| Show sunday travel la the metropolis one of the wonderful sights to be seen n new york at this season of the year is the throng of variegated humanity that flows into tho city in the early evening of sunday this crowd is composed of fhe middle and lower classes chiefly wh flock to the country north of harlem to the bemes to the railway stations to the boats on river and bay during sunday forenoon to enjoy the only holiday they have in the week men women and children of all agea and every nationality ire to be seen and numbered by tens and hundreds of thousands the elevated trains from harlem between the hours of 0 ind 9 in the evening swarm with these flushed pleasure seekers and the fun and flowers there ia nothing like it elsewhere upon top of earth nearly every other woman and child comes in literally laden with flow era and grasses and the usually stuffy air of the cars is redolent with the delicious perfume of field and farm they tell the story of a delightful day spent beyond the oppression of brick and mortar and blazing stone separating here and there along the route the atoms ot these countless human swarms bear the evidences of their days pleasure in theia browned faces and buoyant steps to theia homes it is a charming sight and one never to be forgotten by the beholder it testifies with irresistible eloquence of the future grandeur ot the american metropolis that has eo much variety within easy reach and at BO small a price that the poorest laborer can enjoy it new york herald |
