The sun., 1908-04-05
BRIDGE FEW NEW WORKERS SEE.
Yet There Are Grounds for Calling II the
Most Picturesque Of Them All.

Vet There Are Grounds for Calling II the
Most Picturesque Of Them All.
The air Just now in New York is fuller Of
bridges than ever before. What its cham
pions call the most picturesque OF them all
is a bridge little known 10 that large body
OF New Workers who think that the city
begins at the Battery and ends at l25th
street. This Is Warrington Bridge, crossing
the Harlem River at 1sist street from Am
sterdam avenue on the Manhattan side to
Aqueduct avenue on the Bronx end.
Lets walk across 1t and see it all, said
a man few days ago.
you've got another walk coming 10 you :
was the reply, 'You can't see 1t all In
one passage You've got to make the round
trip, east on the south side and west on the
north side"
So they started.
They saw the old High Bridge, just below
and the attractive hill that makes up that
part Of The Bronx known as Highbrdge-
vile. which is building up 40 fast that its
hillside will soon be dotted with houses.
They stopped in the middle Of the south
Walk ana flliuDtu lllO OlN W Nllt nN'ht
embrasures 20 get better view.
That's the City College over there TO the
right. and the Flatron Building way down
town"
"Sure thing said his friend. And the
Statue Of Liberty s on in the distance, not
TO mention Staten Island or Sandy Hook
or the Azores. Why don't you coniine
yourself to what you really can see'
Everything on the city skyline that has
to be guessed at comes out as the Flatiron
Building. You can't begin to see It from
this exact spot Too many other things in
the way.
what YOU see il the Plaza Hotel, the
81. Regis, and TO the left the Belmont Hotel
over TO the right is the white tower Of tall
newspaper building on Broadway, Come
around next October and perhaps you'll
see the top Of the Metropolitan Life Building
shaft at Madison Square,
"Just follow down on the right and you'll
catch glimpse Of the nagpole on the Morris
Mansion grounds at l8lst street Then
comes the City College and that splendid
group of buildings that clusters around the
Cathedral of st. John the Divine.
Away over 70 the east you can see the
gas TANKS hDONe IlFll hdlti dllu Inc DiOuA
Kills would be visible If Highbridgeville
was out Of the way. Let g go east
They proceeded slowly, watching the
nearby Bronx as they approached u.
Whether they thought OF the old romantic
days when the Indian girls played on its
shore and dusky lads drove their canoes
ont into the Harlem River the writer knows
not. Perhaps theirhistorical vision did not
10 back further than the Revolution, when
the banks of the Harlem we're often peopled
with English or Continental soldiers.
At any rate they reached The Bronx
end Of the structure and discovered the
Norman tower Of the Morris High School
eastward on the Boston road. Then
they crossed 70 the north walk OF the bridge
and admired the grounds Of the old Ogden
estate, now the property Of a religious
sisterhood.
Over to the northwest was the nondescript
hill of Fort George, with its COney Island
set Of attractions. Half way across they
looked northward. There was the Harlem
stream winding toward Spuyten Duyvil
There was Morris Heights with its houses
and shipyard
Far away the dome Of the Hall Of Fame
shone white in the sky. Further still was
the tower Of the Webb Home and the red
front Of the new orphan asylum.
q The Speedway ran Ike a ribbon around
Fort George, and the subway trains came
like rats out Of the ground and ran on to
Marble Hill and Kingsbridge. At last
the man who didn't know broke out again
He was gazing on a hazy structure set on
q mountain near Yonkers,
Looks like brewery" he ventured.
"You don't dare TO 20 up there and say
So" said his friend That's Dunwoodie
Seminary
Here the moving scene was broken by
the sight of an Amsterdam avenue car
who knew, was parted from Mr.. Meekman.
the man who didn't.
Never mind thought Meekman. on
his way downtown. IN invite him down
to King street and lose him in old Green
wich village