The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-10-11

y'e ~ Wv
M commonplace thing Of buy
w Ing n ticket for a sail up
the Hudson, you are en-
barking on no commonplace thing Mt
all. For rest assured Of this: You are
about to travel the most beautiful wa
terway In all the civilized world. Zoe
Beckley writes In the New York Mail.
There are mighty rivers In Africa,
they say, that take the breath away
for sheer solitary grandeur. And the
Amazon. with vast and sinister forests.
And Florida streams, mystic and
weird. Virginlnns point with pride to
the broad Potomac with its fine es-
tates and quiet reaches.
People I'm the Northwest challenge
the world with their Columbla-mlghty
river OF commerce and lndustry-wind-
ing almost ~endlessly back from the
Puget sound through ranch lands and
lumber lands and towering, glowering
mountains.
Then, of course, the Rhine, glorlfed
with myth and legend, sung and
painted and made a pilgrimage spot by
centuries of travellers, but presenting
In fact nothing save Its moldering
castles that permit 1t to compare seem
ically with the river that flows ut our
door.
A Beauty Al its Own.
For the beauty Of a river is like the
beauty Of n woman 1t doesn't depend
upon II single feature. There has got
to be n certain aliveness to a river that
corresponds to intelligence In a face.
Your mighty African river Of the
solltudes hasn't that. Nor has your
thrown round the Hudson by centuries
of human contact-adventure, strug-
gle, change, adversely, prosperity,
peace.
Come with me, will you, for a little
voyage from Desbrosses street to Al.
bany? And from the economical want
age point Of Il So, nine-hour trip. let US
see some OF the things that make this
Empire" river so lordly-and sc hu.
man.
At the left hand. as we start north,
are the Hoboken docks, not pretty per
haps. but touched with interest be-
cause Of the huge interned German
ships that had almost taken root al
their piers.
The sweet green prOmontory OF
Stevens Point. where the institute Is
sticks out defiantly from between ter
minals and warehouses that try L
choke II. Yet the castlelike home
stead Of the Stevens family manages
to keep Its look Of a~ristr0cratic serenl
ty, despite the crowdings Of CONNER
cialism.
At Weehawken, where trolley car
now zlgzag SO nlmbly up the heights
Is the spot-then a picturesque ant
grassy ledge; now merely "OppOsit'
Vest Forty-second street"-whcr,
Hamilton and Burr met on the "ael'
OF honor" In 1904.
The boat goes so fast that In
initiate II seems we are passing River
side drive. which some day will b
conceded the loveliest street In tn
world.
Now we pass the district of clii
dwellers-thousands of tall houses ris
Ing out OF the trees. as II seems, fror
the river. To me these apartment
houses, each one homing more fam
lies than some small villages. are
feature OF thrills and beauty.
cliffs Little Changed.
The real. unspoiled loneliness OF tn
river begins here. where the still rurt
looking Fort Washington point reache
out toward the magnificent rise Of tn
Palisades ut Fort Lee.
Barring the few homes that no.
peep out through the e at the TO
Of these 500-foot cliffs, there Is nc
such u precious lot OF difference b.
tween how they look today and no
they looked when George Washingto
and his stan watched from them III
destruction of Fort Washington on III
eastern heights nearly u century an
u half ago and lined oct u retrei
through the heart Of Jersey.
These two forts were supposed
guard a barrier Of sunken ships an
logs planted In the river ut this poll
. 10 keep the British back.
Il The appeal Of the Palisades
, fresher ench time you sail past the1
, AZ the steamer purrs along, you nee
only narrow your eyes a little to shl
out things close at hand, and Dretep