The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-12-03


ined our entrance to the city from
completely rural neighborhood.
We have gone only as far as the Con-
seryatory Of the New York Botanical So
ciety and now will start downtown We
will take the elevated railroad or as, for
brevity, it usually called, "the II The
station is at the northern terminus of the
line. There is level walk by which we
approach from the park, but at all other
stations we must ascend by stairs, some
times to a considerable height. The road
is standard-gauge, double.tracked through
out and with third track for part of
the way. It is carried along the streets
on iron pillars, set near the curb on
structure to such height that moving
vans, etc, can pass under without diff
Guilty at the lowest places. Elsewhere, to
avoid steep grades, the height is much
greater.
We enter the station and buy red
ticket for each member of the party.
They cost five cents each. These we drop
in box guarded by a soleUn-looking in
dividual in blue coat and brass buttons,
known as the ticket chopper" and pass
out on the platform. We see two or three
persons attempt TO pass and hear them
If this were provincial village some of
the bystanders would smoker at the green
ness of the stranger Not so in New
York. In the village the stranger is a
rarity. In the great city he is there by
the thousands in fresh arrivals every day.
The New Yrker looks at the stranger
as does the hotel clerk aud is not in the
least amused by his unfamiliarity with
new conditions.
"A train comes TIP to the station, the
gates are flung open and the crowd OF arr
rivals hurries off the platform. Hurry is
the word. In New York everybody hur-
ries. If they do not they get run over.
There are people from the outside who
object TO the hurry of New York. bat, as
usual, they miss the mark. There is
nothing "feverish" about it, nothing of
the mad rush for dollars" which these
grooming moralists discover That the
people of New York are any ''madder"
in this particular rush than the people of
Kennebunk or Olympia is absurdly un-
true. The whirl of speculation, which
takes up columns of newspapers, affects
but a minute fraction of the population
of the city. The vast majority are work
are similar to that in thousands of smaller
towns. The dollars, for the most part
come in the same inconveniently small
amounts, in the same familiar small bills
and are passed out with the same prompti-
tude to very similar-looking butchers, gro
GERS, bakers and the rest. If stocks drop
heavily on the Exchange small fraction
of. the population will be excited. An
other small fraction will read the big
mention the matter to friend
as means OF carrying on conversation,
with about as much excitement as they
remark the pleasant weather. The rest
of the population pass without interest.
emotion or remark to topics OF whatever
sort may suit their varied tastes. Hum
bugs and takers of the Lawson type have
ten times as many dupes outside of New
York as they have in it, and "Wall Street"
lis mentioned hundred times, population
considered, in What Cheer or Skookun
Chuck to once in the city where it is
known as narrow street, opposite Trim
ity Church and having "a great many
banks and brokerage Offices. So much
for the "mad rush for dollars
The real reason for the hurry in New
York is that the downtown district
lower Manhattan-is many miles from the
homes of the multitude who daily do bust
ness there. A considerable time each day
is occupied in going to and from BUSH
ness. When this is, added to the hours
they are employed they have left enough
TO WOMEN WHO DREAD MOTHERHOOD,