Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-05-11
DESCRIBES OLD
NEW YORK CITY
Continued from page u

Well, get out your maps. The
Island OF Manhatten, as history
tells us, and history isn't all
bunk as Ford says was bought
from the Indians for a string Of
warnpun and a jug of whiskey
and that wasn't any too much
for it as it is about a mile wide
on the average and some eight
or nine miles long. BY the way
if l don't get things just exactly
right don't mind that. Why be
too particular? Got your maps ?
All right! Now go the Chronicle
office and take a look at the
large air photos sent the honor
able editor, and then We'll be off.
You will admit that you could
tell more about Cottonwood
Butte from a good picture than
you could tell from a book that
even such a writer as / had writ
ten about it.
Now, Manhatten, for that is
what is meant when we speak
about New York, there are four
other sections or boroughs of
the Greater City, the Bronx.
Queens, Brooklyn and Richmond
(Which is Staten Island) is long
er than it is wide and Broadway
is its backbone so far as it has
any. Anyhow as a whole the
line of big buildings which have
been responsible for no less than
$40 billions of post cards alone.
these are the latest figures, fol-
lows Broadway pretty closely.
| mention Broadway here be-
cause that is such a distinctive
feature of the town. Otherwise,
| really got it into the story too
early as l meant to write that as
we take a birdseye view of Man
hatten we find that the extreme
lower tip has the bulk of the big
buildings or skyscrapers as they
are sometimes called. That name
skyscrapers is all a mistake of
course but we'll have to admit
that they do stick up some. I'm
not sure now but / believe the
tallest is the Woolworth building
and that runs up to a height, be-
lieve it or not, of 791 feet. Now
don't anybody laugh. l know
that that wouldn't look so big il
it were stuck down in Rocky
canyon and it wouldn't overtor
the Butte either but measuring
right from the ground up, well
if that thing were in Cottonwood
you could see it from Grange.
willie. Not only that but if il
were all filled up with good loya,
Cottonwood people, but l don't
want to make the Grangeville
folks feel sick. They're nervous
enough now, what with those
weekly reports of Drs. Orr an6
Shinnick.
But to get back to the lower
end of Manhattan: The frs,
thing one finds down there is ar
open space of about an acre or SC
called the Battery. 1t seems
likely that they must have hac
some guns down there some
time. Then just as abruptly
as that, the big buildings ant
Broadway begin. | really cant
tell so much about them. There
are so many of them that one
wonders how they ever get filled
up with people through the day
but they get filled all right. TIE
busiest antheap you ever saw
had nothing on us here when i
comes to swarming. Wall stree
the place the farmers aren't very
fond of is down there and in fac
that is the office section of tn,
city. It is not all big building.
there yet as one finds old place.
that wouldn't be a credit to any
place right close to some of tn.
finest, newest buildings popul
ated by people who haven't beer
in this country very long. A
least they look that way. Blu
more new building is going on al
the time and apparently it will
J not be so long until all the spac,
down there for the first half O.
threequarters of a mile from tn,
Battery up will be covered will
these modern fireproof struct
ures. The waterfront of cours,
! is given over to slips or piers TO,
the ships. The size of New
York is due to its tremendou
harbor. 1t is said to be the fines
I in the world, with somethin,
! like 900 miles Of coast line pro
tected from the sea where tn,
y water is deep enough for tn,
largest ships to be locked.
i read that 900 mile figure some
where but can't vouch for it