The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-05
CHERRY HILL LANDMARK GONE.
Building Occupied by One Clothing Firm
for Eighty-one Years Torn Down.

Building Occupied by One Clothing Firm
for Eighty-one Years Torn Down.
An old man stood at the corner Of Cherry and
Catharine streets a few days ago shaking his
head sadly as he looked across the way. where
n large number OF men were wrecking an old
brick building.
III he going soon myself" he said to n
young man who had stopped beside him to
watch the workmen lower a beam. THAT
building there is one Of the oldest landmarks
in the Seventh ward. but it's outlived its use
fulness. It's too bad. too bad"
The building was that occupied until Jan.
% by Barnum & Co.. clothiers. For eighty
one years tho same firm. formerly under the
name OF Brooks & Co. and Brooks Bros, had
done business on this site. Their time
stretched away back to the days when Cherry
Hill was the aristocratic section Of the city. and
when our Rrandfathers came. spring and fall.
to them that they might be CARRIED in the latest
style OF garments. With the drift Of the city
to the north went custom. but tho old house
hung on. unwilling to leave the site 80 long
identified with its name. But this came to be-
a necessity at last. So a little more than a
week ago they got out. and contractors imme-
diately began tearing down the old building.
Three apartment houses are to be erected on
the site.
When the clothing store was opened, in 1918.
the building was a on e-story frame structure
with a wooden awning extending along both
Cherry and Catharine streets under which the
goods were displayed. 1t was then the custom
among the best tailors to do this as 1t Is now
among the clothing merchants OF Baxter
street. East Broadway. Market. Monroe. Ham
ilton and other streets in that vicinity wore the
bost residence streets OF the town then.
In 1916 the old one-story building was torn
IANyn anl Tho IL
being removed was erected. 1t was considered
the finest place of its kind in the city and
a few years later 1t reaped its reward.
things fairly hum IN New York Men who had
been out there in '48 and 40 came back here
body made money and the ci GainHasI business sE n
was so prosperous that the next year the firm
Joining theirs on Catharine street that was a
wonder to all New York. The decorations were
i II Ta'ts and and E Sold two the s,S ssilin s, Sss beautifully
The record Of this house In one respect 10
most unique There is, scarcely an employee
'6Iaa forty; M: BnT9Tm gtaTted. T. With ths
years old; In the sans Year came William j.
fFst sm S5ES SHt IN Is is5 Sha abs v " n MSaF oa3,, was e
been working for thu house stn u"' i Hssisof! No nas
OF them has ever been employed elsewhere.
L ones o.Ieh EeI IpRether anu talK over the
used to sleep In the store. In those days there
were no night watchmen. The clerks all slept
In the stores. under the counters or on them.
the store at Catharine and, Cherry streets had
an exciting time. One night In July. 1883. the
doors. soaring the clerks into jumping out the
rear windows and scaling the fence to a
before police enough could be rallied to
expel them. The next night they returned to
burn II. but a company Of regulars from Gov
OF time and chased them away. The firm put
~ \ claim for $4,000 worth OF clothing which
the mob had stolen. and the city paid IL.