The morning call., 1890-07-08
QUEER NOOK DOWNTOWN.

Curious Little Store That Supplies
Only Geographical Needs.
Passers-by on Nassau street for some
months past have noticed unique little
store at No. 107, in which every article for
sale has TO do with the science of geogra-
ply. The first thing one sees in the door
way is one of those curious collapsible
globes which one may carry under his over
coat and then expand like an umbrella
when he is in a studious humor. Inside
there are globes of all sizes and prices, at
Eases in considerable variety, maps of many
lands and all sorts of geographical material,
and # one visits the other floors devoted to
this little establishment he will find lots of
globes hanging from the ceiling, and every
description of geographical goods packed
away like sardineS in box. The place is
known as Goldthwaite's Geograp hcal Ex-
change, and 1t is quite novelty among new
commercial ventures.
1T has been my ambition for years."
said MIR. Goldthwaite, the young propre-
tor, ito start an establishment where map
buyers, students and everybody, may find
anything they want in the geographical
line. I'm beginning to gather material
from all over the world, and have en-
barked myself in the business of map
making. | wish to have an establishment
where the public, if anything occurs to call
special attention to any part OF the earth,
may uuu IItIc just tue GEOGRAPHICAL mate
rial they need to help understand it,
"What sort Of maps as to quality, have
you most demand for ?'' asked the reporter
wei, as rule" replied Mr.. Gold
thwaite, the buyers Of maps and aliases
seem to think the only purpose of map is
to show towns and rivers, political diyis-
ions and railroad routes. Gentlemen call
here to whom l show some of the finer
specimens of map-making, and | find that
many OF them say they don't care anything
about maps of this sort. A railroad map
is good enough for me- said a man to me
the other day. Now, you know the best
maps, though they seem crowded with be-
wldering detail, convey information in
every mark the photographer has made, and
1t requires only little careful study of the
symbols used to express facts TO make them
easily compensate. But II costs more
money to make map which is really a
panorama OF the country it represents in
all its elevations and depressions, its biz
valleys and plains and mountain chains. |
have considerable demand for this sort of
map, but for those who don't care for so
much topographic detail / try 10 provide
the best material that is made.
AT present L am giving great deal Of
attention 10 making maps of New York
City and the surrounding country. These
maps are on a large scale, and | want to
make them adequate to the needs of every
one interested III this city or any of its sub
urDs. Blcyclers, Tor instance, want to
know of all the available routes, real estate
men are Interested in the plans of towns,
and all the rail aud carriage roads leading
to the city, There are innumerable bits of
information that can best be expressed on
map, and L am trying to express them.
One OF my ambitions is to publish as soon
as | can a tirst-rate map of the United
States.
" Here is small pamIle let l have pub
ished on how to use the globe. Many peo-
pie have little idea in how many interest
ing ways globe may be made serviceable:
that, with little manipulation. it is easy to
ascertain, for instance, the approximate lati-
tude and longitude Of any place with out
stopping to turn over the pages Of an atlas,
and that globe may really be made a time
saving device In many directions. Here is
little globe ON which all The different
steamship routes and the ocean currents are
shown, and of course the larger globes give
much more detail"
Altogether the Geographical Exchange is
quite curiosity in its way among the stere-
otyped shops that line busy Nassau street.
N. Y. Sun.