The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-31
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON
n lay 49,

for a Manhattan guide-book:
The Statue of Liberty, given us
by France and mounted on an old
stone prison, has cost more to
keep alight than France has paid
us on the war debt. Man
haitian uses 525,O00,000 gallons
of water a day, but there is plenty
of dirty work at the crossroads of
the world.
The foreign-born population
numbers 641,000, many of whom
would liket go back where. they
came from. :. It isn't true that
there are no native New Workers,
the birth-rate here being from
100, 900 to 10000 year, de-
pending on conditions In the stork
market.
Ten years ago about 5000, 900
telephone calls were being made
here each day. That num-bah
now has been chay-anged to sew
un, ni-yun, six, fi-yuv. ni-yun. oh,
| oh. Hottest trip in town is
! the hours subway ride to Coney
Island to cool off. I. ). The New
York Chamber of Commerce was
organized at Fraunce's Tavern in
1886 and hasn't been heard of
since, although the tavern is still
doing all right.
Treasured Ground
Passing No. Wall street, at
the corner of Broadway, pause
long enough to wish that one Of
your ancestors had owned the lot.
It's the most valuable land in the
| world now; was bought from Trim
ity church a few years ago for
| $4,000 a square foot, and sky
scraper-bank has sprouted from
the sour soil. Trinity church,
incidentally, was built with the
aid of some ships tackle borrowed
from Captain Kidd.
The slowest and most expensive
transportation in town is grudg-
ingly provided by the bitten,
/ weather beaten horse cabbies
across from the Hotel Plaza. It's
no use trying to get them to talk
about the good old days.
Central Park has 9 IL miles OF
roads by tape-measure, 16 "a
miles by almost any taxi-meter
|. Cleopatra's Needle. a $3.50
obelisk, cost 100000 to bring
here from Egypt and very prob
ably isn't worth 1t.
Moneys Worth
If all the bridges leading to Man.
haitian were placed end to end they
would extend twelve miles, but
wouldn't be much good to anybody.
|. On Broadway these evenings
you can see the moon for dime,
dance with a beautiful girl for a
nickel, get a meal for IL cents,
your hair cut for 20 cents, buy for
| 10 cents a watch that won't run,
buy three neckties that won't wear
for a quarter, play checkers with
a master sminnd" for a dime,
watch a man handle rattlesnakes
for a nickel, and be jostled by hall
a million people for nothing.
Tomorrow mornings newspapers
are on sale tonight; engineers are
worrying about traffic problems SO
years hence; and businessmen who
| can't cope with the present are
planning for the future. (. :. You
can't park on Park avenue; Broad
way isn't broad; Coney Island isn't
an island; Madison Square Garden
is miles from Madison Squarea and
the Times Square Branch Post Of
nee is four blocks from the square
Visitors spend an average OF
only a little more than an hour
at the Metropolitan Museum OF
Art. Many make futile assaults
on the speed record established
there August IT, 1921, by one
Elmer Clutch, an Ohio sprinter.
Elmer COPIED the Aesthetic Sweep
stakes that year by passing
through every public room in the
Museum in ,1s minutes, 12.5 sec
onds, adding sensational fiillip
to his triumph by pausing two
seconds to buy postcard at the
information desk on his way out
Behind Times
| Cherry street is rich in tradition
No. / was the first Presidential
mansion; No. was the home OF
John Hancock; and the present
American flag was designed by
Samuel Reid at No. 81. Nowadays
people unthinkingly pass by those
places on their way to No. SO. a
Spanish restaurant with good food
ungarnished by history. =. Least
up-to-date institution Is New
York's Hall of Fame. Nobody car
get in until he has been dead 81
years.
The Indians got s24 for, Man
haitian, which il about what you'll
pay TO see a prize fisht in these
/ civilized times. New York
has movie theaters that are oper
20 hours day, and legitimate
theaters that are closed 81 weeks
Of the year. IL. One OF the cren'
lures az the Aquarium looks Like