The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-11-03
As FOLKS on SHORE SAW IT.
The Riverside Drive Crowds and the Peo-
pie In and on Downtown Buildings.

All of cliff dwelling New York in the
skyscaper zone descended to street levels
last night with the vision still in their
eyes of shape after shape Of black steel
moving across the disc of a red sun and
out to the shadows where the sea gate is.
And all of uptown New York, tousled
and blowsey, sat down to dinner with
the smart of dust and powder smoke and
the whips of the wind in the eyes. but
with a lingering picture Of pageap,s and
pomp such as the Hudson has never staged
before.
Verify il Mr.. Meyer set out to advertise
the United States navy he achieved oven
his most optimistic hopes for New Workers
| from the Battery TO Spuyten Duyvil
suffered all the tricks OF weather in order
! To sec the great thing that the Secretary
of the Navy had spread before them.
What though the wind did rip madly
through Riverside Drive and made Of
skyscraper roofs downtown Arctic bar
rens, thousands bumped their backs
against the blasts. hugged their fingers
under coats and muffs and squinted for
hours through half shut eyes, avid of
every picture that the river cinemato-
graph showed. H.
PERHAPS those who filled windows
twenty and thirty stories above the
financial district and. gripped stone
balustrades on the very tops OF the highest
buildings about the Battery were the most
rewarded For them was a tableau at the
end Of it all which might have been
labelled Strength of Men" The upper
bay and river mouth lay all crinkled and
curled by the wind and almost free of
craft. a plate Of unpublished steel. Then
into this water plane pushed the bow oi
the Connecticut and behind her trailed
twenty-seven other towers OF steel All
moved as if towed 10y one great invisible
cable down and down past Governors
Island. then slanting west 10 the fairway.
The Drive in the Morning.
Riverside Drive was desolate place
IN the morning. Though by 10 O'Clock
all Of the paths were filled and the pavec
court about the base of the Soldiers anC
Sailors Monument contained several hun
dred huddled folk, the nasty wind I'm
PEELED people to keep on the move. Rest
lessly they searched for some angle II
the twisting walks or some corner aloni
the park wall which the wind would no
. scour out. 1t was in vain. Even the
bulldogs which pink checked girls led II
leash watered at the eyes and tried tc
hug close TO the lee OF skirts.
The wheeled population Of the drive
-gocarts and baby carriages-did no
venture out against the blasts But th'
upper layer of infancy. the roller skater
and the tousleheads with their nurses
could not be kept indoors. end the side
walks we're theirs. Also the fate behin'
the winds threw into their pathway
something they were not counting upon
woman with luscious red cluster o
balloons was awaiting the fugitive nicke
when an extra hard blast whisked ever,
string out of her hands and the balloon
! scudded along the sidewalks, unable Z
, rise against the pressure of the gaze \
r pig race was ever more exciting thah Tn
Z pursuit of those balloons.
Family from far down the river cam
! the first bang banging Of the Presldentia
' salutes. and then people forgot the col
. to crowd to places of vantage and AVA
= the opening of the spectacle, Out upo
: the river lay within easy vision Of thos
at the monument FIVE battleships. a
i tricked out with their gala flags otheI
s up and down just gave hints OF thei
=; presence through whipping clouds
= smoke. Whom the noise of the salutin
i guns came up from below every ON
8 watched with feverish interest the scurry
9 ing OF the midgets on the docks OF tn
battleships,
+ Now a solid block of scarlet moved ou
d from the hidden reoesses Of one OF tn
steel machines and took place on IN
!. quarter deck,
q That's the band my dear"
sOh, Ia that 30, John? thought OF cours
those were the admirals or generals
the ship getting ready TO salute the Pres
p dent"
II A thin line Of blue men climbed up an
II over superstructure, ranged IN reguli
d distance over all the outline OF a shI
d from forward turret TO quarter, deck
II skimpy tweetle-tweetle sounded.