The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-24
HOME or FAMOUS CLUBS AND
 RESTAURANTS. e
More Money spent There Thsn On Any other Street of The worId--- Millions For Entertaln-
 nent In One Block.

New York. Jan. z3.--Two streets in the city epitomize New York-wall Street. the place of getters and Forty fourth Street. the place of spenders. Just as more money Is maae in the former than in any other equal area in the world, so Is more money spent in the latter--or rather that part of 1t. less than a third of mile long. which lies between Broadway and Fifth Avenue. than anywhere else in the world. There money is literally thrown away with both hands. Tn the circumscribed area more than $5.0oo. 900 fs spent each year in such incidentals as drinks. cigars and cigarettes. For If Wall Street Is the place where the money princes do their work. this other street is where they take the pleasure, Within the narrow area foregather men and women Whose com bined fortunes run far irfo the pii- lions and whose total incomes far ex- eeed the largest fortune of half q cen- tury ago.
 Tn sthIs part of Forty-fourth Street are most of the resorts where wealthy New York gets rid of its wealth. It is the home of clubdom. of great hotels and luxurious restaurants, where dur ing the season there Is continual suc- cession of dinners, luncheons. suppers and balls in the giving of which cost is not considered, except to endeayor to outdo some previous entertainment in lavish extravagance. At one ex- sremity of this region stand Sherry's end Delmonico's, and at tne other the s7. .000, 900 Hotel Astor, now in process of enlargement to nearly twice its for Loneacre Farm. Between these are to be found some of the wea1thiest and most exclusive clubs In the world. with valuations anywhere between S1.000, ,0G0 and $10000.000 each. Here is the St. Nicholas, which admits no one who is not the descendant or resident New Yorker prior to 178s Membership in this organization is almost the only thing on Forty-fourth Street which money cannot buy. Nothing but com elusive proof of descent from the old city fathers will obtain admission, and names like those of Van Rensselaer,, Astor, Livingston. De Peyster, Pell and Etuyvesant are alone to be found upon It's register. 4a
 Not far away is the Racquet Club, for years the resort of wealthy sport ing men. Among it's 800 members, few of whom have eyer had occasion to learn the meaning of economy, are tho yanderbilts, from William K. to Regi- nald, the youngest scion of the race, John Jacob and William Waldorf Astor, Clarence H. MacKay, Payne Whitney, James Hazen Hyde, Woo0bury Kane, the BeImonts and many others in the same set, to whom . s1,000 supper is . matter of no moment whatever. The money spent annually on sport by the members of this club is estimated at more than $5,000 000 Most of these men also belong to the New York Yacht Club, which occupies a magnifi- cent building close by. and counts J. P. Morgan. c. Oliver Iselin, P. A. Valentine and others among It's nfem- bers. No less than e30,000.o00 is repre- sented in the yachts owned by mem- bers of this club.
 The Harvard, Yale and Cornell club houses are to be found in the same vicinity, together with the building oc- eupied by the Bar Association. Upon the rolls of this and the college clubs are to be found the names of some of the most famous men of the nation. such as Theodore Roosevelt. Elihu Rooe, Joseph Choate, Paul Morton, and William Travers Jerome, lawyers who earn fortunes by the practice of their profession; judges, congressman, diplo- mats and statesmen who are known all over the union.
 Here, too, is the home of the Lambs. Some of them are wealthy, but more are richer in brains than in money, although they spend the latter when ehey have 1t with open-handejness