Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-18
The Jamestown Exposition Tour
Norfolk to Niagara Falls
Norfolk to Niagara Falls

but Fifth avenue represents her vast
wealth. :.555.
/ We were next driven through Cen
!, trail Park. This is one of tie Iarg-
est city parks in this country. Parts
of it are almost as rough and wild
4 as the Allegahany mountains and
4 it makes: a pleasant resort after hav-1
ing traversed hot and noisy streets
walled on either side by sBy-scrapers.
4 It is said that Boss Tweed did much |
i to make this park what it is, and |
his efforts along these lines should
cover a multitude Of his faults
\ ong others We re turned by the
i famous River Drive, said by New
q Workers to be the finest driveway
i'm the world. To the best of my
u knowledge this is true. The view
z fro mthis road cannot be surpassed,
: if indeed it can be equaled. On the:
Il one side are the mfllionaire's man
) sions and palatial apartment houses,
|, and on the other the picturesque
Hudson. 1t passes Columbia univer-f
, sity and General Grants tomb. We
stopped for a few minutes at the
Z last resting place Of this famous
! general to do homage to one of our
I illustrous dead. The tomb stands
} on a slight elevation overlooking the
river. It can hardly be called beauti.
: full although it is Impressive. It is
i massive and rather plain to CORE
al spond to the force of character and
: simplicity of the life Of him whose
k mortal remains it now holds.
"A visit to New York city would
2 be incomplete if you did not walk
across Brooklyn bridge and spend a
: short time in the city of churches.
! Brooklyn bridge at the rush hour is
J. one of the best places / have ever
: seen for studying humanity at first
? hand. Here you may see the long
= procession ever passing to and fro,
- What an endless line of humanity!
= Where did they come from and
i whittier are they going? A new
= bridge has been built across the East
= river short distance above the old
: one, but we are told thta it did not
= appear to relieve the traffic on the
2 latter to any great extent. Many OF
the people who work on the island
= live in Brooklyn and it is only .
= question of time when Manhattan
= Island will be given UP entirely t.
shops and market places, and the
g population of New York will live ir
= Brooklyn and Jersey City. The nam
=, mouth tunnels which the N Pennsyl
= Eyania abroad is building under the
= Hudson and East rivers will helI
% make this possible. ,,ss>l a I, s t.@ 4
. Evening found us rather tired af
:, ter our hard days work but the op
portunity of seeing Coney Island a,
: the height of it's splendor was not tt
- be lost. What is to be seen there
3 would be hard to describe. We Wen
80 80 w fsshC"RtO hAoN. bQf wv
saw there go then and do likewise
"a Next morning we began a trip tx
al which we had long looked forward
AL with pleasant anticipation, and we
III were not in the least disappointed
~ do not know where you would e
s. In America to take a Short journey
aVh ich 33v1yarI,1E ~, -,
= and instructive than sail up the
q Hudson, the Rhine of America, from
: New York to Albany.
is Perhaps a few words concerning
lei the river itself would not be out oi
re place here. The Hudson has beer
le said to be a very large river for its
size. that is for the quantity of water
In Lit discharges into the sea. It's fall
b. from Albany to the bay is little
ID more than five feet. So if its supply
ia from above were cut off 1t would
10 fill from the sea. Its current is moi
Hl more than eight miles in twenty
is four hours. An object floating Oh
le the river would thus be carried eight
q miles toward the ocean by the eur
is rent In one day. The ebb tide
RI carry it about twelve miles, and Thu
81 flood set it back from seven to nine
ii Therefore piece of wood thrown
if into the river at Albany would be
nearly three weeks in travelling the
ID one hundred and fifty miles to New
Is York.
lg The Hudson IS Manageable to Tros
rel for large steamers. but this Is due
al to artificial deepening Of the upper
p-l river as It Is naturally SO for only
Isl about one hundred and twenty miless
II above New York. # appears that
seI the channel Of the lower river il
mi constantly growing shaiIower, due
4, It IS said, to the reckless dumping