The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-04


by the words New York
City" and it's dollars to the
doughnuts that made the Salvation
Army famous that the picture will be
a conglomeration of skyscrapers,
crowded tenements. and thrOnged and
narrow streets. Yet the New York
City as the city man knows 1t is
chiefly none of these; 1t contains pro-
ductiye truck farms of 100 acres or
so; rough, rocky precipes that would
do credit to a mountain country, bits
! Of exquisite wooded scenery, spots so
overgrown with underbrush as to be
all but impenetrable, acres of rich
pasture land where Craze peaceful,
cOntented cows browsing on a portion
of Mother Earth whose price per
square foot runs into large figures
all these and more may be found with
In the 300-odd square miles OF the
wonder city, by whOmever has eyes
to see and who knows his New York.
says the Christian Science Monitor.
Within its confines are mercantile
establishments which are marvel of
completeness, comfort, and ingenuity,
and only few short miles away are
country crossroads general stores
which would look more in place in
POdunk Corners. From the tower of
the great office building, served by so
many postmen each day that it Is
sometimes less than u half hour be-
tween deliveries of mail, you can on
clear day view outlying communi-
ties, all within the greater city, where
the mail service is so truly rural and
provincial that the western farmer
with his rural route box has all the
advantage. Here are found more varie-
ty and contrast, more lights and Shad-
ton contrasted with splendid isolation
than could be found anywhere else in
America within many a days journey.
Site of Old Fort George.
To the city man one of the most
satisfying views, a vista which never
loses it's charm or variety, is the broad
area which greets the eye at the his
toric site of old Fort George in upper
Manhattan. When reached by the sub
way, the visitor In alighting at the
191st street station platform is at
once aware that he is deep below the
surface of the ground. From the
vaulted roof of the tube" he hears
the drip. drip of water from deep I'M
derground springs that will not be
closed and which all human ingenuity
has thus far been unable TO cope with.
To the left he sees the entrance to
New York'S famous tunnel street,
connection followed out of solid rock
to the roadway of upper Broadway,
which here runs deep down in the
valley between the two towering rocky
spines of the northern end of the is
land. Then taking the elevator. the
impression of depth is confirmed and
the visitor goes up and up and on up
till the surface is reached nearly 200
feet above the level at which he altght-
ed from the train.
Vista of Hills and River.
A short walk brings one TO the site
of Fort George, whence the country
for miles around is seen laid out In It's
wonderful variety and charm. But be-
fore one has opportunity to give it
more than a passing glance there is
rumble and a roar, and almost De-
meath ones feet there rushes heavy
subway express out of the rocky hlll-
side to continue Its journey above the
travel of the streets of the valley in
stead of below, so very far below,
ones feet. AS the long train, so far
beneath that Ii seems almost toy,
winds its snaky way over the elevated
structure, from station to station anu
thence out of sight, one finds oppor-
tunity to regard other more beautiful
and less noisy features of the view.
Turning his eyes away from the val
ley. where lie the tier upon tier or
houses, their roofs so far
below him that they and the noisy
cars. autos, and trucks are easily for
gotten, and looking instead at wooded
hillsides and glimpse of the broad wa
ters OF the Hudson, with the head
lands of the majestic Palisades In the
distance, 1t Is easy for the city man
10 imagine that he is no longer in the
great city, but far away in some dis
tant corner OF the country. There are
no houses to mar the view, only the
Killings establishment which occupies
the spot of Fort Tryon, the perfect
!, !, r,,nnv Of which only enhances the |
effect.
Truck Farms on Broadway.
tiat-wheel trolley car In Broadway,
far below calls attention back from
the mountain solitude with the beau
tiful glimpse OF broad river through