The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-10
GUNNER Days in New York.
Fifth Avenue from the op of the BuFrom Monaies Row Mills
Hotet-A Bus Moneydom,
BY EMEL JAY.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-1n the first place
i let me say that to scorn ride on (not Lay
the bus down Fifth Avenue. or up II you
please, marks the provincial. He has yet
to learn that this view OF the great bou-
levard is one Of the essential New York
| experiences.
This fact established "a and squeamish
criticism nipped in the bud, a recountal
of q recent ride is In order. To be GER
tain to have choice Of seats, the jealous
! sight-seer goes down to somewhere about
Blocker Street elevated station or else
up to Eighty-eighth Street and Fifth Ave-
nue. and catches the desired vehicle at one
Of those two terminal points. You may
chance upon a bus with f1rst-class steps
to the top, or you may have to Chamber
up strenuously using hub and wheel top
as a part of your stairway. No matter.
1t Is all fun II you have the right kind OF
| than the style of tho bus Is the style OF
the driver Ours was a wids-awake irish
| man. For eight years Fifth Avenue has
ene te mes DAY ao ns and yeSr
| he drives his team. He had brogue
freshly imported No less q pen than Mr..
Dooly's could transcribe that manner of
speech. He showered upon US information
to catch it all. Yet woe be unto the one
| who ventured to ask e. name or a fact a
second time
'"Fletcher's house, did you say? What
Fletcher" I would ask tlmidly.
FLETCHER, the Castoria man. Of course,
ne would answer with an intonation OF re-
diligence towards ignorance, The paid
2S5.OO0 for the dirt the house STAINS on
That last was spoken with fia pride not to
be suppressed Any surprise on our part
at the information vouchsafed he openly
secuted while secretly gloating over it.
He's worth dollar minute he re-
dollar a minute. That's nawthin: plenty
of EN- hauls in a dollar q second.
worlds se he ' ann o'nS at Fiftyaeventh
Street, and pointed out the mansions OF
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, William c.
Whitney. c. P. Huntington and Herman
"All the millionaires smoke their cigars
over there" pointing out the Metropolitan
That's the Club that makes all the
League Club.
That's Mrs Howard Gould's house.
widow? No. her husband Is there too:
but Everybody knows It's Mrs. Howard
Gould's house. Of eoorse; -. ,,,.
Does ;1 he live V ihereS 8. they don't any Of
'em live anywhere in particular. Thev live
THAT'S Burdens house. Burden. OF
coorse. that owns all the foundries at
Trey; am . ,,,,. 49, ,,,,,a
Hotels"
And so on the stream of talk poured.
It left a deposit Of information full o,
TRADE IN BIG CAPITALS.
Trade writes itself in big capitals on
Fifth Avenue 1t has beautiful monuments
in many of those mansions. Above Inn
posing doorways one &, may cas- eaSlo " . 1na
thing" And surely there Is naught but
honor to the industry which takes
thing however small. makes 1t the best
of its kind. and climbs thereon to wealth
"There's Charles Fl Fletcher. who with
Castoria, that 'all the children cry for,
has built him a fortune and mansion
that all the women cry FOR:
There's James Pyle, who with his pear
line has helped to make for shousekeep-
ers the ideal home and has erected for
himself the ideal house-a truly masni-
There's the woolworth mansion e!o-
quent Of the cumulative force OF the &c.
and 1oc. store
brick house of RockAfeller. whose name
is synonymous with Standard OIL.
There's the Sloan house. built by the
big esb ear bs a asnpsted Th his rh In saS
There's Stern. Who providing for 9th
ers the elegancies of life has won them
for himself. And Tiffeny's. a Jewel of
home just off the Avenue.
And magnificent among all that mag
nificarce is the palace of Havemeyer,
whose name thought not sweet to al men
is ever .redolent Of sugar, +,,n.. Nj
Verify is It day of small nao, fh'nF & p Mes
splendid homes that of Mrs Foster,
whose husband made fortune on
patent glove hook?
WORLD IN ITSELF.
Well may those Fifth Avenue blocks
be called N1illionaire's Row, Inc names
of the owners as they fell from our
IrishmanS lips seemed 70 s ss1nr ' Vander A
bit, Russell Sage. Gould and all the rest
Helen Gould's house is like herself
solid. elegant. unpretentious.
carnegie's palace is reckoned the ha sn''-
grounds at Nlnetieth Street, where ground
Senator Clark's slOO0o.C0o residence is
as vastly impressive as that Digit ana us
seven cphers can vel! make ke,,i IT. 49,,
And SO they go. 1t IS a relief when a
n,1blic building comes now and then to
break and lift the trend OF thought: Lenox
Library. that grand benefaction; the New
ing sublime beauty; St Patrick's Cathed-
raj, that poem in stone; and the other
beautiful church edhces picturesque with
ivy Then all the great hotels with the
Waldorf furnishing the climax. 1t IS a
big world in itself. that Avenue.
{ was amused to learn that Murray
Hin, which includes portion of fashion
able Fifth Avenue received Its name from
the parents of Lindley Murray: the IA
nous granmarian. So do fashion and
philology get oddly mixed in LIES whilli-
TRAFFIC LIFTS ITS HEAD.
Traffic lifts a busy head at the lower
end Of the Avenue. and how the big Flat
Iron building at Twenty-third Street
scars The French call our sky-scrapers
..frotteurs du ciel' very foIclb!y; This
one breaks the sky at great height and
boasts the highest flagstaff in New
Our Irishman pointed it out with
The first floor is already rented for
$4,000 a year he announced. and the
little three-cornered space In front is
engaged by tobacco man VINO VIII pay
$4,000 a year for the privilege OF having
Still further on comes Washington
Square, the former fashiona pie residence
portion of the Avenue. Solo old homes
with a fine flavor OF yesterday
Then we pass under the washington