Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-05-06
FROM LOFTY PLACES.
How Stranger May Get a Good View
of New York.

HOW stranger Way tset "a 6cod view
of New York.
will suggest the method by which
visitors can gain at ones the personal inn
preston of New York rs whole which
the best map poorly conveys. To begin,
would have them view it on both sides,
the Brooklyn and Jersey fronts, and 1.-The
islands" with their institutions. from the
ferry boats east and west. Then let
them obtain those birds eye" views
which various points afford, and which
are rivaled only by the views from the
Boston State House dome and Eiffel
tower in Paris. That from St. Paufs
Cathedral in London, owing to the fog
and smoke, affects one chiefly through
the imagination, which in truth it power
fully excites. There will be grand
lookout insPhilade when the tower
Of the public building shall be finished.
But rarely will you get such metropol-
itan prospect as from any one OF three
elevations which | select from the many
available.
First, then, get leave to ascend the
noble clock tower of the Produce Elk
change, very near the island point where
the city had its beginnings. Below you
is the site of the old fort, in which the
Dutch governors ruled New Amster-
dam" and which rdhcaded Petrus
Stuyvesant had TO surrender to the Duke
of York's forces-their first act being to
rechristen the settlement and fasten
their masters name upon us. Within
sight, everywhere, is perhaps the most
continuously historic ground of the ltevo-
luton, and at your feet the spot whence
King Georges beaten soldiery finally left
these shores Here, too, are the Battery
and Bowling Green. Look Oft, and you
will never forget the scene about you.
The vast commercial region stretches
northward. You can almost throw a
stone into Wall street, where Washir gton
took his presidential oath. In this ciircc-
ton you sec the grandest buildings vying
in height with Trinity Church anil st.
Pauls; little further, mark the "Tele-
graphic Capitol" and the towers and
domes of the lofty newspaper ediices.
Everywhere, as far as the eye can see, is
a mass of stores, warehouses, financial
buildings; in short, Incorporating traffic,
the strictly commercial and executive
portion of the town Survey the harbor,
to Liberty and Staten Islands, to the
forts, and through the Narrows to the
sea. To right and left are the rivers
the Bridge, Brooklyn, Jersey City, anc
the inland hills. Both of the rivers, yor
remember, are to be bridged and tunnelcC
again and again What splendor of life
aud movement in the streets and on thu
water Such maritime panorama at al
hours. with ferryboats, tugs, schooners
steamers, going to and fro, and ships anC
Yachts at anchor, can be seen nowher
else on earth, there being no other city
equally huge, that is at once ocean por
and metropolis.
Now go three miles northward, an
YOU are in that civic centre which ha
shifted, within memory from the Cit!
Hall Park to Union Square, and again t
Madison Square--the plaza around whic
are tokens of our most brilliant life an
pleasure. Here you are whirled up tn
delightful Sevillian tower Of the "Gai
den, and from height Of 800 feet loo
out "over the roofs of the world pic
turesquely broken up, spire- pierced, fu
of color Here you view the social an
, residential uptown region rich an
, proud mansions, the costly. hotels, tn
theatres, clubs, music halls, opei
houses. The Roman Catholic Cathedri
lifts its white spires over all You st
:, the churches, homes, and play-houses
upper-class New York, as 1t now exists.
Il Three miles more, and you may elm
the Belvedere on the highest eminence
Central Park. Here one is enchanted b
. viewing that long pleasure ground whic
u nature and art combine to make
I varied. 1t is too narrow, perhaps, b'
this enables you to- see how it is bordere
with new and stately mansions, and
; look away to the Riverside and Morning
Is side parks, and yonder to the "Cathedr
u Heights" to be crowned anon by Il
Is Grant Mausoleum, the Columbia Tn
versity, and by that coming wonder
the Protestant cathedral. Between
l. the "new New York, ;" Il spacious ira
with fair streets, houses Of modern d
sign, score of new churches, and
the evidences of amazing recent growt
Above Central Park, the Harlem distri
is a city in itself.--IE. G. StedmAn in
, Nicholas.