What to see in America . glass shop-windows have been smashed. Thetower of the enormous MetropolitanLife Insurance Building on the eastside of the Square has forty storiesand a height of 693 feet. Close byis another beautiful tower — that ofINIadison Square Garden. On theother side of the Square is SaintGaudens Farragut, one of the fineststatues in New York. Just east of 5th Avenue on 29thStreet is. what is known as TheLittle Church Round the Corner,so named because of the refusal ofthe rector of a neighboring church to officiate at the funeralof an actor and his suggestion that the little chu
What to see in America . glass shop-windows have been smashed. Thetower of the enormous MetropolitanLife Insurance Building on the eastside of the Square has forty storiesand a height of 693 feet. Close byis another beautiful tower — that ofINIadison Square Garden. On theother side of the Square is SaintGaudens Farragut, one of the fineststatues in New York. Just east of 5th Avenue on 29thStreet is. what is known as TheLittle Church Round the Corner,so named because of the refusal ofthe rector of a neighboring church to officiate at the funeralof an actor and his suggestion that the little church roundthe corner might be willing to conduct the service. At33d Street is thehuge Waldorf-As-toria Hotel, and afew streets farthernorth the dignifiedwhite marble PublicLibrary. Anotherfamous white marblestructure is St. Pat-ricks Cathedral at Riverside Park and Grants Tomb 51st Street, the largest and most beautiful Gothic church inAmerica. It was begun in 1850 and completed in 1879. Cleopatras Needle inCentral Park. 74 What to See in America
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