M‘NALLY 8 COS HANDY GUIDE | Li NEW YORK QTY Aa 2 98 aR SO 2:5) 2 Na oo INCLUDING BROOKLYN STATEN ISLAND ASBURY PARK AND OTHER SEASIDE RESORTS y Univ. uf ill, Library - — University of Illinois Library at : Urbana-Champaign Oak St. Unclassified These two brands are known by more people than all others advertised. No trav- eler that values comfort can afford to be without them. Quality zs represented at its best in every grade and price. Sold at good stores everywhere. By common consent superiority 1s conceded in Fabric Quality and Wear to these two well advertised honest brands. Ask the leading dealer wherever you may be or write us for catalogue. Wholesale Distributors Lord & Taylor — New York Hudson River by Daylight The Most Charming Inland Water Trip on the American Continent THE PALACE STEEL STEAMERS “Hendrick Hudson,” “Robert Fulton’ and “Albany” O Fee rHe HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE Leave New York Daily, except Sunday, from Desbrosses Street Pier, 8.40 a. m.; Forty-second Street Pier, N. R., 9.00 a. m.; W. 129th Street Pier, 9.20 a. m. From Albany, 8.30 a. m. ALL SERVICE DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Landings—Yonkers, West Point, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Kingston Point, Catskill and Hudson DIRECT CONNECTING TRAINS ON WHARFS FOR ALL POINTS IN CATSKILLS, SARATOGA, AND LAKE GEORGE, AND EASY CONNECTIONS. TICKETS, AND BAGGAGE CHECKED FOR ALL PRIN- CIPAL POINTS EAST, NORTH AND WEST The superb_steamers “Hendrick Hudson,” “Robert, Fulton,” and “Albano” of the Day Line, are the fastest in the World, and are the finest of their class afloat. They are designed exclusively for passenger service, and carry no freight. Their rich furnishings, costly paintings, private parlors, and main deck dining-rooms, commanding the river scenery, have given them a world-wide renown. PiGh eis VIA -DAYAEINE ONFSALE AT ALE OFFICES All Railroad tickets between New York and Albany are available for passage on Day Line Steamers See Time Tables for Ideal One-Day and One-Half-Day Outings from New Yo" SEND 5 CENTS FOR A COPY OF SUMMER EXCURSION BOOK ATTRACTIVE DAILY OUTINGS (EXCEPT SUNDAY) TO WEST POINT, NEWBURGH, AND POUGHKEEPSIE F. B. HIBBARD, General Passenger Agent Desbrosses Street Pier, New York City ANNOUNCEMENT—“‘Mary Powell” (Kingston Boat) service opens May 28th, leaving Desbrosses Street, 1.45 P. M.; W.42d Street, 2.00 P. M.; W.120th Street, 2.20 P.M. On July 1st the Day Line Steamer “Albany’’ will resume the Spe- cial Service to Poughkeepsie and return, leaving New York landings one hour later than the regular morning boat: making a ¢r7ple service to Pough- keepsie and intermediate landings. See Time Tables. ‘Je0T}g puct pue onuaday y3u9A9S—NOLLVLS GvOuw IVa VINVATASNNGd aN Ce: bar akan tare Te Sak £88 a ay os CONTENTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO NEw York, : ‘ GETTING ABOUT THE CITy, . WN : : THEATERS AND OTHER AMUSEMENTS, . . F THE CiTy’s Parks, DRIVES, AND Pusiic Museums, A Tour OF THE CITY, . ' : ’ . THE RIVFRS AND HARBOR, . : F : A RAMBLE AT NIGHT, ; ; : CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT WoRK, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, LIBRARIES, ETC., CLUBS AND SOCIETIES, . : : z : GREATER NEw YorK, . 5 . > SEASIDE AND SUBURBAN RESORTS, ’ SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS' MONUMENT — Riverside Drive. . 10c 10g 11g 136 152 15G 173 jem ee SE GALEN HALL Atlantic City, Hew Jersey HOTEL and SANATORIUM ATLANTIC CITY a GALEN HALL IN THE MOUNTAINS y = i : t [ = faa 2. ~= id i a, NEW GALEN SAS Ag a —— 3 = A FIRST CLASS HOTEL WERNERSVILLE, F. L. YOUNG, General Manager RAND McNALLY & CO’S HANDY GUIDE TO New York City By ERNEST INGERSOLL ig sate WITH MAPS, PLANS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Copyright, 1895, by Rand McNally & Co. Copyright, torr, by Rand McNally & Co. RAND McNALLY & CO., PUBLISHERS ane NEW YORK £972 TIVNINUAL IVYLNASD GNVAD MAN 1 cenconnaenson I ONIN CECODUC TIONG fOr ON BW AY OLK Advice to Inexperienced Travelers The metropolis has many entrances. A dozen regular lines of steamships bring passengers from Europe, and many others from South and Central America, the West Indies, and the ports along the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic Coast. Lines of steam- boats connecting with railroads come down the Hudson and from Long Island Sound. Five great railway termini stand upon the western bank of the Hudson, and are connected with New York by ferries. Jong Island is covered with a network of roads. Finally, in the very heart of the city stands the Grand Central Terminal and Penn. Station. It will be well to point out distinctly the landing- places of passengers arriving by any one of these routes, beginning with the ocean steamships. Cabin passengers may go ashore as soon as the vessel is made fast, and will find custom-house inspectors ready to examine their baggage on the wharf without delay. Pick out your trunks, give to the inspector your ‘‘declaration’’ and your keys, be polite and good tempered, and the ordeal is quickly and easily passed. Steamship Landings TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIPS American Line.—Pier 62, North River, foot of West 22d Street. (Southampton, Plymouth, Cherbourg). Anchor Line.—Pier 29, foot of Harrison Street, Union Stores, Brooklyn. (Marseilles, Leghorn and Naples). a x LI BEL LET aZG, ~. BROADWAY—Looking eee aaa eas ‘ 4 : 3 | | City Hall. from the Post Office. 0 HANDY? GCIDESTORVE VE YOR Ay GLE y Anchor Line. Pier 64, North River, foot of 24th Street. (Glasgow. ) Atlantic Transport.--Pier 58 (new), North River, foot of West 16th Street. (London.) Austro-Americana Steamship Co., Ltd. Pier 1, Bush Docks, South Brooklyn. (Naples, Venice and Trieste. ) Compagnie Generale Transatlantique.—Pier 57 (new), North River, foot of 15th Street. (Havre.) Compania Transatlantica.—Pier 8, East River. (Havana, Mex- ican, South American and Spanish Ports.) Cunard Line.—Piers 54, 55 and 56 (new), North River, foot of West 14th Street. (Queenstown, Fishguard and Liverpool; Gibral- tar, Genoa, Naples, Fiume and Trieste.) Fabre Line.—Foot of 31st Street, Brooklyn. (Genoa, Naples and Marseilles.) Hamburg-American Line.—Pier foot of tst Street, Hoboken. (Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg; Gibraltar, Naples and Genoa ) Flolland-America Line.—Pier foot of 5th Street, Hoboken. (Rotterdam. ) La Veloce Line.—Pier 74, North River, foot of 34th Street. (Genoa, Naples, Palermo and Messina.) Lloyd Italiano Steamship Co.—Pier 6, foot of 42d Street, Bush Docks, South Brooklyn. (Naples and Genoa.) Lloyd Sabaudo.—Pier B, Penn. R. R., Jersey City. (Naples and Genoa. ) Navigaztone Generale [taliana—Pier 74, North River, foot of 34th Street. (Genoa, Naples, Palermo and Messina, connecting lines to the Orient.) North German Lloyd.—Pier foot of 3d Street, Hoboken. (South- ampton and Bremen; Gibraltar, Naples and Genoa.) Phenix Line.—Pier 59, North River, foot of West 18th Street. (Antwerp. ) Prince Line.—Pier 4, foot of 45th Street, Bush Docks, South Brooklyn. (Gibraltar. Naples and Piraeus; also Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Ayres and other South American ports, and to South African and Far East ports.) Red Star Line.—Pier 61 (new), North River, foot of 21st Street. (Dover and Antwerp.) at bank rel Rae SR Baek Roms whe Vasol wale nad bowls a heed 23 a a Lo dams Take ol ere Real & ae Roml tom tx ® Sts NEW SINGER BUILDING—Broadway and Liberty St. ry cal co) = a4 —Q Z. m I< M fe) re) fa -Q ea) rr - Promenade AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW YORK. 9 Russian American Line.—3 1st St., Brooklyn. (Rotterdam and Libau.) Scandinavian-American Line.— Foot of 17th St., Hoboken. (Christiansand. Christiania, Copenhagen and Stettin.) Stcula-Americana Line.— Pier 22, Brooklyn. (Naples, Palermo and Messina.) White Star Line.—Piers 60 to 61 (new), N. R., foot of zoth and 21st Sts. (Queenstown, Liverpool, Plymouth, Cherbourg and Southampton; Gibraltar, Naples and Genoa.) Wilson Line.—Foot of 7th St., Hoboken. (Hull.) Coastwise Steamships Clyde Line.—Pier 36, N.R., foot of Spring St. (Charleston and Jacksonville. ) i a Line.—Pier 34, Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn. (West Indian orts. Hamburg-American Line.—Foot of 43d St., Bush Docks, South Brooklyn. (Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian Ports.) Lloyd Braztleiro.—Foot of 43d St., Bush Docks, South Brooklyn. (Rio de Janeiro and other ports in Brazil.) Munson Line.—Pier 9, E. R., Old Slip. (Cuba.) Now York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co.—( Ward Line)—Piers 13 and 14, E. R., foot of Wall St. and of Pine St. (Havana and West Indian Ports. New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co.—(Ward Line)—Piers 16 and 17, foot of Joralemon St., Prentice Stores, Brooklyn. (West Indian and Mexican Ports.) New York and Porto Rico Steamship Co.—Pier 35, Atlantic Docks, foot of Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn. (Porto Rico.) Panama Railroad Steamship Line.—Pier 67, N. R., foot of 27th St. (Colon.) Quebec Steamship Co., Ltd.—Pier 47, N. R., foot of roth St. (Bermuda and West Indies; also Montreal and Quebec.) Red Cross Line.—Pier B, foot of Richard St., Erie Basin, Brook- lyn. (Halifax and St. Johns.) Red ‘‘D”’ Line.—Pier 11, foot of Montague St., Brooklyn. (Porto Rico and Venezuela.) Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.—Pier 42, N. R., foot of Morton St. (West Indian, South and Central American Ports, also Bermuda and West Indies.) United Fruit Co.’s Steamship Lines—Piers 15 and 16, E. R. (Jamaica.) River and Sound Steamboats The only lines of River and Long Island Sound steamers with which we need concern ourselves here are those that do more than 10 HANDY GOIDE (TOPNE WevORK eo a merely local traffic, and connect at their farther end with railways. The River boats cease running during the winter months, when the Hudson isimpeded by ice, but ‘the Sound boats are never interrupted, and rarely delayed. The landings of these boats are at the foot of the streets following: Albany Day Line. Albany and Intermediate Points.Desbrosses St., N. R., (See Adv. in front of Book) W. 42d St., W. 129th St. and Yonkers Albany .~People sHuinenigh te cauesetsus ace icesnsee ar eae serine: CanailSitp Naik BridgepoLt kane. ee eee Bridgeportés 5 -ee oe Catharine St., E. R Catskill Evening Line........ Gatskalliiesc pence coma Christopher St., N. R Gentral Hudson S25. Gok... New buLehe. corneas Franklin St., N. R. Central R. R. of N. J. (Sandy Hook Route) New Jersey Coast Resorts...Cedar St., N. R. and W. 42d St. GitizeNy SIN nmneses sone TOV tie teins cots a eek Canal St.. Ne R: Haller vieiiu rie waren ccee tet Fall Pye Bs SPIN Re Rede ee Sl SA Fo Warren St., N. R. Harnttordsleine mere cent. ceee Hartford ia tcskieiss ee, eileen Pier 19, E.R. Mary Powell Steamboat Co. NewHcree and BEA LOU .Desbrosses St., N. R. (See Adv. in front of Book) W. 42d St. and W. 120th St. -- Metropolitan ine.2e..-s000.- BOStOM rs aa celt oe eee wee an Fulton St. N. R. ING@Wrllaven loinesses.secad ee INGwklaVveninecce tose tee Catharine St., E.R. Railway Stations Central R. R. of New Jersey, Baltimore & Ohio (Royal Blue Line), and Philadelphia & Reading R. R., and dependencies. Ferries, foot of Liberty St. and West 23d St., N. R., New York, Sandy Hook Route Steamers to Jersey Coast Resorts, foot of Cedar and West 42d Streets, N. R. Erie R. R., New York, Susquehanna & Western R. R., and local dependencies, Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City, reaching New York by ferries at Chambers Street and West 23d Street. Connects also with Hudson Tunnel at Broadway and 34th Street, or Hudson Terminal Building, Cortlandt and Church Streets. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, and Morris & Essex R. Rs. have a depot in Hoboken, where ferries come to Barclay, Christopher and West 23d Streets, New York. Connect also with the Hudson Tun- nel to Broadway and 34th Street, or Hudson Terminal Building, Cortlandt and Church Streets, New York. Lehigh Valley R. R. (Pennsylvania Station), station in Jersey City, with ferries running to Cortlandt and Desbrosses Streets, New York. Connects also with Hudson Tunnel, Broadway and 34th Street, and Hudson Terminal Building, Cortlandt and Church Streets, New York. The West Shore and the New York, Ontario & Western come into a depot at Weehawken, north of Hoboken. A downtown ferry brings passengers to the foot of Cortlandt Street and an uptown ferry crosses directly to the foot of West 42d Street, whence cars transfer to all parts of the city, with direct connections to the Grand Central Terminal. Baggage checked to every ferry. This finishes the list of Stations on the New Jersey shore. At pres- ent there are two passenger stations on Manhattan Island. These are the Grand Central Terminal and the Pennsylvania R. R. Station. BROAD STREET—Looking North from Beaver Street 12 AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW VORK The New York Central & Hudson River R. R. (Harlem & Hudson Division) and the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. arrive and leave the Grand Central Terminal at East 42d Street. The Grand Central Terminal. The old station, for forty years the only terminal in New York, and one of the landmarks of the City, has been demolished, and the erection of the magnificent new station (see illustration on page 2) is now almost complete. This great work is being carried on without any interruption to traffic. The temporary station, in which are located all the conveniences of a modern terminal, is larger than the old station,and there are a greater number of tracks in use than at any time since the terminal was opened in 1871. From the present station there are convenient means of reaching all the lines cf local transit for all parts of New York and Brooklyn, including the subway, Lexington Avenue sur face line (passing directly by the door), Madison Avenue line, 42d Street crosstown line and Third Avenue elevated line. Baggage express agencies and the office of the New York Central’s automobile carriage service are in the building. Pennsylvania R. R. Station, Seventh and Eighth Avenues, Thirty- first to Thirty-third Streets (see illustration facing contents page). Located only one block from Broadway, in the heart of New York’s hotel and retail shopping district. All parts of the city can be easily reached by the Sixth or Ninth Avenue elevated lines, or by surface lines connecting with the Thirty-fourth Street crosstown line, reached by special entrance to station. Connections for lower New York are made via Manhattan Transfer (near Newark), Jersey City and the Hudson Tunnels of the McAdoo System. Ample train service from Pennsylvania Station to Flatbush Avenue Station of the Long Island Railroad for Brooklyn passengers. Long Island R. R. discharges its passengers in Brooklyn at a station in Flatbush Avenue (see Brooklyn) and discharges its pas- sengers in New York at the Pennsylvania Station, 32d Street and Seventh Avenue. The New York & Putnam R. R. is a division of the New York Central & Hudson River R. R. It runs northward through West- chester and Putnam Counties to Brewster’s, where it joins the Harlem R. R. and connects with the New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R. for Hartford and eastern points. Station in New York is at 155th Street terminus of the Sixth and Ninth Avenue elevated railways, but it has a station for the receiving and delivering of baggage at the elevated railway station at Eighth Avenue and 53d Street. Trains are run frequently to High Bridge, Van Cortlandt Park, and the suburban stations on the Yonkers branch, which is known as the Yonkers Rapid Transit Line. Tickets reading ‘‘from the Grand Central Terminal to Yonkers’”’ are also good on this line from 155th Street to Yonkers. American Tract Society Park Row Building St. Paul/Building 2» Park Bank Astor House se ah 3 3 ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL AND CHURCH YARD * 14 HAND Y:GOIDE 10 NEWAYVORE Ci y. on through tickets from the South or West to New England, or vice versa. All such tickets contain a coupon, entitling the passenger to a ride in the coaches of the New York Transfer Company across the city, between the Grand Central Depot and any ferry station, or to any hotel or suitable stopping point between these points. These coaches meet all the great express trains, and may be taken advan- tage of as indicated above. Public carriages may be hired of the train-solicitors above mentioned at the following rates: ‘Two horse coaches, by the hour, $1.50 for the first hour or part, and 75 cents for each succeeding half-hour or part; by the mile, $1 for the first mile or part, and 4o cents for each succeeding half-mile or part. One- horse cabs, by the hour, $1 for the first, and 50 cents for each succeed- ing half-hour or part; by the mile, 50 cents for the first mile, and 25 cents for each succeeding half-mile, Lately the Pennsylvaniaand N.Y. Central railroads have each introduced a system of light cabs to carry passengers to and from their stations at the uniform rate of about 25 cents a mile, the former carrying two persons for one fare. Legal fares for public hacks, including electric motor-cabs, are as follows: Cass—By the mile.—25 cts. for the first half-mile, and 25 cts. for each additional half-mile. For stops over five minutes and not ex- ceeding fifteen, 25 cts.; for longer stops, 25 cts. for each fifteen min- utes. Ly the hour.—With the privilege of going and stopping to suit yourself, $1 for the first hour, or part thereof, and 50 cts. for each additional half-hour. This tariff includes Hansom cabs. CoacHes—By the mzle.—One dollar for the first mile, or part thereof; and each additional half-mile or part thereof, 40 cts. By dis- tance for ‘‘stops” 38 cts. for each fifteen minutes. For brief stops not over five minutes, nocharge. Ay the hour.—$1.50 first hour or part thereof, and each succeeding half-hour or part thereof, 75 cts. From ‘line balls” one or two passengers, to any point south of 59th St. $2; each additional passenger, 50 cts.; north of 59th St. each additional mile 50 cts. Taxicabs.—These are automobile landaulettes, seating four people comfortably, and are painted bright red, with green panels on the door. ‘There is only one tariff, no extra charge being made whether one or four passengers are being carried, either by day or night. Fares are plainly indicated on the Taximeter, so the passenger cannot be overcharged. TaxiIcAB TarIFF.—First half mile or fraction thereof, 30 cents. Each quarter mile thereafter, to cents. Each six minutes of waiting, ro cents. For each package or trunk carried outside, 20cents. These Taxicabs can be ordered from railroad stations or from the leading hotels. Baggage Express.—On all important incoming trains, a uniformed solicitor for either the N. Y. Transfer Co, or Westcott’s baggage delivery company passes through the train seeking orders. He will take your checks, giving a receipt therefor, and deliver your baggage to any part of New York, Brooklyn, or Jersey City. The payment may be made in advance or on receipt of the article at the house S}J991}G JoJUID puke SIequieyHD—SGaAOoOUaA AO TVIVH Orns 16 HANDY GUIDE DIO NEW, VORASEGLI NG which will be in the course of two hours, ordinarily, if not earlier. In addition to these transfer companies, several other carriers have offices near the great stations and steamer-landings. ‘These express- men usually charge the same rates as those above mentioned. Out- side of these are a legion of small proprietors of ‘‘ expresses,” and individual owners of job-wagons, whose charge is only 25 cents a piece. They are honest, asarule, but their responsibility should be inquired into before baggage is intrusted to them. Ordinary baggage may be taken with you if you employ a hack- man, and the delay, otherwise inevitable, will be avoided. The hotel omnibuses get baggage for their patrons very promptly also. For those who do not hire cabs or carriages, that American institution, the ‘‘ express delivery service,” is easily available here. Caution.— Never give up your checks to any one but a uniformed train-solicitor, or a regular office agent or porter of either the trans- portation company which holds the baggage or of the express com- pany to which you mean to intrust it; and always take a receipt; and never give up your checks, if you claim your baggage yourself, to any person except the uniformed baggagemen of the railway or steamboat line by which you have traveled. If you expect to meet or visit friends in the city, who are residents, the best way probably is to keep your checks and let your friend manage the delivery of your baggage for you. Outgoing Baggage.— When you get ready to leave the city, an expressman will call at your house, and take and deliver your bag- gage at any station for from 25 to 4ocentsa piece. Dodd’s and Westcott’s companies (both of which have many branch offices in New York and in all the adjoining cities) will check your baggage at the house to your destination in any part of the country, so that you need have no trouble with it at the railway station; but you must have bought your railway ticket in advance, and must pay 1o cents additional for the accommodation. Hotels. New York has always been proud of its hotels, which are almost numberless, and which year by year increase in excellence of service and splendor of appointments. They are scattered from the Battery to Harlem River, but few of prominence are farther than a square or two from Broadway or Fifth avenue, and all the foremost are between Madison Square and Central Park. Hotel list page 195, LHAULS HLXIS-ALNAML OL GalHL “spid ysnq9eLd hd ne ALNEUML WOYXd ANNAHAV NOSIGVW JO MHAIA “BPI OFJLT Usz{[0do1jOW TES of Ye BB ie 4,08 II. GETTING ABOUT THE. -ClUPY. Elevated Rai/ways. General Remarks.