Show THE GREAT metropolis ta y I from our regular correspondent if it were true in tho musty days of tho past that all roach jan to home it is no less true in the fever ish present eliat all interests in america centra york bos ft i f on may indeed berthp liu around which all ic revolves chicago and st louis philadelphia and I now orleans may be the sung around which respective systems roll but neither pun nor system refuses to traverse in its turn about the great north which the needle of every interest political social or commercial steadily points the longest and narrowest richest and poorest most alir i tian and most heathen city wesa of th atlantic who evar saw in any country a city so strangely constituted so habited ato and yet so less than years since the bract of hudson dropped anchor in thier magnificent buy and wo havea city seventeen hiilei long holding a million and a quarter people containing more dublin more ger man mant t alian bremen more jews alian jerusalem and more politicians than any tate in the Union except olno here in tho centre of ameri and enterprise you propose to leayo a regular correspond dent if you will let me I mean to depart from the beal en track of city gossip and tell your readers now and then about some of tho many really great and beier famous and men of neyr york in fact treat them as though alicy iacre visiting mo in any uptown french flat and wanted i to affo whit was worth seeing in am liagin TRANSIT if the year deene lobe memorable a which witnessed the alie erle canal the year promises to be fir more memorable in bf galliani Gol liani by of rapid transit already the third avenue hotd ia ap eai fo and you can climb whitty feet into clift air at the Buttery and lie whirled along on a level with the i tory windows eight and a liala to all ifor five cents provided you go between five and in iglio morning or alie Rame hours in alie evening at oilier hours you kiy ten cents and get your money then shades of jimmy that air this should have come from your idle watching of a frisky pot lid you toasted your chins before tho firel besl bo tho youngster that kept you out of doors flying till your teth chattered anu your noso grew blue lie never dreamed how great service ho was doing for humanity nor how tho real owners at the upper end of alm island would ri up and ca you both while rapid transit is a great boon to the clerk and who cant pay the big ranta down town it is u swe clr baw bicigo alic of bip town lots knee dap anit mort giges ridden and uel f mortgagees and s ax gathered aliat freeze his vein as cit cutty of poor turf Ohai iter jimmy watt saves lot owners when all the hor OT in new york w ero leaving them to their fate MAKING ane capald A aprong movement ia to he made afi making the erie and other new york keate canal arco this f will be good news orld grain producers of great gestand We stand closer and more pronta bli with yew york city and aruns atlantic consumers rn tho sc lierno for a mcanal railroad will also la during alio bession of and thordia talk ausin for canal boata on atho olivcr tidie of the city to alio emt hive and lipi alip and youth ferry from the uro of canal boeti n that is greatly by wat India and oilier arc better take it department of feels it moro or less jn dinv inv next I will toll you how two ot burm up till ait bukea no to predict a val va l ablo indu itry in each ire in ft why look at one dinglo branch of mann llie sevan machine trudo art would siippoo thi world waa al raudy with sewing machine but manufacturing company report A sale of n ali e owr junt in of tho nuino r tle total rales bebing mt chituc a for tho benr aro som in making and selling dolcin than pron and hotca arc employed think of tho macii digging tho ore foiling and art abin the timber wagn and ira and alip ingar ma cliine ft to iha adding them to alio forty d w ac low mightily an att acts clift aholo mr edw busin wn partner p tho original company la good atory Io niesi from chicago ha sinfori Sin gori afar the great undertook to furnish cowing in chinca to needy women permitting each o take her choice from among ix of tha anost kind there t 2914 iahn im hn ilaw UD plied of iw irla ino dij nij alie horween tho ach singer lii ivr 11 ll compe litora igwe alian buim art long but ce AloR iiri yv i l |