Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-26

over the huge British liner Ouear
WARY. what marvel she is. A
!loatmg palace, one that could ac-
Coinmooate half the people of Hen
uerSon on her dashes across The
Atlantlc She has her lounges, deck
games, orchestras, motion picture
snow, clothing stores, refreshment
room; her own fire department. and
suites aboard that rival the best in
the Waldorf-AStoria.
Some years ago / had an oppor-
tunlty to go through much Of the
lliler berengarie in New York. On
announcer occasion, with some others.
went over the French liner lie de
france. 1T had been my ambition
TO look the Queen Mary over. This
trlp afforded the chance. These
types OF ships represent the finest
IN the world in ocean passenger
transportation. The French lines
Normandie is in the same class and
larger than any of them except the
Queen Mary, which is the greatest
hulk afloat. The flagship of Ger
manyv } merchant marine is the
Brennan, in the same class as these
though not quite as large as either
of them
The Queen Mary Sails
Another lifelong ambition of mine
was also realized on this trip. and
that was the sight of one of these
great ocean greyhounds as she glid-
ed down the Hudson beginning the
voyage to Europe On Wednesday
we hurried down to the Battery
around noon to see the leviathan of
them all depart. AS we neared the
water front we were surprised to
see the lie de France moving out.
Half an hour later, the giant Queen
Mary hove in sight up the Hudson.
And, if you thing these sights are
commonplace or tiresome to New
Workers, just watch the mobs of
humanity that line the sea wall at
the Battery as a great ocean liner
sails. They were stacked up three
and four abreast against the railing
for several blocks. One had to
push his way up to snap a picture
of the scene.
The Maze of the Subway
one OF the experiences every visi-
tor to New York seeks is a ride in
the subway. Well, some of us cot
more of it than we bargained for.
On the way down to the Battery, we
missed our station and realized half
an hour later we had gone under
the East river and were goodness
knows where away over in Brook
lyn. Bouncing out at the stop. a
news vender was kind enough to
advise an about-face for a 35-min-
ute ride back to where we wished
to climb up to fresh air again. But
1T was all for a mere nickel, which
was some comfort.
Fair Not Exaggerated
AS for the Worlds Fair. don't let
any one tell you it has been exag-
gerated. 1t is everything that has
been claimed for it and more. And
this is not a child's yearning for
big show; it is a sober, deliberate
Judgment upon the finest thing of
the sort that has ever been offered
the public anywhere at any time.
And it is all done up in the style
that only New York can provide.
Gotham never does things by
halves. What you see there is the
last word in just about everything
IL 10 l1OI OVCl -SIlOOLlIlS LIl0 IIldIK
to say that the fair is tremendous,
'tupendOus, colossal, wonderful, mar
velous and all the other descriptive
adjectives you can conjure up.
There is a building for nearly
everything. Americas great cor
porations have spared no expense in
providing the public something to
marvel at. Many of them have their
own individual building. In some
instances, different concerns in the
same industry have combined to
present the exhibit, such as petro-
leum, utilities, communications, the
railroads, and others
Free Sights in Abundance
In the three days we were at the
air, we were on the 60 all the time
md never saw half of it, and found
enough to interest us and to marvel
at that was absolutely free that we
paid to see only two things. One of
shese was the vast panorama in the
periSphere ball and the other was
Billy Roses Aquacade in the amuse-
ment area. Aud that marvellous
how put on by General Motors was
1ne of the greatest things at the
fair, depicting the future of trans
oortation, particularly in the motor
world. It was all free if you had
the endurance to stand in line
two blocks long for thirty minutes
% an hour or more waiting your
turn for seat in the moving arena
inside. There you rest your weary
bones in upholstered seats as the
moving ramp carries you on the
twenty-minute tour of sight that
is never to be forgotten, with loud
| speaker at your ear explaining the
| passing scene in minute detail.
Over at the General Electric build
ing you see manmade lighting and
the house of magic, which depicts
the wonders of electricity. The his
tory of railroading in a hundred
years of progress in America, and a
ioretaste of what is on the way are
spread before bewildered eyes in
| the railroad building. The Con-
| solidated Edison Company, in its
City of Light, gives panorama of a
24-hour day in New York City, with
the skyscrapers, the rivers and the
,ubways shown and lighted on a
dig board forty feet high and 100
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