MAY 10 I 9 i 8 From the top of the Vanderbilt one can g« comprehensive view of New York City. From the top of the Vauderbilt one can ge! a comprehensive view of New York City. l,C^ Index and Reference Sheet Tlie Vaiulerbilt Hotel 3 New York as a Sunniier Resort 4 The Physical New York (i A Trip lip Broadway 8 Fifth Aveiuie from the Top of a Motor Bus 13 Churches on Fifth Avenue IG Theatres, Roof Gardens and Other Amusements 17 Coney Island 17 Prospect Park 18 Ivong Beach 18 Baseball Games 19 Polo 19 Racing 20 Golf 21 Tennis 21 Smart Shops 22 Restaurants in and about "The Great White Way" 23 Out-of-Door Restaurants 23 Chop Houses 24 Motor Trips 25 Turkish Baths and Hair-dressing Establishments 2(5 Garages 27 Bronx Park 28 The Motor Parkway 28 The Museums 28 Statue of Liberty Illuminated The Vanderbilt — Palm Garden and Tea Room. T HE VANDERBILT HOTEL stands at Park Avenue and 34th Street, the southern point of the most aristocratic residential district of New York. Also, situated as it is, in what we might call the railway terminal zone, it is really the heart of the Greater City and enjoys, from its location, advantages that no other hotel in town possesses, in its easy access to theatres, clubs, shops and departmental stores. A subway entrance is at its door. The Grand Central and Pennsylvania Railway terminals can each be reached by six minutes' walk, or by "taxi" for forty cents, or by direct line on the surface cars for five cents. In its appointments and in its cuisine, the Vanderbilt Hotel has no superior, and its Delia Robbia Restaurant, named after the great sculptor of the fifteenth century, whose beautiful terra- cotta reliefs suggested the room, is now justly famous. Its lunches, its dinners and its Sunday evening dinner concerts draw together a crowd of patrons daily and weekly whom it is a pleasure to know, even by sight. The Vanderbilt Hotel is only one, however, of the many attractions that New York City has to offer its visitors in the Summer time. New York City as a Summer Resort It is because New York City offers so many dif- ferent attractions during that we are tendering you the this Grand Central Station vacation period presentment, in proof of the fact that New York City is by far the best Summer resort in America. A few days spent here during the Summer m o nt h s will prove both in- teresting and instructive. It is rarely the upper floors A great many too hot for comfort and never on of an hotel like the Vanderbilt. of the theatres are open during the Summer months and innumerable roof gardens show where one may, in the cool of the evening, enjoy the best entertainment. Many delightful, little day journeys may be undertaken with ease and comfort. Sight-seeing yachts make regular trips around the rivers and harbor; the Day Line steamer, "Hendrik Hudson , " may be taken for a few hours' trip to West Point; other steamers, with excel- lent service, ^ ^ ■ a^ ^• 1 . . Pennsylvania Station make trips to the different beaches and islands. From any of these trips, one may return in time for dinner and the theatre. The war has kept a great many people in town, who, in one way or another, are "doing their bit." They are habitues of such comfortable gathering places during the luncheon, dinner and afternoon tea hours as the Far East Garden at the Vanderbilt, the Japanese Garden at the Ritz-Carlton, Sherry's and the Plaza. There is always delightful music at these places. Any of the nearby seashore resorts — Coney Island, Manhattan or Brighton Beach, Long Beach, Rockaway or the New Jersey Coast resorts, may Custom House, Bowlina; Green be reached in an hour by rail or boat. The cost is very moderate. If you are a lover of golf, be sure and bring your golf sticks with you, for the privileges of the Queensboro' Golf Club, with its e i g h t e e n-h o 1 e course — one of the finest in the East — are ex- tended to the guests of the Vanderbilt Hotel and the links are most accessible. A short motor ride and an afternoon at the Club, with its ideal sur- roundings, will help to make one's stay an enjoy- able one and keep one "fit." A day spent in lower Broadway, in the finan- cial center, will repay one, embracing, as it does, many points of interest. The curb market, where all stock trades are made in the open, the galleries of the New York Stock Exchange; the Sub-Treas- ury and the Assay Office are all who are steps of stands a -irfl ■ I^Kbh iijli ^^^^H i|MMj||^ "^H a TF* '|f ' 'be 'Ik ^Lii f^r#-B! j^^M H^^T^B ^I^^H H^HH? c ^^m I^^^H H^KsE : ^^H a I^^^H ^^Het r ^B B ^^^1 ^fe[H 1^ I^H Brfl If |H H yi Lower Broadway open to visitors, welcome. On the the Sub-Treasury statue of George Washington, which marks the spot where Washing- ton took the oath as the first President of the United States. Trinity Church and Wall St.; the Custom House and Bowling Green; the Equitable Building, at Broadway and Pine St.; the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co.; the National City Bank; "Fraunces' Tavern," where Washington took leave of his officers at the end of the Bevolutionary War, are well worth one's time. From Battery Park, trips may be taken to Ellis Island, the immi- grant station be- fore the war; Gov- ernor's