New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31

officer in greater New York.
Not that many individuals inquire for United
States Street, but when they do they are quite
likely to have their troubles in getting direc-
lions. At that United States Street has plenty
OF antiquity behind it. 1t is no mushroom
growth, springing out Of the times of war,
when almost everything that was named, from
a baby to catboat, had to have a patriotic
name, But because it can boast only scant
l25 feet in total length, and because it has
neither stores factories, but only quaint
atmosphere of nominees to draw attention to
it, United States Street, for all its antiquity,
does not live in the sub-consciousness of the
crossing policeman.
The writer of this article had no definite
idea of the location of United States Street
when he advanced his query to the crossing
officer at Canal Street, at the end of the Man
haitian Bridge. He had been told that the
street was somewhere near that bridge, and it
seemed the logical thing to ask the nearest
police official.
As it was, for the fraction OF second the
questioner was suspected Of attempt to put
something over" Then the officer came to the
conclusion that the question was legitimate.
you've got me stuck he admitted hand
somely. IF there is such street I don't know
where it is. It may be some little street over
on the Brooklyn side It's a cinch it amt on
this side of the BRIDGE
The questioner was turning away when the
officer added:
Here comes who knows every street
in greater New York. You ask him about it
and he'll set you right
The highly recommended individual was an
other officer, walking slowly back from the
bridge He measured fully up to the adzzling
advance notice given out by his press agent at
the crossing.
"Its little street right bang up against the
navy yard, he answered promptly when the
name of United States Street was brought up
Take the bridge car and get off on the Brook
Ign side, and then walk down toward the river
alongside the navy yard and you'll find it,
But even with such explicit directions United
States Street is not to be found without little
more inquiry 1t is such a modest violet of
street, and the messy stones about it are so
big!
A neighborhood butcher supplied the last
needed element of information. Butchers al
ways seem to be the best advisers in neighbor-
hood matters, anyway. Apparently they keep
better personal track of their customers than
grocers. Of course, the bartenders used to be
more to be leaned on Perhaps a good many
of them have gone into the butcher business.
Anyway, it was friendly and explicit advice
that came from the butcher shop, and that
unwrapped the last vestige of mystery from
United States Street.
Little Street, the highway from which
United States Street branches is shunted to
the left by the big, arrogant wall of the navy
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quently cuts off one street after another in this
neighborhood Just before the navy yard wall
forces Little Street into it's left oblique
comes upon the sign Omitted States Street.
on the side of a wooden house on corner.
Here is physical description of the prop
critics grouped on the United States Street
stage:
A scant fifty PAGES of sidewalk, curb and
paving. (The thought occurs that United
States Street would have been a delectabe
dueling ground in early days, when Americans
were given to locating such places. There is
just about room in the little, hidden street for
principals and seconds.)
One wooden house. bearing the sign, on the
left~hand side of the street. This house is
comparatively modern-so much so that it has
no real place in the scheme.
Two walls of brick. One of these extends
ON the left-hand side of the street to the navy
yard wall, above which can be seen the giant
framework of the travelling cranes used in
battleship construction.
One grass plot, three feet WIDE extending
the entire length of the street on the walled
side.
One lamppost, on the wall side-a new prod
Get UNITED States Street to belong