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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
WHEN Sutton Square is re-
~ born the present back
gard aoiU be the front garden

of mind. Mrs. Sloane, who held the
inside parcel of tie site, could not
sell her property. For about eight
years the corner stood, merely a
hole in the ground. It was often
referred to as a hollow monument
to principle.
Beginning Of the End
About 1909, or whereabouts, the
adjoining realty, the southeast cor
ner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty
third Street, was acquired by Mr..
Holbrook, a member Of one of the
big Fifth Avenue jewelry firms, and
plans prepared for the commercial
building which stands on the corner
to-day. 1t broke the back Of active
resistance to trade. The feeling be-
came general through the section
that 1t was hopeless fight; that
with all the vigilance displayed
trade was finding avenues to enter.
Mrs. Sloane, who had carried the
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restrictions that would keep it out
of the hands Of tradesmen. Once
again the Vanderbilts and others in
the section breathed easily, but the
reprieve was short-lived.
A New Break
One fine morning the Wander
bits, the Sloanes, the Webbs, the
Twomblys, the Plants and others
awoke to find that trade had found
another opening in the defense. The
Langham Hotel, which stood at the
northeast corner Of Fifth Avenue
and Fifty-second Street, directly
across from the Plant domestic
and facing William K. Wander
bits and Mrs. Sloane's homes, had
been acquired by Flake and Bowling.
There was nothing to prevent the
property being improved with a
factory or Office building, or any
kind of structure that a buyer
might desire to place on the corner.
Again the tom-toms echoed through
the great houses. calling the defend
ers to the defense of their firesides.
:. A mesting was held in the Commo-
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dore's house. American dollars was
the defense decided upon and sec
ond property was snatched from the
possibilities of a trade invasion.
William K. Vanderbilt and Mrs.
Sloane, his sister, appeared as the
buyers Of the property. The build
ing was removed and the property
offered for sale to folks who were
in sympathy with the plans of the
property owners Of the neighbor-
hood. James Henry Smith acquired
the corner, and announcement was
made that it would hold wonder
full home.
Again there was happiness in the
Vanderbilt family over the second
victory scored against business. Mr..
Smith changed his mind, however,
and he Feseld- the corner to Com
modore w. G. Bourne, who also said
he would build. But he, too, changed
his mind, and then turned it over to
E. H. Hartman, who about that
time was the talk Of the financial
world.
Mr.. Hartman also had a change
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
4 FRONT vaeaU of Sutton
4 a Square at F1fty-seventh
Street and the East RlVer
many years before on the univer-
sity's property and let in trade.
TL E.J Dbl


1t came to pass finally that Co.
lumbia needed money and as the
property had been given to the COL
lege originally for this purpose, the
trustees decided to fling away the
barriers which prevented a much
needed income. Like the opening of
government homestead land, trade
literally overran the property and
the buffer between the Vanderbilts
and the homes of other we'll known.
folks north Of Fiftieth Street was
captured by lnilliners, dressmakers,
jewelers. and other retail shop
keepers. Trade was now at the
threshold of the residential sanctuary
Of the most prominent folks in New
York society. 1t was right in front
of Commodore Vanderbilts brown
stone home at the northwest corner
Of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-first
Street, which was the first Of the
line of the Vanderbilt houses. Ad-
joining the Commodore's residence
were the homes Of Mrs. William
Douglas Sloane, now Mrs. Henry
White, and Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

and Fifty-seventh Street succumbed
to trade and is now the home Of Che
New York Trust Company. Sew
eral weeks later the story was cir
culated that Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt had decided to part with her
chateau home on the west Of the
avenue from Fifty-seventh to Fifty
eighth Street. The rumors were
not without foundation. Mrs. Van
derbilt was willing to sell, and nego-
tiations were we'll advanced when q
difference of opinion is understood
to have come up over the price Of
the property. 1t is understood that
it was only 100000, which is trifiing
in a transaction which involves
millions.
Vanderbilts Give Way
The actual break in the Wander
bilt line came when General Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Of the 9th d.
vision, leased his house on the east
side of the avenue, between Fifty
third and Fifty-fourth streets, <d
Cammeyer, shoe dealers. Of course.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
1T THE foot of Sutton
III Square is anchored a.
feet of coal barges, aUhile d.
rectly IN front are Blackwell
Islands prisons

