Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-10-19
ON TINE WAY TO SOUTH AMERICA.
A Letter from Rev. Dr.. Spangler, Who mas
Reached New York en- Route to South
America.

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America.
Editor LYox County TINES: = Well,
Yerington, it Is the most important
city in North America. Yerington
is noted for it's dust; New York for
it's gold. Yerington has its Gala
ghers and its Reymers; New York
has it's Carnegie, its Morgan, and it's
Vanderbilts. But Yerington is
heavenly place of quietude; while
this great metropolis is ear-splitting
and hair-raising with noises. We
are in the Grand Union Hotel, called
a quiet place, but the elevated rail-
way passes our window; the electric
railway is on two sides of us, and
all about us, on nearly every street
and avenue, there is blasting for the
underground railway; and the noise
and the traffic is the same during
| the whole twenty-tour hours OF the
day. Twenty-Five miles of ride
on any of the lines in the city for
five cents And such hustle
and hustle and hurry and scurry
in all of the streets, one wit
nesses no where else in the world.
London and Paris are tame in COM
parison. The Londoners are slow
and conservative; the Parisians are
easy-going and lazy; but New York
is always on the run and jump. The
people apparently never stop to
breathe, nor to sleep, nor to eat.
Just around the corner from
where we take our meals there are
number of restaurants open day
and night for three hundred and
sixty-fve days in the year. A
small restaurant, eighty feet long
and thirty feet wide, Is feeding
1880 men and women every day, at
meal, and the proprietor is clearing
not less than $4,000 a year. The
place to make fortunes is where
there are people.
But, thank fortune, physically
speaking, New York is clean city.
Chicago beats the world for dirt. 1t
is dirtier than Milan, Italy. 1t is
actually dirtier than Piute Indian
camp. We stopped at the Great
Northern Hotel, frst-class place,
| but the burning of soft coal in so
many factories and railways, and in
so many thousands of houses, gives
the city a haze of fine SCOT in the
atmosphere that penetrates every
where and everything. The carpets
in the rooms we occupied were
grimed with blackness to such
degree that white skirts and night
gowns, and bare pink feet were all
soiled, and looked bedraggled and
black. Even the blankets on our
beds were gray with SCOT, and sheets
and pillow-slips were soon soiled.
But New York is dirty morally
so it is said. But, Notwithstanding
Tammany, one is impressed with
the fact that good government is
everywhere visible. l have travelled
the length and breadth of the place;
l have spent day in Central Park;
l have been on exchange, and have
been among the shipping, and have
seen no disorder and beheld only one
person under the influence of liquor.
That is pretty good for Tammany-
ruled New York. And when An
drew Carnegie wrote that New
York is the best governed city in
the world he did not have to wink
at the wickedness of Tammany, tor
what he said is everywhere appar-
ent.
Still there is no doubt about the
unseen undercurrent of wickedness.
| One needs to go into the tens of
thousands of licensed dens of vice
and crime to behold it. He needs to
go after dark, with a paid police
man to protect him--a policeman
whom he has secured by influence
at police headquarters, and to whom
he gives good round fee to let him
zee hell and all of the blackness and
darkness of the bottomless pit of
iniquity; and then he will know why
the people are fighting Croker and
his following.
! We are booked to sail next Wed
nesday, the 10th of the month, by
the way of Kurope.
With much love for all in Yering-
ton. j. NJ. SPASGLxR.