The Iola register., 1891-07-24
IMPRESSIONS OF NEW YoRx.
Kansas City Young woman Examining
Gotham and Its People,,

A Kansas City Young woman Examining
| Getham and Its People,
The Four Hundred are out of town,
but they have left the city, the heat
and the million behind them. In the
city itself / am slightly disappointed.
No one seems to have foreseen the pos
sibilities ofdevelopment Of in New York.
and the result is curious mingling OF
Of the palace and tenement, residence
and store. In its finest business por-
tion New York cannot compare with
Chicago, and the way in which business
has encroached upon the upper por-
tions Of the city adds to the peculiarity.
At the west II it were found that
block must be given up to business
purposes the buildings would be torn
down ana replaced by wide, well light
ed stores. Here the modiste, or the
milliner or the grocer simply moves in
to the stately mansion and has his name
and occupation engraved on the silver
plate on the door.
This thing of having your butcher up
a fight OF stone steps Is altogether too
select for my taste. l feel more at home
when get down as far as Twelfth
street, where the children OF Israel
have their stock on the sidewalk, and
Clearing Sale" in big letters all over
the front Of the stores.
I went into big dry goods store the
other day to make some purchases and
told the6aleswomau wanted transfer.
She stared. repeated.
Did l wish to make other purchases?
Yes.
Did I wish to pay for them all at once!
Naturally.
And behold! The young lady grasped
my curling iron, prOmenaded the length
of the store to the glove counter, ex-
piained at length to that clerk, and the
thing was done. Who says New York
is not marching on?
| have spent the last three days in
Central park, and the Metropolitan mu-
scum of art. which latter has filed my
soul to overhowing. New Workers do
not go there. 1t is only for the unedu-
Gated stranger.
l passed an hour yesterday in the
case Of the river Oregon that "heard no
sound save its own dashings." The cad
averous man who had charge OF the
gratitude when asked for some refer
curator of the art gallery was chiefly
engaged in yswning audibly, series
of painful grosns tnat effected me Nh
comfortably.
He frightened up when he saw Wis
itor, and dropped into my wake wait
ing for questions. l liked to torture
people after fashion and SO kept 81
1ence. Finally he couldn't stand it any
longer, and volunteered information.
He then proceeded to touch up the
Metropolitan gallery with rosy brush,
and among other bits OF cruious lore
learned that there were no ''stak-tik-
tiks" that's the nearest can get to his
pronunciation by which any man car
guage his conception OF an historical
event. This In relation to the fact that
in the celebrated painting OF Columbus
lsfore Isabella the great sailor is in the
garb Of priest.
In the LenOx library they have fine
collection of old manuscripts, early BIZ
bles, written and illustrated, on vellum,
and two or three cases of autograph
letters, including the names of Charles
/, Cromwell, Elizabeth, James vi and
Mary, Queen OF Scots. There is whole
case full OF Burnss letters, manuscript
poems, ETC.. including sthe original oI
''Scots wha' ha'," However, if the libra
ry is not patronized any tmore liberally
than on the day OF my exploration, no
body will be painfully affected by these
relics.
| got my lonesome umbrella out o.
} the vast stand and went out into the sun
shine on the avenue. The usual pro
cession Of nur semaids and children was
moving in, and the carriages were
coming out for the afternoon drive.
sauntered over to the obelisk, and
watched the park phaetons deposit their
loads of the uninitiated at the Metro
politan museum door. Apropos, here
is an incident:
A good looking. gentlemanly young
man from the interior walks up, carry.
ing q small valise and an umbrella. He
passes them over the counter. Um-
brella is checked, ,valise is thrown curt
ly back. He picks it up and moves on.
A second later burly policeman seizes
him by the shoulder, and swings him
around as though he was heavy william
resisting arrest.
"Young mon, ye can't take that in
there"
Can have it checked?"
"Ye cannot"
What can l do with it?'
"Ye can carry itout. That's what
We can do with it." Exit young man
from the museum.
One of the amusing features of New
York to me, is the innocent pride with
which the foreign resident of some
standing does the hOnOrs to his newly
arrived compatriot. II have seen one
group OF Italians showing the park and
city to the last arrivals at Castle Gar
den, / have seen q dozen. and other na-
tionalities in proportion. They all
talk at once and seem pleased with the
outlook.
l can't close without remark on the
future OF New York-its hand organs.
I always had a weakness for that pie
beian instrument, and here they fill
my soul with delight. They are large
and musical and the children of sunny
Italy who accompany them are gener-
ally brisk and cherry, with festive
impudence that is enchanting. There
are usually two and while one manipu.
lates the handle the other frequently
} does a few Carmencita steps on the
asphalt, not at all professionally, but
with an engaging, degsge air that sug.
gests he knows what's what in his circle
of society. When a coin comes whirl
ing down from the fifth story he bites
it, tips his hat to the invisible pitcher
and moves up to the next doorstep. We
are Just around the corner from the
Hoffman house, and whether it is due
to the downtown locality or to the
abundance of organs in New York,
can't say. but there are from fifteen to
twenty daily on the street. Annie
Rooney" seems still to be he favorite air.
My general impression of New York
is q sad one. The city itself is unttrac'
tive to the eve, and its immensity robs
everybody of his individuality. Al