Show al F I 1 1 VA wa W JQ I 1 city fright everybody who visits new york is seized at some time or other with a sense cense of 0 panic at its immensity no matter how well tr travel a vel seasoned they have become pr practically a ct i cally every noted foreigner from dr al albert belt E einstein anstein to the youngest brit british ish fla dapper yields at some time or 0 other to this feeling people eop e in n country ry towns who may have kept away by from the he city because of their innate tear fear of the town ought to conquer r this feeling and spend some borne time here it Is more than a liber liberal a I 1 education no real danger dancer lite life here Is as safe as in any bp spot ot on earth in spite ot of the monsters that roar in the subways clatter on the elevated railroads and screech on the streets that noise Is what saves lives probably at the same time it Is nerve shaking to the stranger from its potential menace being lost in this enormous endermo city Is no great shakes all on one e has to do Is step up to some one of its pol policemen iceme an md d let him straighten out your mental tangle years ago they earned the name of at the finest and there Is no reason to think or of them as otherwise even in these days of 0 newspaper exposes a auto tourists hardly en an hour passes day or night that one cannot see an automobile carrying a load of farm folks out to see bee the sights of a great city bowling along through the heart of longacre Longacr ff square the focus ot of all this countree count rys theatrical activities nothing js Is missing on most ot of these autos the tent strapped on the running board camp paraphernalia ll a plied piled in rusty old baggage and flad clad up front in his ilat sleeves calmly moseying mos eying along past the friendly traffic cops and in mother ther in calico getting an eyeful while soothing 0 her unruly brood everybody they stop to ask for directions takes pleasure in helping them along and even it if they dont stay long in the city but hike right out to some tourist camp they get to see the greatest show on earth at a minimum of expense and effort its a good stunt for anybody in n the country who Is wondering where to go for or a vacation transportation no city in the whole world has as complex a system ot of street cars it takes weeks before one learns just where they all go to the problem being intensified by the subways where one loses lose all sense of direction and can rely only upon the verbal directions glien glen by the guards on the station platforms and a lot of those fellows felios dont know any too much about the city on oil the second avenue elevated road the difficulties are added to by the type of train ment employed most of them appear to to have left ireland only a few weeks before and their brogue Is often too rich tor for an ordinary american to understand der stand what they are trying to tell you the man who hires for that road must be a lull full fledged irishman with i six an intense love tor for t the ae ouid sod I 1 A busy spot perhaps the busiest spot in the whole T v orld judging by the number of people v tho pass by it Is greeley square at thirty fourth street and broadway no fewer than seven double lines of ralls rails cross the intersection and they run on ii five v e different levels three being underground gro d three on the street level and one on the elevated track arid and besides them era are many buses within a block of the cornet corner one may ride in the elevators of the empire state building for floors above the street I 1 besides going some six floors below if one can get by the janitor to those with a spark of adventure left this city offers offer a several weeks of gorgeous exploration possibilities and will form an unforgettable experience a latchstring always out new york has an unwritten law to treat all visitors well local drivers are hauled off to court for any infraction ot of the law and dealt dealt with summarily but let ler your license place bear a north carolina ohio or iowa license and all you get unless you kill a pedestrian Is a smiling order from the cop to watch what you are doings we know one man who moved here from michigan three years ago who still carries an up to date detroit license just to get that extra touch of courtesy paid to visitors |