The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-05-28
PRESSIONS OF NEW YORK.
A Shrewd Rustic Narrates His Obserpa
tiOns and ConcIusions.

Rusticus writes to the New York
SIN as follows l was in New York
city the other day. New York did
not appear to be conscious of it.
l have heard good deal of New
York CITY.
1 saw there many things which were
totally unexpected.
This may have been due partially to
the fact that was unexpected. One
sees more of the real nature and char
acter OF things when he slips up on
them, as it were.
A banana peel for instance.
However, l didn't slip up on a
banana peel, but | saw a messenger
boy slip up on one, and for moment
or two he went faster than ne ever did
before in his life.
may say here that on Broadway
and pretty much everywhere else in
the neighborhood of fruit sta,d or
wagon | saw banana or orange pee's
lying quietly in wait on the sidewalks,
and everybody except the people who
stepped on them carefully walked
around them. 1t didn't seem to occur
| TO ANYBODY to kick them into the
street.
| may also add that it didn't seem
to occur to anybody not to throw them
on the sidewalk.
We don't do that way in the country.
We slug wretch in the neck who
carelessly puts one of these pitfalls in
the path of his iellow-man.
rode in an elevated train and got
seat. If one more man had got IN,
however, ne would not have been so
fortunate. A woman might possibly
have got one, for they were nearly all
men in the car, and am Informed on
| good authority that at least one New
Yorker to the carload has gallantrY
sufficient to warrant that much poll
teness. This applIes only to elevated
trains. I understand that in surface
cars the ratio is one man to two car
loads, SO that if a woman strikes the
off car she will have to sit on the
strap.
| saw one man in a surface car give
his seat 10 a woman and she thanked
him for it. From the way each looked
at the other should judge their sur
prise was mutual.
l saw several policemen. Their
clothes were clean and trey did not
seem to have appeared to me to be
quiet and inofensiye citizens. One
looked as if he had been up late the
night before. Do they keep them up
all night in New York;
l walked through four parks, and in
each | saw hundreds of men sitting
around doing and nodding in the sun.
Do they get paid for this or do they
belong to the leisure class?
l asked two men at Tenth avenue
and Thirteeth street the most direct
way to the Astor House. One did not
know where the Astor House was, and
the other told me to 60 over to Broad
way. | walk TWO blocks and took an
elevated train that put me where |
wanted to GO in ten minutes. They
were both residents of New York city.
Is there such a text book in the New
York public schools as a geography
and atlas of New York;
| visited several offices of New York
business men, and If there had been
few iron bars across the doors l could
easily have imagined l had got into
dungeon cell
l also interviewed several office boys,
to whom l gave nv cards, not for
publication, but TO carry to the men
wanted to see. Is the naughty and
lmperious manner of the New York
office boy due to the fact that he is a
scion of the 4ooP
| found a nice little table d'hote
dinner one evening at a downtown
feedery for SO cents. l took a lunch
there the next day and paid 10 cents
each for eggs AMI 80 cents for slice
Of cold roast beef. l should like to
own hennely within shipping distance
of New York.
l saw a drunken man in a cab pull
up in front of the post office, ana with
in two minutes 200 people and two
policemen had collected to look at
him. Was 1t that drunken man is
such a novel sight in New York?
Later | saw him driving toward the
bridge, followed by an army of small
boys and no policemen.
| wanted to go to the Mail and Ex-
press office, but instead got into
restaurant near there, and, observing
the many biblical notices on the walls,
l made myself an object OF ridicule by
asking for Colonel Shepard. Does
the odor of sanctity permeate the en-
tire atmosphere of that side Of the
street2
saw in one measly little park a
wheebarrow with the letters d. P. P.
on it, and almost got myself into trouble
by innocently asking the man in charge
of it if the letters stood for "D Poor
Park" | should like to know what
they really do mean.
| was almost run down on Broadway
by man driving pair of gray horses
and an express wagon as big as house.
He didn't make an effort to stop when
he saw he had me pocketed. l saved
myself by jumping on street car step
and riding out 1presume he took me
Tor a tumble bug. l don't know. l
didn't ask him. | should think
tumble-bug couldn't live very quiet
| life on Broadway. NAV saw here