The sun., 1897-05-09

Y. Hoffman. George W. Burnham jjust removed
domnr dE0m Sf9TnS of Srsen and efterward to 5e M the
therein, therein Of ySSnng Bin Treyers and young Sim
leadcrs, William Curtis Noycs. a .forcrunner Of
schei 9ross T"mmany @ s"ohe% au and TSmmSny snsSn
bFoss4s gsnT1 sS o
sfather of Italian opera " in this H city; William
n, vermiye, the ST. Nicholos banker; Henry
tobtn93IHat w b13Ia Robert Bagc an English banker soon
sdl and Ilhirty,eighth street and sell II at good
snra pEo tS James % ordon Bennett ST. aud
o. at Sis'sR FS 20 @S
might add: :" Lot us turn into Lafuyetto place"
then IS choice SeOs TesdsnSP 'S Snp srest
as ie now West Seventy.second street. No. l,
tho Bond ke
was the mansion Of Peter Schermerhorn. whose
wife was q social leader of tact and who
2 isT. back Dutch ora, had Tor neishbors Adrian
Whose namsssk ko descendant was lately Sub Sub.
Treasurer), Benjamin L. Swan. Austin l. Sands.
Governor later, Warren and Frederick Frederic u II. 5 Dc
le%nS, %,. Irving Van wart. Matthew. Wilkes,
Langdon.ali with bank az. accounts to be ' envied.
tR. tR Lsb5ayette place IN the very house wherein
John C. Abbott tho author pSDS Who Was prepar rssH
ing to pen his history OF Napoleon for the forth.
coming new Harper magazine, To Lafayette
tsnts Of the HomsopaiSc doctor. john +. Grey. e
| Into Fourth and Amity streets was short
found residing Bank President A. b. Hays, then
ss great FINANCIAL authority as is Perpont
spicer. orsa,nus Bushnell, Horace Waldo,
millionaire importer and dashing clubman;
he %assS sGn nm TO
beginning his 4 suSsSssful Ss operations
5oHd and the cG
Third street, and surrendered to elevated
| railway curve and n heterogeneous interna-
tiolal population were found the residences
Of James H, shegogue. "a; much.sought.
Asher B. Durand. another Academician, and
also an expert ongraver; Charles N. Leupp,
Judge Of the Superior Court: Henry "A" A. smythe,
later a Collector of the Port. and Lucius Robin
State. Amity street boasted two fashionable
ehurfhesLSt; Clements Episcopal and the swell
assn wsm hHsSa K H. yeh @ans FsHt h aS hss
for mutabilities! st. Clements is daily looked
at by elevated railway passengers in its condi.
and the church OF DR.. Williams was purchased
by A. 7. Stewart and by him converted into a
preach nowadays from the Biblical text The
fashion OF this world .passeth away"
beow-Bleecker. Three of its blocks are found
| to have fashionable enames-Leroy place, between
and Thonpson and DE- pePPS Pau o1Wss PoW Seween @
the latter street and Sullivan. Hereabouts re-
neer @ Of steamship raSeI to the Psee Ocean
few few years later Henry A; Shit m 81 millionaire lilo
sSD s. R
| Worthington, is being educated to become. as he
did Worthy Episcopal @ rector H. Lsenard TX kEby BN
Soi. Linus W. stevens: Counsellor r. NJ X:
vail Street Jumping jack rich MTs susan Ersa. s
pinwall. wealthier young Bleise Lori!lard. and
family, one Of whose % members brs' was @ the Roman
Catholic Bishop Of that name OF New Jersey.
asd
With SoaIns .af % sesopp prDs IL Mss
aai9es who he IN solemn procession passed the
| years later pioneer Of national banks; OF Chief
Justice Oakley. Of ex-Alderman Moses Maynard.
Of Nicholas Anthony. Of the Belden brothers. OF
w, Field, of eI;Federal Marshal silas NJ: Stil
well. and Of Morris Ketcham. Along Irving
WaMWmSth N life insurance GoTGoration. OF Franci:
Lewis Atterbury. OF Henry A. Cram. OF Caroline
n. Kirkland the author: OF Howard Crosby. Of
Banker De Forest Grant, and of those legal
dromios, Cleveland and Titus. Lexington ave-
It W was Claimed BY dealers and brokers' in horses s.
Passing over to lower Second avenue. tho
the res Fesdsnces o. Frsnes
merce; Of David Prescott Hall. the lawyer. who
| made and lost two fortunes in booming real
and Caroline Livingston, Of Christopher /. stuy-
vesant. Of Benjamin Winthrop. the literary
monarch Of tine turf; OF Joseph Kernochsn, and
Of William Hoge. New Orleans and pittsburg
Fifteenth and Nineteenth streets there stretched
| nothing but vacant lots; and even eight OF these
tenanted by floral or market gardeners.
Still in search OF fashionable residential dis,
Of New York city the Ebsrs walked
Grand streets, and found in each near to Broad
way residences of the well.to-do. and SO reached
st. John square-the most picturesque square
this city has ever known. with its aged elms,
and oaks. and hickoriss. and velvet turf; and
street side were the mansions OF George Griffin.
founder Of the BarlGw & Las9GqEe lay Arm;
friend and literary ally % Of Washing nneton ton / Wing
and TO @
Pa Sar LORD Rnbrt 5 then at bS,o the head Ss& f
ndg; Of clubs; Of Joseph Stuart, the millionaire
RaR@r the fashonabe dessr n gems q Jesse
yerS6le s Boss ,a Plat y PolGs o and Of IShn A
Police. On the north G.aight street, sido OF the
fs Php % yP Mhess
liant daughters became the wives OF Judge
Charles p. Daly and Judge John r. Brady; Jo-
seph Giraud Of Huguenot descent. and Francis
X Tllon, who half dozen years later became
| later wooed In st. Johns Park and won by sons
| OF their neighbors across the square, Messrs.
Kemble and Smedberg. On the Hudson street
side was the hospitable mansion OF Robert G.
Cornell. then lately sub-TreasuDr and grand
father OF Magistrate Cornell who was born in
that 81 Johns square residence
Making long detour to the east side of the
city. tho ramblers found that families of pedi-
gree and means still fingered In Madison and
Pike streets and East Broadway. From here
only recently had Commodore Vanderbilt re-
moved. At 20 yet resided William F. Mott,
at 90 Abnor Chichester, at 1873 Millionaire Israel
Corse. az 10 solomon Townsend. at 17s Horace
40 that old Quaker philant thropist Josiah Macy,
at 20s Henry W Haydock. at 2l2 that peren-
nial foreman of Grand Juries J. T. B. MAXWELL.
at 233 the Psychologist apostle L. N. Fowler, at
253 Abner Mellen, at 300 Richard NJ. Hoe. and
at 237, with his father, William NJ. Tweed who
was beginning political life ana was courting the
daughter of Samuel ID. skeilim. who lived four
doors away.
Although the uptown residential fever had
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