Bowling came along a few weeks
later, which was in 1901, and paid
Mr.. Barney $637,500 for the re-
mainder Of the Fifth Avenue front
age to Fifty-second Street. The
avenue frontage was not restricted,
for some reason or other, al
though the side street realty was.
The Vanderbilts apparently did not
know this and were greatly sur
prised when they discovered this
condition after it's purchase by
Flake and Bowling.
Chisholm & Cunningham, hotel
proprietors, decided to capitalize the
neighborhood, purchased the proper
ty from the realty men and an
nounced that the corner would be
improved with an eighteen story ho-
tel. CONSERVATION struck the group
of residential atmosphere defenders.
Tom-tom were sounded in the coun-
ellis Of the Vanderbilt family. That
hotel must not go up, they declared.
Our homes cannot be overshadowed
by a towering public dwelling and
commercial enterprise, they ruled,
and the hotel was not erected. Con-
sultation was held with Mr.. Flake
and Mr.. Bowling. The situation was
explained to the two men, and they
were asked to recover the property.
Not being willing to incur the anil
mostly of their neighbors, the hotel
proprietors resold the property.
Within month it was back in the
hands Of Flake and Bowling and
again it was started on a new life.
Morton F. Plant purchased the
immediate corner parcels for $780,
900 for site for a fine home, and
Mrs. Sloane took two parcels be-
tween the Plant purchase and the
Union Club and built two dwellings
on the site, which she rented.
= 1t was a wonderful victory for
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tieth Street and Fifth Avenue only
a few years ago through the inter
vention Of Father Knickerbocker
with restrictive covenants in the
form Of a building height and zone
law.
The contemplated migration from
Fifth Avenue east to the waterfront
Of Manhattan by Mrs. Vanderbilt is
really the climax of series or pro-
cession Of events, incidents and
circumstances starting twenty
years ago. Trade had passed well
beyond Forty-second Street and was
sweeping up the avenue in leaps and
bounds. 1t was the talk of the coun-
try the way shops were driving
homes off Fifth Avenue. But it had
to stop at Forty-eighth Street. Co.
lumbia University owned the prop
erty on the west side Of the avenue
north to Fifty-first Street, land for
merly the Elgin Botanical Gardens,
which the state purchased for $74,-
268.75 in 1910, and gave to Columbia
College.
These blocks were restricted to
private homes, which served as a
buffer to the Vanderbilt homes, start
ing at Fifty-first Street and ex-
tending almost solidly to Fifty-eighth
Street. For long time the Columbia
trustees refused to give way to the
pressure brought on them to lift the
restrictions which hadybeen placed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

his daughters. At the northwest COR
ner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-sec-
ond Street stood the chateaulike
home Of William K. Vanderbilt.
Though the action of the Column
bia trustees precipitated the end Of
famous old Fifth Avenue and indi-
rectly is the cause of Mrs. Van.
derbilt's removal from the avenue
to the East River, the battle be-
tween the Vanderbilts and trade did
not start until later.
Charles T. Barney, Of Knick-
erbocker Trust fame, a man of
great vision and commercial daring,
purchased the old Catholic Protec-
tory property, which comprised the
block between Fifth and Madison
avenues, just north of st. Patrick's
Cathedral. The Union Club took
the Fifth Avenue and Fifty-first
Street corner, on which it built
its present home. 1t paid Mr.. Bar
ney between 1926, 900 and $3.50, 900
for rs feet on the avenue frontage
and 100 feet on Fifty-irst Street.
The Improvement was very salts
factory to the Vanderbilts, because
it supported the character of the
section and removed their fears that
trade would get the site.
Rejoiced Too Soon
But the vanderbilts rejoiced too
soon: Albert FlaEp and Robert E.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
ESeU1SAH&M1 E~oZ1-
WHEN the people of Sut-
" ton Square aUGlk IN their
garden the splendid Queens
bmo Bridge aUill be almost
over their heads

