New York Sketches

By Jesse Lynch Williams

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 16, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547377252

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Jesse Lynch Williams

New York Sketches

EAN 8596547377252

DigiCat, 2022

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ILLUSTRATIONS

THE WATER-FRONT

THE WATER-FRONT

THE WALK UP-TOWN

THE WALK UP-TOWN

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THE CROSS STREETS

THE CROSS STREETS

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II

III

RURAL NEW YORK CITY

RURAL NEW YORK CITY

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II

III

IV

V

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THE WATER-FRONT

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

THE WATER-FRONT

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DOWN 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,