Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-12-09
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universally received opin-
: vide spread as newspaper
.hat Fifth Avenue, New York
especially devoted to the
aristocracy of wealth and
known to the Democratic
i the United States Of Amer
% Fifth Avenue are located the
AsToE HOMES
,se men worth twenty mil
:, gore seek their wives at the
y, bgurs Of day.
j srs hundreds of grand brick
..,ge nansions-rich, plain, ele-
.,nracious-with large lots and
~. attached, the latter hid from
+. gaze by high brick walls, cap
aith stone, which shut from
40 eyes the beauty within.
might pass these great houses
- day for a life time and not
!, that the richest men in Amer
~ drink, sleep and take all the,
art life can give within their
Is
/. Fifth Avenue a. 7. Stewart
bniIded marble palace, with
Great plate glass windows,
,bopt sash from top to base, which
nm the blinds are Withdrawn, re-
Al tantalizing giimpse5 Of the
orgeous paintings, fresco and gar
nre within, contrived to augment
comfort of the owner. Doth not
eve. when pleased, carry COM
i 10 the man? Verify il doth.
ere with his aged wife, without
her family or kindred, lives the
MERCHANT KING,
10 has outiived his three score
ars and ten, and is still active.
1t he must soon resign all he has
HE'D for through all these years
m youth to age, and leave none
blind him to inherit his name. Ii
umored-I know not that there Is
y truth in the rumor--that when
i done using his palatial home he
HI bequeath it and all his pictures to
city of New York in trust, to be
"a as an art gallery free to its citi-
s forever.
On Fifth Avenue is being erected
De lar-famed
CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL,
hieh is 10 be, so said, the most mag
Eacen. in the United States or in
be world, second to st Peters at
lone. Its walls, of the purest, viii
Isl marble, surround one entire
Hook, and present within and with
hut only this cold white surface to
he eye. Who shall tell of its beauty
its columns and capitals, its cary
hgs and panelings, its exquisite
korkmanship, its spires and turrets,
Us belfry, copings, frescoes and cor
|fi9s. If "a thing Of beauty is
Ioy forever" then will every soul
|of the millions who ride or walk by
Ebis wonderful edifice as the centu
pies roll on, have one JOY in their
hearts, if no more, provided they
Femember only this " thing of beau
Ey,n and can DO reconciled to the
Uses TO which all this wealth is to he
devoted. If one could believe that
he glory of God could be enhanced
b. such display, or that men were
made only purer and better thereby
who worship amid such splendor,
zoe might "rejoice and be exceeding
Had" But the Catholics are mot
done in their seeming desire to wor-
hip the meek and lowly Jesus By
,utstripping all competitors in geor-
,e0us grandure.
AND CHURCHES.
The Jewish Synagogue here Is re-
puted TO be the most elaborate Of its
Kind in the world. The Episcopa-
ians have a wonderfully magnifi-
ent church. The Presbyterians,
baptists and Methodists have striven
0 come nearer heaven by extrava-
'ance in architecture. Dozens Of
'ther less expensive edifices, In
Which the fashion and folly of Fifth
Avenue hang out their signs OF
'ealth, border this central thorough
are 81 the metropolitan city.
SWEENEY, TWEED AND LAW.
Sweeney built his pa'atial mansion
n close proximity to the churches,
ut now wanders In exile. Tweed
topped from Fifth Avenue glory to
ludlow Street Jail. George Law
as an elegant home on the Avenue.
HUNDREDS or OTHER NoTABLEs
i've notoriety If not responsibility to
he Avenue. Hundreds OF Million