Saturday, March 10, 2012

From the archive, 15 February 1843: Description of New York, by Charles Dickens

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article was published in The Guardian, Manchester February 15, 1843

The beautiful metropolis of America is not as clean a city like Boston, the houses are not as flashy, ON and the plates on the doors of the street are not as bright and sparkling. There are many products streets almost like neutral colors, and positive in the dirty streets of London, and a fourth, commonly called the "Five Points", that for the filth and misery, not with the security leaned against Seven Dials.

The walk is a great Broadway - a wide and bustling street, which, from the gardens of the battery from its opposite end on a rural road, perhaps four miles long. We sat on the floor of the house Carlton Hotel, and when we are tired of looking down in life then go out arm in arm, and mixed with the stream? The paving stones are polished with the tread of feet until they shine again, the roofs of buses seems that if water is poured over them, mocked, and the smoke and smell as that means lights out. Many cars and Hackney cabs, also concerts phaetons and private cars. Black coachmen and black, straw hats, black hats, white hats, caps, fur hats in the glass layers of gray, black, brown, green, blue, nankeen, striped jean and linen, and in one case (see as he goes, or it is too late!) in suits of livery. Some southern Republicans, who puts his blacks in uniform, and swells with a pump and power of the Sultan.
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  • save the ladies, their way of dressing! We have seen more colors in these ten minutes of what might have seen elsewhere in as many days. The number of umbrellas! Silks and satins of the rainbow! I chopped down for pinch and fine shoes, and fluttering of ribbons and silk tassels, and display rich layers gaudy hoods and linings! Young people like to reject their collars and cultivating their whiskers, especially under the chin, but can not approach the ladies in their dress and bearing
Byron table and counter, pass, and we'll see what kind of men are those who are behind you - evening gowns the two workers, one of whom is holding a crumpled piece of paper , which seeks to explain a hard name, while the other looks around all doors and windows. So Irish! They may know if they were hidden by layers of long tail and bright blue buttons, and gray pants. It would be hard to keep your model republics going, without the countrymen of these two workers. For who else would dig and dig and slave, and do domestic work, and make canals and roads, and execute great lines of internal improvement?

We will help for the love of home and the spirit of freedom that does not support an honest man, and honest men and honest work for honest bread. We have the right direction, finally, even if it is written in strange characters truly, and might have been scrawled on the handle of the spade frank the writer best known to use a pen. Its shape is there, but what business takes them there? They take the savings. To win? No, they are brothers, men. A crossing of the sea alone, and work hard for half the year if sufficient funds to carry out the other. Once done, worked together, side by side, contentedly sharing a hard life and hard work for another term, and then their sisters came, and then another brother, and finally, her elderly mother. Now what? Why, the old poor old was stirred in a foreign land, and yearns to lay their bones among his people, in the old graveyard at home, then they will pay them back home visiting. God help her and them and all simple hearts, and all those who turn to the Jerusalem of their younger days, and have a home [illegible] in the cold hearth of their fathers.



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