The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-29

building center. 1t would be now but |
for the fact that strikes inaugurated
nifty years ago or SO drove the Industry
away, while the fear of them keeps II
away. No place, not even the Della
ware river. Is naturally better suited
for ship building. while the natural |
commerce that demands the ships and
the repairing Of ships Is here. That a
great American liner had to go to the |
Delaware not long ago for an overhaul
ing Is q matter that ought not to be /
The fact should be men |
toned that enormous dry docks are
to be found In the Erie basin.
Naturally every citizen is proud Of |
the metropolis as q center Of literature |
and art. Frenchmen do not come here |
yet to complete their education as art |
lists. New Workers do so to Paris or |
Rome. But no New Yorker despairs |
of the future Of the city in this respect. |
The growth Of knowledge among the |
whole people in this matter must be |
apparent to every one familiar with
the facts. Some people of the west |
have occasionally derided the metrop-
oils for lack of what they call public |
spirit. 1t may be admitted that New |
Workers do not lie awake at night to
devise new schemes for advertising and
booming the town. Nor do they arro- |
gantly ostracize one who criticises
features Of the city and its life. But
they rejected the Heine monument.
So. too, people are proud Of the
schools from Columbia college down to
the lowest grade of the primary school,
but this does not prevent their seeing
that he schools are inadequate In num-
ber, space and facilities. And then
there are the private schools and coll
leges. The people Of Spanish America
send their sons to New York, and es-
pecially to the schools Of theology, med
icine and law. 1t Is reasonably certain
also that as a school in politics the
Greater New York under Professors
Plat and Croker can give points to any
other school OF the kind on earth.
PLEASURE RESORTS.
As a summer resort and as a place
for an outing, curiously enough, the
second city Of the globe surpasses all
other cities Of any size whatever. Other
cities have bathing beaches within easy
reach. Of course. New York has Coney
Island and Rockaway Beach within it's
borders. Nor should the resorts else
where-Bowery Bay on the Sound and
South Beach on Staten Island-be ig-
nored. To these places the people re-
sort by tens of thousands every day In
the season. Very likely more than l75.-
600 people go to them on hot day In
August, while the quiet hooks and
gardens throughout the wide suburban
belt that extends from Spuyten Duyvil
around to the east and south and west
and across Gravesend Bay to Staten
Island furnish rest and recreation and
thousands more.
npn 1anvhu af tho I'm 10 hp,nn who
have now and again landed in New
York with rifles loaded ready for buf-
falo, deer and grizzlies. But the cock
neys Were mistaken only In the choice
of weapons. A good Birmingham shot
gun was the weapon they needed. 1t
is curious fact that out of 300 and odd
birds found within the limits Of the
whole nation nearly half are set
down as residents or migrants within
the limits Of this where the population
in the world-a city where the popula-
tion averages S.29S plus to the square
mile. In the lagoons back of Rocka-
way Beach may be found in the season
ducks in great variety-sometimes in
great numbers-even redheads and can
vasbacks. More interesting STILL the
Canada goose hOnks low above those
meadows, and the brant comes to the
1@cCOyS. IueTe dIt SHOTe UlIuS Lilht
nest among the frozen deserts Of the
f,S north and pass their winters south
OF Ahe torrid zone that call by the way
to give sport to the hunter who lies
In wait within the limits Of the Greater
New York. There are Quails, too, and
English sniDe and woodcock-a whir-
ring host for the upland shooter who
konws where and how to look for them
There are owls in the common varieties
the screech and the barn and the
short-horned owls, of course, but more
interesting still Is the great hoot or
great horned owl. who, with his silent
flight, comes when the shadows of night
deepen, and carries off the unwary fowl
More remarkable still, the great snowy
owl-he who lives ordinarily beyond the
Mohawk and delights in nothing more
than snatching speckled trout through
hole in the ice over an Adirondack
stream-he has been known to come
within the limits Of the American met
ropolis.
There are hawks. too-the sparrow
hawk and the cooDers, and the sharp
skined and the duck hawk-ierce-
winged robbers, that grow fat on met
ropoiitan birds Of weaker mould, and
even the bald eagle Is sometimes seen,
That the flsh-hawk comes Is a matter
Of course.
And then there are the wild beasts.
The buffalo. the elk, the deer. and the
antelope are, of course, seen only in the
menagerie, but Of small mammals there
are not a few. An observer of long
experience has seen four kinds of bats
two kinds Of moles, and the red. the
gray. the black. and the striped souir-
rels running wild. The kangaroo mouse
may be found: so can the woodchuck.
SO can the skunk and the muskrat The
fOx has not yet been eXterminated, nor
has the weasel. More remarkable still
the sly mink still peers with his black
bead eyes from the haunts along the
streams as he searches for metropolitan
wild fowl and fish. while the hair seal
mas peen seen rearing his head from
metropolitan brine within recent years
For fishing let the angler try tbe
waters back of Rockaway Beach, when
the sheepshead run or the bluefish are
coming In, or he can cast his hook over
the grass into the lagoons when the
bass are biting. or he may 60 for the
bass to Hellgate or to other resorts in
the head OF the Sound. He can try for
hlackfish In variety ee tsla eees III itt the
bay-try with success, and there are
men of experience who will recommend
personal friends to try day at Princes
Bay. In spite Of market fishing there
Is no end to the sport that may be had
with hook and line within the limits of
New YORK. But one who knows the
trout OF the Adirondacks cannot recon-
mend the fat and lazy, If beautiful
speckled fellows that inhabit the too
warm streams of the second city of the
world.
OTHER POINTS.
No traveller in the metropolis should
fail to examine the farms. One reads
of the products of the farms of the irri-
gated west; reads with pleasure, too:
but the farmers Of southern California
and of Arizona and of Idaho ought to
see the farms Of the metropolis il they