New York, Feb, 26.
After an absence of ten years: New York appeals more than ever did to this writer as the Wonder City of the world, Wherever one goes he finds change on a scale so colossal us to place many parts of this city out of recognition, During the past five weeks I have been wandering about from port to port in Central America, en route to New York through the Panama Canal. Down there—in Mexico, Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Colombia—that which most impressed one was the lure of old and enduring and apparently unchanging things. Manyanna, the magic 'Spanish word coinciding with "mas-see" in pidgin English, pub iao jin Chinese, Teda apa' in Malay, seems to rule the thought of the people. 'There is no hurry. What is not' done to-day will perhaps be done to-morrow, and if not—then, there is plenty of time, In many sections of Central America that I visited native life has not changed for centuries, and there were many similarities of thought between the o-lucky people and the Chinese, despite considerable differ-fences in climate (generally speaking).
While there are signs of progress. Jat San Salvador, the capital of the republic of that' name, and certain Jevidence that foreign shipping and commerce are slowly bringing Jchanged conditions, one realized that he was among a section of the human race that had few cares. To-day with them is the day—and why worry about the to-morrow that never comes?
But when one steamed at daylight through the first lock of the great Panama Canal, where the ferent red danger lights shone out immense rubies among a sea fof diamonds through millions of [white electric bulbs that lit up the way, then one realized that he was feeling the influence of quite another race of people. To steam through the Panama Canal is to be convinced as one cannot he in any Jother manner that engineering the forte of the sons of the United States. press trains, most of them engaged n earning just enough to procure them the conventional where. withal to live, I thought, "Well, New York isa marvellous city, but San Francisco or some city out in the West for me." What one thinks of New York. dep naturally, upoit the point of view.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.