and magpies, elephants, tigers, sleek
foxes and serpents that crawl out of holes.
Why are we not born with flaps to our
ears, so that we could go deaf at pleasure?
What world of worry we could save our
selves, as the aforesaid placid elephant evil
IDENTIFY does with his handy shutters, else he
would never get 50 fat and comfortable
amid all that menagerie squalling. Why
am doomed to overhear so much of the
talk Of my neighbors everywhereq In
church learn all about the dinners and
dances of the week from the pew behind In
the offices of my busy city friends l hear ali
manner of unbusiness-like Capitalization
about ballots and betting, and here in the
park, where ones prattle should be of the
dear little dickey birds, babies and bugs
why should l be tortured with a vigorous
argument over the secret of DR.. Phillips
Brooks as the champion preacher of the
days Since IL is so, why, be it So let Brooks
be spread upon the record.
The famous divine recently preached a
weekful of Lenten sermons TO men only, In
grand old Trinity church. 1 was one of
the early birds lucky enough 70 get seat
among the 800 or 2, 600 who crammed the
place. DR.. Phillips Brooks is Boston man,
and therefore quite above criticism, yet
there are good grounds why those OF us
doomed to be born in inferior places NAV
take some discount off the Boston esti-
mate of the Boston pulpit orator. For
the pulpit orator Is what wa are
now concerned with, not the good man and
pastor. / understand that DR.. Brooks NAV
be backed at long odds to drive the average
verbatim reporter into driveling imbecility
with a course OF six sermons. I guess that
Senator Evarts speaks at the rate of about
40 words minute, and perhaps five
minutes TO each sentence. George
Francis Train jerks out his verbs ge
at the rate Of about 500 words
minute, but be rests every alternate
ten seconds. The Rev. DIR. R. g. Ingersoli
may come somewhere near one hundred and
ten words for an average, until he steps on
the wire that connects with a church light
ming conductor and then the electric cur
rent of his rhetoric runs away up among
the thousands Mr. Gladstone averages one
hundred and seventy, though you would
think as you listen that he is rather a slow
speaker He is a thunder and lightning
reporter who can take down two hundred
words minute for an hour running, and
they say Phillip Brooks rattles off three
hundred. believe it.
Az he is an eminent man, we all rush to
see and hear him. As he. always speaks
admirable common sense, manly practical.
sympathetic and never over-dogmatic, we
md 1t worth while straining eyes and ears
and craning our necks as if they were tel
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