Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-11
BY Frederic j. HaskIn.

|
New York City, Feb. I0.-Tho recent
J news that Mrs. william *. Vanderbilt
! has sold her Fifth Avenue home and
/ intends to move to faded, little, old
Sutton Place along the banks OF the
East River, has caused great deal
/ of CONSERVATION in New York. New
| Workers. on the whole, are not In
clined to sympathize with the move.
Those who take great civic pride in
the appearance OF Fifth Avenue hate
| to see the Vanderbilt home demolished.
as 1t probably will be. and those who
| live in the neighborhood OF Sutton
| Place are indignant for quite another
| reason.
Among tho latter is n small artist
| colony, which has been extremely
comfortable in this district for nun-
ber OF years and which greatly rosonts
the intrusion OF the wealthy.
1T just means that We VIII have TO
move again" complained one such
disturbed artist the other evening, as
he slipped tcacupful OF very iair
chianti in a small East Side cafe.
Rents have already doubled on our
street. In another month. IL MIR.
Vanderbilt brings the usual rctinue Of
satellites with her. they will hc trebi-
ed and no artist viii be able to afford
to live there. It's simply boastly 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-
tlcaliy driving art out OF New York.
In a few more years. he declared, bit
terly. II would be pushed out into the
suburbs, because IL has become abso-
lutcly impossible to establish and keep
an exclusive artists colony anywhere
| within the city limits.
You see, were part OF a vicious
cycle" he said. I've find nice.
quiet place. with good landscape or
skyscrape. and just get comfortably
settled when along come some fash
ionable ladies' who Immediately decide
been ous,cd out OF their favorite spot
by the invasion OF shopkccpcrs and
hotels, who have moved uptown To es-
cape the factories aud warehouses
There is n movement TO keep the fac
tories in their place, you know. but
nothing has yet been done to keep the
retailers where they belong. or to make
the aristocracy stay put
/ And what about you artists" We
suggested Aren't you poachers, toog
For you come along and drive the pro
letariat out OF their homes. You said
I lust few minutes ago that you live
| in a house formerly occupied by n
family Of nine Italian Immigrants
Yes" agreed the artist pensivcly
III wonder where the immigrants
move to-
| -Four Hundred Faces East
Although the various changes which
arc rapidly taking place in New forks
residential districts may not be due
entirely to our friends cycle, 1T Is true
that there is a strong Backto the-East
| Side movement among fashionable
| New Workers. 1t is becoming quito
the proper thing to live in obscure and
dingy ncighborhoods lying between
Third Avenue and the East River
Mrs. Nanderblts proposed migration
to this district is only one OF many
that have occurred in society circles
during the past two years several
exclusive colonies of fashionable folk
are already flourishing on sites but
recently supporting tencrpon's, and
gradually the East Side is taking on
n new personality. Whole streets arc
shedding their dingy poverty like n
cloak and emerging in lustrous, mod
ern raiment, remodeled from the tat
,ers of their glorious early years.
| For. long ago. before the psoletarist
| took complete possession OF II, the
| East side was a fashionable suburb,
scattered with large country estates
with a splendid race-coursc running
down tho center of Third Avenue,
where the steel girdcrs OF the elevated
are now planted. Even now. the cas-
ual pedestrian. wandering about III.
region. finds many distinct traces OF
its aristocrntic, rural past.
Among these Is "A picturesque old
| stone house bearing on one of It's
| gabled wings the erection date OF 1899
| in large brick letters. This was built
| by n dashing colonel named William
stephens Smith, who was chiefly ia
| nous because he married Abigail
| Adams the only daughter of President
| John Adams. Colonel Smith. having
served on Washington's staff in the