Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-02-15
BACK On EAST SIDE
Wealthy People LeaVlag New York'S
Fifth Avenue.
ARTISTS Are NOW RAISING A kick

ARTISTS Are NOW RAISING A mCR
News. That Vanderbilt's Are to Move
ReeaIls "reminiscences Of the Old
Days-Present Mansion Will be De-
molished.
- By Frederick j. Haskin.
New York city-The recent news
that Mrs. William *. Vanderbilt has
sold her Fifth avenue home and in
tends to move 10 faded. little, old SUIT
ton place along the banks Of the East
river has caused great deal of con-
sternation in Now York. New York.
ers, on the whole, are inclined to
:synpathize with the move. Those who
take great civic pride in the appear
ance Of Fifth avenue hate to see the
Vanderbilt home demolished. rs 1t
probably will be, and those who live
in the neighborhood Of Sutton place
are indignant for quite. another rea-
son.
Among the latter is small artist
colony, which has been extremely
comfortable in this district for num-
bcr. of years and which greatly resents
the intrusion Of the wealthy.
LIT just means that we'wilI have to
move again." complained one such dis
turbed artist the other evening. as he
slipped teacupful of very fair
chianti in a small East Side cafe.
"Rents have already doubled on our
street In another month, if Mrs.
Vanderbilt brings the usual retinue Of
satellites with her, they will be trebled
and no artist will be able to afford to
live there. It's simply beastly the
way these people are running the EAST
Side! The dear old place is breaking
out like chickenpox with fashionable
colonies everywhere"
> The artist then went on to explain
that the housing situation was prac-
tioally driving art out OF New York.
In a few more years. he declared Bit
tcrly, it would be pushed out into the
suburbs, because 1t has become: abso-
lutely impossible TO establish and keep
an exclusive artists colony anywhere
within the city limits.
You see, wc's part of vicious
cycle" he said. I'VE find a nice, quiet
place, with good landscape Or sky
'scrape, and just get comfortably set
tied when along come some fashion
able ladies who Immediately decide
that they want it. They in turn have
been ousted ont Of their favorite spot
by the invasion Of shopkccpers and
hotels, who have moved uptown to
escape the factories and warehouses;.
There is a movement to keep the fac
tories in their place, you know, but
nothing has yet been done to keep tho
retailers where they belong, or to
make the aristocracy stay put"
"And what about you artists?" we
suggested. Aren't you poachers, too ?
For you come along and driEc =thc
prolctariat our of their homes. You
said Just few minutes ago that you
live in Il house formerly Occupied by
4 family of nine Italian immigrants" "
YES" agreed the artist pcnsively.
az wonder where the immigrants move
TO-"
Four Hundred Faces East.
Although the various changes.
which are rapidly taking place in
New York's residential districts may
not be due entirely to orr friends
cycle, it is true that there is Il
strong back-tn-the- east side move
ment among fashionable New Workers..
II is becoming quite the proper
thing 10 live in obscure and dinGy
neighhorhoods lying between Third
avenue and the East river. Mrs. Van
derbilts proposed migration to this
district is only one OF many that have
occurred in society circles during the
past two. years. Several exclusive COL
onies of fashionable folk are already
flourishing on sites but recently sup
porting tenements, and gradually the
East Side is taking on a new person
ality. Whole streets are shedding
their dingy poverty like cloak and
emerging in lustrious. modern raiment
remodelcd from the tattcrs Of their
glorious early years.
For, long ago, before the proletariat
took complete possession Of it. the
East Side was Il fashionable suburb.
sea Ltercd with large country estates,
with a splendid race COURSE running
down the center Of Third avenue,
where the steel girtlcrs OF the elevated
arc now planted. Even now, the cas-
ual pedestrian. wandering about the
region, finds many distinct traces Of
its aristocratic rural past.
Among these is Il picturesque old
stone house bearing on one uf its
gabled wings the erection date Of 1899
in large brick letters. This was built
by dashing colonel named William
Stephens Smith, who WAS chiefly
famous because he married Abigail
Adams. the only daughter Of President
Adams. Colonel Smith, having served
on WashinSton's staff in the Itcvnlu-
tionary war WAS appointed surveyor
of the Point Of New York during The