Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-15
New York. November Is, 1906.


To tho kcnnebec journal:
| Once more | And myself in Bohemia
! Little old New York is the same holy
city it was twelve months ago when
was over, only more so. Tunnels, sub
ways and excavations honeycomb the
whole Borough until the town within a
| ladius Of twelve miles Of City Hall
looks like a prairie dog village. You
thump on the ground and it sounds
like hitting hollow pumpkin. MOI
content with inundating the city and
| making a city below the surface, even
the river bed is being bored into. Five
| thousand men are at work binding
New York to jersey. and s20O,oOO,O0O.
are being spent in the operation. 1t is
the wonder of the world today. When
the tunnels or tubes are completed,
which will be very shortly. $500 per-
sons an hour can be carried between
New Jersey and Manhattan. Years
ago what would have been looked upon
as an imrossibility is now easily ac-
complishcd. New methods have been
introduced in the world making it
possible to bore a great opening
through this slit and rock from shore
to shore. and encase it in steel in as
many months as it formerly took
years. The Pennsylvania r. +. has
broken the record and has put in two
tubes in "a months all completed. Six
tubes are completed, or under compile
ton. and charters have been granted
for the building of ten more, and still
the New York is not content. They
seem to be troubled with nervous
prosperity and are looking for new
worlds to conquer. About the only
thing that binds old New York to the
Lew is the little horsecar that runs on
the side streets. They came with the
town charter about the time Washing
ton made that tempestuOus trip across
the Delaware, and the prospect is good
for the babe yet unborn to feast his
eyes on the relic of his grandfather's
days
One pleasure l thoroughly enjoy in
this big city is a dinner at the Press
Club; not for the good things that are
on the menu. but for the Wit and wis
dom that fill the air. II is a gather
ing of the brightest and brainiest men
in the country men who shape the
affairs of the nation; men who lead,
not follow, and whose names are
written with big letters well up on the
scroll of fame. | could sit all day,
over our cigars and coffee ana listen.
but, alas. my time was limited. ] was
entertained over Sunday at dinner by
John William Sargent. Il former Maine
boy (Bangor). Mr.. Sargcnt's cute little
book "Toasts of the Times" in pictures
and rhymes is now on it's third edition.
His latest book, Smoke & Bubbles"
Cigars & -Champagne) is now in the
publishers hands and will no doubt
when published add more laurels to his
already fine reputation as an author.
Next week comes the Horse Show-thc
society event of the year. Streamers
and posters in black and yellow are on
every hand; millinery, hosiery. ties
| and costumes, must show d little of
the pumpkin yellow barred with black
to be strictly in it; although the reds.
| browns and greens are very much il:
evidence. This year rounds out the -
year of this Madison Square Garden
| Horse Show. To the ladies it is a
clothes Horse Show of no small inn
| portance. 1t is where fashions and
fads make their appearance and set
| the pace not only for New York, but
for the country as well. This feature
is what won for it some years ago the
witty appellation of the CLOTHES
Horse Show" Sir Thomas Upton OF
cup fame was with us few days be-
fore his departure for his baronia
home across the herring pond. He
has been wined, dined and danced tC
his hearts content and is only waiting
for the boatman who soon will come t.
bear him DER.
New York pIayhouses arc noted FOL
their bright attraction, and this Fal
is no exception. They cater to al
tastes and all minds. Following is {
list of attractions.
Nat c. Goodwin, in "The Genius i!
to be the current attraction this Wecl
at the Grand Opera House.