Year: 1874

PARK and closed up the great gap that
once separated it from Harlem. He
has successfully watched these great
mutations of things and time, and yet
he flourishes and seems to grow
healthier and brighter for them ALL
The cheerful springs of youth still
send their bright and sparkling waters
through his nature, keeping him ever
young. Together we visited the Park
aid summed ourselves in its its gorge
Gus wealth of poetry and beauty. Two
such individuals who defy the usual
SOLDERING influences of years, had no
use for the shining phaeton OF the
crowded omnibus, ard taking the
lovely walks which curve and swell
about and over and even under the
strange meadows and undulations and
craggy heights and lakes. we pursued
the weird invitations which that SUBJ
lime expanse afforded until the twi-
light brought its million of lamps up
on the scene, and yet we walked here
among the Overhanging trees, there
turning upon some costly statue, and
yonder upon the silvery lake broken
OILY by the graceful curves of the
white Swan or the dur deer drinking
at its edge,:until the gambOling chill
dren and the gilded coaches and gay
pedestrians began to hunt their homes
in the great wilderness of brick and
marble which for miles and miles
stretched away on either hand.


One can only hope to grasp the sa-
lient points of the city, and certainly
1t would be idle to attempt to speak of
more. We went to Stewards new re-
tail stone. 1t is a vast expanse of pure
white marble, covering an entire
block and reaching as near to Cloud
lard as men dare TO go since the story
of Babel There the seeker after dry
goods and furnishing goods can get
any thing that heart can desire or
money purchase, and it can always be
had of first quality and at fair cash
value. The morning was terribly cold.
The wind cut almost like flame, for
extreme heat and extreme cold are
much alike. Yet the gIlded carriages
were drawn in compact line about the
great building and within were hun
dreds of ladies who expend lavishly
from the most colossal Ieststts OF
New York. These were grouped first
along the magnificent heaters which
lire the fronts of the building and
next along the counters uFOn which
were displayed the costliest silks and
| .ces and cashmers of the
Old world. The fabled splendors of
India were there ana 7 saw and GER
tainly for time enjoyed them. In
decd | may say that for an hour |
uhy impecuniOus editor can pay, to-
D wit /: just nothing, and when l left /
magnanimously turned them all over
again to this celebrated A. 7. Stewart,
who came poor irish boy TO Ameri-
ca and having become its merchant
prince, declined to lay aside his DIer-
camille fame even TO become the Sec
retary of the Treasury of the finest
country and most wonderful and ill.,
trepid people on tbe-globe He has an
income of six and twn-ihirds millions
of dollars per annum and yet his vast
tate and princely income are so ia
vested and guarded, that, while the
most worthless sneak of Eve Points
could end his rare and rarely parallel
ed career, he could scarcely get u dol
lar by the act.


After visiting many of the largest
wholesale and retail houses of the con-
tineut, and walking among the
revived splendOrs Of Roman and Gre
clan Architecture that find their cul-
mination along Fifth Avenue, and
after Journeys, little short of pilgrim
ages, among the dense districts OF
trade which crowd about the spaces
above the Battery and toward the
Piers on North river, and after view
ing the lofty piers of the protected
East river Bridge, which rise in ma
jestic proportion between the city and
Brooklyn, we were ready to get on
board the Wyanoke of the Old Domin-
ion Steamship Line and return to Vir-
! ginia.


We were apprehensive tnat the in
tense cold winds prevailing in the
! city augured unfavorably for trip at
! Sea, so we called at


303 BROADWAY,


| The office of Mr.. G. E. Evans, the
agent of the line. He assured us that
the wind was most favorable for our
trip, and at once communicated by
telegraph with the Weather Bureau
which fully confirmed his opinion
This official assurance was simply in
accordance with Mr.. Gibboney's Gus


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