New-York tribune., 1906-02-18

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First of ALL there is the large rea-estate interest
IN every city. 1t needs organizations it is
organization already The man whose grandmother
owned orchard of old apple-trees in the heart
OF Boston or NewYork is glad that his grandmother
owned that orchard. He is glad that he owns the
square feet square inches of that orchard to-day
He knows as we'll as know that those square inches
are worth great deal more in money than they were
worth a hundred years ago. Now that man does not
to diminish the current of population which
falls into Boston or New YOrk He means to keep
up the price of real estate in those cities if he can
And when you address him civil note. asking him
II he will not attend meeting of gentlemen who
wish to promote emigration to Idaho 1t IS almost
certain that that will have another engagement
Again it is to be observed that great cities have
OF necessity their own spokesmen-shall one say
their drunmers?-at work for them even ul-
consciously. Every issue of any newspaper of the
weekday a Sunday has its announcements of
the attractions of great city. The animation OF
the streets, the entertainments at the theater
the concerts, the addresses made at public meetings
all displayed and certainly they present wonder
ful attraction for people whose hours pass slowly.
l talking to accomplished Young
woman who is now living in the city and will read
these lines and congratulated her that with the end
of that week of the college lectures she attending
she would be able go to her home in North Brown
Il go to North Brownwich?" ?" said she. 50 Not l!
l shall stay in NewYork till summer, if anyone will
pay five dollars week with which | can pay
my board And when | expressed my surprise that
she chose exile from home for three months she said
If you had ever lived in North Brownwich for
three months you would understand"
Now the average reader who is living in North
BrOwnwlch New-Padua or South POdunk does
know that home life has many stupid sides. In
such stupidity and its tedium he contrasts against
1t the varied, exciting piquant life described in the
metropolitan newspaper, and he says to himself
II there IS room for four million people in New ork,
there must be room for four million and one. Pardon
him, dear reader if he ranks himself a little above
the average of mankind-pardOn him, for you
and know perfectly well, you and do the same.
Every forward step taken in the management
OF cities goes to encourage the North BrOwnwich
man or woman in such decisions. a free library
open all day and every evening, free lectures,
the Central Park, the hppopOtamus
: and the lion in The Bronx, a speech
by Mr.. Cochran, by Mr. ChOate
~ the President-such attractions as
these are not set in order by people
4Esssaz53 who want to enlarge the attractions OF
- a city; but they do enlarge the attrac-
tions of a city all the same, and a
49, ~ western promoter would say, they ad-
EESSsz1 vertse it to mankind. Now it IS IN
~ face of the inducements to swell the
population of large cities which are
- thus set IN order that the suggestions
ssssaezssrj or arguments have TO be made which
zs@s@sI would relieve the congestion OF cities
..:....3 On the other hand, when | look