Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-09-01

| New York; encountered an awfu
storm in Jersey, and unfortunately
our baggage got soaked, as W.
didn't have covering, which we
| procured at our first opportunity.
We arrived in Jersey City a
dusk, started looking for tourist
| home, which are about as easy te
find as a needle in haystack. W.
stopped to ask directions of an Of
| ficer, who was very mean and abu.
sive and ordered us out of the way
saying we were holding up traffic
which was not so. I secured the Of
ficers name and have reported him
to his superiors, for his discourteous
and ungentlemanly conduct. Eyi-
dently, he did not know I was a
| priest, as had my collar Off due to
the intensive heat. I met the same
me when he saw my collar, as / was
in the restaurant dining when he
| came In, as he was doing duty
right in front of the restaurant.
wouldn't dare drive into New
York traffic at night as a stranger
so we took bus over through the
tunnel, to see Broadway lit up at
| night. 1t certainly was a beautiful
sight. Millions of lights of multi
colored hue blazing and twinkling,
heralding their advertisements to
New York's millions.
The next day, we put our car up
at parking lot, hired bus driven
by a Pole by the name of O'Sulli-
van. He took us down to the water
front where we saw the great Statue
of Liberty, which the New Workers
claim has been "lit up'' every night
in spite of prohibition. We then
went through New York's China
town, the bowery, the street of for
gotten men of yesterday, in whose
lives are to be found drama, and rO-
| nance, greater than any movie or
play, stories Of success and failure,
tragedy and bloodshed; men who
once tasted of riches in palaces
where wealth holds Saturnalian
feasts, and today live in novels
where poverty breaks a meager
crust, Then we went through what
is known as the Ghetto (the Jewish
section) where everything under the
sun is open and for sale. We were
held up in the dense traffic by big
ash truck, but as soon as the SUI
pervisor saw my Roman collar, he
ordered the driver to the side, and
we We're ushered through with ey-
cry courtesy and no delay In New
York, the police have great respect
for the Roman collar. / may say
the same thing for the police Of
Boston.
We saw the house where Alfred
Smith was born, the city hall, the
empire state building. The guide
pointed out the drug store where
Vincent Coll the gangster was slain.
He was implicated in the killing of
the little children who were killed
by fire from gangsters' guns year
or so ago. We visited st. Patrick S
cathedral, most beautiful edifce;
Riverside drive. New Workers rave
about this so-called beautiful drive,
| but | can see nothing beautiful
about it. AS you look across the
river, you see nothing but dirty
factories and smoke. 1t seems as if
all the riffraff of the city loafs along
the drive overlooking the river. Our
own Muskingum river cannot be
beaten for beauty, and this is not
only my opinion, but the opinion of
lady in our party who has been
all through Europe and even to Al
RIGA, and upon her visit to McCon-
nelsyille was completely taken up
with the beauty of Morgan county
hills and the Muskingum river.
We then left New York that af-
ternoon, for Boston. We went into
Connecticut and put up that night
at a tourist home in New Haven.
The next day we visited Yale and
famous Yale bowl. We then went
on to Rhode Island. The New Eng
land states are all very beautiful;
tdCll Has It's oN II pCIulidl DScluL
Connecticut and Rhode Island have
beautiful homes, and the people
take a great pride in beautifying
their lawns. We stopped at Mar
ragansett Pier, r. l., famous sum-
mer resort. From here we went Oh
into Boston.
AS it was my first visit to Boston,
began to think | was on a merry
go-round, as l began to meet myself
coming back the same street where
started from. | finally pulled up
at the curb and big smiling cop
came up and said: where do you
want to go, father?" l told him my
plans, and he got us hotel, a very
fine one controlled by the Statler,
the Hotel Mangor by name 1t is