New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-02
THE PASSING THRONG-

Robert Bridges. of Boston. yesterday at the Hotel
Manhattan told of experience ne had once m
the Great Salt Lake OF Utah 1T
SWIMMING was staying at Salt Lake CITY WITH
IN GREAT some friends" said Mr. Bridges
SALT LAKE. ''and day they invited me 10 so
out Garfield Beach for swim
After checking our vaIuables and donnIng our bath
ing clothes we assembled In the Pavilion and mada
our way TO the water Up and down the sides OF
the inclosed space were runways leading to the
water and at each card showing the depth
of the water at that particular point What depth
will you go fnto?' asked my friend, and being a
six footer and gullIon also. as II turned out
chose five and a half feet and turned on at that
passage. At the end Of the runway steps lead down
into the water. and when was IN waist deep
started or with vigorous strokes intending TO swim
up and join my friends. Never was man treated
to greater surprise. I lay on top OF the water
and as could get neither feet hands down Z
was with great difficulty that I made even the few
TO rejoin party. only TO be greeted with dersivs
It is great Fun, though for you can lie on YOUR
4a 1 ba anS OF Ies s4baGan as as % IN
way 10 propel yourself is 10 lie on your back and
swimming fails We Waded out and found that az az
about four and half 20 five feet We could not
keep feet down.
The changes of New-York since its early set
Element by the Dutch" said HartweIl Banks yes
terday. at Demonico's have
THE been constant. AS look back on
CHANGES OF the changes that have occurred
MANHATTAN. in my time do not wonder az
the plant OF the foreigners that
have homes in their OF the word
where generations and go. but the home re-
mains the same. In this city the entire physical
aspect has changed since I a young man. OF
course. many landmarks remain, and here and
there you will find spot upon which the desc
Grating hand of improvement has yet laid
an irreverent finger Stuyvesant Square an IN
stance. Its aspect Is much the same when II
was the centre OF fashionable life, but the houses
now are Inhabited by lodging house mistresses or
used for hospitals and similar institutions. and
longer open wide their doors TO the guests who
enjoyed the hospitality OF the former owners. But
Stuyvesant Square is out OF the way. and
If IN +Sa streafs rod bv ths Haodsrn Te1 YdPPk9
the houses OF recent build and the same Is
tan spre Of Trinity is overtopped By many an adj
Wa sTee ths aRe the OF e 59n %
IS many stories more than II was az the time OF
asked Heaven only knows S The Borough Of Man
haitian is an island D, the ,, length End breadth OF
ton for expansion seems left to II. and that di-
From the time when the wall OF the little settle
ment marked it's inland limit-the wall that gave
it's to the present money
NO MORE centre-the city has been
ROOM FOR changing Cornelius Wander
HOMES. bilt lived originally in OF tho
houses fronting Bowling Green
where the Custom House Will stand. Later Com
modore Vanderbilt moved 70 the apparent north
limit of the growing city. and built the house
at Forteth-st. and Fifth-ave, which his
Frederick still occupies. His William H.
went still further afed. and built at FIJI
tieth-st. and F1fth-ave-. and the homes OF mis-
sons and daughters grouped thickly around him
that the name of Vanderbiltville has been given
that part of the city. The next head OF the family
enlarged the home he had already built and Fifty
eighth-st. his northern boundary line. To-day
the fashionable homes of the city stretch full
miles beyond Cornelius the seconds house. and
while his home is still in the centre OF fashion no
millionaire to-day, in view of the history of the
past, would dream of building so far downtown as
Fffty-nnth-st. Yet Commodore Vanderbilt is a liv-
ing memory in the city and men who are long
years this side of the grave remember his rise from
obScurity TO wealth IL is wonder foreigner
feels that we lack tradition and that restlessuesS
is main characteristic 1t may be that another
century will find some now unoccupied stretch OF
farm land in Westchester County the great home
section of the city, while the island OF Manhattan
will wholly given to the needs OF business