M osT Of the world has heard
iv by this time that Fifth Ave
nue., avenue Of avenues, the
plaes where folks wealthy and
prominent have made their homes
for many years, no longer means
much to Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt
ST, who for a new domestic has
selected a cozy nook on the bank
Of the East River, almost directly
under massive Greensboro Bridge
and across the river from Black
Wells Island, a detention place for
folks who break our laws.
New York in general and society
nparticular have not been so vio-
Anty astonished in many a day.
The contrasts in the physical aspect
ind the things that go to make the
character Of neighborhood are so
extremely opposite that this curious
Old world we live in is at its Wits
snds to explain move from the CEN
VI Of high social life to locality
nat has no place on the social map
Of New York.
Meant Exclusiveness Then
L old Fifth Avenue had lived,
ns Filth Avenue Of the days prior
70 1910, when splendor and exclu-
nsness featured every event in the
avenue, it Is not likely that Mrs.
Vanderbilt would have reached such
decision. She would have just
sat she Is going to the East River
secure--exclusiveness and resi-
eaual atmosphere.
Ms Vanderbilt remarked only re-
Mg to friends how changed was
Filth Avenue.
Ills not the same thoroughfare,"
~ Unmarked wistfully. ut has lost
! residential atmosphere" which
% said was its most valuable
Aafm' The hustle and hustle of
usds and road traffic resultant of
a'de INVASION, she said, had taken
wy Its exclusiveness.
mental comparison of the Fifth
a'snue Of to-day and that of ten or
m'nsy years ago will bear out Mrs.
saoeroilt's opinion that Fifth Ave-
nas changed, and decidedly so.
:, .'as Is stealthy; it makes sure
~. v arouse suspicion nor indigna-
- ous creeps into territory step
sep' Transgressions were so
W. Usual IN the blocks between Fiji
~. 1uty-nlnth streets, often
u. 'lso to as the Vanderbilt Sec
w. saat folks did not notice what
49, happening and therefore over
,.. sso Perhaps one Of the most in
~ sung wars waged between trade
,.. - ZONES for the possession Of a
de- 4
'a IN the history Of the city.
A Hopeless War
ss. Vanderbilt's desertion Of
ns: ~ avenue may be taken as a
NM Mutation by her to that indefati-
toA,.s.s asmy-trade. The vanderbilts
EssS s :. % shops from the very start
= everything they could to
sne northward movement Of
wa'ch was stopped at Six
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ade Defeats Society in the Fight for Fifth avenue:
Mrs. Vanderbs Detection Means the Long Battle Is Over

inner part Of the Langham property
from 1903 without a penny Of in
come, concluded to part with the
property without restrictions as to
what use it might be put to. Mrs.
Hartman, who was unable to part
with her corner because Of the cove
nant against its use for business,
was very happy that Mrs. Sloane
saw things as she did. The two
parcels were then resold to Mr..
Bowling for $1,0o0,000 and build
ing similar to the one on the adj
joining property was erected.
The deal marked the end Of the
active campaign against trade. It
is estimated that the Vanderbilts
had invested $2,500,O00 in the pur-
chase Of dangerous" properties, but
the investment proved very profit
able, as the realty was unusually
resold at advanced prices, with tho
possible exception Of the Langham
Hotel property.
The Vanderbilts then set out on
campaign of passive resistance.
They would hold out, and they have,
with the result that their homes are
now in a sea Of commercialism they
stand as a monument Of glorious
Fifth Avenue, a Fifth Avenue that
has passed, not entirely because of
trades ruthless work, but of changes
which have actually come in social
life. They are the only homes left.
Following the Improvement Of the
Langham property and the site next
to it with trade buildings, there were
many capitulations to the enemy.
Homes Driven Out
Former Governor Levi P. Morton
parted with his home directly across
from St. Thomas's Church that E. P.
Dutton & Co., publishers, might have
a Fifth Avenue home. The Plant
house has become the business place
of Cartier, jewelers.. The William C.
Whitney mansion at the southwest
corner Of Fifth Avenue and Fifty
seventh Street was sold to August
Heckscher, who erected a store on it
, and the Charles Morse marble front
dwelling adjoining it on Fifth Ave-
nue.. Duveen Brothers moved up
from the corner Of Fifth Avenue and
Thirty-first Street to the northwest
corner Of Fifth Avenue and Fifty
sixth Street, which they secured
from the Kemp estate. The Seward
Webb house, which stood between st.
Thomas's Church and the Twombly
house, was acquired by John D.
Rockefeller and improved with IN
attractive business building.
Last summer Mrs. Hermann DEL
rich's marble faced home at the
northeast corner of Fifth Avenue
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INTERNATIONAL
THE Cornelius Vanderbilt home at Fiyeighth Street
Fifth Ave7ue of socieys fen remaining islands IN
the rising of trade

