Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-20
Band Not to Return Here
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New Yorker, where he, Mrs. HOey
and Miss Isabel are guests, New York
Tar Heels and home State Tar Heels
joined in great tribute to His Elk
cellency. The governor was of course
the chief speaker, but there were
others, and many former citizens OF
the State who have achieved fame
here and elsewhere were present
and were recognized.
Good Health, Fine Spirit.
All members of the Henderson
party reached the great city in the
finest of spirits. They were met here
by another group who had already
come to New York. The Walter AL
stons, the Tom McCraczens and the
Boyd Kimballs took the enjoyable
boat ride over night from Norfolk
and arrived toward the end Of the
week. They were at the Pennsyl-
Vania station to greet the band party
and also there was an old friend and
acquaintance of some in the party,
Priest Rem, who is now a resident
OF Hampstead, l.. L., some fifteen
miles out island and a little beyond
the fair. Priest was in, frolicky,
happy mood, and grinned to say he
knew the crowd was coming and
the best way for him to see old
friends was to be at the station.
Party Photographed
AS soon as the party left the train
IN the Penn Station tunnels, they
paused on a lower platform where
photographers were on the spot with
their flashing bulbs. The governor
was stood off in the center of a
happy party, which included Frances
Petty, the Wester and the Legg twins
OF the Henderson group. They and
others joined in singing familiar
Tar Heel melodies for a brief time.
Bus Tour of New York
Under the guidance of Miss Grace
Moore, director the the tour, special
buses of the Gray Line were at the
Penn Station waiting for the tour
Of the big city. There was room all
around for everyone to be seated
comfortably. Each bus was furnish
ed an announcer, who kept up a
running fire of comment and ex-
PLANTATION of buildings, streets and
other famous places as the buses
threaded their way through New
York traffic congestion. These fell
lows, by the way, are past masters
at their jobs. They do know their
New York, and are never at a loss
for something to say that is informa-
tive and entertaining.
The tour wound up eighth Avenue
for several blocks then turned across
to Fifth Avenue and south to Wash
lngton Square and its charming and
beWitching Greenwich Village. Then
they went along Canal street and
down by City Hall, the Woolworth
tower, the Battery, where the
aquarium and other interesting spots
were visited; thence around by AL
Smiths old Fulton Fish Market,
through the high canyons of Wall
Street, and so. The tour wound
around through the Ghetto of New
York's 100000 Jews, the lower East
Side, with the weeks washing hang
ing on lines strung from one build
ing to another many stories in the
air.
Swinging back into Fifth aevnue,
the guide intoned the stories of the
great retail centers, pointed out ST..
Patrick's, the library, the enchanting
Radio City and Rockefeller Center.
On up the long, long lane by Central
Park, by the brown and white stone
front buildings of Millionaire's Row,
including the mansion of Doris Duke
Cromwell, and SO on the story could
go. They turned westward into a
skirting of black Harlem fraught
with remembrances Of Amos m Andy
fiction, and thence to the sublime in
remarkable views of the unfinished
Cathedral Of st. John the Divine, a
visit to Grants tomb, and a wonder
full sight of the great George Wash
ington bridge, with its 3,5OO-foot
span over the waters of the Hudson
river. Down Riverside Drive the
tour went for a view of a group of
cruisers and destroyers anchored in
the Hudson river Around through
Times Square and the theatre dis
trict the line went, and thence to
the Hotel Capitol, where quarters
were furnished, after the manage
ment of the trip decided the &C
commodations did not measure up,
but the difficulty was smoothed out.
Visit Radio City
There were two hours of rest and
then the visit to the fairyland of
Radio City's Music Hall. This is the
most perfect symbol of dreamland
New York has to offer. Its programs
are marvelously fine, and the base
ment is so thoroughly and SO gor-
geously fitted that one almost mires
up in the carpet on the floor, and
everything is spotlessly clean.
Sunday night was the visit through
through the studios of the National
Broadcasting Company, followed by
the trip to the observation roof of
the Rockefeller Center skyscraper.
And a sight of New York by night
beggars description.
Radio City is only three blocks
from the hotel, and to get there it
is necessary to cross Times Square.
This is what is commonly known as
the district of the 'bright lights of
Broadway. It's brilliance and beauty
surpass words, capped by the block
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