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

pri91 Vn0 "ortd leads evssy
owner was a tramp printer onI sua' ls
years ago, it seems wonderful LEV
It made a big strike by erectinn aoed
the end of Brooklyn Bridge, tbro9o' nsR
ago, the highest office buildino :!saN
world. 1t is % stories biob0 p's
the cellar to the top is 375 feet sa ron
other periodicals, among them p
rOy's Advanced Thought, are pnbr S"s
in the same building. The World 81
149 apartments in the BUILDING r. Sps
concerns, and still has room fos 9f
army of employees. Not less than sd ns
people r on its payroll all the t~ u'
including newsboys. Several bnrLD
editors, reporters, book keepers nris1
ers, etc, are employed right in -.
building. 1t is enough to mako
North Carolina editors turn groom %
take a look at that buildinp nv !"
World publishes a morning and ora,
ing edition, and issues large nvt,a
several times a day, amountino -
about $40, 900 papers every dav, ~
views from the top of the buiIdiro+ :,
grand. You can go up the interIin
able s~tairways in about n bour =,
take n of the eight elevators ors
reach the top in five seconds, TBa
building is made of iron and steel on3
weighs IS, 600, 900 pounds. 1t contains
1000 windows, 500 doors and enonob
iron to build 80 miles of railroad, Owe,
$4,000 pounds of type are used in oa
day, set up by about two hundrpd
printers. Ter thousand people 20 in
and out of the building every dav
merely sight seeing.
All the great dailies issue several
editions per day. More than 800 IA.
pers are published in New York Ctv
The secret of Yankee success is reading
They are better posted than any peope
in the world. They read walking
along, while eating, riding o street
cars-everywhere. Every edition ola
daily or weekly paper is eagerly seized
and paid for just as a half starved man
would seize food. They read the ad.
misunderstanding in a paper,
If the people Of North Carolina would
read as much for one year as Northern
people of all classes, the State would
be revolutionized. Our people ought
to be ashamed to allow the few papers
we have in the State to go along half
starved like they do.
I made a tour of the italian and Chi.
nese sections. About 100, 600 Italians
are crowded in a few blocks. Many Of
them look fairly well, but others are
badly dressed and have that fierce,
desperate appearance that indicates
viciousness and anarchy. A trip
through that section is not enjoyable,
for it is attended by considerable dan,
ger. The incessant chattering of for.
eign tongues, the music you hear and
the smell of decaying fruit, all tends to
confuse you. The streets and buildings
are swarming with uncouth children
and hideous-looking men and women.
The Chinese look more docile. They
wear their pigtails and Chinese dress
smoke opium joints and do pretty
much as they do in China. They are
largely engaged in laundry work, but,
as the shoemaker goes barefooted, they,
too, seem to neglect their own cloths
The Turks are a toughlooking set,
They dress in their own peculiar style
women and men dress alike.
From 10, 900 to Is, 900 foreigners land
in New York sometimes in one month
1t is not strange that you see all the
nations in the world so fully repre-
sented.
The police force of New York is an
army of fne-l )oking men. There are
5000 Of them. The Broadway police
r rather dudish, dress fine, wear
diamonds and white gloves. Most oil
the policemen are gentlemanly and a.
tentive to strangers. But it is the
hardest kind of a job for them to see
an open saloon on Sunday or anything
of the kind. Many of the saloons are
open on Sunday, though.
A visit to New York is not compLeI
unless you visit Coney Island, the mos.
famous resort on earth. 1t is a clty@
hotels about IL miles from the lower
end of New York. There are hundreds
of such places, but Coney Island IS tnS
centre of attraction. An average o.
100, 900 go out from New York every
day in addition to those who spend tn7
summer there. Steamboats, carrying
from 1000 to 5000 leave the Batter!
piers every half hour for Coney'