The Newtown bee., 1899-11-03
TOWN ToPICs.
New Y ork Letter.

N6W \ OTK L6UL0r.
 REV OTIS ". BARKER WRITES SOME
 THINGS ABOUT GREATER NEW YORK
 IT Is ONLY THE GLoBE-TRoTTRR WHO
 WINS THE GLoRY.-s THE WORLD DO
 MovE," AND THE CITY HEADS THE WAY
 FOR THE WORLD THE TROLLEY AS A
 MAN sLAYER.--UP FIFTH AVENUE ;
 HAVE WE REACHED THE END ?--NoTED
 PREACHERS THE SOUND IN THE TOP
 oFsTHE MULBERRY TREES.
 When one joins the noble army of gl be-Grotters and becomes & passenger on the belt line around the world, any word that he may send home ia snasched up and eagerly scanned, and in the eyes of the chronic stay-at-homes upon his return to his native heather he passes into something little short of 8 hero. This is not as much so now as it used to be when the days Of he rst less carriage and wireless telegraphy were as yet dim prophecy of the vague Mother Shfpton type. and Jules Verne wrote about going around the world in 80 days, but nobody aver thought that the thing would actu- ally be done. For Eedate country min- ister to step out the quiet of his bailiwiek. strut about the streets of Greater New York and then write back to his local paper sketch of what he has seen, admit that this is not going to turn the world upside down. Yet just glance at some things in noisy Got ham may per- chance interest the readers of THE NEW TOWN BEE as much as the startling an- nouncement that Neighbor Jones has painted his front fence or that Dea Brown has lost 8 fine cow, though, be- lieve, that the usually G lm editor stern ly resents the insinuation that such items eyer appear in his sheet. ,
 Do you suppose that city people know all that there Is of into rest in their city !? Vel, Iguess not. Hh8ve y0a been to the Me- ropolitan Museum of Art ?" asked tho other, dsy, of lady who lived almost under the shadow of Trtnity's spire in the time when trip from the Hill in Brooklyn to tue Grand Central Depot in New York meant more than 8 Sabbath days ] ,urnsv. "No." she quickly replied, Hbut I intend to go." Friends in the country. if you wish to render real service to your city rela- tives, jest come down and make them 8 visit of several months in the winter. Close up the country esta bliehment for a while. You will save lots of coal in that
 
 will feel compelled to take you about and show you the sights. It is the only way that your city relatives will ever zee them. read of man some time ago who lived for six Yesrs within two blocks of the great Brot klyn and New York Bridge, but had sver been acr oss 1t. A maiden aur t came from the coun- try. and he went over to the Grand Gen. tra1 Depot to meet her. In this way, he crossed the bridge. Did not the maiden aunt do her city relative real service And this is not an exaggerated case, either.
 What is the thing that strikes the rus- tic when he comes to town? Thie, that the city is always on the move. l do not mean by this that the city people are always patron1zing the moving van, though this is largely true; the principal decorations of the fronts of the long rows of the flats is the sign, "FCr Rent" mean that the city does not stand still ; improvement steps on the heel of i'm proyement, and the march of progress is procession that never dlsbands. [ often wonder when this vast multitude saw the automobile for the first time, or first looked upon the electric motor. and how many times they have had to look before the thing, which was nine days wonder, has become a mere everyday concern. Of course they mark you al once for hayseed when vou just stop right still and stare, but what's fellow going to do? Tbere must be 8 first some time, and he might as well acknowledge the region from which he halls.
 This great interlacing system of trolley lines is new to most of us country folk md one thing, surmise, is going to be new about the system for some time te come, and that is, new accident every day. I mean 8 new kind of accident, fol the trolley seems to be infinite ly ingen ious in the new ways 1t devises fol slaughtering it's victime. Six persons,
 believe they say, every day are killed or the trolley cars running in Greater New York. Deaths by the trolley are so com men now that you look for them in th' <.Iorning paper the same as you do fo | the forecast of the weather. A horrible accident occurred last week on the Myr tie Avenue line near the Bridge Stree station in Brooklyn. It was during thu rush hour Of mo rnipg travel. An cleo tric motor was disabled few block from the big Bridge. Trains were stalle | on the downtown track reaching mile \ up in to the city. Some passengers walt ! ing on train near the Bridge Street sta tion became impatient and thought the l would walk to the station platform slon
 the narrow footing. Minutes, you Enow here are dollars with some men, and the do not like to have railroad delay stei their time. Some succeeded in reachin the plstfCrm. This embo ldened othel to follow. Just then the train moved A boy climbed up on the car as 1t passe him. He could not open the gate. Il
 protruding body swept those on the foo
 way down into the street below. 1t WI & cruel fall. Two soon died of their | iurieg, O.e woman, who witnessed tl ] injured placed in the ambulancesi and u lpool of blood on the walk, received sut 8 shock that she died in an hour. Pe haps you Lave read Il about this in tl New York papers; perhaps you have ne Such things sometimes get husned up
 the railroad operations, but enough
 them get into the fu' light to show tn quick transportation in these days costing fearful price. A very GIG friend of mlne was killed by the trt He, s few weeks ago. The circumstances we
 peculiarly distressing. The wife l S3OOO from the company; but to recei
 pay for the life of one who was me
 pressibly dear seems keen satire int
 sified in the highest degree.
 \ The Metropolitan Museum or Art II great place. It is worth 8 visit, was
 going to write? It is worth hundi N visits, and then it's treasures Temain N IinexhaustibIe mine. That was pub
 spirit and noble benefaction indeed 'r Mrs Catherine Wolf and others of VI .a wealth to give their magnificent coll <. tions of paintings and curios to he r. petual feast of delight to the peoI
 This institution is certainly one of 1a things that put the advantages or
 city in be Id relief against it's dark Da
 ground Of sin. l could not help
 taink, as I ssroIled throu2h the galiel la of this great building last Saturday, [
 ! if we who live in the country could ' tithe of such treasures of art t0
 once in while, 1t would take away