The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-16

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North Carolina. Put all the people in
North Carolina in a space the size OF
New York and they couldn't move a
wheel. New York people are accus-
toned to being crowded. Many of the
streets have double street car lines, the
cars run in so feet of each other both
ways. They are always full. On
Fifth Avenue, Bowery and other streets
there are two lines of elevat d trains
and also surface car lines. They run
the entire length of the city. Without
the elevated roads the swarms of hui
mainly could not be kept in motion.
Suppose you live in the lower part of
the city and wish to visit a person at
the upper end-ffteen miles away.
You can go on the surface cars, but it
would take nearly all day to go and
come. But you can go up stairs to the
elevated road. Stations r only two
blocks apart-buy a ticket for five
cents, which is taken up before you
| enter the elevated train, and in one
hour you can go to 155th street, only a
few blocks from the upper end of the
city. For five cents and in n hour
you have made a trip that would re
quire almost half a day if you went on
a horse car, or if made in a cab or a
riage would cost 81. So it is plain that
without elevated roads stagnation in
travel would result in New York. In
London, trains run under the city, but
that is unpleasant travelling. On the
elevated roads you are in the sunlight
and a see the moving mass of hui
mainly in the streets below and look
into the thousands of windows in the
"fats" you pass. Irode from the Bat
tely to 155th street, came back to 6Oth
street and went into Central park,
went out at the eastern side and rode
down Broadway four miles.
Everything moves systematically in
New York It is a mystery how the
thousands of street cars, carriages,
cabs, wagons, drays and pedestrians
get around. The drivers are experts,
however, and they new get frus
trated. The street car go fast, but
they slow up in time to miss some
vehicle. The streets are a solid mass
of vehicles, all going their own way.
They miss each other by just a fra otion.
1t is a rare thing to see vehicles get
tied up. Sometimes, however, several
street cars and two or three dozen
drays, cabs or other vehicles get tied
up by attempting to all go in the space
of one. But nobody gets mad nor
fractions, and in a few moments all of
them go sailing on their course. On
| Chambers street is where you will find
the greatest rush. This runs along the
wharf near the ferry landings for the
great freight depots. Drays are so
thick that no one ever attempts to cross
the street.
Brooklyn is closely built and
crowded than New York. At the end
of Brooklyn Bridge on that side there
is a perfect pandemonium, All the
street a lines center there, also
elevated roads, I walked over Brook
Ign Bridge. 1t is worth the walk, for
the middle of the bridge is higher than
the two cities and you get a birds-eye
view of them as far as you can see.
You also get a splendid sea breeze.
Thousands of poor people, who can
not afford a trip to the various summer
resorts nor even to Central Park, go on
the bridge for a little fresh air. The
bridge is one mile long. 1t starts back
a block or two in the city. The end of
the bridge is utilized and contains large
stores. The centre of the bridge is two
hundred feet above the water. The
foot way is in the middle. On either
side of it cable cars run n after an
other, fare on them 3 cents, On the
outside of the cable tracks are the
driveways for vehicles. Pedestrians
and vehicles go I'VE free. The bridge
cost eighteen million dollars and work
men were fourteen years building it.
Four steel cables, fifteen inches in
diameter, supported by stone piers,
hold the bridge up. While in Brooklyn
I went to see the Tabernacle, DIR. Tai
IMAGES church. 1t is a large edifice
built of pressed brick and brown stone.
An addition now being built is of
marble. DIR. Talmage is in Russia,
hence did not hear him preach. I at
tended services at st. Patrick's Cathed-
raj, Catholic, not so much for the ser
vice as to see the church, which is the
finest in the world. It cost three mil
lion dollars, and, strange to say, not a
rich person belongs to the church. 1t