Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-04
UNTOLD MILLIONS
Are REPRESENTED in Little Old
Nassau Street.
BUT HALF MILE LONG
IT'S ONE OF NEW YoRK'S REAL
SHOW PLACES.
There Are Located the Homes of Many
of the Country's Greatest FL
nancial Institutions.

Written for The Evening Star
The true wonder street of New York is
not Broadway, which winds its sinuous
course almost the entire length of the
island. from Bowling Green to the sspuyten
Duyvfl 1t is not 9TH avenue which could
literally be paved with the gold in the
strong boxes of the ulti-millionares
whose palaces make it one of the world
famous residential avenues. 1t is not the
Bowery. known in song and story since the
good old days of the Dutch burgomasters.
1t is not Hester street, or Baxter, home oil
the Iiddish pullers-in. or yet again Mott
OF PcIl. names romantically linked with
New Norks Chinatown 1t is not Wall.
which begins beneath the Spire of old
Trinity and ends half a mile away at the
East river No matter if the name of Wall
street is intimately linked with the worlds
pocketbook: it is not the wonder street of
the metropolis. That is Nassau street.
And yet, ask the average nonresident OF
New York if he ever heard of Nassau and
the chances are largely in your favor that
he will answer you nay. Anomaly that 1t
is, the fame of this wonder street stretches
beyond the city about as far as Nassau IT
self is long-and that is one scant half
mile.
But the New Yorker knows Nassau for
what it is. and Is proud of it. but secretly
so. for-another anomaly-he Is the rare
New Yorker who ever takes stranger into
the street except In an incidental sort or
way. He will show his guest elsewhere all
over the island. from Grants tomb to the
Battery: guide him up Broadway. lead him
through Hester and Pell streets. drive him
up 9TH avenue, surely give him a glimpse
of Wall but as for little Nassau-well,
somehow, Nassau is not looked upon as
show place. as some other streets of the
town. by the host. and when he lodges
Il : L.. fr;D toto Ill ND
that friend suddenly halts and cries that
this very Nassau street is the most Won
derful sight he's seen yet and asks its
name, why, your New Yorker first looks
a little surprised and then adds something
along the line of Yes. it is wonderful
place. in a matter-offact way and con-
tinues his rush toward Wall. Perhaps IA
miliarity with Nassau has removed all
glamor from it for the average New
Yorker: whereas he is an exceptionally
well-posted citizen who can point out a half
dozen of the great houses on 9TH avenue
But the stranger sees the street with fresh
eyes, and so what to New Yorker is just
plain. everyday business thoroughfare is
to him a veritable place of wonders.
A Crowded Thoroughfare.
Perhaps the greatest wonder of all is fur
nished by the mighty crowds that surge
back and forth through this deep canyon
three times Il day. They are so great that
time after time the proposition has been
seriously made to close the street to traffic
and turn ii over to pedestrians exclusively
Nassau is the only direct street leadiug
to a score of Wholesale districts from the
Brooklyn bridge, the subway stations at
city hall. and numerous surface lines ter
minating in or near Printing House square
1t is the great gateway through which the
vast majority of the nations money
changers enter into their heaven and by
which they reluctantly go therefrom at
night.
Beginning at Wall block east of Broad
way, Nassau runs with only one bend for
ten blocks and loses itself in Printing
House square, Immediately in front of the
bridge entrances. 1t IS the only street so
terminating that leads directly to Wall
street, and as a result the thousands of
men whose toll Is turning over money not
only in Wall street, but in the entire Wall