22 NEW YORK. 



nor does it stretch towards heaven many of those stee 

 ples, domes, and towers which are usually the ornaments 

 of the great cities of other nations. It looked to me 

 precisely what it was, a place of merchandise and accu 

 mulated bricks and dollars, built for the need of immedi 

 ately succeeding hours and for mercantile utility, rather 

 than for the pride and pomp of a great country desirous of 

 impressing the world with its magnificence. The ferry 

 boats are managed to perfection, as to size, time, and con 

 venience, and at an easy rate for freight and passage. 

 The Broadway is a fine thoroughfare, most dangerously 

 paved for horses, as is proved by their constantly falling 

 down in every sort of vehicle, light or heavy ; but the 

 safety of the lives of men or animals is little heeded in 

 the United States, the dollar is the deity of the day, 

 and so long as that is fetched and carried, what lives are 

 lost, vehicles smashed, or knees broken, matters not to 

 the citizens of progression ! In my way to the Claren 

 don Hotel I passed Grace Church, which was the hand 

 somest place of worship of any that I saw in New York, 

 and the equestrian statue of Washington, of infinitely 

 better execution than any similar attempt to perpetuate 

 in stone the likeness of king or hero in the squares of the 

 metropolis of England. The seat and attitude of the 

 rider, and the action in which the horse is represented, 

 may well shame those English artists who have indulged 

 in all sorts of stony projections termed equestrian in the 

 mother country. This surprises me now more than it 

 did when I first saw it, and raises a suspicion in my 

 mind that a man of the old country, and not a citizen 

 of the new, must have sat a horse by way of model for 

 the artist's chisel, inasmuch as the seat of the statue of 

 Washington on his horse partakes more of the English 



