The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-01-09
GREATER NEW YORK.

New York is great. Standing on
the Brooklyn bridge, sight is spread
before the observer that cannot be
elsewhere equaled. The great piles
of buildings Oh the Manhattan side,
rise like peaks of the Alps or the Sier
ras. The old landmarks are entirely
hidden. Trinity and St. Pauls do
not show even the tips of their spires.
The great postoffice and the city hall
are out ofsight. Externally and vjsi-
bly, an entirely new New York is be-
fore you. If you have not been here
since the great old-time buildings, you
have never seen this city before.
Buildings rising to the height of for
ty.two stories crown the view, and
other giants of only lesser height fill
in the space between. Then you
look away two miles north to the
Metropolitan Life building, which
overtops all between and beyond, and
yor see here and there, in ragged
outline, the heads of the new order
of buildings lifted everywhere.
Then you turn your head to the
new Brooklyn; especially to the
Heights, and see the new hotels in
this aristocratic dwelling place, that
in like manner hide all the old Heights
out of sight. These hotels are great
square-topped buildings, fifteen and
twenty-stories high, with no longer
church steeple in sight. This part of
the city has become place of mag
ni6cent residence hotels.
Again you turn your eyes to your
immediate surroundings. No longer
is big procession of footmen rushing
back and forth over the great bridge,
but trains of electric cars chase each
other over four tracks almost as fire.
quently as space will allow, while out
side of them all automobiles and car
riages, as we'll as heavier vehicles,
fill to the full the two roadwayS as
signed to them. Above you is the
grand new bridge, whose huge towers
are already built and whose great ca
bles already swing from the towers
and are anchored in the distance be-
yond on either side. This bridge is
almost parallel to the old one. 1t is
being built to divide the immense trav-
el and traffic between the two parts
of the new New York, for New York
now does not mean the little island
below the Harlem river. That is
now called Manhattan borough.
Above is the Bronx borough, named
after old Mr.. Bronck, who in the ear
ly Dutch days cultivated its acres and
pastured his cows on its hillsides.
Brooklyn is called the borough of
Brooklyn, and it takes them all to
make the great metropolitan city.
A mile and a half away is another
that crosses the East river from the
termini of the New York Central, the
New York, New Haven and Hartford,
and the Harlem and other up country
railroads.
It is wonderful how the city is be-
ing borne down and its foundations
torn up to accommodate the railroads.
The great Pennsylvania lines are hav-
ing all the buildings for a space wider
than old Canal street, swept oue of the
way for their immense viaduct through
the main part of the borough of Man
haitian, and Brooklyn is having like
wide passageway, made diagonally
through her great buildingt to accom-
modate the lines that are to cross the
new bridge. 1t seems very strange
also to see the old fashioned dump
carts and derricks at work, right by
the side of the city hall to clear away
old buildings and excavate the ground
for the sky-scrapers that are to take
their places. But so it is.-Ihe A6-
o'l2zCe.