The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY
BY ALLEN GRIFFIN JOHNSON.
IrST SuNSHINE

JUST SUNSHINE New York, September 12.-(Special) southern sojourners upon Manhattan Island do not early learn to love the vastness and the vagaries of this money mad metropolis. though there Is much within it's magnitude that com mands our admiration. However where praise is due, let it not be my part to withhold it. and so at the risk of being considered dsloyal to that section of the country which l shall all ways hold in tenderest love and sweet est memory I will say this: Not even dear old Dixie land itself nay. nor world famed, war threatened Sunny Italy" has bluer skies, clear CT atmosphere, nor more perfect weath- CT than New York in early fall It seems little thing to discuss in these times that try mems souls,s yet after all one of the biggest factors in either peace or war is weather.
 These flawless. blue-gold days of summers age and autumn's infancy. are nowhere else so nearly perfect as upon Manhattans shores. and not even the nature glories of golden California can give to them fairer setting nor produce more inspiring effect Here in Gotham soft coal is taboo; not even the river and harbor craft are per mitted to emit black smoke from their stacks while the motorist who per- mits enough smoke to issue from his machine to hide it's number Is certain of arrest and fine.
 Cleanliness is a Gotham characteris- tic and even the absence of all over head trolley and other wires seems to aid in procuring a condition of abso- IL te clarity. And so in early autumn n hac mer tourist thousands. Manhattan fair ly gleams and glitters in flood of golden sunlight poured upon her from a sky to which the smallest cloud is stranger
 True. before the winter shall have come and gone, more millions may be spent to clean the snow off her many miles of streets. but winter. is not yet and New York has a worthy way of living today, and draining from the cup ot the present the last drop of the wine or pleasure that Is held therein She rcvels in her flawless atmosphere and feels just pride in 1t, and even the manner of her people, cold and callous as they seem. gives evidence of unmis- t1kable responsiveness
 On such fair days Manhattan's vistas seem like perfect cinemetographic art with each detail in motion or at rest brought out with a distinctness that
 
 mile and more of width rise the gi- Eantic. silent Palisades in direct con trast to the man made charms of this same river's eastern shore. each crew ice, almost every leaf. discernible to the apartment dweller upon Riverside drive.
 Between the banks the prows of myr- fad water craft kiss the white crested vavelets that dance in delight at their ncarness to the sea goal they so long have sought and strains of harmony float from the decks of pleasure boats ts ears that listen upon either shore
 Her nature lovers throng her parks the almost unbroken length of which stretches from Fifty ninth street to tn f.r-off Bronx and even to Van Cort- landt. while even the incurable Broad wayite finds the sunlight kissing him into a semblance of cordality. and as far south as the financial district the s,inbeams are playing peep-eye with the frequenters of the downtown can yons.
 Yes. it Is little thing to write about as newspaper values go. There is no news" in 1t. and these are days of blood and black headlines. vet in spite of all these things I doubt if there Is q greater factor in all human happi- nc SIS today than--just sunshine. q paper in New York city which has not laid off large numbers of it's local staff in order to meet the added ex