the Vanderh;7ts; trade had been de-
feated and never again would that
property would be liable to attack,
because it was resold with iron-clad
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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-09-07
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from various ShGptets IA Northern
West Virginia, eeeh chapter 10 be
FSpfesAnted at the CONF nep,
ElevSf1l bF4Sf GddfeS e. win III Is
the pFoStffh 6fn6n "a iOk JSIlll oG !.
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this dIty, who VIII ten tie e64tsF-
enee about the work soE the d9Gtal
clinic Il Marion county.
Mfs. Joseph Roster; u the local
chapter VIII attend and 1FSe6 AL
those intereated 70 be pfessat klso.
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.P0CbH0NTAS JURY
.EQRMINGgSE..AYER!.S
Two Indicted in Matewan
Case Placed On Trial
Today

WILLIAMSON, Sept. FIRED
Burgratf and Reef Chambers went
to trial today in the Mingo county
circuit court ID connection with
the 1fatewan murder cases growing
out Of the street battle in the little
mining village last year. Fourteen
defendants answered TO their names
when court opend.
The specific charge for which
they were indicted was the killing
Of j. ". Fergueson, one Of seven
private detectives who fell in the
fight. The IL other men under I'M
dictfent were excused from the
court from attendance at this trial.
Selection Of a trial jury brought
from PocohontaB county vi s com.
menced this afternoon, Efforts we're
made by the defendants to iiBmise
the indictment on the ground that
the court stenographer served on
the grand jury which returned the
true bills and that the legtsls tive
act permitting trial Judges tq, sttnas
mona Jurors from other colntj ZEE
was unconstltutt onal. The mo lions
were overtpled by Judge Btiley,
Major Thomas Davis vas called
BY the deeense TO tsgtif ~ cone tfuiIs
the presence Of state police "a stlie
coprtIioom. The snbiict Wa
dropped when MRior Davas 81 "a nis
court had been directed BY; Judge
Bailey
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SHOWER OF GIFTS
FOR MISSIONARY
Miss Clara Leaman Re
ciipient Of Many
Gifts

