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M, TOWL Capital, $300,000 Surplus and Profits, - 550,000 NEW YORK A Guide in Gomoreliensive GliaDters BY CROMWELL CHILDE Editor of "Trolley Exploring" THE NEW YORK OF FASHION -WHOLESALE TRADE— HISTORY AND LANDMARKS-SHOPS— FINANCE-AMUSEMENTS— SIGHTS- GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS — CLUBS - RELIGION —TRANSIT— FOREIGN QUARTERS —NEW YORK BY NIGHT * J ■» a ) , ' , PUBLISHED BY THE Brooklyn Daily Eagle Vol. XVIIT, No. 4, SERIAL No. 76 OF THE Eagle Library Entered at the Brooklyn-New York Post Oflfice as second class matter Copyrighted 1903 Ha7idbook of New York. fl Goofl Familu Hotel is one that aims to give all the comforts and privacy of the home combined with the ad- vantages of a first-class hotel. To eliminate the petty annoy- ances of housekeeping and supply the service and attend- ance of a well-trained corps of servants, and still not curtail the freedom of the individual which renders housekeeping so attractive. JEHfiSi IE LIBRARY OF { CONGRESS, I . .- . , o Copies Received l^^^^^^r^^'^ //^^^ Hot'd'' ' UN 1 1^303 4 ^ ;s^aI/")3tc%o. Meets these requirements ^C OPY «i- ..J Bedford, St IVIa^ks and Rogers Aves. CONTENTS •<^ Maps on i)agcs 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. V> CHAPTERS PAGE oi This Handbook's Making 15 ^1^ In General 15 .^ Streets and Avenues 16 7 Brighton Beach 66 Broadway 15, 49 Bronx (Borough) .... 16, 18 Bronx Park 60 Brooklyn (Borough)... 16, 18 Brooklyn Borough Hall.. 66 Brooklyn Bridge 17 Brooklvn "Heights" 26 Brooklyn "Hill" 26 "Brownsville" 71 Calvary Cemetery 76 Carnegie, Andrew 25 Carnegie Building 40 Carnegie Libraries 47 Central Park 15, 60 Central Park South 17 Central Park West 17 Century Club 29 Chamber of Commerce. . . 50 Charity Organization So- ciety 70 "Chinatown" 28 Churches 30 City Departments 65 City Hall. 17 Claremont 60 "Colonies" 71 Columbia University 22 Columbus Ave 17 Commerce 52 PAGE Coney Island 68 Cooper Union 22 Cypress Hills Cemetery. . . 76 Debtors' Prison 36 Delmonico's 24 Denominational Headquar- ters ^ 35 Department Stores 26 Dining Clubs 29 Docks 56 "East Side" (The) 17 Eighth Ave 28 Ellis Island 22 Evergreens Cemetery. ... -](> Fifth Ave. ■. 15 iMfth Ave. Hotel. ... 58, 66 Fine Arts Federation. ... 46 "Flatiron" (The) 22 Forest Park 61 Fort Greene 62 Fraunces Tavern 17 Garden City Cathedral. ... 35 Ghetto (The) 28 Goulds (The) .... 24, 25, 51 Grand Central Station. ... 18 Grant's Tomb 22 Greenwood Cemetery 16, 21, 76 Hack Fares 19 "Hall of Fame" 22 Hall of Records 65 Harlem River 60 Hell Gate 21 Hester St 17 ^ High Bridge 22 Holland House 24 Hotel for Women 59 Hudson Park 62 Hudson River 17 John St. M. E. Church. . 2,^ Kidd (Captain) 3,7 "Klein Deutschland" 72 Handbook of New York. Index. {See also chapter /wcm/i/igs, pai^e 3.) PAGE Lenox Ave 17 Lenox Library 22 "Little Hungary" 72 Long Island Historical So- ciety 46 Long Island R. R 18 Low Library 22 Lutheran Cemetery 76 Madison Ave 17 Madison Square Garden.. 40 Manhattan (Borough). 15, 18 Manhattan Beach 66 Markets 53 Martin's 24 Masonic Temples 66 Medical Schools 49 Mendelssohn Hall 41 Metropolitan Opera House. 40 Morgan, J. Pierpont.. 25, 50 Mulberry Bend 17 Newspapers 67 New York Historical So- ciety 45 New York Public Library.. 24 New York University. ... 22 Obelisk (The) 64 Ocean Parkway 61 Office Buildings 50, 66 "Old Trinit3%" see Trinity. Oratorio Society 41 Park Ave 17 Parkhurst, Dr 30 Pennsylvania R. R. . . 18, 20 Philharmonic Society. ... 41 Plymouth Church 31 Police Headquarters 66 Potter (Bishop) 2^, 30 Pratt Institute . 22 Produce Exchange 55 Prospect Park 61 Public Bath Houses 66 Public Schools 48 Queens (Borough) 18 Railroads 54 Recreation Piers 67 Rialto (The) 71 Richmond (Borough) .... 18 Riverside Drive 60 Rockaway Beach (y-/ Rockefellers (The) ... 25, 51 Russian Orthodox Church. 71 1 , . , PAGE I Sailors' Snug Harbor 22 St. John the Divine (Ca- thedral) 17. 30 St. Nicholas Ave 17 St. Patrick's (Cathedral) 17, 31 St. Paul's Chapel 36 St. Thomas' Church 24 Seminaries (religious) ... 49 "Settlements" 66 Sherry's 24 Shipping 56 57 Skyscrapers 66 "Slums" 17 "Society" 23 Soldiers and Sailors' Me- morial Arch 63 Soldiers and Sailors' Mon- ument 64 Staten Island •. 18 Statue of Liberty 21 Steamboats 67 Stock Exchange 49 Stuyvesant's (Peter) Tomb 17 Suburbs 66 Synagogues 30 Tammany Hall 66 Technical Schools 49 Tombs (The) 65 Trinity Cemetery 76 Trinity Church 17, 31 Trinity Churchyard 31 "Trolley Exploring" 7^ Trust Companies 51 Union Club 24 Union League Club 24 ITniversity Club 24 U. S. Sub Treasury Z7 Van Cortlandt Park 60 Vanderbilts (The) 2^, 24, 51 Vanderbilt Tomb 23 Waldorf-Astoria 24 Wall St 17, 49 Warehouses 56 Wares and Curios. . . . 27, 28 Washington Arch 22 Washington Bridge 22 Washington Square 23 "Water Exploring" 7;^ Whitneys (The) 25 Williamsburgh Bridge. ... 18 Woodlawn (Cemetery 76 Sage (Russell) 51 Y. M. C. A. Y. W. C. A. 35 36 8 Handbook of New York. EAGLE SAVINGS ...AND... LOAN COMPANY J86 REMSEN STREET Near City Hall Square T T ▼ Capital and Surplus, over $900,000.00 Pays 4 per cent, per annum, July and January, on Savings Accounts. Pays 5 per cent, per annum, semi annually, on Investment Accounts. Pays on Monthly Accumulative Accounts from 2 to 8 per cent, per annum, according to number of months^ deposits regularly made. Beginning at any time. Loans on improved local Real Estate, payable in J44 monthly payments. EDWAKD E. BRITTON, President ELWIN S. PIPER, First Vice-President EDWARD M. CHILD, Second Vice-President JAMES 'I'. ASHLEY, Secy, and Treas. JOSEPH WOOD, Assistant Secretary TRUSTEES Paul Grout Amos H. Cropsey Elwin S. Piper James H. Ferguson Edward E. Britton Frederick H. Schroeder Richard H. Laimbeer, Jr. James A, Ashley George J. Jardin Edward M. Child John T. Rafferty Louis Beer General Counsel, MESSRS. Carr & Grout OPEN MONDAYS UNTIL EIGHT P. M. . SANDY HOOK ^LIGHTSHIP FROM BATTERY TO 67th STREET MAP OF MANHATTAN BOROUGH FROM 68th street to 181st STREET Showing Railroad and Ferry Lines AND Asphalt Paved Streets -»*•'- <-&e-T-M — 1 THE NEW EAGLE BUILDING. THIS HANDBOOK'S MAKING OST guides do not "guide." With the exception of John Murray's and Karl Baedeker's fam- ous volumes, without which European tours would not be complete, nearly all present merely masses of undigested facts, many of these of little or no interest, compiled gener- ally by writing "hacks." These Eagle Hand- books of Cities are an attempt to make little city books for resident and traveler that shall be of real value. Every city has its especial characteristics, its points most worthy of note. It is the life of a metropolitan centre, fashion- able, commercial, artistic, historical, that interests us the most of all. There are scores of sides that must be peered at. New York is now so great that it has become like London, no one knows it completely. The same might be said of any other American centre — Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Wash- ington, San Francisco, Denver, New Orleans, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit. This handbook, therefore, is quite as much for New Yorkers as for visitors to New York. Other handbooks already published are A Guide to Washing- ton, D. C. ; A Guide to Paris, France. IN GENERAL " Manhattan," one of New York city's boroughs, is one of the simplest places in the world to find one's way about and to enjoy, if only certain facts are kept in mind. The centre of all things is the street or avenue Broadway, which geographically divides New York into east and west, from far "down town" near the "Bat- tery" to 23d St., where the fashionable Fifth Ave. becomes the dividing line. For tourist and resident alike, this junction of Broadway, Fifth Ave. and 23d St. is the city's central point. About half way up Manhattan Island, in a space three wide city blocks broad and 51 blocks long, is the famous Central Park. 16 Handbook of Nezu York. THE "millionaires'" (METROPOLITAN) CLUB, 60TH STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE. Fifth Ave. runs along the eastern edge of this, and here is the newly fashionable section of the metroi'Olis. West of the Park is another great residential section. Below the Parjc are other fine residences, along with clubland and apartment houses of elegance; below them the theatres and the shops, and, further down, after 23d St. is reached, the varying wholesale trades, manufacturing plants, the foreign quarters, the commerce along the river fronts and the Bay. _ This is Manhattan Island in brief, but one-fifth of the actual city of New York, merely one of its five boroughs or govern- mental divisions, the old city of New York, a narrow island less than three miles wide at its broadest point, some 13 miles long. Brooklyn and the Bronx (two other boroughs) have fine parks, and Brooklyn one of the first of American cemeteries (Greenwood), highly interesting foreign quarters, several of the greatest department stores of the world, remarkable manufac- turing plants and a great commercial water front, besides many delightful residential streets. STREETS AND AVENUES {It must be remembered that from this point on, unless other- ■wise stated, the borough of Manhattan, Manhattan Island alone, is being referred to). Except in the lower portion of the city the streets are numbered and not named. The smaller the street's number the lower or further down Broadway is it to be found. In the same waj' the most of the avenues have been Streets and Avenues. ^ 17 given numbers rather than names. The numbered avenues begin on the east side of the city, First Ave. being close to the East River, Thirteenth Ave. along the Hudson River's water front, Madison Ave. is between Fifth and Fourth, Lexington between Fourth and Third. Above 34th St., Fourth Ave. becomes Park Ave.; above 59th St. Ninth Ave. Columbus, and Tenth Ave., Amsterdam. Sixth Ave., stopped by Central Park at 59th St., becomes Lenox Ave. above the Park. St. Nicholas Ave. is a driving road that begins at Lenox Ave. and Central Park, and runs northwest. Broadway above 59th St. was formerly known as tlie P.oulevard. It is still called that unofficially. The avenues, it should be remembered, run vip and down, the streets across the city from river to river. Numbers east and west in the cross streets mean east and west of Fifth Ave. Thus 20 East is close to Fifth Ave., 220 East — — two blocks across the city from Fifth Ave. Allow 100 numbers from avenue to avenue. East is to the right hand fac- ing uptown, to the left when you are facing downtown. Even resident New Yorkers frequently get tangled between West and East. Note — On the west side of Central Park, however, between 59th St. and iioth, the numbers start from Eighth Ave., here known as Central Park West. 59th St. along the Park is Cen- tral Park South. Fifth Ave. along the Park is frequently spoken of as New York's "Park Lane," though it has not that name officially. With these facts well digested tourist and resident need con- sult no map. THE WAY TO GET TO— Wall Street — See chapter, "The New York of Finance." Brooklyn Bridge — See following page. The City Hall — See following page and chapter, "Government and Politics." Fraunces' Tavern, Peter Stuyvesant's Tomb — See chapter, "The New York of History and Landmarks." The Bronx — See following page and chapter, "New York's Parks and Drives." Central Park — See chapter, "New York's Parks and Drives." Trinity Church, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, St. Patrick's — See chapter, "Religious New York." The East Side, Hester Street, Mulberry Bend — See chapter, "New York's Foreign Quarters." The "Tenderloin" — See chapter thereon. 18 IJandhooh of Nc7V York. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Historical Society, American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn In- stitute, etc. — See chapter, "Galleries, Museums, Thea- tres and Music." Botanical Garden and Zoological Park — See chapter on them. The five "boroughs" of New York are Manhattan, the Bronx (to tlic north of Manliattan Island), Brooklyn (across the East River, to the east), Oueens, and Richmond (Staten Island). The Bronx is to be reached from Manhattan by Elevated system (any line) or by trolley (Second or Third Ave. lines the most expeditious way), Staten Island by ferry from the Battery, Oueens by ferries from the foot of East ^4th, g2d and iioth Sts. Some fourteen ferries cross the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn, the most important running from the Battery, the foot of Wall, Fulton, Grand, East -23d and East 426. Sts. There is, besides, for those Brooklyn bound the famous Brooklyn Bridge facing City Hall Park. To reach this, take from any- where u])tovvn either the Third. Second, Madison. Sixth, .Eighth Aves. or Broadway trolley cars or the Elevated (any line) and tell conductor or brakeman that your destination is City Hall and Bridge. Three other bridges are now being built across the East River, and three tunnels are to be run under it. The furthest advanced of these, \\'illiamsl)urgh Bridge, will be finished in the early part of 1904. To get to Jersey from New York take one of the railroad ferries (see section immediately below, "Gateways into New York.") The Pennsylvania ferry from the foot of West 23d bt. is the most central. Thence trolley cars may be taken to Newark, and with a short break or two to Philadelphia and Baltimore. // confused or lost in New York, get to Droaihvay at once. Unless you are far uplozvn or far over in the East Side section it can never be a great distance away. GATEWAYS INTO NEW YORK 1"hc visitor to New York has many gateways open to him. Coming l^y way of Jersey City always take the uptown ferry. This saves a long journey through New York streets (unless boimd for Brooklyn when inquire for Brooklyn Annex, landing foot of Fulton St., Brooklyn). The New Vork Central, the Harlem, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford are the only ^railroads that to-day set down their passengers in the heart of New York. Their depot (the Grand Central Station) is at 42d St. and Fourth (Park) Ave., four blocks east of Broadway. The Pennsylvania R.R. and the Long Island R.R. are, however, about to commence tunnels under the Hudson (the North) and the East Rivers, and will have a huge union station at Seventh Gateways into New York. 19 Ave. and 34th St., one block west of Broadway. Another tun- nel is in process of construction under the Hudson, through which the New Jersey trolley lines will enter New York. At present the Pennsylvania and the Erie land passengers by ferry at the foot of West 23d St., the Long Island R.R. at the foot of East 34th St., the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and the West Shore at West 42d St. All these roads have down town landing points besides. The Baltimore and Ohio's ferry terminal is at the Battery, the Central R.R. of New Jersey at the foot of Liberty St. The majority of the steam- boat lines from South and East and down the Hudson have their piers on the Hudson shore front well down town. (See page 67.) Unless the traveler's pocket book is very plethoric, cabs are hardly worth while on arriving in New York. From nearly every train and steamer point the electric car service anywhere is excellent and speedy and transfers liberal. Inquiries are answered promptly and correctly. Theoretically cab and carriage hire is cheap in New York (legally 50 cents per mile, by time THE KIOSK IN HUDSON PARK (HUDSON AND l.EROY streets), ONE OF NEW VORK's '^ SMALL PARKS." $1.00 per hour for cabs holding 2; $1.00 per mile, by time $1.50 per hour for coaches holding 4). But in practice, cabmen try to get much more, and for strangers who are not acquainted with distances it is difficult to bargain without disputes. The official railroad cabs at the stations are, however, quite re- liable. BOARDING HOUSES AND HOTELS Again, the stranger in New York should avoid, unless he is prepared to pay high prices, the most famous hotels. Many of those less noted are quite as comfortable and convenient. Under $5.00 a day it is difficult to get accommodations in the very 20 Handbook of Ne-iv York. fashionable New \ ork hostelries. A room alone would cost nearly that figure, and with meals $io a day per person would be but an ordinary estimate. Of course with care at even the finest hotels expenses could be brought down lower than this, but not very much. In the most noted hotels the European plan is most in vogue, you pay for your room and separately for each meal (a la carte or table d'hote), taking these in the hotel or out of it as you prefer. At such places as these very fine hotel living in New York may be calculated for two at about $ioo a week. It is worth while, however, for the traveler to put up for a day or so at one of the great hotels, taking a room only. In that way the best possible idea may l)e had of the gorgeous- ness of metropolitan hotel life. But this need only be temporary. After a day amid magnifi- cence he can pick out one of the medium jiriced hotels, or better still some boarding house in the centre of the city. If he does not know of such a place he can procure a list without charge (including hotels as well) at one of the Brooklyn Eagle's Free Information Bureaus, 952 Broadway, near 23d St., Man- hattan and Eagle Building, Washington and Johnson Sts., Brooklyn. The Eagle people at either place will give him most careful and prompt attention, and furnish him with much travel literature. Nor will a needful passport to their considera- tion be this little book. RAPID TRANSIT, TUNNELS, BRIDGES The "subway," New York's new rapid transit system, is l>romised to be in operation January i, 1904. It will give genuine rapid transit to the metropolis, and relieve the strain on surface cars and elevateds. Commencing at City Hall and to meet here another tunnel under the East Kiver from Brooklyn, the Manhattan Island Underground will run under Elm St. (one block east of Broadway) to 8th St., then under Fourth Ave. to 42d, under 42d to Broadway, under Broadway to the northern point of Manhattan. A branch will break off from the main line just above the upper end of Central Park and run northeast under the Harlem River well up into the Bronx. The bringing of the Pennsylvania K.R. into New York will cost $50,000,000. On remodeling its terminal at 42d .St. and changing its power to electricity below the Harlem, the New York Central will spend $44,000,000. In Brooklyn the Long Island R.R. Is being removed from the surface of Atlantic Ave. by the construction of a tunnel and elevated structure, and an- other tunnel is to be built under the East River to connect with this at Flatbush and Atlantic Aves., carrying the Long Island R.R. on Manhattan Island, at a point near Maiden Lane and Broadway. Sights. 