Island, th e headquarters of the military Faunces' Tavern St. Paul's Church Department of the East, and Bedloe's Island, where stands the Statue of Liberty, given to America b y popular subscription in France in 1883. The pedestal was built by pop- ular subscription in the United States, mainly through the efforts of the N. Y. World. The lower East Side, "The Ghetto," is a foreign quarter and an interest- ing place to visit. So is Chinatown, also Green- wich Village, the nearest approach in this country to what we know as the Bohemian life of Paris. The trip up Fifth Avenue, in a motor bus, and through Riverside Drive to Grant's Tomb and "Claremont," is most interesting. The Fifth Avenue route is from Washington Square north to 57th Street, past the Vander- biltpalaces,then west, up Broad- way and through 72nd Street to Riverside Drive, up Riverside Drive to General Grant's Tomb, at 123rd Street and over the Esplanade to 145th Street. But let us take up some of these places more in detail for the best interest of our visitors. The Physical New York New York City consists of five Boroughs — Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Rich- mond, all united under one municipality in 1898. Without offending anybody, we can say that Manhattan Borough is the most important and the heart of the Greater City of New York. "Manhattan" is* a name that the Indians gave us, from whom, it is said, the entire island was bought by the early Dutch settlers for a few strings of beads and trinkets, valued at as little as $24.00. They, in turn, (the Dutch) called the island "Nieu Amsterdam." In our day, a comparatively small portion of this same land, in some localities, is assessed at Sub-Treasury The Aquarium, Battery Park millions of dol- lars. In 1664, the Duke of York took title to the colony for England and renamedit"New York." The arrange- ment o f the streets is gener- ally rectangular. North of Houston Street, which is about a half mile south of Union Square, the streets running east and west are from First to Two Hundred and Twentieth Street and to Two Hun- dred and Sixty-second Street, near the Yonkers line. The houses are numbered east and west from Fifth Avenue and the numbers are dupli- cated on either side. In- tersecting avenues run north and south, from First Avenue to Thir- teenth Avenue. Lexing- ton Avenue is between Third and Fourth Ave- nues, north of Twenty- first Street. North of Fifty-ninth Street, Ninth Avenue becomes Colum- bus Avenue, Tenth Avenue becomes Am- sterdam Avenue and Eleventh Avenue becomes West End Avenue as far as 106th Street, where it ends at Broad- way. Broadway begins at Battery Place (Bat- tery Park) and runs the entire length of Manhattan Borough, ending at the Harlem River; crossing the Spuyten Duyvil Creek into the Borough of the Bronx it runs north and northeast to the city line at Yonkers. The Bowery extends from East Fourth Street south to Chatham Square, with a labyrinth of cross streets, more densely populated with their teeming tenements than any city in the w or 1 d , excepting Canton, China. .,„, ^., ^^ „ Ihe Cihetto New York Stock Exchans A Trip up Broadway To know Broadway is to know New York, for Broadway, running transversely, as it does, across the city, touches every artery of the City's Hfe. Let us start from Bowl- ing Green, the extreme lower end of the Island of Manhattan, and spend first a delightful hour at the Aquarium, one of the best-appointed places of its kind in the ^"""IJ^i^H^^HjllflH^M world, after the ones in Naples and Bermuda, The Aquarium was for- merly known for years as Castle Garden and here it was, in 1850, that Jenny Lind, the great Equitable Building Swedish singer, gave her memorable concerts. At the corner of the first street (Morris) , we notice the old Stevens House, — a landmark of the city and at one time the City's most fashionable hotel. Here was celebrated the marriage of the daughter of Daniel Webster, the most notable social event of that time and here later many public receptions were given to distin- guished foreigners. The property has just been bought by "The Cunard Line," who propose to erect on this site a large office building to house them, in their great future business after the war. Across the way, at No. 26, i s th e modest home of The Sta nda r d Oil Co., probably the greatest mercantile corporation in the world. Passing on a little further City Hall at Night Woolworth Building, Illuminated .Municipal Building we come to Trinity Church, the oldest Kpis- copal church in New York. Organized in 1697, it received a grant of land from the Crown that makes the Trinity Corporation to-day a very wealthy body . The church stands in one of the few graveyards re- maining in Manhattan Island. This graveyard must not be passed by the visitor. It contains the traditions of the best that have made New York what it is. The right to be buried in Trinity churchyard exists for few to-day but the right is a "patent of American nobility." Trinity Church stands at the head of what is probably the Nation's best known street,- — Wall Street, known the world over as our financial cen- ter, but, curiously enough, called "Wall Street" from the