Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — Gales of GOTHAM and other CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gales of GOTHAM and other CITIES

How to Show the Sights of New York in One Day

NEW YORK. — How to show Now York in a day is a problem which has confronted many a resident of the city when his country cousins have appeared unexpectedly “for a visit." but in reality to see the metropolis. After many

years’ experience one man has solved the riddle and now when his third cousin conies 'to town he transforms himself into the manager of a personally conducted tour and in that way wins not only a profusion of thanks, but fervid invitations to spend all of next summer at his guests’ homes in the country. Resolving himself into a guide of czarlike authority, the city cousin takes his party down to the Battery to the Aquarium. After viewing the best collection of fishes in the Unit-

ed States, the guide leads the way to a boat landing a few paces away and the party spends an hour crossing to Bedloe’s island, climbing part of the w*ay up the interior of the Liberty statue, and returning to Manhattan he proceeds up Whitehall street to the new customhouse and Bowling Green park. Where now stands a statue of the one-legged Peter there stood in Revolutionary days that leaden counterfeit of King George 111, which, as every school book says, was turned into bullets and sent hurtling after the fleeing redcoats. Turning east a block to Broad street, the guide points out the remodeled Fraunces tavern, where General Washington hade a tearful farewell to his officers. Going north to Wall street, the party views the United States subtreasury, the stock exchange, Trinity church, and at the same time sees some of the tallest skyscrapers. Then the guide leads the party northward in Center street to “Little Italy,” Chinatown ami the Bowery. Turning eastward they proceed through the streets congested with folk speaking alien tongues. After viewing the celebrated push-cart markets in the gutters of Hester street, they turn westward to Washington square, where they board a bus that carries them along “Millionaire row” on Fifth avenue, turning off at !■ iftyseventh street to Riverside drive and Grant's tomb.