The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-09-10

III summer evenings. An occa-
- siOnal pair of strollers. en-
braced in the shadows Of the great
Orders, a solitary man whom years
have taught love of peaceful places,
a group of small boys lured by the ad-
venture that beckons from boats and
moving waters, duo of schoolgirls,
may have the bridge and the quiet
grandeur of the view to yourself, says
a writer in the Christian Science Mon
itor.
The best time for your visit is that
indefinable quarter of an hour be-
tween sunset and the beginning Of
twilight, the hour OF color, when COM
monplace objects appear in the rich
tones that fade into dim color under
the intenser light of day.
This evening the blue of the sky
was just beginning its dissolution into
twilight's gray when l came up the
long approach to the bridge. Family
greenish, it stretched above and be-
hind the great superstructure, which
has the eccentric curves of Siamese
temple roofs, with pairs of delicate.
needIe-spires shooting up from the
gables.
am on the bridge, and the city
lies before me.
How can describe what | see?
Far below is a broad flowing river,
with the rich olives and yellow browns
of a moss Jade. To the left, as | lean
on the southern parapet. is Queens,
it's low-lying factories and work-yards
now redeemed from their insigniti-
canoe by the rusty browns and yell
lows that they wear Nearer is the
symbolic geometry of BlackwelFs is
land, its grass plots emerald with new
grass. To the right, and curving into
| the background. is Manhattan. rich
In color and, built haphazard as 1t is,
| amazingly inevitable in composition.
Brick factories and brick ana
| brownStone houses built in the 'SOS
| line the shore in the near-foreground.
Tonight they glow with incredible
reds and russell browns. The suns
| touch fingers in them. and in the warm
grays and yellOws. purple ShadoWed'
of the city that rises behind them'
" A City on a Hill.
Seen from the greensboro bridge
New York is city on a hill. From
the low buildings that line the shore
touched once with the green OF VIII
lows that have been mtraculouSlE
shared by the tramping city, there Is
gradual rise 70 the heights OF
"down TOWN." The graceful twin
towers of st. Patrick's. the medieVa
ha,1 tower of the Grand Central ter
rninal Madison Tower, the Singer
building-I can find them all, though
thev are vested from my vantage
with an unaccustOmed romance. lheS
are mart of beautiful painting mar
monious in color and composltion- IL
the background, the WILLIAMSBURG
bridge stretches in delicate outline
and bevond it is Brooklyn bridge.
vague, graceful garland in the F"oins
light ,,ou,
The shadows are deepening now
The towers are blue against the pa''
sky. lust sinking into gray ana tli'
bindings along the shore are 'oSins
their identity. Evening careiu
shopkeeper, is laying gray -nlaG =,
cover over them. Curiously, the city Il
| ,oo,, NOW In three distinct planes th'
dark shore line forming one the grouL
of HIGHER buildings a few blocks Dach
second all in black and white th'
sono line of Broadway, blue ana pur
he Swallowed. the center of the thlru
In the Evening Shadows
Ton minutes of tenderly remhlsceh
h,ues and grays, with lights appearing
nc bv one, Wall street is town Oh
i : b,IIton now. with hundred hshte'
windows. Brooklyn bridge is d necN
Eloce of topazes, My thoughts go a
wandering among the street mafke''
of the lower East side, down tath'ii ..
wovs marked out by rows or nghts
And then. Puck-like, it is in Broauw";
over which there hangs deIicate so'O
on haze. fata morganis. , :,
/ The superstrueture of the hriage u
LONGER merely q wonderful meehah
| ism II has mystery. IT'S MASSES s
| hlock and full of shadows nave t ~
~ a suhrle favor of antiquity. ihe!
NJ no, steel Orders, erected bF 'le'
,ne ruhs shoulders IN th'