wall that the early New York settlers built to keep away the Indians. The New York Stock Exchange, the Sub-Treasury, the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co. are all clustered about the corners of Wall and Broad Streets, which is a block away. Resuming our Broadway ramble, we note diago- nally across from Trinity Church the huge Equitable Building, only recently erected on the site of the old structure, an office building that houses five thousand tenants and has sixty high-powered electric passenger elevators. On the next block is the much-advertised Singer Building and Tower; next to it the City Investing Building and a little further up St. Paul's Church, where at one time George Washington worshiped. This stately Colonial church, built of stone, stands in the midst of its own grave- yard, beautiful in the spring with its flower- ing shrubs. Here 1 i e the remains of Thomas Addis Emmet and of many other notable people. Battleship, Union Square Flatiron Biiikliiit On the light, we now see the U.S. Post Office Building and on the left the famous Woolworth Building, unquestiona- bly the most ornate office building in exist- ence. It is fifty-seven stories and 792 feet high . Its observation gallery is open to visitors and from there wonderful views may be had of the city and harbor. An admission of fifty cents is charged. The City Hall and Municipal Park is the next point of interest and over the City Hall towers the Municipal Building, aptly called "The City Gate," forming, as it does, the entrance to Brooklyn and its adjacent territory. From City Hall to Union Square, we pass through the district devoted to wholesale dry goods. En route, at Ninth and Tenth Streets, is Wanamaker's de- partmental store, founded by A. T. Stew- art, and a block away Grace Church. At Union Square, four blocks further on, may be seen the statues of Lincoln , LaFayette and a fine equestrian statue of Washington. There is also here now, temporarily, a remark- able recruiting station, in the form of a full, life-sized battleship, covering a large area of the Park. At 23rd Street, Broadway, in its diagonal course, crosses Fifth Avenue and made possible the Flatiron Building, so called from its peculiar shape. Across from it is the Fifth Avenue Building, on the site of the old Fifth Avenue Hotel, which for many years was the acme of the City's hotel life. At 34th Street are the well-known retail mercantile establishments of B. H. Macy & Co., Gimbel Bros., Saks & Co., Rogers, Peet Co., and facing the Square is the building of the N. Y. Wasliington Arch 10 Herald, with its iron fig- ures that strike the hours with their me- chanical arms. Here be- gins the part of Broad- way that is called, fa- miharly, "The Great White Way," from its extravagant use of electric lights in advertisements and decoration. Here, too, are the best-known "Little Church Around the Corner" University Library- theatres and the opera house and some of the gayer of the City's restaurants, such as Rector's, the Claridge, Shanley's, Churchill's and the Palais Royal. At any of these last-mentioned restaurants, one is sure to find an excellent cabaret. At 59th Street, we merge into Columbus Circle, with the Colum- bus Monument and the Maine Memorial at the west side entrance to Central Park. At this point, Broadway becomes interesting from its extravagant display of motor cars, whose showrooms fill the street for blocks. st Patriclc's Cathedral 11 Plaza Square Fifth Avenue from tlie Top of a Motor Bus But a few years back, Fifth Avenue, from Wash- ington Square to 59th Street, was known as the most exclu- sive residen- tial district of New York City. There were the homes of the aristocratic and wealthy class and the houses of the most promi- nent among them were landmarks familiar to all. To-day, it is all changed. Lower Fifth Avenue, below 23rd Street, is given over, in large part, to loft buildings and at noonday the streets are filled with piece-work- ers whose home used to be on Third Avenue, or the Bowery. North of 23rd Street, the re- lentless march of business has crowded out all the old Knick- erbocker resi- dences, and, ex- cept for an oc- casional home or palace left there from the last generation, Fifth Avenue is peopled with smart shops and large departmental stores whose names were historic in the lower part of the town fifty years ago. To review this great thorough- fare in its general aspects, let us make our starting-point at Wash- ington Square, about which, and particularly on the north side of which are the old homes of some of New York's most aristocratic and wealthy families. A most popular and thoroughly satisfy- ing way is to view Fifth Avenue from the top of a motor bus. A motor car may be hired at The Obelisk ^ moderate cost, but from the Central Park sight-seeing point of view, there Vanderbilt House, 58th St. and 5th Ave. jr^M^HHB 12 Trinity Church is nothing better than the top of a motor bus. Washington Arch, at the beginning of Fifth Avenue and spanning it, was erected in 1890, by popular subscription, in commemoration of the inaugura- tion of Gen. George Washington. It was designed by the late Stan- ford White. It is of white