— The system of elevated railroads, which carry trains of cars run by electricity, now consists of four main double-track lines, and a few short branches. All come together at the southern extremity of the island in a terminal station at South Ferry alongside the Battery. ‘Two lines are on the West Side and two on the East, and all reach to the Harlem River, one (the ‘‘ Sub- urban’’) continuing beyond, through to Fordham. These trains run at intervals of two or three minutes (or even less, during the busiest hours of morning and evening) all the day and evening; and from midnight to sunrise the intervals between trains are not more than five minutes. Strangers should be careful to note the sign at the foot of the station-stairs which informs them whether that station is for ‘‘ up-town” or ‘‘down-town”’ trains; but if they forget and find themselves on the wrong side, they will be passed in free at the opposite station if they explain the case to the ms ee eee a TT MT pee ae SUBWAY STREET ENTRANCE—At soth Street. 19 Oity Hall Worlu Tribune Tract Society Potter Nathan Hale . Watching the Base Ball Score. Mail Street. ¢ 21 22 HANDY GOIDE (TO NE VAY VOR AGE Ke gateman where the mistake is made. The fare on all roads and for all distances is 5 cents. f these a fortification, in the form of a water-battery, was built very early in the history of the city, and rebuilt, but not much used at the time of the Revolution. This accounts for the name. Among the defenses projected at the close of the last century was a new fort here, upon the outermost rocks. It was completed in 1805, and was named Fort Clinton, after Gov. George Clinton. This is the structure since modified into Castle Garden, now the Aquarium. As originally built the fort was separated from the mainland of Manhattan Island by a strip of water which was bridged by a draw, and which was filled in later. It was a circular building of solid stone masonry, with walls in some places thirty feet thick, and was provided with barbette and casemate guns. It was liberally armed and garrisoned by the Government, and was considered by military men one of the best forts in the country. During the second war with England Fort Clinton was the center of a great deal of activity on the part of the citizens of this town. In 1814, the probability of a naval attack presented itself, and early in the spring the Common Council called a mass meeting of citizens to consider the situation. The citizens pledged themselves to rally for the defense of the city. Enlisting stations were at once opened, and companies and regiments were rapidly formed, and drilled opposite Ft. Clinton, which was much strengthened at the same time by gangs of citizens working with trowel and spade. ‘The intense excitement of the times, center- ing at the Battery, spread in all directions about the port, and works were thrown up on Brooklyn Heights, Ellis Island, Bedloe’s Island, and Staten Island, largely by volunteer labor of citizens. Forts were built all around the Lower Bay and along the shores of the East River and McGowan’'s Pass, and other strategic points were covered by achain of forts protecting the city on the north. For this mat- ter. consult Journal U.S. Artillery. IX. March-April, 1898. . CHALFONTE Is a modern building of the best type, located on the Board Walk at ATLANTIC CITY Your patronage is solicited by THE LEEDS COMPANY. HADDON HALL ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Always Open On the Board Walk \s seat “Ui alana waa ann COTO TK Hot and cold sea water inall baths. Hot and cold running water in many rooms LEEDS G LIPPINCOTT Write for booklet and rates In Touch with THE NEWEST BOOKS You are kept in immediate and constant touch with the publishing world through the Wanamaker Book Store =F OO000| It is as complete as though we dealt exclusively in books. It contains, besides standard works of all classes and in all editions, the newest books, of whatever order, on the day of their pubblication. Itsells more books, far and away, than any other two American stores combined. This leads to another important fact—that, whenever special lots of books are offered, our immense distributing powers make it possible to get these offerings at the lowest possible prices. Libraries will find it to their advantage to keep in touch with us, as our facilities for filling orders, whether large or small, are better, our prices lower than those of any other house. We issue a special catalogue of rare editions and books in fine bindings, mostly bought abroad. We shall be glad to send this, as well as our general Book Catalogue, free on request. SOCOS E= JOHN WANAMAKER PHILADELPHIA PARIS NEW YORK THE RIVERS AND HARBOR. 105 After the war Ft. Clinton was kept in good military shape fora few years only, because the defenses of other approaches to the city had made it practically useless. It was deeded to the: State in 1822. Then began its civil existence, which is more interesting than its mil- itary career. From 1824, when Lafayette landed there on his visit to this country, until 1853, when theatrical representations of a rather cheap sort were produced there, the fort was a popular resort. In 1847 Castle Garden was remodeled inside, shut in with a high roof, and fitted up as a luxurious place of amusement. The Havana Opera Company, the leading opera organization of the period, appeared there, and many fine plays were given. Then followed the wonderful introduction of Jenny Lind by P. T. Barnum, when the town went wild over the Swedish adzva. In 1855 Castle Garden became the State immigrant depot, and nearly ten millions of immi- grants passed through its halls. In 1891, however, the United States took charge of immigration, aban- doned Castle Garden, and established a new depot upon Ellis Island. This is asmall Island between the Liberty Statue and the Communipaw shore, t\. which has been almost covered with 7 a fine range of buildings. Hither all steerage passengers ae Vy Ze 4 Ly. ree Sor im - are transferred from — ce pres t4 4\\. the steamers in which may Jeet they arrive, and before = SA ——_ yj) they can land must be = eg =! examined as to their FS SS eligibility as citizens, Ss and be fully recorded. If they are bound to some interior point, they are put into charge of railway or steamship agents, and by them conducted to the trains or steamers. The Government never loses sight of, nor ceases to protect, the immigrant until he is prepared to face the new life. A ferry-boat (free) runs between the Battery and the island every forty minutes during working hours. THE BARGE OFFICE. 106 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. The Battery Park contains twenty-one acres, is shaded by large trees, and provided with a broad walk along the sea-wall and with a great number of seats, always crowded with quaint immigrants and loungers. At the eastern end of the sea-wall stands the Revenue Barge Office, a branch of the Custom House, surmounted by a tower go ft. high, and beyond that the group of ferries to Brooklyn and Staten Island known collectively as South Ferry. In 1893 the Battery was adorned by a bronze statue of Juhn Ericsson, the great engineer, which stands near the Barge Office. It was erected by the city, was designed by J. S. Hartley, and the granite pedestal bears panels in low relief commemorating the deeds of the ‘‘ Monitor.” The Aquarium.— Castle Garden has been restored externally, and refitted by the city (Park Department) as an aquarium, open freely, each day to the public. It is in charge of city officials, and will repay inspection. ‘The floor of the old fort is occupied by large open tanks for large fishes, seals, great turtles, etc.; and the walls are encircled by glass-fronted wall tanks containing an extensive display of the fishes of our waters, both salt and fresh. The circular gailery above them is occupied by tanks in which are living, amid fixed aquatic growths, arich collection of small corals, anemones, mollusks, crustaceans, and other creatures of great interest and beauty. Everything is fully labeled. Admittance 104. M. to 4 Pp. M., daily. The Liberty Statue. Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty stands upon Bedloe’s Island, 12, miles southwest of the Battery and on the western edge of the path of com- merce. Its base is surrounded by the double, star-shaped walls and salients of old Fort Wood, which partly hide the pedestal, but lend dignity to the noble figure. This colossal figure, the largest statue of modern times, is made of hammered: plates. of copper, is 152 ft. in height and stands upcn a pedestal 155 ft. high. August. Bartholdi was a French sculptor, already known to Amer- icans by his statue of Lafayette in Union Sq., and by other works. He was impressed during a voyage to the United States by the eager- ness with which the immigrants crowded the decks for a first glimpse of the new land to which they were coming with such hope and con- fidence, and the thought came to him, as Mr. Charles Barnard has well written it: ‘‘ What a joy and encouragement it would be to these people if they could see something to welcome them, to remind them that this is arepublic. What if there stood, like a great guardian, at THE RIVERS AND HARBOR. 107 the entrance of the continent, acolossal statue—a grand figure of a woman holding aloft a torch, and symbolizing Lzberty Enlightening the World!” When he went home he proposed that a popular sub- scription should be opened in France to present to the people of the United States such a statue. The idea took the fancy of the French. More than $200,000 was collected, and in 1879 Mr. Bartholdi began work upon the statue, the sketch of which had been approved by ccitics aud people alike. The process of building this cclossal figure was most interesting, and was graphically detailed by Mr. C. Barnard in St, zcholas for July, 1884, quoted below: Structure of the Statue.-—A monolith so enormous as this was designed to be, could never be transported or erected; and if built up in courses it would crumble and become unsightly. Bartholdiremem- bered the statue erected centuries ago by ‘‘ Il Cerano” on the shore of Lake Maggiore, which was made of copper, in thin sheets, ham- mered into shape and laid upon a frame of stone, iron, and wood; and he decided that his statue must follow the same method. A begin- ning was made by executing a model in plaster just one-sixteenth the size of the intended statue. Next another model four times as large was constructed, and carefully studied and worked over to make it as perfect as possible. ‘This quarter-size model being finished, the task followed of making the full-sized model in plaster. But this had to be cast in sections, and these fitted together. To mold these full- sized copies of the quarter-sized model, which had been cut into suitable pieces, was a work of great ingenuity. Their weight required a support, and a framework of laths was first erected over which the plaster was roughly spread, and then was chiseied and smoothed by skillful workmen into an exact similitude of the smaller model. These sections in plaster completed, came the work of making wooden molds that should be exact copies both in size and modeling of the plaster. ‘‘It was a long, tedious, and difficult piece of work; but there are few workmen who could do it better than these French carpenters. Each piece was a model of a part of the statue, exactly fitting every projection, depression, and curve of that portion of the figure or drapery. Into these wooden molds sheets of metal were laid, and pressed or beaten down until they fitted the irregular sur- faces of the molds. All the refoussé, or hammered work, was done from the back, or inside of the sheet [which varied from one to three ards square]. . . . . In this complicated manner, by making hae a sketch, then a quarter-size model, then a full-sized model in sections, then hundreds of wooden copies, and lastly by beating into shape 300 sheets of copper, the enormous statue was finished. These 300 bent and hammered plates, weighing in all eighty-eight tons, form the outside of the statue Thev are very thin, and while they fit each other perfectly, it is quite plain that if they were put together in their proper order they would never stand alone; . . . . there must be also a skeleton, a bony structure inside, to hold it together, LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD—Bedloe’s Island, New York Bay, Statue by Bartholdi. Irs VIL A RAMBLE AT NIGHT. Some suggestions as to a good route for a nocturnal ramble, and the sort of thing a person may expect to see, may be useful. If you are in search of evil, in order to take part in it—don’t look here for guidance. This book merely proposes to give some hints as how the dark, crowded, hard-working, and sometimes criminal portions of the city look at night. | Supposing that you start from an uptown hotel, say at 9 o'clock, a good plan would be to take the Sixth Av. El. Ry. to Bleecker St. station. This isa shady corner, in more sensesthan one. The jumc- tion of Bleecker and South Fifth Av.is quite roofed over by the elevated station and tracks, and the latter street is one of the most poorly lighted in town; moreover the locality is largely inhabited by negroes, mainly of a very low class, becoming still more low and vicious as you go down Sullivan and Thompson Sts., below Bleecker; and a large proportion of the white residents, American, Italian, French, and Irish, are fond of shady places and shady ways. Wander about these gloomy blocks a bit, if you like, but keep your eyes open— not so wide, however, as would be advisable four or five 1ours later. East of South Fifth Av., Bleecker St. is brighter, and chere are several queer little French and Italian restaurants. Fifty years ago this street was the height of fashion, and the doorplates of the fine old houses, many of which yet remain in melancholy dirt and ruin, bore names now counted i igh up on Fifth or Madison avenues. But great business houses are rit ug year by year on their sites. and even the devil is being ousted from all this evil part of town by com- merce and manufactures. The huge and handsome Mills Hotel No. 1 stands here. Wooster and Green Sts., next east of South Fifth Av., which twenty years ago were infamous, are now walled in by huge factories and commercial buildings. Two blocks further on we come to Broadway, quiet and gloomy here, since almost every store is closed at 6. Wecross it and walk one block east to the head of Mulberry St., just beyond which are the rooms of two street missions, one of which, the /lorence Mzssion, is widely known for its work among the women of the street. ~ Turning down Mulberry we pass the solemn, white front of PoJice 109 $}991}S WY puke lofUVD—NOSIad ALIO MAN SPOOJITOLY WOsHoI W Stuy A HO Bed sraseersaaas ag A RAMBLE AT NIGHT. It Headquarters, whose two green lanterns, erect and firm before the door, are no more watchful than the power within, with its hand on the pulse of the metropolis—unceasingly vigilant, unfailingly ready, minute by minute, day after day, year in and year out. The Police Force.—No part of the city government is so apparent, to both citizens and strangers, asthe police. The first man the visitor sees, as he alights from his incoming train or boat, is a policeman. The government of the force has gone through many changes, by the latest of which it is governed by one commissioner who appoints the Chief of Police. Superintendence of Elections is no longer a police department duty. The Headquarters of the force isat 300 Mulberry St. The boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx contain thirty-eight precincts, each of which has its own station house, with quarters for the men, cells for prisoners, and, in a few, a matron for the care of women prisoners. Attached to each one are two patrol wagons. Each precinct is commanded by a captain, who has under him sergeants and roundsmen — the latter ‘* going the rounds” to see that the patrol- men are at their posts, or ‘* beats,” and doing their duty properly — and a quota of privates, or ‘ patrolmen.” Many of the men on duty in parts of the city are mounted on horses. A large squad patrol many streets upon bicycles, and the men of the Harbor Police patrol the river margins in rowboats, with headquapters on a steamer. A “steamboat squad” is detailed in summer to accompany all the pleasure boats plying to suburban and seaside resorts, and the special water excursions and picnics so frequentat that season. The Aroad- . way Sguad is a picked body of favored officers, of peculiarly tall and fine appearance, who are complimented by being assigned to day posts pon the great thoroughfare. The Defective Bureau is composed of a large number of skillea officers detailed for detective work, each witb the rank of sergeant. The force now numbers, all told, about 5,000 men in old New York, and 3,000 more in Brooklyn, Queens, and Rie" mond boroughs. Police Headquarters (Grand and Center Streets) is connected with all the stations, Bellevue Hospital, and some other points by special telegraph wires, and all arrests, fires, accidents, and every occurrence of any moment, in any part of the city, is at once commun- icated to the Headquarters’ operators. Unless there are ‘‘ reasons of state” for keeping it a secret, a memorandum of this information is at once placed in the bands of the reporters for the press, who are on duty at Police Headquarters, and who never for a moment, day or night, leave the place ‘‘ uncovered.” ‘This routine explains how so great a quantity of news is gathered. The same system is applied to the other boroughs. The Health Department long had its ..ffices in this building, but now is quartered in its own premises, Sixth Av., cor. 55th St. The odd, elevated figure confronting us as we approach the next 112 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. corner gradually shapes itself out of the shadows as the image of the genial Puck, whose bright weekly is printed in that great building. On this northeast corner of Mulberry and Houston ran for many years the notorious pugilistic resort and concert hall of Harry H7l/,; but the doughty proprietor closed his doors some years ago. ‘Turning east through Houston St., we walk two blocks to the Bowery (of which more presently), anl jumping upon acar ride down half a mile to Worth St., which opens as a broad thoroughfare westward from the lower side of Chatham Sq. We walk rapidly two or three hundred yards along it, until we suddenly find ourselves in an open, triangu- lar space, where several narrow and irregular streets converge. This is the Five Points.—Thirty years ago Worth St. was called Anthony, and did not extend through from Chatham §$q. to Broadway, as it now does, but stopped midway at ‘‘the points,” where its intersection with Park and Cross (now Baxter) Sts. formed five triangles. The ground was low, and had from the first been avoided by those who could choose a more desirable site for their buildings. On each of these points, years ago, stood grog-shops of the lowest character, and the whole neighborhood was filled with infamous houses and tumble- down tenements, inhabited by the poorest and most abandoned persons—the human drainage of the city. It would be unpleasant to insist upon ali the disagreeable features. What remains even yet is indicative of avery bad past, though the light has been let in by the opening of Worth St., the paving of the little ‘‘ square,” the demolition of many of the old rookeries, and the closing of such alleys as ‘‘Cow Bay” and ‘‘ Donovan’s Lane.” Even the old ‘‘Bloody Sixth” police station in Franklin St. was abandoned a dozen years ago. Nevertheless you may listen to the noise of fighting any night _ now in that region, especially in the Italian quarter just north of it; and the counters of the dark and dreadful saloons are chipped with knife-thrusts and dented with pistol-bullets. Where next? Baxter St., which leads straight through from the Five Points to Chatham St., is dark and quiet. The ol’ clo’ shops are shut, and all the Cohens have gone to bed, In the day-time this narrow, short, and dirty thoroughfare will repay the curiosity of any sight-seer who has the temerity torun the gauntlet of ‘pullers in.” The street, more commonly spoken of as ‘* the Bay,” has always been known for its cheap clothing business, and shop after shop on both sides is given up to our Hebraic brethren, who appropriate the greater part of the sidewalk for the display of their various ‘‘ bargains.” Swarthy men and sometimes girls entreat you to enter and buy, not only, but seize your arm and will drag you in, if they can, despite the protests and revilings of the salesman next door, ‘The complacency A RAMBLE AT NIGHT. 113 with which you are assured that black is white and that other contra- dictory things are similar, in order to effect a sale, is amusing — objectively. It is too far to go to sce the Italian rag-pickers in Crosby St., but we can find a great colony of the same people in Little Italy, just above here ; so let us go to The Mulberry Bend.