The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-08-05

nreplaceS! linen how large the
chimneys must be, and SO, what
thick walls, and how much bigger
the hotel was for fireplaces, and how
the roof would look like city with
avenues and streets and alleys, and
hundreds of chimneys as buildings;
and what smoking gehena or
Pittsburg city above me; and how
did they ever convey the wood to all
the fireplaces, and were all hotels
like this, and how much. ...?
and in the morning
awoke to numberless other
problems of city life. The
daylight showed that my open win
dow-for the night was too hot to
have even the blinds closed-eXposed
scores of other open windows above
and beneath mine on the opposite
side and ends of the hotel court, and
OF consequence mine was exposed to
all others. The interest that many
other men appeared to take in my
selection of u necktie and expires
sions was practicing in the glass,
constituted the waking shock of
New York City. It's brazonry forced
itself upon me until | also took un-
abashed concern in my fellows when
lo some shutters snapped open like
morning glory petals and u lovely
hat and face and form OF a woman
were looking straight at me, and |
thanked the good Lord that was not
in stag hotel. (See last week S
SENTINEL, page l, column 4, line 81. }
| naturally began sightseeing on
Broadway. It's narrow, short and
crooked line maintains its title just
ly in that it displays a greater va
riety of architecture, shops and
crowds than any other thoroughfare
in the world | rode its length from
the Battery to Central Park-fve
miles-a number of times with ever
increasing amazement. The pro.
duce Exchange, Standard Oil Co.,
Manhattan Lie Insurance, United
Bank, Equitable Life Insurance and
other buildings make sections OF
Broadway u mere by-path by their
towering and huge proportions,
The massive postotlice building
stands opposite the terminus OF
many street car lines. These cars
with all sorts of vehicles render the
street here impossible to all but The
stoutcst hearts. In trying il | was
carried a long way past my objective
point and had hairbreadth escape,
enough for a lifetime. St. Paul S
office building is the tallest in the
city. The n. Y. Life insurance
building is OF white marble incrud-
IDLY noble. The vast iron structure
built by y. T. Stewart & Co., now
owned by John Wanamaker. q won
der in Itself, attracts no special at
tention. The fashionable shopping
quarter is between Union and Nudi-
son squares: the windows here dis
play the retincmentS OF the word.
Broadway has sections which are at
white heat of activity at different
parts of the - hours.
Leaving Il. W. at 20th street aud
crossing one block to Fiith-ave., !
reached the Mecca OF all American
Methodists-the Methodist BOOK
Rooms. was prepared for the fine
proportions and arrangements o.!
this Building Yet it Impressed mc
deeply. An attendant showed me
all through. All NJ. Z. preacher,
are partners in this concern. Mod,
ern printing presses are employed
here printing, folding and binding
vast quantities of the best literl-
f.r,,
linotypes as one uses Il typewriter,
and spent one hour in the moulding
room, where type impressions pass
through evQlutions resulting in
cylinders that print with lightning
speed. | visited the editor ; room,
but DR.. Buckly was out of the city.
Then | made for Brooklyn bridge.
the miracle among miracles. |
walked over it the first thing. 1t is
over Il mile long. Pictures of it
help one to imagine something Of its
reality On my birthday four years
ago 225. 6i5 people passed over it,
the greatest number of any one day
known to statistics. When I,learncd
this | thought | was getting even
with New York. The foot promen-
ade is in the center, on each side lie
double car tracks and beyond these
wagon roads wide enough for teams
to pass. From il one sees the
Bartholdi statue of Liberty, and at
night looking out over the city with
its innumeraole lights il requires but
little imagination to feel oneself Il
disembodied spirit looking down up
o. the starry universe.
Next | visiiel the Tombs, the city
prison. 1t is not such gloomy
building as its name implies. 1t oc-
cupies an entire block. ] was in the
criminal court in the next block dur
ing the trial of the woman in the
June Kidnapping case of the little
Clark girl. | strained every per-
missable means to get admission to
the court room and finally was told
by man in uniform in atfable man
ner that he never found place yet
he couldn t get into with money. |
was advised to show silver dollar
to the doorkeeper which | did not
do. The criminal court and the
Tombs are connected by bridge,
a story above and crossing Franklin
street; so that prisoners are passed