Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
DOING GAY GOTHAM.
All the Sights in a Day and a Night
for the Sum of S13 6S.
YOU MUST HAVE POSTED FRIENDS.
Ths Substantial Grandeurs and the Gilded
Gloriss Of the Town.
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TOU MUST HAVE POSTED FRIENDS.
A VISIT 70 GRACEFUL cARhENcITA

interest about New York and vicinity, vet
I question whether most of our country
cousins in their brief visits see more than
what happens to be in their way. Those
who set about it guide-book fashion look ur
the places of which they have read most
and usually have a stupid time of it. They
ride in Central Park, of course, pay %
cents to see the inside Of st. Patrick's Cathe-
drsl, go to the art galleries and the finest
thearers, etc. This is all very well as far as
II goes, but it gives very incomplete idea
about the American metropolis.
Il is probably your Summer" who gets
the quickest and most thorough notion OF
the peculiarities of the place. The man
who gets through his business, if he has
any, meets his friend and does the man.
about-town act. I've known good fellows
of this sort to pretty nearly exhaust New
York in a single day and night, to say
nothing of exhausting themselves. To see
New York this way a local friend and pilot
is necessary. 1t saves time and travel
And then companionship alone makes such
an adventure entertaining. If you have no
local friend who will answer, hire guide.
It will pay, that is, if time is any object to
you.
THE SIGHTS IN A DAY.
Suppose you are here for two davs. You
have transacted your business and want to
get the most out of the day lett. Your friend
meets you at your uptown hotel, say Hof-
man House, in the morning The plan your
friend lays out for you is to give you as
much and as great variety as possible in a
given time without robbing you with ex-
pense or killing you with exertion. If he is
wise he will keep his plan TO himself, let
ting you in at every turn for the unexpected.
A carefully arranged programme of plea
sure is usually Disappointing it raises too
many expectations.
You start in with the Hoffman Art Gal
lery in this instance, emphasizing the mat
ter very naturally with a light Manhattan
cocktail-price for two, 40 cents. (Now
keep track of this matter of expense, as you
must know how much money to bring with
you.) You Immediately 60 to Delmonico's g
across the way ana order breakfast. Not
because there are not plenty of just as good
and considerably cheaper places for break
fast, but because 1t is necessary to eat a meal
at Delmonico's some time and you may as
well take it now and be done with it. 1t is
early, and the walters will stare at you i'm
pudently for the questionable visit. When
one of them takes your order you feel like
kicking him or apologizing for not ordering
$40 breakfast As il is, you order twice
as much as you need, and pay So for light
breakfast. Having purchased couple of
poor-clay cigars at the,cashier's desk (if you
are not smart enough to have amply pro-
vided yourself elsewhere) for 20 cents each,
you take the front platform of the first
Broadway car going down town.
SMOKING ON THE CARS.
You don't take the elevated because you
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business street in the world. The United
States is big tobacco raising and tobacco
consuming country, but it is the land of
liberty, and stands alone in its contempt for
the rights and comforts of smokers. You
are tolerated on the front platform OF New
York surface car in winter, or when the
front door is shut On the elevated there is
no provision for you at any time. 1t is
worth the inconvenience OF being banged in
the ribs now and then by the driver, having
your toes trodden on by fat policemen,
straddling all sorts of packages and SMELL
ing all sorts OF tobacco, this ride down
Broadway on a sunny morning. 1t only
costs you 10 cents and patience, jogging
along among the thousands of trucks cabs,
carriages and delivery wagons that con-
stantly require the reminder of whistle and
oaths of your driver, you have ample time
to finish cigar before jumping off at Park
Place.
Here you must be lively if you don't want
to be run over in the business swim, and
must not mind the apparent efforts of the
drivers to smash you and their success in
splashIng you with mud. The car will not
stop to take up or set down an able-bodiej
man in this section-he must assume all the
risk, or walk. If you reach the sidewalk
alive you have in front of you the postofice,
park, City Hall, etc., and in the back
ground the great newspaper Offices. Behind
you to the right rises the grim granite of
the Astor House and the left the old Chem
ical Bank, the richest bank in America, the
stock Of which is worth over 81, 900 per 500
share, and can be bought at all only at some
executors sale You stroll across the park
with a contemptuous glance at the city
buildings but with interest at the splendid
edi6ces of the World, Times and Tribune.
OVER BROOKLYN BRIDGE.
Joining the huStling, hurrying crowd,
you slowly work your way to the entrance
of the Brooklyn bridge There is a bigger
crowd coming the other way at this hour in
the morning, but you let them fight it out
on the other platform. Having Clipped in
cents and dropped your ticket in the
chapper, you scramble on the cable cars and
cross the great bridge oyer the masts and
tunnels OF the, shipping. Then you take
the broad roadway above the tracks and re-
cross on foot. By this means you get fair
idea of the length and build of that mag
nltcentspan ofwire and can enjoy the grand
scene and panorama of passing ships below.
You Will rest moment or two at the seats
on the bridge, then resort to the Astor
House, where you'll feel better after split
ing bottle of Bass-3O cents.
1t will now be getting on to II o'clock
and the vast throng of business that begins
to flow into the Central Cafe is a SIGHT itself
But you will not lunch there. Taking the
precaution to get some fair cigars flour for
80 cents) you again take car heading for
the Battery, this time glad to sit down
within and get full value of your 10 cents.
You pass st. Paul's on the immediate RIGHT.
on the left the Herald and Equitable bniId-
lngs-further along to the right Trinity
steeple rises at the head OF Wall street. The
car swings around a small circle at the end
OF the route. Within that circle stood the
statue OF George the Third, thrown down at
the Revolution by a street mob. Directly
opposite is the immense Field building, oc-
cupying the site OF the New York residence
and headquarters of both George Washing
ton and the British commander during the
Revolution. You take to your heels here,
walking down through Battery Park, past
Castle Garden, to the barge office where lies
little steamer plying between this point
and Liberty Island.
OUT IN THE WATER.
You pay 30 cents for two round-trip tick
cts and have 20 minutes sail across New
York harDor and all that implies 10 a
stranger. In fact, few beside strangers
make this trip. There is always a fair
sprinkling of newly welded couples on
board the boat, the rest of the passengers
being q motley crowd of out-Of-town people.
So far as your fellow passengers are con-
cerned they remind you of the Mt Vernon