The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-29
SIGHTS FOR NEW YORK ALONE.
Aspects of the Great City as Seen from tho
Brooklyn Bridge.

Nearly a million Of New Workers will carry
forever in their memories n great gallery Of mental
pictures for which the brooklyn Bridge has FUR
nShed the point Of view, Night and day, summer
and winter, that great highway in the heaven
serves the vantage place whence the delighted
eyes Of men and women take in the varying as
poets Of the clustered city. and the goodly panu-
rama Of its matchcss harbor. Who can forget
that red Sahara of the East Side in mid August
seen from the hitherward tower Of the Bridge
\ heat and fiery light as Of the nethermost pit
is reflected into the sky from that swelerng human
hive, and not even the moist influence Of the Fast
River itself mitigate the pitiIess horizon.
How wonderful, too, the midwinter view of the
same region when all those miles OF dull red house
tops are ROBBED in white and II Christmas peace
aud purity seems 10 have descended upon the
town.
The views from the Bridge alter in sympathy
with the hours and the seasons. The coming of
twilight throws magic calm over the Serratc
sky line Of downtown New York when the orange
fires Of dying autumn sunset glow through the
chinks and crcvces Of the mock mountain range
and the pcarly hume Of a s,ean-jet here and there
feathrry soft against the serene sky, seems to
proclaim a truce Of God over the hurrying town.
Then il is that the waters are haunicd with cold
lights Of the upper sky and with alternating glo0ms
Of their own, both full Of suggestions that rouse
Sympathetic pleasant melancholy in imaginative
minds.
But the Bridge itself what a spectacle is il al
any lime .! day or night Seen al early morning
from the surface of the water it seems an airy
creation OF the night spun Of mist and mooubeamS,
or nicely S,upcndonS piece "f spider work. such
thing as spirits rather than human beings might
tread Seen al night from the ferryboats that
ply atar, il looks LITTLE more than II great string
ot beads, stretched high in air beads that glow
and twinkle like enormous gems The first
glimpse OF the Bridge even in sober da flight Ia an
observer approaching from afar on the waters
suggests structure Of the upper air. done in ice
or some such pcrishablc stuff, stretched between
icy pinnaClCS and Sc TALBOT from the Song touch
81 those that tread the earth
ON windy moonlrS~ summer nights when there
is Just sufficient gut 10 reveal the OWrr courses Of
cables Slopng into unseen heights. he that finds
himself midway the promenade can scarce resist
the notion oI being at sea upon some gigantic
the seas or east it's anchor i'll earthly pOris In
ermnablv before and behind run the parallel
but apparently Convcrg ny scans II the deck. far
toward PROV and stern glimmcr the warning
lights, and singing through the cordagr that
runs 10 the unEueSScd heights OF the invisible
tOpmaStl PUSHES the Spiccd sea breeze Right
onward holds the great ship while the prOmcnader
lmagineS ,shadOwy sails bellyng in the breeze
hears the cfeaking Of the cordage feels slant Of
the deck as the gigantic huh heels over under
stress of wind and press Of canvas, and smells
the sea ndors as far below the bulwarks the great
waves leap in vain.