The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-13

Teeter,a rendezvous then and for dec
AIDE later of politicians who love tine
brandy and gin. In the old mansion or
the first Astor Pat Hearne is maintain
ing opposite Niblo's Garden entrance
what religious newspapers are calling q
gaming hell Adjacent Is a saloon, soon
to become the scene of the murder or
the noted pugilist, Bill Poole. AT 55S is
the New York club house, Hard by are
the studios of the painters Lang, RIOS
sitter and Hicks. But rebuilding is rap
idly progressing on the Broadway
blocks hereabouts, and the new Racket
club house has been recently erected.
Arriving at Blocker street, which Ed
| itor n, p. Willis has fixed as the bound
airy between business and fashion, we
confront Constitution hall, the head
quarters, with bar and ballroom at
| tachments, for silk-stocking Wings.
| Trade has not yet driven away resi-
| dences on many Broadway blocks north
| of Fourth street, for we read the door
| plates of Frances Noteworthy of colo
NAL fame, DIR. Fitch, George Lovett,
James Cheeseman, Christopher Wolfe,
John j. Cisco, the Joneses, Paul Spot
ford, Thomas Tileston, Gen! de Trobri-
and, DR.. r. Il, Kisam, Gideon Tucker,
George Bruce and the philanthropic
John d. Wolfe. Toward Ninth street
| lived the famous surgeon DR.. Carno-
chan, twenty years later health officer
of the port, In this same neighborhood
lived Philip Burrows, the confidential
fiscal agent and partner of A, r. Stew
art, who was then meditating guilty
fight to Italy with 5000, 900 of Stewards
money in his pockets, only to die miser-
ably there and have his body returned
! for furt.ve burial concealed in a cotton
bale. On the Tenth street corner stood
the mansion (pretentious for those
times) of old Peter Lorillapd, but there
were vacant lots around him and the
new Grace church confronted him. The
blocks between the church and Union
square We're in a transition state for
higher prices and buildings, SO that a
few lots remained vacant.
If we stopped in Union square to eX-
plore the residences on Broadway OF
fronting the other sides of the square
we should see among those on the cor
/ ner of Sixteenth street. where old Dan.
iel Parrish, paralyzed millionaire. was
dying in charge of a young wife, whom
his relatives charged with marrying fol-
his money and with having Influenced
to their disadvantage his will and tesla
ment; also the ultra fashionable schoo
of Nine. Chegary, and the residences O.
Judge William Kent, Sam Ruggles
George Law, one of the few millionaire:
of the period, w. K. Strong. George w
Coster, Peter Goelet, John CasWell, ant
the eccentric Irishman Richard Tighe
who died in 1896, whose millions are un
der attack in the surrogate's court.
There are three vacant lots between
Twentieth and Twenty-tirst streets. A
917 J. T. Depeyster yet occupies hi
comfortable house On the next blocl
are seven vacant lots. There is onl.
one building between Twenty-secont
and TWenty-third streets. Where tn,
Fifth Avenue hotel now stands there i
mine host Corporal Thompson, who's
rare milk punches are themes of gosip
At Twenty-fourth street there is
blacksmith's forge. At Twenty fiftl
street the directory ceases to motto
Broadway, and at that point number
are not to be found. And PRACTICAL.
as we cease our walk at Madison squar
the vista up Broadway and Fifth ave
nue. presents vacant lots.