Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-06-21
Letter From the Editor.
N wv York CITY. 6. 17. Z

N wv YORK Clty, y, III, W
I ear Della New York is
wol der 'ul place. When yo,
thin k O.! it it is a terrible thing
to hin of three million peopl,
twlce as many as there are il
the great state of Iowa being
huddled down here on a little
island about 3 miles wide anl
Is miles long. New York proper
would reach about from Mo Val.
ley to Crescent City in length
and from Uncle Benny Cox's
old home to about where the
Allen Creek ditch is surveyed
west of the Valley. and just
think how thick the people
must be to get three million OF
them in that space. Well they
are put in pretty thick. The
only thing you can find in New
York is people and houses.
There is no open ground here,
except the parks every foot is
occupied by building from five
to twenty-five stories high.
This is a big town all over. Chi
cago is a big town for about
Is blocks each way from State
street, but New York is a big
town for Is miles every foot of
the way from the Battery to
Kings bridge, and the people
are as thick as mosquitoes on
the Missouri bottom of a hot
night. When you think of it,
after you get home from a few
hours trip down town, you won
der how all the people find
enough to do to buy bread
wonder how they all live
what they all do-a city like
New York is a terrible monster
to contemplate. But every
thing you want to see is here.
You only have to be with some
one who knows the city and
YOU can be shown more wonder
full things than you ever
thought existed in the world.
Frank and visited the museum
of natural history of 18th and
5th avenue yesterday and it is
a most wonderful place. At
the very entrance we met with
a surprise. You W.. remember
of reading of the big meteor
Peary found up in the artic re-
gions some years ago. Well
the first thing you run against
when you go into the museum
is this meteor. 1t is loft. Tin.
b. loft. 2in. in size and is COM
posed cf G5 per cent iron and
5 per cent nickel. It is the
greatest meteor ever discovered
and must have made a fine dis
'olav ia the heavens when it fell
Looking at it q person wonders
from what world this visitor
come and how long it w s on
it's journey. 1t is worth COM
ing long way to see. The
room in the museum where The
meteor is is filled with meteors
Of all sizes an3 from all parts
Of the world. This museum is
filled with most wonderful
specimens Of natural history
from all parts Of the world and
one could very profitably spend
a month looking over and study
ing the wonderful specimens to
be found here, but the most
thing in the entire
collection, and we think in the
world is the great Brontosaurus
that is raountel in this museum
The readers of the Times will
remember of the finding Of a
set Of reptillian re-
mains out in Wyoming several
years ago, tho papers were full
If it at the time. Well those
petrified bones We're dug out Of
the rock an sent to Prof.
Marsh in this city and he put
them together, mounted them
and today in the room in the
this terrible and Won
derful animal can be seen as
natural as it looked when it
roamed the plains Of Wyoming
over six million years ago.
Think of that for and old set
Ter. Up in New Hampshire we
found a house that was built in
1920, and in New Port we
found the cd mill that is sup
posed to have been built by the
Norsemen a thousand years be-
fore Columbus come over to-
America. In Chicago we saw
4 statue of Rameses II, who
lived a few thousand years be-
fore Christ all Of these we
thought were old things, but
this Brontosaurus is entitled to
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