—Mulberry St., here at its southern end, is narrow, dark, and dirty. Six-story tenements, whose unwashed win- dows scarcely disclose any evidence of the lamp-light within, rise in a solid wall on either hand. ‘Their first floors are occupied by shops of various kinds—all aark now, but blurs of red and yellow light at each corner, and once or twice in the middle, of every block, show that the saloons are still open. Along the curbstone, every two or three doors, are groups of trucks,whose drivers and horses are stabled somewhere in the midst of these tenements. It it not much after ten o'clock, and plenty of people are in the street; if it be one of the hot summer evenings, everybody is out, half of them asleep on the trucks, or in door-steps, or on the cellar doors, where the mothers have brought pillows, or maybe a mattress, for their children to lie upon; and there they will sleep all night rather than stifle inside those awful hives of neglected humanity. The Park recently opened here, has cleared away some of the worst of these squalid tenements, and opened the ‘Points’ and the ‘‘Bend” to fresh air and green grass. It has a rest-house, fountains, and in- numerable seats. A great new schoolhouse is close by. On all sides are pictures worth an artist’s study, especially on a summer evening. Here is a little street coming in from the right, and the smoky torches of a fruit-seller gleam upon the brass buttons of two police- men who are watching what seems to be material for a very pretty row, in a group of small, lithe, dark men excitedly quarreling and gesticulating. Not a word of English is heard— only a rough, gut- teral Italian. Perhaps they will take it out in words—perhaps a knife may flash out, a cry be heard, and the cat-like muraerer gov away, even though policemen are so close at hand, for his countrymen will help him to escape, in order that they may institute the vendetta and become their own avengers. We move on. ‘The way is mort crowded, and as we jostle through it is hard to believe this is no Naples. The street curves slightly to the left. More dark-skinned men and bonnetless women — who ever saw one of these s¢7gnorinas wear a hat ?— throng the sidewalks and squat in the doorways of the i14 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. little shops, whose thresholds are below the sidewalk, or lounge upon the trucks, or pass in and out of a concert hall where dancing is going on. Let us step into this groggery kept by a man whose name is honored in Rome, if his sign may be believed, and get a glass of beer. Itis a dark, smoky little bar-room, filled with Italians. No doubt they look ferocious, if your fancy insists upon it, but to me there seems only a sort of brutish curiosity in their glances. ‘The beer comes in glasses holding nearly a quart, and only three cents is asked; but if it was not altogether obtained by emptying the dregs of the beer-kegs in other saloons, the stock was certainly eked out in that way. We take just asip for politeness sake and go out again. This is the Mulberry Bend—in some respects the most unmanage- able crime-nursery in the city. It is quiet enough, as arule, how- ever, and we turn back and saunter through the stinking shadows of Bayard St. (the very worst part of a very bad street named after the pattern of gentility) without any sensations of alarm, since no ven- detta has been declared against us in ‘‘ Little Italy.” Chinatown and the Chinese.—At the top of the slope of Baxter St. is Mott St., and here in daylight an extremely picturesque and for- eign scene is presented as you look back at the rickety tenements and the chaffering crowd of excitable hucksters. Mott St., from Bayard to Chatham Sq., is the heart of Chinatown. Here, or in the immediate neighborhood, the majority of the 7,000 Chinese in New York has its home, though its work may be done to a large extent somewhere else. Here are the joss houses, the civil officers of *he colony, the merchants, the tailors, and shoemakers, the lodging- houses and restaurants, the gambling rooms and opium-smoking places. The latest estimate by the Chinese Consulate (18 Broadway) places the number of Chinese in New York and Brooklyn at about 7,000. All come from a little territory in the province of Kwantung, in part known as the Sam Yup, or Four Towns, and the Sz’ Yup or Three ‘Towns. Some thirty ‘‘companies” of merchants are enumerated in New York, and many of them do a large business, not only at home, but in supplying Chinese shops in outlying towns. ‘Their stock is mainly imported direct, and includes a wide range of goods. ‘These stores are always open, of course, to visitors, and in each of them a clerk or proprietor speaking English will be found. The largest wholesale ones are in Mott St. and Chatham Sq.; but the most showy retail shops are those in Pell St., at the lower end of the Bowery. Their habits of personal cleanliness are maintained, their streets are by all odds the cleanest in that part of the city, the buildings in which A RAMBLE AT NIGHT, 115 they live are well swept and kept in good repair, and their quarters, though smelling of incense smoke, and otherwise strangely malodor- ous to Caucasian nostrils, and despite their crowded condition, far surpass in wholesome cleanliness the tenements of the foreigners around them, The hour of this walk is too late, of course, to enable us vo enter the stores, whose upright signs, with big carved characters and little knots and tassels of cloth, glimmer picturesquely in the gaslight. What we can see through the darkened windows induces a resolve to come here again by daylight. The front of a building on the eastern side of the way attracts attention. It is covered with balconies hung with gaudy signs and ornaments, and illuminated by large octagonal lanterns of colored glass. This is the new temple or joss house at No. 16, which is worth a visit. A Joss House.—We enter the hall, and climb two pairs of stairs to the front room, where the noise made by our entrance brings an aged and shriveled attendant, who bows his welcome, shaking his own hands the while, instead of shaking ours. One side of the room is filled with a great shrine of magnificently carved ebony columns and arches, within which carved figures covered with gold leaf are placed, the whole resembling somewhat the stage-setting of a tiny theater. The extreme back of the shrine is occupied by a half-length painting representing, they tell you, Gwan Gwing Shing Te, the only original god of the Chinese Empire. On his left 1s the woman-like figure of his grand secretary, Lee Poo, and on his right, in fiercest battle array, is Tu Chong, the grand body-guard. A row of candles, set like theater footlights, illuminates the painting, and brings out all its barbaric splendor. About three feet in front of the shrineis a massive carved table upon which are arranged the brass jars, joss sticks, sandle-wood urns, and all the offerings and sacrifices peculiar to this worship. It is before this table, after lighting his incense sticks and his sacred paper, that the Mongolian worshiper makes his devotional salaams, pours his tiny libation of rice wine, and repeats the ritual of prayers enjoined upon him.’ The religion of this people, as manifested here, is, however, accompanied by little sacredness. A Chinese Theater is conducted at 5 Doyer St., which may be visited by anyone, and (in parties) by ladies. The plays and audi- ence are thoroughly and characteristically Chinese, by actors of abil- ity, are never offensive, and often are comical. Admission, 25 cents. Confections and sugar-cane are sold, and everybody smokes. Several Chinese restaurants are carried on in this quarter, and on Saturday nights and Sundays, when Chinamen flock in here to visit friends and make purchases, they are crowded. ‘The largest one is kept by Kee Keng Low on the third floor (front) of 16 Mott St. Another is at 16 Doyer St. 116 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY, The Bowery,—It is only eleven o’clock, and the Bowery is still crowded with people, and brilliant with innumerable lights along its whole length. There is no other such a street in America. ‘‘Initis probably represented every civilized nation on the globe, and it is un- questionably a democratic street. Itis the antithesis of Broadway, and the grand avenue of the respectable lower classes.” Years ago it was the resort of a peculiar type of braggart ruffians, the Bowery boys, who were the heroes of that New York which was guarded by the ‘‘ leather head.” police, and ran to fires ‘‘ wid de machine” of their favorite volunteer company. Dickens found here material to his tuste. No chapter in his ‘‘ American Notes” is more graphic or true than that upon the Bowery ; and Thackeray was anxious first of all to see this street and its habitues. But that time passed with the era of the war and the coming of the immigrants. Americans have almost disappeared from that part of New York, and the swaggering ‘‘boy” has departed. The ‘‘ young feller” who remains is really no better, but he is more showy, less troublesome, and is in turn giving way to the German and Jew, good-natured and frugal, even in their amusements. Larger buildings and better shops are exhibited year by year, and the Bowery is gradually but steadily rising. The Russian Quarter.—It is getting late. We must hurry east- ward. Here is Chatham Sq. again. A maze of streets radiates off at the left—dark, narrow streets leading down toward the East River, and we can see in the distance a few of the lights on the Brooklyn Bridge, and distinguish against the sky the shadowy blur of atower. Let us follow the line of the Second Av. El. Ry. up Di- vision St. as faras Market St., running the gauntlet of hook-nosed girls in front of the millinery stores, who, from pure force of habit, will beseech us to go in and buy something ‘‘ for your lady, sir.” It is an odd bit of the city. Then we turn down Market, a broad and once important street, which runs down to East River, and cross over one block to East Broadway, a semi-fashionable thoroughfare half a century ago, but now the central avenue of the Russian and Polish quarter, so far as these people can be separated from Jews, Bohemians, and Hungarians, who throng a square mile of marvelously crowded tenements in this region. Here, among his countrymen, dwells many a political refugee or escaped soldier from the dominion of the Tsar ; or if, as is usually the case in New York, the education of the exile enables him to earn enough to live in a better pice, he is often to be seen here as a visitor. Signs in Russian letters au fre- A RAMBLE 4T NIGHT. ve quent. One o: these, over the door of a basement liquor saloon, sug- gests to us that we go in and get a glass of vodka, or Russian spirits; there is little in it that differs from any bar-room of the vicinity, and the drink is nothing but poor whisky. The sign of a Russian res- taurant attracts us. We find a neat room, once the parlor of a big house, where a mother and two comely daughters are chatting with half a dozen dark-skinned young men, who sit smoking cigarettes at small tables. We get some bread and coffee, and go our way, having seen little if anything out of the ordinary. The Russian, the Pole, the Bohemian, is lost at once in the American ; but the Jew remains a Jew. In ‘ Judea.’’—We turn disappointedly out of East Broadway, and wander about the narrow dirty streets northward; and westward- Forsythe, Allen, Orchard, Ludlow, Hester, and Canal. Everywhere six and seven storied brick tenement houses are crowded to their eaves with humanity. One single square mile in this part of town holds a quarter of a million persons. Nine-tenths of them are Germans or Germanized Jews and Bohemians. They are the hardest-working part of the population, and spend the least of what they earn. The Israelites are the most interesting. They form a community by themselves, supplying each other’s wants and having communication only to a limited extent with outsiders. Here is where the fakers and peddlers who throng the lower part of the town get their supplies and learn how to earn their livelihood, even before they have any idea of the language of the country. There is no special reason why we should come to see them at night, save for the picturesqueness of it; except on Thursday night (preceding the Hebrew Sabbath, which begins at Friday’s sunset) when the streets, and especially Hester St., are crowded to suffoca- tion with crowds of strollers and buyers of the holiday’s provisions, and long lines of hand-carts, selling every conceivable thing and illu- minated by flaring oil-torches. The little shops open their doors to the widest, and upon every cellar door some zealous merchant dis- plays a heap of second-hand goods, and howls out the name and virtues of his wares. Fire Department.—Few things interest the stranger in New York more than to go to a fire and see the work of what is conceded to be the most scientific and capable fire department in the world. It is culed by a commissioner, appointed by the mayor, from headquarters 118 HANDV' GUIDE \TONEWRVORK. CILY, at 157 E. 67th St., but practical direction is in the hands of a chief, who has under him a deputy for Brooklyn. The old city contains over 100 engine, hook-and-ladder, and water-tower companies, grouped into battalions under battalion chiefs, and so arranged in districts that a certain amount of apparatus responds to any alarm in its district, and more is called by additional telegraphic signals. ‘TRINITY CHURCH —Lower Broadway, opposite Wall Street. VILE CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT WORK. The Dutch Reformed Church has the honor of possessing not only the oldest Protestant organization in New York, but in the Western hemisphere. This patriarch is the Collegdate D. F. Church Soczety, whose 250th anniversary was celebrated Nov. 21, 1878. The finest of the present Dutch Reformed churches, architecturally, is the Third (or Fifth Avenue) Col/egzate at Fifth Av. and 48th St., which exhibits a wealth of study in its constructive and other decorations. The Bloomingdale Church(W End Ave. and 106th St )isahandsome building of white and gray stone. Another handsome edifice belongs to the Second Collegiate of Harlem, at Lenox Ay. andi23d St. The caurch at Fifth Av. and 29th St. is known as the Holland Church,and is a fine building of Vermont marble in the Romanesque style. In addition to those heretofore mentioned, some twenty other churches and missions of this denomination are scattered about the city and its northern suburbs, a recent addition to the list being the Hamz/ton Avenue Church,at W. 145th St. and Convent Av., which stands upon what was once the home estate of Alexander Hamilton. Episcopalian.— Next in antiquity as an organization is the Prot- estant Episcopal (Church of England), where, of course, Trinity heads a list notable for splendid architecture as well as good works. The residence of the bishop is at 347 W. 89th St., and his office at 113 West goth St. A cathedral to cost several millions is being built presently upon the high ground near the lower end of Morningside Park (W. 110th St.). The oldest organization in the denomination and in the city (except the Dutch Reformed). and the wealthiest, and most ritualistic one in the United States, is Trinity Church.—It is on Broadway, facing Wall St., and the Rector St. station of the Sixth Av. El. Ry., whose trains overlook 119 120 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. its churchyard, is close in its rear. The land on which-Trinity Church now stands was the old West India Company’s farm, before the Conquest of Manhattan Island by the English. It then became ‘‘the King’s farm,” and in 1705 was granted to this, the Colonial Church. These lands embraced the entire tract lying along the North River, between the present Vesey and Christopher streets. Much of it was subsequently given away to institutions of various sorts, but enough remains to constitute a property yielding about $500,000 income annually and worth an enormous amount at the market prices of real estate in that part of the city. This income is spent in the maintenance of old Trinity and six chapels, besides aid to many subsidiary missions in various squalid parts of the city, to supporting a long list of charities, and to the care of Trinity Ceme- tery in Manhattanville. The original church, built in 1697, and rebuilt in 1737, was destroyed in the great fire of 1776. It was not replaced for several years, St. Paul’s giving its hospitality to the parishioners; but in 1788 a new church was erected which stood for half acentury. It was then torn down, and upon its site arose the present edifice, which was completed in 1846. Trinity Churchyard is beautiful in itself, and full of associations of monuments of historical interest. Many of the graves go back to the 17th century. Here are buried many well-known persons, among them Alexander Hamilton. It is open to the public daily. Of the monuments the most conspicuous is the ‘‘ Martyrs,” in the northeast corner, near the street. This was erected by the Trinity corporation in memory of the American patriots who died in Pritish prisons in this city during the Revolutionary War. Another promi- nent monument, at the left of the entrance, is the one to the memory of Captain Lawrence, of the man-of-war Chesapeake, whose dying cry, ‘‘ Don’t give up the ship,” is carved upon its pictured sides. St. Paul’s Church, which stands on Broadway between Fulton and Vesey Sts., and nearly opposite the Post Office, is in reality only a ‘‘chapel” of Trinity Parish. It is the rear which is seen upon Broad- way, the church originally facing toward the North River and com- manding a view of it. ‘This edifice was built in 1764-6, and althougk the third in the order of its foundation is now the oldest church build- ing in the city. ‘Its architecture is good and impressive, and its interior a chaste und carefully preserved example of the ecclesiastical fashion of 150 years ago. Its venc.able walls have seen many mem- orable ceremonies, and in its churchyard are resting the bones of CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT WORK. 121] famous men and women. In the rear wall, facing Broadway, is a memorial tablet to General Richard Montgomery, the hero of Quebec, while in the churchyard are monuments to Thomas Addis Emmet, an Irish patriot, the actor, George F. Cooke, and others. Grace @ihanerycsn stands on Broadway at toth St., just where the great tho-r- oughfare bends slight- ly westward; ral wie dG hoe ie therefore in view for a long distance from both di- recthions. The style is decorated Gothic, elab- orately car- ried out, and the gsreciory and adjoin- ing buildings are harmoni- ously adapt- ed to it, while A ey eLG.w ¥ hye My oC ona - lawn and GRACE CHURCH. Sen aT Geer makes a pleasing foreground to one of the most gratifying architec- tural pictures in New York. Its spire is particularly graceful, and contains a melodious chime of bells. The windows and interior of Grace Church are very rich in decorations; and this church shares with St Thomas the most fashionable weddings in the city. The Chantry—a small addition on the south side of the church, used 122 HANDY AG OTDG TON LWAY OR KACIIVY; for daily services—was erected by money given by the late Miss Catherine Wolfe. A building connecting the church and the rectory is used as a vestry and clergy house, and contains a library and read- ing room, open to members of the church; in the rear is aschool. Back of the church, in Fourth Av., is a day nursery, erected by Mr. Levi P. Morton, in memory of his wife, for the reception of young children during the hours their mothers are at work, and known as the Grace Memorial Home. Grace Chapel belongs to the parish. St. George’s on East 16th Street, overlooking Stuyvesant Sq., is descended from the congregation of the second Episcopal church erected in the city, which stood at Beekman and Cliff Sts., now the heart of the leather and hardware district. It is a very spacious and handsome building, and has an annex for the Sunday school, etc., built by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. St. Mark’s is another venerable church edifice, at Second Av. and roth St. (gth St. Station, Third Av. El. Ry.), which covers the site of a chapel built by Stuyvesant, the last of the Dutch governors, whose bones rest beneath its floor. The present is the second building, erected in 1826. Its outer(eastern) wall has a memorial to Stuyvesant. St. Thomas’ Church is at Fifth Av. and 53d St., and is perhaps the most fashionable of up-town houses of worship. Its paintings by Lafarge and its illuminated windows are justly admired. The Church of the Transfiguratzon in 29th St., just east of Fifth Av., is now known all over the country as ‘‘the (zttle church ’round the corner.” 