New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-03
GIVING WAY TO TRADE.
CHANGES IN FASHIONS AVENUE.
LOWER FIFTH AVENUE ALMOST swAMPED By


Washington Square TO Fortysecond-st II has been es
sentally transformed into a business thoroughfare'
and above Forty second-st, according to the Judgment
Of the discerning and welllnformed. the street ior
several blocks Is rapidly taking on character
that renders 1t undesirable as n centre OF wealthy
homes. This grand old living district mas
made heroic struggle against this destiny, u
kicked. with aristocrstc heel against the souliess
march Of business, for years It stayed the tide, pu'
now it is surely yielding With the opening
of this spring, brownstone houses which have
stubbornly fought the good fight have put on funeral
shutters and with sigh and shudder have hung out
the signs To lease for term Of years. To let for
business purposes For sae' and kindred indications
| that the struggle is DER.
Real estate men find It difficult to rent houses
in lower Fifh-are for living purposes. much less to
sell them. But when 1t 10 business there Is
no trouble whatever all the house is sold rented at
greatly increased prices AS a single illustration.
| house near Twentyeighth-st. that was bought in
year ago for S1O1 900 has st been sold for $4,000
| for shopping purposes. Such as John Jacob
and Robert Goelet have given up the fight, and,
TO insure themselves against further unhappness from
the attacks Of the spirit of trade in their life
time It Is said they have purchased property with
a view having residences in that coming centre the
centre Of all of arstocratic and splendid homes River
side Drive and West End ave- II is acknowledged on
all hands that Ffth-ave to fynlnthst is to be the
high-oned" shopping street of NewYork City. the
Rue d Rvoli of the town.
THE NEW FIFTH AVENUE
A walk up Fifthave. of pleasant morning demon
strates with arhmetcal and logical certainty the de-
parture Of the old Ffthave. and the presence Of the
new Between Washington Square and Twelfth-st.,
distance Of five blocks, there is still flavor of the old
time conservative excluslveness This is mainly due to
the pervadng influence doubt CT the Brevoort House.
which he' stopping place" of English aristocracy still
stands a monitor against hydra headed trade. Be-
tween Waverly place (Seventh-stl and Clinton place
(Eighth-st there are SIX private residences. At
Clinton place northeast corner the Brevoort House,
and opposite the fine old home Of John c. Nash. On
the corner above the Nash house is the Berkeley
apartment house Just above Ninth-st., on the west
side the Derham mansion still remains token Of
the past richness of this part Of the avenue. while d.
recty opposite are signs two brownstone houses,
Apartments to LETT and To let7
Between Tenth and Eleventh SITS. the Church Of
the Ascension and the Grosvenor apartments fill
the space on one side and let in the common world
on the other The next block Is the homo Of religion
on one side and of brIc-abrsc shop the other.
With Twclfth-st the sghtseer comes upon a revelry
of trade the east side with patent doorcheck
and spring and a drug store in full swing, while the
owner of a brownston4 honsc in the block Is trying
to rush away into quiet under the owners q For
SALE The former home Of ". s. Warner, No Ga,
stll remains on the west side. Between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth there not private house, the
LeDOA, pianos, tcncn Millinery tdIOIs, EoHu
extract. and Edison light holding high carnival over
departed aristocracy
From Fourteenth 70 Fifteenth SITS. one runs upon
carpet and furniture either side and winds
NJ with the home of pure and simple JefTeHonian
Democracy, the Manhattan Club and the Hanover
apartment house, with piano rooms just below for
Joyful contributions to the reign Of trade
SIGNS THAT CANNOT BE MIsCONsTRUED
The Weber piano warerooms mark the next block.
while No. 20 bears the lugubrious legend, To lease
for business purposes and boarding houses leave
little room for a few private houses. Knabes piano
rooms, Bradbury piano sales. the Ksell
House and the sign Mortgage sale" a large pri
vate house show how the old has been knocked out
and the letIn For the block above Seventeenth
ST. read Nodes Robes ct manteauX,7 Pianos
Talors," and the physognomy Of things here Is de-
scribed handsome, carvedstone four-story house
Of elegant interior bears the sign For sale" At the
northeast splendid home with closed shutters
and doors barred up stands silent II Is the Marshall
o. Roberts mansion Just above it, across Eighteenth
ST., Is the house of August Belmont, a double house
with two main entrances. Its yards compare
lively spacious and occupies half Of the block the
rest being covered over with the of Arnold Con-
stables big store.
Opposite the Belmont homo Chlckering Hall spreads
Itself and above this Martinelrs restaurant a
piano house and the YaDdell Art Galleries Precious
little is there left in that block for private houses
Is a four-story house, empty and bearing the sign
manual To let" From Nineteenth to Twentieth sts
business regns about supreme. Cottier & Co..
pianos, Wallaces restaurant, marble company, mil
lnery wine of coca, a novel manufacturing company
furniture and wall paper take up the block, while big
business place IS going up at the northwest
Stepping across Twentiethst. on the west side one
comes to Ilerter Brothers, children's and youths
clothing store and winds up with the South Reformed
Church, while the way The Mirror and Park
a. r1ie he Sara ri sill
hangs to the old house in the middle Of the block
With Twenty frstst., west side, upon the
Union Club, and opposite, the Lotos. The Union Club
leads TO the possessions OF tailor restaurant Kohn's
art and Knoedler's while opposite, above the
Lotos, stretch Coamores glass and pottery store the
Genham Hotel and j. 81 c. Johnston's dry-goods house
From Twenty second Twenty-hird SITS, photograph
rooms art galleries, Dunaps bric-abrac store, XII
patrick and diamonds shirts, millinery, flowers and
the Erie ticket Office bring things to peak and The
HERALD uptown branch winds up the funeral march
Of artocracy at the southern side of Madison Square
The stretch Madison square. with the Fifth
Avenue and Abermarlc Hotels and the Hoffman House,
is well known. Setting around the Worth monument
TO the present home OF the New-York Club,
whose future home is being rapidly put into shape
further up the avenue.
BEGINNING FIFTH AVENUE PROPER.
Between Twenty-hfth and Twenty-sixth sts., be-
side the New-York Club house are the art rooms of
William schaus and the ewelry store of starr, Stuart
81 Co., taIlOrs, Redfern's and Delmonlco's fill the
stomach Of trade 70 the complete satisfaction Of rs
periphery. The Hotel Brunswick stretches between
Twentysixth and Twenty seventh SITS. on the east
side Of the avenue, while opposite Bakesees paintings,
art rooms flowers and the Victoria Hotel fiji the space.
Between Twenty seventh and Twenty ghth there
Is one private house the side, closed and TO
let and one the west side The rest Is the Knlcker
booker Trust Company, real estate, millinery. shirts
and suspenders hangngs and decorations and robes
ct manteaux." No. $50 north OF Twenty Ell ghth-s
still has the appearance Of a private house, while every
other building between Twenty and Twenty
ninth sts., the side, IS devoted 10 furniture
TO sllversmIths Howard Co. few private houses
for boarding, etc. occupy the east slde with furniture
store sandwched in among them