New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31
By ARTHUR T. NICHOLSON

Forty-second Street, and it has not
spared the Fifth Avenue section.
Into Fifth Avenue the. epidemic was
brought by Bryan /. Kennedy, VINO
with his syndicate, formed by clients
OF the Thompson Starrett Company
and Herbert Lucas, leased from Baron
William Waldorf Aston the northeast
corner of Fifty-sixth Street and Fifth
Avenue as a site for fifteen story
$1,000 900 hotel The plans have been
drawn By McKim, Mead & White and
Herbert Lucas.
on Broadway the epidemic brought
about the purchase of the northeast
corner Of Fifty fourth Street and
Broadway by the Ford Motor Company,
which will erect on the premises an
annex 10 the Hotel Woodward, at Fiji
tv-ffth Street and Broadway, the
hosiery being one Of the most popular
and best managed in this country. The
Ford company will have the annex so
designed as to provide itself with
showrooms. The annex will cost
100000 and will be constructed from
plans by Albert Kahn and Ernest
Wildly.
This epidemic has been very catchy,
like such things should. II was potent
near the Lincoln Square section, where
at . TO Is West SiXty-seventh Street,
southwest corner Of Central Park West,
the Hotel des Artistes is being built az
cost Of 100000 from plans by
Charles Rich and Frederick Mathesius.
II will be fifteen stories and OF the
studio type.
Joseph J. Lsnnin, proprietor Of the
Garden City (Long Island Hotel and
former owner Of the Boston American
League baseball team, was one OF the
years victims Of this epidemic. Tie
purchased the Hotel Grenoble, at the
northwest corner of Fifty-sixth Street
and Seventh Avenue, which he will re-
place with a hosiery to have 1000
rooms.
Then, the project for the Hotel Com
monwealth was launched in the year
Il. too, will be huge building, as II
will be twenty-eight stories high and
have $500 rooms. The site has not
yet been bought The tentative plans
for the hosiery, however, have been
drawn BY Starrett & Van Week, Bev-
erly S. King and Shiras Campbell. 1t
is proposed 20 erect the Hotel Com
monwealth just north Of Times Square.
The realty body WAS also gripped by
another epidemic which at times num-
bered scores Of well known persons
among it's victims. Long ago the realty
doctors had told US that We we're not
likely 20 be overcome by such an cpl
demic, the purchase and erection OF pri-
vate dwellings for the use OF the buy
ers or builders. Conditions were such,
they added, that the restless, feyerish,
happy state of mind and body that are
the symptoms OF that epidemic in its
earliest stages would never be visible
here again-it had become endemic to
the suburbs, the building Of apartment
houses here being barriers 20 its out
break on Manhattan. Doctors Of realty
can err. And this was one epidemic
that they did not foresee. Among the
big victims we're Henry p. Dawson
and Thomas ". Lamont, Of j. p. Nor
gan & Co.; William Sloane, OF W. &
J Sloane; Augustus G. Paine, IT,, Nor
ton +. Plant. Arthur Curtiss James,
and many others. Henry p. Dawson
viii be the owner and occupant OF the
beautiful dwelling house in course Of
construction az the southwest corner
OF seth 81. and Park ave. The town
house Of Thomas ". Lamont will be at
l05 70 100 East 10th 81. The end OF
this epidemic Is not yet in sight. To
use the words Of a we'll known realty
broker. "The crest Of the movement
has not get been reached"
In the year three great propositions
took concrete form -that for protect
ing the Fifth Avenue shopping section
from wholesale makers of clothing in
the save New York" movement; that
to keep realty pirates from erecting
public garages. junk shops and other