The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-30
SIGHT SEEING TN NEW YORK,
g. 70

per hour, printed and folded. The
press to the right of the balcony as
you face the street is an 'Octuple'
with the enormous maximum ca
pacity of $4,000 per hour, or 1900
per minute"
In the vicinity of the Pulitzer
building many of the country's
greatest newspapers are published,
among them the Sun, Tribune, Jour
nal, Press, Times and News. An ex-
ceIIent statute of quaint old Horace
Greedy is in the front of the large
Tribune building.
No visitor to New York City should
fail to see Central Park, a tract Of
$40 acres, where those tired of the
city's noise and strife may find
forests, lakes, hills and dales. Six
teen million dollars have been spent in
caring for and identifying it. There
T many other parks in the city,
but this is by all odds the largest
and most beautiful.
Near Central Park is the MetrOpOl-
itan Museum of Art, which we Wis
tied Friday morning. Here is the
greatest collection of paintings and
statues in America. Many celebrated
paintings by the old masters,
Raphael, Titan, Rubens, Rem
brandt, Michael Angelo, MuriIlo,
Teniers, Vandyck, and others are
shown. The choicest works of the
greatest of modern painters are
also here. OF these perhaps the best
known is Rosa BOnheur's Horse
Fair" presented by Cornelius Van
derbilt, who paid $50, 500 for it.
BretOn's "ReligiOus Procession in
Brittany" Detaille's Defense of
Champigny," M~eissonier's Fried
land, 1907" Leutze's washington
Crossing the Delaware, - and Brozik's
columbus at the Spanish Court, "
I some of the other masterpieces
owned by the Museum. a lover of art
might, with PLEASURE and profit,
spend an entire week here.
The Eden Musee is a collection of
wax figures r~eprenting the best
known men of this and other coun-
tries, sometimes grouped to repre-
sent historical scenes. Size, figure,
dress, complexion, and pose are so
accurately copied that it is almost
impossible to go through without
installing some of them for living
persons. One Of the figures repre-
sentsa sleeping guide, in color, shape,
and pose perfect, in some way made
to in the most natural manner
In the heather sacrifice, you not
only see the glow Of the fire, but
hear it crackle.
The Obelisk, "Cleopatra's Needle, "
in Central Park, while not a very
imposing or impressive object, has a
very interesting history. 1t is one
Of the six greatest of the ancient
Egyptian Obelisks and was erected
in the Temple Of the Sun, at He'll
Opolis, $500 years ago, by King
ThOthmes III. The ObeIisk was
old in the days Of the Roman
Empire antedates the Christian
Era by nearly sixteen centuries :;
looked down upon the land of Egypt
before the seige of Troy, and was
familiar to Moses and the ~Israelites
in bondage" 1t is 50 feet high,
weighs 220 tons, and was brought to
New York from Egypt in 1881.
Wednesday morning we went bv
ferry to Bedloe's Island to see Bar
tholdi's Liberty Enlightening the
World, the largest statue of mod
ern times. 1t is made of hammered
plates. of copper, is ISL feet high,
and stands upon a pedestal 155 feet
high. After going up the 155 feet of
broad stairs to the base of the statue.
You enter the statue itself and ascend
the narrow spiral stairway, round
and round, round and round,
through the midnight darkness dis
PEELED here and there by the dim
lights, until you reach the hollow in
the top of the head, where it is said