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Show all that has since been accomplished, was even then stirring in their resolute souls. A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Tha Times of New York has reminiscences of New York City a hundred years ago, with some illustrations. On the river ia the little old steam-boat steam-boat Union; there fs picture of the then new cifyTianntTTtrarcIiitecTTJohtrtlacCombT- B-pie ture of Park row when the ighest structure was three stories, and more striking than all a likenesa of De Witt Clinton with hia heavy, resolute face and complaining mouth. No, there ia another more striking picture King's eollege where boys spent much time on Latin and Greek and could not see the use of it until, emerging from it, they suddenly sud-denly discovered that they eould concentrate their thoughts on any subject and bold them there until un-til solution was reached. Clinton waa mayor at that time, and the picture has a look as though he in thought saw already constructed the great Erie canal which would connect con-nect Lake Erie with the Hudson, thus opening the great west to commerce which would land the products in New York City to be distributed to tho world and make of the city the country's greatest depot and clearing house, tie was sure because it would 'traverse the only open path between be-tween the east and the west, and each boat would crrry fifty tons of freight at cost which would make competition impossible. He was as sure, too, tin t with the increased facility for moving freight ths west would rapidly gain in population, and he luu been told that even the prairiea contained much rich soil, whera farmers would have no forests for-ests to fell, no atumpa to farm around, but where af that waa necessary was to plough the land and plant the croj.. ' Of course there was much that he did not know, thr miracfes tif the modern railroad am steamship had not been performed; but from the lights b fore him he reasoned shrewdly,' jntl. had aome prophet whispered in hia ear what waa to happen within the coming century he would have quietly thought that the man should be watched lest lie become dangeroua. But would we not be equally unbelieving were th, veil of the next hundred years to be with-' drawn t Ia it not possible that before another cen-tvry cen-tvry comes harbors' on tha sea shore, will become unnecessary, and mountain grades will not count in transportation f When rrtn conquer the air and ua it for transportation wha,t use will harbors bet 'And when a hot wave strikes a city, may not men like birda poise their wings and get away from th. heatf De Witt was the Harriman, of one bundled bun-dled years ago. Who in the next ona hundred years will make Harriman 'a work look old fashioned f A hundred years ago the budget of New York City called for $204,345.68, or i per capita, but the city government had to face a deficit of $39,-942.40, $39,-942.40, due partly to the cost of the city hall which waa then nearing completion. The budget for the same city last year waa higher. It calleu for $163,-128,270.87, $163,-128,270.87, or $26 per capita, while the balance sheet of the eity'a transactiona reached within a few dollars of $500,000,000. But the old chaps did not neglect the Fourth of July. They had he uttial military parade, processions, music, orations, toasts, etc., with illuminations at night. Do old people remember those old time Fourth of July orations? How the tail of the British lion was twisted, how lovingly Bunker hill, Bennington, Saratoga (Bemia Heights), Monmouth, Princeton, Trenton, the Cowpens and the grand culmination - at Yorktown were recalled, until every boy in the grove those were outdoor celebrations went heme grieving that he could not have been a man ai-d killed some Britisher, or at least some Hes-aieju. Hes-aieju. They did not have much soda, but the cider was royal nd the gingerbread, was the honiest kind. And randy was three sticks for 2 cents. . Surely a dollar went further in thosu days than i does now. And the program did not change ui.til late in the forties. On that Fourth in New York the Washington And Hamilton societies a-raded a-raded and one paper said that: "A portrait of Alexander Al-exander Hamilton, especially painted for the occasion occa-sion by Otia, was borne on a horse drawn vehicle. ve-hicle. The ode read on the occasion had these lines: Ye patriots rejoice, while ye hail this glad morniag, Tha1 dawned oa our akiea at our liberty 'a birth) May ita radiance extend, distant ages illuming. Till freedom and jut-tie. eaall reiga oa the earth. There was much singing but uo nstional air waa sung or played, save "Yankee Doodle," for the "Star Spangled Banner" was not yet co n-pcaed n-pcaed and "My Country, Tia of Thee." was not composed until twenty-one years later. But they were of the real old stock, those stalwart stal-wart af a hundred years ago, and the er-ns of |