21 More extensive rapid transit projects, however, are afoot. It is now planned to have a four track viaduct on West St., from Battery Place to 59th St. (for both passengers and freight), and thence northward over the Central's tracks; a subway under Broadway (or University Place, Wooster and Church Sts.), from 42d St. to South Ferry; a three track tunnel from 42d St. under Lexington Ave. to the Bronx. Three bridges beside the present Brooklyn Bridge will soon scan the East River. The Williamsburgh Bridge (from De- lancey St. to Driggs Ave., near Broadway Brooklyn) is now well advanced toward completion. The bridge over Blackwell's Island, connecting 59th St. and Long Island City, has its piers well along. Bridge No. 3 (Manhattan Bridge), from Flatbush Ave. and Fulton St., Brooklyn, to Canal St. and the Bowery, has much of its caisson work done, but little is as yet visible. A fifth bridge, a large railroad bridge, is projected across Hell Gate or thereabouts, from the Bronx to Astoria, L. I. City. SIGHTS Under one topic or another, in the different chapters of this handbook, the Sights of New York have been taken up and sketched. There are many, though, that standing apart from these headings are yet to be enumerated. So characteristic are they of the varied activities and the full life of the metropolis that all should be seen. The canyons of lower Broadway and Nassau St., made by the skyscrapers. Walk up Broadway from Bowling Green, up Nassau from Wall St. Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island in the Upper Bay. View it from the Battery. A steamboat can be taken from here over to it if it is wished. From the Battery there is, besides, a splendid water panorama, and while in this locality, the Aquarium should be visited. This is in Battery Park. The building (re- modelled) is old Castle Garden, once the immigrants' landing place, long ago where Jenny Lind sung, where Lafayette was welcomed, where fashion congregated. Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Reached by "L" and Fifth Ave. trolley cars, New York end of Bridge. Perhaps the most noted of American "God's acres." Guides and stages at the main entrance. 22 Handbook of Nciu York. Columbia University, Morningside Heights, West ii6th St., Manhattan, close to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. A magnificent group of buildings. The Low Library is the central feature. New York University, another group of college structures, Fordham Heights, overlooking Harlem River. Take Sixth Ave. "h" to 155th St., from there to University Heights station. "The Flatiron." Extraordinary new building, Broadway and 23d St. On a triangular plot of ground, 22 stories high, comes to a sharp point where Broadway and Fifth Ave. meet. It looks as if it would topple over in a gale of wind, but it is scientifically safe. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. On Ryerson St. Take De Kalb Ave. car at Brooklyn Bridge. A celebrated technical school for boys and girls. All its departments can be inspected. High and Washington Bridges (over Harlem River). Sixth Ave. Elevated train to 155th St. Cooper Union, a great technical school. Third and Fourth Aves. and 8th St. One block east of Broadway. Washington Arch (Washington Square). Broadway car to Waverly Place. Astor Library, Lafayette Place. Take Third or Fourth Ave. or Broadway car. Get off at 8th St. Lenox Library, Fifth Ave. and 70th St., Madison Ave. car. Hall of Fame — In New York University, mentioned above in this chapter. For full details, see Eagle Almanac, 1903, page 458. A colonnade of granite containing bronze tablets to great Americans. Twenty-nine Americans have already been chosen and tablets now immortalize them. Twenty-one more are to be selected in 1^05. Those already in the Hall of Fame include Washington, Emerson, Webster, Audubon, Gilbert Stuart, Lin- coln, Grant, Tefferson, Irving, Robert E. Lee, Franklin, Long- fellow, Clay and Hawthorne. Sailors' Snug Harbor — On Staten Island, New Brighton (Richmond Borough). Take ferry from Battery, then trolley car to entrance. A remarkable home on a great scale for disabled mariners. Founded 180T, and has a family of 880 old seamen. One of New York's chief sights. The Aquarium — See above in this chapter. Open every day from ic to 4. A truly splendid fish exhibit. Grant's Tomb — See chapter, " Monuments, Statues, Arches." Ellis Island — The landing place of all immigrants at the Port of New York. Out in the Upper Bay. Steamboat from the Battery. A vastly interesting picture of foreign peoples, the Fashionable New York. 23 peasantry of Europe. This island is called " The Gateway of America." Tomb of V'anderbilt, New Dorp, Staten Island. Take steam- cars from ferry terminus, St. George. It is here that Commodore Vanderbilt is buried, in the Moravian Cemetery. BISHOP POTTER. MRS. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT. TWO NOTED NEW YORKERS. FASHIONABLE NEW YORK The New York of the "fashionables" can be very accurately bounded and laid off geographically. Practically all "Society" lives to-day in a long, narrow strip centering on Fifth Ave., one block to the west, two to the east, including Madison Ave., from 30th St. to 90th, between Sixth Ave. and Park Ave. The Upper West Side, despite the high ground, the superb river view and the many splendid mansions there, has never been .taken up. by fashion. It is above 59th St., along the side streets from Central Park to Madison Ave., that is "the real thing" for fashionable New York. A few families of position still live on Washington Square CFifth Avenue's end) and on the first few blocks of Fifth Ave., 24 Handbook of Nezv York. hut these are not many. Within the past few years fashion has flocked up town with very few exceptions. Famous as Fifth Ave. itself will be for many years, as a street it has almost changed its character. Below 50th St. it is now little of a fashionable residence street. Up to 23d St. (Madison Square) it has become the street of the piano trade, of wholesale woolens; above the Square it is like Bond Street, London, of the cost- liest shops, for dress, adornment, curios, decoration. Up from Madison Square it is also the avenue of grand hotels, famous churches, clubs and some magnificent mansions. The New York Public Library is building at 40th to 42d St. At 26th St. is the Restaurant Martin, at 30th the Holland House, at 33d and 34th the Waldorf-Astoria, at 44th St. on op- posite corners the new Sherry's and the new Delmonico's. The Union Club has just moved to its new house at 51st St. on the old Orphan Asylum site, just above the Cathedral. At 29th St. is the Calumet Club, at 32d St. the Knickerbocker, at 35th St. the New York, at 39th the Union League, at 54th the University (with a "skyscraper" for its housing), at 60th the Metropolitan (known as the '"Millionaires'," on account of the character of its membership), the least used of any New York club. The houses of worship along the "avenue" include the Brick Presbyterian at 37th St. (Dr. Van Dyke's old church), St. Patrick's Cathedral (soth St), St. Thomas' (New York's most noted church for gorgeous weddings) at 43d, the Church of The Heavenly Rest at 45th St., and the two highly architectural Jewish tabernacles. Temple Emanu-El at 43d St. and Temple Beth-El at 76th. The mansions of "Society" actually on Fifth Ave. are few. Nearly all exclusive New York, the "400" of fame, reside on the side streets a few doors away. More fashionable people live on Park or Madison Aves. than on Fifth. Yet there are some dwellings of note on this social highway, across the street and a block above St. Patrick's the twin Vanderbilt mansions (occupying the entire block from 51st to 52d Sts.), on the corner above William K. Vanderbilt's, at 680 Dr. W. Seward Webb's, at 681 Ex- Vice-President Levi P. Morton, at 684 Ham- ilton McK. Twombly, at 720 Edwin Gould. Miss Helen Gould lives further down the avenue at 47th St. The houses at the corner of 57th St. front on 57th St., with the exception of that on the northwest corner which has one entrance in a big courtyard on 58th St. and is the residence of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. The northeast corner was the home of the famous Mrs. Paran Stevens (now occupied by Fashionable Nezv York. 25 Herman Oelrichs), the gloomy pile of gray granite opposite was lived in by the late Collis P. Huntington, and Harry Payne Whitney, son of William C. Whitney, has the southwest corner. Here the Park begins and the old Fifth Ave. ends. The new section (above sgtli St.) is far more beautiful architecturally. Up to 90th St., where the Andrew Carnegie mansion stands, the finest houses of the new New York have been placed. Ex- tremely notable among them are the homes of John Jacob Astor and Mrs. William Astor at 65th St., Elbridge T. Gerry at 6ist St., Senator William A. Clark at 77th St., William C. Whitney at 68th St.; George J. Gould, northeast corner of 67th St. Others going up in this section are (each to cost a million or more) residences for Perry Belmont (94th St.), James B. Haggin (63d St.), Payne Whitney (between 78th and 79th), Howard Gould (73d), Henry Phipps (87th). J. Pierpont Morgan, many will be interested in knowing, resides at 219 Madison Ave., on the northwest corner of 36th St., and John D. Rockefeller at 4 W. 54th St. As Fifth Ave., save in its upper portion, is not a street for fashionable people to live on, neither is it a "swell" promenade. Just after the churches are out is the best hour to see Society, and even then Society very quietly scurries down side streets. On Madison Ave. really more of the "fashionables" are to be met with. On Fifth Ave. it is generally visitors and people from other sections of the town that strangers mistake for the famous people they have read about. If one would really see these people he can find them best in the fashionable restaurants named above, or in the Madison Square Garden (Madison Ave. and 27th St.) during Horse Show week. Nevertheless, Fifth Ave. always displays elegance and luxury. Its afternoon pageant, its evening dash and the pictures to be seen in the great restaurants are worth the while. During the season the Metropolitan Opera House presents a splendid pic- ture of these people nightly, apart from its musical interest. Also the east drive of Central Park — not the west — will show every pleasant afternoon a scene of great fashionable moment. The "elect" of New York spend little time, however, in their city homes. These great mansions are not occupied for over two months a year at the most. The owners have country places along the east bank of the Hudson above Tarrytown, Dn the north and south shores and in the centre of Long Island, at Newport, in the Berkshires, in North Carolina. The Meadow- brook Hunt, near Hempstead, L. I., the Westchester County Club near Throg's Neck in Bronx Borough are two of their great institutions. They stay out of town until late in the fall, 26 Handbook of New York. spend Christmas out of town, go south in February. A New York society season means from December ist to the 20th, from January 5th to but early in February. The city house is little more than a casual show place. Contem])oraneous with the building up of Lower Fifth Ave. as a region of fashion, half a century ago, was the establishment of Brooklyn Heights on the cliff overlooking East River, Man- hattan Island and Bay, and ten years or so later the Hill of Washington and Clinton Aves. arose. Though Lower Fifth Ave., Manhattan, has been largely left behind by Society, Brook- lyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill remain as they were, representa- tive sections. To them has been added the now settled region immediately west of Prospect Park, the "Park Slope." Yet a further change is coming over the " avenue's " face. At SSth St. and the University Club, two towering apartment hotels, each to cost $3,000,000, one the much talked of St. Regis of the Astors, are rising. Further down, on the old Brunswick Hotel site (26th St.), there is to be another great apartment hotel. Fifth Ave. and S2d St. has been figured out as the geo- graphical social center of New York. NEW YORK OF THE SHOPS For even the veriest stranger the shopping district of New York is easy of access and can almost be found blindfolded. Its extreme downtown point is John Wanamaker's, Broadway and loth St. (take Broadway or Madison Avenue car), its up- town end Herald Square (where Broadway, Sixth Ave. and 34th St. meet and where the big new stores of R. H. Macy & Co. and Saks & Co. are located). Between these two points are, among others, these great establishments, to be reached by Broad- way and Sixth Ave. cars (Eighth and Madison Ave. cars trans- fer to 23d St. line) : Department Stores — Arnold, Constable & Co., Broadway and 19th; Lord & Taylor, Broadway and 20th; Daniell's, Broadway and 9th; Stern's, 23d St., between Fifth and Sixth Aves.; Le Boutillier's, same block; McCreery's, same block; B. Altman & Co., Sixth Ave. and 19th; Siegel-Cooper Co., Sixth Ave. and i8th; O'Neil's, Sixth Ave. and 20th; Ehrich Bros, Sixth Ave. and 23d; Simpson Crawford Co., Sixth Ave., 19th and 20th; New York of the Shops. 