Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Coastwise schooners, lumber-laden, which can get far up the river under their own sail; big, full-rigged clipper ships that have to be towed from the lower bay, their topmasts down in order to scrape under the Brooklyn Bridge; barques, brigs, brigantines--all sorts of sailing...
He who loves New York loves its streets for what they have been and are to him, not for what they may seem to those who do not use them. They who know the town best become as ho...
4. Part 4However, anyone can criticise creative work, whether it be the plan of a play or a city, but it is difficult to create. Not many of us to-day who complacently patronize the hono...
3. Part 3At last Grace Church, with its clean light stone, is reached; and the green grass and shrubbery in front of the interesting-looking Gothic rectory. It is a glad relief. And now-...
2. Part 2By the time you get up to Gansevoort Market, with its broad expanse of cobble-stones, the steamship lines begin to thin out and the ferries are now sprinkled more sparsely. Wher...
1. Part 1Coastwise schooners, lumber-laden, which can get far up the river under their own sail; big, full-rigged clipper ships that have to be towed from the lower bay, their topmasts d...
6. Part 6It is one of those stores that contain everything--from anchor-chains to chewing-gum. There are bicycle sundries in the show-case and boneless bacon suspended from the old rafte...