The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-02-07
IN new YORK.
GRUESOME CONTRASTS OF A
GREAT CITY.

seen From a Studio window Bride
and Beggar- Gentleman and Rag
suan-Downy Nest Baby and Shiver-
Eng Boy-Happy Father and Belle
vue ratient--A CHASTITY Funeral
Rector and Organ Grinder Exchange
Responses-The "Four Hundred" In
Arms-O the Mockery of it-This
Awful PIutocracy.
Special Correspondence NewsDemocrat.
NEW YORK, Feb. /, 1895.
As look from my studio window the whole
problem of life in all Of its vicissitudes, stares
me in the face. 1t is all there, joy, sorrow,
poverty, wealth, disappointment, sickness,
marriage, birth, death.
NV immediate view only commands one
block, lined on either side with tall apartment
houses, of tiresome red brick, and yet it is a
little world I'm itself
Immediately across the way carriage is Just
starting with happy wedding party to the
church, the handsome gown of the bride and
the whole atmosphere of wealth ana luxury
about her forming vivid contrast with the
dirty, ugly, haggard and annoying old woman
who is picking up pieces OF bread ana scraps
from the garbage barrels and who stops long
enough 10 hold out her withercd old hand to
the bride, who brushes quickly past her.
In front of another apartment house hand
some set of furniture is arruycd on the side
walk and a moving van, bearing the inscrp'
lion Fourth Ave. Furniture House Install
ment Plan" tells Of the failure of some disap'
pointed family to meet the regular payments.
4 little further down, a rag wagon ana
gentleman's coupe wait side by side, and as
the gentleman gives the cOachman his orders
the ragman calls loud aud long what sounds
like baked apples, but what really Is rags
and-bOttles."
Two baby carriages pass on the other side OF
she street. One is elegantly carved and mount
ed with dOwny blankets and imported iurs,
covering puny Over-dressed baby, and push.
ed by pretty nurse maid with dainty cap ana
apron: the other is little dilapidated, old.
fashioned wicker wagon, with low wheels,
containing somebody's washing covered with
"a coarse sheet, and pushed by the washer
woman's little boy, his poor, chapped bare
hands blue with cold.
Achristening party leaving another house, the
nurse carrying a bundle that must be an infant
a day or two old, the young father watching
her and evidently giving advice about what he
knows absolutely nothing. But he is at peace
with the whole world and shows his
universal good feeling by stopping to give a
nickle 10 an organ grinder who is playing
After the BALI at furious tempo on very
cracked organ.
A covered ambulance from Bellevue hos.
pital waits at the house below, and four police
men carry a sick man carefully and gently
down the stone steps and place him in the
wagon. They cover him with blankets, the
surgeon mounts the box behind, the curtains
are lowered and they drive rapidly over the
stony street.
4 GHAsTLY FUNERAL.
In front of our own apartment house stands
Il hearse. Is any one dead | asked. Nobody
knows. ] asked the janitOr, Yes, man has
been dead for two days in the flat below us.
Dead-and in an apartment house, | have
always thought of people living living living
in New York; but dying-strange that ! never
thought of il before.
Dead and in our own house with only the
floors between us,
There were no cmblems Of mourning any
place; there was not even quiet in the house.
Pianos were going, people were
singing, and some one was playing gavottc
ON the violin. Girls" | said, some one is
dead in the fiat below, we must stop practic-
ing we must be human"
We stood in group half frightened. If we
had only known of his death, how glad we
would have been to have given up our music
To- have shown some consideration, some re-
spect. 1t was monstrous.
OF course / must go to the funeral O, of
course: like Dickens Lone Pinch" | always
have to do the things that nobody else wants
10 do.