The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-01-22


The MARYvILLE TIMES is read
with great interest by a goodly
number in our community. We
await the TIMES for news. May it
speed on its mission OF light until
many more American homes shall
read It's columns with interest.
New York City.
1t Is big town, much larger than
Maryville. Some years ago a stu
dent In our town read q remarka-
BILE composition In which he ex-
pressed his belief that Anderson
Hall at Maryville College was the
largest building in the United
States What a poor thing in size
It would be placed beside buildings
ten, twelve and fourteen stories
high! Some Of us have seen the
great city. Many more intend to,
and some declare they must see It
before they die. Well, 1t is worth
seeing, but II you go about Christ
mas time your purse will probably
contract and collapse, especially II
you take along q lady Of culture
and taste. I had some one with
me but she was not at all limperious
In her demands, though she did see
a Parislan dress that made her eyes
sparkle. It is the ambition of some
refined ladies to own suit that
came from Felix or North in the
gay French capital. 1t will only
cost $500 or $500 to give your wife a
rich robe which will introduce her
among the famous 400 in New York
City. ! should add, however, that
some diamonds must be displayed
on neck and hands in order to set
off the finest silks.
We saw the brilliant necklaces
that reached the round sum of $l2O-
600. Well, all this is extravagant
folly yOu say, and so say l. Your
wife and my wife can survive on
pla:aSakaFe and be inst as loving
Syif decked with the rubies OF the
orient.
Forty years ago I first visited
New York. In the autumn of 1850
l went there as student of the0lO.
gy. 1t is hardly credible that il
should have made such gigantic
strides in that length of time.
Forty years ago the population
was $4,000, now 1t is at least 1900,
600. Brooklyn then had $1,000, now
1t has 100000. New York and the
cities just across the two river.
flowing on its east and west sides
has much larger population thar
in all Tennessee. A distinguished
speaker said that New York wa.
pushing nOrthward at the rate o
two miles u year.
In 1850 we called it q long wall
into the country to see the Reser
/ voir on 42nd street, which is nov
below the center Of the city. Their,
was, at that time but a single lin,
Of horse cars. Now there are score
OF them. Such demand for rapi(
transit that steam cars are now rul
on tracks laid on iron pillars q
, high as the second stories of houses
and in one place for 4 considerabl,
distance you are so far up towart
the midday sun you can look dow
|. ON houses for miles around fiv,
stories high. To Jump the track a
such giddy height, would be
terrific crash and no one could es
cape instant death. Fearful as it i
to think of, you feel no danger
Thousands in a single day and mil
lions in a year ride on these aeria
roads with comfort and safety
You enter car at the Battery
}. the most southern point of the city
: and ride to 155th street-lOT mile
, to Harlem river for just a nickel
no more, no less: rich and poor
white and black, male and female
silks and calico, brOadcloth an,
jeans, clean faces and the SCOT O
the f@rges, the dude and the Ounce
> all are welcome to a ride in tn,
f same cars, for his old dirty or new
shining nickel.
And now with all these numer
Gus trains and horse car lines tn,
difficult problem to solve is, how {,
carry the immense population vi
r and down and across the city NOR
, Iquickly and more comfortably; fO
! at morning and night the cars ar
uncomfortably crOwed, so tha
Y many are obliged to stand.
These trains contain five cars
each holding 80 persons and rul
b morning and night every fiv,
minutes. The stations are from
/. quarter to q half mile apart, 81
Z that as one train leaves its station
'you see another dashing along afte
II, and in two minutes It has com
: to where you stand. II stops sud
r denly, passengers are off and on II
one minute and the next minute
fwhirls along; SO well regulate'
: and such care that seldom is an,
\ one injured. p. M. BARTLETT.