'This name is said to have been derived from the refusal some years ago of a certain pastor in Madison Ay. to perform the burial service over the body of the aged actor, George Holland, bid- ding the emissary of his friends (who was Joseph Jefferson) go to ‘ta little church ’round the corner,” where they might be accommo- dated. Since that time the players of the country have held this church and the late Dr. Houghton, its pastor, in veneration, and nearly all actors and actresses who die in New York are buried from it. A memorial window to Harry Montague is one of its features. It isa low, cruciform building, in Gothic style, shaded by trees; its walls are half covered with vines, it has a pretty lych-gate, and altogether is one of the most attr@ctive houses of worship in th> city. About eighty other churches an 1 chapels of this denomination exist within this city, nearly all of which are ‘‘ low church.” Presbyterianism is the method of one of the oldest and strongest CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT WORK. sects in New York. The /7rs¢ Church, founded in 1716, stood orig- inally in Wall St., near Broadway, but now occupies the block on Fifth Av. between 11th and 12th Sts., with one of the most dignified edifices of its class in town. Nine pastors have succeeded one an- other there, the present being H. Duffield, D. D. The next oldest church is the Scotch (1756), now at 96th St. and Central Park, W. The Brick Church, whose tall spire crowns Murray Ilill, is next in age, put overreaches both in social prominence. Originally (1765) it stood on the triangle opposite the City Hall, now occupied by an _ office building. The former pastor was Dr. Henry Van Dyke. The Rutgers St. Church (now the Rutgers Riverszde) was organized in 1798 down-town, and has finally moved to its present place at 73d St. and the Boulevard. The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian (pulpit of the late Dr. John Hall) is the most fashionable as well as the most popular of the churches of this denomination in New York, and is the successor of an old society organized in Cedar St. in 1808, which, after several removals, arrived at its present building at Fifth Av. and 55th St. This isa highly decorated specimen of Gothic architecture. The interior pre- sents as great a contrast to the conventional plain meeting-house of former days as can well be imagined, Neither carving nor color ha, been spared, and the effect produced is rather more that associated with a theater than with a church—an effect which the light wood used in the paneling and in the construction of the pews, and the gradual sloping of the floor from the entrance to the pulpit, help to bring out to its fullest extent. Dr. Hall came from Dublin, Ireland, in 1867, died in Ireland in 1898, and was buried there. The churches heretofore named are the original Presbyterian churches of the city, which number fifty-seven in all, not including several mission chapels. A few others of the more prominent should be mentioned. The Madison Sguare Church is that of which Dr. William Adams was so long the pastor, succeeded by the present in- cumbent, the Rey. Charles H. Parkhurst. The Fourth Avenue, at Fourth Av. and 22d St., became famous under the pastorate of the late Dr. Howard Crosby. The Madzson Avenue is under the care of the Rev. Walter D. Buchanan; the Church of the Covenant, long min- istered to by the Rev. Prof. Marvin R. Vincent, is now led by Dr. G. S. Webster; and the Phelps Church (formerly Fifteenth St.) at Madison Av. and 73d St., has as pastor Rev. E. C. Shaver. The head- quarters for the many Presbyterian societies for church work home 124 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. missions, church erection, etc., are in the splendid stone office-building at Fifth Av. and 21st St., called Lenox Hall. Methodist Episcopal.—Methodism is an old institution in New York. The most ancient edifice is in Willet St., near Grand, but the John Street Church is entitled to foremost mention. This build- ing occupies the site of the first Methodist church in America, and is known as the cradle of American Methodism. The 4A/len St. Mem- ortal, Rivington St. east of Orchard, is the successor of the church in Allen St., so famous in the religious annals of the city as the center of aremarkable revival about 1830. The Washington Square Church, so called, occupies a marble building in 4th St., near Sixth Av. The Central Church(Seventh Av. near 14th St.) is the successor of that in Vestry St.,and S7¢. Pau?’s, now possessed of a fine edifice of marble, at Fourth Av. and 22d St., succeeds an old one in Mulberry St. The Eighteenth Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avs., is the ‘‘ Charter Church,” holding the original deeds, and its trustees are the legal successors of the first board. The Madison Avenue (at No. 659) has a fine brown-stone building recently erected; this is the church made famous by Dr. Newman, who numbered General Grant among his parishioners. The pulpit floor of another fashionable new M. E. Church, the Park Avenue, is made from timber from the original church in John St. 7Z7znzty (323 East 118th St.) has the largest mem- bership of any Methodist church in the city, and S¢. James in W. 126th St., stands second in this respect. S¢. Andrews, on 76th St., between Ninth and Tenth Avs., is in a fashionable location, and is the finest house of worship of this denomination in town. A new and very artistic church is St. Paul’s, West End Av. and 86th St. The Baptist church in New York goes back to an early date in local history, when a congregation met on Golden Hill, at the head of Burling Slip, where they were in danger of mob violence on account of their Arminian doctrines, which were distasteful to the rest of the people. Gov. Stuyvesant, however, guaranteed them protection, and the sect has thriven since, and now numbers fifty-two churches and missions. The most noted of these are: The Fifth Avenue, at W. 46th St.; Wadison Avenue, at E. 31st St.; Epiphany, W. 83d St. and Broadway; Calvary, Sixth Av. and 57th St.; and the Abyssinian (colored), 166 Waverley Place. Congregationalism has not grown as much in old New York as in Brooklyn. The foremost church is the 7adernacle, at Broadway and 56th St., of which the late Dr. W. M. Taylor was the pastor. The CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT WORK. 125 Central Church, at 57th St., between Eighth and Ninth Avs., and the Pilgrim Church, Madison Ay. and E£. 121st St., are most influen- tial societies. Of Unitarian churches New York nas three, two of which are i ee { "7 aati | roe Ei HE a =U eS SS a 97 TEMPLE EMANU-EL. i : i a i ae oll — VRS oi 5 ‘4 ¥ . , of a a 7 I~ f iB) . eel, ee ope ee ‘one 4 b Al “fal |} 1 i -- ee, y ib ui oi + as H ri aU” wi b. y \ ‘Dat LO nt Beir spy eta |) Dea ‘ oS = sl widely celebrated by reason of the eloquence of their pastors. All Souls is the oldest, and was made by the late Dr. Bellows the most prominent church of this denomination in the city, if not in the whole country. It stands at the corner of Fourth Av. and zoth St., and is very conspicuous through its red and white Byzantine style of archi- tecture.<=) LUC ™CLUTLA Of the Messiah, at 61 E. 34th St., cor- ner of Park Av., is now distin- guished by the oratory of the Rev. Robert Collyer, pastor emeritus, and is a handsome structure. In Harlem the Uni- tarians worship at Lenox Av. and 12ist St. The Lutheran denomination is as strong in New York as might be expected of its large German population. Its churches are mainly on the East Side and in Harlem, but are not confined to those quarters. Nearly the old- est, if not quite so, is SZ. Wat: thias, at the corner of Broome and Elizabeth Sts., where ser- vice is still held and a school maintained in one of the worst precincts in the city. S¢. Fames.in E. 73d St., is also prominent. Quakers, or Friends, have two meeting houses, one at 144 E. 2oth St., and another on Rutherford PIl., facing Stuyvesant Sq. A Mora- ’ vian society worships at 154 Lexington Av., with a mission at 636 9 126 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. Sixth Av. Three Universalist churches may be found, viz.: Church of the Divine Paternity, 76th St. and Central Park, W., and the Church of the Eternal Hope, 142 W. 81st St. The Israelitish population of the city has been growing with great rapidity during the past decade, and their synagogues now number about fifty. Most of them are small edifices, in the narrow East Side streets; but many are scattered along the avenues, and beautify them by their oriental architecture. Such are Beth-E/, Fifth Av. and 76th St.; B’zadz Jeshurun, Madison Av., near 6sth St.; Hand zn Hand and Temple Israel, in Harlem; Shaaraz Tephila, Columbus Ay. and 82d St., and, most notable of all, Temple Emanu-£/, north- east corner of Fifth Av. and 43d St., which is the finest specimen of Moorish architecture in America, and one of the costliest religious structures in the city. It is built of brown and yellow sandstone, with the roof of alternate lines of red and black tiles. The center of the facade on Fifth Av., containing the main entrance, is flanked by two towers or rather minarets, both richly carved. The congrega- tion belongs to the reform wing, under the pastorate of the learned J. Silverman Some miscellaneous churches and missions should not be forgotten The Church of the Strangers, formerly at 299 Mercer St., where Dr. C. F. Deems was pastor, which appeals directly to readers of this book, has now been moved to No. 307 W. 57th St.; it still sustains important missions among the unfortunate. The Swedenborgzans worship at 114 E. 35th St., and (in German) at 141 Chrystie. The MWarzner’s _ Church at 46 Catherine St. (near Chatham Sq.) is interesting, as are services at the Howard, Florence, Cremorne (104 W. 32d St.), and several other missions. Roman Catholic Churches. Roman Catholicism met with great prejudice and material obstacles when it first endeavored to gain a foothold in New York, and failed to do so until after the Revolution; but now it leads all other denominations in the number of its communicants drawn from every rank of society. The Cathedral is the first, of course, of the Catholic churches, and the great show church of the city; it is described at length farther on. About 100 other Roman Catholic churches are catalogued, of which only a few need be commented upon. The oldest, as has been said, is St. Peter’s (Barclay and Church Sts.). Next in order of age come THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL From the North, 5th Avenue, 50th and 51st Street 127 128 HANDY GOIDEVT O NIGH AVOKRSGL Inia the Old Cathedral (St. Patrick's church) at Mott and Prince Sts., now in the center of an Italian population ; it is underlaid by vaults (but burials have ceased), where Charles O’Connor, John Kelly, Judge Brady, and many prominent citizens and prelates of the last genera- tion are interred. Next oldest are S?. /ary’s (near Grand St. Ferry); St. Joseph's, St. James’, and St. Andrew's. Some notable churches are LAzphany (373 Second Av.), lately presided over by Dr. Burtsell ; Jimaculate Conception (505 E. 14th St.), where the Rev. John Edwards is pastor; St. Joseph’s (59 Sixth Av.), the parish of the late Father Farrell, celebrated as an anti-slavery preacher and writer before and during the Civil War. Churches distinguished by race are: Mount Carmel (447 E. 115th St.), Italian; Sz. Benedict the Moor (3 W. 53d St.), African; S¢. Vincent de Paul (127 W. 23d St.), French; /mmaculate Conception (Morrisania), St. Joseph's (E. 87th St. near First Av.), St. Josefh’s (Ninth Av. and 125th St.), St. Mary Magdalen (17th St. and Av. B), German; and S¢. Stan- zslaus’ (43 Stanton St.), Polish, Vicar-General Mooney’s church, is that of the Sacred Heart (447 W. 51st St.); and Dr. Brann’s is S¢. Agnes (143 E. 43d St.). The Jesuits, besides the magnificent new church of S¢. Jgnatzus (84th St. and Park Av.), have an imposing church and college dedicated to St. -ranczs Xavzer in 16th St. near Sixth Av.; and the Dominican’s church is St. Vincent Ferrer, Lex- ington Av. and 66th St. A// Saznts, Madison Av., corner E. 129th St., is the most noted R. C. church in Harlem ; but the most fashion- able church of the city, next to the Cathedral, is probably SZ. Leo's, of which the late Kev. i hos. J}. Ducey was pastor, in E. 28th St., near Madison Av. THE CATHEDRAL, The Cathedral on Fifth Av., between soth and 51st Sts., should not be omitted from the list of places strangers ought to visit in New York. _ Its projector was the late Archbishop John Hughes, and the architect was James Renwick. All the designing and execution of the work, mechanical and artistic, was done in New York, except cer- tain adornments, hereafter mentioned. ‘The corner-stone was laid on August 15, 1858, in the presence of 100,000 persons, who had room to stand on the adjacent lots, then vacant. On May 25, 1879, the structure was dedicated by Cardinal McCloskey, who died in 1885. From an elaborate account written by the architect, we learn that this cathedral is an example cf the decorated and geometric style of CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT WORK. 129 Gothic architecture which prevailed in Europe from 1275 to 1400, and of which the cathedral of Cologne and the nave of Westminister are advanced exponents; and that although Europe can boast larger ones, for purity of style, originality of design, harmony of propor- tions, beauty of material, and finish of workmanship, New York Cathedral stands unsurpassed. From the original! architects’ drawing. Courtesy of Heins & La Parge. CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral now being built on Morning Side Heights at 113th St. will be unsurpassed in grandeur by any in the world. Services are now held in the crypt. 1380 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. Other Religious Organizations. A great number ot :nission- ary and religious societies, both non-sectarian and de- nominational, have their headquarters in this city. Some of these are national in character; others purely local. The great center of Protestant evangelical labor and influence of this kind is Bible House, an immense brick edifice, seven stories high and occupying a whole block, bounded by Fourth Av., 8th St., Third Av., and gth St. This building was erected in 1852 by the Ameri- can Bible Society, an organi- zation which began to print and diffuse the Scriptures in 1816, and has since distrib- uted nearly 50,000,000 copies of the Bible, or important sections of it, in almost every ; recognized tongue. Here are In the headquarters of the so- YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION— ciety and a printing office, SR ALI bindery, etc., employing 500 persons, where the Scriptures are printed in many languages. The Young Men’s Christian Association in New York is in a flourishing condition and owns a large building at 215 W. 23d St. The interior is divided into a reception-room, reading-room, parlors, lecture and concert hall (with a seating capacity of 1,400), lecture- rooms, class-rooms, library, gymnasium, bowling alley, and baths. On the top floor artists’ studios are rented. The building is ».pen to visitors all day, the library may be used by strangers, and reli- gious gatherings are held daily. The association sustains several CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT WORK. 131 branches in Second Av. and other parts of the city, of which the most notable is the Railroad branch, which occupies a handsome building near the Grand Central Depot, given by Cornelius Vander- bilt. The Young Men's Institute at 222-4 Bowery and the West Side branch in W. 57th St. are worth a visit. The Young Women’s Christian Association occupies a beautiful home at No. 7 E. 15th St., and devotes itself to helping in every way the young working women of the city. It hasa library and many other features which will make it an interesting object to ladies visit- ing the city, who can obtain lodgings and restaurant meals here. The Salvation Army has its American headquarters in a tall building erected in 1894 at 120 W. 14th St. It has other halls or stations for meetings, residence, etc., at 27th St. and Third Av.; Lexington Av. and 125th St.; 323 Bleecker St., etc. The American Volunteers, who seceded from the Salvation Army in 1895, have their headquarters, under Ballingion i300th, at 38 Cooper Square, where their CazeZée is published. Other religious institutions having houses in New York include the following: The Christian Alliance and International Missionary Alliance, 690 Eighth Av., carries on evangelical work all over the world. Zhe International Order of King’s Daughters and Sons, an unsectarian ‘‘religious order of service,” has its Central Council at 156 Fifth Av. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew (Protestant Episcopal) has an office at 281 Fourth Av. The White Cross Society is at 224 Waverley PI. The Door of Hope, for the regeneration of fallen women, has its central home at 271 W. 47th St. Hospitals and Charities. Hospitals and Public Charities.—New York is justly proud of its hospitals, and any stranger suffering illness or accident in the city ought at once to place himself in one of them rather than remain at a hotel or boarding-house. Bellevue.—This is the most widely known hospital in America. It stands at the foot of E. 26th St., and is a ‘‘ long, grayish, four-story, prison-like structure, situated in a block which extends to the East River, and is inclosed by a high, forbidding stone wall. It was established in 1826, and is under control of the Department of Charities which is permitted to expend upon it about $100,000 a year For many years it has been famous for the high medical and surgical skill of which it is the theater, its faculty embracing many leading 132 HANDY, GUIDE \TOVNEWBYOREVCAEY: members of the profession in the city.” Admission of patients (between Io a. m. and 3 p. m.), is procurable upon the recommenda- tion of a physician, but contagious diseases are refused; accidents and sudden illness, at any time of day or night. Hours for visitors, from I1a.m to3p.m. Within the grounds is the Bellevue Hos- pital Medical College, founded in 1861; it has taken a high rank, and has now about 500 students. The Morgue is another object of gruesome interest at Believue. It is a small, one-story building. In an inner room, protected py a partition of glass, the unknown and unclaimed dead lie outstretched, almost nude, upon marble slabs, and under the drip of icy water. ” .Near Believve is the Emergency Hospital, 223 E. 26th St., for the relief of persons taken suddenly ill, and women on their way to Maternity Hospital. Other emergency hospitals are Gouverneur, in Gouverneur Slip; the Fordham Reception Hospital, 2456 Valen- tine Av., and the House of Relief, 67 Hudson St. The New York Hospital is next in popularity, and the oldest in ‘he city. The office and residence is at No. 8 W: 16th St. But in 1877 there was opened in the rear of this office, a magnificent struc- ture facing W. 15th St. (near Fifth Av.), having every modern device for health and comfort. This hospital also maintains a branch ‘‘house of relief,” for cases of accident or sudden illness, at 67 Hud- son St. ‘This branch, as well as the main establishment, has ambu- lances, and gives free treatment in emergency cases. Other Hospitals.— Roosevelt, at 59th St. and Ninth Av., is con- structed on the pavilion plan, and is of great size and excellence. St. Luke's Hospital, on Morningside Heights, is under the care of the Protestant Episcopal Church, but makes no distinction as to its patients. Another great semi-denominational hospital is the Presbytertan, Madison Av. and 7oth St., where nine-tenths of the patients pay no money. Several hospitals and dispensaries are under Roman Catholic auspices, such as S¢. Vincent's, 149 W. 31th St. (visitors, Tuesdays and Fridays, 3 to 5 p. M.); S¢. Franczs’, 605 5th St., with SZ. Joseph’s, a branch of the same, 143d St. and Brook Av.; and S¢. Elizabeth's, 415 W. 51st St. No distinction as to religion or race is made between applicantsin any of these institutions. Sev- eral hospitals are intended especially for women and children, the largest of which is the Woman’s Hospitalof the State of New York, which receives many paying patients from other States. CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT WORK. 133 fhe institutions over which the Departments of Charities and Cor- rection have control are on islands in the East River, whose large buildings are so conspicuous in passing up or down that river in a stéamboat. The most important and most southern of the group is Blackwell's Island, the lower end of which is opposite soth St. Upon it are the great penitentiary, to which go offenders convicted in the police courts and reported as ‘‘ sent to the island;” also the almshouse, workhouse, several asylums, special hospitals, and the great Charity Hospital. Ward’s Island, next above, contains the insane asylum and some other buildings, and the institutions for the care of sick or incapable immigrants. Randall’s Island, north of Ward’s and at the mouth of Harlem River, contains the idiot asylum and several hospitals and schools for children. On Har?’s /sland is another insane asylum; and on North Brother Island the hospitals for contagious diseases. Private Philanthropies.