, 1923-11-07

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ed Wagon" by Emerson Hough. He
has written an interesting account of
the trip and the impression it made
upon the Indians in a letter to the
Lander Journal which says in part:
In the park the Indians saw the
lions and tigers and when they saw
the elephants they sure opened their
eyes and some funny EXPLANATIONS
were made by them. At New York
depot by four taxis and taken directly
to the city hall and met the Commits
sioner the Mayor being i'll. We camped
three days in Central park and were
much annoyed by the crowds that
were there at all times. They would
crowd up and peer into the tepees
until the Indians could not get either
in or out and were sometimes quite
rude. On n occasion three of the
women and children were surrounded
by the mob and stopped about 100 feet
from the tepees. They were very
much embarrassed and one white
woman more courteous than the rest,
exclaimed to the crowd. "stand aside
and let these women go to their
homes. What's the matter with you!
Have you no manners?" And a well
dressed man in the crowd flippantly
remarked hat "this is metropolitan
New York" l was standing neal
enough to hear him and said: "My
friend, if this is Metropolitan New
York manners and courtesy, give me
the Indians, the mountains and the
people of the West" and he replied
that New York was too big for you
people," to which l replied that he was
very much mistaken in that these peo-
pie had lived in a higher atmosphere
of respect for others than had been
shown them in New York. That New
York was not big enough for these
Indians, the Indians being too big
for New York. But we were every
where treated with courtesy and re-
spect b yall whom we met in a bus
New York they were paid 5000, and l
took them shopping in the Macy Co.
store, one of the largest department
stores in New York. l took them
down on the elevated railroad, as they
had rode on the surface roads. We
arrived at the store about eleven o.
clock, and divided them in four par
ties. The manager was very nice and
detailed a girl to guide each party.
But they were soon swamped by the
crowd, who all wanted to see the In
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dition to the girl to help them through
the store. We had lunch on the ninth
floor at 200 p. M, and some of them
were not through buying, so they
started again, and some of them got
lost. Old Red Turtle backed up onto
a travelling stairway and started up,
leaving his wife standing gazing at
him, her eyes as big as dollars. and
him o scared than her. We at last
got thru and had them out on a side
street at $500 p. M, and | told them
they had ridden on the elevated and
the surface roads, and were now going
down in the ground beneath all the
streets and building and go home on
an underground road and Goes-in-
the Lodge walked out in the street
where a very heavy truck had just
gone by, stamped his foot on the pave
ment and said, no, l was trying to fool
them. No road down there, / said,
come with me. We were near a SUBJ
way entrance and went down. 1t was
crowded, and trains coming and going,
all crowded. l put them on and we
rode four miles on a through train,
just by our camps. When he saw the
tepees and recognized the camp he
said: "Wah, all same prairie dog. Go
down in one hole, go long way, come
out another.
Another surprise for them was, they
did not know they (the Indians) were
on the boat. A Lasky camera was
placed at the end of the gang plank
for the picture. Then l took them
down again. and brought them up,
taking the picture of them going from
the amera. Smaller boats were ply
ing back and forth in the harbor and
they expected to go on one of these.
The cabin boys began showing them
their state rooms, when one of them,
who speaks English. said: "Why are
we putting our things in here. We are
going on the boat soon. And the boy
told him we were on the boat now.
They were amazed.
am frequently asked what the In
dians think of New York, or the ocean
or London. They do not think. They
just wonder. It is too vast for their
conception.
They did understand how they
guided the boat in the darkness of
night. We landed ut Liverpool Mt 0
n. IN. and were in our own tepees by
6 p. M, campcd in the Crystal Palace
grounds. We camped there forty days
and have just moved into n small
hotel which we have rented. takiny