New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-10

OF Manhattan Island being long and narrow in
'ie norm and south direction the avenues
shouIo nave been more frequent and nearer to-
sether' while the cross streets should have been
spaced further apart. that the bulk of the traffic
being in the direction Of the length there
fore the frequency OF avenues would have removed
any danger of congestion.
1t is open TO those holding opposite views TO claim
that few wide avenues afford better accommoda-
tons to the traffic than would many narrow streets
and other good and cogent arguments which q
would be useless to pursue. There are the streets
and avenues and such they will remain long after
me me present race Of argumentative men shall have
pesn gathered to their fathers
Tor shopping purposes some of the wider cross
avenues Fourteenth. Twenty-third Thirty-fourth
ana forty-second SITS. are much fanced by shop
avenues. ' - ''
II is long leap from Forty-second-st to One
hunorec-anc-tWe nty-ifth -St.-mOre miles
but Yet that street is the petitor for shop
has already Won rs a as cere of 9hT6 5TT II
.rsae From ITS position ii commands all that
the lower streets, and. in addition successfully
oreos OF thousands living within twenty-five or
thlrty miles OF its railway station other words
city and s1bUrbs in which large as is t Gt eh
population within comparatively few years mill
homes. Three lines steam railroads have stations
Third-ave elevated railroad. the New-York Central
and Hudson River Railroad, with its fine sta
ton at Park-ave and the Sixth and Ninth ave ele-
waited railroads. Besides these are the underground
trolley surface cars OF the Third Avenue and the
Metropolitan Street Railway companies
IN recent conversation on such subjects the
writer was assured by member of of the
prominent and best known commercial houses Of
NeT-1ork that he and several Of his substan-
tial compeers locked upon One hundred
hfth-st- as the coming street Of the metropolis for
trading purposes, and that they anticipated, no
very distant day, the removal OF their business
this favored mart
Old residents and housekeepers whose ideas OF
that established favorites ten or fifteen years
ago would be durnfounded they set down in
One-h cumberland twenty fifth-st and told to fill
their orders there That prices lower than
more moderate. while the volume OF business done
is but little inferior. The prevailing class of
toners ready money buyers, but fully alive
their interests. They 100 in value
for each dollar they spend, but they the
kind to be deceived by false and exaggerated state
ments. No state can be more wholesome for trade
than this and IL results benehcially alike buyer
and seller
The variety and high class Of the trades here car
ried on run the whole gamut Of enterprise The
standby. Washington Market. At various points
along the street there six fourishing
banks, several very large storage warehouses. one
OF the largest toy manufactor in the country,
Paris, hotels that compare favorably in service,
cuisine, furniture and management with any in
New-York while yet more moderate in rates, sales
for the leading piano houses carpet stores,
and retail groceries. large dyeing establishment,
plumbers supplies. a very large and well ordered
livery and sales stable jewellers millinery shops
and dealers in various feminine belongings. SER
wants agency, dentist a typewritins office, real
estate-in fact, every trade that goes TO meet the
needs Of metropolitan customers, and, in addition,
Office building which would be a source Of pride
II erected in Wall-st.