Putnam patriot., 1922-04-07

once in his life, unless he lives on
 Cape Nome. every American who pos
 sibly can, goes to New York. just as every Englshman goes 0 London. and
 every Frrnchman to Paris lt Is a
 matter of patriotic and personal duty
 You may like the town or you may
 not, but sooner or later necessity or
 curiosity or some other urge, will send
 you scuttlsng into town" under the
 Hudson or over the Harlem. or some
 other way And no matter how often
 you 20. uniess yea re commercial
 traveller or a railroad engineer, you'll
 get some kind Of thrill. for New
 York Is thrill Il may be an un-
 pleasant thrill. but it's a thrill. just
 lhe same
 You may-be late Victorian, mean ing by that that you may retain vivid
 memory of the Jubilee. the Siege of
 Iadysmith and Spiou kopp. or you
 mag be- an American of the Roosevelt
 axe prior to thc war. or AeN York
 mas be forever samcthing associated
 in vau aith the days ef the war. but
 whatever age you are m.d-Nictarian.
 late Victorian. early Roosevelt. or late " siaan. you'll eot ihrill out of
 New York. And your fhrifi viii be different from the thriIl of Che Eng hshman entering LaaIon. er tnr FfeEchman coming into Paris They know jolly well what they arc going Co see The EHeitshmaH who comes into ChaHine Gross knows that he Wiil come out into fhe strand and that the Strand will look much tbc same as it did when be was hast tn London whether l. be Ion ar twenty years ago The Frrnchman entering Paris may rest equally assured That war and time have little changed the physiog nomF of Che City of Light To ham it k a sourre of eternal satisfaction, for the Frenchman delights in going up Co Paris te see Che same things thst he has seen many times before. to lake The same walks that he has taken be- fore. Co get from the various hours of ihg Boulevard the same thrill and con ten5ulauVe delight
 Bui all that is different with the Sew ! ofk visitor There is probably no city In the world where fairly young person can indulge in "reminiscences SO readily. for New York is scarcely the same from one dav ta another
 Hayward Broun or Stephen Lea cock or som, other wit has hurlesqned this change in the location of New i ork most deirbtfully In sketch telling of how the whole faer of changed in the coarse of an evening spent n a theatre What was in New York one gear seldom Is lhc year following
 Take the Late Victorian who Afst saw New York in the late nineties. just prior e the Spanish American War The old Reservoir stood where the Public Library now commands Fifth Avenue at Forty Second Street. Heavy. solid tircd electric meter han sous were the only motor ears in sight Horse stages rumhled up and down between line of hrowBstone residences and few fairly high basi. ness buildings And now. as a French man would say. regard you
 Fifth Avenue of a windy, sunny March afternoon. A vast mountain chain of buildings. rivalling the great er mountains of buildings in lower Broadway. shades the Avenue and makes the white facade Of the Li-. brary a sprawling thing Thousands crowd the pavcments High towers glowing with eolored signal lights cen ter the wide street at every ten blocks or So Motors by the thousand pass up and down under perfect traffic reg ulations You who went to shop st Sieeel Cooper.s and Maey's and Simp- son Crawford's crowded about the elevated down in Sixth Avenue havt forgotten the old signs with their Meet Ne st the Fountain slogan ' ou say Meet Ne on the Avenue" and you may shop anywhere between Madison Sqaare and the Plaza
 or perhaps you may remember Broadway mere ylvl3ly. iH the day when The Casino housed Lillian Rus. sell and Weber and Fields showed then galaxy ef stars ai their justly fa- nous music hail Oscar Hammerstciu then Was sn possession of the old Me