The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-08-12
The Worlds University-Thc
BOwery-The Meadow Brook
Farm-Thc Brooklyn.
WHERE COM. sCHLEY STOOD
Wall Street = Stock Exchange
Quick Meals-Trinity Church
-Battery-Coney Island.

We passed out of Prospect park
through Memorial Arch, the plaza
entrance. This is said to exceed in
grandeur and measurement the
triumphal arches of the Romans.
From the park we passed over to
the NewYorkside to see the Bowery
by night, for like animals of prey,
the Bowery is seen at its best&or
worst-by night.
We had to change cars on the
New York side Of Brooklyn Bridge,
and there under its approaches,
which cover several blocks, we were
caught in a seething whirlpool Of
humanity. So many street car lines
meet there and suffer u constant
congestion of street cars, loading
and unloading human beings; the
while unaccountable streams of peo-
pie meet and collide, and pass and
+, disperse again to the ends OF the
earth, that it becomes the world 5
university to teach mortalS the
necessity of knowing their own
business. The slightest hesitation
/ or indecison brings immediate dan
! ger OF being crushed. and OF receiv-
ing lotG voileys of ridicule aud per
haps abuse. Ii one stands still he
/ must be rigid rs a sentinel, and if
in motion must 90 soul and body for
( the point ot his choice. What su-
preme irony there is in calling that
devil 5 lane running from Chatham
p. Square to the junction of Third and
Fourth avenu The Bowery. "
4. Think OF going there TO find rural
scenes OF purity and quiet, and
< trees. The uninltiated would feel
themselves the only green things
! there. immortality has its coarse5t
forms OF temptation in the Bowcry,
SO that it is not dangerously az
I tractlve to conno,Sseurs in wicked
ness. But to the unthinking, or
1 reckless, or to NnOSe at last forced
60 feed upon the husGs of prodigali-
ty, or to the unWary youth coming
+ from some pure. but artleSS home,
and lacking Il triilein firm character
there are bawdy enticrmeuts at
every step OF strong allurement.
/ Everything here speaks OF wanton-
ness or degradation. AS to busi-
ness, it is OF the cheap store variety,
with stu1 piled on. the sidewalk so
a. to stop one where the eye will
catch open doors OF concert and beer
saloons These business blocks
never rear themselves to lofty
stories, but are mere rows Of low
three or four story buildings. Fruit
and peanut and soda water stands
stand where they, too, will stop
one, and before passage is resumed
u free or l0-cent variety theatre will
catch one ) eye and there will be that
in the wide doorway TO cause another
look, If only an adverted one. Four
lines of street cars aud elevated
roads above them keep up u din
that browns voices and speech, much
OF which possibly otherwise would
not be allowed. One meets gaudy
dress and big paste diamonds, and
wan children and faded women. and
weakened men. We saw a party of
men and women under the protec-
tion of a policeman, who, like US,
were viewing the sights, but by at
tending strictly to our own affairs
! and conhning our conversation to
ourselves, we were in no way inter
fered with from beginning TO the
end Of our tramp.
AS my wife's brother insisted up
! on entertaining me, we went to my
hotel for my luggage, and then made
for his rooms in Brooklyn, retiring
according to true urban style, late
] in the night. The rootlets of morn
ing spread themselves quickly over
the surface OF the evening Rapidly
grew the Eastern day, and late
breakfast caught us early. My rela-
i've boards in a private home in
company with other professional
people in active life. 1t sa Meadow
Brook farm community with it's
sparkle and wit, and without its
farm adjuncts. Here | was favored
with introductions aud through these
people ! caught ghmpses of social
life in great city, impossible to
obtain in a hotel. One day an ar
gument sprang up at table as to an
nexing all of New Jersey in lump
to Greater New York, but lady
settled it by saying mo, we III never
do that, for then we could do moth
ing whatever with Jersey
'skeeters.
| Saturday being the day off with