The log cabin Democrat., 1912-07-19
HENDRIX men IN
new YORK CITY
PROF. HUBBELL WRITES
TELLS CONWAY FRIENDS OF
EXPERIENCES ON TRIP
TO METROPOLIS.
To Our Conway Friends:

way is at least little akin to US and
we would send everyone a card if we
had the time and the money to do
so. So | will just write little love
letter to everybody in Conway who
is interested in us.
We, Prof. Greene, Prof. Russell
and myself had a good trip on our
way to Columbia. We visited Chi
eago, Buffalo, Niagara Falls and AL
bany. Did we rubber? Well | don't
know. After we got little away
from home people didn't seem to
care much about us and we just quit
| speaking to any of them and strictly
minded our own business-and our
business was to rubber.
In Chicago we visited the Un:ver-
sity, Marshal Fields great store,
Swift's packing house, the parks, the
Field museum, the fair, Sears, Roe
buck, etc. Then, after spending
day with our Conway friends who
are attending the University, we left
for Detroit. Detroit is the prettiest
ETY. | ever saw. 1t is almost one
solid glare of electricity. The build
| ings are beautiful. The streets are
wider and better kept than in Rich
mond
| From Detroit we Travelled over the
Wabash through southern Canada to
Niagara. We went around the Falls,
between them and under them in the
Maid of the Mist"
At Albany the thing of greatest
interest to us was the New York
state capitol. 1t is really a wonder
full building. 1t is the second most
expensive building in the United
States, the City Hall of Philadelphia
being the most expensive. The cap
itol of Albany cost $25,Oo0,OOO. 1t
is composed of material from thir-
teen states and nine nations.
Down the Hudson river, which trip
We made by steamer, we saw some
very beautiful scenery. 1t is along
ta.s river that some of the most
wealthy men of New York City have
built their homes.
We are well pleased with Colum-
| bia university. The material struc-
ture of the university is marvellous.
Some of the buildings cost over
million dollars. One of the great
dormitories recently built accommo-
dates over thousand students.
Nearly four thousand students are
now in attendance-the summer
term, and it is a very cosmopolitan
bunch. The students here are of ev-
cry shape, color, form, age and fash
ion. The are Americans, Germans,
French, Spanish, Italian, Korean,
Japanese, negro, priests, nuns, etc.
principally etc. | am by the student
body like Gen. Grant was by his
tunes when he remarked that he just
knew two tunes, one of them was
Yankee Doodle" and the other one
was not. know that some of the
students are Americans and the 9TH
ers are not Prof. Russell and Prof.
Greene say that | call everybody
here who is not an American a dago.
Over 80 per cent of New York City's
population is foreign. am very
conscious of one thing. | have found
a place to go to school where l am
not embarrassed on account of my
age. am about the youngest chap
in the University department. A
large per cent of them are either
bald or gray-haired.
Let me say here in praise of Hen
dirk College that my A. B. degree is
accepted here just the same as an
A. B. from Columbia College would
be and / was admitted without ex-
animation to University work for
credits as an A. M. Hurrah for
Hendrix College!
We are acquainting ourselves as
fast as possible with the city of New
York. We haven't adjusted ourselves
entirely to the city ways yet. For
instance, few days ago We were in
the congested part of the city on a
car when large, bulky, prespiring
negro woman with all her brood en-
tered the car and prepared to occupy
the little space between Prof. Russell
and myself. Well, Prof. Russell and
| did not talk the matter over but no
sooner did she come into one end of
ou seat than we went out at the 9TH |