The New York herald., 1922-04-23
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Mrs. Jerrits required IN 1854 to go from
the home Of Gov. Stuyvesant to the north
ernmost limit of New Amsterdam, which
then was just being marked by workmen
building wall-Wall street MF
The two rivers which used to make of
Manhattan an isolated island are now
crossed every day by many more than
million persons. The majority of these
are truly Manhattanites who, however,
make their homes outside the limits of the
old island.
To accuse any one Of these OF being not
a resident of Manhattan, using Manhattan
as it is generally used, to signify New York,
most assuredly would offend. 1t is these
who live many miles away in distance yet
only few minutes in transportation time,
who are the symbol of the wiping away of
those boundaries which used to make Man
haitian an island.
The automobile, the train in the tunnel,
the elevated and even the airplane have
virtually spread Manhattan to the very
dooryards of the bungalow at Montauk
Point, the estate in Westchester and the
home in the nearer stretches of Jersey.
1t is twenty-five miles from the heart Of
Manhattan to Roslyn, L. l., yet the resi-
dent in Roslyn is as much Manhattanite
as any other and is quite comfortable In
his knowledge that his automobile con-
stantly keeps him within forty-five minutes
of his New York office. There are many
cities in the West whose residents spend
more than forty-fve minutes each day on
one way trips on the street car to and from
their Offices.
In Jersey there are residents whose
homes are thirty miles from New York,
whose automobiles bring them to Man
haitian in not much more than an hour. OF
who can reach Manhattan on some of the
fast express trains even more quickly.
Hartford, Conn.,, was a long distance
from the island" Of Manhattan in the time
of Peter Minuit, and the fort built there
was the outpost of great New Neither
lands Hartford now is 'just outside New
York" The commuter does not realize
there are rivers between.
There is no city in the world that COM
pares with the new city Of New York in
compactness and accessibilities. London,
the community of scores of smaller towns,
is not more solid.
In all the early developments of Man.
haitian the East River and the North River
were fixed limitations. Manhattan was
doomed, it seemed, always to be an island.
To-day, with Westchester, Nassau, Queens
and Kings all within the residence zone,
Manhattan hardly can be called an isolated
district.
There has not been, perhaps, in all his
tory such a dramatic development as that
which has attained the apparently impos-
sible-the wiping away of two rivers and
the linking of far lands with core in one
great unbroken commonwealth. The pros
pect of what is to come is still more dra-
matte.
AS was tOlu Recently On THESE pages,
there now is being perfected in Paris an
airplane' which is half automobile. Its
inventor, encouraged by recent expert
ments and supported by the enthusiasm OF
those who have witnessed his demonstra-
tions, believes that within a short time he
will have to offer the world at large a
machine which can be used as an automo-
bile on land and as an airplane when the
occasion for flying presents itself
II is a machine built along the lines of
the usual airplane, with the stability of the
ground car. Its wings fold at the will of
the driver and it is equipped with a large
and a small engine. the latter for air flying,
the former for surface use With its wings
folded 1t can easily pass within the space
required by the ordinary truck or bus.
Flying 1t can make a speed OF 100 miles
an hour.
This "avion-automobile" as It's inventor
calls Il, can rise easily from an ordinary
street and can effect landing in any thor
oughfare not too crowded. Already this
machine is seen daily in the streets Of
Paris, where it now attracts little more
y