The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-11-30
FROM NEW YORK.
A Correspondent Describes the
Sights of Gotham.
ASToR HOUSE,

If The REPUBLICAN wants an
apology from me for writing this
letter here it is: | have absolutely
nothing else to do. | arrived Fri
day evening and cannot get away
until t0-morrow and have put in the
day seeing the sights of Gotham.
After partaking of a 10 O'Clock
breakfast went over the great
Brooklyn bridge, and, although |
have frequently seen it before, | am
amazed every time | pass over it.
1t is altogether the most stipend
nous piece of workmanship | have
ever. seen
You may read about it, you may
study it from pictures, you may try
to think what it is like by the
square yards of masonry, by the
tons of iron and steel wire in it, but
you can have no conception of it
without seeing it; and in order to
comprehend, if possible, its lmmen-
sity, its magniticence, it will be
necessary to take the promenade,
and as it takes some twenty to
thirty minutes 70 walk overit, your
appreciation, your conception of it,
may so grow in that time as to en-
able you to take it in and to real
ize the magnitude of the Brooklyn
Bridge.
| did not 90 to see the bridge on
purpose to-day, but | was well re-
paid for the troubles for it is always
a new and delightful wonder to
me- started out to see, not the
bridge, but the Brooklyn divine,
Rev. DR.. Talmage. | read his SER
mons occasionally, and as | rather
irreverently remarked this morning,
| wanted to see what sort of Gil Gus he
runs. | was prepared to see a great
sensationalIst, but | must confess
that | was very agreeably disap-
pointed in that expectation. 1t is
true genius that has gwen him such
great popularity and when | had
listened to him | did not wonder
that the people fiocked IN and filled
his great church built on the gem
eral plan of theatre, with its two
or three galleries from pit to dome.
His text was from Exodus 1882,
the first text have remembered in
a long time, and the subject was
handled, 1T seemed to me, in a
mastery manner and was listened
to with the most profound attention
throughout.
DR.. Talmage had no difficulty in
making himself distinctly heard,
and understood, as | can freely tes-
tify, for coming in a little late, |
got seat far back in the first gal
lery, but | heard every word. He
looked very tall, as he stood in
front of his audience on a raised
platform without any pulpit. A
sort of stand was used to place
his small bible on, but its chief
function to-day seemed to be to
sustain the load of flowers placed
thereon by admirlng loving hands
no doubt.
There was but one thing that
marred my satisfaction and enjoy
ment, and that was woman with
sheaf of barley and a peacock's
tail on her hat who sat two or three
seats directly in front of, and be-
tween me and the preacher. This
exaggerated type of feminine head
gear is not so often met with as it
was few years ago. but OCCASION
ally it rises up in public places to
vex the soul of long-suffering down
trodden man.
On returning from church took
an elevated train and went out to
the end of the line, about IA miles.
You ride this distance for ) cents.
While on the elevated | had
chance to see and to think how the
great mass of the people here live.
All the new part of the city is COM
pOSCu VI HOuSSS SdlItu udLS. L DaU
is, men who have the money, build
houses generally four or five stories
high and probably about one hun
dred feet front and fiat on top.
There is but one door and gener-
ally fire escape SO that in case of
fire the people can get down on the
outside of the house. They all, a
dozen or more families 60 in and
come out at the same hole. When
couple wish to go to house-keep-
ing all they have to do is to rent
rooms in fiat according to their
necessities. There is no necessity
for their owning anything-the
owner of the fiat furnishes heating
and cooking apparatus, and charges
rent for it all, beds and everything,
and the folks in the fiat are lust as
snug as so many rats in their dens.
They look out of their windows on
the same streets, on the same back
yards, on the same elevated rail
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