The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-06
BROADWAY CENTRAL HOTEL.
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Located opposite Bond street is one of
the largest public houses in New York
On this memorable site La Fargo a sa-
gaciOus French investor built the La
Fargo House, which was opened, in 1856
Back of the hotel stood Tripler hall, the
scene of Jenny Lind's triumphs. The hall
was remodelede into Burtons New Lon
don Theatre. then the largest in New
York and subsequently INTO the Winter
Garden, where Edwin Booth played Ham
lei for 100 consecutive nights In 1869
ing of the Winter Garden. the entire
property was acquired by the late h. >.
Higgins, the carpet manufacturer, who
erected here the most palatial and sub
stantial hotel in New York, at first
known as the Southern hotel, and after
wards as the Grand Central hotel. The
great dining hall occupies the locality
made famous by Jenny Lind and Edwin
Booth, where Adelina Patti made her
first public appearance, and where RAJ
chel met her first American audience.
The house in 1892 passed into the proprie-
torship of the Hon. Tills Haynes, who
had made a notable success Of the old
United States hotel at Boston. The ORR
ginal cost of the Broadway Central was
81 000, 900, and nearly quarter OF a mil
lion more was spent by Mr. Haynes In
thoroughly renovating. reftting, return
ishing and reOrganiZlng the entire prop
erty 1t is solid and magnificent Struc-
ture, with seven stories above the main
floor and very spacious and comfortable
public rooms. 1t is admirably protected
against fires, having massive stone and
brick division walls once in eighteen feet,
throughout the main building, with broad
halls running the entire length of the
building, from Broadway to Mercer street,
and numerous stairwaYs, together with
every possible protection against hre- 1t
is in an interesting part of the city, close
to Bleecker street, the Latin quarter of
New York: Washington square the site
of the trfumphal arch; Lafayette and
Aston places, with their Libraries, and
the centre of the publishers quarter the
Bowery, with its picturesque humanity,
and the Cooper Institute Only a few
blocks north is Ehe group of building per-
tanning to Grace church. one of the hand
soonest sights in the metropolis, In front
of the hotel flow the vast and Impressive
human tides of Broadway.
one Of the most important, and some
times the most expensive things in a
great city is'the matter of transpOrta ton,
getting about from one point to another
In this respect no hotel in New York has
the convenience of such a central lOca-
ton together with the rapid and econ
omical transfer to all points, as the
Broadway Central hotel.
The new Broadway cable lines. with
their branches and extensions, now cover
all the great avenues; the new LeXing-
ton avenue line, coming down from Har-
lem on the east side of the Grand Central
station brings passengers direct from 42d
street to the door, while the Broadway
line from the Battery to Central park,
masses every fashionable store. theatre
and attraction of the city The new Col
urnbus and LenoX avenue lines take pas
sengers clear up to Grants tomb. Har-
lem river and High bridge while both
the Third and Sixth avenue elevated
roads. one block in front and one in the
rear give every possible facility for
reaching all suburban locations at the
least possible charge. The cross town
cars pass Broadway, both above and be-
low the hotel, connect directly with
every foreign and cOastwise steamer. all
the ferries, Battery, and Brooklyn bridge
trains Read Kings handbook of New
York city, 1895.