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mile after mile and still they stand. The
ladies for whom they surrendered their
seats long since have left the car. Gone
but not forgotten, they think, as they shift
their aching feet. They have observed
with pain, mental and physical, that the
women who cony: into the crowded car
stand for one or two stations and then
drop into a vacant seat. And they observe
that their guide is sitting comfortably
and letting the lesson burn in. Edmund
Burke said that you could not indict a
whole people, but provincial writers have
not hesitated to indict a community of
more than four million people. Our
friends are beginning to understand
a few things.
One is that the
woman who stands does so only
until a nearby seat is vacated, which
is likely to happen %t the next or, at
the worst, within a few stations. Not once
in ten thousand times does a man drop
into a seat for which a woman is waiting.
After the women, the man who stands
nearest the seat gets it without question,
though frequently he makes a polite offer
to another. The other fact of equal in
terest which they are beginning to com
prehend is that the man who surrenders
his «eat to the first woman who is stand
ing loses his seat for perhaps ten miles
cf wearying journey. If he makes the
trip twice a day, in five years he will
stand through enough miles to carry him
around the earth. He will have saved
various unknown women the incon
venience of standing a few blocks and he
will have whatever satisfaction comes
ffom the fact. Perhaps, also, h" will have
his reward in another world, to which
his many hours of weariness are likely to
distinctly hasten him.
Another fact, to which critics never re
fer, is that if a person of either sex who
is old, lame or feeble, enters the car a
seat is found instantly. The distinction
is based upon humanity and common
sense. New Yorkers lack neither. They
have no more nor less than other people.
They work out their own peculiar prob
lems in their own way, without asking
instruction from any quarter, and if the
entire population were removed and re
placed by others from any part of -the
country the customs based upon inexor
able conditions would soon be as they are
now. Some part of these observations
and reflections have come to our visitors
during their long ride downtown.
We change cars at Chatham Square and
enter a nearly empty train, which carries
us down to South Ferry. Behind us lies
Battery Park, twenty acres of green
grass, trees and shrubbery, with, great
winding paths to accommodate the pass
ing and repassing crowds. On the north
and east it is flanked by colossal build
ings which we will not describe now. On
the other side are the waters of New
York Harbor, on which are moving the
great hoarse-voiced ferry-boats and ves
sels of every kind, from the ocean liner,
just going out, to the venturesome little
sailboats with a crew of one or two men.
The station from which we have descend
ed is a part of the structure forming the
ferry-house, from which boats to Staten
Island and various parts of Brooklyn de
part. That round, brownstone building
is the Aquarium, once known as Castle
Garden. We shall visit it, but not now.
This nearby stone building is the Barge
Office. In front of it is a great crowd of
persons somewhat foreign in appearance,
all dressed in their holiday clothes and in
a high state of waiting excitement. Their
eyes arc eagerly directed across the bay.
From an island in the harbor a boat is
makii‘L
g its way toward the pier near
which we stand. The excitement grows
among the waiting crowd. The boat comes
to the pier and the passengers in droves
come ashore. They are decidedly more
foreign-looking than the others who are
waiting. As they come ashore there are
exclamations,
embraces
and
kisses,
shrieks of delight, tears of joy. It is a
lot of newly (arrived immigrants wel
comed by their friends already established
in this country. They are a queer-looking
lot, but their queerness is chiefly in their
costumes, soon to be doffed and never
worn again: and, in some degree, in the
look of naive wonder with which they
view everything before them. They seem
as if in a dream and cling to their friends
with a pathetic dependence. Quickly they
arc hurried away and we see them
no more.
But for each and every
one of them that moment will stand as
a great mountain peak rising out of the
level plain of their hard spent lives.
We are now at the tip of the island of
Manhattan, which, until 1874, constituted
the whole of the city of New York. We
might at once plunge into its mysteries
and wonders, but will not do so. Instead
we will take a waiting ferry-boat, which
starts a few feet from where we stand.
The fare is a quarter for the round trip.
We are aboard, the gangplank is pulled
in and we are moving across New York's
peerless harbor toward a little island of
about fourteen acres, above which towers
the colossal Statue of Liberty enlighten
ing the world.
It stands above the
sparkling waters of the bay, perfect in its
dignity, sublime in its symbolism.
It
stands facing the entrance of the har
bor, so thht it seems to greet and wel
come the newly arrived foreign lands as
they come to the land of Liberty, Enlight
enment and Law. As we draw nearer, it
rises higher in our view, and as we ap
proach the island the force of the gigantic
conception comes to us as it has not
before. It is more than three hundred
feet in height, about half being occupied
by the pedestal.
A stairway in the
form of a double spiral is within the
figure, and this we will aseend. Up and
up and up we go. Having started, we
must go to the top, for the stairs are too
narrow for passing. There is a return
stair on the other side of the spiral, so
that those ascending and descending may
not meet. A t intervals are seats in re
cesses, so that the tired may rest without
stopping those who may follow after. At
last we arc up in tile head of the figure.
In the front of the crown are twenty-six
windows, from which we look out upon
the harbor and surrounding shores. While
we were climbing we might foolishly
and impatiently have wondered if we
should ever get there. We find on ar
rival that we are not very tired after all;
and if we have not gone on a holiday or
with a crowd of tourists we have plenty
of time to sit down and recover our
strength and spirits for the down trip.
As we go down ive arc likely to feel a
sudden weakness and trembling of the
knees consequent on the long climb, but
it amounts to little and soon passes. At
the base of the figure we walk out on
the pedestal and look out over the
waters.
We sec the great span of
Brooklyn Bridge between Manhattan and
Brooklyn and marvel at the titanic build
ings which now fill the area of lower New
York. We take the boat to return and
now the immensity of these buildings
grows on us, as did that of the statue
when our faces were turned the other
way. We first entered New York from
the back. Now we will enter by the front
way, and what we see will be told in the
next and succeeding articles.
A Scotch minister and his servant, who
were coining homo from a wedding, began
to consider the state into which their
potations at the wedding feast had left
them.
"Sandy,” said the minister, "just stop
a minute till I go ahead. , Maybe I don’t
walk so very steady and the good wife
might remark something not just right.”
He walked ahead for some distance, and
(hen asked:
“How is it? Am I walking straight?”
"Oh, ay,” answered Sandy, thickly,
"ye're all recht— but who’s that who’s
with you?”
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