Arizona republican., 1921-02-17

cial straits, his property had to be sacrificed at auction. and his house was turned into a fashionable school.
 while the stable became a popular road house, run by William Nible. There is an old advertisement of this early inn. which speaks of it as "a superb mansion, four and half miles from the city, furnished in handsome style, and beautifully situated on the banks of the East river. Dinners and tea parties. clubs and societies. can be furnished with all the delicacies of the season. Turtle clubs will find this an agreeable resort
 Story of House
 Later, the remodeled stable passed
 into the hands of a city surveyor. whose family lived in it until % years ago. Then. as the neighborhood be- came crowded with immigrants, the surveyor was compelled to move. and reluctantly sold the old place to d gas light company The gas company inn mediately ruined the landscape and view by building a huge gas tank, but otherwise let the house alone Ac- eording to the Greek grocer. who keeps a store on the corner of the block, an Italian family of large proportions lived in it for a number of years until recently when it was turned, quite ap- propriately, into an antique shop.
 Not far from this sturdy old Struc-
 ture is another large house of colonial frame architecture which clearly shows it's affiliations with a bygone period when wide verandas and lawns and four-horse coaches were familiar features of the East side.
 Remodelfng a Neishborhood
 It is within short walking distance of
 these two historic landmarks that the Vanderbilt colony is to start it's devel- opment Sutton Place runs for only two blocks on Avenue A betwee4 F1fty- Seventh and F7ifty-Ninth streets as quiet and secluded q little thor oughfare as anyone could. desire. The back windows of it's tall. narrow, old fashioned houses look directly out on i the East river from the shadow of the beautiful and massive Queensboro bridge, which stretches across the water like huge gate shutting out 1 the rest of the world. The houses 1 most of which have been taken over by Mrs Vanderbilt's friends and rela lives, are to be remodeled at an c&- pense of thousands of dollars and 1 their back yards are to be converted ] intp single. long garden, with a fouu l tain in the center i Several other such developments i have already started in the same neigh i borhood, while at least two have been ! Tn existence long enough to prove the ! merits Of the East Side as an exclusive ! residential district. one of these fs 1 NAiVW8 dS llt uGlic btlN NTctlHcuS ait i consists of q houses, all new r painted and plumbed and re-floorC 1 with new French windows. and a sp4- l cious Italian court. planted Wisa shrubs, and flowers, for a back yafa- 1 In addition to d number Of well know ] society folk. several authors, inClUdl ! Winston Churchill and Ernest Poo a, ] live here. The colony gets 1t nuu l from the river. which, curving abrupt
 in at this point, was known as Tur bay in the old ways when the subu banites had a bathing beach and
 series of private wharves on it's banl
 Thus Mrs. Vanderbiit's flight frl 2 ! Fifth avenue, becoming more and GndS 1 a center of commercial activity, lS Dfs I as startling as il seems. Sutton Pia
 is an eminently desirable home si ,
 even though it is q bit faded and l
 direct line with the criminal colou l across the river at Blackwclls Islau1 i Indeed, there is a certain disadvanta-e . in having the island SO close at hag l, i for-who knows2-u trade keeps u}
 it's horrible pursuit tha four hundrs
 may yet be forced to take over a prlz
 on in order to achioT" tHei~ dH-r.s | Scclusiou.