The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-04

| ping arc one world, Wall street another,
| City Hall another; aud, yet each is de-
voted to business. The BoBery, the Ri
alto, club land, Chinatown. Printing
House square. the Fire Points, the
Swamp, Central park, the Dry goods dis
trict, the tenement house region, the
| fashionable quarter do not seem 20 be in
| the same latitude or longitude. If you
pass through cross street above Twenty
| third, from river co river, you thread
maze of changefulness. One avenue is
| singularly diverse from another. Fifth
| avenue in no manner resembles Sixth, nor
does Sixth resemble Eighth or Ninth or
Tenth. These again broadly 6iverge from
Avenues A, B and c. To walk through
them is a study in geography and ethnolo-
gy. The civilized globe is IN q way includ-
ed in the municipal limits. Around Madi-
son square you see Paris; in East Broad
way, certain parts Of London; in Forty
second street, Vienna; in Second avenue,
Leipzig; in the Italian quarter, Naples; In
the Slay quarter, Warsaw, Prague, Kev;
in South street, Msrseilles; in Fourth
street, Antwerp; in the whole city, modern
Babylon, enormous, multiversalt, bewil-
dering.
Comedy gEdes, tragedy stalks, farce
chatters, melodrana gibes and glowers in
every ward. The man who touches your
shoulder may be hero, scholar or Rn as
sassin. The woman who hurYies BY, flushed
and feverish, may slgy or be slain before
the day has sped, and the morning journals
will furnish all the CHASTITY details. You
never know, in the hurry and crush of the
town, what romance youare uneonsciously
sharing; what poetry you may for the mo-
ment be inhaling; what deadly peril you
may have escaped.
In soSle occult, mysterious manner you
partiG3ESa daily, hourly, if you reflect on
it, in tEs picturesque. dramatic, voluptu-
Gus, passionate, marvellous life suggested
by the daily prints, and revealed to you in
flashes of confidence aud experience Un-
questionably the great city is the field for
philosopher and dreamer, as well as for
operator and merchant. Here imagina-
tiop weaves spells, while the brain plods
and the hand tolls. Stimulus is in the air,
magnetism in material and human things.
The New Yorker seldom proses or vege-
tates. He thinks quick, moves fast, is
often very tired at night, but fresh in the
morning. His many hued environment
streams through him and keeps him up
until the end comes suddenly and painless
~. In6 u1S DSSA UfSdIlSu
with madness and thrill.
There is little rest here. We can have IL
if we want it, but we rarely do. The beni-
son of the metropolis is that we can be our
selves, if so minded, or lSSe ourselves in
others. We may pass from commotion to
quietude, from publicity to privacy at any
time. Shut your study door. deny yourself
and you are completely isolated Let New
York alone and it will let you alone severe
ly. 1t will ot.know or think whether you
are abroad or in Woodlawn.
Go out again; your friends will greet you
cordially-we are polite at the mouth Of |
the Hudson; we eobseFveconventionaI forms, |
though we may not remember if we have !
met you for day, a month or decade.
What can you crave that New York can |
not furnishG You may study and immure |
yourself like an ancient monk. There are |
libraries, public and private, by the dozen |
more treasures of learning than is sus-
pected, save by earnest segrchers. Schools /
of law, medicine, divinity, science, art, me-
chanics, trades of divers kinds have open |
doors and every facility. This is by odds |
the largest manufacturing center on the
continent, and for extent and variety is
hardly eQualed in the world. Any sort Of /
fabrication may be secured here, from /
colossal lie to a mammoth engine. Any
thing done in Europe may be done on this
slde-the most delicate surgical operation
or the finest diamond cutting. Ships sail
for every port; the best from every cline
comes to our piers. This Is the city of lux
ury above all others, Paris not excepted.
We have some of the best theatres in
which the English tongue is spoken. For
uEla Nrra ~
The financial ventures OF Well street startIe
the bourses of the Old World. Our enter
priSes are regarded with awe and wonder
acroes the sea. As a community we are
unprecedentedly rich. Our millionsires
are counted by the hundred; and yet this
IS not, as has often been said, a city OF mill
onaires and paupers. Paupers are exclu-
sively foreiGl, the native population living
1ecently md comfortably.
One may get on here with a modest
sum if SO inclined. And it should be re-
nembered that one gets much that costs
nothing, much that makes existence fruit,
.ul and desirable. The city has reliernp-
ions, rewards and privileges that only cid
'esidents appreciate or understand. One
hing, we are sufficient to end for our
elves. We DO not fesl it necessary to de-
end or glorify the metropolis. We can
lear 1t abused without irritation and |
PRAISED without vanity. 1t is big enough !
md fortunate enough TO vindicate itself
But it Is dirty, ugly, selfish, egotistic,
nobbish, pretentious. So we have often
zen told. Is IT reauy7 fit were a hun
lred times worse than all that it has been
amed we should admire and love it still
n many respects It Is beautiful, delight
al, wonderful Often we think we do not
are for it greatly. five go anywhere else
a this country We find that we sorely miss
The something must be the
ascination of ofhiGeOus, beloved, monstrous,
Manhattan.
JCSTUs HENRI BROWNE.
A lady at Grass Valley had a novel ex-
eriepce during q thundcr storrn She rrps |