—The Chardty Organtzation Soctety, composed of the representatives of many of the charitable associa- tions in the city, exercises a general watchfulness over philanthropic labors in New York, and enables efforts toward doing good and sup- pressing evil to gain the strength of united and organized direction. The State Charities Atd Assoctation supervises philanthropic work throughout the whole State, and promotes reforms by legislative means and otherwise. In New York County there are committees to visit the various departments of Bellevue and other hospitals and the institutions for the poor and insane on Ward’s, Blackwell’s, Randall’s, and Hart’s islands. Another committee is the managing board of the Training School for Nurses; and it is a branch of this association which kas placed the big boxes seen in ferry houses and depots for the reception of the newspapers, books, and magazines which you have finished reading. ‘The publications collected every day are distributed not only to hospitals and other institutions, but also to lighthouses and lonely life-saving stations. These two supervisory societies work cordially together and do immense service; and the office of both is in the magnificent building on the corner of Fourth Avy. and 22d St., erected by John S. Kennedy in 1893 asa Soteaaue ters for benevolent societies and agencies. Of the private institutions for general assistance to the poor, none are more widely known than the /zve Poinis House of Industry and the /zve Points Mission, which stand across the street from 134 HANDY\GUIDE. TO NEW YORK. CITY, each other at the Five Points, whichis only a short walk from Broad- way, through Worth St. Both were established about 1850, when that locality was the most vicious in the city. Now it is safe, quiet, and reasonably clean; and these missions, more than anything else, are entitled to credit for the change. Both of them assist the desti- tute of all classes, and find enough to occupy them within a very few blocks. They support missionaries among the tenement-house people, provide food, clothing, and necessaries for applicants thought worthy; maintain large schools, and provide for the health, educa- tion, ete., of great numbers of poor and neglected children, hundreds of whom are sent annually to homes in the interior of the country. The mission is now enjoying a new and much enlarged building. [he Association for Improving the Condttion of the Poor (105 E. 22d St.), assists 20,000 or more carefully investigated cases annually. Zhe Hebrew Society for the Improvement of the Santz- tary Condition of the Poor (356 Second Av.) is another noteworthy agency in ameliorating the suffering in over-crowded tenements. The long list of special asylums and societies for the benefit of special classes of unfortunates, as the blind, deaf-mutes, orphans, etc., can not be given here. Lists of them can be found in the City Directory, or in the. special Directory of the Charity Org. Society. A few words should be spared, however, in reference to the group of Humane Societies. — Of these the most widely known is the Soczety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, founded by the late Henry Bergh, for it has branches in all principal cities in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters are now in a handsome stone edifice at the corner of Madison Av. and 26th St., where Oz Animal Friends is also published. There is an agency in Brooklyn. The object of the society is the enforcement of the laws relating to the protection of and to prevent cruelty to animals in all parts of the United States. It has a staff of officers, uniformed much like policemen, who patrol the streets and have power to make arrests, and whose badge is a large silver shield stamped with the seal and name of the society. It also maintains a number of ambulances in which disabled horses are removed from any place where they may fall to a place where they may be cured. The Soczety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is a powerful organization now housed in the splendid new building lately erected for it at 23d St. and Fourth Av. by Elbridge T. Gerry, its president. Its object is the enforcement of laws relating to children, CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT WORK. 135 their protection against and rescue from oppression and evil influ- ences, and their help when in need. The Soczety for the Suppression of Vice is managed by Mr. Anthony Comstock, and directs its attention mainly to the detection and seizure of obscene literature and the punishment of offenders under the laws against gambling; office, 140 Nassau St. The Soczety for the Prevention of Crime is presided over by the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst and has a very similar scope; office, 105 E. 22d St. Other important philanthropic associations are: Actors’ Fund, 112 W. 42d St.; Baptist Home Mission, 116 E. 68th St.; Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless, 29 E. 29th St.; Kindergarten Society, 70 Fifth Av.; Sabbath Union, 203 Broadway; Seamen’s Friend Society, 76 Wall St., Sunday School Committee, 416 Lafayette Pl.; Association for Befriending Women and Young Girls, 136 Second Av.; Association Fraterna Italiana, 64S.Washington Sq.; Bowery Mission, 55 Bowery; Catholic Sailors’ Friends, 178 Christopher St.; Cercle Francais L’Amitie, 440 Sixth Av.; Children’s Aid Society, 105 E. 22d St.; City Vigilance League, 105 E. 22d St.; Civil Service Reform Association, 79 Wall St.; College Settlement Association, 95 Rivington St.; Consumers’ League, 105 E. 22d St.; Lutheran Emigrant Mission, 8 State St.; Evangelical Alliance, 105 E. 22d St.; German Missions, 6 and 27 State St.; Irish Emigrant Society, 29 Reade St.; Jewisa Immigrants Protective Society, 210 E. 118th St.; Ladies’ Health Pro- tective Association, 105 E. 22d St.; Legal Aid Society, 239 Broadway; Working Girls’ Vacation Society, 105 E. 22d St.; Penny Provident Fund, ror E. 22d St.; Provident Loan Society, 279 Fourth Av.; Typothete, 32 Union Square, East; United Hebrew Charities, 356 Second Av.; Working Women’s Protective Union, 312 W. 54th St. OS. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, LIBRARIES, ETC. Public Schools. The public school system of the city consists of graded schools, evening schools, corporate schools (industrial schools, reformatories, orphan asylums, etc.), the nautical school on the S¢. WZary, the Normal College and the College of the City of New York, and several high schools, notably that for boys at 60 West 13th St. The total now exceeds 4oo schools, and it is constantly being amplified, yet loud complaints are heard of the inadequacy of the accommoda- tions. ‘The whole system is under control of the Board of Education, at 490 Park Av. It comprises every phase of school life, from the kindergarten and truant schools to the College of the City of New York and the Normal College for training teachers, and has to provide for not less than half a million ordinary pupils, daily, as well as for the necessary instructors and buildings. The attendance at school of children between the ages of 8 and 12 years is compulsory for the entire school year; that of children be- tween 12 and 16 for only a part of the year, if otherwise employed and wage-earners. Free evening and vacation schools are also sus- tained by the city. The school buildings are distributed all over town, and many of them will seem very dreary abodes to visiting teachers, but the situation is a necessity of city-crowding. Such persons will find schools which in appearance, equipment, discipline, and thoroughness will well repay a visit, at 104th St. and Amsterdam Av., and at 134th St. and Lenox Av. The College of the City of New York is open free to all young men residing in this city, and prepared at the city schools, and it offers both a literary-classical and a scientific course, each four years inlength. There is also a mechanical course of instruction, anda post-graduate course in engineering. The total number of students 136 pivas[nog pue onusay Weptojsuy UVIIM{9q 399175 YI9IT_ALISUAMAINN VIANNIOO AO AXUVAGIT AHL 138 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. approaches 3,000, only one-third of whom are engaged in classical studies. This college occupies a series of large, turreted buildings at 140th St. and Amsterdam Av., which contain a cabinet of natural history, a library of 25,000 volumes, and much laboratory apparatus. The Normal College, for young women, is a free institution sustained by the city, corresponding with the last mentioned, and intended especially for training girls to serve as teachers. It has an immense monastic-looking building in 69th St., betwween Fourth and Lexington Avs., which cost $500,000. Most of its graduates enter the service of the city as teachers. The curriculum includes Latin, physics and chemistry, German, natural science, French, drawing, music, etc. Some years ago a five years’ classical course was inaugurated, which entitles students at graduation to the degree of A. B. A model or training school is erected in the rear, in which pupil-teachers have an opportunity to supplement their theoretic studies with the practical. The morning exercises in the chapel at 9 o’clock are open to the public. Take Fifth Av. stages or Fourth or Lexington Av. electric-cars to 69th St., or the Third Av. El. Ry. to 67th St. All of the above mentioned schools and institutions are free, and are under control of the Board of Education. Columbia University. Columbia University is the foremost institution of higher learning in New York, and one of the foremost inthe United States. It began in 1754, as King’s College, undera charter from the English crown and ‘+ aid of money raised mainly in England, The Trinity Church corporation took an interest in it from the start, and presently made it a grant of land between what is now College Place and North River, from the sale or rental of which a large part of the Univer- sity’s income has since been derived. During the Revolution its ses- sions were interrupted and its buildings appropriated to the use of the troops. After that war the Legislature of the State made a grant of land and reincorporated it as Columbia College, under a board of regents, afterward changed to twenty-four self-perpetuating trustees. The institution erected buildings on College Place and occupied them until 1857, when the College was moved to its third home between goth and soth Sts., east of Madison Ay. This was outgrown in a generation or so, and, in 1897, was abandoned for what is con- EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, LIBRARIES, ETC, 139 sidered a permanent home on Morningside Heights. The grounds now cover nearly eighteen acres between the Boulevard and Amster- dam Avenue, from 116th to 120th St.; it was formerly occupied by the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, and cost $2,000,000. ‘The build- ings occupy a high, leveled site, facing southerly, and ultimately will form a quadrangle, nearly surrounding the Library. Only a few now exist. The Zzbrary, whose great gray dome is a stately feature in the landscape, was erected at the cost (about $1,000,000) of Seth Low, President of the University 1890-1902, as a memorial to his father, the late A. A. Low of this city. It is a cruciform building, having an Ionic colonnade in front and a noble entry between pillars of dark, polished Irish marble. The interior is a rotunda open to the dome, which will be used as a reading room, while the surrounding parts of the building are devoted to the books, and to various other purposes, including, at present, many recitation-rooms. ‘The sixteen pillars of the rotunda are of Vermont syenite, with gilded Ionic capitals. In the rear of this building is the beginning of University Hall, the base- ment stories only of which are finished. These contain the power- house, a tier of business offices, and the extensive and highly modern gymnasium and athletic appliances. A noble superstructure is to be erected here, containing various offices and halls, and the academic theater, occupying the semicircular, apse-like rear part. Four lab- oratory buildings are now completed and in service. Schermerhorn Hall, next east of University Hall, is devoted to biological sciences. and contains, besides laboratories and lecture-rooms, an interest- ing museum of natural history, open to the public. Beside it are the Physics Building, Earl, South, and Fayerweather Halls, Havemeyer Hall, devoted to chemistry, and the Engineering Building, containing the machinery needed in practical instruction. The outer (Boulevard) front of the latter building bears a spirited bronze memorial tablet, modeled by James ©. Kelly, to Knowlton and the Battle of Harlem Heights, which was iought about here Sept. 16, 1776. The five ‘‘ colleges” or departments of the University now estab- lished are: 1. Arts. 2. Science. 3. Law. 4. Political Science. 5. Medicine. 7he College of Arts is the oldest and central department, and embraces the classical and literary curriculum usual in a collegi- ate course of four years. The Department of Science now embraces all that used to constitute the almost separate ‘‘ School of Mines,” long famous in the history of Columbia, and so much of the ether courses as touch its province. A four years’ course will give degrees ~ 140 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. of Mining Engineer, Civil Engineer, Metallurgical Engineer, and Bachelor of Philosophy. For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy there is a post-graduate course of two years. Zhe Law School has quarters in the Library, and a large attendance; its course is two years. The Department of Polttical Science offers a three-years’ course in the broadest scope of political economy, conferring the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Zhe Department of Medicine is better known as ‘‘ The College of Physicians and Surgeons.” It occupies extensive buildings on 6oth St., between Ninth and Tenth Avs., close to Roosevelt Hospital, in which (and in other hospitals) much of the instruction is given. ‘These buildings, and the affiliated Maternity Hospital, near by, are due to the gifts of various members of the Vanderbilt family; while Edwin Gould, of the class of ’88, has erected for the University a fine boat-house at the foot of West 115th St. (North River), The University now has some 60 members of the faculty and nearly 2,000 students. The Barnard Annex is the name of a course of study for women, parallel with that of undergraduates in the School of Arts, for which a fine building has been prepared at the Boulevard and 120th St. Its ~vraduates receive diplomas equivalent to University degrees. The Teacher’s College and Horace Mann School is a large insti- tution on the north side of 120th St., for instruction with special reference to preparation for teaching; and it is Bed affiliated with Columbia. University of the City of New York. This institution is stronger than its comparatively narrow reputa- tion would lead an outsider to suppose. Its lack of recognition in the past is largely due to the fact that its quarters have been scat tered, so that it has made little visible impression by means of imposing halls and a broad campus, as is the wont of colleges. Its original and main building was the castellated and historic structure which had stood for sixty yea. at the northeastern corner of Wash- ington Square; but that was demolished in 1894, and is now replaced oy a tall, modern structure, whose top floors only will be occupied by the University. Here have been fixed the offices of the administra- tion, the Law School (hitherto one of the strong points), and the School of Pedagogy. The various undergraduate schools and departments of Arts and Sczences which form the nucleus of the institution, however. are EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, LIBRARIES, ETC. -Y4) quartered in a series of new buildings, recently completed, upon an extensive scale, within an elevated park-like inclosure on the east bank of the Harlem River, near Kingsbridge, which include a Ha// of Fame, 500 feet long, built about the Library, containing 150 panels in which ultimately will be fixed bronze tablets, commemorating great and famous Americans. It was the gift of Miss Helen Gould. | The Union Theological Seminary, now in academic relation to the University, occupies a building at Fourth Avy. and 69th St. This widely known school was founded in 1836, and is the principal place of training for ministers of the Presbyterian church, but its students may come from any evangelical denomination, so long as they can show a certificate of good church standing. ‘The library is founded upon a gift of 13,000 volumes by L. Van Ess, and now contains about 60,000 books and nearly 50,000 pamphlets and manuscripts. As would be expected it is very rich in rare and ancient theological books and MSS., specimens of early Bibles, first printings, and rare tracts. The Faculty of Medicine occupies spacious buildings at the foot of E. 26th St., and contiguous to Bellevue Hospital (which see). These buildings (whose two amphitheaters, together, will seat 1,000 pupils) are modern and admirably adapted to their purposes. At- tached is the Loomis Laboratory, the cost of which ($100,000) was defrayed by an unknown friend on condition that his name be kept secret, and the laboratory be directed and named after Dr. Alfred Loomis. Much of the instruction is given in the wards and lecture rooms of Bellevue, and it is consequently of a very practical character. Miscellaneous Institutions. The Cooper Union, or Institute, is an enormous building at the head of the Bowery, where Fourth Av. branches off to the left and Third Ay. to the right. It was erected by the late Peter Cooper in 1857, at a cost of $630,000, and endowed with $300,000 for the support of che free reading-room and library. The purpose is philanthropic, andembraces day and evening schools of various kinds. Besides those which have a regular academic course, there are art schools for men and wonien, free school of telegraphy and of type-writing for women, and other special departments. As the thousands of pupils who attend these classes are drawn almost entirely from the people who must work, all of the instruction tends to the practical. (See p. 187.) 10 142 HANDY GOIDECTONIEW YORK Roman Catholic Institutions.—Of these the leading collegeis St. Francis Xavier’s, whose beautiful new building next to St. F. Xavier’s Church, in West 16th St., near Sixth Av., is one of the architectural ornaments of the city. This is a day college, in charge of the Jesuit Fathers, and numbers about 450 students, who come daily from their homes to the class-rooms. Ithasareference library of 20,000 volumes andasmall circulating library. Another able institution under charge of the same pedagogical order is St. John’s College, at Fordham, a station on the Harlem R. R., at the extreme northeastern edge of the city, where the spacious and beautiful grounds of Rose Hill surround the school. Manhattan College is a third strong R. C. school, situated in Manhattanville and reached by the cars. The great Academy of the Sacred Heart, one of the oldest and best known Catholic schools for girls, is also in Manhattanville; and another noted convent school is that of Mt. St. Vincent, on the Hudson River, above Riverdale. Libraries and Reading-Rooms. The New York Public Library—Astor, Lenox and Tilden Founda- tions—a title that perpetuates the names of the public spirited citizens to whose gifts of money, books, manuscripts and objects of art, the people of the city are indebted for this institution, that ex- tends on the west side of Fifth Avenue from 4oth Street to 42nd Street. The building was erected by the city on land owned by the latter, but all its running expenses of whatever kind, including its pur- chases of books, are met by funds derived from the original endow- ments. Of the forty branch libraries situated in the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx and Staten Island, thirty-two—those mark- ed thus * in our list—were erected by Andrew Carnegie, on sites provided by the municipality, which also supplies the books and bears the costs of their administration as in the case of the other branches. These branches are all circulating libraries and admission to them, as to the main library whence they are governed, is freeof charge to visitors and residents alike and the former have all the privileges of the latter except that they are not permitted to take books out of the buildings. In the building we illustrate, there are more than 800,000 volumes and the pamphlets exceed 300,000 The main stack has a capacity for 2,700,000 books, while that of the other rooms brings the total book capacity of the building to 3,500,000 volumes. There are over 810,000 now in the circulation branches. The total expenditures for the administration of the entire system and for purchasing books in I9g10 were approximately $873,000. onUaAY Yl pue yee13S puooss-4yIOJ—AUVUAIT OITANd MYOA MAN 144 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY In the aumber of rare editions and prints it contains, the wealth of manuscripts, illuminated works on vellum, quaint and costly bindings, the beautiful central library is a veritable treasure house. The paper of the centuries—old volumes—is seemingly as strong and the ink as black as if they had come from the hands of the press- man and the binder but yesterday. These, many of them literally priceless, are exhibited in glass cases. Sculptures, paintings, cera- mics, all appropriate and bearing an intimate relation to the library claim and well repay the visitor’s attention. Here too, in this build- ing, is a room devoted to the blind, many of whom come unaccom- panied. Five thousand volumes and over 3,000 pieces of music, to say nothing of magazines representing the modern languages, with one work in Esperanto, constitute this library for the blind. In the basement are the lighting, heating, power and ventilating plants, as well as the printing office and the bindery. The library is open from g A. M. daily, except on Sundays, when the hours are from 1 P. M.to1o P. M. The branch libraries, except those in the distinctively Hebrew neighborhoods of the East Side, close on Sun- days. The Carnegie branches are open even on legal holidays and the hours generally are from 9 A. M. tog P. M. The Fifth Avenue building is 390 feet in length and has an extreme depth of 270 feet. The main reading room seats 768 comfortably. Other reading rooms are devoted exclusively to students and scholars. For admission to these, special tickets are required. Then there is a children’s room—a feature, also, of most of the branch libraries— with furniture, as well as books, adapted to the little folk; a periodi- cal room and a newspaper room with files of the leading newspapers of the various countries. If you think that politicians and editors were more polite to one another in ‘‘the good old days,’’ say one hun- dred years, than they are now, consult the ‘‘New York “vening Fost,”’ of that remote period. Fill your application blank, avery simple pro- ceeding, and an attendant will presently hand you a formidable volume of warm reading, the leading daily of New York, when the town had less than 100,000 population. For delvers into Oriental literature, American history, Sociol- ogy and economics, mathematics and the physical and chemical sciences, and for Slavonic, Jewish lore, there are special study rooms for individual use. Picture galleries, the art room and the depart- ment of prints occupy the east front of the upper floor, while the administrative offices are in the south side of the building. Visitors are most courteously received and intelligent and well- informed guides direct them to various departments in the building. They are required upon entering to surrender any packages they may have. ‘These are returned to them, when they present checks for the same, on their departure. Two commodious elevators obviate stair climbing. In the matter of light, heat and ventilation, New York’s great library leaves nothing to be desired. Designed throughout by Messrs. Carrere & Hastings, they succeeded beyond measure in combining practical utility with architectural excellence. