Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-15
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
New York The Head, Heart aud Lungs
Of The Nation.
STARVING pEoPLE-sOUP HOUSES.
Expensive snow storms - JUbb ry-
A Great hog Sllow-pups u sub
SIT ue for Chi drep, etc.


INV hOkSi RpIll lZ.-Nesrly All
Of the great cities OF the United States
have eome special characteristics that
commend them to the attention OF the
vlsitof; tut to my mind only one city
produces dszed, lost-in.t hc-woods.
aweslfuck sensation, and that city Ia
New York. San Francisco has Its
Chinntowu; st. Louis its breweries;
Chicago It's high buildings ana west
ern dash; Cincinnati has Its colleges
and oonservatoriet; Pittsburg It's faoto-
rIet; Philadelphia lite churches aud
"Brotnerly love-" but New York has
nil Of these and 70 many independent
features of her own that she easily
becomes the head, heart and lungs of
the nation. New York smiles at her
woulJ-be rival cities ami says: "If you
want Chinatowp, what's the matter
with Mott street; II you banker after
breweries, Just tell them that you saw
me.' Does your eye long for skys-
| oTaprr.? What's the matter with st.
Paul anu Manhattan buildings? Do
your sons and daughters want colleges
and conservatoriei2 Why educational
| institutions grow here like sugar
| cane in LouislRnu; do you want
| religion? We have Grace church,
| st. PsIick'A Cathedral anu Ly-
man Abbott AMI his JONAH;
and as Tor brotherly love, 1t oozes righl
out OF every New YOrker's big heart.
| II just needs u little pressure. Popu-
latiou, did you ssy2 Why. what's the
mater with tnese million.?"
Winter has sat III revoir"t to New
| York at last, and the city has been
enjoying more than her usual share OF
| sunshine anu warmth Tor tbis season
OF the year. And It makes the author.
tiles smile, for you must knaw that
every time euuw flies in New York II
costs the mu iclpsIity In the neigh
borhood VI 100000. On tue main
thoroughtaTes the snow, as 1t falls, 10
scrspeu up and carteu oil. To do this
requires a great iorce OF meu, but AZ \
rue they can easily Ds secured. Think
OF the unemI Logged there must
hours hotice rs. 900 mon can
be- hired. During he last snow storm
that number vi men were put on the
streets anu as many more sought em.
pioyment. This shows the condition
of the masses In New York CITY.
|
the municipality 1t 10 q GoI-sebd to
the poor unemployed, for II means 10
him n few more meals farther away
from starvation. They have queer
machine for disposing OF "the Deau-
tiful." 1t is large oaldron on four
wheels, uIRwn by q span OF horses. A
red-hot fire Is Kept blazing unuer 1t
anu as 1t Is pulled along the snow.
covered thoroughfsres the snow Ia
shoveled into the hot pot anu thus
melted II runs ~ stream into the
gutter.
In most of the cases, how ever, the
snow Ia hauled away in wagons. II 10
said that good deal Of jobbery Is done
in this snow scrsping business. One
story 10 too good to pass: A driver OF .
wagon VINO received a stated sum for
each load Of SHOW hauled away, kept
driving the same load around the block
all one day anu received credit for
new load every time he passed the
checker. He managed to haul forty
loads that day but only unloRded once.
All the same, the streets are kept In
splendid shape, AMI are in marked
contrast with their condition ave or
six years ago,
The street swe.p..s OF New York
are dressed in pure white; that 10, they
bsgin in the morning with pure Whit,
but transformation usually takes
place before night, especially OF Il ~ a
rainy DAY. 1 was amused at this cos.
tune when nrst saw It and wondered
at the lack OF taste OF the New York
uaddies In establishing such . rule;
cut 1 secretly npologlzsd for the
thought when learned that tho pur-
pose OF the costume was to reduce the
danger OF being run over by the never
ending stream Of vehicles. The white
suit stands out in tuoh contrast win
tue dark street that urivers can see the
sweeper better than II he were clothed
In black. and thus avoid running over
, MIN. l opine that "New York
taste" Is all right alter all.
was mucn b.4. used to meet In
New YORK recently our old friend
James A. Mack night, ex-consui OF
! 81. Helena, and Utah BOY. He Is
the came good looking ~ m'' OF old
and Is now engaged on the New Y rk
Journal. He took us down to the
Journal soup houses to rec the poor
led, anu 1t wRss sight. The Journal
hau five distribution houses scattered
throughout the poor sections OF tho
, city, where provisions and clothing
were given to 5000 people daily,
|
wan OF face, were crowdIpg up to the
counter for ratioGs, and one had only
to Look Into their sad eyes and thin
pInchod faces TO be satisfied that they
needed help. Some Of the New York
papers made war on the journal tor
establishing these relief houses, but
! there Is no doubt that many people
were saved by 1t from actual staIvA-
ton. Each applicant was given q
bucket OF soup, some meat. beanE,
coffee, bread and come clothing. /
tasteu the soup anu found It to be
pslatabie and OF good quality.
There 10 quite - colony OF Salt
, LskeIs IN New YORK. Viola Pratt
4 Gillette IL living nspIily On SO h
street pursuing her musical work, anu
her grand voice seems 10 improve
Z with every sfason. Mrs. and Mrs,
I Gislettt's hospitality TO their u ali
I itIeuus Is unbounueu and their latch
, strings 10 always out....... Professor o nd
J. Mis-. kIouse are also hsre--ths profess