marble and, as we are all Americans, allow us to say that it cost $128,000. As we go up Fifth Avenue, on the right, at Eighth Street, is the Brevoort House, a hotel linked with the past memo- ries of New York and patronized in the past and in the present largely by foreigners. We have spoken of the Flatiron Building, at 23rd Street, but we cannot ^ _._ cross 26th Street without think- ing of Delmonico's, of the late '70's, and later of the famous dinners of the Cafe Martin. As far as 59th Street, scores of retail shops and departmental stores stand unequaled in the world and vie with their cousins of Piccadilly and Bue de la Paix. As we approach 34th and 35th Streets, we are in the neighbor- hood of such well-known com- mercial institutions as B. Altman & Co., Gorham Co., Best & Co. (The Lilliputian Bazaar), C. G. Gunther's Sons, Tiffany & Co., and in turn. Lord & Taylor, Bonwit, Teller & Co., Franklin Simon & Co., Arnold, Constable & Co., Van- tine's and others that one can easily identify by their signs. At 40th and 42nd Streets, one passes theN. Y. Public Library. Sherry's is at 44th Street and Fifth Avenue and Delmonico's is diagonally across the way. These famous restaurants, with such others as the Bitz- Carlton, the Vanderbilt, the Waldorf, the Plaza and the St. Begis, are the best. They are expensive but west from Fifth Avenue, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, there are innumerable little table The Singer Building Metropolitan Tower 13 The Metropolitan Museum of Art d'hote restau- rants, either French or Ital- ian, that give to any one the opportunity of having a good meal a t very little cost. We might mention such places as luigenie's, i n 48th Street; Giohto's, in 49th Street; Peck & Zucca's, in the immediate vicinity. — all excellent and very reasonable. As we reach 59th Street, the broad square is flanked by the Piaza Hotel on one side ard the Savoy and Netherland Hotels on the other. Here comes the entrance to the Park and Fifth Avenue adjoining the Park, from here to 110th Street is lined entirely by the residences of the wealthy class. We must not leave our Fifth Avenue without saying a word for Central Park, designed by Frederick L. Olmsted in 1858, an oasis of 843 acres created from the rocky ledge of Manhattan Island. The New York Public Library Churches on Fifth Avenue In our cursory view of Fifth Avenue from the top of a motor bus we have not mentioned the churches that we passed, in which all visitors to New York will be interested and which deserve a little paragraph by themselves. Taking them in their geographical order, at 10th Street, we ^l^m pass the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, a church full of the memories of old New York and decorated with wonderful stained glass windows by the late John La Farge. At 12th Street, we pass the Old First Presby- terianChurch;at29thStreet, Grace Church the Marble Collegiate 16 Church, the Reformed Church in America; at 37th Street, the Brick Presbyterian Church, and at 43rd Street, the Jewish Temple Emanu-El, that has one of the wealthiest congregations in New York. A little further on, at 15th Street, is the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest, and on the northwest corner of 48th Street is the Colle- giate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas. St. Pat- rick's Cathedral stands on the block between 50th and 51st Streets and deserves particular mention as one of our best pieces of ecclesi- astical architecture. It is the head of the Roman Catholic Church in New York. At 53rd Street, we pass St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, with its ultra-fashionable congregation. A beautiful chapel and altar have lately been given to this Church in memory of the late Mr. Twombley. Particular attention is called to the beautiful architecture of this church. At 55th Street is the Fifth Ave- nue Presbyterian Church, with its congregation of old New York Presbyterian families, long under the care of the famous Dr. John Hall. Theatres, Roof Gardens and Other Amusements Manhattan Island alone boasts of one hundred and fifteen theatres, with many roof gardens and approximately one thousand photo play houses with a total average weekly attendance of over a million and a half. In addition, there are nearly half a hundred theatres throughout the Boroughs other than Manhattan and hundreds of motion picture shows. Every hotel of prominence has a theatre booking agency, where complete informa- tion as to the names of theatres and what is being played at the time, is furnished freely to guests. Beside theatres, there are varied amuse- ments at the nearby seashore resorts, — Coney Island with its Luna Park, Long Beach, the Rock- aways and the New Jersey Coast resorts. Century Theatre Coney Island Coney Island may be reached by subway or by any number of sight-seeing cars, starting us- ually from Times Square. The fare is $ LOO. 17 Coney Island Automobiles, seating four to seven, may be had for the round trip or by the hour, or one may go by the boats of the Iron Steamboat Co., whose advertise- ments, with schedules, ap- pear in the daily papers, or by subway for ten cents. Coney Island is