Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22

Written for The Evening Star by Guy T. yiskniskki
I'VE may boast of the Yellowstone Ma
| tional Park and it's natural wonders; of the
! Garden of the Gods; of Niagara Falls and
| it's rival In the Yosemite Valley; of the
| Grand Canyon of Arizona; of the many fine
| buildings and statuary and other things to
| be seen at the nations capital; but when
| alrs said and done, little old New York Is,
after all, the show place of America.
Some of us have hestated to acknowl-
| edge New York's pre-eminence in this mat
| ter not that we love our metropolis less'
but our own particular city more, contn-
ued one of the most prominent hotel Keep
ers in New York. Still, it is certainly not
stretching matters to state that the ma
jority of us are possessed with common
secret desire to see the metropolis for our
selves before we die, thereby proving con-
clusively that even we really hold 1t to De
the show place of America. And, frequent
ly there is coupled with this desire Sc
cret pride in the fact that not only tens OF
thousands of Americans, but thousands OF
foreigners from every country on earth as
well, yearly make pilgrimages to see the
wonders reared by us In our greatest CITY.
Us, for New York is and always has Deen
made up of Americans from everywhere.
Us because it is the financial and CONNER
cial clearing house of the nation; ana pc
cause we have made 1t so, therefore us
Brooklyn bridge, it's Wall street, its stock
exchange, and it's many other world IA
nous institutions.
After making all due allowances for the
hotel keepers enthusiasm, 1t is still true
that no other city of modern times mas
given the world so many household names.
The first thing the average foreigner says
when he lands in America Is something
after this fashion:
Household Names.
where's your Wall street I've heard so
much about? And your great Suspension
bridge? (He doesn't call it Brooklyn
bridge) And the Stock Exchange and the
Bowery h-the-ah-Tenderloin?' And
so he continues, naming Grant Iomp'
Central Park, the SkyScraperS In general,
and none in particular; dear old Coney Is
land the Palisades of the Hudson, Trinity
Church, 9TH avenue, with its numerous
millionaires homes, and, without fail, ram
many Hall.
Household names all in America, and SO
are these: The Flatiron building, the
statue of Liberty, Hell Gate, BROOKLYN
navy yard, Madison Square Garden, the
Battery, the harbor, Hudson river; those
famous old hotels, the Fifth Avenue and the
Hoffman House; Ludlow street Jail, News
paper Row, the Elevated, Bellevue Hospital,
Tweed's court house, st. PatrickS Cathe-
dral, ST. PaulS, the Little Church AROUND
the Corner DIR. Parkhurst's church, Grace
Church, made famous by Denman Thomp-
son in THE Old Homestead" Broadway,
the Rialto the Speedway, Riverside Drive,
the Obelisk, the Tombs, Ellis Island Cooper
Union Herald Square, the Hall of Fame,
the Park Row building and its rival just
across the street, the st. Paul; the ocean
liners, Sherrys, Delmonicos, Tiffanys, the
Waldorf Astoria and the old Astor House;
| the subtreasury and Washington's statue,
BlackwellS and Governors islands and the
| harbor defenses; the Five Points Mission,
Chinatown, with it's Pell and Mott streets;
| Hester and Baxter streets, and the East
| Side generally; to say nothing of such new
! household names as the Williamsburg
bridge the subway, the Cathedral of st.
| John the Divine, the White Light district,
| and the St. Regis, whose fame has been
| spread broadcast because, forSooth, roast
| turkey costs s. an order there.
Not even Washington with Its Capitol
| and White House, its Mall and department
| buildings, it's legations and parks, has given
the country so many household names by
| half.
| Show Places.
| But these are not the only show places
| that thousands of people spend their leis-
ure in New York seeing. AS soon as they
! have crossed the ferries and set foot or
the island they hunt out 300 Mulberry. the
| big banks controlled by the country's lead.
! ing financiers, the Metropolitan Museum OF
| Art the aquarium, the American Museum
| of Natural History, Columbia University
| the produce exchange, the Bronx geological
! their great crowds. They even look up the
| post office and the city hall, despite the
| fact that they have never given their owr
buildings devoted to similar purposes sc
| close scrutiny; and they stand ana gaIs
| at other things that their own home cities
| can boast of with even better grace tnaI
! can New York of hers. But they've heare
| of these places-heard of them for years