New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-28

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| decorations in Fify-ninth- from
| 70 Eighth-aye.. the Boulevard |o'u','" 80
.nd IN tho side streets to OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
| ,wer,v-huh.st The Central Park Bu'luihs no"
d,srlsv which cost $1,000 including "'s
-. Dowev All the large apartment
houses are covered with color Among 'ne nv
ab,e decorations are the Alhambra bos'o"'
Navarro buildings Tr Sachss School. the New
York Athletic Club. the Virginia Hotel r'i''
nn,h-st and the Boulevard the SHERMAN
Souare Hotel Seventy frst-st. and the bou'e
vard and the Dakota and Majestic. lhe'e "'e
nnumera BILE flags in all the side stree's HUN
Fifth-ave to the Nort: River
psIov F-iftv-njnth-st there is no diminutioh
in the display Of bunting. pictures ana pa""e'''
On the large buildings about Herald square IN
Guiding the hotels and theatres, there IL per
feet luxurance and riot of bunting ana pe-
wildering array of electrical designs which "'
NIGH, makes the locality scene Of dazzling
brilliancy.
The Garr,ck Theatre is wonder In brilliant
coIoring and at night presents biazinG Hoii'
Of beautiful colors Tho same thing can he
said Of the Herald Square. Roster & Bal ana
the Manhattan. Looking down Broadway from
this spot a beautiful picture OF waving puh''"s
of many coors is by day.
"OID GLORY" ON THE WEST SIDE.
Below Thirty-fourth-st there is the sane
luxuriance in bunting and electrical arrange
ments Theatres are Respondent with bunting
and lights Arnold. Constable & Coin. Twen-
ty-third-st. Teller & Co. F. A. O. Schwarz.
the Adams Express Company, and l. Koch q
Sons establishments. in Twenty-thrd-st.. are
handsomely decorated. The Joaquin restaurant
in Twenty-fourth-st. John Hall Co.. in
Aston Ok a tp
Twenty-sixth-st. the Knickerbocker Auction
rooms in Twenty -eighth-st, and the ArcAna
Hotel building have pretty designs
The Public Stores building at Washington and
Christopher SITS has seventy-two ten-foot flags
and il would be almost Impossible TO describe
all the beautifully decorated buildings on the
West Side between Thirty-fourth-st. and T"en-
! ty-thrd-st.
Below Fourteenth-st. the lower West Side
shows an elaborateness Of decoration that In
some streets is bewildering Nearly every
| house particularly those in old Greenwich VII
lage has flag of some kind and some nave
elaborate designs. The building OF Sheppard
Knapp & Co, at SiXth-ave. and Thirteenth-
ST., is strikingly embellished. The knicker-
booker and Lackawanna hotels are masses OF
bunting c. II. g. f. L. Goldberg and Acker'
| Neral & Condit in West Broadway. have ar
tistic designs All the streets below Canal have
flags and bunting galore.
There are many efforts In the way of deco
rations between One-hundred and twenty-hfth-
ST. and Fifty ninth-st. on the upper East Side.
The Yorkville Court building is lavishly deco
rated with flags. The big facade Of the Grand
! Central Station in Forty second-st IS decorated
with three broad sashes Of blue and white, win
immense loops of bunting suspended from :he
de
clusters of banners and butterflies are lavish'y
distributed between the draperies The Hotel
Manhattan is splashed all over with red, white
and blue Other well decorated buildings are
the Metropolitan Life Insurance building al
Twcnty-th ird-st and Madiscn-ave. Hotel Var
| Twiller Twenty ffth-st. and Lexington-ave
| Hotel Ashland, Twenty-fourth- and Fourth
ave; the Lyceum Theatre. which is covered
completely: the Packard School at Twenty
third-st. and Fourth-ave.; the Third Avenue
Theatre: the Manhattan Club; the Mo-
hcan Club at No. 81 East Forty
seeond-st.; the Scottish Rite Hall at Mad
nave and Twenty ninth-st are striking
in their designs. Two immense flags arr
| stretched across Fouth-ave. at Twenty-hfth-st
| The big meat concerns First-ave. are covered
with bunting At Forty-second-st. and Second
ave. grocer has immense model Of tn
Olympia made Of soap. Harry Horn. a mer
chant in Third-avc., has big sign with tn
legend, "Welcome Dewey to Gods Country.
There is an abundance of banners mostly of sill
and pictures of Dewey surrounded with cluster
Of flags The entire length of Fourteenth-st
from Broadway to the East River. is a vista o
fut,ering flags. bunting and silken streaneiS
Keith's Theatre is literally buried under bunt
ing. Steinway Il Sons building, the Academy {
Music Tony Pastors and the halls are futtei
ing fronts of bunting and flags Tainman
| in
Indiana
CHINATOWN JOINS THE WELCOME.
The house at No % First-ave. occupied b
the George Washington Society. has garland
. Of small flags The striking thing on the lowe
East Side is that the big tenement houses Al
rrofusely decorated with small flags and thc
graphs of Dewey. In the Chinese and Italia
quarters there Is wonderful display Of bun
= ing Mott. Peil and Doyers SITS. compare favorab
with the uptown streets A big portrait
= Dewey with Welcome" in Chinese characte
. seen in a Mottst. restaurant. The Bowery
, also we'll decorated
In Riverside Drive hundreds of flags loa
d ing to the breeze and many more curlt
, and intertwined about windows and over door
1t is an Intermittent display. breaking o.
: boldly here and there. and then for squares 50
# Ting down to a single flag. which crowns almo
every home. The home Of Peter DOelger, at Il
northeast corner of Onc-hundredth-st.. is one
the conspicuous houses along the route bee au
- of the beauty and artistic design of it's decor
tons The immense brick structure is amo
completely buried in the National cClOrs.
the north and south OF this place. reachii
many blocks, the intervening lawns between {
drive and the houses are covered with an en-
less chain Of stands. some in course of erectio
All Of them are being decorated. 1t is the !
tention to cover up the unsightly pine all alol
the route.
Fifth-aye. develops in beauty with the journ
southwark. The University Club has not
veloped its holiday dress. but across the sire
the home of II Nick. Twombly is brightly 4
rayed large American flag hangs over
entrance to st. Thomas'S Church. its neighb
The buckingham Hotel catches the eye with
display. and short distance below the Den