The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-25
ON LIVING IN NEW YORK
Nye Puts the Expense at
$500 More Than You
Get.
OTHER VERY INTERESTING FIG.
URES.
New York World.l

Thorndyke Smiley, of Sandy
Mush Township, n. c., Writes:
"Would it be too much trouble for
you to tell me with regard to the
expense of living in New York for
q man in moderate circumstances
and who is willing to economlze
/ believe that If folks in New York
only thought so they could save a
good deal more money than they
do. Why do you folks kick so with
regard to living in New York? I
get $50 a month here, but am Of
fered $40 to go New York. Oughtn't
to go in order to advance and also
to make more money?
evil You also tell me what yon
know regarding the new ballot and
all about it's history, ifnot too much
trouble? We all regard itas almost
unavoidable"
New York is about the only
American city, l know of, Thorn
dyke, that does not invite immi-
grafton. The reason is apparent.
For several centuries New York
has been engaged by the United
States government to do a general
focusing business for all disaffected
foreign population Of the earth,
and as an entrepot, if you know
what that is, Thorndyke, and cache
@ boodlum for Europe. Finally, it
got to where the diseased pauper,
both titled and otherwise, who de-
sired to marry rich or go into poll
tics, constituted the bulk of the inn
migration. Foreign dynasties in
formed us that we must accept
such as they could gather from the
ranks and whose terms in the bas-
tile or the pest house had not yet
expired, as they had not run out of
"ticket-of-leave men" and other
suitable timber for colonization.
The result is that with the influx
of ambitious young blood from the
interior to hold level this ever rest
less and ever flowing current of
poorly de-o-dorized aliens, together
with the natural growth of the city,
there has been no organized effort
to make of it a boom town.
Our growth, therefore, / may very
truthfully say, has been steady and
very healthful, and any unoccupied
or unimproved property south of
the postoffice that you Can get hold
of is almost sure to be be quite val
liable if you hold it long enough.
The expense of living in New
York varies according to the sta
tion you purpose occupying, but
generally runs up from $500 to $500
per annum over what you get.
If you expect to create social
revulsion you will find that it will
cost considerable into money. If
you desire simply to dodge the city
ordinance regarding dress, eat the
herbage that grows along the bob
olink enyironed rock ribbed, gran
ite canyon of Broadway, and laun-
dry your clothes and your family
in the stone horse trough on Mail
street, which has been dumbly ap-
pealing to God and man for ages to
come and put drop of water on
its parched tongue, then you can
make it pay to move to New York
for an advance of $40 per month,
but otherwise not.
In the first place, you do not
want to be too far from your work,
so you try to get place down
town. There is nothing there, un-
less you sleep in crate and asso-
ciate with those who have been al
ready blackballed in perdition.
So you go further out, further out,
with your salary in one hand and
your sinking heart in the other, till
at last you find where you may
be permitted to abide, but you
must get up by candle light and
eat your morning fried mush before
the gray dawn in order to catch
your ferry or your train so that you
may make the shop, or the store or
the office in time. Then you must
pay per year $75 to 500 to the fer
ries and cars for your daily rides,
while you stand up and gayly hop
from the waving corn of one fat
passenger after another, contribu-
ting at least five good working
months in the year to getting to
and from your work.
OF course / do not wish to dis
courage you, for you may be kind
of set on coming, and If you are all
/ could say in a conservative way
would not keep you away. The
general custom among a certain
class is to 90 to New York, go
through the SIS which is brought