27 Adams & Co. Sixth Ave. and 2Tst; James A. Hearn & Co., 14th St., between Fifth and Sixth Aves. ; Rothenberg & Co., same block. Another great store of this order is Bloomingdale Bros., Third Ave. and 59th St. (transfer to 59th St. cars). Brooklyn has Department Stores no less imposing and com- plete: Abraham &: Straus; Frederick Loeser & Co.; A. D. Matthews' Sons: Chapman & Co.; all on Fulton St. Journeay & Burnham, Flatbush Ave. (take Fulton, Gates, Putnam, Flat- bush, Third, DeKalb Ave. trolley cars from the New York end of the Brooklyn Bridge), and Batterman's, Broadway, Brooklyn (take ferry from foot of East 23d or 42d St. and then Broad- way (Brooklyn) car). Book Shops — Button's, 23d St., between Fifth and Sixth Aves.; G. P. Putnam's Sons, same block; Brentano's, Union Square (Broadway, 14th to 17th Sts.) ; Charles Scribner's Sons, Fifth Ave., near 22d St.; Dodd, Mead & Co., Fifth Ave. and 35th St. A. A. Vantine's (Oriental goods), Broadway and i8th St.; Huyler's (confectionery), Broadway near 17th St., Fifth Ave. near 43d St.; W. & J. Sloane (furnishings), Broadway and igth St.; Tiffany & Co., Union Square, and Theodore B. Starr, 206 Fifth Ave., jewels and bric-a-brac. Along Fifth Ave. the finest novelties in furniture, bric-a-brac and millinery are to be bought. The show windows are par- INSPECTING THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE* 28 Handbook of New York. ticularly notable. Fourth Ave. between 23d and 34th Sts. is the centre for antiques and costly old furniture. In general the cheaper priced stores are to be found on 14th St. and the lower end of Sixth Ave. The larger stores, however, carry all grades and cater to all purses. Of Fifth Ave. of the Shops, John Corbin has to say in a recent number of Scribtier's Magazine: "On either side of the street at brief intervals are shops — -old mansions made over into show rooms — in which the modern goddesses of liberty find raiment to make their natural loveliness adorable. * * • Quite as important as the something to wear is the some place to live in. The show windows of others of these converted mansions are splendid with all that goes to make a house beau- tiful to the eye. There are great oaken chests with mediaeval Gothic carvings, and stately chairs and sideboards covered with florid Flemish or Italian designs; fragile Chippendales and Sheraton, so unlike the ungainly furniture of modern England; elegant and superelegant drawing-room sets of the later Louis and the Empire — in short the most beautiful examples of the most beautiful styles of all ages are grouped here to attract the eye of the new millionaire who is bent on gaining a foot- hold in this wonderful world of the metropolis. Here a pair of sculptured lions guard the shop entrance. There the capital of an antique column, hollowed out to make room for plants or flowers, stands before a shop window. Both are real art treas- ures caught up from the ruins of the Old to lend a touch of stately beauty to some newly fashioned garden in the New. There are wall papers of the newest and most beautiful pat- terns, embroideries and tapestries of all countries and all ages. Here a white Romish chasuble and stole richly embroidered with blue and crimson and gold, which has been worn through who knows how many solemn and magnificent masses, are dis- played for sale against a curtain of dull red ancient velvet brought from a ruinous castle in Spain." * • * On Fourth Ave., below 23d St., are many old book shops. Bargains in books, curios and all that is old are elusive, how- ever, nnd the side streets over the city should be explored by the collector. Once it was possible to buy cheaply excellent examples of Russian brass in dingy shops in Tewrv on the East Side. Now the genuine can only be had at a high figure. NEW YORK BY NIGHT To tour New York effectively by night several evenings should be taken. One should be spent up and down Broadway, from 23d St. to Long Acre Square (47th St.), viewing the theatres and the "Tenderloin." A second night should be given to the "Broadway" of the lower class — Eighth Ave., from i8th St. to 59th. This should prove an interesting tour. The Bowery is very commonplace and has little interest now, but it can be taken in on a journey through the lower sections of the "Ghetto," the Mulberry Bend Italian quarter and Chinatown. New York Clubdom. 29 (For the start and the ways of reaching these localities see chapter, "New York's Foreign Quarters.") The upper part of the "Ghetto," and "Little Hungary" and '"Klein Deutschland" to the north of it, are worth an additional night. (Refer as noted above.) NEW YORK CLUBDOM In the chapter, "Fashionable New York," the famous clubs on Fifth Ave. were named and located, the Union, the Univer- sity, the Union League, the Calumet, the Knickerbocker, the New York, the Metropolitan. But these, though perhaps the most re- nowned, are only a tithe of the clubs of Manhattan and Brobklyn. Club life in New York is not generally understood outside of it. A New York club of the first rank is the New Yorker's second home. Some unmarried men live at their clubs, nearly every clubhouse having a few sleeping rooms or suites to rent. Here a man goes for rest, for reading, to dine, breakfast or lunch, smoke or drink, to entertain. In the clubs at night there is probably more important business done than down town during the day. "Deals" are talked over at leisure, projects planned, men busy by daylight have a chance to "get together." Many New Yorkers belong to many clubs, but as a rule each man has his favorite club, and does not often get to any other. The Union is the club of the older men of Society, the Calumet and Knickerbocker of the younger men. The Century and Lotus and the Players have largely professional men in their membership, those allied with or interested in Arts and Letters. The Lambs is a club of actors. The Union League, though social in its aims, admits only Republicans, the Democratic and Manhattan only Democrats. The University admits only college men. The graduates of Yale, Harvard and Princeton have each their own club. The Progress is a Jewish organization. The majority of the clubs are. very elegantly fitted up, notable among them being the University, the Metropolitan, the Union League, the Union in its new club house. A club in New York is to all intents a private house, and can only be entered upon the invitation of a member. But the exteriors of all the clubs mentioned above are worth seeing. Special note should be made of the lunching clubs of New York in the down town districts, handsome suites of rooms in tall office buildings crowded each noon time, kept open also until 8 or 9 o'clock for the dining of belated business men. Some of these are the Down Town in Pine St., between William and Pearl (which, however, has a building of its own) ; the Lawyers' in the Equitable Building, Broadway and Cedar St.; the Hardware in the Postal Telegraph Building, Broadway and Murray St.; the Arkwright in the Central National Bank Build ing, Broadway and Worth St. ; the Merchant's in the New York Life Building, Broadway and Leonard St. Following is a directory of some of the leading clubs of the city not hitherto located: Century, 43d St. west of Fifth Ave.; New York Athletic, 59th St., corner of Sixth Ave.; Republican, 30 Handbook of New York. Fifth Ave., near 40th, about to move to its new club house on 40th St. facing Bryant Park; Lotus, 556 Sixth Ave.; Manhattan, 26th St. and Madison Ave.; Hamilton, Clinton and Remsen Sts., Brooklyn; Brooklyn, Clinton and Pierrepont Sts.; Catholic, 59th St. near Fifth Ave.; Colonial, Broadway and 7 2d; Army and Navy, 16 West 31st St.; Yale, 30 West 44th St.; Harvard, 27 West 44th St.; Engineers', 374 Fifth Ave.; National Arts (both men and women in membership), ^4th St., west of Fifth Ave.; Harmonie, 42d St. west of Fifth Ave.; Arion, Park Ave. and 59th; Lambs, 70 West 36th; Hanover, Bedford Ave. and Rodney St., Brooklyn; Montauk. Eighth Ave. and Lincoln PI., Brooklyn; Union League of Brooklyn, Bedford Ave. and Dean St.; Prince- ton, 72 East 34th; Players, 16 Gramercy Park; Democratic, 617 Fifth Ave.}. Crescent, Clinton St. near Pierrepont, Brooklyn; country house. Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; Marine and Field, Bath Beach, Brooklyn (a country club) ; Westchester Country Club, Schuylerville, Bronx Borough; Oxford, Lafaj^ette Ave. and South Oxford St., Brooklyn; Lincoln, 65 Putnam Ave. Brooklyn; Germania, Schermerhorn St., near Smith, Brooklyn. RELIGIOUS NEW YORK Manhattan Borough and Brooklyn Borough together have a wealth of churches, a wealth in churches, a splendor of church architecture and a value of church property that would scarcely be credited. With few exceptions New York manages to secure at some time or other the most of the great preachers of each decade. Of special importance in her ministry now are the Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York (Episcopal), Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst of the Madison Square Presbyterian, the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (successor of Henry Ward Beecher and Dr. Lyman Abbott), Dr. W. S. Rainsford of St. George's, the Rev. Robert S. MacArthur of Calvary Baptist, the Rev. S. D. McConnell of All Souls' (which see), the Rev. Morgan Dix. While half a hundred New York and Brooklyn churches might well be visited the following are the most interesting from one point of view or another. The Catholic and Episcopal churches are open to visitors nearly all the time. There may be difficulty in getting into the others on week days: The Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Episcopal) — Now building on Morningside Heights (Amsterdam Ave. and 112th St.). It has been estimated this will take 100 years to complete and will cost sixteen millions of dollars. There is little con- ception of the immensity of this structure as planned. The Religious Nezv York. 31 huge stone arch under way that now seems to dominate upper New York is but a minor fragment, merely one of the four arches that will carry the pinnacle. A chapel in the crypt is now complete and services are held in it. There is a very fine jeweled altar there. (Take Amsterdam Ave. cars from Sixth Ave.). St. Patrick's Cathedral (Catholic)^ — Fifth Ave. and 50th St., 13th century Gothic and of white marble, a huge basilica, with twin steeples, 328 feet high. Projected in 1850, and not yet com- plete. It has a fine marble altar and splendid bells. Within this cathedral is very imposing. Outwardly it dominates Fifth Ave., and. is, perhaps^ the chief point of religious interest in New York. A Lady Chapel is now building on the Madison Avenue front. The Churcji of the Paulist Fathers (Catholic) — Columbus Ave. and 60th St. Imposing interior, baldachino altar, and finely decorated chapels. Trinity (Episcopal) — Broadway facing Wall St. (Take Sixth Ave. Elevated to Rector St. station, or Broadway car). Trinity Parish (founded in 1696) possesses real estate valued at over $10,000,000. Its property holdings are some of the richest in New York, and were bestowed upon the parish by Queen Anne. This property, known as the "Queen's Farm," has been fought for unsuccessfully by the heirs of Anneke Jans. Several of the leading churches in the city, among them St. Paul's, St. John's (Varick St., very reminiscent of old New York), and St. Agnes (92d St. near Columbus Ave.) are but chapels of Trinity officially. The parish contains nine churches. The first Trinity was built 1696, the second 1788, the present church 1839, and consecrated 1846. Dr. Morgan Dix is the pres- ent rector. Trinity is rich Gothic in design and one of the most churchly edifices in the country. Its special interior feature is the wonderful carved altar in memory of the late William B. Astor. Of recent years superb doors have been placed at the main entrance. The churchyard is very ancient (see chapter, "The New York of History and Landmarks"). All Souls' — Madison Ave. and 66th St. Dr. Heber Newton's old church. The Rev. S. D. McConnell present rector. All Souls' (Unitarian) — 20th St. and Fourth Ave. Dr. Bel- lows' old church. Architecture Byzantine. All Souls' (Universalist) — Brooklyn, South 9th St., near Bedford Ave. CTake Nostrand or Franklin Ave. cars from Brooklyn side 23d St. ferry.) 32 Handbook of New York. OLD ST. PAUL S. Beth-El — Jewish synagogue 76th St. and Fifth Ave. A gor- geous gilt dome. Noted "Reform" Temple. Brick Presbyterian — 37th St. and Fifth Ave. Congregation dates back of 1767. Dr. Henry Van Dyke's old church. Calvary (Baptist) — 57lh St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves. Rev. Robert S. MacArthur, pastor. Famous church. Christ — Brooklyn, Clinton and Harrison Sts. (Court St. car to Harrison St.) Episcopal. Christ — Brooklyn, Eastern District, Bedford Ave., near Di- vision. (Take Nostrand or Franklin Ave. car from 23d St. ferry.) Episcopal. Church of the Ascension (Episcopal) — Fifth Ave. and loth St. Great mural altar piece and extraordinary stained glass. Church of the Heavenly Rest (Episcopal)— Fifth Ave. above 45th St. Handsome interior. Church of the Messiah (Unitarian) — 34th St. and Park Ave. Rev. Robert Collyer's church (and Rev. Minot J. Savage). Church of the Messiah (Episcopal)— Greene and Clermont Aves., Brooklyn. (Greene Ave. car from Bridge.) Church of the Pilgrims (Congregational) — Henry and Rem- sen Sts., Brooklyn. Take car to Borough Hall, Brooklyn. Dr. Richard Salter Storrs's old church. Collegiate Church (Dutch Reformed) — The "Marble Dutch," Religious New York. 33 Fifth Ave. and West 29th St. Oldest congregation in New York, dating back to the old church in the "Fort," 1626. Divine Paternity (Universalist) — 76th St. and Central Park West. Fine music. Emanu-El — Jewish synagogue, 43d St. at Fifth Ave. Oriental exterior and interior. The late Dr. Gustav Gottheil, former rabbi. Fifteenth St. Hicksite Meeting House (Friends) — isth St. and Rutherford Place, facing Stuyvesant Square (on block ad- joining St. George's). First Presbyterian — Fifth Ave. and nth St. Congregation dates back to 17 19. First Reformed — Seventh Ave. and Carroll St., Brooklyn. (Seventh Ave. car from Bridge..) Grace (Episcopal) — Broadway and Eleventh St. Very fashion- able. Rich interior. Dr. W. R. Huntington, rector. Grace — Hicks St. and Grace Court, Brooklyn. (Car from Brooklyn Bridge to Remsen St.) A fashionable Heights church. Holy Trinity — Montague and Clinton Sts., Brooklyn. An imposing structure of brownstone (Episcopal), with rich chan- cel. Visited by many sightseers. The church of the late Charles H. Hall and of S. D. McConnell. Take car across Brooklyn Bridge to Montague and Fulton Sts. (Borough Hall), and walk one block east. John Street Methodist Church — See chapter, "The New York of History and Landmarks." The oldest church edifice in New York. Madison Avenue Presbyterian — Madison Square at 24th St. and Madison Ave. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst. Marcy Ave. Baptist — Brooklyn, Putnam and Marcy Aves. (Putnam Ave. car from Bridge.) Plymouth Church — Orange St., Brooklyn. Fulton St. car from the New York end of the Bridge. Get off at Orange St. Always celebrated for its preaching. See page 30. The church of Beecher. Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas — 97th St., near Fifth Ave. Interesting ceremonial. (Madison Ave. cars to 97th St.) St. Anthony of Padua (Catholic) — A famous Franciscan church at 149 Sullivan St. (Take Sixth Ave. car south to Grand St., walk west to Sullivan St.) St. Augustine (Catholic) — Sixth Ave. and Sterling Place, Brooklyn. Fifth or Seventh Ave. cars across the Bridge. An altar with its jeweled tabernacle guarded by an electric bur^ glar alarm. 34 Handbook of Nciv York. St. Bartholomew's — 44th St. and Madison Ave. Exceed- ingly fashionable and wealthy congregation and of beautiful in- terior. Dr. David H. Greer, rector. St. Francis Xavier (Catholic) — i6th St. near Sixth Ave. Very beautiful interior after the French style. St. George's (Episcopal) — Dr. W. S. Rainsford. Take Third, Second, or Fourth Ave. car to i6th St. Located on Stuyvesant Square, at i6th St. Highly developed parish work, including trade classes, all open to inspection. This has been spoken of as the greatest of the "Institutional" churches of America. It should emphatically be visited. St. Ignatius (Episcopal) — ^lost advanced of the ritualistic churches. 87th St. and West End Ave. St. Ignatius Loyola (Catholic) — Park Ave. and 84th St. New church of distinguished altar and decorations. St. James' Pro-Cathedral — Brooklyn, Jay and Chai)el Sts. Founded 1822. (Smith St. cars across Bridge pass the door.) St. Luke's — Clinton Ave., near Fulton St., Brooklyn. (Fulton St. or Putnam Ave. cars from Brooklyn Bridge.) St. Mark's — Second Ave. See chapter "History," etc. St. Mary the Virgin (Episcopal-ritualistic) — 46th St., be- tween Sixth and Seventh Aves. St. Paul's — Broadwaj^ and Fulton St. See chapter "History,"' etc. A isit churchyard. St. Thomas — 53d St. and Fifth Ave. See chapter, "Fashion- able New York." Shearith Israel — Splendid temple of the Portuguese Jews at Central Park West and 70th St. Service in Hebrew. Com- pletely orthodox. Tompkins Ave. Congregational — Tompkins Ave. and Mc- Donough St., Brookl3n. (Fulton St. or Putnam Ave. cars from Brooklyn Bridge.) Transfiguration (Episcopal) — 29th St., between Fifth and Madison Aves. Extremely picturesque exterior. Called the "Little Church Around the Corner." A complete directory of all churches and their pastors is contained in the Eagle Almanac. The .Denominational Headquarters follow: Catholic— The Most Rev. J. M. Farley, Archbishop, 452 Madison Ave., corner of 50th St., on same block as St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan. The Very Rev. C. E. McDonnell, Bishop, Greene and Vanderbilt Aves., Brooklyn. Presbyterian — Presbyterian Building, 156 Fifth Ave. Methodist Iumscopal — Methodist Building, 150 l^'ifth Ave. Protestant Episcopal — Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop; Religious New York 35 Diocesan • House, 29 Lafayette Place. Manhattan. Rt. Rev. Frederick Burgess, Bishop of Long Island, Remsen St., near Court, Brooklyn. Reformed Church in America — Reformed Church Building, 25 East 22d St. Though geographically it stands several miles east of the furthest botmds of New York City, out on the Long Island plain close to Hempstead, the Cathedral at Garden City, a superb structure in a park-like region, should none the less be visited. This Episcopal cathedral was founded and endowed by Mr^. A. T. Steivart. Take railroad from Long Island City (Queens Borough), ferry fool of East 34th St., or from Flatbush Ave. Depot, Brooklyn. In New York the Young Men's Christian Association is at its strongest and has many branches. Its executive headquar- BUST OF IRVINCi JN PROSPECT PARK^ 36 Handbook of New York. ters are at 156 Fifth Ave. (the Presbyterian Building). Casual visitors and applicants for membership should go, however, pend- ing completion of the new 23d