Identifier: newyorkbysunligh00mcca_1 (find matches)
Title: New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: McCabe, James D., 1842-1883.
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Publisher: New York : Union Publishing House
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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handopon the Southern States during the summer of 1878,it was to New York that the sufferers first turned foraid; and the Metropolis responded nobly. In thecourse of a few months assistance in money and sup-plies was sent to the amount of several hundred thous-and dollars. During the recent war between Russiaand Turkey, New York, with characteristic liberality,sent crenerous assistance to the sick and wounded ofboth armies. When Chicago was burned, the peopleof New York literally showered relief upon the afilictedcitizens of the western Metropolis. It is enough forthe great city to hear the cry of distress, no matterfroni what quarter; its action is prompt and generous.The city authorities annually expend one million ofdollars in public charities, while the various religiousdenominations and charitable associations expend annu-ally about five millions more. No record can be hadof private charities—but they are large. This is thecharity that begins at home. Of the aid sent to suffer-
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COSMOPOLITAN LIBERALITY. 61 ingf persons and communities in other parts of thecountry no proper estimate can be made; the sum isprincely, and we may be sure is recorded above. I have spoken of the energy of the people in mattersof business. They are in all respects the most enter-prising in the Union. While others are timid andhesitating, they are bold and self-reliant. They takerisks in business from which others shrink, and carrytheir ventures forward with a resolution and vigor thatcannot fail of success. It is this that has made the citythe metropolis of America. Its people take a large,liberal view of matters. There is nothing narrow orprovincial in their way of dealing with questions.They are cosmopolitan in all things. This liberality extends to matters of opinion. Merrarely trouble themselves to inquire into a neighborsviews of religion or politics, or to hold him to accoun^tfor them. One may think as he pleases here, and solong as he observes the ordinary rules of decent livi

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