Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25

To get to Long Island you cross two bridges
| that are not duplicated elsewhere, the
Brooklyn and the Williamsburg. Then
| think of my countless amazingly stupen-
| dous industries my scores of Well-knoWn
| charitable institutions, my cosmopolitan
East Slde and my many other noted fea-
lures of which you have heard for a score
of years or more. surely l am, mdeed'
ern hemisphere-in fact, as well as in
name
So far SO good But New York, in her
vanity and in her haste to be up and DOING
overlooks completely the exceedingly obvi-
Gus fact that while part OF her Is the
metropolis of the United States, another far
from inconsderable part of her Is nothing
more or less than village. And, strange
as 1t may seem to the average New Yorker
and to many an outsider who has come to
look upon the city as made up solely OF
wonders, the metropolitan part of the city
and the village part lie side by side and
present contrasts as violent as any that can
be founr, even in Constantinople, the city
of violent contrasts.
Nowhere are these contrasts more marked
than in that section of New York which Is
popuIarly supposed to be given over to sky
scrapers and which by common consent is
recognized as the most metropolitan-the
Wall street district.
Along Park Row.
At the very head of Wall street itself
stands a church in every physical respect
representative of the old world village
| house of worship. 1t is famous Trinity
| and round about it is Gods acre of the
sort that poets were wont to wander in and
| write about A few blocks away, but still
within shouting distance of Wall street, is
| Fraunce's Tavern, where Washington stop
| ped, and where he would feel at home to-
| day were it possible for him to return to
| this ancient hosiery, so unchanged Is 1t.
| On one side of this quaint village inn rows
| of skyscrapers shut out the sunlight from
| the streets they boruer; on the other Side,
| toward the East river, the narrow, Wlnolng
| thoroug hfares, themselves part of the
| village are given over exclusively to low
| brick buildings showing gable roofs and
dormer windows and the wear and tear OF
a century's serv<:' Ihese b1lioings were
| once the homes of wealthy New Workers;
| now they shelter divers wholesalers whose
methods of doing business are truly metro
politan even though the surrounding walls
| are those of the village man of trade. In
| lust such buildings the city carries on its
| structural steel business, one of the most
modern of industries, and one mat mas
made possible the skyscrapers OF the metro
| politan part of New 1ork.
| Farther to the north IN TINS same dlStrlcl
| the contrasts are equally impressive. Plant
| ed up against the Park Row building, the
talest office building In the world, Is one
| story wooden shack of the village type
! housing restaurant where a penny will
buy a sandwich, and an ample lunch, such
as il is. can be secured for the munificent
| sum of 5 cents. Just around the corner In
Nassau street, and next to financial palaces
| that cost millions of dollars apiece, are one
and two-story brick buildings that would
| be considered beneath second notice In any
| self-respecting hamlet. Yet these insignlfi-
cant structures hold their own in a street
which is really the center of America S
| money power.
In the Outskirts.
| The noted shopping ccnters of the city are
| likewise a curious blending of city and
town. In 14th street, right across the
way from some of the city's leading
| department stores stands a square. com
modious house of the village type with an
old-fashioned garden in front, and gnarled
and ancient trees which partially screen 1t
from the curious gaze of the thousands OF
| bargain seekers who pass by daily. Here.
until the death of the aged owner a few
| years ago, cows were kept and chickens
! raised, and the old man led the simple life
of the yillager far removed from the tur-
moil of a great and busting mart of retail
trade.
little to the west Of the fashionable
shopping center, 23d street, in what
il still known as Chelsea village, are
to be found house after house. each with a
lgarden In front. and showing. In the proper