Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-24
QUIET, BUT ATTRACTIVE.
A Good Word For the Quaint Old City On
 BrOtherly Love.
Especial Corrcspondcnce.l


 Brotherly Love.
 Especial Corrcspondcncel
 PHILADELrHIA, May q. Whoever comes to the widely extending City of Brotherly Love fresh from Chicago, New York or even Boston is surc to tc struck with the circumstancc that the facts and | the jokes as to Philadclphia's quictudc are in perfect harmony. This Is quiet town. | It lacks much of tho rush and roar and | rattle of other big cities and even of most | small ones. As for placidity and stcadi ness even Brooklyn is not ''in it. with tho | metropolis of Pennsylvania.
 But it would bo necessary To think twice | before giving it us OnOs judgment that | because this town is quirtrr than the | others named therefore it iS less desirable. | Certain it is that tho Philalclphian horr or dCnizcu of long standing iS most hC:.c:y, though never voCifCruus, in the view that Philadelphia is a plcasantrr and a better city to 1.-Two in than any other on the American rart of tho fnot>t'Nrl, and that It's very quiet k one of it's chief rtN'um mcndationS Certain it is. tuO. that. de spite the lack of nui>, and hustle, about as much business iS donC hcrr in proportion to tho population ns anywhere Cl.r; that tho people VNrvnd HS much fur ar,C>cmcutS as those of other towns. and t.:;t; in tho matter of CVrt.iality tn the strlnTCr they will average ur vvr's wiih the inhabitants of any city un,U.,r>. T. iS u,~r a surr thing that the inrr,yl: Cl quiet in philadrl- phia is acr1lnr2nicL by a dt'cr,vl>a in tho cost of liViu:;US compared with New York, Brooklyn, Boston anal prulGhly Chi,&z2O, though Gs to tho last nlnlcd 1 am not so Surr.
 House rcnt, food supplies of almost all sorts and many other things Gvo from 10 to 30 per cent lower than in New York or even its better suburbs, Food supplies arc lower than anywhere within 10 or h miles of New York city. though why this Is so l have never been able tO get a s,Itis factory explanation, and the cxpCnSls of a family in moderate circumstances here for the same grado of Hfc need not ho uurc than | two-thir,iS aS high as in tho metropolis of the Atlantic ct,ast. Perhaps tho difference | is even grcatcr than indicated by this state mcnt, while the family whose standard of living is of q higher grade can maintain it l for half or les. than half the amount rc- | quircd for the same standard in New York. 1 havc friend hero whose income is about | $l0, GOO 6 year, and he lives on a strCct l equal in all respects to Fifth avenue in 1 New York, cntcrtainS extensively, is ''in lLlt SNN SWIM III l. AiAN lANANN | and carriages, gNCS ahr,Nad every year and all that-and hr a> ;ur>S me that he is able to accomplish it al We'll within lis limit | of CXpcnditurc To q t!r samc thing in Now York would rcQuirc SD 00o q year at least.
 l hava another friend whose incntnc is less than S2. 00O a year. who has q growing family of Childr0n. who's" tastes aro rriin- cd. and who lNcS with Cxtrrmr comfort, rcally wan,ir.; for nothing. yet whU in the six or s,Nva years he has lNCn a T2Si- dent "f Philadelphia, has raiL all his bills promptly, got his children well StartCd on the road to rducItion and besides has rath- CT morc than half paid for snug and pleasing hCwr in town and not moro than 20 minutes ride from the place Of his Cm- pluymCnt in tho heart of tho city. Morc than that, his house k nut located upon a freshly oE rurd mud road, in n New ''divi- sion, but upon well paved, we'll water | cd, scwcr,d Str,ct, whcrr all tho COnVen- ienct~'' aro available and aVailrd of. If his location wcre Now York, and his in como the san 0, he would have been ohlig- cd to go miles out of town to acquire such a homo for himself and his family as he now has, and in order to buy 1t at all must have located at time distance from his office of at least an hour and bcen to dou- bio his prcScnt daily travelling expense, whilo his family and himself, even then. . must havo gone without many of tho little luxurics and comforts they havo enjoyed all thcsc years.
 Comparcd with tho strcCts of New York or Boston or ChicasO thnso Ot Philadcl , phia arc greatly to be preferred. They , arc cleaner and quieter. in the buSi 7 ness part of the place at least, and that i.
 because moro asphalt and less stone block | nax ia IaNi ASDhatr . drawback. It is 90 slippery that it is mucl , moro wearing on horsotlCsh, and anothel : of which not so much hNs been said-that being airtight, is has a bad effect upOI s | shade trees at the side, but 1t Is almoS I immeASurably oaSior to keep it clean anC much heavier lnads can be hauled over il q | than over stono, no matter how carefull! <. laid. Whether or no 1t will eventually b' ; | tho prevalent pavement, its extensive us
 in tho business streets of Philadelphia ha r added greatly to their attractivcneSS Ove n thosc of the other big towns of tho Cnite' t States
 n Compared with Chicago and New York d Philadelphia has almost TO high building Il aside from its city hall, now nearing com
 pletion after a scorc of years of moro or les }. steady work. So true is this that building y of six or seven stories seem lofty, and thos '. of eight or nine look almost Alpine, rising It as they do, from 10 to 50 feet above thCi Is neighbors. Tho city hall and one or two l r. and l2 story structures not very far iron le 1t remind tho visitor of towering Hima r. layan peaks in a maze of low foothills. ss The trolley system of Philadelphia
 puzzling to tho stranger but 50 aro th0s
 of most big towns. Quite AS novel as tn
 trolleys ara puzzlins a-o tho big two stor
 buses, with rnofCNl hurricane decks, reach IF ed by wlnG;n. stairwars. ThNse buse .l traverse sAno of tho cross strcots, and
 strikes tho transient oar most Stringel y when tho conductor of bus or car, rcin
 asked for what would olsOwhorC ho tNrInc
 "transfer" t0 the car or bus of some oti
 ar lima, explains that whas is wanted is
 "paSS," l. D. MARSHALL