Putnam patriot., 1924-11-21

ally New Works. To our noses came. more prosaieally that ever-prrsentI smell of burning gasoline. reminding the New Norker Of those hundreds of thousands of machines whose de- mauds each minute are adding Co the increasing millions of the oil and gasoline and automobile kings.
 The Armi,tiee Day Parade
 But the parade was coming. Up the avenue. now so appropriately celebrating it's one huudredth ami. versary of progress and pageantry came a great band. First there was a cheer for lone black leading fig ure. doffing top hat now and then to show the hirsute adornment which has given to New iork's pugnaeieus Mayor Hylan the sehriauet of "Rea ! Mike Then company of police mounted on splendid horses. Then more bands. then the regulars of the army and the navy and the vet erans and more bands and massed faes and more veterans and 50 on for an hour CT se with an intermittent break Go permit, now and then, incess sanity hurrying New Workers to cross from one side of the avenue 1o Che ether and thereby from one side of New York to the other.
 From our fourth story eyrie the perpendicular view downward gave most peculiar appearance to il all Gehs. moving along with excellent precision seemed like the white star and blue background pattern ef the national flag The khaki of the marching militia was a cleaner and brighter and newer khaki than that so well remembered from the home coming days of l9ta Flags massed in companies formed q spot of moving color Bands. above the column. below and directly beneath us mingled their strains in weird hodge -podge of noise without melody New York with verve and cheers and enthusi- asm and ineessant show was recalling that er-to-he-forgotten day in November. 1918, when the guns eeas- cd firing.
 A Yellow Sessou7
 The lady who had showed Boston so summarily into the second class of the universe. spoke again. l. was during one of the halted moments of allowing traffic 10 cross.
 Judging from all appearances, yellow is the color !" Being mere men we didn't understand the re- mark until we looked at the parked sidewalks below. Here and there on both sides of the open ashphalt we did get elimpses of color. IL was matter of hats. feminine hats. There were red ones and black ones whose somberness sank into the dark back grounds of male clothing. There were green hats. too, and purple onest bat yellow eertsinlv nredqminafed# There were bright yellow ones. dark orange ones, some Of ochre color and pale brown ones and hie ones and little ones and some that turned un and others that turned down. But yellow predowinated. We asked fl it were a yellow season. But the lady didn't know. Anything bright eolored" was her reply and SO as an Armistiee Day hint one may take this report or leave it as one wishes.
 It was in one of these halts for traffic that we fell Co observing the buildings around about us and all commented on the vast change in American city architecture now rep- resented by this comparatively new uptown business section of New York. In beauty the new skyscraper is q far cry in advance of it's soaring predeees- sors of two decades ago. The new restriction on buildings. reauiring that they be built back from the street at l certain heights. has produced g for est of buildings that are broken and varied in effects and not the flat-fac ed structures that tvpified the first effort 10 cope with New York's re- strictod land area.
 Seen Only on High
 And there are SO many things to be seen from a window of one of these high structures which the pedestrian l from below cannot view. For instance | there is the large and commodious residence of certain gentleman on Forty-Fourta Street, which might | have been planned for a by-street in i Pelham but actually rests on the roof of a twenty-stery building. He has ! his garden, this gentleman, with ever. green trees and a conservatory and the windows of his solarium look out to the sunset in the west and to the white glare of Broadway at night.
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