The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-06
ROUND ABOUT GOTHAM.
The Outlandish Sights to be Seen ir
the Novel City.

Inc Outlapol5h Sights TO De seen IN
the Novel City
New YORK, July 5.-Chicago. dear
Paste this in the sole of your pretty boot.
Not the whole column, for you might not
be able to accommodate more than ten
inches or SO, but just this inch. You are
going to begin to try to make ready to pre-
pare the plans for a big exhibition soma
day. and you want ideas, notions, intellect
ual help, not to mention peclniary. Well,
now, just come along to New York aud l
will take you where you will imbibe (ocu-
larly only the splendidest idea for leading
feature. But first, let me ask you whether a
schoolday wish Of mine ever affected you
the same way. Did you ever long to see a
ship in a street? All our talk about the big
ocean greyhound being $50 feet long and 60
wide. and able to sleep 1900 bodies with
more or less soul left in them-w what does it
amount to2 We can't form any sensible
idea of their immensty, not even we who
sail in them and see them every day. But
if, say, the City of New York could be
hauled up Broadway on wheels! All! only
think OF it, Guess we should lick creation
, In the novelty department of the great
moral show business.
Well, come along with me on my ex-
ploration constitutional, and you shall walk
underneath the keels of n couple of big
ships if you like. We bid gOod-by to our
everyday Gotham as we leave it for the
| unknown land that lies alongside the East
river from the sky-high bridge up to the
| Grand street elbow. A motley world, in
| deed, do we enter here For the first
| quarter-mile we have the endless row of
I hustling wharves on our right boats
poking their noses right into the street car
windows, and big ships and little ships
! rA.. l...-~ ~ -t,I r. E..-N
| clean out onto the so-called dry land that is
| filed with mud puddles and thirst-provok-
ing saloons. By and by we tiud our mats
| knocked off, and, looking up, 10 and behold
we are under the fine edged Prov of a
| copper plated three master. Seen from the
| warehouses across the street, this ship has
all the delicacy and beauty of outline of
| swan. One OF these vessels-for there are
two close together-has the keynote of sta
| bihtv, the other of swifuness, and mere
landlubbers like myself find keen pleasure
in surveying verltable monarchs of tho sea,
much as one looks up at balloon.
For thirty years the streets of Paris have
| been of asphalt For twenty years the
streets of London have been paved vari-
| ously-wood, pitch, macadam, asphalt-but
| always as smooth as a table.
Ten years ago New York experimental
with asphalt, and with fair success, to Judge
by the City hall front, Central park paths,
and the patches in Madison avenue and else
where. Now we seem to be living in the
asphalt millennium. The long Lexington
avenue is being clad in its summer asphalt
suit from top to toe, beginning at the toe.
| By the way, quite cluster of corporation
notables live down at the Gramercy end
| of it--ex-Mayor Hewitt, down to a
shoal of policemen as you go up. Has this
to do anything with the tailoring! Wall
street has been asphalted, too, and, when
trade is slack and you feel like having some
fun, just take your seat on the sub-treasury
steps-sacred ground, mind you!--and
watch the horses sink up to their heels in
the pitch, and the cartwneels make four
inch ruts, and the 300-pounder bankers and
brokers wriggling like cells to pull their
heels out of the holes they have stamped
into the new paving o. yes; it's mighty
funny-for you--if you have sand enough
to laugh on a sweltering day.
They chartered a lot around and around
"the negro question" the other day at the
Mohonk convention without getting par
ticularly near to it. Perhaps it was warm
weather, and the atmosphere of the subjec
got strongish. Anyway, there is no ques.
ton, the negro can vote when he wants To-
1t was quite another convention | happened
into in a New York church few evenings
| programme for a speech, but he did
| not turn up. There was a cry of
Hector Hector!' SGT up, and W hen
the chairman said he would let Hector
loose on the meeting there was cheer of
| satisfaction that BODIED a treat to come
But Hector turned out to be remarkably
black gentleman, which explained why the
white clerics spun out their wearisome
harangues, so as to crowd Hector into lust
ten minutes" as everybody was hurrying
out. But everybody hurried to sit down
again when he began. Racy, eloquent,
comic. singing, dramatic by turns, the
Rev. J. II. Hector proved far and away
the best orator of the evening He told a
funny story more funuily than
printers ink can render it, He is an
out and out prohibitionist, and to rid
icue the moderate folk who wish to regn-
late the traffic by stringent legislation he
told how an old auntle of Georgy was shown
the water system in a city house for the first
time. She was amazed that the turning OF
a little tap or spigot could bring such rush
of water right where she wanted it. for she
was going to get pailful to scrub the floor.
Her pail was soon filled and overfilleG, but
the old girl didn't know how to stop It,
Seeing the danger of a second deluge
it on the installment plan, and
keep it under by wise con
sideration. Hector is of gigantic
build and this is how he played 'old aunte."
Z Filling his imaginary bucket as he stopped,
he rose to his full tip-toe hight, swaying his
body forward and emptying the water on
the audience Bubbety bubbety wish 2
bubbety bubbety-swish! Kant git the