ALONG THE HUDSON

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 16

ALONG THE HUDSON

PLEASURE CRAFT LAID UP.

As a good housekeeper carefully tucks paper at the first sign of wintry weather, paptr atthe first sign of wintry weather, New York reluctantly puts her pleasure boats on the shelf, covers them tenderly with canvas, and leaves them .high and dry somewhere along the Hudson, with nothing, to do but wait for cheery days, says the "New York Evening. Post." From Riverside drive, in the neighbourhood of 150.th street, one can see yachts, rowboats, skiffs, and strange, nameless shapes crouched" under their heavy shrouds waiting patiently. This is evidently the season to wake up and stretch—a veritable seventh inning—for already repair work is starting, there is much moving and launching, and many of the craft are peeping gleefully out of their overcoats to see what is going on. Only tho effervescent twitter of the birds in the. early morning can rival 1 the .still and flutter among,the boats. The so-called "yacht clubs" by the river, each protecting its family of little ships, are commonplace, wooden affairs, ■not inclined to be snobbish. In the summertime they have green vines creeping defendingly over, the broken shingles and rough "boards, and small patches of garden where the boats now rest. Freight trains are always shooting past the tracks at tho foot of tho drive, leaving long trails of smoke behind them. And 'way up above are the tall • palaces of Riverside drive, dwaffing the white clad vessels by the water, until even that jaunty skiff in the foreground, which staunchly proclaims itself, fore and aft, the "Gem of New York," almost loses its dignity entirely.