Putnam patriot., 1909-05-28
A New York Letter from the Rev. L. l.
 iindholm

The sunmer is here 1t last. All who can leave the city are leaving It, of are getting ready to leave il for theit homes m the country or at the seashote'
 rhos. who cannot leave the city Tor va
 ,,ous reasons. are neyerthiess, wishing they were able to do so. They are
 wishing to get away from the noise, the crowded conditions, the heat oi the
 citv out Into the woods and the great,
 green fields. Nothing like the coun-
 tty in the summer, and in the winter
 too, for that matter
 nm afraid that letter from New York city cannot be of much interest
 tn most of the readers at the PATRIOT
 as thev. no doubt, already kno" all tha; K worth knowing about onf great
 metropolis. Then again, New ! otA 's
 mi far enough away to awaken III
 many great interest for 1t. oiis
 u,tle more than four hours ride aw as
 from Putnam. il lies practically ". 'ne very doors of the fAfRlofs feaaefs'
 and as the speed of the locomotive IN
 constantly increasing, the distance VIII
 now keem very much shorter ms will not only make the city more ao' cessihle, but t will also make II Poss'' hle fot m my to lind their way out o' the crowded sections ot the city 'o nv under more favorable conditions That Will help ta sound the aea'h knell to the consumption germs that annuallN cause the death of more man len thousand of New York city ih- hahitants.
 How to vet better and more rapid transit facilities in our city k the most important question of the hour We ha,e been getting them the last lew years toa large extent, and in aie" years to come the transit facilities Will
 he greatly extended, But the trouble
 is that tho population ef New iefs is inereasing so rapidly, that 1t tx impos- sible to build bridges, tunnels, sub ways, fast enough to take care e' the daily inrushing crowd. New York has now five tunnels under the North River. two tunnels under the East River, besides three bridges, and the
 fourth k being rapidly pushed To its mpletion, and yet wherever any one
 goes or comes. the cry Is constantly heard, sPlease move quickly" New York Is every year adding to it's popu- la,ion a city ss large as New Haven,
 every fourth year city as large as
 Boston. More people are yearly car riesi on it's electric cars than on all the
 steam cars in the United states. And vet New York Is only in the cradle oi it's development and growth. Ten wears hence will see remarkable chan
 ges.
 To those oi my readers who feel in
 clined 10 call only those Americans whose firsi ancestors came here genera tlons ago, New York is no longer an American city. Why, here we have the largest Irish city in the world, the
 second largest German city in the
 world, the largest Italian city in the
 world, and ten times ss many Jews as in all Palestine New York city Is the .i.ana of Promise 10 the Jews IL is claimed hy hugh authority that fifty
 per cent. of the eisy's population can not speak the English Language well
 enough to carry on an ordinary con
 seFsatlun.
 Then we canno, call New York s church going ely. Ifsil the churches were crowded to their utmost capacity there woaid yet he more than two and one- hall millions of people. who would = Mlkhon1 ! plee fpf wenAiPs and