New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-13
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.


MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF A BROAD
WAY LoUNGER.
Have the gallant rrmen felt II necessary III order NOT
% shame their Supeors steal something TOO Ana Kate
FOrsythe's pure diamonds: OH
General Frenonr ease comes mp this week, for retire
men with come provision for his really INDECENT old age
He the sonraw OF Benton, the Moses 81 the vest
he the blood Of the South he found the pains OF
the present empire.
Mr. Montgomery figures M a gain OF Ga votes for
Blaine his opening vote in 1850, when was $50 vi
these 30 gained in Pennsylvania. 10 in Nev-Iork,
IN Ohio lG I'm Minnesota lie says Blaine represents tho
Independent vote
Allen o. Myers Of the Ohio Legislature was in ms CITY
last Saturday and sad that he little SICK ana te"
of the deniton grind Of politics and wanted to get sea
sick, he took steamship to 30 10 NORFOLK ana "Sue''i
Meiley and others him OF.
Starting ont 10 walk one of the fine afternoons OF last
week from Thirty fourth st. and Nnth-av' "hcr' y ~
elevated railroad station, turned up Madisonavc ana
walked to seventy ST. and then crossed the fh
the Dakota Hotel and down the west side OF tn'
Park through Egh-avc and to the place o. departure
II occurred to this distance AFTER came 20
rest because like other NcwYOrker7 had u" d'uh'e
dca OF the length OF the blocks According To the map
tie city at Thirty fourth-st two miles ana quarter
wide. II is mile from Ninth-a'e to FouTth-aV''
town another mile from Thirty souTt5t 10 ly-
second. and little abo,c mile from Fifty second 81 ."
Seventy second. IN distance back would be Wic'
miles more making my walk within trifc OF SIX miles.
The walk itself almost compelled by growing Ill
disposition and the sense OF necessity OF re
bclmS, and during all that journey observed not more
than twenty persons in region OF the Park taking "N
80 Mt i'm coming
through the Park toward the Eighth Avenue gat" M
good fair caop frightened the people 40 that they
thought her horse was running on Exercise save win
trottng he almost obsolete here except
among men who walk to and from their business.
observed ut Madson-ave, about Fifty ninth-st' an
enormous new building of brick with iron bays running
up ten stories HIGH aud the announcement was maze
that the cdiGce would he called the Holman Arms
Looking the height OF that tower occurred 10 me
that 1t ought be called the Holman Legs any refer
ence was meant to going pit. Another enormous build
ing probably apartment house. on Seventy second
st.. east ~ the Park IS distinguished for its chimney
stacks which to he put together TO Initiate Tile
yard and so should think the building might be called
The Tuicrics for that the origin of the celebrated
palace OF that name. ac-bakcrr in the time 81 Cath
crime de Mcdcis. who forthwith called her palace The
Tilcres or Tuilcrcs.
The Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. re-
"A
position in architecture akin 10 the new views III doctrine
IN attn ont OF old forms in some way The edihce
to e to hotel Dc vile, town hail. OF Planters OF
the north Of France there tower with tail l0Op-h0le
windows III it opening at the top INTO Otlfro or Driy
OF DENT rude shape, showing the military necesHlt'7
those N,thcrland municipalities had to defend themselves
now and then against their DIhc or King The parson
age to the left of this and the resemblance Of
gable to it, right mautan the idea OF the secular and
domestic apartments in these Old NdreS; tho ornamental
ton in tho acades Is demi Gothic, as If secularity mad
usu-pcd ccccsastlcs. and the root covered with red
tiles suggestive much Of the Netherlands a. OF the
Canton and Guild Halls about the Swiss aud Bayarian
lakes.
II occurred TO me- looked this building that il in
the course Of time some modified use might he
found for churches there would Ice required the least
alteration here Some squares further up Madson-avc
is the Church " the Holy Spirit with suntcd tower at
the corner and the general style OF woodwork and gables
called for want OF better name, the Queen Anne style
II would appear that Protestant churches in ts Vicinity
are un more to assume Gothic forms but To slide INTO
opethn between civic and domestic architecture with
n Dir 81 military tovor appended by way OF sign The
clock I'm the nov Methodist Oh lrch il curiosity II is
made Of tiles baked red. and WAS under tie imprc sson
for some time that puzzle having reference 10
the Gregoan calendar. until called IN the assistance Of
"A policeman and we studied 10 together, spelling il out
and finally discovered it be the dial Of clock yet
other good bye: Now significance: this il the
house made without hands eternal in the heavens
Wandering around the Firth side Of the Park
among tie new houses about the LenOx Library, ap
preatcd the pains expense to do something ne yet
il seemed me both Obvi0cd In most cases by
the SIZE OF the building lots In NewYork there is not
much opportunity TO adOrn house twenty-five by
hundred the next house occupies lot or pre-
cscy the form and Dimensions and hence only the
corner houses show we'll Here and there some gentle
man has purchased several lQs hut IN no caseihas nc
been able to anOrd yard which will reveal the thanking
walls Consequently most OF these new fronts show
feature or two I'm carved stone like caryatde DENT
oarcovle hut each suggests something like it near by.
Indeed perfectly rectangular town will always nave lts
drawbacks architecture, especially on contracted
island Ike this. For many years the ground nan OF
Washington derded until the streets came To be
clothed with houses and then u was seen that the old
French engineer had worked not for day but for a
century with his obque streets here and there
his fronts could OyershOOt each other ana step our
50 ~ speak like soldiers echelon, while plain people
who could merely afford rectangular houses found the
palmer plan OF the town 70 sut them Iobserved one
street few blocks below the Lenox Library dcnsey built
I'D with housos quite through to Madson-ave. and
richer display of brown is not 20 be- seen IN the
world yet when got 70 the middle ~ the block he
somehow felt n were in PRISON. the high houses
with their abutments, counns and nigh bays running 10
the roof gave TO the street solemn naroWhe7s h'h ~
existed old Paris Ednbugh before the modern On
Cneer had come.
80 house ront IN this country IL anywhere In Europe
can match the side OF Mr. w h. Vandcrbilts on Fifty-
socond-s which will not be fully appreciated I'll one
walks down street from broadway aud stands OPP
po.c the thanking Ornamenta0D, which Ii both conious
aud artistic Many OF the features OF this house taken
or initiated from the celebrated Palace Of Justice In
Rouen building which many architect 10 stop
over and study IT, At the time there Is COM
pcteness about Mr. vandcrbt- residence and the intro
duct0n OF oheS details and large features which Civ" 1t
uuy hardly DO in any OF tho partiiiOned and
mutilated Gothic houses OF Normandy It Is u legend
that the man sitting the top OF the house s MI Hunt