The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30

burning hotel across the street than by
 the years of unostentatious home life of
 Jay Gould and his daughter. In the same
 block are the homes of Mrs. Robert Goe-
 let MT. and Mrs. Perry Belmont and
 Charles T. Cook, president of Tiffany x
 Co.,, all natives of New York.
 In the next three blocks to the north-
 ward are the homes of Mrs ogden Goe-
 let w. K Astor, Mrs Roswell P. Flower
 and others.
 Opposite St Patrick's cathedral are the
 town houses of Benjamin Altman, the
 merchant; MT. and Mrs. Henry Clews,
 Mrs. Russell Sage, and D. O. Mills. MT.
 Altman is a native of Manhattan, Mir Clews, the banker, was born in Staff
 fordshire, England, and his wife is an American and grandniece of President Madison Mrs. Sage spent her girlhood in Syracuse N Y. D. O. Mills went from his family homestead in Westches- ter county, N. r., to amass great for tune in California.
 If William Allen Butler were writing
 ballads of New York society today, in- stead of in the ffties, his famous hero- inc, Miss Flora McFlimsey, would not live on Madison Square, but in one of the great houses on Fifth avenue between St. Patricks cathedral and the plaza, at Fifty ninth street. For in these eight blocks is the centre of fashionable New York. The section, not quarter of a mile in length. represents more concen- trated wealth than any similar residence district Tn the country and probably in the world It is bounded on the north by the Metropolitan club, at Sixteth street. and on the south by the Union club at Fifty-irst street. These clubs are, to degree. the arbiters of the smart set, for the men of society who do not belong to the one are usually members of the other. The dwellers in the great houses, moreover, stand for the essence The Vanderbilts predominate. In the great house at Fifty-frst street are MT. and Mrs Douglass Sloane. (Emily V. Van ,, derbilt.J Malcolm D. Sloane, and MT. and Mrs. Dillwyn Cross. The new marble house across the avenue and next to the Union club Is the home of MT. and Mrs. William B. Osgood Field. U4ila V Sloane)
 William K Vanderbit's family in the
 marble chateau at Fifty-second street comprises himself and Mrs. Vanderbilt, formerly Mrs. Rutherford. The other Vanderbilt house is occupied temporarily by Henry c. Prick of Pennsylvania birth and United States Steel corporation fame. Dr. and Mrs. w. Seward Webb Q-iia Osgood Vanderbilt have town house at 6S0 Fifth avenue. Two doors above are Mir and Mrs. Hamilton Nick. Twombly, (Florence A. Vanderbilt) Mir. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Grace G. Will son). live in the same block, at No. 60. At Fifty-seventh street William c. Whit ney's old residence is occupied by his son, Harry Payne Whitney and his wife, who was Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt. Across the street is the great house of MT. and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr.. who was Miss Alice Gwynne of Cincinnati, Ohio. The other residents of rn neighborhood come from many state ~ lude family after family of nationa alton. and stand for almost every ' of Ameri- can activity.
 The Collis P Huntington house at Fifty-seventh street recalls the story Of l a vast fortune amassed in California. The residence of Mrs. Marcus Daly suggests