Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22

, and so they would not be content to leave
at least.
! While nearly every sightseer in New
York has some particular place to which he
wants to go, or some building he Is dead
| set on inspecting, every stranger within
| the gates makes it his business to see a
| certain bakers dozen of the citys show
places. These are: Wall street, Broadway,
| the Bowery, Tammany Hall, the stock ex-
| change, Brooklyn bridge, the skyscrapers,
| with view of them from some aerial
perch; Central Park, the statue of Liberty,
the Brooklyn navy yard, Grants tomb, 9th
avenue and the east side
First on the List
OF these wonders Wall street is generally
first on the list of Americans, and that part
of it which attracts the greatest curiosity
is No. % Wall, where sign over the door
of the Notwithstanding building on
the corner tells thousands of sightSeers
that they are now beholding the offices or
u. P. Morgan q Co. The visitor from
abroad sooner or later works his way 1IHo
the heart of the financial district, but the
home of the Tammany braves appeals to
him as being about the first sight TO De
taken in. 1t is an unden1ahle fact tnat tne
hall has a peculiar fascination for the Tor
eicner be he EngliShman, Frenchman, Ieu-
ton or Slav. Perhaps this is so because he
is more or less familiar with the organl-
zation's history and methods. AT any
rate. he will stand opposite the ugly red
brick building and gaze at 1t with uncon-
scious wonder; and not infrequently he
turns to his companion-Suide and says:
..At last I've seen the one American lhsti-
tuition I've heard more about IMAM any
other Now you can show me the otner
nIaces of interest in whatever order you
like"
OF course, 9Th avenue, from the twenties
clear up to where Carnegie has located MS
magnificent palace in the nineties, is one
| show Mace. with mlillOUdlTeS
mansions in abundance and Aladdln-nke
splendor on every foot of ground. But the
chief object of interest along the avenue 49,
and has been ever since 1t was built, the
Cornelius Vanderbilt residence. BE sure
to point out the Vanderbilt house when we
go by" is request that is continually pc
ing made of the 5000 odd drivers OF Vehlcles
who cater almost exclusively to the sight
seeing trade.
On the Bowery.
The Bowery is usually done on foot for
the music halls and queer theaters; and in
order to see the streets 7far-famed lodging
houses which line it on the east side. the
sightseer has somehow found out that the
best way is to board the Sd avenue ele-
waited trains at Brooklyn bridge. and as
the cars sweep past look down into lodging
houses that run continuously for block after
block, and whose, reading rooms, so-called,
are filled with all sorts and conditions of
men who are down and out to all practical
intentS and purposes
Broadway, by reason of its length, must
be done by surface car, and a car never
passes up and down It's. sinuous length that
does not hold goodly number of passengers
busily engaged in peering- out at the sky
scrapers the hotels, the big stores. the
theaters, the much-heralded restaurants,
that go to make up big portion of the bus
mess of the street.
1t is on Broadway, between SD and 42d
streets and just off it between these streets,
that the man who holds New York to be
a snowy place has caused to spring up one
of the biggest of all the towns wonders.
| In order to house and feed him while he Is
| engaged in the task of doing the town, 145
| hotel buildings, valued at $56, $50, coo, have
| been erected since 1900, and in the same
| period seventy theaters have been built at
| cost of $8,95S $50 that he may have plenty
| of amusement by night; and nearly all these
hotels and theaters have been placed in
/ this district.
Depend on Sightseers.
OF course, the business from here
! and there and everywhere who spends a
| week or two in the metropolis has had
| something to do with this marvellous devel-
| opment; but New York hotel keepers and
| theatrical leSseeS are unanimously agreed
| that If it were not for the sightseer, pure
and simple, not one-half the hotels or thea
| tiers now on Broadway would be in exist
ence today. AS one well-known hotel pro-
| prietor, who owns six big places, capable
| in, the aggregate of housing $500 guests,
| said: I'VE hotel men depend in large meas
| ure on the sightseer and heaven help us If
Americans ever get it into their heads that
| their biggest city is no longer their biggest
| show place"
The fifty-seven million dollars that the
| city's books show to have been put in no.
| tells In less than five years represent only
| the cost of the buildings as filed with the
! bureau of buildings. In fact, many more