The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-31
NEW AND OLD NEW YORK.
The Union square OF Twenty Years Ago
and OF the Present Day.

The Union square OF Twenty Years Ago
and Of the Present Day.
There is a city in the west which,
within twenty years, has sprung up.
new in body and feathers, from the
ashes Of its predecessor. Aud there are
younger cities in the farther west which
have been born, and have grown 10
architectural maturity within the same
brief period But the deliberate hand
of man has, during this period, done
for New York almost Us much as the
fame did for Chicago Old New York
has been torn down and another city
has arisen on its site, since the days
when our streets rang 10 the tread ~
the returning armies Of the union. For
a parallel to what we have done with
this city of ours, we must look far back
20 some English cathedral where the
still sturdy work Of earlier generations
was destroyed simply that living men
might rebuild 10 bigger and taller, and
more in accordance with their own
ideas of architectural excellence.
To realize what this change means 70
the true New Yorker, We need not ex-
anime those districts within a mile Of
the city hall, where transformation has
been most audRciouS We need only
look, l viii say, at Union square. and
only with the eyes Of enc who holds tbs
day Of Lincoln's assassination among
her earliest clear memories Union
square Is a lively place now and as
amusing aud when we see IL from up
per Broadway. with, over the trees, the
tall Domestic building in the far dis
lance, it is not an unpictuTesque place
Butthis is how behold it. Tihany's store
stands on a certain corner, and il Is com
monplaee and prosaic enough But on
this same corner ! see a palegra stone
church with IA square tower plAusiblv
like that upon some English parish
church, and with thick mantle of Ivy
exactly like an English one There ara
no skv-scraping business buIldings sny-
where. and not single shop, and na
horse-csrs except on the Fourth zvenus
side. The tAllest structure IL the Ever
EFT house, and elsewhere there are
merely rows ef modest high-stonp
dwellings with vines on their balconies
and trees along their sidswalkA The
trees in the square Itself are much moro
numerous than you think, and spread
out much farther 80 that thsrs are only
narrow streets between them and the
houses; and they are mingled with
dense thicksta Of shrab b. and iacloSsd
by q high picket fence. ndsr their
shadow AL 81 uE-su the boys Of tho
neighborhood and oEc or two pad little
girls as welI-are playing i spy
/. -. AZ 49, - g.
In the earthcn paths fer cur marbles, and
drawing circles out Of whics We hope,
with our pet Egnun-v3tsa t9p, - drive
the tops Of the other fellows. perhaps
oh, bliss;-sp.Itting them Ia two IN the
act There are no tragups or ether dole
FIJI figures Oh the b-nencs; there r. only
a rare policeman, who taxes q f4thsrly
interest ia car sport; and there j.
stall a. one corner. where = fst Irish
woman n q red shaw! diapsusea piEasd-
on. zingersrapa e heavenly cszeucr.
which cannot ~ pzrchassd, even ~ szi
little g.-ls. within nile % to sophie
tieated URi0n square q today. Mr..
Van kezssslasr. IN Ceatrrr-
Life = = succession u lessons which
rr1rsst &c lived u ~ uBG~rsfooA Ais
riddle. sla th< key . = riddle IA 49,
other riddle There are 4s many ril-
lows - iIssrioH a. faxes ia sfes4.
atorm- We wake from ore dream y.
another dream TIE TOYS. % ~ a=sr.
are vaTloss. and are Fr&csAt~d su -.
hnemeBt . M quality q tbs dup~.
Tas intellectual naa requires 8as
bait. The sots ar~ easily s-u1s<d B1t
svery BODY - dragged vita hss ova
frenzy aud - pageant marches - al
hour, riih music aHd banner al
h.aE-a II s.aeraE.r-