St. branch (215 W. 23d St.), to the temporary quarters at 208 VV. 23d St. The familiar old structure, 4th Ave. and 23d St., is being torn down. Or go to the West 57th St. building (south side of the street, just west of Eighth Ave.) The Brooklyn headquarters are at Fulton and Bond Sts., nearly opposite DeKalb Ave. (Take Gates Ave., Fulton St., DeKalb Ave., Flatbush Ave., Putnam Ave. or Third Ave. cars across the Bridge.) Membership in the Young Men's Christian Association of New York can be had on different scales and according to the special branch joined— from $2 a year up. The West 57th St. house is the handsomest yet put up. The new 23d St. building mentioned above, to be finished September, 1903, will be very fine and complete. Other notable branches are at Madison Ave. and 45th St. (Railroad Branch), 5 West 125th St. and 158 East 87th St. The Young Women's Christian Association is at 7 East isth St., Manhattan, and Flatbush Ave. and Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn. (Flatbush Ave. car from Bridge.) Christian Science flourishes in New York. It has five "tem- ples," including a very handsome church at Central Park West and 68th St. THE NEW YORK OF HISTORY AND LAND- MARKS Perhaps, to-day, New York's most impressive landmarks are Fraunces' Tavern at the N.E. corner of Broad St. and Pearl, St. Paul's Chapel at the corner of Fulton St. and Broadway, and the old John Street Methodist Church on John St.'s down town side, a block and a half east of Broadway. For these are real places, in which history was really made. In St. Paul's Chapel (built 1764) Washington actually sat — his pew is shown to visitors. In the "Long Room" in Fraunces' Tavern he bade good bye to his officers at the Revolution's close. In the John Street Church, the "Cradle of Methodism in America," White- field "used to preach like a lion." Nearly all else of New York historically are merely sites, marked by tablets. It is true the Jumel Mansion of famous old Madam Jumel who finallv married Aaron Burr yet stands (i6oth St. near Amsterdam Ave., take Amsterdam Ave. car up Sixth Ave.) and the 13 trees of Alexander Hamilton (144th St. near Amsterdam Ave.) But these latter are but mournful sur- vivals. There remain old St. Mark's Church on Second Ave., 103 years old, and the City Hall in City Hall Park, now nearing the end of its first century. These practically complete the list of genuinely old New York yet existent. The Debtors' Prison, latterly the Hall of Records, by the City Hall's side, has just been torn down. . . However, visitor and New Yorker can find much to stir their memories and arouse their interest about the crooked streets below the City Hall. Where the new Custom House is now The New York of History and Landmarks. 37 being built, facing Bowling Green at the foot of Broadway, is the site of the Government House of a hundred years ago, and before that Fort Amsterdam stood here. This was the fort Peter Stuyvesant surrendered, that Dutch Governor whose bones rest under St. Mark's Church. Bowling Green was once the Dutch market place, T'Marck- velt. The Washington Building at i Broadway marks the place of the Kennedy Mansion, later Washington Hall, famous in Revolutionary times. At 41 Broadway (Aldrich Court) is the site of the first habitation of white men on Manhattan Island (built 161 3, four huts). The first Trinity Church was built on the site of the present edifice (the third), in 1697. There is a tombstone of a Holland maid here, dating back to 1633. 115 Broadway (just above Trinity) marks the location of the King's Arms Tavern and later the City Hotel, famous society resorts of the i8tli and early 19th centuries. Other sites to be pilgrimaged to, all lying closely together, in the coiirse of a morning or afternoon are: Wall Street — U. S. Sub-Treasury, corner of Nassau St. (New York's second City Hall, later Federal Hall, was here for a century. Washington was inaugurated in front of it.) No. 56 (site of Captain Kidd's residence). Present Custom House (originally Merchant's Exchange). Bank of New York, N.E. corner of William St. (moved to this site 1800, the first bank New York had). No. 60, the Central Trust Company Building (under a tree here the New York Stock Exchange was founded in 1792). Corner of Water St. (up to this point in 1790 the river THE FLATIRON AND THE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL. 38 Handbook of New York. came and on the slip were the famous Tontine Coffee House and Merchant's Coffee House). Hanover St. — Twenty-tive teet away from here the great fire of 1835 started. Hanover Square — The Cotton Exchange (where the first news- paper of New York was printed). Pearl St.^ — l-'irst residence street of New York. Opposite Coenties Slip, corner Coenties Alley, one block trom Broad St., site of Stadt Huys of New Amsterdam. John Street — No. 17 (site ot famous John Street Theatre). Corner of William St. (where the first blood of the Revolution was shed, the Battle of Golden Hill). Trinity churchyard well repays a stroll among its tomb- stones. The memorials include monumental blocks to Alexan- der Hamilton and Captain James Lawrence of " Don't give up the Ship" fame. It is in St. Mark's churchyard that the great Peter Stuyve- sant is buried (search out his tombstone, a block against the east wall of the church towards the front), and here was also entombed the merchant, A. T. Stewart. From this churchyard his body was said to have been stolen. Barnum's Museum of thirty years ago was where the tower- ing St. Paul'.s Building now stands, on Broadway, opposite St. Patil's Chapel. Tammany Hall was organized in a tavern on the present Tribune Building's site. The Anneke Jans Farm, the " Queen's Farm," referred to in " Religious New York," covered the territory now bounded by Warren St., Broadway. Watts, Canal and (jreenwich Sts. (62 acres). In Battle I'ass, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, the hardest fighting of the Revolutionary Battle of Long Island was done. The American line of fortifications swept around from almost the present southwest corner of the Navy Yard to South Brooklyn, one end of it resting on the hill and park now named Fort Greene. Here a monument is to be erected to the memory of the martyrs who died in the prison ships of the Wallabout (the bay just to the north of the Navy Yard). A fine shaft stands in Battle Pnss (enter Prospect Park from Plaza, Flatbush Ave. car from Bridge). To Fort Greene, take Myrtle Ave. car across Bridge. There is an interesting Revolutionary tablet on a com- mercial building at the southwest corner of Fulton St. and Flatbush Ave. It must be noted that these are but a few of New York's Historic Sites, the most important and significant merely. They are all. nevertheless, the average New Yorker and casual vis- itor will be interested in, and space forbids a detailed list. Such a list_ conveniently arranged for reference, is in existence, howeve", compiled by the present writer, in the 1903 Eagle Al- manac (price 50 cents, pnt^c -ioj). Galleries, Museums, Theatres and Music. 39 GALLERIES, MUSEUMS, THEATRES AND MUSIC The theatres that are to be visited, the collections that are to be seen, the music that is to be heard and the paintings that await many inspections in New York are so numerous that even an incomplete description of them would fill more than this book. All that can be done here is to start the sightseer off properly with a full appreciation of the treasures before him, making sure that he does not miss the best. THEATRES. But a few years ago the theatres of New York centered about 23d St. always along the line of Broadway. Now there are few below 34th St. Long Acre Square (42d to 47th St. and Broadway) is no longer the vanguard for New York's drama, with its blazes of electric bulbs each night it is in the thick and the centre. 47th St. down to 24th marks the extreme limit. Practically the theatres are all well above 34th St. The Lyceum on Fourth Ave. has recently been torn down. The Star (Broadway and 13th St.) has been replaced by a busi- ness building. Alone among the playhouses of the past stands the Academy of Music (14th St. and Irving Place), one block east of Union Square, formerly the home of Italian opera, now devoted to colossal scenic productions. A block above on Irving Place is the celebrated German theatre of New York, the Irving Place, Conried's. Conried is the new manager of the Metropolitan Opera House. On the Bowery in the Yiddish and Italian theatres (three of the former, one of the latter) frequently brilliant dramatic per- formances are given, imheeded by the most of New Yorkers. To this array of foreign playhouses a genuinely handsome theatre has been added, especially built for the Yiddish drama, on Grand St., on the site of the Lord & Taylor old store, one block east of the Bowery. Grouped according to their location, the most famous New York theatres are: Belasco Theatre (David Belasco's, new), 42d St., west of Broadway. Victoria, 42d St. and Seventh Ave. New York, Broadway and 44th (formerly Hammerstein's), facing Long Acre Square. Criterion, Broadway and 44th. Broadway, on Broadway at 41st. Empire, Broadway at 40th. Casino (light opera), at 39th. Knickerbocker at 38th. Herald Square at 35th. Garrick, 35th St. east of Sixth Ave. New Savoy, 34th St.. west of Broadway and Sixth Ave. 40 Handbook of New York. Manhattan, Broadway, Sixth Ave. and 33d. Daly's (noted house now managed by Daniel Frohman) at 30th, Wallack's (old house, famous for memories) at 30th, Weber & Fields (music hall, burlesques), 30th St. Princess, at 29th St. Gar- den, Madison Ave. and 27th, in Madison Square Garden. Mad- ison Square, 24th St., west of Broadway. Bijou, at 30th St. Fifth Ave., at 28th. Fourteenth Street, 14th St. west of Sixth Ave. Pastor's, 14th St. east of Third Ave., adjoining Tammany Hall, vaudeville. Keith's, Union Square. Majestic — 59th St., at Eighth Ave. Of these, the New York Theatre holds 3,200 and the old Academy of Music 2,800. The price of the best seats at metro- politan theatres is now $2, and evening performances generally begin at 8:15. In the New York theatres, contrary to the order of things in London, men seldom wear evening dress, unless they are members of a theatre party. Women should arrange their hair so as to take off their hats during the performances. The Brooklyn theatres number: Montauk (Fulton St.); Acad- emy OF Music (Montague St.); Columbia (Washington St.); Grand Opera House (Elm Place); Bijou (Smith St.); Orpheum (Fulton St.). music hall; Park (Fulton St.). Take Fulton St., Putnam, Gates, or Flatbush Ave. cars, Brooklyn Bridge. Amphion (Bedford Ave.) : Payton's ("Lee Ave.) and (Fulton St.); Folly (Broadway); Gayety (Broadway). Take car from foot of Broadway ferry. The Eden Musee, New York's permanent wax works exhi- bition, is on 23d St., east of Sixth Ave. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN— New York's greatest amusement structure. A building of the Spanish order of architecture, covering an entire city block — Madison Ave., 26th St., Fourth Ave., 27th St. Flere is a splendid amphitheatre and several large halls, besides the theatre mentioned above. In the amphitheatre are given many entertainments and "shows" that require great space and gather large audiences. The National Horse Show is always held here; the Dog Show, cycle and automobile exhibits, flower shows, the circus, races and bazaars on a great scale. The size and beauty of the interior are scarcely equaled, even abroad. Its greatest wcH-k in llie year is Horse Show Week, late in the fall. MUSIC Music's great New York temples are the Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway and 40th St. (grand opera), and the Carnegie Galleries, Museums, Theatres and Music. 41 Building, Seventh Ave. and 57th (recitals and concerts). A Broadway car with the sign, "s8th Street," leads to both. Follow the daily papers carefully for events of the moment. Under Maurice Grau, the Grand Opera given at the Metro- politan Opera House the past few years has been, all considered, the finest in the world. ^ Under the new Director, Herr Conried, even more is expected, in casts and staging. On opera nights this auditorium presents the most brilliant social picture New York has to offer. Its audiences include all of representative New York society. The price of admission is from $1 to $5, but the best seats and boxes are always taken for the season. The galleries typify Cosmopolitan New York. The Carnegie Building has a large auditorium (seating 2,700) for orchestral concerts; Carnegie Music Hall, a theatre, Carnegie Lyceum, a hall for chamber music and a large number of music studios and assembly rooms. The Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its concerts in Carnegie Hall. Another very important concert place of New York is Men- delssohn Hall on 40th St., just east of Broadway. Here many of the leading soloists are heard. This hall has fine mural decorations- Musical societies of especial note are: The Philharmonic (An- drew Carnegie, president; Walter Damrosch, director) and the Oratorio Society (Andrew Carnegie, president; Walter Damrosch, conductor), both at Carnegie Musid Hall; the Musical Art So- ciety (Frank Damrosch, director); the Mendelssohn Glee Club, Mendelssohn Hall; the Arion (with a club house at Park Ave. and 5Qth St.); the Liederkranz (with a club house at in East 58th St.), both German singing societies of the highest rank; and the People's Singing Classes (41 University Place). Brooklyn has, commonly, the best of her music given in the Academy of Music and the Art Association Rooms on Montague St., and in the auditorium of Association Hall, Bond and Fulton Sts., and Memorial Hall, Flatbush Ave._ and Schermerhorn St. This borough has scores of musical societies, among which are the Philharmonic Society (first firmly established by Theodore Thomas), the Apollo Club, the Amphion Musical Society, the Brooklyn Amateur Musical Club (women only), the Arion, the Brooklyn Saengerbund and the Williamsburgh Saengerbund. MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES Metropolitan Museum of Art — Central Park, Fifth Ave. and 83d St. Free admission except Monday and Friday (25 cents). Open also Monday and Friday evenings, 8 to 10. Exceedingly complete collections in many galleries of paintings, sculpture, reliefs, pottery, antiques, glass and musical instruments. As a whole, these collections are unsurpassed in America. The pre- siding genius of the Museum was for many years Henry G. Marquand. (Fifth Ave. stages or Madison Ave. cars.) Sun- days open from 1.30 P. M. to half hour before sunset. Holi- days open all day. Director General, L. P. di Cesnola. In December, 1902, the new East Wing (facing on Fifth Ave.) was completed, and the collections are now rearranged and can be seen to greater advantage than ever before. There is much 42 Handbook of Nciv York. new material. What the casual sightseer should view is here told briefly. Eventually this Museum will be six times its present size. Entering from Fifth Ave., the Hall of Sculpture is first met with, the heroic marble group, " Struggle of the Two Natures in Man," by the American, George Grey Barnard, arid the bronze figure, "Bacchante," of that other American, MacMonnies, be- ing the distinguishing examples. Another is the " Bear Tamer " of Paul Wayland Bartlett, This Hall is i66 feet long by 96 feet wide and has three domes, 76 feet above the floor. Opposite the entrance is the Grand Staircase. Ofi^ from this Hall, to the left, is the Wood Room (of carved chests, cabinets, etc., from many European countries, including a remarkable cabinet of bog yew presented by John D. Crimmins), the Coles Collection of tapestry, vases and malachite. To the right is the Huntington Collection of Washington, Franklin and Lafayette memorials, the Dickinson and Tweedle Collection of Peruvian pottery, and Mexican antiquities. Along the corridors at the side of the Grand Staircase there are, at the right, Egyptian antiquities; at the left, the stones and bronzes of the di Cesnola Collection, inscriptions, Phoenician, Cypriote and Greek, Babj'lonian and Assyrian clay tablets. At the end of these corridors tlie old building is reached. The old south wing has the immense di Cesnola Collection of stone sculptures and heads, pottery from Cyprus, Cypriote and Phoenician glass, and at the end near the South Entrance there is the Jarves Collection of glass. The North Wing contains casts, as does the old Main Hall. This latter has, however, by way of special features, big models of the Pantheon at Rome, ot the Parthenon at Athens, of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnac, of the Church of Notre Dame at Paris. High on the walls here, besides, are two enormous paintings — Hans Makart's '"Diana's Hunting Party" and Benjamin Constant's "Justinian." IHE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATUKAI. HlSTOkV. On the second floor, around the gallery over the Hall of Sculptures, there are cases of splendid lacquers, bronzes and I)orcehtins, the I'lutMiix lacquers, the William Osgood I-'iehl, Alfred Duane Pell and the Henry G. Marquand Collections of European porcelains, together with Mr. Field's Persian wares, Galleries, Museums, Theatres and Music. 