DIARY AND NOTES. 



Before we had to bid good-bye to New York, T under- 

 took some splendid trips around the neighborhood, of 

 which the one of Tuesday, the 27th of October, seems par- 

 ticularly worth mentioning. For eleven cents we enjoyed 

 a car-ride to Harlem, and then crossed the fine, iron draw- 

 bridge over the Harlem river to Motthaven, Melrose, 

 thence to West and East Morrisania until we reached 

 Tremont. Another car took us to Fort Morris on Long 

 Island Sound. Having enjoyed the sights, we took the 

 little steamer "Sylvan Creek" at 129th-street and passed 

 Randalls Island with its orphanages and Children's 

 Homes; then, near Hellgate, the Foundlings' Homes and 

 Emigrants' Hospital. Passing the "Table-rock" and 

 "Gridiron" we stop at Hallen's Cove in Astoria, Long 

 Island. Again we glide along the beautiful banks until 

 we pass Blackwell's Island, where one gains a good 

 glimpse of the magnificent buildings, which serve as pen- 

 itentiaries, poor and work-houses and insane-asylums. 

 All are of granite and of imposing dimensions and archi- 

 tecture. This whole trip cost me only ten cents; I do not 

 believe that I can spend a more interesting hour upon the 

 water for the price I paid here, in any part of the globe, 

 as, between Harlem Bridge and Peck Slip, where we land- 

 ed at four o'clock in the afternoon. 



The following day I visited Manhattanville, where Man- 

 hattan College, conducted by the Brothers of the Chris- 

 tian Schools, has been erected where the wigwams of the 

 Manhattan braves once stood. My object was to see High- 

 Bridge, a million dollar structure, which one reaches 

 after passing through Carmanville. This magnificent 

 bridge of granite is fourteen hundred and fifty feet long of 

 which one hundred and twenty feet are above the Hudson 



