Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-04

III scented to the average man
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-
ductive truck farms Of 100 acres or
so; rough, rocky precipes that would
do credit TO 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,
c0ntented cows browsing on portion
OF Mother Earth whose price per
square foot runs into large figures
all these and more may be found with
In the 30O-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 a 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 1t Is
sometimes less than a half hour be-
tween deliveries of mail, you can on
a 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-
ows, more rich and poor, more conges-
ton contrasted with splendid isolation
than could be found anywhere else In
America within many days journey.
Site of Old Fort George.
To the city man one of the most
satisfying Views, vista which never
loses It's charm or variety, is the broad
area which greets the eye at the his
torlc site of old Fort George in upper
Manhattan. When reached by the sub
way, the visitor in ahghting at the
19lst 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, a
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 alight- |
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 its
wonderful variety and charm. But be-
fore one has opportunity to give it
more than a passing glance there is a
rumble and roar, and almost be-
meath ones feet there rushes heavy |
subway express out of the rocky hill
side TO continue Its journey above the
travel of the streets of the valley in
stead of below, so very far below,
lne's feet. AS the long train, so far
beneath that 1t seems almost a toy,
winds its snaky way over the elevated
from station to station and
hence out of sight, one finds oppor-
unity to regard other more beautiful
md less noisy features of the view.
Turning his eyes away from the val
ey, where lie the tier upon tier of
apartment houses. their roofs so far
Yellow him that they and the noisy
,ars, autos, and trucks are easily for
,otten, and looking instead at wooded