Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-30
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SIGHTS OF NEW YORK.
Interesting Things That Would APP
peal to an Intelligent Man.

Interesting Things That Would APP
peal to an Intelligent Man.
From the New York Tribune
A visiting Englishman has recently
found in the sympathetic columns of the
saturday Review an opportunity to tell
what he saw in New York and what he
apparently believed was all there was to
see worthy of the interest of the intelli-
gent traveller. He took a guide for an
automobile trip through the city, and,
without any exaggeration. he assures us.
this is a fair list of the objects of inter-
est which he passed:
House in which Jay Gould expired
Brick Presbyterian Church.
Millionaires' Club.
Residence costing $4,000 900
lone of William Ziegler
Democratic Club.
Former home of Boss" Tweed
highest point of elevated railroad.
Home of Henry C. Frick
Home of Isaac Wormser
Tammany Hall.
The saloons of the prizeighters. kid"
Mccoy and Tom Sharkey
a twenty eight-st building.
Residence of James B. Haggin
Residence of H. 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 Women's Christian Associa-
ton.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany.
And this is what the worlds metropo-
lis has to show us!' he exclaims.
We are sorry for CURVE We're going
to say Observation-Disclosures friend, but
he is evidently happy in not being pleas
ed. New York. of course has not the
memorials of ten centuries to show 1t
has no Westminster and no London
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 pos
sible that his guide took him up 9TH ave-
nue. by the Gould house without pointing
out to him ST. Patricks Cathedral on one
corner, or Richard M. Hunts work on the
Vanderbilt house just above. How did
he come to take notes of the Democratic
Club while forgetting the University and
Union clubs each of which would be of
architectural interest anywhere? He saw
the Metropolitan Club, but cared only for
it's nickname, not for its beauty He must
have passed the City Hall. a beautiful
structure. that can bear comparison with
anything of the sort built in England at
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 Ascension or gone on to see his other
decorations LOT the faullSC 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 profitably in the Metro
politan Museum or with the New York
Historical Society collections He saw a
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 fall
ed 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 was passing 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 view which has charmed many
intelligent foreigners, and a monument
which, if not as impressive as the Inva-
lfdes, 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 historical memorials he might have
stopped at the graves of Alexander Ham
churchyard. At st. Paurs he could have
seen the tomb of Richard MONTGOMERY
and there and at old st. Johns had re-
minders of Sir Christopher Wren Column
bia University could have shown him
academic 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 inspected The
Bowery Is a fair Offset to Whitechapel,
and the Chinese, Italian and Jewish quar-
ters 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 Stuyvesants pear tree Is as
legitimate an object of interest as the
site of Jack Keteh's gibbet the highest
in the 'twopenny tube" A twenty-eight
story building is a structural wonder
which would cause a eranfng of necks
anywhere. The saloons of some prize
fighters are not half SO interesting to
decent Americans as were similar resorts
to oxford undergraduates of two genera
lions 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 everywhere.
If an American were to put down his
Raedeker and measure his sightseeing in
of some cab-driving fakir with glib
tongue he would see there a fair coun-
terpart of what the Englishman saw here
1.-The mind sees what the mind carries"
and instead of finding the things which
would interest an intelligent mind or
understanding them if he CHANGED to find
them, the visitor saw New York just
about as any London shop clerk, with an
eye to the ha'penny press celebrities
would see London from the top of a bus
on bank holiday.