The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-26
THE FIFTH
AVE. HOTEL
Last of a Famous Hosiery and
Its Political Amen
Corner.

NEW YORK, April AT midnight
tonight the Fifth Avenue hotel, one of
the most famous hostelries Of the city,
ended it's existence of half a century,
but net until the old timers had once
more sat upon the plush-covered seat
in the Amen Corner and once more
breathed an acquiescent amen to the
words Of the ''easy boss whose politi-
cal plans, there promulgated, gave the
spot world renown.
In the old days Tom Plat was Sc
cretive. Tonight he confessed that the
Amen Corner had made and unmade
presidents Chauncey Depew spoke
with caution when part of the inner
circle in days gone by. Tonight he
fairly boasted that he had known gov
ernors who thought they did things
from the executive chamber, but they
were done from the Amen Corner
EASY BOSS WHEELED IN.
1t was jolly, half-sorrowful party
that gathered to bid the old place good
by. After forty-nine years of life as
a hotel, during half of which time it
served as the headquarters of the Re-
publican party of the state. the house
is to be torn down to make way for a
monster office bdflding.
Brought to the entrance in a wheel
chair. and further assisted by a friend
on either side. Senator Plat tottered
TO the amen corner and again heard
the shouts of "Patt, Plat, Platt." The
aged senator was visibly affected, but
managed to speak for some moments
to the crowd that Surged about him
and which was kept from pressing too
closely upon the sacred spot only by
a Gordon of police.
Senator Platt, in a voice that was
uncertain at times, though his eyes
flashed as keeniy as ever, said:
ANY effort, the very slightest, to ex-
press what I feel at the thought of the
removal of the historic landmark which
was my home for all of thirty years, !
would compel me to take my seat in
silence. so I must avoid that subject,
and assume a cheerfulness which I
have not.
CENTER OF REPUBLICANISM.
This noble edifice, in its day one of
the most imposing in our city, even
now in its majestic simplicity is good
to look at. The Fifth Avenue hotel has
entertained in its day larger number
of the great men of the earth, whose
plans for social and commercial enter
prises and Improvements were here
matured and executed than has any /
mo MI
its chief fame will remain in its long
association with the Republican party.
1T is no idle boast to say that it was !
the judgment which collected in the
Amen Corner and there threshed out !
the issues of the day. which for
period of many years directed the des-
TIMES of the state of New York. wrote
its statues and decreed all it's import G
ant acts Of government.
II shall not take this time to con-
slider whether the changes that have 1
latterly occurred are reforms or other {
wise. At all events nobody can take '
away from the Fifth Avenue hotel the 3
fame that it for years enjoyed, and as
the place where from every city and I
county in the state there came and met
and conferred the best and strongest I
minds in the Republican party, and
the place from which, when their COM
bined Judgment had been finally reach
ed. there went the sentiment in ac- :
with which popular Judgment 7
was nodded and put into effect. =
MADE PRESIDENTS THERE. r
THAT sentiment, born. as I say. of f
the large experience and considerable F
Judgment of the popular leaders who
the Republican organization. d
1,.1 ~ led hnrs IN
and from here dispersed throughout c