San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-11


nue. is a thoroughbare de luxe.
In fact, one can say in all truths
fulness that "the avenue is the ba-
rometer of things social and sartorial.
We hear much about Park avenue
being formidable rival to "thc ave-
nue." Tommy-rot! Fifth avenue has
been the autocrat of Manhattan thor
ousbfares ever since those bygone days
when Second avenue ceased to be the
habitat Of the hau monde; Park ave-
nue. is not unlike a social climber: it
is a newcomer compared with its
neighbor;ng avenue. and fifteen years
ago tenementS and flat houses stood on
the sites of the present costly and ex-
cessively modern apartment DWELL
ings. .,
The Park avenue craze has reached
its zenith: only a few desirable plots
remain for the apartment house build
ers TO manipulate. and even at its
zenith Park avenue can in no way
compare with Fifth avenue which can
boast of the most luxurious shops in
the world. the most palatial homes in
the United States, and the finest street
lighting system on the face OF the
earth.
Magnificent apartment houses have
sprung UP on Park avenue. to be sure,
but Fifth avenue. north of Forty-ninth
street. is one OF the finest restricted
residential streets in the universe. and
to give a complete roster of the fami-
lies domiciled on "the avenue would
be something akin TO printing page
after page from Bradstreet and Dun.
The far-faIned shops Of Fifth avenue
lure not only our own social leaders,
but the more important elegantes from
the various cities scattered through
out the country, and each and every
afternoon one can encounter the more
ilIustrious members of Vanity Far
darling in and out of the aforemen-
toned shops and indulsins IN sisht-
seeing pedestrianism.
Not a few of the out-of-towners VINO
read column after column about the
comings and goings Of Mrs. Aston
Mrs. Vanderbilt. Mrs. Drexei' MIS-
Belmont, etc. possess a burning ue
sire TO see. in the flesh. the lorenzo,
in the metropolitan soelaI
uhirl. Fifth avenue. these autumn
sfternoons. affords them the golGeh
and one afternoon durihs
The mast week. was interested TO nole
TWO pretty young women. VINO nae aLi
he earmarks of having emanated from
,rsst of the Allegheny mountains
standing in front Of swasser ate;iei:
watching the matrons and deDpies
pnter and leave the establishment
They were trying to identity lhe
.ociaI celebrities they had seen pic
+v-ed in the magazines and columns
devoted TO the doings OF that ever
increasing colony--society.
Inst then pretty Consuelo NandeI-
b;lt stenned from her matters ma
ICON coIored town car and hurriediy
passed through the portals OIL !1
shop in question. i walted, VIZ VIZ
authorization to see If the eountryslue
mnidens would recognize Mrs. W llilaIn
K. Vanderbilt's daughter.
> Alas and aluck. they did noti .
Consuelo was attircd so simply they
wonld never had believed her to De
\ Vanderbilt and beiress TO a part
NJ the combined Vanderbilt ana
Fair millions.
For that matter, not few shop
girls would have turned up their more
or less plebian noses at. Consueio :
sartorial effects. .;.
Consuelo. however. is an exception.
As a general rule the latest fashion
hints from London and Paris are TO
he noted on Fifth, the supreme ana
when such devotees Of la mode ar
Mrs. Jay Gould, Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney, Mrs. W. Goadby LoeW'
Marion Tiffany Saportas, Mrs. Joe
Widener. Mrs. William May Wright
Mrs Marshal Russell. Genevive
Clepdenin. Elsie de Wofe and Mrs
card" Brown. come into view fon
Fifth avenue the omnipresent ink,
singers receiving a weekly stipend
from the fashion journals bring their
pens and pencils into play.
These autumn days, so far as the
avenue is concerned are decidedly col
orfuI ones. and while Jack Frost has
MOI. as yet, made his presence felt
furs worth a kings ransom are be-
ing displayed on the pedestrians who
trip along-following luncheons IN the
more fashionable restaurants over on
Park Avenue.
The epicure satisfies his gastronomic
desires On Park avenue and then