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    New York Sketches
    New York Sketches
    New York Sketches
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    New York Sketches

    By Jesse Lynch Williams

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      New York Sketches - Jesse Lynch Williams

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      Title: New York Sketches

      Author: Jesse Lynch Williams

      Release Date: April 9, 2013 [EBook #42501]

      Language: English

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      NEW YORK SKETCHES

      On the Harlem River—University Heights from Fort George.

      NEW YORK SKETCHES

      BY

      JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS

      WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

      CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

      NEW YORK 1902

      Copyright, 1902, by

      CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

      Published, November, 1902

      Trow Directory

      Printing & Bookbinding Company

      New York

      TO

      Meade Creighton Williams

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      THE WATER-FRONT

      Grant's Tomb and Riverside Drive (from the New Jersey Shore).

      THE WATER-FRONT

      D OWN along the Battery sea-wall is the place to watch the ships go by.

      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 craft, with cargoes from all seas, and flying the flags of all nations.

      White-painted river steamers that seem all the more flimsy and riverish if they happen to churn out past the dark, compactly built ocean liners, who come so deliberately and arrogantly up past the Statue of Liberty, to dock after the long, hard job of crossing, the home-comers on the decks already waving handkerchiefs. Plucky little tugs (that whistle on the slightest provocation), pushing queer, bulky floats, which bear with ease whole trains of freight-cars, dirty cars looking frightened and out of place, which the choppy seas try to reach up and wash. And still queerer old sloop scows, with soiled, awkward canvas and no shape to speak of, bound for no one

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