The Wayfarer in New York (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Wayfarer in New York New York is a frontier city situated about halfway between San Francisco and London. It has a population of about four millions and a half, and gains about a hundred thousand a year. A very large proportion of its population are newcomers, who pour in both by sea and by land. Most of those who come on the land side are Americans who know the language, customs and some of the laws of the country. Those who come by sea - a great and continuous stream - know as a rule neither our language, laws nor habits, and it is one of the steady occupations and duties of New York to teach them. New York's four millions include a select but respectable company of persons who were born in New York of native-American parents, a squad, probably larger, of persons American born of American-born parents who came to New York when more or less grown up, another considerable group of the American-born descendants of foreign-born parents, and a large company of the foreign born. New York is hardly a first-rate place to be born in. It is too crowded, it costs too much to be born there, and in spite of considerable effort and expenditure, the city has not been able to adjust itself more than imperfectly to the needs of infancy. A hundred and twenty-five thousand babies, more or less, take the chances of being born in New York every year, and a vast deal is done to make them welcome and encourage them to keep on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.