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, LIBRARIES, ETC. 145 The Board of Trustees is composed of ‘‘men of light and lead- ing’ in the community, and the Mayor, the Comptroller and the President of the Board of Aldermen are, by virtue of their offices, members. John S. Billings, D.C.L., L.L.D., long and promin- ently identified with the New York Public Library, is the very efficient Director. The collection of early printed volumes is, its character con- sidered, very large. There are not less than six hundred examples and of these, fifteen are known as block books, representing the slow and laborious method of carving the individual fixed letters which antedated the use of movable type. In some exceptional instances manuscript and printing arecombined. Thereis a Guten- berg bible in fine condition and ten specimens from the press of Caxton, the father of printing in England. Here too, may be seen the Bag Psalm Book, the first book produced in the English Colonies. The Spaniards are credited with forty volumes printed in Mexico and South America prior to 1600. The mss. are, perhaps, not less interesting. The student has at hand original sources of information especially upon English and Continental politics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If you would feast your eyes upon the autographs and photographs of the great and the distinguished, a banquet awaits you. Here, in this department, as in all others that are in the ordinary sense his- torical, the library is rich in Americana. In many of the branch libraries on certain evenings, except in summer, illustrated lectures are given on the arts, sciences and his- tory and the subjects range all the way from music to metallurgy. The basements, commodious and well-ventilated apartments, are used for the purpose. Circulating Department. This includes twenty-eight branches for the free circulation of books, besides a: department of traveling libraries, having altogether on their shelves about half a million volumes and circulating them at the rate of about four million a year. The names and locations of the branches are as follows: > Arranged in order of location from South to North. *Hast Broadway, 337 (Chatham Sq. Branch). East Broadway, 197 (East Broadway Branch). Eldridge St., 184 (University Settlement). Bond St., 49 (Bond St. Branch). *roth St., 331 Last (Tompkins Sq. Branch). Second Av., 1375 (Ottendorfer Branch), 13th St., 251 West (Jackson Sq. Branch). 22d St., 230 Last (Epiphany Branch), *Occupying Carnegie buildings. 146 HANDY GUIDE FONE WAY ORKGGILY. 23a St., 209 West (Muhlenberg Branch). 70th St., 3037 East (St. Gabriel’s Park). goth St., 501 West (St. Raphael Branch). 42a St., 226 West (George Bruce Branch). soth St., 123 Last (Cathedral Branch). jist St., 4637 West (Sacred Heart Branch), *o8th St., 121 East (58th St. Branch). *O71h Si, gee aust (O7ihe ot (pranch), * Amsterdam Av. 190 (Riverside Branch). *4Av. A, 1465 (Webster Branch). *70th St., 222 East (Yorkville Branch). *Amsterdam Av., 444 (St. Agnes Branch). Amsterdam Av., 536 (Corner 86th St). (g6th St. Branch). *96th St., 172 East(Bloomingdale Branch). 1ioth St., 774 East (Aguilar Branch). 123d St., 32 West (The Harlem Library). “725th St, 227 Last (725thieou branch). 795th 5t., 107 West {i35thiot, pranen), 145th St., 503 West (Hamilton Grange Branch). St. Nicholas Av., 922 (Washington Heights Branch), * Tottenville, Borough of Richmond (Tottenville Branch). Library for the Blind, 444 Amsterdam Av. Traveling Libraries, 190 Amsterdam Av.; basement entrance. Office of the Department, 226 West 42d St. Telephone, 3934 38th St. Hours: The branches, with the exceptions noted below, are open from g A. M. tog P. M. on week days. Branches in Carnegie buildings (marked thus with an *) are open full hours on all legal holidays. The other branches are closed during the entire day on New Year’s Day, Decoration Day, the Fourth of July, Presidential Election Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day; after 6 Pp. M. on Washington’s Birthday and Christmas Eve; and on Election Day (when not Presidential) after 5 P. M. The Library for the Blind is open week days from 1 P. M. to 4 P. M. The East Broadway Branch is closed from 5 p. mM. on Fridays till 6 p. M. on Saturdays and is open on Sundays. The branch in the University Settlement Building is open from 1.30 to 5.30 and 7.30 to 9.30 P. M. The Epiphany Branch is open from 2.30 to g P. M. * Occupying Carnegie buildings. * EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, LIBRARIES, ETC. 14% Most of these branches were acquired by consolidation. The New York Free Circulating Library (consolidated in 1901) furnished eleven, the Aguilar (1903) four, the Cathedral (1905) five, and other smaller institutions one each. In 1901 Andrew Carnegie gave the city of New York $5,200,000 for the erection of branch libraries. Of these, fifty are to be erected by the New York Public Library, all in the three boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Richmond. Up to March 1, 1905, seven had been built and opened—namely, those starred in the foregoing list—while about ten others were in course of construction and about twenty-five sites had been secured, By the condition of the gift, the city furnishes sites and agrees to main- tain the libraries, which are constructed and administered by the Public Library. Each of the Carnegie buildings contains a large adults’ circulating room, circulating and reading-room for children and a public newspaper and periodical reading-room, The office of the circulating department, pending the completion of the Central Library, is at 226 West 42d St. The chief of the department is Arthur E. Bostwick, Ph. D. (The Cooper Union Library and Reading Room (three minutes’ walk from the Astor Library) forms one of the strongest features of that great institution (g. v.), and one which Mr. Cooper felt to be so important that he endowed it with a fund of $300,000. It occupies an immense room on the third floor, the walls of which are lined with shelves of books, each in a jacket of strong paper. Long tables are supplied for readers of books and magazines, which are given out from a desk, on deposit of the metal check which every one who enters must accept and must return when heleavestheroom. The library contains about 20,000 volumes, principally practical and instructive; and is noted as the possessor of a complete set of both the old and new series of Patent Office reports, which are consulted yearly by almost 2,000 persons. Each volume has been carefully indexed, making them invaluable for reference. The library is open in the evening and then is crowded by a class of readers who have no time during the day to spend in gathering information or in taking intellectual amusement. More interesting to the stranger, however, will be the sizht of the lony tables and racks filled with newspapers and period- icals and pored «ver ly crowds ef meu and beys, generally poorly 148 HANDY “GOTRIE-1TOVINEAW WY ORC la dressed, often dirty, but all orderly, quiet, and eager to read. This is one of the sights of the city, and the visitor will easily accept the statement that between 450 and 460 newspapers and periodicals are taken in here, Few of the other libraries in the city will repay a visit by the casual observer. The Apprentices’, 18 W. 16th St., has nearly 100,000 volumes, which were formerly circulated among the public, but are now used only by members. The Mercantile Library occupies rooms in its new building at Lafayette Place and 8th St., and owns over 200,000 volumes of general interest, new books being added as fast as issued. The ordinary fee is $5 annually, or $3 for six months. ‘The public are admitted only to the outer office, which contains nothing to interest the sight-seer. Other libraries which might be added to this list would interest specialists only and need not be expatiated upon in this book, except to say that a /aw /zbrary is open to public inspec- tion in Rooms 116-122, Post-office Building. Besides more than 30,000 legal works, this library contains portraits of Thomas Addis Emmet, Chancellor Kent, and Judge Greene C. Bronson, and busts of James T. Brady and John Anthon. Among the books are many very rare copies of law reports, a few books belonging to Alex- ander Hamilton and containing numerous entries in his handwriting, a note-book of Lord Hardwicke, and the cases and opinions of Charles O’Conor, The Society Library, University Place and 12th St., is another large private circulating library, very rich in books of art, history, genealogy, and similar lines, and containing some notable portraits and historical mementos. A full list of 300 or more libraries in the City of New York will be found in a manual published by the New York Library Club. Art Galleries. Fine arts have made a very notable advance in New York during the last few years, not only in the direction of exhibition and gen- real popularity, but toward a higher standard of work and more thorough methods of teaching. ‘The one really great public gallery of the city is that of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, LIBRARIES, ETC. 149 described in the general account of that institution (pp. 52-54). The Lenox Library has a small gallery of fine pictures open daily; and the New York Historical Society, Second Av. and 11th St., pos- sesses many portraits, examples of the Dutch masters, and pieces of statuary, to which visitors are admitted by card from a member of the society. | The principal gath- ering place of art in the metropolis is The American Fine Art Society, 57th St. be- tween Seventh Av. and Broadway. Inits galleries are located The National Society of Mural Painters, The New York Chap- ter of the American Institute of Archi tects, The Society of American Artists, The National Sculp- ture Society, The American Fine Art Society, The Fine Arts Federation of New York, The New York Water Color Club, The New York Academy of Design, The Society of Beaux Arts Archi- tects, and The Art Students’ League. The Academy holds an exhibition of new paintings in the early spring of each year, and several prizes, ranging from $100 to $300 are distributed. During the first two days of the exhibitions, which are known as ‘“‘ varnishing day,” and ‘‘ private view” or ‘‘ buyers’ day,” admission can only be obtained by a card of invitation from the sec- AMERICAN FINE ART SOCIETY. 150 HANDY GUIDE (TOINEW, VORKVCI TY. retary, and these are eagerly sought for. During the succeeding weeks the gallery is open to the public from g a. m. until 10 p. m. upon payment of an admission fee of 25 cts. There is also an exhi- bition in the fall, where work less ambitious, but often none the less interesting, is shown to the public. The Water Color Society is closely allied to the Academy of Design. It has norooms, the secretary’s address is Fine Art Society, 215 W.57th St., N. Y. The object of this society is the advancement of painting in water-colors, and it holds an annual exhibition at the American Art Association, 6 E. 23d St., of the work of its resident members, which occurs in late January or early February, and forms one of the most interesting and important art eventsof the year. In connection with this exhibition there is a display of the year’s results by members of the A¢ching Club. The Centennial Exhibition gave a great impetus to the fine arts in this country, one result of which has been the establishment in this city within the last fifteen years of a number of promising art societies in addition to these just mentioned. Five of these societies form a group, which have combined their forces into a ‘‘ Fine Arts Society,” intending to be a working institution, as distinguished from a club of painters. It has erected a handsome building,215 W.57thSt., adapted to exhibitions, schools, and all other needs. In the great gallery of this building, several exhibitions of pictures occur annually, of which the most striking is that in May of the Society of American Artists, founded in 1877 by some of the younger men of that time who were not in accord with the policy of the National Academy and thought there was room for a second institution. ‘This building is also the home of the National Sculpture Society, and of the Art Students’ League, a school of instruction in all branches of the graphic arts; each exhibits work once a year. The purely commercial side of art in New York has much to interest one. At the galleries of the American Art Association, 6 E. 23d St., two exhibitions and sales are held spring and autumn, and often at other times there are special exhibitions of extreme interest, as when Verestchagin showed his collection there in the spring of 1889. The principal art dealers havelong been accustomed to add to the pleasures of the public by throwing open their collections of modern paintings, chiefly foreign, which are well worth examination. Auctions of pictures are rarely worth attending, unless some well-known private collection is to be disposed of. ONINHOW AVGONOS YALSVY NV NO LHWULS GYHINL-ALATY WOU Ha LON ONIMOOTHONYHAV HOA xe CLUBS’ AND SOCIETIES: Social Clubs. In a book of this character the subject of social clubs need not con- sume much space, since without an invitation from a member nothing more than the outside of the club-houses can be seen’ by a stranger. In mar 7 cases, indeed, there is little to reward curiosity inside, while some, like the Union League, and others of the older and more prominent class, have splendid rooms filled with treasures of art, as well as all the appliances of comfort and luxury, which the modern upholsterer, decorator, and cook are able to supply. Clubs have increased 1n numbers and expanded in membership and importance with the growth of the city, and will continue to do so. The following is an alphabetical list of the leading social clubs ir New York and Brooklyn, with brief remarks: Aldine, t11 Fifth Av.—Business men. Arion, Park Av. and 59th St. Army and Navy, 107 W. 143d St.—Military men. Authors’, Carnegie Music Hall.—Literary men. Calumet, 267 Fifth Av.—An offshoot from the Union Club. Catholic, 120 W. 59th St.—Its members are Roman Catholics of wealth and social prominence, occupying a spacious and very beauti- ful club house facing the south side of Central Park. Century, 7 W. 43d St.—The oldest and strongest club in ‘the country having an intellectual object; its members are chosen for their interest and attainments in literature and the fine arts, as well as for social qualities. Strangers are admitted by card to its monthly literary entertainments. Church, 578 Fifth Av.—Episcopaiian. Czty, 19 W. 34th St.—Improvement of municipal government. 12 CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 153 Colony Club (Women) 122 Madison Av. Deutscher Verein (German Club), 112 W. 59th St. —The most ex- clusive German society, having an elegant house, a large part of which is open to the ladies of the members’ families. Democratic, 617 Fifth Av.—Tammany politicians. Down-town Assoctation, 60 Pine St.—Business men. Engineers, 32 W. 40th St.—Civil engineers, architects, etc. ‘‘Greek Letter” Clubs, composed of members of college fraterni- ties having Greek names, commonly represented by their initials: Alpha Delta Phi, 614 W. 113th St.; Chi Phi, 2 Wall St.; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 608 W. 113th St.; Delta Phi, 612 W. 116th St.; Delta Psi (St. Anthony), 29 E. 28th St.; Psi Upsilon, 627 W. 115th St.; Phi Gamma Delta, 604 W. 114th St.; Zeta Psi, 22 Andrews Av. Harmonte, 10 E. 60th St.—The leading Hebrew social club. Harvard, 27 W. 44th St.—Alumni of Harvard University. Knickerbocker, 319 Fifth Av.—A club of the ‘‘ gilded youth.” Lambs’, 70 W. 36th St.—Actors and men interested in the stage. Lawyers, 120 Broadway.—A luncheon club for lawyers and others doing business down town. It has magnificent rooms. Lotos, 558 Fifth Av.—Composed mainly of writers, actors, artists, and professional men. Monthly art receptions are held during the winter, and a Ladies’ Day each month, when music and recitations are added. If you are offered a card to one of the ‘‘ Saturday Nights,” take it and go, for the entertainment will be excellent. Manhattan, Madison Av. and 26th St.—A distinctively political as well as social club, representing the Democratic party, and especi- ally the Cleveland wing. It occupied, until 1899, the mansion of A. T. Stewart, and includes many wealthy and prominent politicians. Merchants, New York Life Ins. Bldg.—A social and commercial club. Metropolitan, Fifth Av. and 60th St.—Composed of men of great wealth, and commonly known as the Millionaires’ Club. It is of recent organization, and has a superb marble home facing Centra’ Park, just above the Plaza. 154 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. New York Athletic, Sixth Av. and s9th St., and New Rochelle. New York, 20 W. 40th St.—One of the old and exclusive social clubs, composed largely of Wall St. men. New York Yacht, 37 W. 44th St.—This is the leading American yacht club, and is the custodian for the “America Cup,” for inter- national races. Ohio Soczety, Rooms, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.—Natives or former residents of Ohio, and their sons. The Players, 16 Gramercy Park.—An exclusive club of actors of the highest rank, managers, and professional men. Its house was the gift of the late Edwin Booth, and its library is a priceless col- lection of dramatic lore, the play-bills gathered by Augustin Daly the libraries of Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett, etc. Press, 34 W. 26th St.— Journalists. Progress, Fifth Av. and 63d St.—A social club of Hebrews. Racquet and Tennts, 27 W. 434 St.—Athletic sports. Reform, 42 Broadway.—A social club of men interested in low- tariff measures. Republican, 54 W. 4oth St.—A large social club, active in Repub- lican politics. Riding, 7 E. 58th St.—The ‘‘swellest” riding and driving club. St. Nicholas, 7 W. 44th St.—An aristocratic club composed exclu- sively of men whose ancestors resided in New York prior to 1785. Salmagundz. 14 W. 12th St.—Artists exclusively. Twelfth Night, 23 W. 44th St.— Ladies of the dramatic profession. Union, Fifth Av. and 51st St.— The first American club which was formed upon English models and was a real club as the term is now understood. It was founded in 1836, and had a succession of down- town resting places until 1905, when it moved into its present luxuri- ous house. This club has consisted from the very first of the ‘‘social magnates of New York.”’ Union League, Fifth Av. and 39th St.— Although now one of the foremost social clubs, it grew out of an association of leading citizens banded together in 1863 for the support of the Union, and has ever since been a distinctively Republican organization. The present mag- THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB—Northwest Corner Fifth Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street 155 156 HANDY GOIDERLOUNEWAY OR MA Cig Ye nificent club house contains as an unusual feature a large art gallery, where extraordinary loan exhibitions are occasionally displayed, and which serves as a hall for entertainments. This club gives monthly receptions, at which new American pictures and foreign pictures loaned by private collectors are exhibited. Admission to these recep- lions is by card, obtainable from members. A ladies’ reception is given annually, and is a brilliant social event. University, Fifth Av. and s4th St.—A new granite palace. Women’s Press Club, Carnegie Hall. Yale, 30 W. 44th St.—Alumni of Yale University. A capital sketch of clubs and club life in old and modern New York was furnished by Mr. Henry L. Nelson, as a supplement to Harper's Weekly, for March 15, 1890. Secret Orders. All, probably, of the secret orders and societies in the United States have representatives in New York, and for many it is the American headquarters. Several of these stand before the public more in a social aspect, or otherwise, than on account of any secrecy in their proceedings, and are mentioned elsewhere, ¢. ¢. the ‘‘ Greek letter societies” of collegians, above. A long list of others may be found in Trow’s Directory. The orders of Free Masonry and Odd- Fellows remain for special notice. Free Masonry.— The J/asonzc Temple at Sixth Avy. and 23d St. is the headquarters of the Grand Lodge of New York State. Itisa lofty granite building, and contains the offices of the Grand Secretary and other grand dignitaries of the Blue lodges. On the right is the large hall of the Grand Lodge of the State, which meets annually in June. The remainder of the year the room is available for assemblies, lectures, preaching, etc. Scattered through the corridors on the upper floors will be noticed cases of Masonic curiosities, such as charters, pat- ents, aprons, scarves, jewels, swords, trowels, etc., of historical value. These, and the portraits and busts of Grand Masters, form a part of the museum attached to the Grand Lodge library. This notable collection of Masonic literature is open to all visitors between 3.30 and 10.30 p.m. The lodge-rooms, Royal Arch chapters and asylums of Knights Templar on the upper floors, where the subordinate bodies meet, are open to the public and should be inspected.’ The most striking are the Chapter room, a fac-simile of an Egyptian tomb or temple, and the Commandery room or asylum on the top floor, which CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. J57 represents the choir of a Gothic cathedral. The Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters meets annually there on the first Tuesday of September, it and the Grand Lodge being the only Grand bodies which assemble in this city regularly every year. The German Masons have a building of their own, overlooking Stuyvesant Sq. The high-grade or Scottish Rite Masons, who control the fourth to the thirty-third degrees, are divided into different organizations. The Supreme Grand Council of the Northern Jurisdiction meets at Scottzsh Rite Hall. Odd-Fellows.— There are over 100 lodges of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows in New York City, and the headquarters of these is Odd-Fellows’ Hall, at 67 St. Marks Place. Scientific and Learned Societies. New York has many societies and clubs devoted to scientific, med- ical, and other learned investigations. The widest interest attaches to the New York Historical Society, at 176 Second Av. (See LIBRARIES AND ART.) Monthly meetings are held during the cool months. The object of this society (founded 1804) is to investigate matters of local history and preserve records and relics illustrating it. Besides the library of 70,000 volumes, the building contains the interesting Nineveh marbles, presented by James Lenox, and the Abbot collec- tion of Egyptian antiquities, consisting of some 1,200 objects. ‘* The gallery of art is upon the fourth floor, and, excepting the Metro- politan Museum of Art, comprises, perhaps, the largest permanent collection in America, at the present time, of valuable sculptures, ancient and modern paintings by renowned masters, and authentic portraits of persons distinguished in history. It contains 800 pictures and 59 pieces of sculpture, and is increasing rapidly.” The American Institute is an old society, which has attained wide notoriety on account of its annual fair, at Madison Square Garden. “These fairs are usually kept open for several weeks in the fall; and, among a vast array of machinery in motion, agricultural implements and manufactured goods, there are always to be seen a sufficient number of curious and beautiful objects.” The Farmers Gitib. . Of wide fame, is a section of this society. The Am. Geographical Society is a flourishing institution, with interesting rooms and a large library, at No. 15 W. 81st St., which any one may visit during the day. It has a grand collection of maps 11 158 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW. VORE. CITY. and charts, and many interesting mementos of travel and travelers. Its monthly meetings (first Tuesday of each month from May to November) are held in Chickering Hall, when lectures on geograph- ical subjects are given, which are usually illustrated, and always attract large audiences. Free tickets are distributed by members, or mailed to applicants by the permanent secretary. The Scientific Alliance is a federation of several organizations devoted to natural history, which meet in the Museum of Natural History or at Columbia College. Information may be obtained of Dr. N. L. Britton, Columbia College. The component societies are: Academy of Sciences (founded in 1817, as the N. Y. Lyceum of Natural History); Zorrey Botanical Club; N.Y. Microscopical Society, Linnean Society of New York; Am. Mathematical Soczety,; N. Y. Mineralogical Club; the New York section of the American Chemical Soctety, N. Y. Entomological Soczety. All of these meetings are open freely to the public, and a monthly programme is printed and may be obtained at any library or similar place. The annual ‘‘ Reception” in March is an interesting display of the local scientific work of the preceding year. The Academy of Medicine is a corporation of physicians and students, devoted to the advancement of their professional science and interests, and the promotion of the public health. There are sections devoted to a variety of special diseases and departments of the science, androoms and a library of 20,000 volumes are open daily to the public at 12 W. 31st St. Inthe same building are the rooms of the Medical Journal Association, which exists to furnish imme- diate access to all current medical literature in the department of medical journals and monographs, while the County Medical Society and several special societies also hold their meetings there. XI, GREATER NEW YORK. For many years certain enthusiasts have been advocating the inclusion within the name and municipality of New York City of Brooklyn, Staten Island, and an extensive surburban region north- ward and eastward. In 1890, a legislative commission, under the presidency of Andrew H. Green, was appointed to inquire into the expediency of the project, and this commission ascertained and communicated to the State Legislature the views of a large number of residents of the city and the outlying districts concerned. The result was a proposition or plan for an enlargement of the city by consoli- dation with it of the southern part of the towns of Eastchester and Pelham, in Westchester County, carrying the city-line eastward almost to Pelham Manor; this much was accomplished 1n 1895, and the northern boundary of the city now reaches Yonkers, Mount Ver- non, and New Rochelle, The proposition also included all of Kings County, and as much of Queens County, Long Island, as lies west of a line from Great Neck to Rockaway, embracing Long Island City and its suburbs — Flushing, Jamaica, and the shores of Jamaica Bay—and the whole of Richmond County (Staten Island), This would give an area of nearly 320 square miles, and include a popula- tion of 3,437,202, making New York the second city of the world. This agitation led to the submission of the question to the votes of the people concerned, in the autumn of 1894. The result was affirma- tive, a charter was granted by the State in 1896, and went into effect January 1,1898. The city now consists, therefore, of five boroughs— Manhattan (Island), The Bronx (north of the Harlem), Brooklyn, Queens (external parts of Brooklyn), and Rzchmond (Staten Island). Brooklyn. BROOKLYN, with 1,634,351 inhabitants, according to the census of 1g10, increased her territory, and her population, by annexing, 1659 160 HANDY GCGOIDEGT ONE WeVORK.-CiI a; in 1894, the whoie outlying territory of Kings County, taking in the suburban region southward, heretofore called Gravesend, New Utrecht, etc., and including Coney Island, Brighton, and Manhattan beaches. ‘The beneficence of the change was at once apparent. Political misrule and speculative chicanery were replaced by the evenly applied government of the city, and an impetus was given to the growth and improvement of all those suburbs, now connected by a network of electric railways. A visit to Brooklynis among the duties, and will prove itself to the pleasure, of any one who wishes to see New York, for it is to all intents and purposes an integral part of the metropolis. There are four general divisions of the city, popularly, though not officially, called The Heights, South Brooklyn, The H'll, and the Eastern District, or Williamsburg. Certain principal features should be attended to by the sight-seer, among which are the following: The Heights, Prospect Park, Greenwood and other cemeteries, The Navy Yard, Plymouth Church, A Tour of the Elevated Railroads, and the Brooklyn Institute's new Museum at Prospect Park. The main thoroughfare of Brooklyn is Fulton St., which has a gen- erally eastward course. Fulton and Catherine ferries, and the East River Bridge, land upon it. Half a mile above the bridge stands the Court House, where the celebrated ‘‘ Beecher trial’’ took place; the Hall of Records, next to it; the Municipal Building (containing the departmental offices of the local government), and, prominently in front of all, the City Hall. These buildings are costly and impos- ing, and in front of them stands Ward’s bronze statue of Henry Ward Beecher, commemorating him not only as the great preacher, but as the anti-slavery champion and philanthropist. Near this point are grouped many large business structures, office buildings, banks, theaters, newspapers, etc.; and the principal shops line Fulton St. for half a dozen blocks above, while Washington St., two blocks south, near the extended bridge terminus, contains the costly new Federal Building, containing the Post Office, U. S. Courts, etc., the lofty Zag/e Building, and the Clarendon Hotel. The principal theaters are: Academy of Music, Lafayette Av., near Fulton St.; Majestic, 651 Fulton St.; Grand Opera House, Elm Pl., near Fulton St.; Star, Jay St., near Fulton; Montauk, Hanover Pl.; Broadway Theatre, Broadway, near Myrtie; Bijou, Smith and Livingston Sts.; Orpheum, 578 Fulton St., Hyde G& Behman’s, Adams St., near Myrtle Av.; Lee Avenue Academy, Lee near Divi- GREATER NEW YORK. 161 sion Av.; /Vovelty, Driggs Av., near S. 4th St., E. D.; Gayety, Broadway and Throop St., E. D.; Amfire, Ralph Av. and Quincy. If now the visitor will walk down Montague St. toward the river, he will soon find himself in that part of Brooklyn called The Heights. Here the land comes to the water in a steep bluff nearly a hundred feet high at the foot of Montague St., where the residences of many of the oldest and most prominent Brooklyn families stand on what is known as Columbia Heights, overlooking from their windows a grand panorama of the harbor, the lower part of East River, and the Battery and Wall St. regions of New York City. Along the base of the bluffs are lines of wharves and spacious warehouses, where ships are moored and foreign commerce comes and goes; and there is only room for a narrow street with only warehouses, mostly bonded, those on the land side being built in excavations under the back gardens of the dwellings on Columbia Heights; but the highland above is covered with stately homes, hotels, churches, clubs, and institutions of learning, also the Art Association, and opposite to it the Brooklyn Library. Closely cognate is the purpose of the Long Island Histor- ical Society, which possesses a large and handsome edifice, with terra cotta and stone trimmings, at the corner of Clinton and Pierre- pont Sts., a library of over 80,000 volumes and pamphlets, and a museum of historical and curious objects. Clinton St. was for many years the Fifth Avenue of Brooklyn, and no part of the city is more fashionable than the blocks along Montague, Pierrepont, Remsen, and some other streets leading from Clinton to the river-bluff. There is not the shade and picturesque beauty here, however, which belong to some other districts, that ‘‘on the hill,’’ forexample. Here on The Heights are the three first-class hotels of Brooklyn, the Mansion House, the Hotel Margaret, the distinctly English St. George Hotel, and here have lately been erected some tall and elegant apartment houses, the principal ones being the Arlington, Berkeley, Grosvenor, Montague, Columbia, West End, Roebling, and Mar- garet, the latter a massive pile of ten stories, overlooking the Bay. Here, too, are the leading clubs—the Brooklyn, Hamilton, Excel- sior, and Crescent Athletic Club, just reinforced by the Jefferson, a 262 HANDY GUiDE TO NEW YORK CITY new Democratic club — while on ‘‘The Hill” the new Republican Union League Club, the Lincoln, and the Montauk have been added. It was the number of very fine houses of worship, not to speak of many smaller ones, in this conspicuous part of town, which gave to Brooklyn the name ‘‘ City of Churches.” Plymouth Church, made famous by Henry Ward Beecher, was until 1899 presided over by Dr. Lyman Abbot, Plymouth Church is in Orange St., between Hicks and Henry. It is within easy walking distance of either Fulton Ferry or the Bridge, and ‘‘ anybody can direct you.” The edifice is merely a great brick ‘‘barn,” and has no ornamentation within inconsistent with its out- ward simplicity. It was built in 1847, and its pulpit was occupied 4o years by Mr. Beecher, until his death in 1887. Its most prominent members dwell near by, but a large part of the regular congregation gathers from remote quarters of the city, while a throng of strangers from all parts of the country is seen within its doors each Sun- day. Mr. Beecher lived and died not far away, at No. 124 Hicks St., corner of Clark. Another tamous Congregational church on The Heights is Dr. H. P. Dewey’s Church of the Pilgrims, at the corner of Henry and Remsen Sts. Next to the Historical Society’s building is Holy Trinity, the leading Episcopal church of Brooklyn, under the pastorate of the Rev. Dr. J. H. Melish; while St. Ann’s is only a block or two distant. Prospect Park.— This noble park, which lies upon the high ground in the rear of the city, overlooking the populous wards of South Brooklyn and the New York harbor on one side, and the Atlantic shore toward Coney Island on the other, is nearly as large as Central Park, and is by many people considered more enjoyable, if not more beautiful. It is reached by the following Trolley lines: From Fulton Ferry or the Bridge entrance, Flatbush Av. line (the most direct) ; Adams and Boerum Place line, and Franklin Ay. line; from Hamilton (south) Ferry, the Hamilton Av. and Prospect Park line; and from Broadway (Williamsburg) Ferry, the Nostrand Av. line. The distance is about 2% miles more or less, from any of the ferries, but the route from Fulton Ferry or the Bridge is the most interesting. None of the elevated railroads go very near the park. In connection with this park, a series “f boulevards, 200 reet wide, has been designed for distant points. One is to cross East River at Blackwell’s Island, and connect with the Central Park or the Eastern Boulevard. The picturesque water-tower near the plaza overlooks the whole region. ‘puejs} Asuod 0} a}nos Aveuipio ayy yo Ued e& si AAUP SIU! —NATWOONS “MYVd LOSdSOUd ‘SMV SBHL 164 HANDYSGOIDE TONEW VORK CH LY. The Park Plaza is a large paved space at the principal entrance of Prospect Park, where Flatbush Av., the Eastern Boulevard, and several other streets converge. Ornamental stone kiosks, and four great granite pillars, ultimately to support statues, mark the entrance tothe drive. The center of the Plaza is marked by a memorial arch to the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, which was erected in 1892, and is not so good in design as the Washington Arch. It contains some bad half-reliefs upon its interior faces, and is surmounted by a colossal bronze group by Frederick MacMonnies, representing the chariot of victory, led by heralds of peace. It faces the park, and should be seen from that side before being judged of, its rear view, first presented to our approaching from the city, being somewhat ludicrous. ‘The arch is hollow, and stairways open to the public (entrance free) permit one to ascend to the top and get a close view of this work of art, which gains upon nearer acquaintance. It was erected during the summer of 1898. At a little distance is an electric fountain, illuminated during the summer at frequent intervals. Just within the park entrance stands a most excellent portrait-statue, also by MacMonnies, of J. S. Stranahan, who was called, at the time of his death, in 1897, Brooklyn’s foremost citizen, and who had been of more service than any other in establishing this and the other parks of the city. Prospect Park is a worthy rival of Central Park in attractiveness. It is wilder, more diversified, and freer to the public, although there are portions of the highest cultivation. It contains, among its ornaments, a statue to John Howard Payne, author of ‘Home, Sweet Home,” and a bronze tablet noting the site (Battle Pass) of a critical part of the Battle of Long Island, which took place on these hills. The drives are exceedingly well arranged and delightful, and the lake is really a large body of water, upon which there are numerous boats; but the great advantage of Prospect Park is, that one may run about on the grass almost everywhere, or wander -hrough the thickets at will. There is a winding lake with boats, a shady ramble, etc. From Lookout Hill, a magnificent view is to be gained, reaching from the Atlantic horizon to the Palisades and the Orange Hills; and on certain lawns, especially on Saturday afternoons, hundreds of brightly appareled young people may be seen playing ten- nis, or croquet, or practicing at archery, or otherwise actively amusing themselves, while thousands of others lounge upon the grassy slopes. GREATERAINEW)VYORK, 165 Museum of the Brooklyn Institute.—This is the foundation of a museum of natural history and ethnology, which is housed in the building an eighth of a mile east of the Park Plaza, beyond the beautiful water tower. ‘The collections are open free to the public from Wednesday to Saturday, but 25 cents admission fee is charged on Monday and Tuesday. These collections are the property of the Brooklyn Institute, and consist of a large amount of material illustrating all departments of zodlogy, which are displayed in suit- able cases, and are well worth seeing. The display of local birds and insects is especially good. A considerable amount of geological, mineralogical, and ethnological material has been gathered and arranged, and the beginning of an art gallery has been made, which already numbers several interesting pictures. The Brooklyn Institute is one of the most prominent social and intellectual influences in the city, being practically a system of university extension work. It originated in 1823, as an apprentices’ library movement, with lectures, etc., and in 1843 its scope was enlarged, but not much was done for the public until 1887, when it was reorganized, its membership and scope vastly increased, and it began a career of extensive usefulness. All the scientific and literary societies of the city joined with it, as sections, and others were organized, until now circles and classes for study and social societies exist under its organization in almost every line of work one can think of; and the public meetings and lectures before the sections or before the whole body of members are so numerous that three or four often occur on the same evening. The present build- ing is only the beginning of what is intended to be a vast and mag- nificent seat of popular learning. ‘The legislature and the city have assisted the institute by large appropriations, and endowments are accumulating, so that additions will rapidly be made, and the plans of McKim, Mead & White will a few years hence be materialized into a building which will be one of the largest and handsomest educational institutions in the metropolis. Greenwood Cemetery.— This famous city of the dead covers a square mile of the highlands that lie back of South Brooklyn and overlook New York Harbor. Itis 24% miles from the bridge, and is reached most directly by the Fifth Av. line of the Brooklyn El. Ry., which has a station at its principal (the northern) entrance. Carriages will be found at the entrance, which make the tour of the 166 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW AVORIGCL Tew cemetery, and the driver explains what are generally regarded as the most interesting things as he goes along. The charge for the whole ride is 25 cents. This cemetery was opened in 1842, and about 250,000 burials have been made since that time, including the most distin- guished citizens of New York and Brooklyn who have passed away during the last half-century. The control is not vested in a private corporation, but in a board of public trustees, who now have at its disposal, for its maintenance, a fund approaching $1,000,000. These large resources, and the wealth of many of the families represented upon the rolls of its dead, have permitted a vast expenditure in beautifying both the public and private parts; and there is no bury- ing ground in the country which compares with Greenwood for the cost and elaborateness of its mortuary monuments or the care taken of itasawhole. The stone-bedded, tile-drained roads alone measure 25 miles in length. The northern is the principal one of the several entrances, and its grand Gothic gateway of brown stone, elaborately carved, holds the offices of the administration andavisitors’ room. Waiting rooms will also be found at the other entrances, each of which is furnished with toilet rooms, etc.; and near the center of the cemetery — which covers almost a square mile (474 acres)—is ‘‘ The Shelter House” (at the intersection of Locust and Southwood Avs.), designed for the shelter of visitors who chance to be remote from the various entrances and need the conveniences which it affords. From Plateau Hill, and from many other points, far-reaching and beautiful views of the har- bor, the Jersey shore, and New York and Brooklyn cities may be obtained, and a walk of half a mile from the eastern entrance will take one to Prospect Park. Among the thousands of mortuary monuments, some are worthy of special note. Among them are: The monument and bronze bust to Horace Greeley, on Locust Hill, near Oak Ay., which was erected by the printers of the country. The triangular block covering the remains of Prof. S. F. B. Morse, the inventor of the electric telegraph; this stands on Highwood Hill, is surrounded by many costly monuments, and overlooks the Clinton monument. The Soldiers’ Monument, which is tall and costly, but lacks impressiveness; it stands on the plateau of Battle Hill, whence a broad view is to be gained. The Theater Fire Monument, opposite the main entrance, under- neath which, in acommon grave, rest the unrecognized and unclaimed GREATER NEW YORK. 167 bodies of those who perished in the burning of the Brooklyn Theater, in December, 1876, when over 300 people lost their lives. The Firemen’s Monument, surmounted by the figure of a fireman holding a child in his arms. It was erected by the old volunteer fire department of New York City, whose chief engineer, Harry Howard, has placed elsewhere in the grounds a statue in memory of his foster mother, showing her as adopting him when saved from a burning building. Many of the monuments take the form of Greek or Gothic memo- rial chapels, one of the most conspicuous and beautiful of which is that to Miss Mary M. Dauser, a philanthropic woman, at the inter- section of Fir and Vine Avs. Another temple worth special attention is that of A. S. Scribner, at Cypress and Vine Avs., which was made in Italy and contains the figure of Hope. The monument to commemorate John Matthews, at the south- westerly end of Valley Water, is in the form of arichly carved canopy and spire above a sculptured sarcophagus, upon the top of which les a full-length marble figure of the dead man. Onthe tablet under the canopy is a veiled female figure seated in a chair and typifying grief. The artist was Carl Miiller, and the cost $30,000. The Pilot’s Monument, erected by the pilots of New York Harbor to a hero among them; and the ‘‘Sea Captain’s Statue” (to Capt. John Correja, holding the actual sextant he was accustomed to use) will interest those fond of the sea. Other fine and costly carvings in Italian marble are seen in the monument to the Brown Brothers, the New York bankers, in the emblematic group standing in the lot of the elder James Gordon Bennett, founder of the New York Hera/d, and in the famous Char- lotte Canda monument, at Fern and Greenbough Avs. ‘The colossal bronze statue of Governor De Witt Clinton, in Baywood Dell, should not be missed by the visitor to Greenwood, who will come away feel- ing that perhaps it is as satisfactory as anything of the more pre- tentious sort in the whole cemetery. The Grant Statue at Grant Square, where Bergen St. crosses Bed- ford Av., is worth the attention of tourists. It stands in front of the splendid house of the Union League Club, by which it was presented to the city, and in one of the most interesting neighborhoods on ‘‘the Hill.”” Itis the work of Partridge, is of heroic size, in bronze, and represents Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on his favorite horse in campaign dress, as he appeared at the Battle of the Wilderness. Very im- posing ceremonies attended its unveiling in April, 1895, and it has given satisfaction to the critics as well as the citizens. The Navy Yard.