CHAPTEE XIII
WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT
NEW YORK?
The following remarks were gathered by a bril¬
liant New Yorker, Charles W. Wood, and they are
well worth recording. Now that you have visited
the city, won't you also write the editor of New Yorh
of To-day just what you found most to like about
New York? We expect to print all answers in next
year's edition, for all books about New York have
to be revised every year in order to keep up with the
changes.
"I like New York," said a hardened Broadwayite,
"because it lets me alone. There's just as much
fun in other places, but it all has to be explained
and accounted for forever after. Not that I'd want
to do anything I'd be ashamed of; but it gets on
a man's nerves to feel that everybody in town is
watching him. I'd just as soon everybody would
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