Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-25
TWO FAMOUS CORNERS.
"Holy Corner" at Fifth Avenue Hotel
Survives "Amen Corner"

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From the New York Tribune.
When the republican headquarters were
moved from the Fifth Avenue Hotel few
months ago there passed away the glory
of the celebrated Amen Corner" The
men that made famous the nook in the
west end of the lobby of this hosiery
no longer gather about it to make and
Dreak" men. There is nothing left OF
the corner" but the well-worn piush-cov-
cred seat, with the shade of the senior SEN
asor from New York and Ben Odelf how
erfng about it.
Every now and then stranger from the
west fits into the famous hosiery and
inquiries about the corner" He is not
satisfied until he has sat down in 1t a
while Some of them tell the clerk how it
feels to sit where the great sat. One fell
low said 1t was good place to Dream;
another, that it made him dizzy" and still
another, that 1t made him feel as if he
mad really sat in one Of the wonders Of
Say. what's the next wonder you've got
IN the hoste1ry. anyhow Pennsylvania
chap out for something newer and more
He said the corner was al right, but
he had read so much about it that he was
surprised to find 1t was only a seat. He
road. he said. The Pennsylvania hap
pened in about 80 o'clock one Monday
afternoon about two weeks ago. The clerk
thought moment, and then recalled that
it was Monday.
why. certainly, sir; we've got almost
as many wonders in this house as there
are money-crazed men in Ptttsburg. Next
in Importance to the celebrated corner, I
believe, is the Holy Corner
Then the clerk pointed to well-worn,
lon Long plush-coyered seat at right angle.
and, If you want to know, there is just
as much brain on the one side as the
other, and just as much of the human
on the one as on the other"
The Pennsylvania was trying to think
it out, when several of the foremost minis
tiers in New York city, all of them of a
Amen Corner" The Pennsylvania did
not need to be tod they were. ministers
and why the place was dubbed Holy
Corner to distinguish 1t from the amen
Corner"
AS a matter of fact, the Holy Corner
years. though it never got into print or
was caricatured. One Of tie younger gen.
Grafton of the cloth. now a reader for a
big 5th avenue publishing house. named it
Holy" and among the group OF minis
tiers and writer's for the religious press
who frequent it the name has become as
familiar as the amen" to the other side
Of the hostelry. former pastor of the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church rarely
| missed meeting of the corner" In fact,
his fellow-ministers declared he was the
immaculate white waistcoat on Monday
and Joined his brethren at dinner, then
went to the corner.
The late DR.. Lorimer author of several
novels and pastor of the Madison Avenue
Baptist Church, could be found there on
Monday afternoon also. His successor,
DR.. Upper, was initiated within forty
eight hours after he had decided to accept
the Madison Avenue charge. DR.. Lorimer
was rated the highest paid minister in the
group. Every preacher of note in the city
,i,,a,, lnH =
the Holy Corner" on Mondays Two of
the leading English ministers who have
been called to New York churches were
recently inflated into the mysteries of
the corner"
1.-The Holy Corner said one Of the
members the other day, lis productive of
much good-more than one would sup
pose. The ministers not only discuss lit
erature, but the ways and means of better
ing the world well. Oftentimes the
points of the next Sundays sermon are de-
yeloped at a Holy Corner gathering"