The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-09-05

it should be remembered that there
are hundreds Of others. In the short
time at our disposal, we did not have
time to visit the great art galleries, or
the American Museum Of Natural His
tory or the Metropolitan Museum
of Art. In our wanderings we did
visit, however, Saint Patrick's cathe-
dral, one of the famous cathedrals
Of America. We stepped into its por-
tails and found party there rehears-
ing for a wedding
In our reading over many years Of
this great city, we had often ran onto
city, the walls of which canyons are
the towering buildings on each side
of the streets reaching high toward the
heavens. As we travelled through the
heart of New York, the thought kept
coming back to us that such a de-
scription was very apt, that in many
places the streets are indeed narrow
canyons, their depths in shadows and
where the sun rarely shines except at
short intervals
Police Tried to Detain Us.
Once again we are approaching the
close of another article but before we
bring this to close we must tell you
about how the police did not want us
to leave the city.
The time had come, as we thought,
to leave this interesting city and con-
tinue on our travels 1t was one bright
morning. Daughter Helen was driving
the car and we had made our way to
what might be termed the outskirts of
the business section of the city. Be-
lieving that we were headed in the
right direction ultimately to reach
Boston but still wishing to be certain
! told Helen to pull up near a traffic
policeman standing in the center of an
intersection where the traffic was not
very heavy at that time AS the car
stopped | called out to the stalwart
Irishman standing there in his hand
some uniform Of blue and wearing
spotless white gloves, rs this the right
highway to Boston," What was my
surprise to have the handsome officer
step over to the car with hands out-4
stretched in gesture of emphasis and
as he walked he was saying, with a
rich Irish brogue, Why, mon, mon
alive, why in the Wor-r-ld are you
leaving beautiful city like New
York and going to dead hole like
Boston? Don't you know that Boston
is the deadiest place on the entire con
tinent? Surely you don't mean to
But we have seen New York" I re-
piled, much enjoying the incident, "and
we must be on our way. Boston may
be dead one as you say, but there
are few things there that we want to
see" Seen all of New York, you
say" was the instant come back
Why, mon alive, ye couldn't see New
York in five years and / know We
haven't been here that long" However
finally convinced him that we really
thought we ought to see Boston al
though we hated very much to leave
New York. well, if you are deter
mined to 60 to that awful place, why
keep right on in ~he direction ye are
going Ye're on the right track
That was our pleasant goodbye. to
New York and we chuckled over the
incident as we sped along toward the
city Of baked beans And here is an
other item Of interest in passing. We
found the police force of New York
most imposing one, composed OF
stalwart, fine looking young men,
clothed in natty, well fitting uniforms.
Their appearance was SO far above that
seen in the average city that we all re-
marked about it.
After few miles out from New
York we found ourselves speeding over
the old Boston post road. Early that
evening we reached another destination
and we shall Try to tel you about IL ia
our next installment.