The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-01-08
BIG SANDY
Visitor to New York City Writes
Entertainingly Of His Trip.

New forkI Oec. 90. 0ho"tAP
lead of your esteemed country cores
pondents should begin this note
sy saying that Corn gathering Is
the order of the day" and
should not be far from the truth. /
My unaccustomed feet have gath
cred from the cobble stones of Man
Lattan anu the borough Il Brook
lyn a corn crop that will take
months OF Louisa soft streets TO
eradicate. | stood II very well
Saturday and Sunday. Today J
"tollci ed nuff' only TOO glad "
enjoy the quiet and comfort Of
easy chairs and furnace heated
rooms.
The vast city was a revelation
"a me In one respect. Other things
had been revealed by former visits
Int this time / hit old Broadway
and Herald Square on Christmas
day. Why, saw nobody, 1t seem
cd to me, Every man wns at his
home or some other mans home,
and the streets were deserted. The
biggest cafe (saloon) in New York
vas closed. I'll bet sou couldn't
fo,ce your way to the counter IN
the doggery OH Front Street IN
catIettsburg.
Going across the Hudson from
Jersey City 70 Manhattan was al
40 different. Twas in the mild
September" on previous trip ~
er the harbor, but this time a breeze
that went to every nook and corner
NJ your internal economy
swept across the roughened wateI
ind the Goddess on Bedloe's island
vas enveloped in cloud Of foF
and mist.
One can get a pretty fair idei
o! the yastness OF this human hiy'
ty the time occupied in gettinI
/, from place to place. For Instance
Il left the ferry beat about tne-thir
". It was about S:15 when W
stopped at the home Of my kins
men, and there were miles OF house
on all sides OF US The trip We
, an everchanging panorama, Ralelde
!, scopic and bewildering. BY IN ca
coincidence the first familiar Elgi
which | saw on this trip, as on
former one, was David Henders2
: 9 Son, Se:dmen."
. The route To my stopping pla'
was across Brooklyn bridge, u
I, great triumph of the power Of MOI
!, cy and engineering skill, What
wonderful scene is revealed TO "
i as. when in the middle of the gre
= steel monster, You look north a
ssuthward. Craft of every eoncei
!. able character, from the Mauritani
= more than twice as long as u
! distance from Sullivan's corner
the Southern Methodist church, TO
little yacht apparently not over
feet long may be seen. Whistles u
shrek and whistles that roar ma
y din at once deafening and uni
in telligible TO the ear Of trave
ng from the Sandy.
ed It's too funny. | was sitting
!. the smoker of Pullman the MS
M | left Ashland, and, as often y;
pens at such times, we learned es
Try other's names and habits. WI
m. ! said rather emphatically, possl
" that | was from Louisa, a man y
told us that he was little
TO New York" said, Il see by the
dill pers that you people have been u
ing hill up your way ngain rel
cry ring to the late scrimmage ct We
Sic how. news" travels? 50
at Eyes, It was pretty bad, but 1t
fight between officers on
Co., side and the family of alleged
7. lstors on the other. You peo
led raise your hill by shooting una
in ed men to death in crowded pla
Of amusement and murder help
her raen as they sit unprepared
was boats" The subject was not
cry cussed further.
| have been here two days
ing have been 70 church three slr
low You see l have not forgotten
old early training. ] must coni
3ap- however. that my ecclesiastical J
neyines were MT prompted altoge
to by religious motives. When
OF few years ago went one
urday morning to the Jewish !
low pie at76 and eth avenue. ]
again last Saturday morning, m
Iow1 | am ever here again I'll go 70
IA. same temple OF worship. Such n
ssh Ia heard only in two places;
,,a ~ ~ .nd Bth avenue and In hea