essentially a place of and for "the people." Its attractions are varied but all cheap in price. The bathing is good but the water is almost invariably crowded in the Summer with people "down for the day," who lounge about on the beach after bathing, eating their lunch and making the place hideous. It is a place very hard to describe but a visitor to New York should not fail to go there. The adjoining beaches of Manhattan and Brighton are quieter places where now a residential district is springing up. Prospect Park To one driving down to any of these three beaches, a great pleasure is to pass through Pros- pect Park, in Brooklyn, once the home of the Litchfield family. Its natural advantages are far greater than those of Central Park and its deep- rooted trees are alone worth a visit. In parts, it is as stately as the Prader in Vienna. It consists of 526 acres and the Parade Grounds adjoining it have an area of 393^ acres. It is a great breathing spot in the heart of Brooklyn. Long Beach Long Beach is a sea- shore resort an hour away by rail from the Pennsylvania Station or by easy motor trip in an hour and a half. Back of the strip of sand along the ocean the place is one of reclaimed land, filled in at large expense but a few years Times Square 18 ago. There are several good hotels and a large cottage colony and here it is always cool. Bath- ing and the boardwalk are almost as good as at Atlantic City and several high -class res- taurants offer one the best of food and music for dancing, in which al- most every one joins. The restaurants of the "Nassau, " "Castles-by- the-Sea" and the "Trou- ville" are the best to visit. Grnnt's Tomb Baseball Games The Polo Grounds, where the "Giants" hold their games, or the grounds of the American League, may be reached comfortably and in a short time by the subway, the "L," or touring-cars. Advertisements of the schedules will be found in the morning papers. Polo There is a great deal of polo played nowadays in the vicinity of New York, usually at the West- chester, Meadow Brook and Rockaway Hunting Clubs. No admission is charged as the matches are between gentlemen playing in their own club grounds but any friend who is a member can give a stranger a card and is very glad to do so. Of course, in the great international matches that have been played in this country the games were open to the public and large grandstands were built on the grounds of The Meadow Brook Club for accommodating the thousands who at- tended, but these matches are over and the war has claimed for } '* '^ ''^ ^ ' — -^ its victims many ^1 / ^^^^ ^ of thefinesports- ^ ./. * ^^I^^K /] men who were in the saddle for England and who finally took back with them the Hurlingham cup. In brighter times, we hope it will again be Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument brought here. 19 Racing These are war times and the old days of racing do not exist but there is very good racing in the immediate vicinity of New York, — this year from the 16th of May up until the 31st of July. The difficulty of transporting the horses during these war times is a problem that has had to be over- come this season largely by the use of motor vans. In addition, there are in training this year in the immediate vicinity of New York nearly 1,000 horses. This will insure good sport and the knowing ones look forward to this coming season as a very promis- ing one. The race meetings sanctioned by the Jockey Clubs, with their dates, are as follows: Metropolitan Jockey Club, Jamaica, L. I. Thursday, May 16, to Saturday, May 25, inclusive. Westchester Racing Association, Belmont Park, Queens, L. I . Monday, May 27, to Saturday, June 15, inclusive. Metropolitan Jockey Club, Jamaica, L. I. Monday, June 17, to Saturday, June 22, inclusive. Queens County Jockey Club, Aqueduct, L. I. Monday, June 21, to Friday, July 12, inclusive. Empire City Racing Association, Yonkers, N. Y. Saturday, July 13, to Wednesday, July 31, inclusive. The first four of these places can be reached by rail from the Pennsylvania Station within an hour or very easily by motor or taxicab, and the last from the Grand Central Station in half an hour. Both stations are within six minutes' walk from the Vanderbilt Hotel. After the 31st of July, the racing shifts to Sara- toga but returns to New York in September, when the Westchester Racing Association has a twelve days' meeting at Belmont Park. Aside from these official race meetings, very interesting amateur meets are held at the Piping Rock Club, the Meadow Brook Club, the Rocka- way Hunting Club and at Mr. Grace's place, at Great Neck. These have been omitted during war times. It is expected, however, that the United Hunts and Steeplechase Association will hold their regular meeting in October at the Belmont Park Terminal. These races are always interesting and usually draw a large crowd of sportsmen and sportswomen who live in the neighborhood on Long Island. The meeting can be reached by rail from the Pennsylvania Station or by motor easily within an hour. Casino in Central Park Golf In our de- scription of New York as a Summer re- sort, we spoke of the Queens- boro' Club links, within a short motor distance, where