Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-23
N. Y. PESKY CITY,
SAYS WEISS, 1O9
Says Woolworth Building Gave
Him Crick in Neck-Farm's
the Thing.

ut do beat ALL 1t do beat all!
Why. 1 Just got a crick In my neck
looking up at that 'er WooIworth
building. Amt 1t so. Christinie?"
And Macagor Weiss, nine years past
the century mark. turned to his
fourth wife. a young lady Of 70, for
verlfication.
Just so,' she echoed, looking with
admiring alteration toward her boyish
husband.
He was dwelling with reminiscent
pleasure upon his trip to New York
yesterday when he observed through
eyes unspoiled by spcctacles all the
wonders of the Great White Way.
THAT pesky city is too durn
| Strenuous he commented. Where
do all them people eat and sleep?
| Why, when I sees them all on Broad
way after 5 o'clock, I turns to Chris
TIME and says, My. it must have been
some circus getting out
But 1t weren't no circus at that.
1t was jest all them people packed
in those buildings like hay in silos
a mile high; but not for your Uncle
Mac-no thankee. On a farm, now,
| you can live to a hundred and feel
like twenty
Great Grand Nephew Drove.
Macagor and his wife were taken to
New York by MI. and Mrs. Hardy
Bush, of 10 South street. in their ma
chine. Allen Bush. a great-grand-
nephew, drove the automobile.
In preparation for the trip Macagor
ia 49,. H. o HE o-1okt4A
with a meal of sausages and wheat
cakes-two helpings of each and lots
of maple syrup.
The first thing pointed out to him
was the elevated railroad.
Huh he remarked, II guess I've
seen them overhead trolleys before"
Then the Woolworth building
doomed up before his astonished gaze.
How do them men up there stick
on?" he demanded. Are they tied
on?"
Two automobile vans moving in
majestic procession down Broadway
next caught his eye.
MY" he exclaimed, do look al
them young houses on wheels!'
Central Park he thought would
make a very middling farm properly
cultivated by thirty youngsters like
himself. He couldn't see the wheels
OF the new "tobble skirt cars and
wanted to know how they ran.
Recollections Aroused.
He was pleased to see the house of
General Daniel Sickles, in Fifth ave-
nue. on the way downtown again. 1t
aroused ~recollections of Gettysburg
and other battles of the Civil War.
-"We'll take you to Brooklyn
bridge" said Mr.. Bush.
mo, don't bother about that" re-
piled Macagor. You know I was
here and saw it -four years ago"
Nor chorused his companions.
He seemed hurt by their disbelief.
Certainly" he said. 81 was here
jest for one day. I was best man for
Abner Harris, who's got a farm two
miles from mine at Beaver Brook. He
married a Brooklyn girl"
Holds Forth on Applejack.
What did astonish him, however,
was a moving electric sign-the
Chariot Race-in Broadway above
Herald Square. He made them stop
the automobile and wait for fifteen
minutes while he gazed upon the daz-
zling display.
: On the way back to the ferry MA
cagor thought the dust entitled him
to a little something to wash away
the flavor of New York. He took
sherry.
Smacking his lips, he remarked:
"'Taint at all bad, but give me APPLE
jack. Now hat there is a drink for
a man."
Longevity and a%pplejack, so he
thinks. are good running mates, al
though he never chews nor smokes.
When the party reached Newark at
Z o'clock Macagor admitted he was
"jest a bit tired" but he blamed 1t
on his heavy fur coat,
He is going back to Beaver Brook
tomorrow to prepare his farm for the
winter.