Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . p. One stands the number of employments not consid-on Broadway, amid the jar and clatter of ered respectable enough for the youngit all, and watches with something like Englishman of decent family and up-awe the sliding procession of sallow, hur- bringing is still appalling. It is there-ried faces, the tense lips tight drawn as fore good and wholesome for him to comethough to repress a cry, the gestures to New York and see Americans of hisabrupt, decisive. And yet it is an awe own station not in the least afraid to takethat l
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . p. One stands the number of employments not consid-on Broadway, amid the jar and clatter of ered respectable enough for the youngit all, and watches with something like Englishman of decent family and up-awe the sliding procession of sallow, hur- bringing is still appalling. It is there-ried faces, the tense lips tight drawn as fore good and wholesome for him to comethough to repress a cry, the gestures to New York and see Americans of hisabrupt, decisive. And yet it is an awe own station not in the least afraid to takethat links, not separates. New York off their coats and begin at the begin-summons to toil as Monte Carlo to idle- ning. Where all are workers, there is noness, with irresistible imperiousness. One question of the precise degree of respect-is ashamed to be caught doing nothing, ability attaching to this or that trade orBusiness which in London is business profession. So long as it is honest, clean,merely, in New York is everything. A and promising, any chance that comes. along is good enoughfor the young social conventions,so far from limiting hischoice, merely insist thathe shall not be idle; andit is this view of thingsthat makes up the firstof the atmospheric dif-ferences between Londonand New York. It is theEnglishmans introduc-tion to democracy, andhe takes readily to thestimulus of the new ac-quaintance. Close to Bow Bells, London Nor is it only the ex-hilaration of the placeand the evidences allround him of bustlingvitality that hold theEnglishman captive. Thefirst time I walked upFifth Avenue I thoughtI was in another strenuousness ofBroadway shows thereits social side, and toone just fresh from thedreary drab and studied LONDON AND NEW YORK. 297
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