7 Members Of Grace Lutheran COR
gregation last evening rendered q
surprise shower to Miss Clara
Leamah WHO &ill 20 to India as 9
missionary az the United Lutheran
church Of America, In the base.
ment Of the church. Fifty people
were present.
4he early part Of the evening
was devoted TO tho rendition o. e
very fine program which consist.
cd Of 4 piano solo: Grand Polka de
Concert (Homer Bartlettl MSS
Martha Dyer: vocal duet, "In Our
Boat (Francea Allisonl Mrs o..
"A. wood and G. n & BLOOM pla Y.
duet, Mrs. f.. 40 Wade and Mrs !.
F. w. Tut,
The pastor, ROY. Roy ]: Meyer,
gave a very interesting talk on
the sacrifice that a missionary
makes In order to do the will OF
the Master
Following the program Miss Lea
man was called to me front OF the
room by Mrs. Roy J.. Meyer. who
presided. and she was Instructed
10 unrayel an ENHANCEMENT OF
strings at the end Of each piece
OF which theirs was an envelope
or 4 pAcEA Ek containing gifts
Various misS16nSFy societies Of
churches OF the West Virginia
yhod Of the United Lutheran
church sent financial donations
d SSf eating $50 and others arc
prob ahiy Oh tie way
TbsA ktfkf we're received from
soei stiSs 81 these chIirc j; Trims
ity, yFfl ting; vgarFood. Wheel
I'M: EdS Aw6od, Wheeling; 81.
FaSil's al ID ST &rlk'E Glkrks.
burg; ST. Clara, Dad 9rtdge Gown
", W Va: st. Johns western.
port Nd and the beibty ct the
lutheran church ST accident, Md.
The missionary Society OF
Grace Llthega9 church, this clty
presented Mas Leaman, with 9
ste1nnhr trunk. Miss Leanlan also
received & Beotk Of gifts rom
various friends and members e
Lutheran ehlrehss AL over &SrtAa'
en- west Wifginla and Msrylantat
lTh&Se cons stAd Of chln4w Fe,
linen and ether useful articles !.
Tho friends haa secured list
from the mission board OF wh9t g
Missionary would hkye need q
abroad ard useful ARTICLES thEt
cannot be secured there. Araohg
the gifts, was beautiful cushion
from Mrs. Catherine Wittmanji,
Grafton; mother Of. Mrs, 3:
Shafferman, who at the ripe old
6ke 81 Sc years. made the cushion
for Miss LeanAf
Miss Learnan responded 70 q
feeling manner in which she ex-
pressSd appreciation for the many
Fifts. For many years Miss g.
man has been active II the Efork
Of the lutheran church and has
decided to take pp the work n che
Indta field where the Lutheran
church has extensive mission RufE;i
Refreshments were served 81 2
seasonable hour
The committee that arranged the
affair last evening ccnatsted ef
Mrs. q. H. Bloom, MrS knls4lai
stanhag4n and Mrs: 9. 4 VEtop9.
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Blaine Borgess. Is
Now a Grocer

Deputy Sheriff Blaine Boggess
has forsaken the more or less nerve
racking vocation OF chasing the
elusive moonshiner to his lair and
has embarked in the meat and gro
Gerry business with Henry Morgan.
The new shop is located at the cor
ner of Raymond and Market
streets on the East Side.
Deputy Borgess. has served in
that capaciy since last January and
has proved himself one Of the most
efficient officers on the force. Be-
fore taking the position Of deputy
sheriff he was connected with the
city police force for a number of
years and has also served as q
fireman.
I Mr.. Borgess. has hosts Of friends
IN the county and that he will sue
coed in his new venture is a fore
gone conclusion.
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RAILROADERS GET
STRIKE BALLOTS
Coal Scarcity May Follow
If a Strike Re
suits

strike ballots were distributed to
engineers ffremen, conductors and
hrskemen oP the Baltinore & Ohio
raiiroad IN Pairmont VestsFdsy. Il
was reported that the Grafton am
n Z 4, : rscsi1,ad tbejr .baIiofs from
ne M Rrotherbood If Railway TTain-
men me- earlier In the week
me- - nIanty u ..sor,, bons.,,
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TRAVELLERS GUIDE
r. & o. RAILRoAp

B. & o. KA1IRoAD
Grafton. cumbsrland. Warrington. Bal
tinose. PhiIsdslphla aEld New YSFtj;II
6:l6 a. M. co1neeting EStth train g.. which
lcaveS Cumberland at IL ;25 ,. m. for NeT
York. (Grhft6n only sundays Train %: II
a. M (aet6uoaSsionl. Which lsEyes SEatt.SS
train iss. which leaves cumberlSnd q S:6b
p. m for New York. Train 66S. :Sb p. M
Train 52", $50 .. m. Train 49, $3.50 =.
m whesltnr-TEain 5s., a M, which he, has
50 2. A.. Ehtsh connects a. EhsellnE
Tf l I 81! 80 3 h'? Rim e S tSFtstSR
Eairmontj arf'vaO At $40 ?. m. from
st eISss:burp. .Tsata ss'.,suO .. "a. Train
LsEfsatSxns !. cSaasIll'yills and I Pitt Y:
$40. I. N. TFain 81, 80 40 =. m. Train
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