Show nothing so high 1 I want to ask you a question said a man who wore spectacles and looked as though he might be a college professor approaching two po linemen who were standing on one of the walks of the battery with their backs towards the bay just as it was growing dark can you tell me if that is the light on the statue of liberty enlightening the world which I 1 see and he gazed away through the naked boughs odthe of the park trees son corp promptly replied one of the acers officers without looking around indeed I 1 could hardly have believed it this is my first visit to new york and I 1 have been looking around all day but that is the most remarkable thing I 1 have seen tf it must be a mile from bereis it not note about two miles sir air Is it possible two miles and still appears at such a remarkable height I 1 had forgotten it was so extremely high it must be several thousand feet we certainly have nothing of the kind in philadelphia we s very baigh sure aid the policeman without committing himself to figures avery very very said the philadelphian as he moved away A moment later the policeman turned and looked toward the harbor himself mike said he by bv the sain saints ts if the hayseed want lookin at the athar up there that bonit be down these three hours yett ill run the gran ehorn in for a crazy man if I 1 see him again 1 the officer w was as right the philadelphia man had been looking at venus texas siftings |