Paul
You want to be careful in a place like New York. There’s all kinds of people waiting to take your money away from you.
Fred
It’s a great city, all right. Today I took the ferryboat over to Staten’s Island and back. It’s an island and you have to take a ferryboat. But I suppose you been there.
He explains it to Lucille.
Lucille
I go there a lot—just for the trip.
Fred
I seen the Goddest of Liberty, too—I mean the statue. It cost a million dollars and weighs 225 ton.
Fred
A gesture in the direction of Maxie .
He can play the piano! … And I seen some of the big ocean liner steamboats. I seen the President HardingPresident Harding just coming in from London or Europe or somewheres, and the other day I seen the MajesticMajestic tied up to the dock. She’s pretty near twicet as long as the President HardingPresident Harding and weighs 56,000 ton. The President HardingPresident Harding only weighs 14,000 ton.
Lucille
Imagine!
Fred
To Lucille .
Have you been through the Holland Tunnel?