the privileges are extended to the guests of the Vanderbilt Hotel, but there are innumerable other golf clubs in and about New York where any member is glad to offer a card to friends and where visitors from out of town are very glad to go. All of the Country Clubs, such as the Westchester Country Club, the Meadow Brook and Rockaway Hunting Clubs and the Piping Rock and Sleeping Hollow Country Clubs have the best kind of golf links but the Garden City Golf Club exists for golf alone, also the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, near Southampton, the National Golf Links of America, at Southamp- ton itself, the St. Andrews Golf Club, at Mount Hope, and the Lido Club, at Long Beach, which comes nearest to the Scotch dunes and where they have even cultivated Scotch grass on the links. In addition to the above, if one has the oppor- tunity, one should not fail to visit the following other golf clubs: Apawamis Club, Rye, N. Y.; Baltusrol Club, Baltusrol, N. J.; Cherry Valley Club, Garden City, L. I.; Huntington Golf & Marine Club, Huntington, N. Y.; Hollywood Club, Deal, N. J.; Morris County Club, Convent, N. J.; Nassau Country Club, Glen Cove, L. I.; North Shore Country Club, Glen Head, L. I.; Oakland Club, Bayside, L, I.; Scarsdale Golf & Country Club, Hartsdale, N. Y. Right at hand, in Van Cortlandt Park, easily reached by the 6th Ave. or 8th Ave. "L" to 155th Street, by subway or by "taxi," is the Public Golf Course, which is open to all. On Sundays, it is almost too crowded but for visitors who have leisure it is a delightful place to go during the week. TENNIS Any number of visitors, while in New York, like to play tennis and to know where they can do so. The West Side Tennis Club is the official headquarters of the IL S. National Lawn Tennis Association. Only members are admitted, but they can always introduce guests. The courts are 21 perfect. There the National and Internation- al matches are played. The Club is at Forest Hills, 15 minutes from New York Botanical Gardens by the Pennsyl- vania Railway. The tennis courts in Central Park are open to all and are most enjoyable all week day mornings except Saturday mornings, when they are over- crowded. Any one can apply to the Park Com- missioner, Municipal Building, who issues a permit. After getting a permit one is assigned to courts for half an hour according to vacancies from 8 A. M. to 7 P. M. The courts at Van Cortlandt Park are also free to all. Application has to be made to Commis- sioner Hennessey, Zabriski Mansion, Tel. 2610. The management of the Vanderbilt Hotel will have all these details arranged for guests on application at the office. Smart Shops New York can be justly proud of its shops and departmental stores. There is no place in the world, even in Paris, where one can find places superior, of their kind, to Altman's, McCreery's. Lord & Taylor's and Arnold Constable & Co., but of late years New York has developed some smart shops of a very high class that cannot be excelled anywhere. It is interesting for a stranger to go to see these places and we might mention the following: Henri Bendel, Inc., 10 West 57th St.; very smart hats of all kinds, gowns, furs, etc. Hickson, Inc., 661 Fifth Ave.; smartest tailor in America. Wonderful evening gowns. J. M. Gidding & Co., 564 Fifth Ave.; everything that woman wears and the best. L. P. Hollander «& Co., 550 Fifth Ave.; women's and children's clothes of the highest class. Mme. L. Thurn, 15 East 52nd St.; beautiful gowns; a most exclusive patronage, and Miss Julia Carroll, 9 West 50th St., of the same high class. Maison Blanc , 510 Fifth Ave .; fine linens and lingerie , trousseaux and layettes. The best that New York has to offer. C. G. Gunther's Sons, 391 Fifth Ave.; H. Jaeckel & Sons, 16 West 32nd St., and Revillon Freres, 670 Fifth Ave., are high-class, reliable furriers. Cammeyer & Co., 381 Fifth Ave., and J. & J. Slater, 415 Fifth Ave., are the best for ladies' slippers and shoes. Dreicer & Co., Inc., at Fifth Ave. and 46th St., and Theodore B. Starr, at Fifth Ave. and 47th St., are the best for diamonds and jewelry of the highest class. 22 Famous Restaurants in and about "The Great White Way" Restaurants that almost every one has heard of are located in and about Times Square, within a radius of a few blocks. Others of equal prominence are scattered over the city. The Waldorf and the Vanderbilt are on 34th Street. The Ritz- Carlton, Sherry's and Delmonico's are on Madison and Fifth Avenues and just above 42nd St. Shan- ley's, Rector's, the Claridge, Churchill's and others are in or near Times Square. Reisen- weber's is at 58th Street and Eighth Avenue. Healy's is on Columbus Avenue at 66th Street. All of the latter have high-class cabarets and other forms of entertainment in progress during the dinner hours and after-theatre suppers. In other parts of the city, for novelty, one may, if one pleases, drop in for a little dinner at such well-known places as "Fraunces' Tavern," on lower Rroad St.; "Little Hungary," on Houston St. East, or, better still, at Romano & Taormina's Italian restaurant, at 142 West Houston St. Serv- ice there is a la carte and it is, without doubt, the best Italian