Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-09
ROUND ABOUT NEW york.
RIppIes on the Current of Life In the
Metropolis

Metropolis.
The exodus OF summer recorders and vaca-
tioners from New York City last week sur
passed any similar rush in a generation.
Cold weather kept the tourist flock in town
until the end Of June. Then they started
with a rush that overwhelmed the trans
portation companies. The climax OF the
crush, with three holidays In sight, simply
swamped facilities for getting out Of town.
To the average New Yorker a change Of air
and scene Is a blessing. "Our climate Is
changing says a New York correspondent,
"and whether our gulf stream is responsible
or not a strange potency, called humidity,
dominates us three-fourths OF the summer
months. undertoning, undermining and re-
ducing the strongest to the condition Of the
weakest. We no longer have our old-time 6
o'clock sea breeze. and even at the great
resorts near by, when the wind comes from
the land rather than from the ocean, the
solidest flesh melts into discomfort and un-
b~earableness."
New York is a city OF contrasts. You
can leave the marble and stone palaces
Of Wall street and lower Broadway, where
millions are heaped upon millions, and in
a few minutes stand amid the squalid tene-
ments Of the lower East side. 1t is but a
step from the fashionable parade Of Fifth
avenue to the holy calm OF st. Patrick's
cathedral-one step over q Threshold and
the world is gone.
Street Cleaning Commissioner Woodbury.
OF New York City has discovered G way
Of saving money and has put his plan into
practice. For years It has been the custom
there to dump garbage and ashes into the
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sea at a cost of S65 per load. COMMISSIONS
Woodbury. separates garbage from ashes
and sells the latter for $40 per load to a
construction company, which manufactures
h~reproof materials. The saving promises
to be something handsome.
The rapid transit commission Of New
York City has granted the application Of
the New York and New Jersey railroad for
a franchise for a tunnel under the North
river. 1t is to be a two-track tunnel be-
tween Morton street, Manhattan and Jersey
City. The railroad company will pay somc-
thing less than SIS, 900 a year for the first
ten years, $25, 900 a year for the next fifteen
years and then the charges are to be re-
adjusted. The city reserves a lien upon
the franchise and real property Of the
company under the river and streets, in
order to secure the payment OF the charges.
There is a growing feeling among New
Workers that the big city is a good deal
better place to leave than to live in. The
evening flight from town has assumed pro-
portions so great that the transportation
companies have admitted their inability to
cope with II. A new city is growing around
the old-a new and beautiful one, lying
around 1t in a ring that some students of
urban civilization say will assume a dame
ter Of fifty miles before many years are
gone. In this new city there are neither
factories nor toll, noise nor dirt, traffic nor
smoke. One may drive for mile after mile
over asphalt and past lawns with pretty
villas standing in seclusion beyond them.
Yet with all this growth of suburban liv-
ing the demands for apartments in tow
are so insistent that rents climb up not
annually but monthly. 1t is impossible
now to live in New York in style for a
rental of less than $3.50 a month, or gener-
ously and we'll for a rental Of less than
$40 or at the least $50, or comfortably for
less than $50. Below $50 one must assume
all the chances Of field and flood that
threaten the nomad, including raids by the
police on ones ~neighbors.
Down at Battery park, a few steps west
Of the Aquarium. reports the World, is a
boat landing which, in the course of a day,
presents more human contrasts than any
other point along the entire water front.
Here, upon the little float against which
innumerable small boats touch and lie
throughout every moment of the day and
night. millionaires, society women, bum
boat women, sailors from clipper ship and
lumber or brick schooner, and boatmen Of
the harbor. with street boys and idlers,
gather and form a strangs and picturesque
medley Of races. classes and conditions.
This place, so adversely patronized, is the
newly completed public landing, the only
advantageous point in miles Of coast line
where he who Wills may run in his boat
and step upon the shore.
The work on this landing was begun If
teen months or more ago, and when sixty
feet more Of stone wall have been added,
the basin will have a b~reakwater measur-
ing 400 feet. The basin has an area Of 220
feet by 120 feet, affording accommodations
for a myriad Of little craft, and the depth
OF the water at high tide Is fifty feet.