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Golf, Tennis, Boating, Fishing, Baseball, Riding, Basketball, Foot–
ball; once a year the Metropolitan Opera, a Dog Show, a Horse Show, a
Flower Show, an Electrical Show, an Automobile Show, a Stamp Show,
pardon me, Exhibition. In the summer time open air Symphony Concerts
and Trotting Races (both for free). Grand Finale: once a year the Bach
BMinor Mass.
NEWARK, then. (33 alt.; 23.60 square miles; population: almost
half a million, 64% native white, 10% negro, but "... of the Native
White only
24ro;
have U. S. parentage, leaving
66ro
foreign born or the
children of foreign born." 15 foreign languages are spoken in the .::ity.)
Insurance domihates the city firumcially
and the architecture of most
of the Insurance Company buildings is a truly ghastly sight.
In
the stores in the slums where the poor buy, bread sells for thrl'!e
alices per penny. Cigarettes are a penny each.
High schools are built on hills here, lopsidedly, so that although they
have level roofs, their backs may be twice as high as their fronts, or
vice versa.
In the beautiful public library somebody sits and carefully puts the
library stamp on all the nudes in the photography magazines: Free Public
Library Newark New Jersey.
If
the body is the right size, the lettering
fits
very nicely from the right shoulder down between the breasts and
across the stomach to the left hip.
This is the city where you can speak your piece in Military Park up
against the rumps of the horses on the Wars of America Memorial Statue
("42 human figures on a granite base, surrounded by a low fence of over–
lapping bronze swords."). Hague is next door in Jersey City, but things
are done a little slicker here. The elections always go the right way and if
JOU
don't like the way the votes are counted, why then the boxes with the
ballots in them are locked up, (under guard, of course) and the red tape
.f
the recount gets started, and one night trucks back up to the city hall
.hich
is next door to police headquarters and the boxes are piled into the
trucks
and then the wishes of the good citizens of Newark are dumped into
river or burned or otherwise disposed of and the election is over.
Weequahic Park, once part of the marsh lands, is very nice. The trees
in all the right places and the grass
is
kept at exactly the correct
Even the lake is false, and the funniest thing is to see a man in a
with his permit, trying to catch some of the fish put there, and throw–
most of those he does catch back because they aren't long enough.
_ JULLIUUIUl.
be it admitted, once a little boy walking along the shore put
hand in the water and pulled out a dead fish 37 inches long and his
was in a local paper.}
After spring arrives it is very crowded in the park on Sundays and
radios in the parked cars and the portable victrola-s on the grass make
and young men stand around shouting pleasantries at the passing
(In general, you see, the park is a place where young people often
things they would not do anywheres else.)
