Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-02-26
FIGHT ERECTION
OF APARTMENTS IN 5TH AVENUE
Board of Estimates and appointments Restricts Flu
ture Building in Popular Thoroughfare to Height
of 81 Feet Between Doth and Goth Streets.

OF these shnntics were patched with
Tin. The estimated number OF
| sauattors at the peak of their inya
sion Of the district was 5000. aud
the largest and foulcst settlement
was Seneca Village" near seventy
ninth street. on tho site OF tho pres
cnt Metropolitan Museum OF Art.
Tweed WINS Driving Force.
boss" Tweed. the Tammnny chief
who ended his days In Ludlow street
JAIL was the driving force behind the
creation OF Central Park and the cx-
elusive section in Fifth Avenue north
OF the Metropolitan Club, nicknamed
the "Miilionalres' Club" the white
| structure with halls of Numitllan
marble at Sixtieth street Now that
the rich have prc-empted upper Fifth
| Avenue into thoroughfare OF paia-
tial elegance. Il Ia tho same Tamr,ahy
Hall that blocks some OF the wealthy
from RettinE out from under and
! capitnllzlng the fame OF the avenue
In dollars for their park fronting
lands. That Ia tho paradox OF the sit :
| uation.
In the death OF Carl Henry Andrew
| Bierregaard. chief librarian OF the
readinE-room c! tho New York l'uhllc
| Library, the world has ioRt n sculptor
in the embryo. MIR. Bjerrcgaard was
In his 18th year. At the ago OF 20 he
taught himself painting. and produced
several hundred sketches and pictures
| in oils and water colors. He painted
entirely from memory. some OF the
scrnoS coming to him in his dreams
At an exhibition of his work las,
summer at the Hotel Majestic. Mr.
BjerrcEaard told tho writer that he
had taken NJ sculpture, teaching him
self that art, az he had done painting
lie had been connected with the pub
| iic- libraries OF this city since he frs,
found employment with the old AS
tor Library in 1879. tie was born In
Denmark. on the subject Of mysticisn
he was an authority, and wrote sew.
eral books on that subject.
Famous BmryinE Ground.
Trinity Church Cemetery extend,
from Amsterdam Avenue to Riverside
Drive. between One Hundred and
FIFTY third to One Hundred and Fifty.
NTH Streets. II liz a famous buryine
ground, among the notables resting
there being Audubon. the great
naturalist: General John A. Dix. re.
membercd for his historic phrase. I'll
any man attempts TO haul down the
American nag. shoot him on III,
SPOT; Clement G.. Moore. who wrote
the Night Before Christmas" and
Madame Jumel, OF Revolutionary
days. A little old man with n snow
white board ls the guardian Of the
cemetery gate. lie has been there
tor hfty years or more: his name is
James Murray. and he says that he is
l01 years old.
II recollect when was seven" he
said the other day. That's 100 years
ago. l came to America that yea,
with my parents from County Long
FORD, Ireland. Later, when I came
here remember dark. slim young
gentlemen with black. wavy hair who
used to ride by once and while, and
occasionally copre in. He was Mr.
Nandtrbilt--Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt
He could ride horse as gentleman
| should. Then there was .IamesEisk
ana sometimes Mr.. Tweed. who was
something in politics, ! forget jus,
what little girl. Mr.. Murray's
great Granddaughter walks with hin,
to and from his job each day, the cen.
tennrian explaining: Ills not tina,
need the child. It's to keen her on,
in the air that her mother sends
her