ALONG THE HUDSON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19206, 24 June 1924, Page 8

ALONG THE HUDSON.

TREASURE CRAFT LAID UP. As a good housekeeper carefully tucks paper at the 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 lork Evening Post). From Riverside drive, in the ncighbouiihoood cf 159th street, one can see vachta, rowboats, skiffs, and strange, nameless shapes crouched under their heavy shrouds awaiting 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 the effervescent twitter o£ the birds in the early morning can rival 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 bo snobbish. In tho 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 the foot of the drive, leaving long (rails of smoko behind them. And ’way up above are the tall palaces of Riverside drive, dwarfing the white olad vessels by tho 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.