What to see in America . venue. Washington Square, at the lower end of 5th Avenue, islaid out on the site of ah old burial ground. At the entranceto the Avenue is the splendid Washington Centennial Avenue is New Yorks chief street from the standpointof wealth and fashion. Electric cars have never beenallowed to invade it, and the main means of public con-veyance is the omnibus. A bus ride, with a seat on top, isthe ideal way to view the resplendent stores of its businesssection and the magnificent homes of the millionaires far-ther up. Morse, whose invention of the telegraph has obs
What to see in America . venue. Washington Square, at the lower end of 5th Avenue, islaid out on the site of ah old burial ground. At the entranceto the Avenue is the splendid Washington Centennial Avenue is New Yorks chief street from the standpointof wealth and fashion. Electric cars have never beenallowed to invade it, and the main means of public con-veyance is the omnibus. A bus ride, with a seat on top, isthe ideal way to view the resplendent stores of its businesssection and the magnificent homes of the millionaires far-ther up. Morse, whose invention of the telegraph has obscured thefact that he was also a famous painter, was a long timeresident at 5 West 22d Street and there died. He spent fiveyears experimenting in his studio before he perfected thetelegraphic instrurAent and alphabet, and seven years morepassed before he was able to overcome public derision andskepticism sufficiently to get an experimental line built. The Flatiron Building at Madison Square, so called on New York City 73. account of its shape, is twenty stories high. It has a curiouseffect in increasing the violence of the wind at its apex, sothat during gales people sometimes- have been whirled off the sidewalk and neighboring plate 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. A
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