The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-01
MARVELLOUS NEW YORK
MIR. CLARK WRITES OF THE
 METROPOLIS.
Startling in It's Size and Awe-Inspir- ing In It's Activity--It Can
 Never Be Clean or Fin fshed, He Says.

New York Special Correspondence. Oct. 30. Can one be justified in writ ing about New York City as If he were the first to discover 1t when so many thousands from every State in the Un- ion annually make pilgrimage to the place on business or pleasure bent? l am going to attempt 1t anyhow. if for no other reason, for the first time in this vast community. this moving. throbbing. swiftly pulsating life. pour ing along streets. through the air and under ground with q sense In some sort of comprehending 1t. Hitherto I have been awed, actually subjected by the mass, the bulk of the thing. l would go about timidly and hesitatingly. thanking God that l was not run over; it's immensity and variety that seemed as distant in my imagination as the moon taa9t
 Nevertheless the realization will come if time and curiosity, will suffice and I have had these during the past month in ample measure in spite of what might appear continued hurryinE to and fro. making speeches for the National ticket. When actually thus engaged was learning something of the city itself and daily adding to my stock of information. l have crossed the two rivers, North and East rivers. so often that I feel like a ferryman and these crossings have been made at all hours of the day and night. I have seen the place bathed in clear October morning light as a Sound boat churned it's way along the upper reache, of Harlem. down through Hell Gate, by Blackwelrs Island, under the stately Williamsburgh bridge. under past Brooklyn Itself, skirting around the battehy andfup the Hudson to the dock of the Norwich line. I have crossed from Jersey City when the whole downtown districts famed a mountain mass of lights and the black shadows that were cast by these lights gave to the tall buildings and appear anee of gigantic hillside overlooking the ocean and through the darkened foliage famed in serried ranks that marvel of the moredn world, electri- city. And later when the lights are dispersed to the four winds and quiet has settled down, marvel of marvels for New York, the very houses seem asleep"
 Then, too, I have been in the biz stores and the little ones. the big of fees and the little ones. with lawyers with editors, the big and little hotels and the big and little theatres; I have place, and at last am able to say to myself with some confidence, T know my New York;"
 Prof. James Boyce told at a dinner audience a few evenings ago that in his opinion this is the most wonderful city in the world or that ever was in the world. This was at dinner given by way of farewell to the Archbishop fieiently interested in the visit to this country of that eminent prelhte. to keep up with him as he was whisked about the North and East. must have been struck with his continued atti- tude of hands abaft in amazement at the mighty rush of things and of all this eagerness New York is the perfect flower.
 My own arst ohsar,,,tto, .,,,s T, that New York can never be finished and can never be clean. Compressed into the narrow area bounded by the Harlem, East and North Rivers, increas- ing millions must find here room, not necessarily to sleep, but room to do business. To get this room they must go further up in the air and deeper down in the ground. Where the walk ing delegate has not interfered building Is going on, on every hand, excava- tions are being made, streets are torn open and everywhere there is dirt and yet more dirt. Coming from Washing ton had of course high standard to apply, but l am not applying that standard; am merely saying how i'm possible 1t must always be for New York to be clean. Enterprises crowd upon the heels of other enterprises and dishevelled look of things is a dominant note in the metropolis. with It's new sky-scrapers, its newly rising big hotels, its suoways, It's new bridges, new tunnels and new railroad termi- nals
 Observation number two is the ap- palling political question of how to assimilate such mixed mass of races as is found here. This is l believe the first Irish city. the second Hebrew city. London surpassing 1t, the second Ger man city. the second Italian and the third French city. There are dozens of others like the Poles, the Russians and Hungarians. Greeks and Turks that have their colonies scattered about the place. Of all these have been most struck with the numbers of Italians, I knew generally that there had been an enormous increase in emigration from Italy to the United States; that the Italian Government was deeply in- terested in promoting this movement of population. I was not prepared to find so many thousands of them scat tered all through the North and East and of course New York itself attracts and holds an immense number The politicians are beginning to take hold of this vote and I notice on the East Side the names of many candidates for more or less important offices that by the ending, "i or "e" or "a," show their Lombard origin. In going to -sSB anpointments to speak common