43 Mr. Marquand's Hispano Moresque objects and the Bishop Col- lection of bronzes, in the large room to the south of this gal lery is exhibited one of the greatest triumphs of the Metropolitan, the Pierpont Morgan Collection of Chinese porcelains (formerly the Garland Collection and now much added to). The A'orth Wing of the old building upstairs contains the rooms of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments of All Nations, by far the finest in the world, including" many fas- cinating spinets, harpsichords, horns, bagpipes and quaint and archaic string instruments, in all more than 3,000; a highly in- teresting lace collection; fans, embroideries, arms and armor, tapestries, Italian needlework and a room of metallic repro- ductions. In this wing on the second floor, close by the room of laces, is also the "Gold Room," not opened on Sundays or holidays, with its collection of engraved gem.s, and including the Avery Collection of silver spoons. The balance of the second floor is taken up with galleries of paintings, some loaned, others the Museum's property. Outside of the general galleries there are these special collections: The Marquand Gallery of Old Masters, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection (bequeathed with a fund of $200,000 for its care), .the William H. Vanderbilc Collection, the Room of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, the American Room. Pictures that must certainly be viewed in these galleries, if nothing else is, are: General Galleries — Rosa Bonheur's " The Horse Fair " (pre- sented by Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1887); William T. Dannat's " Un Ouatuor"; Edouard Manet's "Girl with a Parrot"; Meissonier's " Friedland, 1807 " (piesented by Henry Hilton); the L'Hermitte canvases; Henner's "Mary Magdalen"; Dupre's "The Bal- loon"; Innes's "Evening"; Bastian Le Page's "Joan of Arc"; Turner's "The Grand Canal, Venice"; Gabriel Max's "The Last Token." Wolfe Collection — Portrait of Miss Wolfe, painted by Cabanel. William H. Vanderbilt Collection — The examples of Alma Tadema, Daubig^ny, Rousseau, Diaz, Fromeniin, Turner and the great de Neufville painting. Marquand Galiery — Portrait of Mr. Marquand, painted by Sargent; the Portrait of a Man and the Portrait of a Woman by Velasquez; Franz Hals's Wife, by Franz Hals; the Leonardo da Vinci. MtrsEUM OF VHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ArTS AND SCIENCES Eastern Parkway and Washington Ave., Brooklyn (take Flatbush Ave. car from Brooklyn Bridge), is rapidly building up great collections. Three-sixteenths of the structure it will eventually have is now under way. (See Page 47.) Already substantial art and general collections have been acquired, and to-day the Museum is rapidly coming to the first rank. In February of this year the directors established a De- partment of Ethnology and secvired as its curator a noted Ameri- can savant, Stewart Culin, until then Curator of Archaeology and Paleontology at the Museum of the University of Pennsyl- vania. Under Mr. Culin expeditions are to be sent out over the country and great coUectioris of American ethnology are to be built up. Professor William H. Goodyear is the curator of the Museum's other departments. This Museum is. however, but one of the 44 Handbook of New York. Brooklyn Institute's activities. See also chapter, " Brooklyn Institute." As yet but one-thirty-second of the building is completed for exhibition purposes. The present collections and their arrange- ment is, briefly, as follows: Basement — Geographical Collection. Along the staircase from the entrance to the third floor- — Goodyear Collection of Architectural Photographs of Interiors and Exteriors of Italian Churches. Of much artistic interest to the novice, but of especial scientific importance, since they have proved a new architectural principle, that of "leaning verticals," on which the museum is publishing the first of its series of Memoirs. First Floor — Casts, ancient glass, objects of art, including a collection of European porcelains from Alfred Duane Pell, and a unique relief in enameled, highly colored terra cotta work, a Lucca del Robbia. Second Floor — Natural History, including the Neumogen Col- lection of Butterflies and the William Wallace Tooker Collection of Long Island Indian Antiquities. Third Floor —VV^est Gallery. The Tis.sot Collection of Paint- ings and Drawings of the Life of Christ. Purchased by the subscriptions of Brooklyn citizens for $60,000 and presented to the Museum. There are nearly 500 pictures in all, all of small size and of wonderful power and drawing. In its special field this is one of the most remarkable collections of the world, and represents M. Tissot's life work. These Tissot pictures are shown in two rooms, the drawings in the little room off the West Gallery. In the West Gallery the paintings are matted and shown upon screens, subdividing the room into sections, against red and gold. Look at the pic- tures, upon entering from the corridor, from left to right. A descriptive catalogue can be had for 5 cents. In the East Gallery and in the Corridor is a pleasing collection of canvases. Visitors' attention is called to: The fine John Quidors in the Corridor. No other examples of this artist are on exhibition anywhere. (Quidor painted about 1870, on subjects of Knickerbocker New York life, and died destitute and unrecognized.) The Fourteenth Century Panels (small) in the Corridor. In the East Gallery: The Decamps' "A School Scene"; the Etty's "Grief" and " The Morning Glory "; the early example of Turner; the three CourbetS "Marine," "The Storm," "Winter in Switzerland"; the three big canvases of Verestchagin; the three Van Goyens; the Gainsboroughs, "The Wanderer" and "View Near Bath"; Claude Lorrain's "The Red Mill"; the Daubigny; the three Salvator Rosas; the three Felix Ziems; "The Ferry" of Troyon; the Smybert portrait of Martha Dandridge; the "Moonlight" of George Michel; the two battle scenes of Cortese; the " Cow in the Pasture " and the " Fowl " of Anton Mauve. What is perhaps the Institute's most famous picture. Guy's " Brooklyn Snow Scene," one end of which was slightly dam- aged bv fire some years ago, is now stored, and consequently not on exhibition. American Museum of Naturat, History, 77th St. and Cen- tral Park West. (Columbus or Eighth Ave. cars.) Admission free except Monday and Tuesday (25 cents). Open Tuesday Galleries, Museums, Theatres and Music. 45 and Saturday evenings (free). Splendid exhibits of animals of all climes, prehistoric beasts, costumes and utensils of far-away tribes, birds, woods, stones, etc. Hours open, 9 to 5, including holidays. Sundays, i to 5. This institution's rank — second, if not first, of any museum of its order in the country — is largely due to Morris K. jesup, its president. Frequent and costly expeditions are dispatched over all America for the acquiring of antiquities and the exhum- ing of fossil remains of pre-historic animal life. The collections are of a high class and the " restorations " of ancient animal life extraordinary. Attached to the staff are such eminent scientists as Henry Fairfield Osborn, F. W. Putnam, Frank M. Chapman, Franz Boaz and Marshall H. Saville. The Museum will later on cover the entire city square, at one end of which it is at present located. The floors of the Museum g:o by the names of Basement, Main, Gallery, Fourth and Fifth. Entering from up the steps, directly upon the Main Floor the visitor finds extensive groups and cases of mammals, large and sm.all; fine examples of the taxidermist's art, in many instances depicted in their natural haunts. Thus there is a splendid scene of moose in the woods, and another of American bison on the plain, the surroundings being carefully worked up as a setting for the seemingly living figures. A hall of birds is also on this floor. On the Gallery Floor there are monkeys and other mammals, additional birds, butter- flies (the great Hoffman Collection) and Peruvian pottery. The Fourth Floor has in its main hall and north wing exhibits of paleontology and geology, minerals and meteorites. In its west wing are the Due de Loubat Collection of ancient American sculptures, brought back in the Saville expeditions, and there is now going on an important work of restoration from the data and the antiquities discovered; and the Pierpont Morgan gift of gems, kept in a corner guarded b}' steel doors and two men on constant watch. Very wonderful is this gem collection, and very rare many of its specimens. In the east wing of the Fourth Floor there are the Museum's restorations of fossil vertebrates, with many exhibits of gigantic fossils, and Charles Knight's pictures in color of how these animals were and their surroundings, so far as science knows. In this hall there is, too, the great Cope Collection. The Fifth Floor contains shells. Another exhibit of the Main Floor is the Carl Lumholst Collection of Indian Basketry. On the Basement Floor is the Jesup Collection of Woods in the east hall; Indian collections in the north wing and Esquimaux col- lections in the west wing. Much of the interest of these latter exhibits lies in the fine groups Caspar Mayer, the sculptor, of the Museum's staff, has made, depicting scenes in the life of these tribes. Also there have been made exact models of their habitations. One of these groups shows an Indian man tanning, an Indian woman at basket making. Another group shows an Indian family of four at work. There is a vivid Esquimaux group, a scene in miniature of the sun dance of the Arapahoe Indians, an Escjuimaux winter house in miniature, and many more. The collections of objects, dresses and posed figures in these two halls are, besides, very large. New York Historical Society, Second Ave. and loth St. 46 Handbook of New York. Collection of paintings, documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, re- lating to the City of New York. Admission only upon the card of a member. On the block between 76th and 77th Sts., fronting on Central Park West, the Society is shortly to commence the erection of a new building. In The present building the library is on the Second Floor. On the Third is the Abbott Collection of .Egyptian Antiquities and also a vaulted room for the keeping of manuscripts. The Gallery of Art (very valuable and rare in its objects) is on the Fourth Floor. American Geographical Societv, 8ist St., between Central Park West and Columbus Ave. A new home, well fitted up. Admission by card of members. Ten thousand maps and charts, 25,000 geographical works. Long Island Historical Society, Pierrepont and Clinton Sts., Brooklyn. Its collections have been made with particular refer- ence to the history and the antiquities of Long Island, and its library of nearly 50,000 volumes, on its Second Floor, and its relics and curios, on its Third, may be consulted and viewed by non- members. The Fine Arts Federation has a building, with galleries, on S7th St., west of Seventh Ave., and frequent exhibitions are given there through the winter. Some of the art societies that have their exhibitions there are the National Academy of Design, the American Water Color Society, the Architectural League, the National Sculpture So- ciety. ADDITIONAL ART INTERESTS Artists by the hundred are scattered over New York, the country's great centre for painting and sculpture. The most noted studio buildings are the Bryant Park (40th St. and Sixth Ave.), the old West loth St. Studios (north side loth St., be- tween Fifth and Sixth Aves.), the Sherwood (57th St. and Sixth Ave.), the Holbein (over a row of stables, 55th St., south side, west of Sixth Ave.). In Brooklyn the centre of art interests is the Art Association Rooms on Montague St. The Academy of Design, having sold its building (the " Vene- tian Palace," Fourth Ave. and 23d St., now replaced by a " sky- scraper"), has now no galleries, merely schools, in a temporary building, Amsterdam Ave., between 109th and iioth Sts. The Academy is the most famous art institution in America. It was founded 1826. Many fine pictures and objects of great artistic interest may be seen by journeying from store to store, along Fifth Ave. and the side streets near by. New York's resources in this particular Brooklyn Institute, Libraries. 47 are amazing. Some shops worth visiting are: Knoeuler & Co., 355 Fifth Ave.; Cottier & Co., 3 East 34th St.; Avery's, 368 Fifth Ave.; Schaus's, 204 Fifth Ave.; Boussod • Valadon & Co.'s, 303 Fifth Ave.; William Macbeth, 237 Fifth Ave.; Sypher & Co.'s, Fifth Ave. and 28th St. Tliei-e are also interesting special art exhibitions constantly given in the galleries of the National Arts Club, 34th St., west of Fifth Ave. BROOKLYN INSTITUTE Outside of its Museum, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (office, 502 Fulton St.) is a huge institution, like noth- ing else in the world, with a membership of several thousand and giving over 500 lectures, addresses, exhibitions and de- partment meetings during the year. Its work is divided into twenty-eight departments of art and science, each with its officers, committees and special programme for the year. The membership of each is composed partly of experts, partly of people with little special knowledge, but generally interested in the subject. Besides the general meetings, the departments get the benefit of lectures, etc., from the foremost men and women in that line. Professor Franklin W. Hooper is its executive head. LIBRARIES In the chapter on " Sights," the Astor and the Lenox Libraries have been located. These will be part of the great New York Public Library now building on Fifth Ave. and 42d St. The Carnegie Libraries, eighty in number, for the five boroughs, will be branches of this. The first of these is now in use at 79th St., between Second and Third Aves. Two others are almost completed, on East Broadway, near Chatham Square; on 140th St. and Alexander Ave., the Bronx. Two additional free libraries are the West Side Branch of the Y. M. C. A., 57th St., west of Eighth Ave., and Columbia Uni- versity, of. en till II P. M. The Brooklyn Library has its central building at 26 Brevoort place, and has nineteen branches. The Carnegie Libraries in this borough (20) belong to the Brooklyn, not the Manhattan, system. 48 Handbook of Nezv York. EDUCATION In short compass it is impossible to do more than suggest the educational facilities and the institutions of the city. Under " Sights," the Columbia University and that of the University of New York are noted, and under " Government and Politics," CLINTON AVENUE, BROOKLYN. the location of the headquarters of the Public School System. In addition there are: the College of the City of New York (23d St. and Lexington Ave.) ; Barnard College and the Teachers' College (adjoining Columbia); Normal College (Park Ave. and 68th St.); the Protestant Episcopal Seminary (Chelsea Square, Ninth Ave. and 2olh St.); Union Theological Seminary (Park Ave. and 69th St., Presbyterian); the College of Physicians and Surgeons (59th St., near Tenth Ave.); the Long Island College Hospital (Henry and Amity Sts., Brooklyn) ; the Polytechnic The Neiv York of Finance. 