It is true that in New York one can get almost anything he wishes to get. It is a city of extremes. The weather, for example: I had Jcome from the tropics to find New York covered with eight inches of snow and quite cold. Within a few hours the streets in most busy sections were clear not only of Jsnow, but had had such a wash-up that, to say the least, they were an. object lesson to Shanghai! But exftremes are everywhere, Here the highest wealth and the direst poverty meet, and mostly though another writer may: say that New York's heart is as big as the great outdoors and full of charity—and he will be right, From casual observation, one is not of course able to make a definite assertion, but it strikes the newcomer that New Yorkers are an_automatically living people. By that mean that this city, through its maze of system in everything, pro-Jduces a style of life from which it is dificult to depart. The mobs swaying to and fro on a holiday down the Great White Way strike cone as being a legion of human an. tomatoes; yet the New Yorker will tell you that they are not New: Yorkers at all, for the New Yorker divides his time between his office Jand his home, You will retort that there is no home life in New York, for all the people seem to live in apartment houses that tower away: up out of sight into the sky. yet nowhere in the world will you find greater hospitality than in the homes of New Yorkers of every el Given just one letter of intro find that the city is yours, so great is the spontaneity of New York friendliness; yet, on the other hand, New York fo many is the most un: friendly and lonely wi serness ow the face of the earth.
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xin to make comparisons of one's impressions to-day with those fof ten years azo would fill many columns, of the "North China." There is' only one word for New is just a wonderful place, tone succession of changes.
New York, however, the come with such fore. Bui nuassive affairs which take on up-to-the-minute details in all that ence can devise, embrace all the self-expression of man that he is capable of putting into them, and in short order point upwards ple ingly to the mountain "of man's hope. All. is speed, action, motion.—inuich int control, much again entirely out of control. New York constantly takes a chance. New: Yorkers are human sponges for ideas, and will try anything once; if tthe idea is good, the reward may be a million or many millions—if, not, then they forget.
One morning I found it necessary. to xo down to the subway at the rush time, and as saw human he-ings herd, together in rose ex-he proud!
awe York is as spiritual a place as any other city, But you wait till we have built up the material, then we'll show you!"
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