The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-02
IN LITTLE OLD NEW YORK
School Ma ANS Think
Gotham Rather Sad Affair.
MET RELICS OF EARLIER DAYS

They Reached the Big City at a Street
Where BOb-taiI Horse Cars Had to
BE Taken for Few Blocks. SYM
pathy for the Girls Who Do Work
as StenOgraphers.
NEW YORK, Aug. pa party
of Nebraska school ma'ams recently
visited New York and went away
with the impression that the town
was rather a sad affair. To be sure
the majority of the party had never
seen anything bigger than their own
little red school house on the plains.
but they had read so much of the
wonders of Gotham that they were
not prepared for many of the relics
of earlier days that still exist on
Manhattan Island. AS they came in
to the city by boat it so happened
that they were obliged to take one
of the little bob-tailed horse cars that
run along Tenth avenue in order to
reach their hotel Their first i'm
preston of the city, therefore, was
not only surprising, but decidedly
disappointing. They declared also
that the city was dirty and that wo-
men were not beautiful On the
whole they were most impressed by
the sights at Coney Island, which,
perhaps, are less typical of New
York than a hundred things that
they could see on Broadway which
apparently did not interest them
Strangely enough they were much
impressed with the courtesy of the
street car conductors, whom New
Workers believe are the most impo-
lite set of men that can be found
anywhere in the world.
Sympathy Lost On Working Girls.
1t is still customary to speak SYM
pathetically of the thousands of girls
who earn their living as stenograph-
ers or typeWriters in the downtown
offices, because their work keeps
them indoors and their health suffers
accordingly. However, the rapid de-
velopment of the different shore re-
sorts that can be reached from New
York for a five-cent fare has
changed all this so that it is doubt
full if one could find a healthier
looking lot Of girls anywhere than
the typewriter brigade at lunch time
on Monday. Every other girl who
passes shows sunburned face and
a pair of REDEEMED fOrearms or the
added glow of an already acquired
tan. No Sherlock Holmes is needed
to picture these city folks spending
Saturday and Sunday on near-sands
which develop fully as good a tan
as the more remote beaches where
only the real vacationers are to be
found.
Holy Rollers in New York.
The arrest a short time ago of
thirty-twO members of THE First
! Assembly of Christ" called the at
| tentiOn of the local authorities to the
| fact that there are many strange
sects in Gotham that will bear inves-
tigatiOn. Apparently New York is
the asylum Of most of these queer
religious societies, and it is estimated
that over so, 600 persons belong to
the Jumpers" Holly Rollers,
Buddhists, Mahometan and other
bands The majority of them do not
have any churches, but meet in a
small room in some quiet part of the
city. An organization known as the
National Church promised a per
manent existence until the leader of
the movement, in an effort to check
long winded speech by one of the
members, shouted Go to your cor
ner." This caused the meeting to
break up in confusion and all sub
sequent efforts to revive the church
were unsuccessful. Many of the 9th
er societies of which very little is
known manage to maintain their or
ganization and convert few people
every wear