The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
|R|CH new WORKERS
GUARDED BY DETECTIVES
PRIVATE AGENCIES ARE COIN
ING MONEY SINCE THE RE-
CENT BOMB EXPLOSION.
BADLY FRIGHTENED
Fifth Avenue, Formerly Million
aires Row." Is Now Nicknamed
"The Avenue of Tombs." Many
Have Moved Into Hotels.

aires KoW, Is NOW NIckname0
"The Avenue of Tombs." Many
Have Moved Into Hotels.
NEW YORK, N. Y.-Police are
guarding persons Of the rich. Private
detective agencies are coming mon
ey. This is the fear aftermath of the
Wall street disaster 1t has develop
ed the interesting sidelight that many
of the persons of wealth no longer
| live in private dwelling, but in no.
| tells and apartment houses.
In days gone by Fifth avenue was
known as "millionaires' row." Today
it has acquired the new nickname of
/ "the avenue of tombs," for bringing
the daily parade of the showily
dressed women, perfectly tailored
men and prize dogs on foot and in
automobiles are virtually empty pal
atial residences, many the homes of
men who are dead.
On the northwest corner of Thir-
| ty-ninth street and Fifth avenue is
the old-fashioned brick and brown
stone dwelling of the late John j.
Wendell. His great-grandfather was
in the fur business with the first
John Jacob Astor. His three elderly
sisters now live there. At $40 Fifth
avenue is the Jay Gould home now
occupied by Mrs. F. J. Sheppard
Helen Could. The Russell Sage
residence is at 604 Fifth avenue.
Between Fifty-first and Fifty-sec-
ond streets on the west side of the
avenue are the twin Vanderbilt
houses built by the late Commodore
w. H. Vanderbilt, the northerly one
being occupied by his daughter when
she was the wife of the late William
d. Sloane.
At Fifty-second street, on the
northwest corner, is the Indiana
stone mansion of the late w. K. Van
derbilt. laid out in the style of a
French chateau of the fifteenth CEN
tury The residences of the late VIII
liam C. Whitney is near BY
Off Firth avenue in east Thirty
sixth street is the modest home and
beautiful library of the late j. Pier
pont Morgan.
Between Sixty-first and Sixty
second streets is the home of the
late Commodore Elbridge I. Gerry,
and few doors east on Sixty-second
street is where the late Joseph II.
Choate once lived. The magnificent
nile of marble at the northeast cor
ner of Sixty1fifth and Sixty-sixth
streets was the home of John Jacob
Astor. who lost his life on the Titan
ic. A half-dozen doors north is the
home of the late Grant B. Schley,
Wall street banker and broker. Up
Sixtv-sixth street is where General
| u. S. Grant made his home.
In the upper reaches of the avenue
and bi-secting streets we find the
"tombs." or rather the former
homes of the late Henry O. Have
never. E. H. Hartman, Anthony ].
Brady, Henry Phipps, Frank Wool
worth, Henry Clay Frick, Charles /.
Yerkes, John w. Sterling and An
drew Carnegie. They indeed look
desolate, forbidding and are sad re-
minders of outstanding personalities
who have journeyed to another
world. One naturally speculates up
on how much actual enjoyment they
got out of their lavish expenditure
in marble, mortar and brick, to say
nothing of the costly paintings ana
tapestries with which they hung the
interiors.
Before Central park was laid out
Fifth avenue, north of Fifty-ninth
street, was a dismal district OF
swamps, thickets and stagnant pools
1t was inhabited by squatters who
lived in the most nondescript shacks.
But it did have a population. AT the
present writing the ornate dwellings
which supplanted the frame huts OF
the non-rent payers are in the pos
session of caretakers.
Those buildings which are not
''tombs" are possessed by persons
who pass their summers either on
Long Island or in Europe and their
winters either in Palm Peach or IN
southern California True, the Fifth
avenue area contains the homes OF
New York leaders in society, finance
and commerce, but their owners do
not live there. In fact, the fashion
is growing to rent out the Fifth
avenue mansions to new rich folk
whose names are not yet in the So
cial register.