The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-10-08
MORE ABOUT NEW YORK CITY.
Daily Scenes at Nations Metrop-
oils ViVidly Portrayed.

Editor County Record
Mayhap your readers will tire
of hearing so much of such a we'll
known city as New York, but we
thought best to try their patience a
little further by adding another
short piece to our last weeks article
on our Nations Capital and Gotham.
One afternoon during the revival
in the Baptist church at Kingstree,
we had the privilege of hearing that
grandest of Anthems, HandePs
Messiah" beautifully described by
Rev ] ] Hurt, and since then we
have sincerely regretted not going
to Ocean Grove, that camp-meeting
ground so much enjoyed by those
who 90 there, and We were so near.
While we were in New York this
summer "Handel's Messiah" was
sung by one thousand trained voices,
and an onlooker says that to see the
great throng walk around Jerusa-
lem," that is, winding in and out of
the numerous buildings and singing,
I'VE are Marching to Zion," was
the next thing to going to heaven.
Let US 60 now to Bellvue hospital,
which stands at the foot of Twenty
sixth street. 1t is under the control
of the Departments of Charities and
spends one hundred thousand dol
lars annually.
AS you pass along the street i'm
mediately on the East river you
come to the morgue, an object of
gruesome interest. 1t is one-story
building. and in an inner room pro-
tected by partition of glass, are
the unknown dead, stretched out on
marble slabs, under the drip of icy
water, waiting to be identified
how very sad it all is.
Another place calling forth SYM
pathy is the school for the blind.
Some OF them seemed quite happy,
but TO look at those children and
think that they will spend their
whole lives in darkness makes one
more grateful for the blessing of
sight. These women, boys and girls
were just as busy as they could be
making baskets, rugs, etc, and then
learning to read in their books with
raised letters.
We enjoyed very much going
shopping on the East Side" These
people have their wares exposed for
sale on the sidewalk, and the streets
are literally jammed with humanity.
With fruits, calicoes, vegetables,
meats, ,laces, shoes and all manner of
things jumbled up in strange med
ley, their goods are much cheaper
than those in a more respectable part
of the city. To stand and watch the
old Polish and Russian Jews, with
their long black coats, their black
boards and their tall, foreign-looking
hats and a long string of dried
garlic around their necks, passing
up and down offering their goods
for sale, was a sight indeed inter-
esting.
We did not attempt to go oyer all
the grounds and buildings OF Co.
lumbia University, that institution
of higher learning which, is one of
the foremost in the United States.
1t began under charter from the
English crown, and covers eighteen
acres of land.
There arrived in the harbor of
New York, shortly after We reached
there, one of Germany's largest war
vessels, and being anxious to visit
the ship, we wrote to the German
Lloyd Line officer and secured
pass, but before we could get the
opportunity to go, the war cloud
broke and visitors were refused ad-
mittance, much to our regret.
NC MoUzoN.