The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
NJ e m cries Of O.
He my Insepara-
bly, Linked With
NJ a dis on Square
NJ any Old
Haunts Of Au-
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rated in Fiction


when the last thimbIe full was, con-
sumed the republic of Nicaragua was
on the point of abolishing the duty on
cigarettes and declaring war upon
Great Britain and the United States.
it may be worth while to offer the in
formation that the Con" of the tale,
In real life, answers to the name OF
Con" Delaney.
Chubb's Third avenue restaurnt f1g-'
ures in several Of the Q. Henry stories.
Chubbs is merely the name, in fiction
for Stills oyster house, which is to
found on the east side of Third ave-
nue. between Seventeenth and Eight
zenith streets. Just across, the street
is another refectory Of even more In
teresting associations, for 1t was the
deliberately described setting of one of
the best of all the tales, THE Halber-
der of the Little Rheinschloss. To
some of its patrons ii is known as
Allaire's; to others as Scheffe'l Hall.
But the o. Henry reader wifi probably
like best to think of 1t as Old Munich,
of which Porter said that long ago it
had been the resort of interesting bo-
hemians, but that now only artists
and musicians and literary folk fire.
quent It," ..
For many years, so the story in
formed, the customers of the bierhall
and restaurant Old Munich accepted
the place as a faithful copy of the
ancient German town. The big hall.
with its smoky rafters, rows of i'm
ported stems, portrait of Goethe and
verses painted on the walls-trans-
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of the Cincinnati poets-4ssemed at
mospherically correct when viewed
through the bottom of a glass. Then
the proprietors added the room above.
called 1t the Little Rheinschloss. and
built in stairway. Up there was an
imitation stone parapet ivy covered,
and the walls painted TO represent
depth and distance, with the Rhine,
winding at the base of the vineyarded
slopes and the castle of Ehrenbreitstein,
looming directly opposite the entrance.
The Flavor of Gramercy Park.
Conventional description of Gram
Grey Park would impart the informa-
ton that 1t is the only private park
within the city limits, that to enter
it one must borrow a key from one
OF the houses facing It, that in the
centre there Is an admirable statue
Of Edwin Booth, the work of Edmond
T. Quinn, and the gift At the Players
Club in loving memory u S. founder:
that a tablet in the wGSta-n pave
ment pays tribute to Samuel Suggles.
who was the father of tho saSrk. az
he was the father of the searby
| &c
hood given over to the clubs that
! prefer its beauty and well bred .re-
pose to the noisy Avenue and the
dark streets In the Forties, and that
it retains a flavor OF the aristocraoy
Of another day. That flavor of aris-
| tocracy, of musty aristocracy one
might call 1t, has ever been the DOM
mating note in its literary interpre-'
tation.
Wishing to impress the reader. in
a sentence with the quality OF their
blood, o. Henry said of the Won der
! Ruyslings, a family Of one OF his
stories, that they had received the
| first key made to Gramercy Park"
| Near the park, in the same authors
1.-THE Merry Month of May" old Mr..
Coulson had a house, the govt, half
a million dollars, a daughter and a
housekeeper. Thomas Dixon, who
once lived at / Gramercy Park,
tho first house TO the north of Twen-
tieth street on the west side, intro
duced it in "The Root of All EVIL" as
| the home OF Nan Primrose. The late
r. Hopkinson Smith used No. as
the residence OF Mrs. Leroy in his
"Caleb West, Master Diver" The HOUSE
on the north side to the west of LeHs
| ington avenue, which may be indicates
by its adjoining garden, was the scene
Of the story, Her Letter TO His Second
Wife" IN Brander Matthew's "Vistas
of New YNk"; and was also the home
of Col. John Gaunt Of Owen Johnson's
ARROWS of the Almighty" At the
northwest Lexington avenue corner In
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