Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08
uee-sLoop OF A GREAT CITY

Before | tell how visitors come int
and go out Of New York, | should MAKE
clear TO the reader the size of the ma
leslie army OF men. women and children
/ that marches into the metropolis iron
our wharves aud depots every day. No
| where that have been able To think o
I looking or inquiring can | find any rec
I ords or estimates that are so complete
I as 10 enable me. or any one, To say Will
any positiveness just what Ia the extent
/ OF our tloatiny population. Ten years
ago IL had long been the custom to ss,
that of tourists, foreigners, shoppers
/ and wage-esrners, something like 2oo'-
600 souls came here every day. Perhaps
that estimate was too high at that time
certainly IL IL too low now. We know
that about 10000 persons cross th'
BROOKLYN Bridge every day, and thai
about 100. 900 railway passengers come
I and 90 over the tracks In the Pennsyl
vania aud Grand Central depots. CUT
those figures IN half to represent TN
movement one WAY, and We have th'
sum OF 49, 900 daily visitors by those
three gates alone. We know that 5oo,'
0DO messengers come here each year OF
foreign steamers-or 400 day-bui
there are only 5000 foreign steamers ~
against 100 domestic steamers, ll,VV
s,iling ships, $50 steam psssenger-bosts
and 2S ferry lines--the last bringing the
wage-earners who work In New York
for the support Of nearly 2.W0,Ooo per-
sons living in the immediate suburbs ol
the city. or all who come by these
routes there is no record whatsoever
and Of the q railways that empty theil
trade into this CITY, | have mentioned
only the business OF those terminating al
two depots-ihe two very great depots
As cities go, New York Is an easy
place to get into and out OF. IL Is long
and narrow, and has only few mair
avenues. side bv side, leading from
where the ocean steamers aud most ol
the ferries come In, To the northern end
where the island is joined TO the main
land. A dozen great avenues running
lengthwise along the island, and another
dozen side streets leading To ferries, are
all the streets that a stranger Is likely "a
concern himself with. Along four OF
the lengthwise avenues run the lines ol
the elevated steam railway, which IL 80
built as To connect with all these two
dozen principal streets. IL does the
greatest business OF any railway
in the world. IL has carried more
than 500 900 passengers in day. and
annually transports about 100000, ,OOl
souls. This railway built upon tai
iron stilts In the principal streets, In
great part takes the place that Is occu'
pied by cabs 10 most OF the other caph
tails of the world. Our strangers. who
would call cab at home and have u
carry their trunks aud themselves from
depot 10 hotel, or rice rersd, simply give
their baggage 10 transfer express
company, aud themselves take "ths
elevated or the horse cars that run un-
der it on the same avenues. A great
deal OF fault Is found with New fors
because lis cab service Is poor aud ex'
pensive. but the reason for this Is that
the city l. so easy 10 understand and 50
well supplied with street railways that
only few rich strangers and few ric'
residents-not enough, altogether, tc
psv for a fine cab system-feel the want
of those exclusive copveyances without
which strangers would be absolutely al
sea in London, Paris, or Berlin.-Har'
per's Young People.