The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-17

Hrmly to the subway and we went up
town, wherever that is, and we went
church and past Newspaper row, and
| to the p. o. where Gibbs got more
mail and did not. And then we went
and found the F1atiron building, and
fright. 1t is one of the real wonders
! of New York. It beats the Singer
I building to death. We did not see
the Singer building for certain. but
| Gibbs pointed it out to me twice and
I called his attention to 1t three diff
| ferent times. Mr.. Singer little knew
when he built that structure that his
| a blood feud between old friends.
Gibbs wanted to take a Seeing New
York. wagon but baked We had
the Detroit fight over again. and
say with pride that won. We went
| to swell restaurant for dinner and
| the meal was not up to the Baltimore
lunch standard, but the price scared
| above it like an aeroplane over
wheelbarrow. At night Gibbs went to
the show with a friend, and went to
| Hammerstein's vaudeville where the
| players perform miracles that made
| the calling of Lazarus from the tomb
| seem small affair. After the show
went to Kid McCoy's place and In
front of that distinguished ex-pugilist's
saloon 1 saw the feature scene of the
whole trip. Just a half dozen Saliva
| L1On Army women was ali, ana IH0y
had no drum or tambourine. They
knelt in the street at the edge of the
curb and sang "Rock of Ages, Cleft for
Me-" And the hum of the street form
! ed the accompaniment for the song,
| They sang sweetly and clearly that
| life throb song while the men and
women from the theaters passed by.
Kid McCoy's electric sign lighted the
sister of charity faces under the blue
| bonnets The harmony was raised
above the noise of traffic. Many peo-
! pie stopped to listen and none stayed
to scott. I felt pretty small and mean.
The song of the centuries can hold its
own on Broadway as we'll as In
church when sincerity is behind it.
A Visit to Tiffany's.
Thursday. Sept. 15.--This morning
| We made the mistake of eating break
| fast at the hotel They charged us
l rs cents for oatmeal and toast. I
was sore, but Gibbs, while in his heart
was cancor. affected to laugh and en-
joy it because of my crouch. We left
/ Broadway today and walked on Fifth
/ avenue. This is the shopping center
! of the country, in my humble opin-
| ion. We stopped at Bretanos book
store and at Tiffany's. This last place
| is the limit. Gibbs and I agreed on
that, and we seldom agree. Gibbs
priced a little vase at $4,000 and
! teapot at $1,000 and we came away.
Gibbs was afraid they would charge
|
breath. He was also afraid that one
of us might slip and fall and break
a vase and stay in jail for forty days
| trying to raise bail. We went to Cen
almost as big as Belle Isle park and
almost as fine. We left New York in
| the evening on the Old Dominion line
steamer bound for Norfolk, Va.
Bedloe's island and the statue of
Liberty Photographers scott at the
much advertised lady but she looked
! fine to me standing out against the
to every God-forsaken European slave
who lands on these shores. We also
passed the famous Mauritania, the
top-notch ocean greyhound The big
ship looked mighty fine as she swept
by, and Gibbs talked more about it
than I did about the ocean at New
| port Well, we got out into the ocean
| at last and there was a swell on that
was twenty-three feet high, and be-
| gan to feel queer. Gibbs was Of
fepsiyely cheerful as usual, and he
/ wished for storm, and 1 abused him
soulfully and urged him to go hence.
| After a while the steward announced
! supper. Now, I had heard some mis-
guided idiot say that a full stomach
| defied seasickness, so went below and
partook heartily of good supper. L
| assembled to the third deck feeling bet
ter and stood there for an hour con-
/
low by the name of Smith, whom
! Gibbs had picked up somewhere.
| Smith was an old sailor and had
made the Norfolk trip many times
! before The sun went down and
| turned the oceans blue to gold, the
| land faded away and my insides began
to follow the lands example. 1 tried
to look unconcerned and mix care
| less word or two into the conversation
but it was no go. The star In front
| of the shin that I was watching would
be full forty feet above the PROV
| and then that Prov would rise
like the ghosts of old sins until
| it hid that star-and then 1t would
| drop, heavens, how it would fall, until
| sixty feet of blackness lay between the
woodwork and the lonesome star, and
I dropped with it. Gibbs prattled on
about his storms and tempests. and
| finally 1 turned on him like a bear
| cat "a sick bearcat) and told him with
| profane emphasis to go. He went
| And I stood there an hour alone and
| dreamed that Greece might yet be free.
/ thought again of what the literature
of the ages had had to say about the
crested wave of the ocean deep and
| 1 wished that was on dry land some
| place where the houses did not bow
Iso low to the stars. After while I
went inside the saloon on the upper
deck and found gang of Dutchmen
there from Milwaukee playing pi-
nochle. 1 lay on settee and pi-
nochle player with q face like a full
moon came and asked me what he
could do for me, and I told him to
go jump overheard. He laughed, and
IL groaned. Then I went to sleep.
walked UP after a while and Smith
came and gave me a drink of sodium
phosphate I felt better and Smith
put me to bed
Friday, Sept. 16.-In the morning I
met the pinochle playing Dutchman's
daughter. She beat him four ways