The Green Forest tribune., 1917-08-17
A DAY OF RAMB4Ns 1N
 IHE CITY OF NEW YORK
x Russell Fails to Find Bowery-- >Searches Coney Island. Sees Many
 Sights

The fellow who seldom strays far away from home aecumulates a won derful stock of information by visit to New York. The event puts him in position to bore his friends for long while, forcing them to listen to him tell of the things he seed" ill the great metropolis.
 Ones estimate of the greatness of other cities visited has to be made over after he has taken in New York. Places that I had previously thought were some cities come nearer being county villages in my mind now than they do to measuring up to the stand ard of greatness of New York. They are as ant hills compared to mountains somewhat.
 New York is not only of vast length and breadth but she is high and deep. The sky is scraped for loftiness and the flower regions" are infringed upon in order to give her depth. The sur face represents only a fraction of the city's busy whirl.
 Reaching Grand Central Station by advent into New York, you come up from out of the ground, having tray eled several miles by subway, complet- ing the journey through an elevator
 The train that carried me from Bos- ton to New York discarded it's loco motive fifty miles out and was drawn the balance of the way by electric motor. No steam engines are permit ted to enter New York on account of the smoke nuisance
 Grand Central Station is located well downtown" From all sides you enter upon main business streets. The yards and "train sheds" being under ground, there is little to distinguish Grand Central Station by outside ap- pearance as railroad depot. It might as easily be taken for the home of some other business institution.
 This may not be the finest station In the world. I am not sure if one or two others are not attributed that dis tinction, but it is quite certain that there are none greater in capacity or convenience in arrangement. figure that the chances for taking the wrong train there or getting left on account of misunderstanding are quite as re- mote as they would be for making mistake of that kind at Capps or Ba- tavia. You are fed into a giant ma chine that grinds you out exactly at the right spot.
 The reverse, however, Is most em- phatically true once out of the station on to the streets of New York. The stranger is overwhelmed the first sec ond if he has not a definite purpose and is not following thoroughly memo rized instructions.
 The supposition is that every man, woman and child going into New York Is in pursuit of business of some sort. You'll surely have time keeping up with yourself if you aren't. People on the streets have little information of value to you, no matter what you want to know. Strangers couldn't help you if they would and wouldn't if they could-as a rule-while those who are familiar with the city have no time for you whatever. Even policemen do not g6en tO hn draWi0p and considerable portion of their stlaries as employees of the information bureau You are dandy if you retain the instructions the average cop gives as long as you are listening to him.
 These are points I picked up after rambling" for day or so sightseeing in the metropolis, from the angle of a stranger in an intensely strange city. If could have persuaded myself l was not in imminent aanger of being run over and killed, would have very much enjoyed the experience, and l did anyway. My inclination to do things different made me loath to abandon my scheme in seeing New York. I soon realized, however, the plan would keep me busy for days while my stay was limited to hours.
 You can imagine what progress I was making when tell you that after a three hours search for the Bowery