The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-10-03
Liehts Of NewXork
hxII STEVENSON

anu So size llOuBll IeISel IdlNGflCt
TO everything. The other evening as
she was exercising Oscar. her big
sheep dog, she passed near a sub
way station about which a crowd
had collected Stretcher bearers
brought out a man who had fallen
under a train He was alive-hOr-
ribly alive. After one involuntary
look, she started for the opposite
curb. When she reached 1T. some
thing happened to her knees and
blackneSS swept over her. After
light returned she found herself ly-
ing on the sidewalk still tightly
clutching her dogs leash. About her
was the crowd that had been at the
subway entrance. And if her dog
hadn't kept the doctors and police
men from coming up to her, she
would have been in an ambulance
with the mutllated man.
Din: Tests made by the League
for Less Noise show that Manhat-
tan's noisIest corner is Third ave
nue. and Forty second street where
street traffic, elevated trains ham
mering overhead and trolley cars
pounding over the intersection
caused the decide! meter 10 register
81 In the past, Manhattan'S noiSi-
est spot was Herald Square But
the Sixth avenue elevated line has
been torn down So that point has
quoted to a low OF Il and high
=
haitian spot, according TO the
leagues rating, is the middle of
Central park where there was low
of % and a high of 50 declbels
That's really quiet for a person of
normal hearing IS not disturbed by
noise with an intensity OF SIS dcClbclS.
Street Scene: A boy and a gIrl
sitting on a Central Park West
bench Evidently they've quar-
relied since the boy, his checks
flushed. looks straight ahead and
there are tears in the eyes of the
girl . a Ilmping Old coiored man
pushing a little cart piled high with
trash ne has collected here and
there A sleek youth In an
equally sleek roadster. trying TO
chsel in ahead OF a woman driver
and being put in place by d
taxi driver VINO eXpcrtly cuts hum
off A huge interstate bus
speeding along as if no one else
had any rights on the street A
dignified gentleman with a Van
Dyke caught in the middle of the
street. his head turning from side
to side as if actuated by clock
work The boy slips his arm
around the girl and whispers some
thing Her tears vanish and her
head rests on his shoulder.
This & That: Broadway is New
YORK s longest street 1t starts
at the Battery, down at the foot of
Manhattan, and meanderS right
along up to Yonkers Then it
keeps on going until eventually il
reaches Albany Katharine Cor
aell recently played a special matt
nee of The Doctors Dilemma" for
the benefit of the Stage Relief fund
Going to the box office, she
discovered that 100 tickets hadn't
been sold So she bought them
and distributed them among old ac-
tors A salute to Miss Cornell
The StaleSt popcorn in New
York is served at some of the swell
est cocktail spots Wonder Wha;
would happen to Wall Street if there
II, h. I-y
- One broker recently sold his
$500 Stock Exchange seat for
$4,000 and went into some other
line of business.
Here and There: Bronx park zoo
with its wild animals seemingly
roaming at large The new
arrangement vastly superior to the
old cages The lions cant
swim across the meats But
occasionally they tumble in and
have to be fShed out Young
Sters from the tenements gazing at
animals strange to them Bat
a COW is novelty if never seen be
fore y. and some openly wonder
how the milk gets into the bottles
Reminds me of those far off
days when | used to earn so cents
a mcnth driving a COW to and from
pasture A little matter of walk
ing two miles each way every day
The terraced walks of Forto
Tryon park Far below, the
Hudson a wide. long ribbon of sill
yer The Bronx spread out II
a panorama of roof tops CoL-
piles holding hands on many of the
benches SearCherS for lnfuI-
nation reading the bronze tablet
that records the history of the spot
The sun flashing on the white
sails of little boats over near the
Jersey side . A freighter, SO
heavily loaded its decks seem al
most awash, slipping slowly down
the river. The quiet and state
ly Cloisters. once the home of
George Gray Barnard, now part of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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