The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-12-07
SEEING THE SIGHTS.


,srs BY Frank NJ Dallam, Jr.. serving
uith the 161st Infantry, and now sta
,oued at Camp Mills Long Island. in
which he gives some impressions of
little old New York"
Il have made three trips into the
ety. The first, week ago Saturday
when spent Il day and a half there
and covered all the territory l could
in fhatlength of time, Five hours were
i devoted to the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. and that time was only an aggre-
ystion, as it would require almost as
many weeks to see that marvellous col
lection within anything approaching
thoroughness, but it was wonderful!
treat at that. | saw original Robins.
among them the Thinker" and others.
Van Dycks, Reynolds, Murillos. Michel
angeles, and hundreds of pieces of
sculpture and paintings by the old
and modern masters. The old Egyp-
tan, Persian. Assyrian and other
collections of art and science are tre
the ancient and medieval times. head
pieces, full ar'uor weapons of most
fantastic and exquisite workmanship,
the trappings and equipments of the
days when "knighthood was in
Flower" is all most fascinating. One
hand W, ought helmet OF ltoman de-
sign is said to have b 'en purchased tor
$4,000 That is the only pr,:" tag
learned or observed, because | must
confess that have little of the Ameri-
can characteristic of valuing things by
money standards. On the contrary, to
me, that is a comic and at times re-
pulsive habit.
But it is hopeless to attempt to des-
cribe that wonderful institution. It's
very immensely overwhelms one. |
could spend hours on the outside gaz-
ing at the tremedous and handsome
building itself And. referring to mas
siye buildings, the Pennsylvania &
Grand Central stations alone are worth
atrip acros sthe continent to see. They
are beautiful in design and awe in
spring in their proportions. The dist
ance from floor to ceiling of the main
portion of the Pennsylvania station is
$50 feet, | was told. and it looks even
higher.
"Of course all down town New York
Is a series of massive buildings. The
famous Flatiron building is small in
c0mparison with many near it, but is
saking on account of it's loea ton Z
The Bronx, with it's zoo. is a place OF
interest to see the animals, birds and
snakes. In fact, to me. the most inter-
esting sight in any city and especially
New York, is the people. Broadway is
the greatest zoo in the world, and the
hrst and lasting impression is that
belongs to the Jews, or New
York at least. Jews everywhere. The
map of Judah is on every face. 1t Is
TACT that the name of Cohan leads all
others in the directory. The tribe OF
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has over
'un the greatest American city.
"The congested East Side is intense
y interesting and terribly pathetic.
The Ghetto is a hive, unbelievablely
ilthy and populous. People live and
multiply, and swarm there like flies,
md they must subsist like flies also.
II walked out across the Brooklyn
Bridge. The fOotway is above all other
evels, and gives a marvellous unOb-
tructed view of a portion of Manhat-
an island, Brooklyn, the East River,
nd the swarming harbor out to Staten
sland and the Statue of Liberty.
when | first went in | crossed the
hudson at Hoboken and saw the null
itudious shipping on that stream, and
he skyline of the great city from the
Battery north. At night | visited Wall
street, saw old Trinity, then to Battery
Park and saw the Statue of Liberty
glowing through the night bathed in
lood of light.
$50 many, many things to see in a
brief time and all so interesting that /
ences and impressions. The most i'm
posing structures of our western cities
are dwarfed by the ordinary office
buildings of New York, and they are
actually pittiful shams compared with
the real show places of that city.
"Oh, yes; / rode on the top Of Fifth
avenue bus out Riverside Drive past
Grants tomb, perfectly beautlful
thing. and the drive is all that can be
claimed for it, The Hudson on one side
Utterly filled with shipping, war YES
sells and interned merchatmen, and on
the other an unbroken line of beau
tiful stone buildings, homes and flats,
and stream of vehicles up and down,
horse drawn and motor
Central park is most interesting
feature of the city. and is much larger
than expected. But, after ALL the peo-
pie are more interesting than anything
they have created Multitudes of them
flowing up and down the main arteries
Fifth avenue, Broadway and Eighth
avenue and simply swarming like in
sects in the narrow streets of the for
eign districts. All sorts and conditions
OF people and all nationalities.
"The transportation system is a
world wonder. I have ridden on the H.
the surface cars and in the tubes. IL
is easier to get about In this great city
quickly than in many much smaller
towns.
so much for New York. In TINS
there can be nothing you have not
heard or read about, but it has so filieo
me with wonder and interest that |
must repeat what | have SEEN.