The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-04-22
SAW new YORK.
Ninety Providence Teachers Visited
the Metropolis.
Visited Grants Tomb, Stock Exchange and
Other Points Of Interest.

This is the way the New York Her
aid records the doings of party OK
school teachers from this city in the
great American metropolis:
Providence. r. l., sent us ninety
school teachers yesterday, and eighty
four of them were vivacious young wo-
men bearing golf capes, cameras and
bewitching smiles. They started with
Grants tomb and ended in Trinity
churchyard. Central Park, Riverside
Drive, Chinatown, the Museum of Nat
ural History. the elephants, the lions
and the tigers of the Zoo: the bulls
and bears of the Stock Exchange and
the statue of venerable John Watts
were inventoried and snapshotted-
Won't we have lots to talk about!'
one of the girls said after the day was
over. II always wished to know New
York thoroughly. I'm so glad we saw
the Mazet committee"
1t was really the fair school teachers
second visit TO New York in the course
OF one excursion. They left Providence
a week ago yesterday and reached New
ington line. They scampered down
several blocks and emerged at one of
the ferries, where they took ship for
Jersey. They couldn't see all of New
York in fifteen minutes, so, after tax
ing a survey OF Washington and Phila-
delphia. they hurried back to the me-
tropolis.
They arrived here Thursday after
noon and established themselves at the
Hotel Vendome. The young women
went shopping i'm the afternoon and in
the evening the men teachers took
them to the theaters. Everybody was
ready 10 start out again at half past
nine o'clock yesterday morning. some
of the teachers had been up for sew
eral hours before that taking snap
shots OF the Broadway cable cars and
of passing throngs.
Now. before we start out" said the
young woman with the blue golf cape,
TO whom the others paid tacit fealty,
"leti be understood that were no per-
sonally conducted excursion party. Let
US seperate into different parties"
There were six young men, so an
euuable division was made OF the es-
corts.
Grants tomb was a revelation. for IL
was found that the tall structure was
"'hollow inside" and ornamented Ike a
palace.
Central Park was wilderness OF
wonder The swan boats. the goat car
riages. the deer ana all the lakes called
poetry 10 use 20 the lips OF the lying
columns OF school teachers.
They managed that they made Inc
trim through Wall street without acci-
dent. They were all unconscious of the
admiring glances OF the brokers. for 10
them the men who tuggcd and scram-
blel ana tore up bits OF paper were
merely anthropoiogical exhibits.
once. when half the brokers on the
floor faced about and uttered a rover
beratinc veil the young women up IN
the gallery showed only mild interest.
II wasn't until after they had lcft ne
Exchange that one Of them. aS though
seized bv q sudden Inspiration cxcla'm-
ed: why, girls. 7 DO believe those
funny men were yelling az u.s.
Then came the peep at the NiHzet
committee.
Then there was the brooklyn br'frH.
Many OF the young women made ne
tourney across upon the cars. which
they reached after playing hop scotch
over the trolley loops. Others walked
across the great iron structure.
All the young women. and four 60
corts. met later upon the deck 81 the
Stonington line stcan,e- Maine. ana ~
h3if past Eve o'clock last evening tnaY
we're on their way back 10 Proylicnce.