49 Institute (Livingston St., near Court, Brooklyn); the Packer Institute (Joralemon St., near Court, Brooklyn) ; Adelphi Acad- emy (Lafayette Ave. and St. James place, Brooklyn); Pratt In- stitute, Ryerson St., Brooklyn (DeKalb Ave. cars) ; Cooper Institute, 8th St. and Third Ave.; St. John's College, Fordham, Bronx Borough (train from Grand Central Depot). There are many technical institutions besides. Visit Pratt Institute and Department ot Education for special information. THE NEW YORK OF FINANCE To get to Wall St. take Broadvi^ay car, or Sixth Ave. Elevated to Rector St. station. Finance in the city of New York is Wall Street in name, in practical reality it is Broad St., Broadway, Nassau St., Pine St., Cedar St., Exchange Place as well. All these streets together make up the Wall street centre. Wall Street itself, with Trinity Church at its head, is imposing, but no more important than the others. The new Stock Exchange is a three million dollar building on the site of the old exchange. Broad St. just south of Wall St. This is one of the greatest buildings for sightseers in New York, with its facade of Corinthian columns, each 52 feet high. Its board room, where the traffic in stocks goes on now more than ever, presents one of the most picturesque of Ameri- can scenes. Admission by card from members only. Visit it between two and three o'clock. This world of finance is delightful to visit. It should be en- tered down Wall St. from Broadway. From 10 to 4 this little section of streets is a jostling mass of men and boys. In an hour three hours' work is done. Thousands of clerks sit in offices pen in hand. Hundreds of chiefs, managers and customers are watching like ferrets the "tickers" or the "quotation boards" in these same offices. On the "floor," in obedience to orders to "buy" or "sell," the brokers are swinging the market back and forth. Wall St. is only partly speculation, none the less. More of it is solid investment, company-forming, exploitation of great finan- cial problems, commerce. Back of everything are the powerful 50 Handbook of Neiv York. banks, the trust companies, the banking concerns, the railroad interests. These great concentrations of capital are hundreds in number, and they are the real "Napoleons of Finance." In cor- ners, and sometimes with splendid suites of offices, lurk the bucket shops and the swindling concerns that by big promises fleece the unwary man and woman. Four features of especial interest in connection with the "street" are: the groups of two and three men that carry large tin boxes — securities of great price, and coin; the Open Brokers' Board on Broad St., out in the street's very centre, where securities are bought and sold that are not listed on the Exchange; the truckman that carries from bankers' vaults to steamer bars of silver and boxes of gold in an open truck; the food venders who, wheeling little carts about the street, supply sweet food to office boys and junior clerks. All this district is lined with towering buildings of the most modern character, unsurpassed in the world. About Wall St. alone there are scores of them. In their magnificence they are perhaps the most notable sight of New York's section of finance. Some of those surely to be visited are the Broad Exchange Building (Broad St. and Exchange PL), the Johnston Building (opposite). Lord's Court (Exchange PI. and William St.), the Equitable Building (Broadway and Cedar), the Empire (Broad- way and Rector), the Washington Life on Broadway, just above the Equitable, the National Bank of Commerce, the Mutual Life, the Hanover National Bank (now building on the southwest corner of Nassau and Pine). These are but a few of that great group that has transformed Wall Street. In among these buildings of magnificent proportions are three others of very different character, the first, the Sub-Treasury, on the corner of Nassau and Wall, with J. Q. A. Ward's heroic statue of Washington on its steps (see chapter, "The New York of History") ; the second, the squatty Assay office alongside of it where the most interesting processes go on, and visitors are made welcome between lo and 2, and the third, the newly com- pleted Chamber of Commerce Building, between Broadway and Nassau St. on Liberty St., just now occupied, small beside the skyscrapers, but a structure of dignity and grace. The Cham- ber of Commerce was founded in 1768, and first met in Fraunces' Tavern. To be a member of it is a guarantee of mercantile standing. The Wall St. figures of prominence are not commonly seen, keeping close to their offices throughout each business day. J. Pierpont Morgan's offices on the southeast corner of Wall and Broad Sts. directly opposite the Sub-Treasury, are perhaps the " street's " most famous sight to-day, and Mr. Morgan is as The New York of Finance. 51 frequent a figure as any other of the great ones. Russell Sage has his office in Nassau St. ; Jacob H. Schiff in Pine St. ; the Goulds in the old Western Union Building at Broadway and Dey St. ; the Rockefellers are in the Standard Oil Building at r6 Broadway; Cornelius Vanderbilt in the American Surety on Broadway at the corner of Pine St., and William C. Whitney may be said to centre his interests in the office he has in his Fifth Ave. mansion, at the corner of 68th St. Close to the Stock Exchange is another exchange that, in its early days operating mainly in oil, now does a general stock business, and follows in the footsteps of its great master on Broad St. — the Consolidated, at the corner of Broadway and Exchange Place. Legion is the name of the strong and mighty banks of New York. And now within the past few years have come into prominence another order of financial institutions^the trust companies — of which there are scores in Manhattan Borough alone. Among the banks and trust companies are : Chemical, 270 Broadway; Bank of New York, 48 Wall St.; Hanover, Nassau and Pine Sts. ; Bank of Commerce, Nassau and Cedar Sts.; American Exchange. 128 Broadway; Chase, 83 Cedat St.; City, 52 Wall St.; First National, 2 Wall St.; Western, Pine and Nassau Sts.; National Park, 214 Broadway; Me- chanics, 33 Wall St.; Fourth National, 14 Nassau St.; Second National, 23d St. and Fifth Ave.; Bank of America, 44 Wall St.; Mechanics, Court and Montague Sts., Brooklyn; National City, Fulton St. and Red Hook Lane, Brooklyn; Manufacturers' National, 84 Broadway, Brooklyn; Union, 44 Court St., Brook- lyn; Borough. 20 Court St., Brooklyn; Corn Exchange, Will- iam and Beaver Sts. ; Bank of the Manhattan Company, 40 Wall St.; Central, 320 Broadway. Trust Companies — Central, 54 Wall St.; Washington, 280 Broadway; City, 36 Wall St.; Knickerbocker, Fifth Ave. and 27th St.; Farmers' Loan and Trvist, 20 William St.; New York Security and Trust, 46 Wall St.; Manhattan, 20 Wall St.; Long Island Loan and Trust, Court and Joralemon Sts., Brooklyn; Brooklyn, Clinton and Montague Sts., Brooklyn; Franklin, Clin- ton and Montague Sts., Brooklyn; Williamsburgh, Broad- way and Kent Ave., Brooklyn; Central Realty Bond and Trust. 115 F»roadway; Trust Company of America, 149 Broad- way; Bowling Green, 26 Broadway; Colonial, 222 Broadway; Guaranty, 28 Nassau St.; Mercantile, 120 Broadway; Metropoli- tan, 37 Wall St.; Manufacturers, 198 Montague St., Brooklyn; Nassau, Broadway and Bedford Ave., Brooklyn; Hamilton, 191 Montague St., Brooklyn; People's, 172 Montague St., Brooklyn; 52 Handbook of New York. Kings County, 344 Fulton St., Brooklyn; Morton, 38 Nassau St.; Union, 80 Broadway; United States, 45 Wall St.; Lincoln, Pifth Ave., just above Madison Square. Brooklyn has a compact financial centre of its own, centering on Borough Hall Square, with its banks and trust companies chiefly on Montague, Court and Fulton Sts. THE NEW YORK OF WHOLESALE TRADE Broadway is the key when it comes to getting to any of the sections of wholesale commerce, though the Sixth and Third Ave. Elevated lines will carry the business man from uptown rather more expeditiously. Along Broadway, however, one is always in the heart of activity and the centre. This commerce of New York has come to be almost beyond measure. New York's imports are 560 million dollars yearly, her manufac- tures 1,371 millions, her trade from the interior over 450 millions. Interesting evidences of this are to be seen in the down town streets crowded with carts and trucks, in the Laight St. (on the west side just below Canal St.) freight depot and along the North and East River fronts, where goods are despatched on steamships and on freight cars upon floats, and received from them. West St., the water-front street of the North River, takes the brunt of this shipping, and the scenes here could only be dimly pic- tured by pen or photograph. Wholesale trade stops at 23d St. For two miles south of this point, on either side of Broadway, stretches out the great whole- sale dry goods trade, with all its branches of novelties and manu- facture, ready made garments for women and men, cloths, under- clothes, accessories. To the west of this is the wholesale grocery trade, close to the North River, with its Gansevoort Market (open air) just below 14th St., and the most important end of this section centering around Reade St., only a little above the City Hall. Below Fulton St., on the east side of Broadway, come the wholesale jewellers, to the west of Broadway the machinery and tool makers. Down towards the East River from the City Hall is the "swamp," where leather is traded in. To the south of these merchants are the tobacco men, and with them the drug handlers. Below are tea, sugar, coffee, spices, cotton, fish. The New York of Wholesale Trade. 53 grain, this strip of merchants on the east side winding ,down close to the Battery into the very door of the Produce Exchange at Bowling Green. Up Broadway are the coal men and the steamship companies, leaving in the centre the valuable lump of Wall St., Broad St., Exchange Place, Cedar, Pine, Nassau, the eyrie of the banks and New York's finance. Not the least interesting thing about New York's greater commerce are the gigantic markets in which the business of food is waged and where before dawn the traffic begins. There are five markets of the first rank in the city — West Washington, Washington, Gansevoort, Wallabout and Fulton. Gansevoort is simply an open square of about four city blocks, where farmers' wagons filled with produce range themselves late each night. The other markets noted are, as it were, specially built villages of stalls, booths and shops, each covering many streets. These do not lack the features of farmers' and peddlers' wag- : J|H< t>%i^ \ =■ i:. TRAFFIC ON WEST ST., THE NORTH RIVER FRONT. (By courtesy of the New Turk ^tail and Express.) ons, and their sidewalks and streets are crowded from 4 o'clock until nearly 9 o'clock each morning with wagons, boxes, barrels and enorm.ous quantities of piled up vegetables, fruits, fowl and meats. The locations of these markets and some idea of their size, as evidenced by the fees the dealers and farmers using them 54 Handbook of Nciv York. pay to the city, are: Washington (established 1813) Wash- ington and Fulton, $53,000; Wallabout, Flushing and Clin- ton Aves., Brooklyn (Flushing Ave. car across the Bridge), $56,000, principally served by farmers from Long Island; Ganse- voort. West and Little West 12th Sts. (take car across 14th St. to West St.), $6,614; West Washington, adjoining Gansevoort and on the North River front, $106,800; Fulton (established 1821), Fulton and South Sts., $40,000. Besides these, along First Ave., up by 40th St., notably, and in Brooklyn close to the Atlantic Ave. Depot at Flatbush Ave.; on Hudson Ave., by Tillary St., and on Johnson Ave., by White St. (in the Eastern District), there are great slaughtering, dressing and meat selling plants where this great interest centres. Smaller markets are not, of course, lacking. Few of the older ones remain, but there is still doing business Catharine Market, on the East River front and Catharine St. — this being the street that runs up from the river to Chatham Square (where the Bowery begins). Said to have been established in 1786. In addition to these there is the Fulton Fish Market, oppo- site Fulton Market and directly on the East River. Fishing boats sail up to its very doors and discharge their cargoes in the rear of the stalls. Around the corner from this, on the sidewalk of Peck Slip, close to South St., there is each morn- ing an open air street market of Jewish fish peddlers buying at auclion. This market's hour is also daybreak. Another is the Flower Market, which now has split into two. One of these is close to the East 34th St. Ferry, the second on upper floor of a tall building on the northeast corner of Sixth Ave. and 27th St. The flowers are usually brought in huge baskets. The whcilesale flower trade itself is on 28th and 29th Sts., between Si.xth Ave. and Broadway. Those who would further view the New York of Wholesale Trade should go over to the great railroad yards all along the Jersey City shore (any ferry) and see the unloading of trains and the reshipping; the New York Central R.R.'s yards, above 59th St. and west of Tenth Ave.; the huge freight yard of Mott Haven in the Bronx (take Webster Ave. car from 129th St. and Third Ave.) ; the railroad terminus at Long Island City, not forgetting the l^aight St. freight station on New York's lower west side, noted above. Outside of its markets, Brooklyn has little of a wholesale trade interest, Riclmioiul, Oueens and the r.ronx practically none. All, however, are great centers of active traffic. Even if no other reason should carry him there, the visitor to The Water Front and Manufacturing. 55 New York must journey down Broadway from Madison Square (23d St.) to City Hall and the Post, Office. In no other way can he gain so comprehensive an idea of the city's prodigious wholesaling. Along almost its entire length there are splendid loft buildings, eight to ten stories high. The old Broad Weg has become only a narrow caiion. The side streets to east and west show the same picture of ample structures, with building never at an end. Here are the " stocks " of " dry " goods for wellnigh the entire country. In the cioss streets close to 23d are millinery and embroideries. See chapter, " The Water Front and Manufacturing." THE WATER FRONT AND MANUFACTURING A comprehensive survey of New York's water front and its manufacturing, its warehouses and the water end of its com- merce would take a quarto in stout binding. The subject is vast, the interests involved tremendous. In one word, visitor or resident New Yorker should go and see for himself. Below are some directions for a profitable series of tours that will unfold some of the story of New York's manufacturing and maritime greatness. Take Pennsylvania R.R. ferryboat from foot of West 23d St. Change at Jersey City to Bnooklyn Annex. Back the same way. West St. car from 59th St. and Tenth Ave. down the Hudson River front to fhe Battery. Change to South St. car up East River front to 59th St. Take ferry at East 4 2d St. to Broadway, Brooklyn, from there ferry to Roosevelt St., Manhattan. Back the same way. Take ferry foot East 23d St. to Greenpoint, then trolley car (Crosstown) to Hamilton Ave. Change to Hamilton Ave. car, then to Third Ave. car. Go on Third Ave. car to 39th St.; then ferry to Battery (Manhattan). The Produce Exchange and the Maritime Exchange are to- gether in the big Produce Exchange Building on Bowling Green at the foot of Broadway. This structure might well be spoken of as the heart of the shipping and commerce. It stands prac- tically in the geographical centre of the city. 56 Handbook of Nezv York. The Jersey shore is more especially for the piers of the rail- road companies. The North River side of Manhattan, some fifteen miles of water front, is the landing place of the ocean liners, Sound and some coastwise steamers. Freight and pas- senger handling on the largest New York 'scale is done here. Between Perry and Gansevoort Sts., just above loth St., are the first five of the new piers of the city, completed. These are some i.ooo feet long and 200 feet wide. Others are to be built by the Dock Department of New York from this point to 23d St., and yet others along the East River at several points. The East River front does much railroad and steamboat coast- wise business, and at Clinton St. has a large dry dock. Its famous " Canal Boat Village," at Coenties Slip, has been moved to Erie Basin, Brooklyn. On the lower Jersey shore and the Staten Island (Richmond Borough) shore are the Standard Oil Works, the Baltimore and Ohio R. R. freight terminus, warehouses, linseed oil, flour mills, linoleum and terra cotta manufactories, ship building yards, plaster mills, and on Shooter's Island, in Staten Island Sound, a yacht constructing plant. Around from Newark Bay and that city of manufactories comes much tributary commerce. The Brooklyn water front is thirty-three miles in extent, and begins with Newtown Creek and its many industries, promi- nent among which is oil refining. From here to the Erie Basin, ten miles away, there is a succession of freight terminals, coal pockets, storehouses, three or four of the largest sugar refineries in the world, then Wallabout Basin and the Navy Yard, and following these miles of warehouses of long establishment. These latter, with the fine residential section of Brooklyn Heights, on a hill in plain view immediately above them, face lower Manhattan Island picturesquely. The line of warehouses extends down past Governor's Island, the military headquarters of the Department of the East of the Army. A change has come over this section of the Brooklyn water front of recent years, however. The grain trade, once the largest in America here, has gone, and the old elevators are being dismantled. New warehouses are rising in their places and foreign steamship lines are docking at this point. The New York Dock Company has taken the old Atlantic Basin and has dredged it and widened its entrance to admit the largest vessels at any tide. One of its piers is the largest in the world, 1,250 feet long. In this Basm goods are transferred directly from the steamers to railroad cars, which run in under the piers. Below this is the Erie Basin, 161 f.cres with a mile of break- The ]Vatcr Front and Manufacturing. 