The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-03-11
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE

"Doing Central I'ark''-Menageries.
Museums and the Obelisk-7he Big
Atlantic Ocean-Ihe japanese Vil-
lage- The Great Art Collection
Speaking and Thinking by Millaons-
Extremes Of New York-1he Greatest
and Meanest Gty-1ammany and
Presidential Candidates - Societies
and CLtbs lnnunaerable-The Paine
Celebration - Talmage - Materiah-
cation - Jas. Mathews - DR.. Miller
and the American - The Hygienic
Hotel.
EDITOR Pro TEM:-The ADVANCE
family continue to live in a ''palace up
town." Six blocks away lies Central
Park, beginning at 59th street and ex-
tending northward from two and a
halt to three miles We are opposite
the I'D street entafnce and on fine af.
ternOOns we take the two little ones in
a baby carriage and the rest of US on
foot aud sally forth to ''do'' the park.
Twice we have visited the menaxerie
or geological garden, twice the art
museum and once the museum of nat
ural history. These are free to the
public. The art museum, however,
charges small admission fee on Mon
days and Tuesdays. The skating in
the park has been fine part of the time
on some Of the lakes, and New York
Is generous toward her skaters. She
puts up flag when skating is good,
keeps houses along the banks OF the
lakes where skaters can warm, and
lights up the banks 1T night. In sum-
mer. when people flock to the park by
millions, she keeps il band playing on
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons
Oh the grand ''Mall." n number OF
the grass plots are already green and
the evergreen trees, bushes and vi.!es
have of course been so all winter.
From the top Of our palace' we get
glimpse of the Obelisk and Clpopatra's
Needle. \ very interesting Object to us
''schOOl children" II was presented
to the United States government
by the X khe'|ive of Egypt, and the cost
ut removing it and placing it on Il ped
cstal was borne ly the late VIM. II.
Vanderbilt. "the riches: man in the
world" "and more abused for being the
richest than ever amy b-ygar was for
being the poorest. The crab.claws
around the base of the Shaft have been
restored in bronze and bear the in.
scriptions. One reads, ''Qu4rtied at
Syen", Egyl Erected at Helopolis
by Th"th pe Ill in the l6th century
Is. g." Another reals, Removed to
Alexandria, Egypt, and erected there
b. q. =. by the Romans" So here we
confront relic Of that wonderful
Egypt, the mother Of science, art, let
ters, religion. and Of masonic and
spiritual mysteries, the land Of signs,
symbols and hier"rlyphics, aud if ever
the world learns to read the Egyptian
inscriptions. sphinxes, pyramids, ETC.,
1t will probably read the riddle Of the
universe. The inscriptions which the
chiseled over tt,irty-four hundred
years ago by human hands and thew
remain. But where are the poor tel.
lows who did the chiseling? Perhaps
one Of those mummies in the art mus
cum, only a few PAGES away, took a
hand at it.
Recently on mild May day in Feb
ruary, when the sparrows were twit.
tering, We took run down to Brighton
Beach and bearded the Atlantic ocean
In his den. "Boundless, endless and
sublime''-Byron. There it was, sure
enough, certainly sublime, and appar-
emily bOundless aud endless. Bound
less, beautiful and blue so far as We
could see. Even little A. Pr held
up his right hand and said ''oo' and
his mother stopped and let him pick
up q shell (he took one of his own size)
to take home as a trophy wrung from
tho very jaws of the terrible Atlantic,
the mildest- hammered sea on this par
ttcular day that ever scuttled a ship or
closed throat with water. OFF to the
right was the smoky outline of Staten
Island, with spectral line of ships
gliding in and out from the great New
York harbor. To the left lay the
beach, lined with hotels of all sizes,
where New York comes in summer to
cool off with salt breezes and water.
In front. three thousand miles away,
lay Europe. not visible on this partic-
ular day, save to the minds eye or the
clsirvoyant's, but there was enough
blue water and gray sky in sight to
last . life time.
Recently, also, W. visited the Jap.
snese village and q Morgan Collec-
tion. The village b s been one of the
attractions during the winter, a com
pany Of Japanese at work, making
their vases, silk patterns, garments,
bronze ornaments, etc. 1t is actually
done before your eyes, and the ladies
especially have been interested to see
how those brilliant birds, etc., are
wrought on q silk background, and
how those painted and enameled vases
are made. In their medallions they
seem to be in advance of Europeans
and Americans. At least they give
their faces and heads a more lite-like
appearance.
The Morgan Collection is the finest
art collection which has been on exhi-
bition in the city. A wealthy lady
named Morgan expended some three
mllIions OF dollars in collecting rare
pa ntings. vases and works of art. Her
design was to perfect her collection
and present it to the city, to be put on
exhibition for the benefit of the public
But alas! she died without perfecting
her plans and without will, and to.
day the sale of the collection. or rather
selection, begins, and these costly
works will 60 to adorn the homes of u
few rich men. One of the interesting
objects in the collection is the famous
''Peach Blow Vase" from China, tn.
art of making which is lost 1t is about
the size OF q tomato catsup bottle an(
cost $4,000 With wife to help, we pu,
IN Just an hour and u half looking ovel
this three million dollars worth of art
and II we could take our choice from
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