Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-08-21

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thoroughly enjoying the opportunity
to get away from the heat and oppres-
siveness of the city, and the hundreds
of amusement features were doing
capacity business In fact there were
upwards of 100, 600 people at Cvney
Island that day.
| The evening was spent at Hammers
tein's Broadway roof garden theatre,
which is one of the most popular re-
sorts in the city during the summer
months.
| The next day we spent in the down
town section, visiting many OF the
old landmarks of New York, China
town, the famous Chinese section,
veritable Pekin in miniature, and the
Bowery. Also the Tombs, the famous
prison where Harry Thaw is incarcer-
ated; old Trinity church ON Broad
way. erected 1866 and Wall street, a
short, narrow thoroughfare in the
confines of which the manipulation of
the markets of the world are watched
| with intense interest from every part
of the globe; where the great finan-
ciers of the nation have their offices
and where more gigantic schemes are
| formulated and put into execution
than anywhere on the globe. Here is
the famous New York stock exchange,
| the offices of j. P. Morgan & Co.,
and the U. S. sub treasury, where
| Washington took his oath as president
April 30, 1889. To the south a block
were the famous curb-stone brokers,
packing the street, acting like insane
men with their peculiar antics. 1t
was an exciting day for them. the
crowd was large. and many fortunes
were made and wrecked in the few
moments that we watched them.
Passing across to the Battery, we
saw the magnificent new marble Gus
tom House which the United States
is erecting. and then visited the
famous old Castle Garden, now the
Aquarium. 1t was once a fort, and
where many notable gatherings were
held. Here Jenny Lind first sang in
America under the management of P.
T. Barnum in 1850. 1t is now the
largest aquarium in the world, and
contains live fish, Holsters, crabs and
water animals of every description.
The display is immense and very in
| teresting.
Then we went to the Madison
Square Garden, to see where Harry
Thaw murdered Stanford White, the
millionaire architect, after which we
spent some time riding along Fifth
Avenne, the beautiful street where
the magnificent palaces of New York
are located. We also enjoyed an in
spection of Tiffany's, the great
jewelry house of New York. on Fifth
Avenue. A trip to the Brooklyn
Navy Yard was time well spent. for
here we saw several battleships, and
the Mayfiower, President Roosevelt's
private yacht
At 80 o'clock in the evening we
boarded the magnificent Fall River
Line steamer Priscilla and left New
York. bound for Boston The ride
out Of the harbor of New York battles
description. 1t is sight such as
person sees once in lifetime if the
weather is favorable. To the west is
Bedloe's Island and the famous Bar
tholdi Statue of Liberty, lighting the
way of welcome to the land of the
free and the home of the brave, in
viting from every foreign cline the
oppressed of all nations to a country
where every man has equal opportun-
ity and equal rights. To the left the
"sky line of New York, where are
huddled together on the point of this
great island the greatest combination
of sky-scrapers to be found within a
similar space upon the globe. Huge
structures of steel and stone, pierci-g
the sky, vying with each other in
height and beauty of architecture
We pass under the famous Suspension
Bridge, and soon afterward under the
Williamsburg Bridge, one of the
greatest structures of the kind in the
world !; past Blackwell's Island, where
the state penitentiaries and hospitals,
are located, to which another wonder
full bridge is being erected, gradually
coming together from either shore,
hanging meanwhile in the air. SEEM
ingly, without support other than the
piers at either end. Soon we pass
through He'll Gate, upon the shoals of
which the Slocum went aground and
burned with her load of Sundy School
scholars.
Now we Are out on Long Island
Sound. passing Oyster Bay, where
President Roosevelt and family are at
their summer home; and in the night
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