The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-11-02
before one came across a break in the

before one came across a break in the
wall that perfect lady could climb
At that break in the wall YOU climbed
to grass plots and drive which were
overrun with kddies and automobiles
and parked motor cycles and maids and
Americans who exulted over the naval
glories spread before them in many
languages. and tall green motor buses
which listed alarmingly TO port on the
northbound trips and dSastrously to
starboard on the southbound runs. and
more klddies skiddlng along Joyously
on roller skates down the inclines of the
park walks. "
When you and the girls boarding school
reached the Soldiers and Sailors Monu-
ment, at the foot Of Eighty ninth street.
the real estate was Jammed. go Jammed
that four small boys. shod with roller
skates. tried to stand on top Of the old
fashioned cannon which stick out hori-
zontally from the grass plots on the river
side of the monument. -Four. nor one,
cannot stand on the top curve of gun
on roller skates. II can't be done. Tenn
porarily. perhaps. yes; for an appreciable
lapse IT time. no.
There were veuders with flags hawkers
with post card pictures of all the battle
ships" and a honk. honk of auto horns
which drowned out even the bang ot
the guns out in the river. Some residents
of Riverside Drive also have flags to drap pc
over the granite iacades of their houses
4 careful count showed that at least three
! householders had flags flying in honor OF
| the great day What the homestead
wherein il the fountainhead of the Anti.
! Noise Society thought of it all was not
learned.
That mid afternoon part Of the celebra.
ton was a bit disheartening, az has beer
! intimated. because OF the lack of motion
! out on the river There was noise enough
/ htlf no n1nNnnlnnt tho hnt bips
which. as one of the girls school students
| who seemed to be imaginative put it,
! looked positively grim
But into the noisy restfulness of the
fleet suddenly darted something that
woke up the entire drive. a knifehlade ot
a motorboat, Just n tawny mahogany
nose OF a boat which blurtcd onto the
riverscape from the centre of a Charlott,
russo of spray As the motorboat ex-
ploded around the warships she was
going, so some one estimated conserva
l lively, between 900 and / 200 miles ar
hour She was first observed as she hi
the water at Seventy-third street over
toward the Jersey shore headed north
I After that bounce the motorboat touched
again far out of Seventy ninth street
and as the crowd watched and applaudeC
ecstatically the motorboat took another
bounce and probably struck the surfac,
of the river again some place up near
Claremont
All afternoon the jam moved up anc
down tho walk. II was made up mostly
| of women who after a few glances at tn,
warships did as their wealther sister,
were doing in the endless chain of auto
mobiles cluttering the oil soaked drive
studied the hats and things their sister,
and their sisters children were wearing
But when that pumpkin colored sun begaI
to set behind the Jersey hills land ther,
were more men present now and tn,
white Mayf'ower came out of the gray
north again in an uproar that suggested
the Mayfower was setting off chain
Of supergiant fireworks the crowd forgo
clothes and things and gazed silentl,
toward the great feet now shrouded il
its pail of fame shot smoke.