restaurant in the city. There is also PoUyanna's, at 111 West 47th Street, which is the best sort of an Italian table d'hote and cheap. Only those are admitted who are known but a card of introduction from the Vanderbilt will insure one of the best treatment by "Madame." Although the admitted standard of all cookery is French, it can be truthfully said that the Cafe Lafayette — for many years the famous Cafe Martin — at 8th St. and University Place, is the best "French" restaurant in New York. It is hard at all times to get a table. But to dine there is to dine in a French "atmosphere" and there is nothing nicer to do than to go there on Sunday for "dejeuner" about one o'clock. Out-of-Door Restaurants "Claremont," at the head of Riverside Drive, commands a fine outlook up and down the Hudson River and has an out-of- door restau- rant where it is delightful to dine on warm Sum- m e r eve- nings. They The River of Bridges, East River 23 Museum of Natural History justly pride themselves on the high quality of their food, particularly of their fish, which is kept alive in large tanks and cooked on order. Ben Riley's "Arrowhead Inn," at 177th Street, famous for its steaks, its frog legs and its cock- tails, and the "Abbey Inn," at 210th Street, over- looking the Hudson and the lights of the Greater City, justly famous for its broiled chickens, salads and red wines, are both practically open-air restaurants in the Summer time and make any evening delightful. When we are in Coney Island, we must not fail to visit Tappen's Hotel, at Sheepshead Bay. The "shore dinner" there, at a moderate cost, is the best of its kind in or near New York and the colored singers and musicians entertain one with all the popular songs of the day and contribute to a delightful evening before motoring back to town. "The Casino," in Central Park, is also an open- air restaurant of a bygone generation, where it is delightful to stop while driving or to dine on a hot Summer evening. Chop Houses The old English chop houses have practically disappeared from New York. "Old Tom's," on Thames St., "Sutherland's," on Liberty St., "Pontin's," on Franklin St., are only memories of the past and their whole-hearted proprietors are under the sod, but Rolfe's Chop House, on John St., No. 42, has no superior in its English chops, venison and sea food and is one of the few places in New York where one can have stout from the wood. Downstairs, the walls are covered with the famous pictures by John Leach and women are frequently welcome visitors on the upper floor. 24 Japanese Garden, Ritz-Carlton Of the same general sort is Engel's, on West 36th Street, next Sixth Avenue, bequeathed by the former proprietor and maintained to-day by "the old waiters." Keene's, across the way, is famous for its" Chesh- ire Cheese Pudding." It is a fine place to go for lunch, but always crowded. Brown's Chop House, on Broadway, between 40th and 41st Streets, deserves particular men- tion for its splendid food and its wonderful collec- tion of old theatrical pictures and portraits. In the evening, one can see there, mixed in with its Broadway clientele, fashionable visitors from the Opera House across the street. "Jack's," on Sixth Avenue and 43rd Street, is a restaurant in the nature of a chop house, famous for its sea food and the kaleidoscopic nature of its patrons from daylight to daylight. "Mr, Jack," the proprietor, is a handsome picture of dignity and urbanity. Motor Trips It is expensive but one of the great pleasures of the Summer residents of New York is to hire — or, bet- ter still , to borrow a motor and take a trip of an hour or two on Long Island, or Westchester County or New Jersey. There are in- numerable restaurants where the food is of the highest class. For the convenience of friends who are not entirely familiar with New York and its environs, we might mention, on Long Island, the "Beaux Sejour," at Hicksville; the "Holly Arms," at Woodmere; "Henri's," at Ly nbrook ; the "Petit Trianon ," at the end of the Motor Park- way; "Ward's Best Inn," at Centerport Harbor, or the "Blossom Heath Inn," on the Old Stevens House 25 Hippodrome Merrick Road, at Lynbrook. Up in West- chester County, we have "Hun- ter Island Inn," at Pelham Bay Park, "Longue Vue," at Hast- ings-on-the- Hudson,keptby the same people whohave"Clare- mont," and nearby the "Park Hill Inn," at Yon- kers, with the famous "Briarcliff Hotel" farther up, at Scarboro, and in Connecticut, near Greenwich, the Pickwick Inn. Beyond the map that is appended, it does not seem feasible to give here the different maps for motorists on entering or leaving New York but detailed information and perfect maps are issued by The American Automobile Association, 501 Fifth Avenue, and attention is called to their "Westchester County Local and Through Roads," price 50c; "Long Island, Map of All Roads Suitable for Motoring," price 25c; "Special Hudson River District, Map of All Main Roads and Principal Options," price 50c; also "Strip Map New York to Philadelphia," price 10c; "Strip Map, New York to New London," price 10c. These maps are official and infallible. They can be obtained at the Vanderbilt Hotel. Right at home is a