Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-29
Highways and By-Ways
Of Lii or New York
Copyright, 1s2z, BY Public Ledger Company

NEW YORK. May 29--The average for
last year for strangers arriving in New
York City was 1a50o0 day, or the equiv
! alent of the entire population of a Spring
field, Mass, or a Des Moines, Iowa. Lo-
cal statisticians. by adding in the com =
muters, speed up the daily average to
half million. but $4,000 is ample, even
for the metropolis, as it represents
eighty-seven visitors every minute who
are plumhed with questions and have to
be told where to eat, what are the best
shows and shops, and just how to get
anywhere
New York is such shifting, changing,
quick silvery place that three months
absence is quite enough to make "hick"
out Of Father Knickerbocker himself
We're he to visit the United States.
Scarce a day passes in the life of any
man who has so much as a seat on a
park bench in the big town. but he Is
called upon to set some newcomer right
| upon point Of interest. and the most
worn question is, which is east and
which Is west?'
There are people arriving who still
want to know about the BoWery and
Eden Musee, Roster aud Bials and the
Hoffman House places they haunted on
| last previous visit. 1t is almost ii
| tragedy to tell them the Bowery is no
| longer wicked Eden Musee and Roster
I and Bials closed forever and the Hoffman
1 House dismantled However, these VEN
cradles fnd surcease for their disappont-
ment in the familiar statue Of Liberty
and Aquarium, the metropolitan museum
OF art. Brooklyn bridge and Central
Park.
Less confused but nevertheless ont
| Of date are the strangers who come seek
/ ing the Woolworth building. the Cathe-
! dral of st. John the Divine and River
side drive, the Metropolitan tower and
'millionaire's row" In Fifth avenue.
These sights" are visible. however. and
draw tleir daily quota from the $4,000.
Then we have the up 70 date strangers
who scream for the roof gardens. the
midnight cabarets, and, whisper 1t,
some Of that New York hootch." The
1 more serious minded seek out the new
Park avenue apartment palaces, the
! oueensborouGh bridge, the new subways
and the great steamships tied up In
1 the North River.
7 AS lover of New York It has ever
4 been a delight to give freely or such
/ knowledge as we possessed to nny par
7 tcular stranger. There have been ex.
eursions to Greenwich Village the much
Z
I haired women ana long haired mon
| Norningside Heights, called the acropo-
4 lis OF America" with It's Columbia uni-
verSftv building; the Black City, our
ill eolared district IN Harlem, and the
great east sida' where We find the
large colonies Of foreigners living their
eTerseas l!yes. Italians and Russians,
Jews and Chinese, Greeks and Armeni.
ans
! But there csme into orr circle a visitor
Z who asked Take me whore ! can see
/ the hig movie magnafes II. spoke VI
the ZOO motion picture houses through
!, ant the country and " the interest that
had been developed everywhere In the
screen artists H. remarked that since
( VIII IT, Hays took on the job Of st3rnn-
latino the highest possible moral AMI
artistic standard Ia motion picture pro-
du~tioa" he was anxious - SEE some ~
the men who supplied the principal
amusement of the great majority of the
people in ibis country and 70 study their
personalities.