The Green Forest tribune., 1907-04-05
Carefully Hidden Studio in Neu York Where Stanford White Entertained Men Of His Stripe IF Ways That RiUaied Days Of Tabled Eastern Luxury.
Was House Within House Where the Light Of Day Neuer Was AZ iotOed 10 Penetrate---O1Ly by &c., cSet Passages Could Entrance Be Gained.

New York. = Ever since Eve. on the witness stand so that all men might judge whether it's tell ing were not enough to turn husband mad-eVen before that, ever since the pistol shot that killed Stanford White last June let loose on the ears of men countless stories of revel and debauch until only legions of shameful ghosts seemed left to guard the memory of the dead architect, curiosity has been drawn irresistibly to Whites Twenty fourth street studio. It is the place which. if half the stories told were true, White had dedicated to that part of his life which ultimately Jed him to his death-the place where he played Hyde with : few depraved companions while to all the rest of the world he was distinguished and an envied Jekyll; place which was a heaven of beauty, and also, according to report a hell of sin.
 No other spot in New York has so stirred the imaginations of thousands. No other spot has been at once such commonplace of gossip and yet so utterly unknown, such cloaed mys- tery to all And today stripped of much of its mystery and of all the glamour and lure of it's wonderful treasures Of art, with ocly the dull outer walls left to give mute testi- mony to the reality of the wild scenes they once sheltered, it remains with out parallel in the history of this or any other modern city.
 Truly We'll Concealed.
 a It is not just suite Of rooms or one or more floors of house cleverly protected from the observation or in- trusion of other tenants Still less is it an ordinary house, the windows of which, however thickly curtained and screened, must still lcok down on passers-by in the street below and be exposed in turn to the curious gaze of any and all who cared to raise their heads
 You may have trouble to find this place." wrote Harry Thaw when he first appealed to Anthony ComstocS
 
 Vice to put a stop to the infamous practices which he said were carried on within it's walls; you may have trouble to find this place, for it is well concealed"
 n Well Concealed it is, for though q man knew street and number he might search all day and never find it. going on his way at last satisfied the address he had was wrong. No stranger in the street ever saw the windows of Stanford Whites stud.o; man might pass through the outer door of the house and wander all through the building, and though he would find easy access to the studios or rooms of other men he would find no hint to lead him to that of Stanford White. That gilded temple of the senses stands apart, house almost within a house, inclosed within two rows of other houses with blank walls on all sides to shut it off from all view and observation. It was place used only in the night time and, with no need for the light of day, ordinary windows and their outlook had no place in the designers plan. Only a secret pas sage, cunningly walled off in the main house fronting on Twenty-fourth street, could it be reached, and only through 8 secret door which slid open at the touch of a hidden spring could friend or visitor enter that passage. Belongs to Other Days.
 The studio is situated in the small open court that lies between the rears of the houses on Twenty y-third and Twenty-fourth streets. As it stands to-day, dismantled and untenanted, it would make an ideal haunt for kid napers or counterfeiters, or any of the other desperate plotters who figure so largely in romantic novels, and for this reason, even in it's present, its most commonplace aspect it seems to belong to medieval days, an age younger by centuries than busy, prac-