Show I. I imm III c mA AROUND As An I 1 salt yesterday Uncle John rt remarked 11 bright and early on the tho morning after their trip to the th Navy Navr I nod mind Governors Governor's Island I think we will have ha-e our nor boat bont trips first And Anil once onrA more moors were we're going d down wn to h our beloved BoUny Battery to Ret get a 11 boat bont As soon a ns as the they were there they got on n a white b bent bont nt with a n lower deck and an upper dock deck and soon oon t they heard n a whistle and Uncle John said Hold Alt All 11 n aboard oarl All Ali aboard for tor Europe or the Statue of or Liberty asked Dorothy Are Aro wo wo really poles on tits this bout boat boutI I I mean menn l Is b It going ruin oft off no so quickly Douglas l Jo ed Why we Just road maids It It t et didn't we lie ha I Dorothy roughed laughed Youre getting so youre you're talking n just ns as a R hurrying elt city person does docs You rou are talking now about Just masking Rb a R b boat at Soon nn you'll he be talking about making good time I 1 see sold aId Uncle Unde John that you e hour both picked up some city ex tx X- X previous After a moment n ns the boat bont hn had 1 now v started Uncle John remembered M W Ws s On the Upper Deck a question lie be had not answered anI nail and he turned to Dorothy saying We Wo are not going to Europe hut our trip trIll will be a B little longer looger than that to the Statue of Liberty They were all an sitting on 01 the upper deck and pretty soon a n man came camo up upon upon on the deck who began to speak k through h o a ll large trumpet which Uncle John Johhn said salol was called a megaphone Now Nov we will go around the Island of ot Manhattan said auld the the theman man I Does that mean that we are arp going all tl o n ltv y Y asked n to the children excitedly It certainly does said Uncle John Juhn And before they knew It they were under n a great tall bridge There were trolley ears cars going over the bridge horses and ond wagons automobiles und amid people will walking king Douglas und and Dorothy looked above them with wide open eyes To think sold mild Douglas that we can go underneath In u It boat boot and that the bridge Is strong enough to to hold all oil those people and carol carll cars I But that Is la not the only bridge were we're to see wild said Uncle John Along went the boat from under the Brooklyn Bridge until It reached the Manhattan Bridge Then under the Williamsburg Bridge and the Queen Queens horo boro Bridge It went These bridges es were not far apart cold and the children no sooner had hud finished admiring one olio before they had to look at ut 1111 another lit her colt I 1 Look I cried Douglas Douglos Where asked Dorothy And Aud then they saw lIaw two bridges dividing In the center and folding back burk until there therl were open spaces In III the middle and no bridges at all That Is to allow the big boats bonIs to go underneath the bridges Un Uncle le John explained A whistle Is blown to warn worn all nil people wagons and cars care to stay on one side or the tho other when the bridges draw back They had hull their lunch on the boat bont and they went completely around Manhattan Man lUon Manhattan hattan Island bland and back hack up along ailing the Hudson River Inver with Its glorious Palisades Pali Pall on one side and Its huge part apart 11 men ment t houses houst's along the other I In the river too they saw many of 01 Uncle Sams Sam's war ships and Douglas waved to some of ot the sailors who wino waved hack back I But nut after otter the trip was over and they hind had seen slen the Island of tan ton from front the tho outside nil all the wu way around they could toll talk only of bridges bridge that opened 0 up for the big boats boots to puss pass through I 1 For to them that was yet It another wonder of wonders won ders der el l |