Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-14

among other interesting InlnSS some
fine replicas of early Colonial home
interiors, furniture and the like. Even
the old town meeting houses are
shown as to interior in careful detail.
The Aquarium, at the Battery Park,
is interesting 1t contains fish from
every part of the world but most of
them from American waters. 1t is al
ways filled with people of all ages
atching the exhibits of water life.
Top of W0OlWOrth Tower
Of course every visitor takes the
| 10 trip down Broadway to the foot
Of Manhattan Island and pays soc for
| the privilege of riding in an elevator
up 81 stories to the top of the Wool
worth building The tower is about
! 900 feet above the ground, not as
high as Eiffel tower but still high
enough From there you get much the
same view as you get from Eiffel
| tower. To the south lies the harbor
and shipping. To the west and north
! the island of Manhattan. To the east
Brooklyn, reached by three famous
bridges, Brooklyn, Williamsburg and
the last and biggest, Manhattan. This
bridge tops the old Brooklyn bridge
which in it's day was a world wonder
The new bridge has decks for trucks,
pleasure cars, street cars, foot passen-
gers, etc. 1t is arranged so that each
class of traffic speeds along without
hindrance.
Touring the City
There are several motor bus trips
around the city. An interesting one
covers many historical points includ-
ing old Trinity church and graveyard,
the Tombs, the city hall and so on
The circular announces that the trip
includes a thousand points of national
reputation all of which are called at
tention to. However, they come so rap
idly that it is difficult to follow the
Guide. One point of interest is the old
Dutch Reformed church on Fifth av-
enue, where Theodore Roosevelt had
membership and Worshipped. Along
Central Park the old fine homes are
being torn down, one by one, and re-
placed by hideous apartment houses.
Ground rent is so valuable in New
York that buildings tower everywhere
the air is the only free thing there.
New York has sixty some frst-claSs
theatres and population of amuse-
ment lovers. Frankly, it is probably
the best show town on earth but then
you've said it all. To me it would be
a dull and tiresome place to live or
exist in l guess we Westerners are
too much used to the open spaces
where men are men and so on. Any
how, | don't fancy New York.
The town can be covered in a few
days as far as points of interest go.
Most New Workers pay little atten-
ton to historic shrines, leaving that
to the visitors. But that applies to all
city jewellers.
Worth Remembering
On the white stone facade of the
beautiful public library on upper
Fifth avenue are two inscriptions
caught as we bowled along in a mo-
tor bus. One was Beauty, old yet ev-
er new, the Eternal Voice, the In
], ward Word" The other: "The Truth
Beareth Away All Things" These
two inscriptions, poetry in vivid words
were the finest impressions [ had OF
New York.
And then of course you see the Ca
thedral of ST. John the Divine, the
finest building of it's kind in America,
bar none. Episcopalian, in construc-
ton for years and with years to go
before completion, which is quite IN
order with cathedral building. In view
ing American church architecture it
has always seemed to the writer that
the best we could do or our archi-
tects could do, was to go back to what
the old early English and Norman
builders did in the two and forty ca
thedrals of the Normal conquest or
Transition period and copy them Ii
we achieve something as fine, as ma
jestic, as mystic, as graceful, as per-
manent and above all as spiritual, we
will have caught something of the
vision to glorify God on the highest
as the ancients did when they built
great temples in His name. A hard
thing to do in this materialistic age
but they seem to be doing it at st.
John the Divine.
Sublime to Ridiculous
| From the finest church structure in
America to the biggest pleasure re-
sort is a far jump. Truly from the
sublime to the ridiculous. For if st.
John the Divine is sublime Coney
Isalnd is ridiculous. Noisy, cheap,
crudity but with beauty as we said
| DGlO1G, WLlSu YOU SEE II lIOIu Ill0 Std
at night. The robbing methods so
prevalent all over New York are in
their full flower at Coney Island. A
pitcher of near beer and dish of
ice cream cost $1.45. Two lunches, one
tainted and UNBEATABLE, $3.50. And so
on. There are a million rides to take
but not worth taking and a million
shows to see which are not worth
seeing. One ride, the Mile High, is
like all such rides only more so. In
fact if you have heart trouble or ner-
vousness-don' take it. You go up a
couple of hundred feet and then drop
| Cor the car does with you in it, down
similar distance This is repeated
three or four times. AS the Dutchman
who grabbed the rattlesnake to cure
his rheumatism said: Don't never
try dot" At least not over once.
But coming back from Coney Island
by boat is beautiful. The little steam
er plies up the sound, past a shore
line which contains many fairy light
ed homes You pass steamers blazing
with light like moving bars OF bright
gold Ahead is the flare of New York
And behind the glow of Coney Islands
thousand and one pleasure palaces all
ablaze with electric displays.
Goddess at Night
The big kick of all comes when you
see the Goddess of Liberty with her
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