New Britain herald., 1926-08-14
RUBBER. TOUR
 SHOWS UP SIGHTS
Visitors to New York Enjoy
 Auto Bus Rides

New York, Aug. 14.-'Ladeez and gentlemen to your left, and thirty heads turn in unison. We are sightseeing, not ''rubber-necking." I" for that is a thing of the past
 We are visiting New York. two Of us from Chicago, three from Johns- town, a handful from the suburbs. We are from everywhere except of us will know more of downtown New York than those who have lived here fifty years. First the roof of the bus Is rolled back to permit a view of the skyscrapers.
 Kid McCoy's One Hotel
 ito your left the Hotel Nor mandy, once owned and operated by the one and only Kid Mccoy" The stout man across the aisle marks his map of New York at Thirty-ninth and Broadway. There's something to show the folks back home.
 and to your right Ca few blocks tarther) the heart of the she-opping district of New York. Directly right you see the largest department store in the vurr-ld." Heads right.
 The three ladies from Johnstown crane their necks to see the latest Parisian frocks in the window.
 Papa" says a little girl, I'm thirsty. It's awful hot"
 "You mustn't mind that" says
 l4 ha St oD6E to remove his coat. It feels like 100 degrees under the afternoon sun, and 1t was near that it being New Works hottest day of the season.
 Widest Cross-Town Street
 "-and now we are on Fourteenth street. the widest cross town street and once the center of business.
 The barker meanwhile has won his crowd. Some of his jokes were on the vaudeville stage twenty years aso. but his repartee usually goes over. Before the trip is completed he will have established himself as q rare humorist with the visitors.
 and now. Ladeez and Gentle men, behold Fifth avenue. the old aristocratic street, the home of the near-millionaires where apartments have nine rooms and seven baths.
 There are audible gasps as he names the fabulous rentals asked for nlaces. and the bus passes the house once occupied by Samuel Clemons and turns into Washington Square
 "Bee-u-ti-fur' Girls Parade
 "-yhere the greatest artists maintain their studios and where the most bee-u-ti-ful girls parade al evening" And in confidential tone i've seen 'em myself"
 Then through the wholesale dis tricts. with each business segregated in its own quarter, and into the financial district.
 Trinity church, my trlends' sec ond oldest in New York. at the head of Wall street; see it, that canyon .bere between the skyscrapers. the street with Church at one end ana a river at the other" But that joke went over their heads.
 The "WonderfuI' Fish
 and this is the Battery. The Custom House is the large old building with the four statues repre- senting the four races ana tnere Iadeez and Gentlemen, is the Bat tery with the Aquarium in the mih- dle. We will stop here fifteen min utes so you may look at the won derful fish,
 All out, while the guide lights cigarette. He does not visit the .ouarium. He has been doing thls eighteen years. The Aquarium can he done" in five minutes II we walk fast; we have our pictures taken on the sidewalk. buy twenty five views of New York for twenty five cents, and the lean gentleman who has never cracked smile throws a handful of pennys to group of ragged urchins. The Ill., teen minutes have passed.
 Chinatown: Smell and All
 "-this is South street running along the East river and at tllose docks just this side of Manhattan Bridge boats highland day, believe |, ar not, unload nothing but green bananas" Several trucks attest the truth of this statement,
 and as we are ahead Of time we'll visit Chinatown. usually re- served for a special night trip. chinatown with all it's mysteries al no extra cost to you.'
 If is hard to determine whether the visitors are more amused at the sight of the natives, or vice versa. Curios are purchased, the smells or the quarter are distinctive, although the neighborhood is similar in other resnects to the remainder of the lower East Side. Then uptown again, the announc- or is getting hoarse and the ous ghdes through traffic. At Forty-second street and Broad way we emerge and stretch we have seen downtown New 1ork'