Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-09-07
SIGHTS OF NEW YORK.
Interesting Things That Would Appeal
to an Intelligent Man.

the city, ana, WltiiOul any ekdSSeTd tlOIi,
he assures us this is a fair list of the OBJ
jects of interest which he passed:
House in which Jay Gould expired.
Brick Presbyterian Church.
Millionaires Club.
Residence costing $600O.000
Home of William Ziegler.
Democratic Club.
Former home of "Boss" Tweed.
Highest point of elevated railroad
Home of Henry c. Frck.
Home Of Isaac Wormser.
Tammany Hall.
The salons of the priZefighters, Kid
McKOy and TON" Sharkey.
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. building.
Residence of james b. Hagin
Eesidelce of II. Mex. Twombly.
Home of Jacob Rupert.
Statue of Chester A. Arthur.
Residence Of Elbridge T. Gerry.
Statue of Roscoe Conkling.
Site where stood Peter Stuyyesants
pear tree.
The Grand Central railroad station.
The Young Women's Christian Assoc
citation.
The Metropolitan Life insurance
Company.
''And this is what the worlds me-
tropOlis has to show u.s." he exclaims.
We are sorry for CURVE were going
to say sappOinted-English 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 40 Westminster and no London
Tower. But even on the course he tool,
the visitor in New York might have
seen many things of modern human
interest, and even many things of his
tOric and artistic significance. 1t is
scarcely possible that his guide took
him up 5th avenue by the Gould house
without pointing out to him st. Pat
rick'S Cathedral on one corner, or
Richard NJ. Hunts work on the
Vanderbilt house just above. How did
he come to take notes of the Demo-
cratic Club while forgetting the Uni
versity 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 it's beauty. He must have passed
the City Hall. q beautiful structure,
that can bear comparison with any
tItlI.S VI tilt SUIT DuIlt III
the same period. If he cared for paint
ings he might have stopped to see John
La Farge's great picture in the Church
of the ASct nSion. or gone on to see his
other decorations for the PauliSt
fathers. He might have obtained in
PRODUCTION to some of the owners Of
private houses and seen world-famed
masterpieces. Then he might have
spent days prOfitably in the Metropol-
itan Museum or with the New York
Historical Society collections. He saw
statue of Roscoe Conkling. Did he
fail TO notice the superb statues Of
Farragut 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 reminder of Seville at
Madison Square. He was too busy
thinking how contemplate it all was to
realize that he, passed houses of real
distinction and beauty. while the guide
was giving them names which meant
nothing to him.
Up at Riverside drive he would have
found a view which has charmed many
Intelligent foreigners, and a monument
which. if not as impressive as the Inva-
lides, is still beautiful and as worthy an
object of reverent pilgrimage as the
tomb of NAPOLEON. If at home he
would go to the Kew Gardens: here he
might have been pleased with the bO-
tanical collections in Bronx Park, and
also with the Geological Gardens.
Down 1T the Battery he would have
found an aquarium. not the equal of
Naples, but still significant. If he
asked for historical memorials he
might have stopped at the graves of
Alexander Hamilton and of Capt. Law
renee in Trinity churchyard. At St.
Paul's he could have seen the tomb of
Richard Montgomery. and there and
ut old st. Johns had reminders of
Sir Christopher Wren. Columbia
University could have shown him aca-
demir structureS SURPRISING anything of
the kind in London. If his interests
were mechanical or scientific there
were great bridges and tunnels and
workshops and laboratories to be in
spcctcd. The Bowery is n fair offset to
Whitcchapel. and the Chinese. Italian
and Jewish quarters offer an ample
field for curiosity and sociological
study.
The guide on the automobile pointed
out some trivial things, as his counter
part would have done in London. The
site Of Peter Stuyvesant's pear tree is
as legitimate an object of interest as
the site of Jack ketch's gibbet, the
highest point on the elevated as the
deepest spot in the "two-penny tube"
A twenty-cight story building is n
structural wonder which would cause
n craning of necks anywhere. The sa-
looms of some priZe-fshters are not
half 50 interesting to decent Americans
as We're similar resorts to Oxford un-
dergraduateS Of two generations ago.
Our English visitor, instead OF seeing
the town, went about with the gaping
crowd. to which cheap and trivial
things are always of interest every |
where If an American were to put
down his Baedeker and measure his
sightseeing in London by the knowi- /
edge and interests of some cab-drivingl |
fakir with a glib tongue he would see
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