Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-08-20
EN- ROUTE TO BOSTON.
far JAMES rAuLkl

1OE suhb CtbJ odA ~ ShS"S
souls or lacking but little Of half a
million population. That shows
what big place it really is.
We had night run from Wash
ington over to
NEW YORK CITY
entering that great metropolis oy
dive first under the Hudson river
and then under several blocks of its
great skv-scrapers to BRING our train
into the great Pennsylvania Central
railroad station. This Gepot's fame
is continent wide for its immensely.
You can easily get lost wandering
from one of its great chambers or
floors to another.
At the information booth we made
inquiry for the head quarters OF the
Rubber Neck or sightseeing autos
and find that they are located at the
McAlpin hotel which we are told is
not far away. We get out and walk
around few blocks and find q place
to breakfast and feel like pigmles or
ants peeri1g up at the dlzzv heights
of these tall, tall skyscraper build
ings. In the distance towering high
on its top we see sign which deli
nitely locates the McAlpln. Learn
ing that our train for Boston does
not leave till afternoon we breakfast
and then go to the McAlpln and pur-
chase cur tickets for The sightseeing
tour, deciding that that Is much the
quickest and best way to see the city
in the short time we have to do it,
The leaving time for the car is slight
ly after ten o'clock. Our watch says
about nine. So we wait leisurely
about in the comfortable parlors OF
this palatial hotel and on the street
front where we are attracted by the
Drawing of several brass bands and
get 10 see long procession OF sol
diers 60 marching by as its memo
rial Day and they are off to some
decoration of graves service. Going
through the hotel onto the next
street where the Rubber Necks' ,
have their starting point we find
that the particular car for which our
tickets read, has gone. We are told
we are too late! Back to the office
man we 90. He SAYS he held the car
lis minutes for us aud had to let it
go ahead without us to make sched-
ule for tho other passengers. We
find they are operating on that pes
ky DAYLIGHT or advanced time, and
our watch was running on the rail-
road or exact zone time an hour la
ter. He manages to get US into a
car coming in few minutes later
and saves as the IS which we had
paid for the drive and about which
we we're beginning to enter vigorous
protest but all passes off in gooG
feeling.
; And there are some sights to b.
seen in this the biggest CITY in thu
world not excepting London nov
which it has passed In size as thu
, 1920 Census gives population o
. 5,62l. 151 as against 4.766,8 1888 ant
while we have not the latest figures
on London's population before us
our recollection from recent read
ing OF them is that New York ex
ceeds London's population some
thing like million though it wa
formerly about that much behind til
capital city of the British Empire.
A short turns brings our car GU
on Fifth Avenue up which go ant
are soon passing the homes of mo
: tables and multimilllonaires of na
tional reputation. ]" Our guild
/ points them out and gives dcscrir
. tions and values which run up int
. big figures right along. He call
: them off so fast and we are goin
' with such roar that / cant cate
> all of them but do connect most c
the prominent ones among which ar
y those OF Mrs, John Jacob Astor: Mrs
; o. H. p. Belmont; Andrew Carns
gle; James b. Duke, the great tobae
co king; Hamilton Fisk, whose so
HamiltonJr. was lied in the charg
Y at San Juan Hill in the Spanish
! merican War; Henry Clay Prick, th
Pennsylvania Stsel nagnate; Fran
p J. Gould; William Guggenheim, til
lumber king; Judge Il. II. Gary