El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-06

WAGONS IN
NEW YORK
Visitors Soon Learn More
About the Metropolis than
Many Residents.
INFORMATION is
GAINED EASILY

New York, n. Y. July ct is not
so many years since the summer VS.
itOr in New York was awed by a ride
on the L road and thrilled to the mar
row in crossing the Brooklyn bridge.
Today the points Of interest warranted
to offer lot for your money cannot
be, as they once were, summed up IN
a trip to COney Island, visits to the
city's parks. museums, aquarium and
perhaps a timid glimpse OF the Bow
cry.
No city in the world is more fully
equipped for Showing Off her mag
nificent length, breadth and thickness
than New York is at the present time
And for all visitors who arrive with an
I'm from Missouri and here TO De
shown" chip on the shoulder. New
York has simple, effective and low
priced methods by which local wonders
may be SEEN
The stranger within our gates may
well return to MuskeSon, Mich, de-
claring he knows as much about New
York as its oldest inhabitant- There
are few New Workers half so cityWlse
as the visitor hailing from the remote
pin prick on the map The New
Yorker takes everything Tor granted
while the visitor starts out to see the
city and to learn something about II
Homes of the Famous.
One of the first things the average
visitor does is to take a trip IN ruO-
berneck wagon" passing the homes OF
farone rnfIiionaires, each tagged with
its special claim on art, beauty or eN-
trava gance, with volubIe description
bv the guide with a megaphOne- II
is seemingly gratifying to the outsider
TO glide by MillOinaireS' Row past the
vast stone barbados which nave snet-
tered the great names OF the city
The show places may have the outward
asnect of the stin, cold mOrgue, they
may be boarded up, as IS at this season
the case of every five in six, yet the
sightseer gazes in dazed ADMIRATION 10
hear there is an alabaster staircase o.
$4,000. 900 worth of paintings inside
Necks are craned as the megaphone
declares that on the left hand side are
the Vanderbilt twin houses, now owned
bv Henry C Frick and William D
Sloane that the four corners Of Fifty
seventh street and Fifth avenue are
supported by the mansions of Mrs Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Herman Oelrlcns,
Harry Payne Whitney and Mrs T. r
Huntington; that in the Whitney house
president Cleveland had received Ii
Hung Chang. who was so impressed Dy
the magnificence OF the interior ne
found it difficult to believe it was
private house; that in the Cornelius
Vanderbilt house, which is for size and
grandeur one OF the most notable on
the avenue, the state apartments OF
ROYALTY are said to be OutShOne IN mag
nificance. And so on from the homes
of the late Col John Jacob AStor, Perry
Belmont H 0. Armour, George Gould.
The late c. T. YerBes, to the residences
of Andrew Carnegie and senator ". A
Clark Of Montana
Sees All Points of Interest.
Having taken the up and downtown
trip the summer visitor can tell you
all about the clubs, hotels, Libraries,
restaurants, churches. theaters, statues
and tall buildings without having left
q comfortable seat of the seeing things
motor car. Everything has been passed,
Lot 2 F7ea
ginghO trees planted by Ii Hung Chang
near Grants tomb, the monument TO
ian amiable child" the Egyptian Obelisk,
former site of the 1885 first worlds
fair, panoramic view OF Washington
Heights, the largest savings Zank IN
the world the oldest building in New
York, Wall street, the bridge of signs,
newspaper row, Hall of Records, to the
spot where Washington bade farewell
to his officers, or to the little building
wherein Adelina Patti made her debut
in 1858.
Before taking in" Palisade park and
Coney Island the summer visitor usually
circles Manhattan Island in one Of the
made in three hours
Over the Tubes
The lecturer tells his audience that
they are now passing from FOrty-Sec-
ond street down the Hudson river, and
that right under them at this particular
moment lie the Pennsylvania railroad
tunnels, which connect HOboken with
the United States. The people sit UP,
look and listen. Some go so far as to
peel. over the side Of the yacht. hoping
no doubt to see an elbow of piping
from the tunnel sticking above water,
like the cross that marks the spot in
some illustrations Of a murder.
Now they are coming to the great
steamers of the neutrality-suspicious.
line North German Lloyd and Holland
America lines Presently a little mil
liner from Bridgeport, Conn.,, wonders
why the largest clock in the world on
top of a factory was placed on the
waterfront, where nobody but the
boats can see it"
The magnificence of New YOrks sky
scrapers along the water line impresses
even the hOneymOOners from RockpOrt.
y. Y, who came simply for the sail and
are fast becoming too interested in the
historical and industrial points on
either passing shore to hold hands
1t is interesting to the least OBJ -erving
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