The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-07-25

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Miss Garfield and her grandfather
were about five miles from here in
the neighborhood of Lace.
Our New York Letter.
It is not what a New York writer
of items of interest should write
about, but where there is so much of
| interest the question is what to leave
out.
Other communities eager for inn
provements, particularly industrial
enterprises, this city already has a
profusion and is surfeited. There
never is any general rejoicing at the
inauguration of new industries.
Few people outside and not all in
side this great city realize it's magni-
tude. Five million souls crowded to-
gether as here are calculated to make
and keep things lively on a 2 by 10
mile tract of land.
Every nationality is represented,
all tongues are spoken, the various
customs of the globe are practiced
and no need to 60 abroad, for there
is very little to be seen on the other
side that cannot be seen here and
much more from an enlightening,
education, standpoint, visit to the
metropolis is invaluable. This does
not mean the little hasty hurried
trips for business or pleasure, but a
stay of some weeks and a wise put
ting in of days of those weeks.
The ''skyscrapers," public build
ings, churches, colleges, theatres,
hotels, parks, mansions, business
houses, factories, railways, tunnels,
etc., are as a rule, ahead of the
world. The museums of the city,
visited by millions of people, offer
objects of study unsurpassed in the
old world. After the good things
the bright side, then the bad things,
the darker side offers interest, food
for thought to any human, especially
students Of human nature and po-
iticaleconomists.
It is to New York the good and
bad of the world wends its way,
once here much good becomes bad,
some bad becomes good.
The natives of the city study the
city but little, it all strikes them as
a natural course of events and they
look neither to the right nor the left,
bothering not their minds about these
things. It is the visitor and the man
raised elsewhere who is impressed
and who delves into things here.
1t is amazing how little the aver
age New Yorker knows of the rest
of the world, surprising how much
the outsider does know. The make
up of the men of the city is below
the average, the country over, in
tellectually and otherwise, they as a
rule run in groove, get in it early
and stay there. Exceptions there are,
and these are men of broad minds
who tower above the average the
country over. Strange but true these
men of renown in business, profes-
sions, trades, etc., are all foreign
born, not from foreign shores but
have come into the city from out
side the city. Scarcely a native not
able is to be found.
It is commonly commented that
the Jews own New York and that
the Irish run it, so the outsiders boss
things generally and the natives
work for or under them.
In business life the merchant prin-
ces: Stewart, Macy, Wannamaker,
Siegel, Altman, and others are all
from the outside, it is so in the pro-
fessions, So in all branches of life.
The great editors of to-day, those
of the past, all were outsiders.
To New Workers it makes no diff
ference. they don't care a snap, their
sole desire and bent seems to be to
exist, drift; local pride 80 prominent
elsewhere has no place here.
Why all these strange conditions,
the only reason the writer can give
is the density of the population in
the past, the phenomenal increase of
the present, the crowded, cramped
quarters, all have to make their
arena, more thought is given to el-
bowling one'sway through the crowds
existing, than aspiring to renown,
fame and foremost place. The new
man, the outsider, attracted by these
conditions and the masses of people
drops in with training impossible to
get here, ideas among other scenes,
grasps this situation at a glance and
pitches in and uses the multitude to
| his personal advantage, as he would
a drove of horses, having become a
good driver before purchasing the
steeds.
The New York parents and children
are as subservient servants Of the
outsider as the slaves Of the South
ever were and are tolerated by their
masters far less than the slaves were
by theirs. ,
There is field for study here, and
the student of human nature cannot