Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-08-21
THE METROPOLIS
OF THE NATION.
A NIGHT IN A PALATIAL STEAMER ON
LONG ISLAND SOUND.
QUAINT CITY OF BOSTON
A Few Of the Places Visited in a Stay Of
Couple Of Days in the Cities Of New
York and Boston.

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we made on Saturday morning, speed
ing rapidly across the state of New
Jersey on the fast Pennsylvania rail-
road. making no stop between the two
cities. The principal cities of impor-
tance through which we passed were
Trenton, the capital of New Jersey, a
beautiful city on the Delaware, and
Jersey City, opposite New York, from
which place we took a ferry across
the Hudson to New York, the metrop-
oils of America.
New York is easily America S
greatest city, and it may be said that
the world has no city that can COM
own just as Chicago has. the differ
ence being that New York has no imi-
tators while Chicago has many. 1t is
the great financial and wholesale cen.
ter of the nation. We have neither
the space nor the information at hand
to attempt an exhaustive sketch of
the city, its history, progress. and
development, and will only briefly
mention few of the places visited
in stay of three days there. A some
what extended article was written for
these columns. after visit there a few
years ago, a repetition of which
would probably not be interesting at
this time.
One great improvement which has
taken place since we were there few
years ago is the subway. Then they
were constructing it; now it is the
great means of transportation of the
thousands who pass daily from one end
of the great city to the other. 1t was
task of hours to go from one part of
the city to another few years ago.
Now you can step TO the entrance on
the sidewalk and down into the beau
tifully finished underground station,
where four tracks handle the constant
stream of rapid trains, which shoot
across the city under the great sky.
scrapers and streets, delivering you in
very few moments to within a few
steps of your destination. The regular
trains stop every five blocks, while
the through express trains stop only at
long intervals. 1t is wonderful
method of transportation, relieving
the streets of congestion at all times
of the day, and the comfort and con-
venience to the passengers has no
comparison in any other means of
city transportation. 1t is only a
question of time when all the larger
cities of the country will build SUBJ
ways.
There are even underground stores
at the stations along the line, mainly
drug stores, where candies, cigars.
soda water, drugs, etc. can be pur-
chased while waiting for the trains.
After locating accommodations at
the Markwell Hotel. very conven.
iently situated hostelry at 10th and
Broadway, we boarded the elevated
and rode out to 155th street, getting a
good view of Central Park and this
part of the city. Here we went down
to the base ball park, and together
with about 25, 600 other fans, saw a
close game of base ball between the
"Giants' of New York and "Cubs"
of Chicago. We also had good view
of the magnificent mausoleum, Grants
tomb, on the banks of the Hudson.
In the evening we went to the roof
garden over the New York and
Criterion theatres on Broadway,
opposite the magnificent Astor Hotel,
where number Of the great actors of
America and Franco gave the vaude-
vile performance "Jardin de Paris, !"
which is creating furore throughout
the city.
The next morning we rode about
the city, getting a view of the great
sky -scrapers. the handsome stores, the
beautiful streets and parks, and after
dinner took the subway TO the Brook
lyn Bridge and across this great
structure to Brooklyn, through the
city ON the elevated to Coney Island.
the great New York playhouse, one of
the greatest amusement resorts of the
world, where thousands may be found
every day during the summer, enjoy
ing the bathing in the surf, lounging
about in the sand on the beach. or
taking in the many amusement resort
features which are here in great pro-
fusion. 1t was beautiful day and
Coney Island was packed to the limit.
The beach and the surf was crowded
with thousands in bathing suits, from
little children hardly able to walk to
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