Identifier: charcoalsofnewol00smith (find matches)
Title: Charcoals of new and old New York;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915
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Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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st of it, and sometimesare extremely disagreeable in their remarks towards those of us whowould rather lose a day or a week than be whirled into an early gravein the elYort to cheat a clock. It is the Imp of Hustle,— first born of the Demon of Hurry, who hasfastened his grip upon them. He it was who made the Subway pos-sible, and then with hellish glee, made it profitable. He knew his clien-tele;— had seen them grow up; had watched them gobble theirluncheons standing; devour the headlines of their morning andafternoon papers between shunts on the elevated; phonograph theircorrespondence for the use of the girl in the next room, and run forstreet cars. He knew too, what would happen when he pried open thejaws of the monster and bade them enter. And the Imp made no mistake. Every day the crowd grows denser;every hour the grip tightens. Two flags now wave over the mob, thefirst bearing the legend: The survival of the Fittest —And the second that of The Devil take the hindermost. 92
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MANHATTAN XVMANHATTAN SEEN by day from the banks of either river, it is a city built ofchildrens colored blocks piled one on top of the other,— squaresided, and flat-roofed, with here and there a pinnacle or cam-panile tower overlooking the group,— the whole made gay by littlepuffs of feathery steam coquetting in the crisp morning air. On the rivers themselves, threading the currents like shuttles in atangled loom, cross and recross the ships of all nations — Not ours,—the other fellows. Huge leviathans; ferry-boats from Hoboken toPlymouth; high-waisted brigantines in from the Pacific; barks, steam-ships; oil tramps — everything that floats carrying every known flagbut our own. All are welcome. Hospitality is our strong point. In fact wedelight in taking second place, or third,—or even fourth, if it suitsour guests the better. After you Alphonse should have been in-serted in the Declaration of Independence, to make clearer the clausethat All men are born free and equal. Fo

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