The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-05-22

THE BOTTINEAU CoURANT, /
the many friends Of Gertrude Rice
who is employed as stenographer at
The Adjutant Generals office.
Washington, d. c., May IL, 1919.
Dear father and all:
Received your letter a long time
ago and was very glad to hear from
you and hope you will write me again
soon, although I will admit that I have
been very slow in answering, but YOU
a easily see where my time goes to,
and I meant well all the time. Re-
ceived Elias letter Saturday and was
sorry to hear mother was so sick
again. + hope she is better now and
will continue being so. l wish that I
could send some Of the pretty flowers
we have here, but they would not be
pretty by the time they reached N. D.
l promised to write you about our
New York City trip, so listen and I
will tell you. Well, Ethel Caskey
from Kansas was the girl who went
with me. We arrived in New York at
6:10 A. NJ, took a taxi to the Hostess
Huose, 30-East Sind Street, and on
arriving so early no one was up, so
we went in and up into the parlor
where we found a settee where we
laid down and slept for about two
hours. We were awakened by the host
ess who remarked that she was won
dering who "a stealing a nap in her
parlor. We introduced ourselves and
were invited to breakfast. This is as
you know a Y. w. C. A. and a very
nice place to stay.
After breakfast we walked down
9Th avenue, visited the public library,
walked down Broadway and under the
Memorial Arch of 1919 which has
just been erected in honor of our
dead heroes in the World War. Each
state in the Union is mentioned in
this Arch. From here we took a "cat-
erpillar" (the street cars are painted
black and yellow and sort of crawl
along like a caterpillar so we named
them thus) to the Woolworth building
which is supposed to be the highest
office building in the world, IS stories
or ESQ feet in height. We went to the
very top of it in an elevator, and as
we were nearing the top, the elevator
girl called, chang IN to your hats
for it was so windy up there that the
wind almost blew US off. We stepped
off on to the observation gallery,
which is built all around the top, and
from there we got a birds-eye view
of the whole city, Everything looked
like a little toy city. We could see
the islands in the distance, the ocean
and the rivers, in which boats and
ships of every description were NOV
ing slowly along. Oh, the view was
just marvellous, and the thrilling sem
sation which comes over one can never
be forgotten. On our way down we
stopped on the 10th floor and signed
u names in a register with the
names of thousands Of other visitors,
and also took lunch there. I shall tell
more about this place later.
From here W. went to Battery Park
on the elevated {, the elevated is an
electric train running one flight
above the grond. There are two of
these in some places right on top of
each other, and besides there the two
underground roads, one under the
other, called subways or tubes. One
can go yer the whole city for 5 cents,
we took some Snapshots wherever we
went. Battery Park is a place where
touring boats and ferries land, and
from here we took a boat to Bedloe
island on which the Statue of Liberty
stands. On reaching there we walked
around on the island a while and
watched the ships and then finally
decided to go up into the statue with
others. There we found steps leading
up to the very top. We climbed it, 3O5
feet. We could feel it culver and
rock, and it made one feel sort of
creepy. The steps go up in a spiral.
When we reached the top we could
look out on the harbor. After several
hours here we went back on the boat
to the Battery and from there took a
caterpillar up town and had dinner at
the "Automat." Now that is a place
where one has to have all nickels and
you enter a dining room and you carry
your eats to a table and then you go
to a large wall that looks like a lot
Of pigeon holes with glass doors on,
and each has a slot for a nickel; what
ever you see that you might like you
put in your nickel and the little glass
door opens and you pull out a nice
bowl of burning hot soup, or a dish of
ice cream, or if you wish coffee hold
your bowl under a faucet, slip in a
nickel and out runs enough to just
fill a cup. It was really amusing to
eat in this place. After dinner we
went back to the Hostess House and
were tired enough to retire.
On our End day May 8, WI took a
bus ride up 9Th avenue and down