Year: 1873

everything. All he asked for, as the history tells me, was for land enoogn on which to stretch 8 bullock's hlde. The untutored savage. jolly with whisky, acceded to the request, where upon the willy gentleman from ao1- land proceeded to put the ra"-h1ue <, "where it would do the most gooo'.

 as Cakes Ames would say. He cut It into one long string and stretched It clear round the island! The Indians considered it too good g joke to light about then; but soon found out that it was too late. Besides much ot the island was swamp instead of lava bed. Wall street got it's name from wall thrown across the island as a de- fence against the reaction of that original old drunk. 1 have found life to be only one long struggle to keep from getting drunk at best, but never could understand till reading history yesterday, what deep-seated influence existed here to make 1t greater struggle to keep from getting sober.

 But to return to the map. The wrist and hand up to the fingers, rep resent the old solid "down town portion of the city-the wrist part the far down portion. The fingers will serve to show the newer plan, or ave- nue system. The great crowd drop down into the narrowest portion every day like so many cats Tn a sack crawling and scratching about as best they can. Captain Jack of the Mo- doc marines has paradise of 1t where he is, compared to this. don't blame him for killing Canby & Co.,, rather than come into the height of civiliza- tion. I would kill Christ and hang myself la Judas, before submitting to this sort of life eight weeks more. I started out this morning to look for Christ, thinking to find him at Grace church-the most fashionable gospel shop in the city; it is happily located along side of A. T. Stewards uptown dry goods palace. There are two pe- culiar landmarks in this line here wealthy old Trinity church facing Wall street, and Grace church as in question. Their respective steeples stand out in the street as 1t were at either end of Broadway, over two miles apart. After church, 1 walked leisurely over the south side of the city, where I saw larger field for missionary work than if all the sav- ages in the land were huddled on the same ground. I came to the conclu- sion that instead of finding Christ, I had struck he'll rich with the "bed- rock pitching." and that it would re- quire all the capital here to "place '" this mine in the market of the New Jerusalem. I just came back to my room and took an immense drink of old Cutter whisky out of an original package" hence these tears"

 You can never make 8 silk purse out of mouse's ear, and two centu- ries more on top of the American me- tropolis, will not see it a slightly and we'll regulated city, however much there may be of interest in it other wise. Just think of that old Dutch church of post-office !-now used for the latter purpose in the most mar row contracted part of the city, for nearly century. Lord, how l would like to widen Nassau street with @ battery of the very biggest guns. The masses are as helpless in the hands of the thieving, selfish powers that be, first and last, as so many children. Every measure for the good of the city, advocated either at the State or National capital, is stayed off by the conflicting rings from year to year-decade to century, and so it will go on indefinitely. The selfish Stewart says he will fight till the last an underground quick tran sit railroad. The wharf system is g. stench, and shipping doubly expen- sive. The city is completely sur rounded by the dregs of civilization the worst of the worlds commune 1; and if SO disposed this element could crowd over into Broadway and Fifth Avenue and literally gut the wealthy and fashionable part of the city be- fore assistance could be mustered. The one great work the city can boast of is Central Park, and Boss Tweed the Prince of Thieves-gave it the finishing touches in course of time.

 Give the devil his due. But l must % and "see man, w.