Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-24
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The Ceaseless Ttde That Throngs Che
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 Before I tell how visitors come into and go out of New York, should make clear to the readers the size of the ma Sestic army of men, women, and chill dren that marches into the metropolis from our wharves and depots every day. Nowhere that have been able to think of looking or inquiring can I find any records or estimates that are 80 complete as to enable mo, or anyone, to say with any positiveness just what Is the extent of our floating population
 Fen years ago it had long been the cus- tom to say that of tourists, foreigners, shoppers, and wage-earners, something like 250, 900 souls came here every day. Perhaps that estimate was too high at that time: certainly 1t is too low now. We know that about lS0,000 persons cross the Brooklyn bridge every day, and that about 100, GOO railway passen- gers come and go over the tracks in the Pennsylvania and Grand Central depots. Cut these figures In half to represent the movement one way, and we have the sum of 1lS,000 daily visit prs by those three gates alone. We know that 500.000 passengers come, here each year on foreign steamers or 1, 400 dsy-but there are only 5000 foreign steamers as against 1, TOO do- mestic steamers, i4.000 sailing ships. 160 steam passenger-boats, and es ferry Itnes-the last bringing the wsge-earn- CTS who work in New York for the sup port of nearly 100000 persons living In the immediate suburbs of the city. Of all who come by these routes there Is no record whatsoever, and of eS rail- ways that empty their trade into this city, have mentioned only the busi- ness of those terminating at two depots .-the two very great depots
 As cities go. New York is au easy place to gee into and oue of It is long and narrow, and has only few main avenuea, side by side, leading from where the ocean steamers and most of tho ferries come In, to the northern ends where the island Is joined to the mainland { dozen grea& avenues cunning lengkhwtse slong the island, end another dozep side streets leading to ferries, are ali the streets that a eeEangex Is likely to concern himself eyasa. Along fopx od the lenEthwtse Svepues 'win the knes oz Che elevated steam yafiwaY, wbioh ts so buils as to connect with ell these two dozen ngtn- eipal streets. t does the greatest business o1 any ratiway in the world. It hos casried more than 800, 600 pas. eengers in 6 day, and annually trans ports about 300, COX, 900 souta This eie. vabed raiiway. built upon tall iron stdlta in the principal streets, In great part talses tha place that ts occupied by cabs in most o9 the other capitals of the world. Our strangers, who would call cab at home and have 1t carry their trnnks and themselves from depot to hotel. or vice versa, simply give eheir baggage to Q transfer express company, and themselves take e4he elevated" or the horse cars that run under 1t on the same avenues A great deal of fault is found with New York because its cab service is poor and ex- pensive. but the reason fog this Is that the city Is 30 easy to understood and so we'll supplied with street aklways that only a few rich strangers and & Jew rich residents-not enough, aito- gether, to pay foY fine cab system feel the want Of those exclusive con- veyances without which strangers would be absolutely at sea tu London, Paris or Berlin.-Julian Ralph, in HarpeFiH Young peoDle