Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-28
A THREE-DEEP CITY.
A City on the Ground, Above the Ground
and Under the Ground, all
Crowded.
Cora Tanners Pretty Gowns in One Error. :"
Talk With Mrs. Frank Leslie In
Her Mammoth House.
NEW YORK CITY. Sept. Is, 1890.

NEW YORK CITY. Sept. Is, 1890.
Editor Gazette.
1t rains. and rains and rainsI That declara-
tion carried on with increasing italicizing. to an
indifinite end, would be only commensurate
with the fact. 1 hear from Texas hints OF a
Financial panic in New York. do not know
much about parics and know less about finances,
but like the woman who was in the habit OF
saying 81 told you so,'' said it when her hus-
band told her the COW had eaten up the grind
stone. Remember if the panic does come 1 said
81 should no. be surprised In fact, chance
called me to short trip down Wall street two
days ago, and was much impressed by bullish-
ness and bearishness OF the surroundings.
We women "took in our foliage and occup led
lust as little of those narrow sidewalks as pos
sible. They were gathered about in small crowds
all around the banks and offices, the bulls roar
ing and the bears growing: l am sure they
on. Now, if the bulls had been roaring alone.
while the bears complacently sucked their paws,
ruminated, I would have felt better. 1 would
have known that one or the other had a ''cinch''
on finances and thst the people would get the
out OF sorts you may look out for the fur to fly
from some quarter. Even George Washington,
standing mp there so grand before the treasury
building, had solemn apprehensive look on
his face OF bronze. 1t seemed TO say: Little
did / think when TOOK the oath of first presi-
dent of the republic on this spot on April 80 l7S9
o
divided unbrotherly, disunioned family Alas,
poor old pater, he is too high there in the air
to hear and see the worst; the petty scrambling,
and cheating and thieving near the ground
Poor old Texas! dear old. beautiful, sunshiuy
big-hearted, clear, smiling Texas! 1 do hope
she is prospecting. DO hope her cotton fields
are like a snow-world or Christmas day-her
corn bins full OF gold, her wheat fields green
and tender, and her people full Of hope and
blessedness. There have not been two consecu-
tive half hours OF sunshine here for seven days.
It looks like kind OF alternate suction process
going on between the clouds and the Atlantic
ocean, in which they constitute an equipoise.
These grimy old roofs and widowed attic panes
are not enlivening! wouldn't like to trust
myself to resort to rubbing Aladins ring. if 1
had it. right now and wishing my
self on horseback a Texas prairie,
the blue sky above me, the soft dead
pack Of grayhounds in front! And yet these New
Workers don't seem to mind the weather any
more than the sparrows do The pavements are
a mere shifting panorama of umbrellas and
ssslickers'' and the cobble stones resound with
iron horse shoes and cart and carriage wheel
until late into the night. New York is SO big
aud full and self-emphasized that nothing short
of .omnipotence could stop or impress it'll
1t grows on one! It's . three-deep
ground, and under the ground! A great mon
ster whose brain is dollars, whose heart Is half
dollars whose liver is quarters, nerves dimes,
pulse nickies and circulation pennies! Money.
money noneyl That is all one hears OF herel
/ don't wonder that sensible old Ronan-what's
his name?-got disguised and went off to his
villa and raised cabbases and made poetry
-.
Well, the weather is nsvsz too bad (nor