Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-24
Lewis Party Tour New York; The Birds and
The Beasts Were There; Gotham Surprising

some of the elevated car lines were
Ms high as the five story buildings
along the streets, and we rode, over /.
tho River drive which is on the panh
Of the Hudson river, lhence the
nameD for some IA miles, one oil the
most beautiful scenic rides one couiu
possibly take getting back 70 our
starting point about o'clock p. m
In the Subway
September To-day we took our
first subway ride from 9Th and Broad
way under the East river to Brooklyn
aud coney island the one great amuse,
ment place of the entire East, but the
Z, II, Lewis party was somewhat as
appointed in Coney Island as an
amusement place, as we found very
small crowd there. We were told that
, II was rather late in the season, this
may account for the smallness of the
crowd but every thing around there
seemed out of repair, and sadly in
need Of paint and the place looked
run down generally, and we were told
that this had been the case for the
past three or four years.
The subway and it's workings is
simply immense. Half million people
take transportation on the subway
daily. and since the subway has been
running it has moved ten times the
! population of the world, and only one
death by accident. Two new branches
have just been opened up, and Broad
way itself for several miles of its
length is torn up at the present time
for subway construction, but when
, completed it will be wonderful trans
portation system. They need all the
transportation systems that they have.
| for greater New York itself has a
population of five and a half perma.
nent people, their subway trains are
not a one car proposition, but their
J trains are from four to twenty cars,
and train every two minutes. The
: express trains go a mile or so between
stops. Everywhere the E. H. Lewis
party went there were four tracks,
and the local train composed of four
or five cars stopped whenever any
one wanted to get on or off, as there
were stations every block or two.
/ Some Police Force
! There are 1900 policemen in New
! York City, to protect the great popu-
latton of the metropolis. And there
are 10000 men ready at a moments
: notice during the winter months, to
shovel snow away from the streets,
and keep the tracks free of snow.
/ We are told that both the surface
and the subway tram car service, was
owned by the city of New York, but
| leased to the Interboro Traffic Co.,
as the building of the subway was too
great an undertaking for any private
Company.
We got our first glimpse of the At
lantlc ocean on our way to Coney
Island, about 1920 o'clock, at Brighton
beach, one of Brooklyn's bathing
places.
D. Our party put in several hours of
the day, in a place that was one of the
original amusement places of Coney
Island, the place was first opened by
man by the name of George C. Til
you with capital of $1,000 and now
the place has developed into one Of
the largest amusement places at Coney
! Islands, shooting the shutes, humping
the bumps, careering down the virginia
reel, and a whirl wheel, where the kid
dies, get on a round wheel, and the
i operator starts the thing going, and
! anyone sticking on has free ride the
next time, and occasionally a girl or
a boy manages to stick on and has
another try.
Brighton Beach
, Every afternoon during the season.
there are several bands playing in
dltferent parts of the island, and as
soon as rag tune is started I'D the
! people commence to get out of the
water and rag" and dance around in
their bathing suits as long as the
music keeps going, and then they all
TAKE TO the water again. The amuse-
ment features are scattered over an
area four miles long by one mile wide,
so you see 1t takes some time to get
around and see everything.
September S.-We visited another
one OF New York's parks in the upper
part of the city, where most of the
animals, birds, etc, are kept. The
boV1da or hab nash america, looks like
large brown goat, the zebu of India
looks like a white COW, with a hump
on the shoulder, then there are the
cape buffalo, Angoria goats, white
polar bear, brown bear of Russian, two
horned rhinoceros something yerv
rare, lama that looks very much like
an ostrich except that it has four legs
Is used as pack animal in Peru. the
zebra nylghau is something new
brown in color, white markings, little
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