The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11

New York; September O.-lSpeclal-)- As I looked down from my window this morning I heard a noisy Italian jabber- ing in the street below. And Ia new arrival-looked beyond the bright flow CTS blooming in the window boxes of the proverbial brown stone front won dered what noisy Italian was doing in this section of New York. Perhaps he was one of the followers of MT. Ar hold Daily of Chickory Hall East Side, whom 1 observed, rather closely during MT Arnolds regeneration last evening at Wallacks theater It is very cur rious-this class distinction that you seem to instantly make-and allow your coffee to get cold meanwhile as if it made any difference who was passing in the street below
 These distinctions are made for you. Turns in the street make them. Along certain sections any number of noisy Italians would not excite any notice. They belong there-and yous perhaps would be the one who was looked at and you presence commented upon. But a few blocks away, a turn in the street, and the case is reversed. The line has been drawn for you. It is not the color line as we say in the south. Turns in the street there do mean as much as they do here. The invisible barrier ex- ists there always on every street. But here it seems to me thar no where else in the world is that sensitive distinc- tion so strongly and well defined, so ii- stantly felt, no where are the aristo- cratic sections so separated from those where distinctions are less rigid, no where else do you realize incongruities rying streets
 A turn in the streets If you can find any one who is willing to take fleet ing glance at some of the old landmarks of New York you will realize still more what this means, how significant a street becomes, how a quaint corner stands out historically. For this seeth- ing maddening, rushing, puIsating, sen- sate city constantly tearing down it's old buildings, constantly changing the whole atmosphere of some of It's ancient streets, has not yet vandalyzed all of
 
 of it's quaint old structures in the mod ern craze for high buildings. And this is due probably to a turn in the street, due to the fact that Greater New York moved in the other direction.
 Down at the corner of Pearl and Broad streets you will find the old Fran ces tavern which would built in TOO, and quite the most famous public house Tn New York from an historic point It was erected by Etenne De Lancy. In 1762 it was purchased by Samuel Fraunces and opened at a hotel-Queen Charlotte. Be- sides the many brilliant societies that held their meetings there in the assem- bly, room, Washington made his famous farewell address to his officers in 17S3.
 You again stand on historical ground, on Broad street, in the heart of the imam oial district, at the stock exchange. me exchange dates from May +, 1792, when 70 brokers organized in that vicinity. The building was completed in April, 1903, at a cost of about one million. As much as $SO0OO has been paid for a seat and the membership exceeds a thousand.
 And in that remarkable group of build ings in old New York towers Trinity church built originally in 1897 on land called the Kings Farm, the grant having been obtained from William and Mary. In 1776 it was totally destroyed by fire. A new structure was erected in l7SS, but having become unsafe, was demolished in 1889 and replaced by the present gothic edifice. In the old cnulcnyaru He ihdhE distinguished dead.
 Standing also in the midst of its church ward is old St Paul's, built in 1776. The pedment of the facade contains a marble statte of St. Paul, and under the portico is A monument of Gen. Richard Mont