New-York tribune., 1905-08-15
THE SIGHTS or YEW-YORK.

4 visiting Englishman has recently found in
the sympathetic columns of The Saturday Re
view an opportunity to tell what he saw in
New-York and what he apparently believed
was all there to see worthy of the interest
of the intelligent traveller He took guide for
an automobile trip through the city, and. with
out any exaggeration, he assures us, this is
fair list of the objects of interest which he
passed:
House in which Jay Gould expired
Brick Presbyterian Church
MilliOnaireS Club
Residence costing S6,OOO,OOO.
Home of William Ziegler.
Democratic Club.
Former home of Boss Tweed.
Highest point of elevated railroad
Home Of Henry G. Frick.
Home of Isaac Wormser
Tammany Hall
The saloons of the priZefghters Kid Mccoy
and Tom Sharkey.
A twenty-eight story building.
Residence of James B. Haggin.
Residence of II. NICK. TwOmbly.
Home of Jacob Rupert.
Statue Of Chester A Arthur.
Residence Of Elbridge T. Gerry.
Statue of Roscoe Conkling.
Site where stood Peter StuyveSantS pear tree
The Grand Central Railroad Station.
The Young Womens Christian Association.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
And this is what the worlds metropolis
has TO show u.s." he exclaims.
We are sorry for Our-we were going to say
Observation-Disclosures friend but he is evidently
happy in not being pleased. New-York of
course has not the memorials of ten centuries
to show 1t has no Westminster and no Lon
don Tower. But even on the course he took. the
visitor in New-York might have seen many
things OF modern human interest. and even
many things of historic and artistic significance
1t is scarcely possible that his guide took him
up 5th-aye by the Could house without point
ing out to him st. Patrick's Cathedral, on one
corner or Richard NJ Hunts work on the Van
derbilt house. Just above. How did he come to
take notes of the Democratic Club while forget
ting the University and Union clubs, each Of
which would be of architectural interest any
where? He saw the Metropolitan Club, but
cared only for its nickname, not for its beauty.
He must have passed the City Hall, beautiful
structure that can bear comparison with any
thing of the sort built in England at the same
period. If he cared for paintings. he might have
stopped to see John La Farge's great picture in
the Church of the Ascension or gone on to see
his other decorations for the PauliSt Fathers
He might have obtained Introduction TO some Of
the owners of private houses. and seen world
famed masterpieces. Then he might have spent
days proitably in the Metropolitan Museum or
with the New-Yorl Historical Society collec-
tions He saw a statue of Roscoe Conkling Did
and Sherman? A passing glance would not have
been wasted on the growing pile of the new
library or the Cathedral Of st. John the Divine
He must have gone blindly by the Washington
Arch and failed to look at the charming re-
minder of Seville at Madison Square. He was
too busy thinking how contemplate it ali was
to realize that he was passing houses of real
distinction and beauty while the guide was Civ
ing them names which meant nothing to him
Up at Riverside Drive he would have found
view which has charmed many intelligent for
eigners and a monument which, if not as i'm
pressive as the Invalides, is still beautiful and
as worthy an object of reverent pilgrimage as
the tomb of Napoleon. If at home he would go
to Kew Gardens, here he might have been
pleased with the botanical collections in Bronx
Park, and also with the Geological Gardens
Down at the Battery he would have found an
aquarium not the equal of Naples, but still
significant. If he asked for historic memorials
he might have stopped at the graves of Alex
ander Hamilton and of Captain Lawrence in
Trinity Churchyard. At st. Paurs he could
have seen the tomb of Richard Montgomery.
and there and at Old ST. Johns had reminders
of Sir Christopher Wren. Columbia University