. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . lean underfoot. Ina democratic city where the streets belong to everyoneto use and to no one to keep clean, where men traffic andteam and are always in a hurry, it is impossible to preventaccumulations of litter. During the summer months ittakes no herculean effort to keep the streets decentlyswept; but in winter, with much ice and snow, and alimited and unreliable labor supply, the difficulty isgreatly increased. London or Paris perhaps does thatsort of thing better than New York, because it has betterfacilities for doing it; but
. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . lean underfoot. Ina democratic city where the streets belong to everyoneto use and to no one to keep clean, where men traffic andteam and are always in a hurry, it is impossible to preventaccumulations of litter. During the summer months ittakes no herculean effort to keep the streets decentlyswept; but in winter, with much ice and snow, and alimited and unreliable labor supply, the difficulty isgreatly increased. London or Paris perhaps does thatsort of thing better than New York, because it has betterfacilities for doing it; but, nevertheless. New York is, alltold, the cleaner city. Paris is gray with dust and Londongrimy with soot, but the buildings of New York are asbright almost as the day they were erected. Look up atthe clean walls, windows, and cornices! How newlywashed seem the chimneys, towers, and domes! Theroofs, when you see them from the upper story of somesky-scraper, have a scrubbed look about them; and eventhe trees in the larger parks, for all that pipes are harrying. Pl. 9. — The P^latiron (Fuller Building) SEASONAL IMPRESSIONS 45 their roots and gases their branches, have a brightnessquite unknown to the somber growths of Hyde Park orthe Champs Elysees. And how the color does crop out at every turn — isbrought out perhaps with some extra sharpness becauseof the clear light! Everything shows color. And seldomdo you find the same tone repeated. The buildings along-side of which run the elevated roads from the Batteryto the Harlem River, are often alike in structure butseldom in hue. They differ each from the other by a toneor a shade. Stone, brick, cement, terra-cotta — no onecould name or count the hundreds or even thousands ofdifferent tints or shades they show. To the unobservantthe high mass of the Flatiron, the spires of St. PatricksCathedral, and Dianas Tower of the Madison SquareGarden are alike in hues; but neither in local colornor in texture are they the same. When the
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