, 1874-12-06
Tho Prominent Buildings and Memorable
Associations Of TWenty-thira
Street.
Fisk's 0pera-House, the Nathan Han.
sion, and the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.


Thanksgiving Day hos como and gone again,
/ and left us all happier mud more contented. 70
! many hearts and homes among tho poor, it
brought one good solid meal and, for that ono
day at least, they had no reason to repino at
their hard fate. fashionable congregations
gathered in all tho churches that were open,
aud, clad in velvet and silk, from their comfort
able pews they probably gave thanks for their
luxurious surroundings. In the many charitable
institutions OF which our city ia 80 justly proud
the poor aud needy gathered around vell-filled
tables. and ohildron and the old aliao wcre not
forgotten, In the evening, which camo on warm,
balny, aud pleasant, tho streets were filed with
happy people, aud all places OF aauHemont were
thron9od.
Tic wcll-fod,; and therefore good-natured,
crowds on
TwESTy-TIInD STREET
alone formed one steady, compact mass 80 that
it WAS hard to elbow one's wey through the crowd.
Stroots, as we'll as individuals, hayo u history,
and Tventy-third street has many associations,
pastand present, to mako it memorable. Down this
street, ali ablazo with torcll1ghts and pyrotechnic
display, surrounded by enthusiastic citizens, rode
Miss Cushman, Queen Of Tragedy, and flushed
with her final victorious exit from, the Now York
stage. On this street stands Booths immeneo
I theatre. thut coat 81 100000; and that. after
swallowing up lis means, LETT him ruinod man,
ut the mercy Of his creditors. Opposite this
theatre stands tho Masonic Temple, also Of
granite, and not yet completed, although it has
cost nearly e1,000,0 900. Colossal in proportions,
and Of great architectural Ueauty, it aluozt
seems "remplo not made with hands," 60
classical and finished arc tts proportions. Cross
ing Sixth avenue, fast rivaling broadway with
its busy, buztllng ladyaloppars, and Still facing
en- Twenty-thfrd street, We find Dan Drynuts
cosy littie white marble opcra-huuse; and
CassinS the luxurious homes OF doGn-town mer-
chants on the ono b;do, and tho snowy plate
s:as-front stores on tho other, VIC como TO tho
corner OF Twcrty-thirsl street autl Eighth AZ
crsc,. wlcro htaie!=, III s.1uwy, glazing whito
marble.
THE GRAND o2ERA-UousE-
This buiidiug built By Jim Fisk, was finished
internally in h style Of almost rcgal grandeur;
and hero tho Er1o Company have their
% WITH e.sas sn mssni;:cenoe. Ie Msfe in lis - sodsn
days, ho Iourisi4ed and ruled, owned the
entiro square. and threatened to coutrel the
rholo street by moving the forry to the Eric de-
not. aud the depot itecf to tho foot Of the street
Here hlso lio i,nd his extensive stables, with
twelve ho1sas, Elgui. drags, coaches, clascpces.
aud servants iu abundance. Here la Installed
tho Mansfield IN superb mansion and, a little
further down the street. bis own dwelling stood.
But thu judgmbnt sl,nt Bons tao fatal bullet fol-
lowod hin lls~gotson posaoe"ious, for tho Eric
Company arc about 1easo;in1 their Offices back
TO the foot Of Dunno street, q good miles
awa=; and then The Opera-Housc. lone ard
vniccless will be left monument OF the failure
O: ali such visionary prc:onGc:s- The NauGtieid
is ia great poverty. aud wanders rnmorscIess in
Paris and cveu th3 rtnbfcs nro abandoned, as II
nothing should be Lott Of ail tlls snort-livcd !
sI,Icudcr.
Coming array from tho ops.a-1ousc. which
f.n.1.
nc pas. old Calvary Chu.ch, aud its wealthy but
o!d-styla- worshipiug congregation, and scch clo-
CANT lcadrnccs as those Of sIr. Arnold. Of ar |
mold & Constable, and other wealthy mer~
and Of leading physicians. |
And now Nc pause beforc tho famous
NATHAN House,
fast being merged into srarehouso. Long it |
etood unuecnpicd. sole witness Of the brutal ]
murder committed q: midnight within it's bcauti-
fui walls. Opposito, with Its sldc-gardon flied
vi;L blooming cxotlcs stands tie Fifth Avenuo |
uotol. rhe1c the Primes Of Wales aud suite were
entertained. With yoarly rental Of 100000,
with IN average Of 500 guests and 500 scryanta
i stands fnci,g Madison Square and tho Woitl |
Monument. Passing down T'onty-third street
atill. We pause at the Academy Of Design, aud
The line building oprorito, occupied by the
Young Mems Christian AsEocintlou, aid such
oted publishers as Pntnan. T. Co.
And 70 Ncw York has one memorable etrcet.
that, from the East to the Serth River, has
points out, in i:s buildings. its people. aud its
future, tho lesson of the stability an{ 1eocrity.
beauty and decay, downfall and prosperity, OF /
ts owners and occupants.
Wo have been promised new era in the new
Tamn.anr rulers who are to govern US. We llavo
'oen SIS. .0a0, COO swallowed up in tue ''RinS' of
Tweed and his officials, and millions more have
disappeared under the distribution Of Have
meyer and Green. New York seems to be going
1own in her metropolitan greatness, and. it the
,nY hs4 fat fac0rnit,v n city nf |
1aud, mistake. misrlle, and feebencss. It is
;cry easy to CIT aloud aud to plan upon paper, |
nut aro not our taxes and city debt increasing, |
md is not our public enterprise dying out:
CHICAGO WILL SOON ouTDo Us
n sending grain in bulk to Liverpool; Boston
vill get. our foreign trado. with her new tsln-
,ei and short route Baltimore has wrested
'ur coffee trade from US; aud our wharves and
locks arc disgrace to tho clty.., And, when tho
,round and airline railroads, well~dfancd and
sell-gredod streets, and clean tcnementrhouses
hat tile malaria Of diphtheria typhus foyer. and
mall-pox should 10 banished forever
5 proper o eFa"'se s er that ats 70 Of snoa9 oa9
fifth and Madison.ayenues second " Champo
Ilybseos and Il 'iica1illy," bring down the rents
i lines OF nnoccuplcd houses, and build docks,
O outrival Liverpool, along our riycr-fronts, We
peedily dawn when all this shall bo done, even
it increases our debt. But re fear tho
r1liian. future predicted oxats onlT in tho vivid
Imagination Of the nowHpaper-men. and tint
lo project will not be accomplished in our day.
'ot Mayor Wlckllau is d man Of public spirit.
nd it al rests npon him to make our really
eautlful city all that Paris WAS made By public
improvements To him, therefore. and to Gov
tlden. Our hopes turn; aud our future succes8
& gsoat, prosperous city-aa great in PROS
Gritty as in czino and destitusion-lles, in q
lrgo measure. in their judicious executive mau.
goment. Let us see what their new reign will
laugurate before We complain. DsuL1u.
lsH0P LEE ARD THE IONA EP!Sc0PATE.