Hell Gate Bridge derives its name from the treacherous section of the East River which it crosses. It is a most important part in a wonderful piece of railroad engineering. At New Rochelle tracks lead from the old New York, New Haven and Hartford lines to Port Morris, from here over Hell Gate Bridge, through the Borough of Queens and Long Island City, under the East River and half of Manhattan, to come to the surface at the Pennsylvania Station. Hell Gate Bridge runs from above Port Morris over Bronx Kills and Randall’s Island, across Little Hell Gate and Ward’s Island, and last, with its huge span, over Hell Gate to Astoria in Queens. It is six miles long. If laid over Manhattan it would reach from Wanamaker’s store at Eighth Street, to One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street. It is a remarkable link in the great chain between the two railroads. It obviates breaking bulk at New York, and connects Southern New England with “all points west.” [Illustration] XVIII THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT It is not what some one may say, but what the Nation feels, that tells the story of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. [Illustration] XIX THE CATHEDRAL ON THE HEIGHTS The Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John the Divine is the chief church of the diocese of New York. It stands on Morningside Heights, a magnificent site, from which it dominates all the surrounding city. Its enormous dome suggests that of Saint Peter’s and on the very pinnacle of the apse the angel Gabriel faces east, sounding the trumpet in an endless note of triumph. Viewing this structure, although as yet unfinished, one tries, almost in vain, to realize that it is to be still larger and more wonderful when fully completed, and when time has mellowed its stately stones and has hung about its walls the indescribable dignity of age. [Illustration] XX THE VIADUCT The Hudson and the Palisades combine in making “Riverside” one of the most naturally beautiful driveways in the world. Yet it owes much also to the workers of magic in steel. Northward from Grant’s Tomb and Claremont for half a mile or more it is upheld by giant arches of their making. Across a whole valley, this broad roadbed all glistening in the sun and streaked by the gay lines of endless pleasure traffic, rolls grandly on, supported by the silent strength of that great land bridge, the Viaduct. [Illustration] XXI GRANT’S TOMB The tomb of Ulysses S. Grant at One Hundred and Twenty-second Street and Riverside Drive is one of New York’s best known landmarks. A structure of impressive grandeur and large historic interest, it encourages the thousands of New Yorkers that pass it daily to look forward to the time when their city will be ennobled by a fitting memorial of the heroic officers and men of the great world war. [Illustration] XXII THE BATTLESHIP “OKLAHOMA” ON THE HUDSON