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

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best schools are here and they are open
day and night. Here, for a small or
high price, man may live as he pleases
without q care. His next-door neigh
Dor doesn't think about his affairs-and
(what IS worse y he doesn't care. He
has no Interruptions in business hours.
When he works. he works, and when he
rests, he rests. During business hours
every man is on tension. He works with
all the steam on and he works
with efficiency or he cannot keep his
place. Then when business is over, he
has his recreation, and for very small
sum of money he can 60 to the most de-
lightful summer resorts on the coast. In
one hour after leaving bueiness he can
plunge in the surf-take a clam bake
a moonlight excursion and 20 to bed
reasonably early. They say that New
York is becoming a popular summer re-
sort for people who want fun and pleas
ure. They come here and see the sights
apd live at the best hotels, and make ex-
cursions to the resorts that are within a
few minutes travel from this centre of
all things. And not only so, but resi-
dent of New York can (even If only max
ing small amount) hear the finest lec-
lures and sermons in the world; see the
best operas and hear the best plays; en-
Joy every novelty and every pleasure
that wealth and taste can secure.
Capacity to earn enough money to
live on is essential here, but beyond that
a man need not care for it. Outside of
the Mammon lords, man never asks if
you have money. He doesn't care any
more about that than whether you have
wart on the back of your neck. If
you have enough to ''go on, all we'll. If
you haven't, you just don't 60 on" That
is all. But if you do ''go," it is all
right. Of course if a man has SEQ, ,OOO,-
600 or so, it is different, but whether a
man has 81. 90 or $1OO, 900 matters very
little, if any, in the chance he has to get
enjoyment out of life. But at best, the
work is machine work. Most men work,
and work without ever knowing whether
it is appreciated or whether it is helpful
to his fellows. He is a cog in the great
machinery that moves everything. If
he dies or falls away, another takes his
place AMI the machine goes on. 1t
is not encouraging to mans van
ity or self-esteem to live in a great
city. He is an an atom, and though
rich and learned, he is still an atom, a
cog. It is more difficult to make friends
in great city than in villages and in
the country. The rush and hustle seems
to prevent (at least, so it seems to me-
! the strongest attachments. People are
so busy here they havn't time to see
each other. This morning after / had
| finished what I had in hand and was
listlessly running over the dull columns
| of q sensational daily and watching the
crowd at the same time, I felt like initial
ing the example of an old time fun-lov
ing North Carolina gentleman who,
several years ago, was called TO New Yorl
on business After his business was finish.
ut was very hot day, and when it il
hot here it is melting) he took q chail
out of the corridor and carried it out
and sat down in it on Fifth Avenue. HI
| then took off his coat-bought palm
leaf fan, and took things easy. He wa
a very loquacious gentleman, and b.
was as happy as he could be only he hat
nobody to talk to. He looked arount
him, and saw an elderly, pleasant look
| ing gentleman approach. He arose (stil
fanning) and said to the gentleman
"Have seat, sir, I will give you $40 t.
sit down here and talk to me half al
hour."> The well-dressed gentlema
thought he was crazy and fastened on
while our N. G. friend said that thes
New Workers were the most unsocia
people he had ever seen. do not thin
he has been to New York since.
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