The evening world., 1909-02-13
Four Old Hotels to Go.

Old hotels are disappearing SO rapidly
Before the advance OF modern f!reproot
skyscrapers that little comment was
aroused by the announcement OF the
Ashland HOUSE affair. The old hosiery
a, the corner of Fourth avenue and
Twenty-fourth street Is to be sold
under foreclosure on March IGN Should
It fall into outside hands, there Is no
doubt among operators in that rapidly
developing business district but It would
De torn down promptly and its site
improved with tai. mercantile build
Ing.
Further north along the avenue on
the northeast corner at Twenty's'N'h
street ,lans were completed several
weeks a 20 for business sNyscrapeT on
mo size of the old putnam House., an,
Utner noted landmark IN the lie OF Ola
New York .i,o
the big Wes;r,mster Hotel, on the norm
west corner Al Irving p1a-e AHu 81 81,
,eentL street, Is to fall because the 9lt'
,s Wanted for q gigantic mercantile
structure, a picture OF Nulch was pg!I1il
Isst Sunduy in The World. Z. The passing
Of the Westminster means we -st dpI is.,-
ING OF an entirely new nc!SAUOihOOu III
the Irving place district. .,,,, oil,
And in the heart Of Long Acre the o'u
Metropole is to go as tns re S".c, VI q
ecent deal by wnich tail 'herCa,.'i,e
huilding will arise on the site. In ihGt'
grcnter and lesser landsmarkS are ran
Iny all over the central section lFoilI
Greeley to Long Acre Sllare iAe oiu
Manhattan Theatre block l1cihs tne
Greeley monument at h'rty- ~ u
street. has been leased as the site OF a
hrige recruitment store for tie Pa!ladel-
mia Ginlbels-lhe land having been ned
round Sd 10, Ctl--aud the old theatre Is
seeing lis last days. Sales OF Oh Hats
and dwellings, axe reported every ubE ~
the district around the !, IeaNsS
vnria station. the buyers being operators
or builders OF ten-story OF t"e'Ne's'o''
On the Bowery the Windsor lnohlre
viii be torn down soon TO make way iof
the new Manhattan Bridge Apr 'Achcs
No Pity for Proud Piles.
Not long ago Madison Square Garden
itself one of New Iork's most famous
landmarks. was placed on the market AZ
e. aG'0 900, Al kinds of offers for II have
appeared. II is doomed to some form oil
change before many months, that sub-
gested most frequently being the re-
building Of its Madison avenue frontage
into a commercially profitable SKY
scraper, while the Fourth avenue side Is
left as an auditorium for big entertain
ments.
Fifth avenues treasured landmarks
are passing rapidly in the 1893 transfer
nation. The past week saw the convey
ance OF the old Lorillard mansion at
Seventeenth street TO syndicate, when
got q 81, $4,000 loan for the construction
. OF an Office skyscraper on the site. "A
similar syndicate acquired for IKE
operation last month the northeast cor,
ner ut Thrty.tlrst street, with Its old
mansions. And further up the avenue
the auctioneer's hammer pounded IN the
old home OF the LotOs club, which was
sold at $4,000 this year, as the site for
a classical business pile. Nearby q
Boston firm acquired the kaskel and
Browning houses al Nos. 55p-552 Fifth
avenue as the site for u business build
ing on a valuation OF $4,000 each, the
same properties having been sold at
$1,000 each In 1863.
Even Millonaires' Row sees the rnss-
ing OF notable landmarks, and the mas
siye LenoX Library, covering the block
from Seventeen to Seventy FIRST streets,
Is marked as its next contribution To the
| Junk shop. Henry {, Frck paid nearly
/ 81, 800. 90 for II last year ard he Is ready
at any time to build palace on It's
ruins.