. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . a nuisance to the commuter orthe business man. He is always in a hurry to get downto the office, and ferries and bridges take up too much ofhis time. He much prefers the tunnels under the electric cars go through the tubes with a rush, and,though he sees nothing but the glitter of passing lights,he gazes steadily ahead of him and thinks about business,knowing very well that he will get there in a few min-utes. Such an approach is certainly practical and con-venient, but just as certainly not pleasurable. Yet noone need
. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . a nuisance to the commuter orthe business man. He is always in a hurry to get downto the office, and ferries and bridges take up too much ofhis time. He much prefers the tunnels under the electric cars go through the tubes with a rush, and,though he sees nothing but the glitter of passing lights,he gazes steadily ahead of him and thinks about business,knowing very well that he will get there in a few min-utes. Such an approach is certainly practical and con-venient, but just as certainly not pleasurable. Yet noone need lament the coming of the tunnels. They willsupersede the ferries; but the bridges will remain. Theapproach from the west may not in the future be madeby boats, but the great bridge, now planned for the Hud-son, will be followed by others, and the view from themtwo hundred feet in air will be even more imposing. It is so now. What more astonishing approach couldone ask than that from the Brooklyn Bridge? Theoutlook to any and every point of the compass is wide. THE WATER-WAYS 321 and wonderful. Up the river it reaches to the Soundwith bridges and boats and towers and tall chimneys allswimming in a purple-blue haze. Down the river youoverlook the Battery and Governors Island, to the UpperBay, to the water-ways leading out by the Narrows, andin the distance lost in mist, Staten Island. Around tothe northwest your eyes follow the Hudson with thePalisades beyond; and against them, in partial silhouette,are seen the towers and tall buildings of upper New York. It is usually at the city, however, that the man onthe bridge looks. He watches the line of sky-scrapersgrow from day to day; he sees the plying steamers be-neath him, the new work on the docks, the moving linesof trucks along the wharves, the peopled decks of theferry-boats. The human interest is his. The hum ofthe hive over there where the high buildings cluster theclosest comes to him with a strange lure. He is drawntoward i
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