Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-05-18
SECOND LETTER FROM
HERMAN HUSSMAN.
Says 9Th Avenue is the Finest
Place on Earth-No Street
on this Avenue.

~ tuhC up Jul 10Y iC a 0tii, We
were coming up Broadway. How
ever l want to cut back a bit and
explain that l have just thought
of a few things down at the low
er that should have been men
toned. There is, for instance, at
the Battery tn e Aquarium.
Many visitors find that of alb
sorbing interest. They have
there several hundreds of vari-
Gus kinds of fishes including
about all those to be found
hereabouts, in Idaho, and in
Illinois where and a large num-
Der of Cottonwood people grew
up, and even a good many from
foreign countries. | learned there
that an ugly looking thing that
we used once in a while to catch
on the Little Wabash in Illinois
and called the Dogfish is not the
actual Dogfish, OF Hellbender at
all but merely the Puppyfish.
The Dogfish looks much worse.
Still another that interested me
was the Founder. l almost
wrote that fried Founder be-
cause that is the way | have
mostly known it. Well, the one
they have down there at least
l only saw the one, is a curious
animal. Just very thin, flat
fish with only one eye that looks
just as if there had originally
been two of him and they had
cut away the other half. 1t is
uncanny. Here is apparently a
half of a fish floating around
looking just like an ordinary
flat fish on the one side but
merely like an expanse of white
meat on the other. Sometimes
he swiss like other fish do, the
proper way | think too, and some
times he lies flat down on the
side Of him that isn't there and
just scoots along that way. This
may sound fishy but if you
don't believe it you come, here
and I'll show you Clarence, as |
named this one, and you will be
convinced. Then, down in that
district there is the spot on Wall
Street on which George Wash
ington took the oath of office as
the first president of this coun-
try, which is certainly of histori-
cal interest. Also, right on
Broadway there are two very old
Episcopal churches, Trinity and
St. PauPs with their church.
yards, or cemeteries, around
them. They are still being used
and most likely will be for long
time but the churchyards have
been filled this long while and
many of the stones are so
weathered that only a thin slab
remains on which nothing is to
be read of who is sleeping there.
Heading on uptown now, there
is no tmuch of interest till we
come about up to 9th Street
where one of the big depart
ment stores is located, Wanna
makers. In fact, for me at least
the uptown section begins about
there. Also not very far from
here, about End or 3rd Street is
also Washington Park, once the
finest residential district and
which still looks pretty, l mean
the district. The park looks well
enough indeed. 1t is, however,
now chiefly notable for the fact
that Fifth Avenue begins there
and Fifth Avenue is one of the
show places. Broadway is not
of much interest after one has
left the downtown section until
it has rambled along in its
meandering course, it crosses
Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street ano
Sixth Avenue at 33rd Street
until one comes to the Theatrical
district for which it is famous
the world over. OF course at one
time the Theatrical district was
away down town and 18th street
was its center but it has beer
coming steadily up till the "dist
riot" begins at 39th Street, is il
] its flower from 42nd to 48tf
Streets and thereafter give,
away gracefully to Ford and hi,
imitators, that is to the auto
mobile sales section. So we will
just give up Broadway and turn
our attention to Fifth Avenue
j Now, Fifth Avenue is tn,
show place of the city. 1t il
! about the only thing that i'm
! pressed me. 1t is claimed to b,
J the most beautiful shoppin,
street in the whole world ant
it does look as if that might b.
i true. ] don't know that / cal
I describe it so that you will ge
any real idea of what it is like
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