57 water, including stores for grain, general merchandise and chemicals. Here come ocean timber rafts and sawed lumber. Here are very large dry docks, marine railways and two cele- brated yacht building plants, Poillon's and Wintringham's. Here also is New York's Canal Boat Village of the winter months. Beyond the Erie Basm are further docks and storehouses down to 65th St., where there is a bluff to the Narrows. Across at this point is Fort Wadsworth (on Staten Island). Below here, where Gravesend Bay comes into the Lower Bay, is Fort Hamilton and Fort Lafayette and Coney Island. New York's manufactures could only be chronicled by men- tioning products by the thousand. In brief, it may be said that the greater part of Manhattan Island's manufacturing is to the extreme east or west, close to the rivers. That of the Bronx is at its lower end, close to the Harlem and the East rivers. Brooklyn's factories s],read out widely. They fringe the East River and the Lower Bay and extend into many other sections, covering notably South Brooklyn and a strip between the East- ern and the Western Districts, as well as much of Williamsburgh (on either side of Broadway) and Greenpoint. Oil and sugar have already been spoken of as two of Brooklyn's products. Another is fine hats. IN CENTRAL PARK. 58 Handbook of Nciv York. THE HOTELS Some of New York's hotels have already been noted in the chapter on "Fashionable New York." They — the hotels actually upon Fifth Ave. and of some con- cern in its life — are but a drop in the bucket in comparison with the New York hotel world as a whole; the thousands from West, East and South that come flooding here by train on every hand, make up an army ot sightseers, shoppers and pleasure- takers by themselves. There are yet thousands of others who come more prosaically and less as the butterfly, on business bent, but combining a little enjoyment with it, a few hours each day. Together these two classes comi)rise New York's huge floating ])opulation, unnum- bered, that leaves unlimited money on Manhattan Island. Between 23d and 59th Sts., Lexington Ave. and Seventh is the metropolis' "hotel belt," hotels scattering besides down to the City Hall and over on the Heights in Brooklyn overlooking the Bay. No one has ever attempted to figure exactly New York's hotel population. It is a calculation that would have to be changed each few months as new hostelries spring up, assured investments for capitalists. i:.legance and luxury in the extreme mark the representative IN ew York hotel. No private residence can be fitted out more exquisitely than its suites of rooms, no machinery can be more perfect than its corps of trained servants. As a phase of American city life alone, the most celebrated hotels of New York furnish no small amount of entertainment. Visitors to the city who are content with more modest accommodation and New Yorkers themselves should not fail to go the rounds over these "nublic houses" evolved from the Dutch and English Inn of some generations ago. Some of the more notable hotels of New York are: The Holland House, Fifth Ave. and 30th St. Decidedly fash- ionable. 'J'he Waldorf-Astoria, Fifth Ave., 33d and 34th Sts. Very gorgeous in its appointments, with its splendid "Astor Gallery" and many banqueting rooms. The corridors on the first floor are filled every night with strangers from all parts of America who try to pose as personages. Prominent people drift back and forth during the evening. This is one of the largest hotels in the country, perhaps the largest. Accommodates 1,300 people. The Imperial, Broadway and 32d The Fifth Avenue, Broadway and 23d. Rather far "down town" now. The Savoy, southeast corner 59th St. and Fifth Ave. Hotel Netherlands, northeast corner 59th St. and Fifth Ave. Murray Hill, Park Ave., 40th and 41st. Manhattan, Madison Ave. at 42d. Very handsome decora- tions. Grand Union, opposite Grand Central Station, 42d St. and Park Ave. Gilsey House, Broadway and 29th. Grand, Broadway and 31st. The Buckingham. Very fashionable. Fifth Ave. at soth. The .Brevoort. Lower Fifth Ave., corner of 8th St. Old house, much favored by foreigners. The Astor House. Famous down town hotel, long ^sta,blish^ritton; over the Zoological Park, Professor VV. T. Hornaday. MONUMENTS, STATUES, ARCHES The city has many monuments and statues, but few that are remarkable. It will save time if only those of real interest are given, instead of a long, vinwieldy, next to useless, list. The Grant Mo.^;u^lENT — Domed marble mausoleum, where both General Grant and his widow are now entombed. On the banks of the Hudson, Riverside Drive, at Claremont, 124th St. Dedicated 1897. Heroic Bronze Figure of George Washington, on the steps of the Sub-Treasury, Wall St. The work of J. Q. A. Ward. The Washington Arch — Washington Square. Designed at the time of the Washington Centennial Celebration, 1889. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch — Plaza in front of Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The bronze equestrian group sur- mounting it, the Quadriga, is the work of Frederick Mac- Monnies. An electric fovmtain faces it. fi4 Handbook of Nnv York. Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument^ completed 1902. River- side Drive and 89th St. The Bartholdi Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World — Colossal copper figure, 305 feet i inch, above low watei marie, on a little island in the Upper Bay, Liberty Island. Take boat from Battery. The figure has a staircase leading to its top that may be climbed. Presented by French Government, J 386. The Egyptian Obelisk— Alongside of the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art. A granite shaft, 70 feet high. Presented by the Khedive of Egypt and set U]) here in 18S1. Its mate is on the Thames Embankment, London. Interesting hieroglyphics. Beecher Monument — A I)ronze group in the park facing Borough Hall, Brooklyn. Nathan Hale Statue— In City Kail Park, on Broadway. Fine bronze figure, life size. Erected by the Sons of the Revo- lution, 1893. TOMB OK PETER STUYVESANT, ST. mark's church. Ericsson, the inventor — At the Battery. This statue is to be replaced by another at the plea of the sculptor. It has been in place ten years. Martyrs' Monument — Trinity Churchyard, opposite Pine St. Elaborate. In memory of the martyrs of Revolutionary prison ships. CoLUMBi's Monument — Tall white shaft. Circle, Eighth Ave. and 59th St. The Government and Politics. 65 Alexandkk Ha.milto.n' — Statvie in front of the Hamilton Club, Clinton and Remsen Sts., Brooklyn. Grant Equestrian Statue — Opposite Union League Club, Bed- ford Ave. and Dean St., Brooklyn. Worth Monument — Madison Square. Erected in 1857. Curious survival. In memory of Major General Worth. Erected 1857. Statue of J. S. T. Stranaiian — Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Maryland Monument — Prospect Park, on Lookout Hill. A memorial of the Battle of Long Island. L.\wrence Monument — In Trinity Churchyard, by church doors on Broadway side. In memory of Captain James Lawrence. The Heine Fountain, 1899 — -iSist St. and Mott Ave., Bronx Borough. This is where the new drive, the Grand Concourse, spoken of in detail elsewhere, will commence. To visit this take Third Ave. car from 129th St., transfer to i6ist St. car going west. Horace Greeley Statue — At entrance of Tribune Building. Farragut Statue — In Madison Square Park. The Pilgrim — By J. Q. A. Ward. Central Park, near East 72A. St. entrance. Richard M. Hunt Memorial — Fifth Ave., along the Central Park wall, opposite the Lenox Library, at 70th St. Bust of Mozart — Flower Garden, Prospect Park, Brooklyn. THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS The Mayor's office is in the City Hall, where also the Alder- men meet in a big chamber of their own and where there is the historic "Governor's Room," lined with interesting portraits and possessing the desk at which Washington wrote his first message to Congress. The City Hall is undoubtedly the finest specimen of municipal architecture in America. In the City Hall as well is the office of the President of the Borough of Manhattan. Each of the five boroughs of New York has its president or executive officer (a sort of deputy mayor) to preside over local matters. The power of these borough presidents has been much extended since the first Charter of the Greater New York was adopted. The city is divided into 35 local districts, each electing two aldermen, each having its own board empowered to carry out small improvements. Back of the City Hall is the Court House. Back of this, on Chambers St., facing the City Hall Park, a magnificent new Hall of Records, taking up half a big block, is being constructed. Seven or eight blocks up Centre St., the first street to the east, is the Tombs (the City Prison) and the Criminal Courts Building. The Tombs, a gloomy Egyptian pile, was until recently one of the chief sights of New York. The last of it has just been pulled down, however, to make way for a more modern prison. Nearly all of the city departments are in rented buildings. 66 Handbook of Nezv York. the Stewart Building (Broadway and Chambers St.) and the Syndicate Building (Park Row, opposite the Post Office) hold- ing the most of them. Police Headquarters are on Mulberry St. near Houston (three blocks east of Broadway). Fire Head- quarters, 67th St. near Third Ave.; the Health Department, 55th St. and Sixth Ave. ; the Board of Education, Park Ave. and 59th. Politics has its chief outward expression for the visitor in Tammany Hall (14th St. near Third Ave.) and in one end of the corridor of the Fifth Ave. Hotel (Broadway and 23d St.), called the "Amen Corner." where Republican statesmen get together. Except during a campaign, however, Tammany Hall is grim - and dull. The political machinery does not show. There are a host of social clubs, besides, in which politics is played. (See chapter, "New York Clubdom.") Brooklyn's old City Hall, in City Hall I'ark, has been made Borough Hall. The fine Brooklyn Post Office is on the opposite corner from the Eagle Building, at Washington and Johnson Sts. Brooklyn's Fire Headquarters is on Jay St., near Myrtle Ave. ITEMS OF NOTE ABOUT NEW YORK Some noted tall buildings in New York are: Bowling Green (19 stories), 5-11 Broadway; St. Paul (.?6 stories), Ann St. and Broadway; American Surety {2^ stories), Broadway and Pine St.; American Tract (23 stories), Nassau and Spruce Sts.; the Fuller, " Flatiron " (20 stories), 23d St. and Broadway; Bank of Commerce (20 stories), Nassau and Cedar Sts.; Park Row, " Syndicate" (29 stories), opposite Post Office. Among the suburbs arc Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Fort Hamil- ton, Bergen Beach, Manhattan Beach, Brighton Beach, North Beach, all part of Brooklyn. Manhattan and Brighton Beaches are part of Coney Island (trolley cars from Bridge or Long Island R.R.) Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton, take Third Ave. trolley from Bridge. Bergen Beach, Flatbush Ave. car. North Beach, trolley from Long Island City, and Flushing Ave. car from Brooklyn Bridge — and from Broadway ferry. There are some thirty "Settlements" in New York and Brook- lyn. If Settlement work is to be studied or made an excuse for sightseeing, these three should be visited: The Nurses' Settle- ment, 287 Henry St. (Grand St. cars on the .East Side to Henry St.), Miss Lillian D. Wald; the big building of the University Settlement. Rivington and Eldridge .Sts. (walk east down Riving- ton St. from Bowery), Robert Hunter; East Side House (foot East 76th St., Second Ave. car), Clarence Gordon. Masonic Temples — Sixth Ave. and 23d St.; Aurora Grata Cathedral. Bedford Ave. and Madison St., Brooklyn. Public Bath Houses are a new feature of the citv. The first Items of Note about Neiu York. 67 of these is i'.i Rivington St., near Goerck. Three mere are to be built in Manhattan and two in Brooklyn — one of the Man- hattan baths in Seward Park, on the East Side, one of the Brooklyn baths on Hicks St., near Degraw. Recreation Piers are located at foot of East 3d, East 24th, Last 112th, foot of West 129th, West 50th and Barrow Sts., Manhattan, and foot of North 2d St., Brooklyn. The daily papers best give the piers from which steamships and steamboats sail, but for convenience the piers of a few are appended: American Line, Fulton St., X. R. (North River); Clyde Lnie, West loth St., N. R.; Ward Line, Wall St., E. R. (Last River); Cromwell Line,. Pier No. 9, N. R. ; Quebec Steam- ship Co., West loth St.. N. R. ; Red Star Line, Fulton St., N. R. ; North German Lloyd, Gansevoort St., N. R., and Hoboken; New York and Cuba Mail, Wall St., E. R. ; Red "D," Robert Stores- Brooklvn; Mallory Line, Burling Slip, E. R. ; Anchor Line, West 2.|th St., N. R. ; French Line, Morton St., N. R. ; Atlantic Trans- port Line, West Houston St., N. R. ; Old Dominion, Beach St., N. R. ; Savannah Line, Spring St., N. R. ; Cunard line, foot Jane St., N. R. ; Hamburg American, foot ist St., Hoboken, N. J.; Hudson River Day Line and Mary Powell, Desbrosses St., N. R.; Citizens' Line (Troy), West loth St., N. R. ; Montauk Steam- boat Co., Pier No. 13, E. R. ; Patten Line, West 13th St., N. R., and Battery; People's Line, Canal St., N. R. ; Central Hudson Steamboat Co., Franklin St., N. R. ; Fall River Line, Warren St., N. R. ; Providence Line, Murray St., N. R. ; Stonington and Nor- wich Line, Spring St., N. R. ; Hartford Line, Pier No. 24, E. R. The great newspaper buildings are on " Newspaper Row," Printing House Square, opposite City Hall Park to the east. The exceptions are the New York Herald and the Brooklyn Eagle, the former at Herald Square, 35th St. and Broadway; the latter at Washington and Johnson Sts., Brooklyn (take any Brooklyn Borough Hall car). The locations of the chief armories are: Seventh Regiment, Park Ave., 69th St.; Twenty-third Regiment, Bedford and At- lantic Aves., Brooklyn; Twenty-second Regiment., Broadway and 68th St.; Thirteenth Regiment (Heavy Artillery), Sumner and Putnam Aves., Brooklyn; Squadron A, Madison Ave., 94th St.; Troop C, North Portland ave.. Auburn Place, Brooklyn; Naval Brigade, First Battalion, ship New Hampshire, foot East 24th St.; Second Battalion, foot 55th St., Brooklyn. Arsenal, Seventh Ave. and ssth St. The old State Arsenal is m Central Park, and is now used for a portion of the Central Park Menagerie. Athletic Grounds in the city include: Polo Grounds, Eighth Ave. and 157th St.; New York Athletic, Travers' Island (New Haven R.R. to Pelham Manor); Berkeley Oval. Morris Heights (New York and Putnam R.R.); Y. M. C. A. Athletic, 150th St. and Harlem River; Manhattan Field, Eighth Ave. and 155th St. In Brooklyn there are: Crescent Athletic, Bay Ridge (Third Ave. trolley ca'-s) ; Parade Ground, Prospect Park (Ninth Ave. car); Base Ball Grounds, Third St., between Third and Fourth Aves. In Jersey: Grounds of Knickerbocker Athletic Club (sta- tion, Ave." A, Central R.R. of New Jersey, Bayonne). On Staten Island: Staten Island Cricket Club at Livingston. Rockaway Beach, a popular summer day resort, is to be reached by boat or Long Island R.R. Outside of Coney Island, it is the largest of the seashore attractions. South and Midland Beaches are on Staten Island (ferry boat from the Battery, then trolley). 68 Handbook of New York. CONEY ISLAND Coney Island, the entertaining pleasure ground by the sea of New York and New York's visitors, will have far more than usual about it this summer. Besides the sections of great hotels, the Oriental, the Manhattan Beach and the Brighton, with their firework scenic displays, their music and their good dining, and besides the life of the "Bowery," the bathing, the picnick- ing and the crowds of the West End, some elaborately and brilliantly planned attractions are to make the Island a Mecca for warm days and nights. It is needless to tell any resident or any visitor how to get to Coney Island. The daily papers give a score of ways. By trolley from, the Bridge is always a direct journey and not a long trip. These are some of Coney Island's attractions for 1903: Luna Park, " New York's World's Fair," to cover the big plot of ground bounded by Surf Ave., 8th St., Coney Island Creek and 12th St., the old Sea Lion Park grounds. Trolley cars from Brooklyn and New York have their terminus along- side of it. The " Midway " idea carried out very beautifully and with great elaboration. Thompson & Dundy. Tilyou's Steeplechase, newly made up, and Park, with many special amusement features. Located at the Sea Gate end of the Bov/ery. The Johnstown Flood, panorama. Before and during the catastrophe. Seen from aYi amphitheatre. The Coal Mine. A trip through it in little cars. The Old Mill. Fine scenic effects. The trip to it is made in boats. The Great Seesaw, with revolving wheel on either end. The Loop the Loop. The Scenic Railway. The Ferris Wheel. The Observation Tower. THE world's fair AT CONEY ISLAND. 