New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-27
.Nese,- York Is Not PufJed Vp.
Though the New-Englander Often Comes and Ere
quently Remains.

The New Highlander has come to town. This
Is not, one might say a remarkable, nor is it
likely to be considered particular fact. AS to
whether he has ever come to town before there
is here no immediate concern. The unruf1led sta
blty Of the city's days is not always sensitive to
impressions of the extraneous. that the
strident Down East jeremiad may have received
only that degree of inattenton for the continued
enjoyment Of which it is probably destined. The
economist will have it that the New Engander's
arrival was preordaned with the extension of
machinery to his manufactures-tha when he
had abandoned his last and left his small shop
he not long in requiring small branch
office; that this in turn developed at too great
q pace for the original centre the chips grew as
the old block dwindled, the ganglon of the bust
ness system became the brain, and New Eng
lands administration of its industrial life
lodged in Manhattan. Then. as the accom-
InOdatng muses. nowadays trail round after
Hermes, the prophet seer and paragrapher fol-
bowed the western track of the less homebiding
merchant The economist hardly to be taken
with a grain Of salt because of his native dry
ness, need not, however, be followed into the
devious ways of controversial theory. Suffice il
that the New -Englander is here and lamentinS.
The saucy little playfelOw has wandered on
to the island. in his eyes a frank look of
&bashed disgust. and in his hands long string
tied to his Lynn and Lowell iron toys, impu-
IDENTIFY hurting out the opinion that this is no
place TO play. The philosophic suggestion that in
such case he return home is dsregarded. His
New-York vs-a-vs is feasting on cake, a share
of which the newcomer expresses his Willingness
to make free with. The cake he secures usually,
unless by some unlucky chance it should happen
to be fried, of a dark ominous brown and holed
like Chinese coin. Nothing will do, then, but
he must maintain an obscure thesis as to the
distinctive natures Of the cruer and the dough-
nut, though he spill his own blood in the at
tempt. Ordinarily, however, it is possible to
accord him equitable and friendly share of
cake peacably: and there is the promise of
pleasant afternoon of cOmradeship until sud
denly he sits down, munching, makes intermit-
tenuy wry face. and declares with scorn that
such cooks as the city boasts would not be al
lowed in his home to chop wood
- Perhaps it would be presumptuous and diff
cult TO attempt a full explanation of Just what
ails the NeW-Englander One trouble though
It requires no great holiness insight to dis
cover. He can't the wood for the trees
Take him at home, take him in Boston say
and he is quick to distinguish the foreign ele-
ments. that go to swell large city, from the
native forces that made it and that continue
its character. Set him down here and every
immigrant, every visiting Hoosier ranchman
mine superintendent and travelling salesman
every stTeetcar conductor is rallied at as a New
Yorker. The nuts are all shells to him. And
there is nothing to enforce his mistake against
him He misses the historical tablet at every
corner of the street. he hears 10 paans in con-
Versation. he is like a man inside pyramid
looking for a monument to the Pharaohs Bos-
ton has a record to be proud Of and is proud of
it; New-York has a record to be proud of. and
would no more think of referring to it than the
head of a reigning house would fall to pratng
OF his descent If the liberty with the unmatch-
able text be pardoned. New-York is not puffed