The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-02
FROM RURAL DISTRICTS
People Who Seem To Con-
slider Jersey City in the
Light of a Summer
Resort.
THEY THINK THEY KNOW 1T ALL
Sightseeing the Order Of the Day,
and the Statue of Liberty a
Sort of Modern Mecca.

The melancholy days have come. sthe
dullest of the year, when every one who
can stay away from the city does so. and
the few people who have come home are
so tired out by their season OF rest In the
country that they stag severely indoors
and let the world wag without their as
s~lstance. The city has changed hands.
1t is the day of the visitor from out of
town.
You can tell the out of town visitor as
far as he or she is visible to the naked
eye. The main way to tell them in Jer-
sey City is that they are heading for New
York. With the great metroloprs" just
across the river. they waste no time on
our sights, unless it be u end OF the
ferry. with its up-in-the-alr acconmoda-
lions for travellers, The best way to tell
out of town visitors Is to notice how
they avoid looking at the passenger
bridges. except in a furtive way, out of
the corners of their eyes. They are con-
sumed with fear lest their place of resi-
dence be betrayed by any evidence that
they never saw those things before. Now
ShO PooSOA~OA bLAA5oo u AOo yOb OA0
enough to have lost their interest to real
New Workers aud Jersey citizens. They
still cast Upon them looks of open and ac-
knowledged scrutiny, and ever occasion
ally say, Great idea that" TO their next
neighbors while passing over. The out
of town visitor, especially the man, looks
neither to the right or left, lest his admir-
alton should be too pronounced.
The sfemln1ne visitor is always prone
RI ,lnIliDO 1 hinDS nv tHnir full n1Tlau. DC
for instance, the work of art on Liberty
Island, which she calls Liberty Eulight-
ming the World" She also desires to be
taken to the metropolitan Museum of
Art" with all its sYliables duly dwelt
upon. 1t is no doubt a useful habit to
aobreviate. as New Workers. do, but after
"a season of abbreviations it is really
quite refreshing to hear things called by
the anne with which they We're
named.
The out-or-town visitor!is all very we'll
so long as he or she comes from the
try, but if from a city, look out for break
ers, oh, thou who hast the care and
The visitor from Boston will look at
Central Park with a bored and
blase air, and suggest that the
Common is much more natural and the
Public Gardens more artistic. The Phila-
deiphia traveller will have mucn to say
ABOUT the norrlQ crush or vehicles Oh
West street, and declare that I'VE man
age that much better at home" And the
Chicago visitant will openly sniff at every
thing, from the elevated roads to Wash
inGton Bridge. and announce that people
who are suited with such a city "had bet
ter just take in the Fair next year." The
only thing a Chicago man really approves
of in this vicinity ID Jersey City's drink
ing water-lt makes him feel almost as if
he were at holne Local pride is a great
thing. and it is the main characteristic of
the summer visitor.
The great beauty of summer visitors is
that they give Inhabitants a chance to see
their own town, 1t is safe to say that the
average New Yorker goes to see the
places in his city set down in the guide
looks, only when he has the welfare of
his guests st heart. How many of New
York City's thousands make a practice
of visiting the Bartholdi Statue, or
of viewing the scenery from the
Brooklyn Bridge? And yet, as soon
Centre reach town, there il a little pill
grimage organized. and the wn-m
would think his duty as a host upper
formed should he neglect to feast the eyes
of his guests on these two objects.
Out OF town visitors are a good thing,
even il they do ignore Jersey Guy. aud
head straight for the other side of the
river. They have owned the town for the
last week, but the cold weather is putting
the inhabitants again In possession, and
We will soon see their faces no more for
another twelvemonth.