delightful short motor trip, up through the Grand Concourse and Van Cort- landt Park, which can be made within two hours. Turkish Baths and Hair-Dressing Establishments After one has come back from any of the differ- ent motor trips, it is nice to know where one can find a good Turkish bath, for men or for women, or a hair-dress- ing establish- ment where one can get fresh- ened up for din- ner. Probably the best Turkish bath, for men or for women, is the one in the Biltmore Hotel. Women have the winter Garden 96 morning hours and men the afternoon and early evenin g. The price is $1.50. An old- fashioned but small Brooklyn Bridge and exclusive Turkish bath is Miller's, at No. 113^ East 29th Street. There are separate baths for women at all hours and separate baths for men. The price is $2.00. For men alone, the baths in the Produce Exchange are very nice and there they have a salt water plunge that makes the bathing very refreshing, particularly in the summer. The price is only $1.00 and the baths cannot be too highly recommended. For ladies who wish to have their hair dressed, attention is called to the hair-dressing rooms in the Vanderbilt Hotel and to Cluzelle Bros., at 12 West 37th Street, Pierre's, at 5 East 53rd St., also to Simonson's, at 506 Fifth Avenue, and to Ben- jamin Alexander's, 8 East 47th Street, of the same high class. Garages To strangers who are motoring to town, it is often very important to know of a good and re- liable garage and the following can be highly recommended: Hotel Auto Rental Service Garage, 411 West 55th Street, the Cadillac Motor Car Co., 8 West 62nd Street, the Gotham Garage Co., 122 West 46th Street; the Murray Hill Garage, 27 East 40th Street; the Ritz-Carlton Garage, 141 West 51st Street, and the Norman Garage, 238 West 54th Street. There is to be erected, on the north side of 44th Street, between. First and Second Avenues, a very up-to-date garage, which will accommodate approximately six hundred cars. It is being built with ramps , or ^.fefv-^^i^SXiJLi inclined planes, on which the cars are taken up instead of by elevators or lifts. This garage will be the newest thing of its kind andwillbe ready in the early Polo Grounds winter of 1918. 27 New York Zoological Park Bronx Park On the way back from West- chester County, if one is motor- ing, it is delight- ful to stop a t Bronx Park and \ isit the Zoo- logical Park and Botanical Gar- dens there. The Zoological Park is in charge of the New York Zoological Society and has supposedly the largest zoological collection in the world, containing over 5,000 living animals, representing over 1,200 species. Owing to the size of the buildings, the animal specimens are shown at great advantage, although the distances are big. The Botanical Gardens occupy the northwest section of the Park and contain large greenhouses, with specimens of all of the North-American vege- table family and many tropical species. Facing the palm houses of the Botanical Gardens is a museum which contains an extensive collection. The Motor Parkway The Motor Parkway, built and maintained for motor cars driven at high speed, begins at the end of Hillside Avenue, Long Island, and extends for forty-five miles to Lake Ronkonkoma. It is en- closed on either side and $L00 is charged for ad- mission, but for any one who wishes to drive at high speed it is an indispensable and safe luxury. Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., himself a skilful and daring motorist, was financially responsible for the crea- tion of the Motor Parkway. Our miniature sight-seeing trip is almost over and we have not spoken of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History. The Museums The Museum of Art is at Fifth Avenue and 83rd Street. It is a very remarkable museum in the fact that it is a storehouse for all forms of art. It has many wonderful paint- ings, mingled in K kiM mHil'llli with some sad Columbus Circle jJi5£. .Htll^ 28 Herald Square reminders of a former genera- tion, and its col- lection of tapes- tries, its collec- tion of casts, its Egyptian relics must all be seen by the visitor in town. Admis- sion is free ex- cept on Mondays and Fridays when there is a charge of twenty-five cents. The Museum of Natural History is on 72nd Street, just west of Central Park. Like the Museum of Art, it is an institution of large scope and goes into the Mexican, Aztec and Indian civilizations, in connection with the study of ani- mal life from prehistoric times. Admission is free excepting Mondays. Do not be unhappy in New York. Try some of the above attractions that it offers. Suit your tastes. You do not have to spend much money to enjoy it and you will know then, if you are a visitor, why we residents, who know this City, hate to leave it. The Mall, Central Park OTHER hotels under the direc- tion of the Vanderbilt Hotel Management are the Hotel Devon, a residential bote), at 70 West 55th Street, the Hill Top Inn and Res- taurant, at Newport, R. I., and the Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel, at San Juan, Porto Rico, which will open in November, 1918. 39 LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS 014 221 733 8^ THEMnON'S BEST SUMMERRESQRT