Show ET THRILL OF there Is just one spot in all new boik city that cannot be missed by any visitpol I 1 who really wants to see bee the town that j is the top or of the empire state building I 1 that other people have the same idea ls 15 shown by the fact that visitors there are arc running around two million a year dont go there on a holiday you will get inac a crush like the subway in rush hours other views have become famous all ali over the world the london monument and st pauls cathedral Cathe dial have stirred poets to song the eiffel tower has drained the powers ot of descriptive artists millions have stood blood in awe ave at the tops ot of the S swiss iss alps the canadian or pikes peak to my way of thinking having seen most ot of the others al smiths building tops them all lor for a thrill ab ab e MANS HIGHEST STRUCTURE the empire state Is the tallest building in the world the first elevator shoots you up 80 in about halt half a minute coming down you find your ears have been clogged by the sudden change in air pressure and your legs are wobbly otherwise it seems like just another elevator after you get out ot of that car you take another to the story and then still another to the floor over 1200 teet feet above the sidewalk you can lean over and sec cc it two blocks away and a quarter ot of a mile down but even the big fifth avenue buses look like beetles the height dwindles everything into miniature even the big bridges look like r spans pans across a creek until you notice the scrapers near them none ot of which are in a class with the one you are on NORS REAL HEROES all other lamous famous buildings have the names of the owners or architects well played up the empire state is different one sees on all sides pictures ot of the men who made the building possible and one notices that they are the workmen the blasters ot of the cellar the men who rode the whirlwind when the steel girders were rising the masons who laid the stone walls at giddy I 1 heights and the engineers who braved cataclysmic falls when they proved up the steel and stone as it soared into the empyrean for the first time the horny handed toller toiler is honored for pursuing his ordinary vocations while risking his we lie eiery hour ot of the day the champion workers have their names cast in bronze in the lobby A fitting honor tor for future generations to see 0 4 A WIDE VIEW the day we went up tip was a clear one to the north one could see bear mountain behind which lies west point fifty miles away the hills tor for miles beyond that were in clear view looking over the ground one could trace campaigns memories of major andre the white plains battle Nas washington hington irvings country with sleepy jollow follow and the headless horseman and aap 10 van winkle all were recalled its a spot n at for a dreamer who knows history in all the world perhaps there is no 0 one ne place where one can call up so many memories as that view to the north aw W aw SANDY HOOK lies new york bay the statue ot of liberty ellis island and tar far in the background sandy hook the last point of 0 land the vessels to europe pass one can see ocean going steamships put 0 out ut from their hudson river piers and nose their way downstream to the broad ocean you notice the bustling little tugs dodging about the lumbering terries ferries shouldering hould ering their way from shore to iocono shore and the eye can reach to the pocono mountains in pennsylvania the harbors along the connecticut shore long islands thousands ol of necks or miniature re bays and peninsulas the blew view Is like a relief map one can see in almost any museum it Is worth a a trip to the city if there was nothing else to see |