The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-09-25
New York Letter from Dr.. WIoten.

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but while there is always room at the
top" as we learned fro mthe school
readers there must be limit to the
ingenuity of man in the way OF I'M
creasinE the height of the skyscrapers,
a few years ago the Singer building
was proudly shown to the visitor as
THE tallest inhabited building in the
world, sir" Now the structure put up
as an advertisement OF sewing ma.
chine looks at the Woolworth building,
a monument to the enterprise of the
founder OF and 10 cent stores, and
feels like a bungalow.
BY the way, | would like to tell you
| Just how high the Woolworth reaches
toward the upper depths, but | have.
no guidebook handy, and If you want
Information about heights and dis
tances and population and things OF
this sort don't ask a New Yorker II
did know once, but really, have some
thing else to IVORY about"
Before | forget II, II you. come to
Gotham by the c.. n o. route you will
probably plunge into a cavern few
miles from Jersey City, and after few
, minutes of roaring and rumbling you
and your train emerge into the day
light in the Pennsylvania depot, the
biggest and finest in the world, But
be sure that before you leave the big
gest city in the world go over to Jer7
sey City again and cross back to New
| York on a boat and see the most mag
niticent panorama to be seen on the
| big broad earth. The bay, the harhor,
the docks the shipping, with the Hnd-
son or North river on one hand and the
East river on the other. In almost any
weather the view is wonderful, on a
clear day II is magnificent
And then again you should cross on
on one of the big bridges that span the
East river from Long Island to Man
haitian. CAS- soon as possible after get
ting to New York City speak of il as
"Manhattan"-it takes away great
deal of the greenness which all New
! Workers profess to see about YOU.
| Those bridges are now free to the pub
Ilc. one OF the good things for which
the people are indebted to Mayor Cay
nor The public has found that the
ldehd Mayor was its very good friend
and it reveres his memory,
T. Speaking of crossings, you may go
from one side to. the other, as | have
indicated, by bridge, by boat, and by
trains under the river, and be very sure
when you tell that you came by tun-
| mel to speak OF it as the tube This,
like calling the city Manhattan, serves
to take away what the Gothamites are
pleased to call the Country" These
are the present means Of Transports
ton from shore to shore, but II l. am
fortunate enough To live a few years
longer and then come back to Man
haitian shall see signs In Jersey CITY
directing me to take Highiiyer's Aero
plane direct to Steenth street and
I'mptieth avenue, It's coming 10 this
as sure as you live.
You will not find this a very CON
nected letter but one written Just as
things | have seen and heard occur to
me. One Of these things is told In the
know it, but there is an unwritten law
that II after certain date in Septcm-
ber the 18th this year you are reck-
| less enough to wear straw hat you
do it at the risk Of having it smashed,
You don't have any recourse, either.
and the unwritten law is more strictly
obeyed than are some Of the written
ones This is what happened here on
Tuesday last
Fed Straw Hats to the Flames.
"The reserves OF the Morrisania po-
lice station had to turn out last night
to dispense a thousand persons at one
Hundred and Sixty-ninth street and
Third avenue who were wildly cheer
ing September hat smashing bee.
| About twenty lads at the l. stairway
In. nt
and boys. Twenty hats were piled in
heap and set ablaze, and before the
police arrived about thirty more sum
mer crowns had gone into the flames.
went to Coney Island that day.
I Everybody from the country goes 70
that once famous and Infamous re-
sort. and as you may discover later on
that some OF the verdant was still
sticking to me had TO be true to my
color Coney is there. what the wash
Of the waves has left, but it's glory has
departed The Coney promoters have
for few years made the last week OF
the season Carnival Week Well, We
went down on what they called Mardl
Gras, but It was anything but a Fat
Tuesday" for Coney, 1t was the lean
est sort Of pickings, The various
places Of show and resort were open
and the "barkers' and 'spielers' shout
ed and bawled as usual, but to little or
no good Even the island mermaids
had almost deserted the beach. Two
or three fat, frowsy looking old frumps,
with figures like a sack of meal with a
string tied around the middle, waded
through the surf and tumbed over on
the wet sand when an unusually large
breaker rolled shoreward.
We soon tired of the FUN" and drove
home through Prospect Park, one Of
Brooklyns many Fairgrounds and
breathing places, There are many
such, all free as the air to all. During
the summer and the early fall the city
furnishes bands on Sundays for these
resorts and the music is first class We
are domiciled directly opposite Sunset
Park, and last Sunday the band began
to play just as we finished dinner.
occupied about two minutes In getting
over, and for more than two hours
enjoyed the playing OF Contends band
one of the best in the city.
) one hears much in New York about
the war. The big dailies are numerous
! and nearly all of them issue hourly ex-
, tras. This is the most cosmopolitan
city on earth, crowded with people
from every cline and county. These
Of course, entertain various opinions
regarding the war. Hence the wisdom
OF President Wilson and Mayor Mitchell