Show 1 C WALLED GARDENS IN EAST Park at Edge of Cliff In Brooklyn IIa Is II Isa Isa a Refuge for Stenographers and Others Brooklyn has a pleasant little nook for tor wayfarers that Manhattan well might envy Leading from Borough hall and the financial district Is Montague Montague Mon Mon- tague street which becomes a thoroughfare thoroughfare thoroughfare thor thor- I of discreet old mansions for fora a few blocks before It Jumps over a cliff Into the East river But at the edge of the cliff Is a little cement park with a dozen or two benches and a a high Iron fence through which one looks down at the declivity and the fussy tussy river traffic below On either side of ot this oasis are walled gardens that suggest convents and Nineteenth century romances and other subjects far removed from the time and the place They furnish Just Justa a glimpse of trees tree and shrubbery of or wide spaces of greensward that to the city dweller seem vast Fast Above the he walls walls' two old mansions show proud and haughty windows Ships' Ships officers and br bronzed seam seamen n come up from the docks and are swallowed swallowed swat lowed by a tunnel through the cliff Longshoremen scurry around on the docks Puffing tugs and lumb lumbering ferries ferriel ferries fer fer- ries riel dot the waters of ot the Eat East river and the bay down below Within easy sight Is Governors Governor's island while to the right Manhattans Manhattan's skyline looms up Its UJ towers glistening In the sun shatterIng shatter shatter- Ing Lug space with their whiteness It Is a diverse collection of ot people that drifts to the benches of Montague street oasis Here come well wen dressed women of the studio apartments with books or embroidery to while away awny a afew u few hours outdoors Stenographers hers and aDd clerks from the office buildings around Borough hall slip away here to sPend abend part of ot their noon hour and earnest youths who look like students gather with books and discuss the weighty problems of the young And here come Idle men of the neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood hood caretakers caretakers of some of the mansions mansions man man- retired uncles and grandfathers who Just like to sit around and read A block or two of old mansions some somo with drawn shades and others showing signs of habitation another block or two of lesser mansions some of which are now frankly apartment buildings or rooming houses a block or two of Just comfortable houses quiet and discreet discreet discreet dis dis- creet as Is all this part of old Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn and you are In the Twentieth century century century cen cen- tury again Office buildings rise on either side of of the street the Incredible tangle of ot traffic that la is Brooklyn's downtown Is ahead of you three subways subways subways sub sub- ways roar under foot As you plunge Into one one of th them m you you reflect that walled wailed gardens have havo their advantages New New York Sun and Globe |