The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-30

d good view of the harbOr ana city
may be obtained.
The United States Sub-Treasury,
which we visited upon u return,
stands upon Wall Street. On this
site in 1879 George Washington was
inaugurated first President of the
United States. More money is
stored in this building than any
where else in the country except in
the Treasury vaults in Washington.
Next door is the United States AS
say Office. Every year from twenty
to one hundred million dollars worth
of crude bullion are here received,
assayed, and prepared for coinage at
the mint. We were allowed to view,
from a safe distance, some vessels
containing $3.50, 900 worth of molten
gold, from which the wOrkmen were
making bars worth $4,000 each. A
room which we were shown was
said to contain $40, 600, 900 in gold
and silver, while $3.50, 900 in bullion
was stored away in one of the
windows.
Crossing Brooklyn Bridge, ~
miles long, costing SIC, 900, 900, we
entered Brooklyn and visited the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. Here we in
spected the battleship Kentucky,
with it's IS inch, 8 inch, and 6 inch
guns. The Kentucky is 368 feet on
the waterline, and when the ship is
fully equipped, ready for sea, with
all stores on board and a normal coal
supply of 40 tons, her maximum
draught will be % feet 1 inch, and
her displacement II, 525 tons.
The automobiles, of which there
are so many now or the streets of
New York, were new to us and an
automobile ride to Grants tomb on
Thursday morning was one Of the
most pleasant features of trip.
The Etomb, which contains the body
of General Grant and will contain
the body of his widow, is one of the
cOstliest in the country. 1t is located
on a spot of great natural beauty on
the left bank of the Hudson, is of
light granite, cost $500, 900, is $50
feet high, and was dedicated April
%, 1897.
But one tires of sightseeing after
"a few days. You can as certainly
feast your eyes beyond enjoyment
as your stomach. And so it was
with a certain sense of relief hat
we a few hours later, left New York,
with its gigantic sky scrapers and
its vast throngs of hurrying human
ity. Stopping a few hours in Wash
ingtOn City-which seemed like a
quiet country town compared with
great bustling New York-we made
a hasty tour of the city, and visited
the Congressional Library-as gorge
Gus as a sumnle sunset, nowhere
gaudy but everywhere perfectly
elegant. It's interior decorations are
perhaps the handsomest in the New
World. The building was begun in
1889 and was completed in 1897 at a
cost of six million dollars.
After all, home is best. CHANGING
over what we have written, we find
it fairly bristling with dollar marks.
d. --l,o- Ill c., VUS11;,-, T.-a- -,-L
the famous question, "What consti-
tutes a State?" he answered it him
self "Men, high-minded men-men
who know their rights, and, know
ing, dare maintain" With this
criterion, we are quite willing to
compare New York with North
Carolina.
And it is also true that the dollars
7 more evenly distributed with US.
We have not so many millionaries,
but we have a smaller per cent. of
wretchedly poor. Our politics is
purer. Neither Croker nor PIatt
could long flourish in North Caro-
lima u people would not long
tolerate their corruption.
The foreign population of New
York is very great. Noticing the
large number Of foreign names on
the street signs, we were reminded
of an argument between an Ameri-
can and an Englishman. The former
was boasting of his country and the
valOr of the American in general,
but finally had to furl his flag at
this "clincher" from the Briton
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