Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-08-06
WoNrEaFUL WATERBURY.
Mr.. Grist Tells of Visit to Noted Man.
ufseturing City.
Of the Yorkville Enquirer.

correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Waterbury, Conn.,, July S0.-I reach
ed this place at about o'clock yes
terday NOR linl:, and having left short
ly after IL O'Clock Tuesday, am now
rushing along at the rate Of something
less than nile minute, up toward
Hartford, Conn, and Springfield, Mass.
on my way to Rutland, VT.
New Ycrl; found more or less tire
some. o. course, saw many wonder
full things there; but the very vastness
Of the place was still palling upon me
when I reached here. But after thir-
ty-six hours in Waterbury, my facul-
ties and impressions seem to have un-
dergone a delightful change. The
friends and acquaintances I met in
New York were as friendly and as hos
pitable as eoole could be. They did
everything they could think Of to give
me a pleasant time, and with that fact
1 was agreeably impressed: but there
Is something strange about 1t all and
l am not right sure that I can cor
rectly analyze it, unless 1 am per-
mitted to say that New York is a
city in which people do not live, but
merely exist. AS everybody knows, it
is the most cosmopolitan city in the
world. The Jews predominate. There
are more Jews in the city than there
are in Palestine, more Germans than
in any other city except Berlin, more
Irish than in any Irish city, and thou
sands of people Of each and every civ
ilized or semi civilized nationality that
can be mentioned. And, as the spell
ers on the rubber neck" cars put 1t,
"also a few Americans" This de-
scribes the situation in New York al
most exactly. You can easily under
stand how, after a residence Of ten
days, you are as much Of New York.
er as any Of the rest Of them. While
you are looking for somebody to tell
you how to find your bearings, some
body else is as apt as not to ask you
which way they should go to reach a
certain point. 1t seems as If every
man, woman and child in the mad rush
Is bent on his or her own particular
business, and from morning till night,
and from night till morning, the throng
seems to think nothing else. 1t Is all
right to think Of New York as a place
where teeming millions are engaged
in the pursuit of all lines of human
endeavor, the dollar greed, philan-
thropy, spiritual development, moral
degeneration, etc.; but it Is a mistake
to think Of the city as city Of ideal
casual visitor is as much at home there
as Is the established resident, and
when that is said, all is said.
But how different it Is over here
at Waterbury! 1 came over here
with my whole being for the time
permeated with the New York atmos-
phere. Nobody seemed to know any
body on the crowded night train
speeding up into New England. 1t
was the same every one for himself,
and the devil take the hindmost I had
bought a ticket straight through to
Waterbury, and not having troubled to
look at it, had not thought Of the pos
sibility of a change Of cars in q dis
tance Of only about ninety miles. Af-
ter an hour the conductor came along
and told me that 1 should have gotten
off at Bridgeport. 1 replied that !
was going to Waterbury. YES" he
said, but you should have changed
cars at Bridgeport. I'll have to take
you to New Haven! Fare, please!" !
made some little protest, but when he
showed me that the ticket read "via
Bridgeport" had to give in and pay.
The experience made me somewhat
more particular, and as the result of
! careful inquiry after reaching New
Haven, learned that Waterbury was
/ about twenty miles away and that !
could go across on a trolley which
l lost no time in taking. There were
only half dozen or so people on the
trolley when we started; but the trip
grew more interesting as we proceed
ed 1t was in the middle Of the night
and there was nothing to be seen ex-
cept by electric light; but it became
evident at once that the country is
literally teaming with wealth and pop
ulation. A splendid highway runs
along the trolley track, and we met
numerous automobiles. Some Of them
passed us. On either side Of the
track were to be seen mill villages and
here and there a magnificent mansion
People were getting off and on every
few hundred yards and at the differ
ent fare limit posts located about four
miles apart, the conductor would come
around for more nickels. When l left
home last Friday some of my friends