The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-27

nov turned the corner- Mackay aIsU
spoke 1T the pigs Ia his lSook. The Vast
ern World ~ lid Grund IA hi- book
The Amsrican- They would hardly IN
overlooked 10y an ob-s.rVant traveller
There w~r- no dsv poliC. at that time
for the tNo ConztHb l'.- appointed to each
" the seventeen wards can harily ~
so considered There was = night watch
from ~unduNn I'LL dawn Ia 80 "A force
"Illsi the Municipal Police was organized
under Mayor Harper There was trouble
with these They refused Ia wear blue
coats with the letters VI q 0n the collar
They called tbs. uniform livery. The or.
gam ,Riipn had only a short life The
night watch bad no uniform. unless n
leather hat like a fireman's can he 81
called They carried each a paIe and a
lantern. cried the hours 10 night and gave
the alarm ~ frs In IssS the Mayor ~as
eInPOW .red to appoint force Of sO0 day
and night rpolice The duties % these
Phrlsd-ltIhia was a cluster ~ munIct-
pIhtis- The city proper contained e.
0D people Around y and contiguous
were AK independent districts which
brought up the whole population 20 20. =
Vn Travellers reported vSriously upon
u One said that any day in the week
seemed 'o visitor like sunday until he
had walked Itte way and that then II
---Ins,i like ~a-hday. Another said that
II was stTikingly different from New York
No feathers. ma ao~erS or frills. no gaudy
culorS no hnsry DrAb bonnets aud
drnh gowns sVsryw here According to a
third " was nsdiocritv expressed in bricks
and mortar. but a comfortable city. with
M ~ SCRABBLE aud hlthy streets. the refuge
~ -uutld poverty One IL the most
attractive towns ! nave ever b-held. :
S,td . fourth The sidewalks are neatly
paved with bricks. the streets are clean
aud veil shaded by rows Of trees There
j. m"I" uuie'. more leisure more comfort
here than -ise~ here. and IA the beauty
- ~ women IL Yields TO none In the
onIn,ou u "A 9Th. -ScarCely,anything can
~. imagined more beautiful than a view
dow on.. ~ th.. ~ reefs stretching from the
Delaware 20 the ~chuylkill and lined with
roW- of trees IA fun leaf Dickens pro-
nOuuced u a handsome CITY. bur dis
tractinRly reguia' After Walking about
for q while he would have gwen the world
for crooked stree He felt his coat
collar stihenIrg. the brim - his hat ev-
panding hls hands folding themselves
across his breast lie said these things.
hut We DO not think that they need to ~
considered a. anything more :han rather
per'unc,orily playful
baltimore had 10000 inhabitants and
Dickens declared that Barnum'- was
-.
in the United States. no had curtains to
has bod and "Xpe Fenced a good home
feeling Washington got htfl" praise
from travellers though Mrs Trolloye
was delighted by it, cheerful and airy
aspect and by the absence II the sights
and sounds and smells ~ Commer'e
south ~ Washington. Richmond had
-n.sO people, Savannah - .nOO. Charleston
- on and New Orleans IOc .Oop-a great
growth since IsIa whom IL became a city
of the United States and when it, popuIa-
ton was only SOn New Orleans was
cha rInInE II delighted travellers 4,
had the semblancr 81 Pans II was
al-o said to he like Cadiz The population
included Chinese. tia lian- and Choctaw
Indians One visitor declared that the
ha llroom IN the ~ LOUIS Hotel in the
French quarter was the finest in the land
and that the ~ Charles Hotel IN the
American quarter had no equal for beauty
AZ home or abroad He vas faaCtns, cd
by the lamps hanging from ropes stretched
across the streets Such method Of
street illumination was until recently
and perhaps still -. 20 ~ seen in parts Of
Paris 4. we'll ss upon the streets. ~
sh.-ci- illumination upon the old and
fearful cry To the lantern with him.
The cross rope or chain was a most con-
venIent arrangement when Il was wished
90 hang somebody. II was ~ good an
the limb oG q tree or the crossbean OF a
regulation Gallows.
The hotels IN the smaller towns Of the
south were not 20 good a. thosa IN Nau
Orleans The doors Of the bedrooms were
apt tn be shattered. the locks and hinxea
impaired beyond the possibility Of service.
the window glass broken There were
no closets or wardrobes IN the bedroona-
not even q peg on which IN hang garments
Furthermore IN tho bedrooms there vas
no provision for washing. no booking RIa.a.
the dirt was swept under tho bed. Al the
White sulphur Springs in Virginia one n
the most fashiona BILE - resorts the trayeI-
Ier Buckingham found has ma ttress stuffed
" ith straw. and he had IN his room mo-
Washstand. dreS-ing table. looking glass or
lumber A. the Sweet Springs. however.
everything was AZ good as could be found
in England In some - the hotels there
was a general looking glass which was
PASSED around a. IL was called for
Boston in size ranked a. the fifth Of
American cities in IstO Its population
was p5Go Dickens had very nice things
60 say -: ~ We aacribed tho intellectual
refinement - it, citilsn~ 10 The quiet an
hu-n~e 81 the University - Cambridge =
Other travellers paid ~ many compIi-
u,-ntS They approved I's stately ho,Ias..
, with tho zihtu'i- fr',n,s There werr To-
lie seen BO dIlapidated Or untsnanted