The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1911-03-06

y Run q = Deep Rut
= Matter q Locality.



~ Uptown After Twenty
- Routine Travel 70 and From
~ lhe Downtown District.
- are thousands and thousands
p IN New York city whose bust
80 been confined. to one district
onty years or more, whose daily
seldom fuctu4tes. who are
ID In travelling by a certain
5poey day in the week, who reach
~. barring tiesups, at q regu-
ard take up tlteir daily grind
lI - It until the hour Of closing.
14 these men unconsciously get
ow and make friends Of people
names they never learn. They
attached to localities in
sort Of way and do not realize
Eefrpn9 - the attachment. Here
"a story of one Of them into whose
1oee has come change through
1ne that startles and surprises
and throws a quaint light upon
q the city's people.
the twenty years that 1 was
oWn," the man said In telling his
lGnce, II was in the habit, wealth
hitting, Of taking a walk after
neheon hour every day in some
between City Hail and the Bat
! have footed every bit Of un-
suund In that. territory. What
80 changes have come in those
80 years! How many signs on
1lAes have changed in that time!
many houses have been pulled
III How many new. ones have gone
80 oome Of them towering skyward,
S1nte the places OF the landmarks?
81 eot to know the lower end Of
ID % wen / could shut my eyes ana
- . mental picture Of many Of the
1n and zee the names ON the build
II I wanted any article, from
o1aces to anything elaborate, l knew
ll1y where to get them. If some
l1eplar dish were desired 1 knew
11Re II could be served and just what
) ouh cost.
"a great city never stands still. It
= = festless az the great deep. But
~ I'm who becomes part of it
- rot think until he gets away from
part of 1t where he has done bust
- what the changes are. When I
1oGnn my strolls there were no tun-
- under the two rivers. In the
5oop that have drifted away great
tSm St, tod Ia.
tGen Manhattan and Long Island.
1oes not seem long since l used to
- the restless puff Of the coal fed
A0tives Of the elevated system,
! ESQ gradually did the old order pass
1t ! do not distinctly recall when
e present system was installed.
q The changes that took place IN
WITNESS firms were interesting. Many
1npy times I have seen the name OF
1Delman who established a trade taken
(Wn and that Of his son or sons take
RI place. So frequently were the
Aome people met in the same place
I'd at the same hour that we nodded
r. We passed, although none of us
new the name of the n0dder.
Not long ago the business with
hich I am connected made Il jumY
eDtown. Never until 1 took my traps
uptown had / any occasion to walk ir
eAe street where our new building
lands. The first day ! went out tt
nncheon l had to search for res
tnurant. 1t seemed odd. l saw peo
~ never saw before. l read signs
eae Of my fool habits-I never reat
Ao1ore: Many Of the vehicles thai
passed were quite unlike those 1 use.
= see downtown.
Il had to change my hour and rOut'
- coming to business. For awhile
ID to watch the street signs to know
where to get off. How l missed tn
familiar call of the guarfl of the car
IT. l always came down in the sam
~ In the makeup Of the elevated
0ain-the one always boarded a
- same hour.
And that makes me think. l cam
- know by their faces most of tn
4oooQogers who boarded that train q
~ station. l knew where most Q
IN got OF. Now that l am in new
VnSeers In a new section miss al
QDo people with whom I travelled TO
yAE1 Do they miss me, wonder?
And the many whom l came t
NOW downtown-how they will b
0lDDed! There is the old street preach
=. who used to stand on a soap DO
near Wall street or on the stone step
. the custom house and talk to peOpl
u the summer days and again In til
0Ays that betOkened the coming OF a,
mmn. Then there were the Lente
Gays when spent a part Of my hot
ct Trinity or in old st. Paul's. cam
% know the regular attendants
those services SO that the stranger
Became conspicuous. There are n
street. preachers in the new district
which l have gone. ] wonder VIII
Ne middle district Of the great eff
Doesn't need spiritual direction as We
- the downtown districts.
And 30 It seems sometimes that
am In new town. among new peopl