70 Handbook of Xczc York. NEW STYLE TENEMENT, NEW YORK. OLD STYLE TENEMENT, NEW YORK. CHARITIES AND HOSPITALS P^or full details of this side of Xevv York visit the oitice ot the Charity Organization Society, 22d St. and Fourth Ave., and if much interested purchase the Eagle Almanac. Roughly, the most important points to be visited are the islands of the city institutions: Blackwell's, Ward's. Randalls— boat foot East 26th St.; Bellevuc Hospital, the city's charity hospital, foot East 26th St.; these other hospitals — Roosevelt (59th St. and Ninth Ave.), St. Luke's (ii3tb. St., Amsterdam Ave.), Long Island College (Henry and Amity Sts., Brooklyn — go over South Ferry from Battery), Presbyterian (Madison Ave. and 70th St.), Woman's (50th St. and Lexington Ave.), Nursery and Child's Hospital (571 Lexington Ave.), New York (15th St., near Fifth Ave.), Babies' Hosintal (Lexington Ave. and 55th St.). the .New York Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum (Sedgwick Ave. and Kingsbridge Road), the Hebrew Orphan Asylum (Amsterdam Ave. and 136th St.), New York Juvenile Asylum (176th St. and Amsterdam Ave.), Five Points House of Industry (155 Worth St.), the Hebrew Technical Institute (34 Stuyvesant St.). the Baron de Hirsch Trade School (64th St.. between Second and Third Aves.) ''The Tenderloin;" New York's Foreign Quarters. 71 "THE TENDERLOIN" A name bestowed upon that part of New York bounded by 23d St., Seventh Ave., 426. St. and Lexington Ave., by the famous Police Inspector Williams, yclept _ "Slugger Williams," "because," said he, "as a police precinct it's the tenderloin of the steak." Greatly as New York has changed in twenty years the "Tenderloin" is still the "Tenderloin," the point where the push, go and bustle of metropolitan life is greater and most enticing, brightest after dark. Only now the upper end of the Tenderloin, from 34th to 42d Sts., has the bulk of the gayety instead of around 23d St., the case a few short years ago. Broadway is the Tenderloin's pivot. The new Rialto or prom- enade of actors is along Broadway's west side, from 35th to 42d St. Over these streets is a parade every hour of the day or night. At 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning there is little let up. New York has a night population quite as distinctly as it has a day population, and this part of the city is its favorite place of assembly. Besides the streets, the most interesting thing about this quarter are the midnight meals and the thronged restaurants. NEW YORK'S FOREIGN QUARTERS No city of the world is more cosmopolitan, has so many peoples, sucla a shouldering together of nations. It was only the other day that a Russian Orthodox church was consecrated in New York, with much pomp and ceremony, near the corner of 97th St. and Fifth Ave. That was but an indication of the unnumbered hordes from European countries and from Western Asia that year by year cross the ocean for America. No small proportion of them settle in New York. Later they become ordinarv Americans, but for a time they keep by them- selves. The Ghetto Jews call the late arrivals of their race "greeners." All newly landed immigrants are that, and though the many drift away from the "quarters" and become rich the newcomers keep the "quarters" filled and their traditions and customs alive. Curious sights are thus to be seen by day and by night all over the town. To visit the Ghetto of the Jews, the great "East Side,", or one of the most interesting of the Italian colonies, take a Madison Ave. car to the corner of the Bowery and Grand St. For Jewry turn to the east along Grand St., the Ghetto's Broadway. Much misinformation has been written about the East Side, for there is much intelligence and wealth there, but it has its picturesque, foreign side. After walkmg along Grand St. turn one block to the south into Hester St., 72 Handbook of New York. and thence into East Broadway. Much Old World life is to be seen. Such cafes as Maas's, or Lorber's, on Grand St., two blocks from the Bowery, should be visited. The Ghetto or the East Side is bounded by the Bowery on the west, Houston St. on the north, Catharine St. on the south and extends very nearly over to the East River. Across the Bowery, on Mulberry, Elizabeth and Mott Sts., several blocks above and below Grand St., is the Italian quarter of the Italians from the south of Italy. On the west side of New York, cen- tering on Sullivan and Thompson Sts. at Bleecker (take Broad- way car, get off at Bleecker St., walk west five blocks — Bleecker St. is just below Washington Square) is the great colony of Northern Italians. A third Italian colony centres on io6th St. on the East Side. Take Third Ave. car. Just south of the Italian colony first mentioned is China- town, on Pell, Mott and Doyers Sts. South of the Ghetto are the Greeks. North of the Ghetto, far east on Aves. A and B, farther east than First Ave., around 8th St., is the old German stronghold, "Klein Deutschland," now gradually breaking up. Along Second Ave. above 8th St. is "Little Hungary," with at least one noted restaurant, "Cafe Boulevard." Another Hun- garian restaurant is the Cafe Liberty on Houston St. (walk about three blocks east from Third Ave.) The Syrians are on Washington St. near the Battery. (Take Sixth Ave. Elevated to Battery Place,, walk one block west to Washington St.) The negro quarter is on the side streets out of Seventh Ave. above 23d St. The small French quarter is off Sixth Ave. just above 23d St. Brooklyn has several extraordinary foreign quarters. To visit the chief Italian colony cross the Hamilton Ferry from the Battery, and explore Union and President Sts. If the ferry be taken from East 42d or 23d St. to Broadway, Brooklyn, and thence a Broadway car to Leonard and Moore Sts., another great "Klein Deutschland" will be discovered, practically a city of Germany by itself. Here there is also an interesting Jewish quarter. By taking a Hamburg Ave. car from the same ferry one arrives after a half hour's ride at the Jewish settle- ment of Brownsville in Brooklyn's outskirts, a Polish town in its characteristics, and unquestionably worth visiting. For note on theatrical performances in Yiddish {Hebrew dia- lect) and Italian, see chapter "Galleries, Museums, Theatres and Music." In the Little Italics, both of New York and Brooklyn, there arc nearly alzuays to be tvitnessed very good marionette sliows. Inquire at the Italian druggists or cafe in the Mulberry St. quarter, Manhattan, and in the President St. (near East River) quarter of Brooklyn. Countryside, Trollcyiiig, Forts. 73 NEW YORK'S COUNTRYSIDE AND TROL- LEYING I-'or those who have some little time to spend in New York there is a splendid nearby countryside to he visited over Long Island through the Bronx and up into Westcliester, out through the villages and rural regions of New Jersey, over Staten Island. The number of trolley rides that may be taken from New York is innumerable, and in the same way there is scarcely a limit to the l)oat excursions that can be made. The territory of both is so com]iletely covered with routes that each needs a little book to itself. Such books the Eagle has issued in its "Trolley Exploring," and "Water Exploring," each lo cents, sent by mail postjiaid. Every New York resident should have one of each. THE HESTER STREET MARKET. FORTS ABOUT NEW YORK The headquarters of the U. S. Army in New York is the Army Building, Whitehall St., just below Bowling Green (the end of Broadway). From the Battery a boat goes frequently to Governor's Island, the chief Army station, the quarters of the General commanding the "Department of the East." Gov- ernor's Island is in the Upper Bay. Its fortification is the old Fort Columbus. Passes are needed for all the forts. The important forts about the city are: I""ort Hamilton and Fort Lafayette, out in the Lower Bay, fac- ing it, I'ay Ridge, Brooklyn. Take Third Ave. car from Brook- lyn Bridge. 74 • Handbook of Nciv York-. Fort Wadsworth, Staplcton, Statcn Island. I'^crry from Bat- tery to St. George, then trolley car. Fort Schuyler, Throg's Xe.k, Westchester, in Bronx Borough. Fort Totten, Bayside, Long Island. Fort Slocum, David's Island. The forts that guard the Sound entrances to the East River. Boat from Pier 13, East River. Fort Hancock, at Sandy Hook, N. J., oceanward point of Lower Bay. Boat from Pier 13, East River. RACING Jerome Park, the famous, up in the Bronx, once Westchester, has been done away with for some years and a reservoir now takes its place. The chief tracks about New York are at Morris Park (the Bronx), take Harlem R.R. at Grand Central Station, 42d St., or trolley car from 129th St. and Third Ave.; Sheepshead Bay; Brighton; and the Brooklyn Jockey Club. The latter three are all on the outskirts of Brooklyn, close to Coney Island. Take Long Island train at Long Island City (East 34th St. ferry) or trolley cars from the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge. The season of 1903, moreover, is almost certain to be the last that Morris Park will see as a race course. This country- side that the actual city of New York has crept to is to be built over. In place of it the Westchester Racing Association has bought land for a $1,500,000 course on Long Island between Hempstead and Jamaica at Queens. The new course will be known as Belmont Park and will be completed for the opening of the season of 1904. Another great new track is building close by, the Metropolitan, near Jamaica, completed this spring. THE NAVY YARD Take I'lushing Ave. car from New York end of Brooklyn Bridge to main gate. Passes are required, but may be obtained by simply addressing "Captain of the Yard" and inclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, or apply personally at main entrance. Such a pass does not give permission, however, to board war vessels that may be lying here. These courtesies are to be had from the commander of each ship only. There is always enough going on at the Navy Yard to make a visit there highly pleasurable. The Yard lies in a small bay on the Long Island side of the East River. It is made uu of repair docks, foundries, machine shops, storehouses, barracks and officers' residences, arranged in streets. There are many interesting naval relics in a little enclosure known as Trophy Street Car and "L" Lines. 75 I'ark. A special pass will be required to visit Cob Dock on the farther side of the Yard, and reached by a ferry boat worked across the open water of the little bay on a cable. In Cob Dock some of the most interesting work of the Navy Yard is always to be found. The Brooklyn Eagle publishes a special guide book to the Navy Yard. At 167 Sands St., close to the Yard, is the handsome building presented by Miss Helen Gould, and known as the Naval Branch of the Y. M. C. A. STREET CAR AND "L" LINES There are four elevated lines on Manhattan Island, Sixth Third, Second and Ninth Aves. Each runs from the Harlem River to the Battery (South Ferry), the Third Ave. having spurs to the Brooklyn Bridge, the East 34th St. Ferry, the Grand Central Station (42d St.). The Second and Third Avenue Elevated have an extension up into Bronx Borough to Fordham (190th St.). In Brooklyn there are "Ls" on Fulton St. from the Bridge, on Broadway from the ferries, on Myrtle Ave., Lexington Ave. and Fifth Ave. to the city's limits. THK MANSION OF CHARLES M. SCHWAB THAT IS TO BE BUILT ON THE RIVERSIDE DRIVE, FACING THE HUDSON. 76 Handbook of Nciv York. On Manhattan Island the chief surface lines from north to south are on Broadway, Sixth Ave., Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Madison, Lexington, Third, Second, Amsterdam, Lenox and Columbus Aves. The most important cross town lines are Cham- bers, Grand, 14th, 23d, 34th, 42d, 59th, ii6th and 125th Sts. The Bronx lines have as their objective point Mount Vernon, and the chief ones go up Third Ave., Webster Ave. and the Boston Road (from 129th St. and Third Ave.) and up Jerome Ave. from Cen- tral Bridge, Seventh Ave. and Harlem River. A stage line runs up Fifth Avenue from Washington Square to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, another up Riverside Drive from Central Park West, 72d St. Gate. In Brooklyn the main surface lines run up Fulton St., (iates, Myrtiai DeKalb, Mushing, Seventli, l-'ifth, Tliird, .Xinth, Putnam, Aves. and Court St., from the I'ridge; and Hroadway, XosUand. Sumner, Rockaway Aves. and Lorimer St. from the Broadway ferry. CEMETERIES Besides Greenwood (pp. 16, 21) there are many famous New York City cemeteries. Nearly all lie in the Borough of Queens or on the outskirts of Brooklyn, and are best reached by the East 23d or East 42d St. ferries. WooDLAWK, one of the finest of these, is in Bronx Borougli, and is reached by railway from Grand Central Station. Trinity Cemetery is on the Hudson River bank at 155th St. (Amsterdam and Third Ave. trolley cars). The famous cemeteries of Long Island are Greenwood, Calvary, New Calvary, Cypress Hills, EVERGREKNS, LUTHERAN. Take cars from Brooklyn side of ferries above named. Aihiertisei)ie7its, 77 NASSAU TRUST COMPANY BROOKLYN, N. Y. Capital $500,000.00 Undivided Profits. 471.395.25 Authorized to act as Executor, Trustee, Adininistrator Com- mittee, Guardian. Receiver, Assignee, Registrar, Transfer and Fiscal Agent. Interest paid on daily balances. Special rates on time deposits. Accounts of individuals, business firms, corporations, estates, etc., invited. Travelers' letters of credit and bankers' money orders issued. SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS Andrkw T. Sullivan, - - - President William Dick, ).,,.. ^ .^ Harry F, Burns, Secretary > Vie© r residents John Truslow, » " Francis Weekes, Asst. Secy. SAVl More people than ever are wearing our Shirts. They fit good. ALFRED PAGE 443 Fulton Street Brooklyn EVERYTHING IN MEN'S FURNISHINoi- o^ ^- 78 Handbook of Nc7v York. MEN'S Wear Co. 57J FULTON ST., - BORO. OF BROOKLYN The largest distributor of LION BRAND Collars and Cuffs on this side of the river HIGH-GRADE MEN^S FURNISHINGS at Department Store prices "L/ON BRAND" 57J FULTON ST. n-oAni- kMAaiy OpP* Hanover Place iRAUt MARK Near Montauk Theatre HAIR DRESSING, MANICURING MRS. TYLER'MILLER Importer and Manufacturer of Fine Hair Goods NEW METHOD SHAMPOOING SCALP TREATMENT 80 FLEET STREET 2d door from Fulton Opp. Loeser's Telephone Call -U^- -\ J^Yirr ^^^ EAGLE INFORMATION ■■^^— "^^ BUREAU help plan your vacation — Hotel and Boardingf House circulars — A Resort Directory — Free. Advertisements. 70 FREE BUREAUS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF Hotel and Boarding House Literature School Catalogues and Circulars Railroad Guides and Time Tables, Steamship Sailings and Rates of Fares ARE MAINTAINED AS FOLLOWS: EAGLE BUILDING BROOKLYN 437 FIFTH AVENUE, BROOKLYN 2511 ATLANTIC AVENUE, BROOKLYN J024 GATES AVE,, near BROADWAY, BROOKLYN 952 BROADWAY, MANHATTAN, N. Y. CITY 608 Hth STREET, WASHINGTON, D. C. 53 RUE CAMBON, PARIS, FRANCE Address all inquiries to Main Office EAGLE INFORMATION BUREAU Room 29 Eagle Building, Brooklyn, N. Y. 80 Handbook of Nt^iv York. How to Buy Life Insurance THREE DOMINATING WORDS If we were asked the one word which brings or retards success in the business world, we would unhesitatingly name the word, Managetnenl . If we were asked the one word controlling barter and sale in the Ijusiness world, we would as unhesitatingly name the word, Iwyej-tigaiion. Investigation completed, if wc ^vere asked the one word w^hich dominates choice in the business world, we wovild name the word, Comparison. Management may make the stock of one railway company, for example, worth more than that of another, or worth less, or worthless. Investigation proves the fact and often the cause; comparison, one with another, dictates the price, the " ticker " tells the tale and sales are made accordingU-. No other business responds so readil3' to Management as Life Insurance, though in no other business is Investigation and Comparison so little practiced. The expert on 'Change investigates, compares, and is con- trolled by one, two, or a fe\v " points" in the ups and downs of the Stock market. Yet this same expert will buy his Life Insurance from one comi)an3' the dividends of which arc 50 per cent, or more lower than those of another. MANAGEMENT causes the difference; INVESTIGATION discovers the difference; COMPARISON })roves and niensures the difference. Send for Comparisons with all other Companies. ADDRESS NATHAN S. JONAS 1028 Gates Avenue Brooklyn-New York AGENCY Horthoiestepn IVIutual Iiife Insurance Co> ASSETS, $165,042,435.33 Insurance in force, $620,681 , 283.00 Organized J 85 7 J 834 1903 William Wise & Son JEWELERS SIL VERSMITHS AND IMPORTERS OF PRECIOUS STONES Flatbush (Avenue and Fulton Street LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 222 934 1 % LOAN AND iKUSl COMPANY " TEMPLE BAR " Corner Court and Joralemon Sts., Brooklyn Allows Interest on Daily Balances Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent Transacts General Trust and Banking Business. Acts as Executor, Trustee, Adminis- trator, Etc. CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND PROFITS $2,400,000.00 Accounts of Individuals, Firms and Corporations Solicited EDWARD MERRITT, ■ - President CLINTON L. ROSSITER, First Vice-President DA VID a. LEQGET, - Second Vice-President FREDERICK T. ALDRIDGE, - - Secretary WILLARD P. SCHENCK, - Ass't Secretary