Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-04

whose roadway is so regularly used by pedes-
trians-the clang of the ambulance gong Is
one of the few well-known city sounds that
does not reach to the breadwinners in the
great skyscrapers that have sprung up,
twenty stories or more, at either end OF
the street, thanking the quaint low brick
buildings of old lower New York that still
hold their own in the central blocks.
shabby reminders of the days of twenty
odd years ago, when a six-story office
building was sight fit for the gods and
little Nassau was wholly thoroughfare
lined with small retailers, whose customers
were the men of Wall street and It's sister,
Broad. and the wholesale districts just off
1t on the intersecting streets.
At the Lunch Hour.
The morning rush over, Nassau enjoys
comparative quiet, but only for breathing
space. With the whistles Of the shipping
on the East river sounding noon, in the
twinklng of an eye multitude even great
er than that which surged down 1t four
hours before-for it has been augmented
by men who have journeyed thither at
more lelsure-jams the street to seek Its
lunch in the restaurants and cheap eating
places that are numbered by the score
along Nassau and just off it, or that can
be reached easiest via Nassau. First the
multitude travels up from Wall, Broad
and the other streets of finance and whole
sale which 1t taps; lunch over. 1t beats
backward and in an hour and a half wag
ons once more have some sort of chance
to make Roadway until the rush homeward,
toward Brooklyn bridge. City Hall square
and Printing House square begins, when
the scenes of early morning are duplicated,
with this exception: Whereas at the begin
ming of the days work the tramping le-
gion was accosted by no one, and at noon
by fruit vendors and "eXtra!" newsies, now
a regiment of hand fakirs cry to it to buy
everything saleable under the sun for 5
cents. from copy of THE Simple Life to
the latest conceit of the novelty makers,
while the newsboys brave the thousands as
they break into Printing House square and
scatter toward the various arteries of tran
sit.
There is no gainsaying the statement that
for It's length the crowds that pass up ana
down Nassau daily outnumber the crowds
on other metropolitan streets; In fact, 1t
is one Of the most crowded streets OF the
world.
Nor is there any disputing this other
statement that this selfsame street, as re-
CARDS its Institutions is financially the equal
nay the superior-of much Wanted Wall
street, popular impression to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Homes of Mighty Institutions.
Wall street proper can boast of but few
noted financial Institutions or firms. Chief
of these are the subtreasury, which Is at
the corner of Nassau; the customs house
and ]. P. Morgan & Co, whose banking
house stand just opposite the head of Mas
sau But as for Nassau itself, the three
blocks beginning at Wall and running
thence to Liberty are given over entirely to
the homes of numerous financial institu-
tons that are famous the country over
Here are located the head offices of the
oldest life insurance company of America,
whose assets are considerably over $780,
coo 600 and its insurance and annuities In
force are over the billion and a half mark
The building of this company is bounded by
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also the financial home of nearly two score
trust, surety, safe deposit, securities, rail-