Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-07-10
A rLaeon visitor in Now YORK..
New YORK., Jnne %, 1897 ,

Ollt has W 10 u W q VIZ eiAAS w
be impressed with the look out for
Yourself and the devil take the hind
most ideas prevailing; and no where
else is so we'll seen illustrations of the
survival of the fttest' theory. The
Greater New York, having absorbed
Brooklyn and many villages contiguous,
now embraces an immense municipal
ty of over three millions population, of
every grade of intelligence and wealth.
Here are found hundreds of thousands
of cases of densest ignorance and most
abject poverty, but i'll many instances
we find education, art, science and lit
erature, and abundant prosperity,
But it is the money question that is
Causing the unrest all over the country
the battle b tween labor and capital.
| sometimes think that if the views of
Bcllamy and Debbs were not SO palpably
Utopian, they would he entitled to some
consideration, But pardon this degrees
sion. | started to write about New
York and find myself switched OIL on
questions Of political economy and so
GEOLOGY, about which so many people
| differ, say much, and know but little.
Broadway is the great thoroughfare
of the city, butt not the broadcast street,
and runs diagonally from the Battery to
Central Park, and from there is known
as the Boulevard. Instead Of being of
asphalt it is paved with cobble stones.
On Fifth Avenue are seen more magn!ti-
cent residences and hotels than On any
either street or avenue. Near Central
Park are the Vanderbilt mansion and
Sloan and Aston houses, and in this
neighborhood are those palatial hotels,
the Netherlands, Savoy aud Plaza.
Fifth Avenue divides tne city into east
and west New York, and the houses are
numbered accordingly. So if yon wish
to send me the Beacon, address me at
No, SO, East II,
There are many places of interest here
that have to be seen to be appreciated
Central Park, with its beautiful drives,
fountains, statuary and flowers is the
| pride of the city. The visitor should
not leave the park without seeing ''Cle-
opatra $ Needle" (the Obelisk. 1t is
lbout seventy feet high, is covered with
hieroglyphics, and weighs two hundred
and twenty tons. For a further discrip.
ton and history Of this Obelisk, your
young readers are referred to some good
encyclopedia. On the east side OF the
park is the metropolitan museum of art,
filled with sculpture (many plaster casts
Of ancient sc%ulpture) paintings, both
modern and by the "old masters, ,
carved wood, glass, ancient pottery,
etc. The celebrated painting, the
Horse Fair, - by Rosa Bonheur, is
here. 1t was a gift to the museum from
Cornelius Vanderbilt and cost $50, 800.
This painting is about fifteen feet square
and on canvass. The Massacre of the
Mamelukes, Parable of the Wise and
Foolish Virgins, Crusaders before Jeru-
salem, Defense of Champigny, War
Episodes, on canvass are excellent.
There are also many beautiful paintings
on tapestry, and the lover of art could
lin ser in these gallerie. for hours. In
the gallery of statuary, The Fisher Boy,
The Fisher Girl, Babes in the Wood,
Cleopatra, Flower Girl, ThelBarber,
The Promised Land, Ariadne, Cain,
Flight from Pompeii. Flora, Eve Find
ing the Body of Abel, Sappho, 1t is Fin.
ished, California, aud Thief, (this last
subject from Dante's Inferno) are
among the productions in marble. If
were to attempt to describe some of the
beautiful decorative work on china, and
the exquisite silk embroidery l saw,
fear some of my lady friends would be
a little %incredulous, so | forbear.
The American Museum of Natural
History is on the west side Of the park,
and here the student OF natural history,
or ethnolosy ard geology might remain
days with profit. This collection i,
even more complete than that at Smith
sunian Institute at Washington. In the
department of geology and m~ineralogy
l,saw some beautiful specimens of blush
tinged malachites, azurites and stalac.
titles from a copper mine in Arizona
Here are beautifully shaped crystals o
quartz, gypsum and sulphur. / saw
block of rose garnet from Mexico, abou
two feet square, and in a case containin,
gems and precious stones are chalcedo
ny, amber, coral, topaz, amazon stone.
lapislazuli and other rich and rare spec
linens.
OF course l visited Grant s tomb, ant
Columbia University nearby, and Morn
ingside Park, all up near Harlem river
Grant Tomb is OH a high bluff wei
looking the Hudson and can be seen TO
about twenty miles up the river.
= The Custom House. U. S. Sub Treas
: ury, Cotton Exchange and many othe
' important buildings, are on Wall Street
The Sub Treasury is on the site Of tn
old Federal building where Washington
was inaugurated first president of tn,
! United States in 1889, and here is
! statue Of Washington. representing hin
taking the oath.
, took a run ever to Brooklyn acros
: Brooklyn bridge, visited Plymouth
church, and listened to a fine sermon
from DR.. Lyman Abbott; saw a statu
of Henry Ward Beecher erected by thos
who believed him innocent in the cele
brated Beecher -Tilton affair; wen
through Prospect Park, passed Green
wood cemetery, said to be the most beau
tiful in the country, and was drawn ir
resistably to Coney Island. My, My
. such a place. 1t was estimated tina
there were 200, 900 visitors on the beacl
That los, 80 all stnaap1oc to,~.. -.