Copyright, 1899, by Charles Scribner's Sons. All rights reserved.
Grant's Tomb and Riverside Drive (from the New Jersey Shore).
THE WATER-FRONT OF NEW YORK
By Jesse Lynch Williams
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 top masts 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.
Down along the Battery sea-wall is the place to watch the ships go by.—Page [385].