— Tourists from the interior of the country are sure to be desirous of inspecting the U.S. Navy Yard in Brooklyn. It is on the Wallabout —a basin or indentation from the East River. 168 HANDY GOIDE £O NEW YORK CITY, where in Revolutionary days was moored the dreadful Jersey, worst of the prison hulks. It is at the foot of York St., and may be reached from all parts of Brooklyn by electric cars, two lines crossing the bridge to Manhattan. This is the foremost naval station in the country, and its brick wall embraces a space of 45 acres in the yard proper, while 100 more acres closely adjacent belong to the establishment. The space within the walls is largely occupied by huge machine-shops, storehouses, and the offices of the superintendents of various branches of the service. The United States Naval Lyceum, founded by officers of the navy in 1833, is here; it has a fine library, and a large collection of histor- ical curiosities, together with valuable geological and mineralogica! cabinets. Several trophies of the prowess of the navy in the earlier of the country’s wars, in the shape of captured guns and mortars, are displayed in a little park outside near the headquarters office. The ‘‘ quarters” of the officers of the Yard form an interesting line of old-fashioned residences on high ground along the south side of the premises; and the large, pillared structure seen in the distance, as one looks eastward, is the U. S. Marine Hospital, where 500 patients can be taken care of. One important shop was burned in 1899. The Navy Yard consists two portions, separated by the deep bay of ‘‘the basin,” or Wallabout, into which the dry-docks open. The peninsular part outside of the basin is called the Cob Dock and forms an extensive park-like space, where musters and drills of sailors, marines, or recruits may be witnessed. The great yellow hulk, housed in, permanently moored on the outer margin of the Cob Dock is the old frigate Vermont, forming a ‘‘ receiving ship,” that is a recruiting station, furnishing depot, and home for recruits and sailors while prepairing for or awaiting assignment to service. Ships in commission often lie at the wharves of the Cob Dock, to which a small ferry boat runs from the mainland of the Yard, but usually some sort of special permission must be obtained in order to cross in it to the Cob Dock and visit the Vermont or other naval ships there. Within the basin often lie many naval ships, transports, torpedo boats, etc., inor out of commission. These are usually eccessible to visitors in the afternoon; but visitors are advised to make arrangements beforehand, if possible, with some officer of the Yard or of the ship they wish toinspect. It will smooth the way. > YNHS "puels} Ualels ‘UO}YSUQ MeN 1S9MM—YORPUVH ONNS S.YOTVS ‘AYVYSIT GNV HO faite OL: EZ \ 170 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CiTY. The Graving or Dry-docks on the basin front are of the greatest interest. Their dimensions are as follows: No. 1 (wood) length, 362 feet over all, 331 feet on the floor; breadth across top, 66 feet; draught, 25 feet. No. 2(gramite) length over all, 491 feet; on floor, 450 feet; breadth across top, 85 feet, breadth of entrance floor, 52 feet; draught, 25% feet. No. 3 (granite) length over all, 657 feet; on floor, 564 feet; breadth across top, 7o feet; on entrance floor, 64 feet; draught, 29 feet. (From figures furnished by Captain of the Yard, Dec. 14, 1898, omitting fractions.) The huge steam pumps belong- ing to these docks can empty them of water in a few hours. In order to handle the vast pieces of plate-armor, machinery, gun-car- riages, and guns themselves required to be moved to and from modern ships, the Yard possesses a floatzng crane, which is con- spicuous and interesting, as it will lift and swing to any point within its reach a weight of 75 tons; but a new tIoo-ton crane is now being erected to supplement and exceea the capability of this mighty engine. About 2,000 men are ordinarily employed at this Navy Yard. Staten Island. The description already given (see Harsor) of the shores of Staten Island forestalls the need of any extended remarks here. The ferry from New York lands at St. George, at the northern extremity of the island. ‘This is the terminus of the Baltimore & Ohio’s branch line which crosses from Elizabeth, N. J., by a splendid bridge, but thus far is used exclusively as a freight-carrying route, and it is the cen- tral station of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad, which reaches all the shore villages of importance. Staten Island is hilly and contains many attractive spots and much excellent farming land. ‘The views of the harbor and harbor- shores gained from its northern highlands are exceedingly fine, while the most charming and artistic river scenery is to be had along Arthur Kill and the sound separating the island from New Jersey. Quaint old ports are scattered along the southern shore, and the odd little villages throughout the interior, as countrified as if they were away in the woods of Cattaraugus. But interspersed everywhere are the modern and luxurious country residences of wealthy New Yorkers, who go back and forth daily. This interior is traversed only by wagon roads, Rzchmond, the judicial seat of the island (when it was Richmond County), being itself away from the railroad, but accessible by trolley cars from St. George. Sailor’s Snug Harbor.— The most interesting and notable thing on the north shore of the island is this asylum for aged and infirm sea- GREATER NEW YORK. 17) men, half a mile beyond New Brighton. ‘This benefice is the result of a bequest made at the beginning of last century by Capt. Richard Randall, then a prominent member of the Marine Society of New York. This bequest consisted mainly of his farm, whose southern boundary was the line of the present Astor Place, and which yielded to the trustees about $40,000. This has been so carefully managed that the property of the Harbor now approaches $18,000,000 in value, and the income suffices to care for 1,000 beneficiaries. Its stately and complete buildings occupy a park and attached farming lands amounting together to 185 acres. About 750 pensioners are at pres- ent on the rolls, all of whom have seen a certain amount of actual service as sailormen. ‘The institution is open to visitors at all suit- able hours, and is well worth inspection, especially in summer, when the grounds and the water-views they afford are admirable. A mort- uary Monument covering the bones of the founder stands near the main entrance, and in another part of the park is a bronze statue of Randall, by Augusta St. Gaudens, which is one of the most satisfac- tory pieces of sculpture in the neighborhood of New York. The visitor should take pains to see, within the buildings, the workshops, where scores of cheerful old mariners sit in the sunshine, smoke their pipes and work at plaiting baskets, mats, and other articles of straw, netting hammocks, fishnets, tidies, etc., and rigging toy models of painfully accurate schooners, brigs, and full-rigged ships. These articles are sold by them, and the more able and industrious make a considerable income in this way. The Sailor’s Snug Harbor is as sunny and cheerful a refuge as can be found in the Union. Prohibition Park (Westerleigh) reached by cars from St. George or Port Richmond, is an exclusive community of persons primarily interested in the prohibition of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. The leader of the enterprise is Dr. I. K. Funk, of Funk & Wagnalls< The park is now the home of many men of wealth and cultivation, who are making a beautiful village there. A feature is the great auditorium in which a summer programme of lectures, exhibitions, conventions, and meetings is in progress from June to October, attracting a large number of visitors interested in various ‘‘ causes.” The South Side of the island has stations for Quarantine (Staple- ton), Fort Wadsworth (one and a half miles from the railroad), and South Beach, a summer beach-resort (also reached by a steamboat line trom the Battery), which is a smal] imitation of Coney Island, 172 HANDY GOIDE LOIN SV ORK Chiav. with various cheap restaurants and amusement places, and plentifu ‘‘ beer and skittles.” Midland Beach is a newer, far more select, and really pleasant place, a mile beyond and reached by an interesting electric-car route. Trolley Lines and Ferries.—Electric car lines have spread greatly here, of late, the rivalry of two companies now making all the north- ern parts of the island accessible by cars from St. George, which reach southward to Fort Wadsworth, South Beach, Midland Beach, the new shore-resort, and Richmond. Inland, cars run along pleasant country roads, such as the Richmond turnpike. Other lines skirt the northern terrace, and connect by ferry at Port Richmond with Bergen Point and trolley lines to Jersey City. The same lines continue along the north shore to Howland Hook, where a new ferry takes passengers across to Elizabethport, whence they can reach any part of suburban New Jersey by electric cars. A ferry is now run between Tompkinsville and Seuth Brooklyn. he VICTORIA HOTEL ASBURY PARK, N. J. An Unobstructed View of beach and bathing grounds OPEN ALL THE YEAR Reduced rates until July 1st and after September ist Terms and further particulars sent on request THE SURF AT ALL TIMES XII Sa OTRO Tera PON Dita OK re) KS RYE COAST Asbury Park, located on the North Jersey Coast fifty miles south of New York, is the social centre of a chain of twenty notable resorts extending from Sandy Hook to Sea Girt. It has all the best at- tractions of every other seaside retreat in America, but stands alone for its marvelous combination of country and seashore. Three picturesque fresh water lakes afford all the delights of canoeing. It’s great stretch of unobstructed ocean front is bordered by the finest promenade in the world. Seven bathing beaches of soft, clean sand give health and delight to hundreds of thousands. Es- pecially for children is Asbury Park a paradise, its numerous free pavilions and recreation pier forming a popular feature. At the Arcade, one of the best bands plays twice daily. In the Casino high-class theatricals are a nightly feature, while at the Auditorium, seating ten thousand, oratorios and concerts are given all summer by a permanent chorus of one thousand voices, an orchestra of sixty-five and the most powerful organ in the world. Many of the great stars of grand opera and the best musical organizations of America will be heard there this summer. The features herewith pictured and described prove Asbury Park, now far-famed for its high state of municipal development, to be the most wonderful sea- side resort of the new century. It is reached all rail by the Pennsylvania system and the Central Railroad of New Jersey; by the express steamers and trains of the Sandy Hook Route. Excursion fare, unlimited ticket, good on all routes, $1.70. One hundred trains, vestibuled and parlor car ser- vice, each day. Patten Line boats for Pleasure Bay, connecting with Asbury Park trolley, leave the Battery four times daily, 80 cents for the round trip. 178 SBRURY PARK NEW JERSEY : ~ SUMMER“ WINTER RESORT Eeiel Park View Saaz One block from ocean on Atlantic Square. Rooms: Single or en suite with bath, elevator service, capacity 300. Special rates June and September. Evening Dinners. LLOYD EVANS, Manager 211 Third Averttee THE BRIGHTON Asbury Park,N.J. The Brighton is centrally located on the north side of Third Avenue, one block and a half from the beach. A good view of the ocean may be had from its broad verandas. It is within five minutes walk of both of the new casinos. LE llectric_ cars pass within a few steps of the house, leading to all parts of the city and suburbs. The rooms and halls are light, airy, and well ventilated. House equipped with modern improvements. Good table and homelike surroundings. Make reserva- tions early. Hebrews need not apply. WYANDANK _ 1902-1910 THE ALLENDORPF 1911 MRS. N. ALLENDORPH THE SHOREHAM 1209 3rd Av. Asbury Park, N. J. Situated one block from Beach Newly remodeled and furnished Accommodations for 175 people Rates, $10 per week up. $2-2.50 per day MRS. E. J. SQUIRER SEASON, JUNE TO OCTOBER THE HOTELS IE ND EC KeSsl 217 SECOND AVENUE, ASBURY PARK, N. J. $2.00 and $2.50 per day. $10.00 up weekly. Accommodations for 150 guests. SBURY PARK * NEW JERSEY 3 SUMMER«s: WINTER RESORT HOTEL ORMOND ASBURY PARK, N. J. One half block from Ocean Two doors from Hot and Cold Sea Baths Write for special rates during May, June, July and September E. J. DOTY, Proprietor Write Rand McNally & Co. for Hotel Rates and Descriptive Booklets Capacity, One Huadred The Willard A. F. NEWKIRK, Prop. One Block from Ocean and Near All Attractions. Convenient to Hot and Cold Sea Baths. 208 Second Avenue Asbury Park, New Jersey White for special rates in June, July and September Beauty spot of the North Jersey Coast, Asbury Park Where Country Meets the Sea. Absolutely free from mosquitoes and malaria. Salt-water pool and baths open all year. Two-mile boardwalk, many pavilions. Edouarde’s band and other famous musical organizations daily: 200 hotels: many trains via Pennsylvania and Jersey Central railroads. Literature free by writing Municipai Information Bureau, 900 Boardwalk. The Fenimore 213 SECOND AVENUE ASBURY PARK, N. J. PRIVATE BATHS EK EEN eAT Te Oak SEND FOR BOOKLET NS ELO See) oles Owner and Propnetor Hotel Thedford 6th AVENUE, Near Ocean FAMILY HOTEL SS : | Excellent Service Booklet HARRY DUFFIELD, Owner and Proprietor NORTH ASBURY PARK, ING]: TO MENTION AN ASBURY PARK GARAGE is to suggest “ZACHARIAS” The town is one of the finest along the Jersey shore, while the individual tries to run the best garage in the State. ZACHARIAS GARAGE CO., Main Street, Cor. Sewall, ASBURY PARK, N. J. SEA SHORE RESORT ASBURY PARK, NEW JERSEY, RK CILY: 50 MILES FROM NEW YO eons 3 seen RAN BROOKLYN = x 3 FG Ba 5 S w z Ci ane coe Fol ee Ps < oe YW @& ul uw > Oo x < en wo OM eer eg a) Yee Fe x 2 o f& & S Oat mel 5 ee ot =>” WW = a uw = eh SR) ee mary ol ee ee: en . SSE) o@- Ww ef LA if \ SS a a \SANDY-HOOK ae selene 44 Central Railr’d of New Jersey.. Io @entury lube wee ee eee ae 152 Chamber of Commerce:..-: -..2. 68 Charity Organization Society.. 133 Chinatown and the Chinese.... 114 Chinese; Westadrantsis.ee ene ce IIS Chinesertieateres areeucee.doaee ier Christian Alliance, etc., The... 131 Christopher Street Ferry....... 26 Ghurch Club sieeve eee 152 Church of the Strangers, The.. 126 Churches and Religious Work. 119 Churches in Brooklyn. s..... =. 162 @hurchesserotestante merce. ¢ 119 Circulating Library and Bran- CHES ER ate oa ee eee nee he 145 City Ghibwee series eee eee 152 City Government Offices........ 87 City Has ea eee eet eeeeee 81 190 HANDY GUIDE, TOWNE W YORK, Clix, PAGE CityeHalleingand around: seer 84 City Halli quare sass se eee 83, 84 nCityoL Churchesmlnem oases 162 CityseniSOD NE WEeeee ene 110 Claremonts. 7 sapere ee eee SS Clearing House, The New Bank 8, 78 “Cleopatra's Needle wien: i 54 ClubsmnGisocietiesss eee eene 152 Clyde Steamship Company..... 6 Coachese. o2 shane eee 14 Coastwise Steamship Lines..... 6, 9 College of the City of New York 136 CollescesPoint Merivecse eee 26 ColonialiGlubpe eee eee eee 153 Colony Club (Women) 122 Madi- SOnJAVEN TT sited ee zee eee 153 GolttimibiasWUmiviersitveree wees: 138 Columbia University Library.. 139 Columbus Monumentand Plaza 42 Communipaw) Mery. scenes eee. 26 Compagnie Generale Transat- lant GUELAS moe aeeee ere enee 6 GoncertiHallst eee ce ee 39 Gonéy Islandia eee 181 Congregational Churches....... 124 Consolidated Petroleum and Stock hxchancenneaaieee cee 78 Cooper iWnloneeeeoe eee tence I41 Cooper UnionmWibratry. enone: 147 Cortlandt Street Ferry.......... 26 CountyotNew Works eee ene 89 Criminals Countisuash Gescreer 89 GrosseLOWiloIwesee re eres 25 Grotonalbarkee eee eee 62 Cunard ines eo eee eee 6 Gustompblousemlbhe: assesses 5b Sik DELAWARE, LACKAWAN- NA & Ween Wail roaGdi aa O Democratic Clibeeeeene eee 153 Desbrosses Street Ferry........ 26 Detective Bureau, The.......... III Deutscher Verein Club ..2....-- 13 Door olbopen these ete oaeeee ie Down-Town Association........ 153 Drive, The (Central Park)....... 51 Drives 2 er eee Eee eae 63 Drvy-d0cksSte ete eee acer 170 Dutch Reformed Churches. .... II9 BASTCHESTER ATARI AES ae eA 178 East River Bridge, New....29, 31 EKaglé ROCK cern rere 18 Educational Institutions........ 136 Eighteenth Street Station ...... 23 Blevated Rar liweavy.s merece aeons 19 Bllis Islands. sce eee eee TOS Hmercency Hospitalesnscee.eeeee 132 Bneimecnrs (Clu bp eee 153 HpiscOpalianne hte lies tte eneer IIo Equitable Life Building, The... 82 Brie sRallroade naan eee To Esplanades, The (Central Park) 46 PAGE TexG lances, Vc 0 US eee earn 68 Exhibitions penetrance 38 Byeand Harinirmanyen ene 04 PALL REV ERg ENS ee eee Herries, Varlousmasaeecceeen 26, 8 Fifth Ave. Presby terian Church 123 FittmAvenwe Stacesewo.peeeses: 26 Binancialelnstitiiiion sass sees 67 Fire Department, The........... 117 I IVvielPOIntis eae note eee 112 Five Points HouseofIndustry.. 133 Hive Points) Mission eeeeeniee oes 133 Hlorence: Missionit.2:2.8ec penne 109 HOrtils€ eases iidisecoen ee eee 180 Hortivee Berivere se eee 28 HOGEI Via CSWWOlsth sen eee see 103 Franklins Street Merny..noeeeeneen 28 Free Circulating Library, The.. 145 Pree WMasonryenscaeeienore ete 156 Hultonvicerryceaccer cece ee eee 28 GETTING Aboutthe. Citys mer0 Governor's Island Ferry... 28 Grace Churches ee ee ee eee 121 GramercysPark oy. ces a. seein many OA Grand Central Station wen. sae ApproachesitOn. seen eee eee 14 GrandiStreet Merry. eecseemetene 28 Grants talwenauie eens 167 Grantisehombeeee see ee eee 56 GreatenNewavork sae ter. 159 [Bon mei NS Chie seqs ocaasd Secdac oabe 159 Extentofeeieei ee. eee 159 7 Greek letters .Clubssmeeeerte 153 GreenpointWerry eee eee 28 Greenwood Cemetery............ 165 H4A&s& cred aah atevavere avere ae eiateleeioterete 14, 16 Halkofihamer cease score 141 alliotiRvecordsmee seston 15, 84 Hamburg-American Line. ...... 6 Hamil tonrHeniyanaseuseocenenmerte 28 HarborvAnlOumOmlthey ess eee TOS Harbor Policer hese snes III Harmonie Clube eee nee 153 HartiorGelinen.pennes cee eee 9 Harvard © libata: Cone eeeeee 153 Health Department s....ss2eeeeee III Hebrews in New York........... 126 Hobokentivees oestrone 180 Hoboken Héerciest esate 28 Holland-American Line......... 6 Hospitalstand €harithesase-s cen 131 Hotels) Listsvol jesse cee: 194, 195 Humane Societitessa- see eee 134 Hunters Point Meriva eee 28 [NTRODUCTION to New York 3 Inland Towns of New Jersey 181 INDEX 191 PAGE JACKSON SOWA RH a ny ey 44 Jeannette Squares act eect 43 TEESE VAG) EM oe teiiene c e eee 179 Jersey City Ferries (see map)... 28 LUCE LIne uaa Sau cs ve eee eee 117 KING'S DAUGHTERS and SonsInternationalOrderof 131 ea See (Ulster & Delaware READ oe Sh con ats CMe SRI 9 Knickerbocker Glubyincs teste: 153 Knickerbocker Theater........ 36 LAMBS CIGSUB are te hea pastas 153 WaAWwVeLsS Clube ees more. 153 ISEGEOERESHER ete on ee eters 41 Lehigh Valley Railroad.......... 10 Senoxieibrarvece ned ieeee eee 144 WenoxsZVGeUIne settee eres 4I PPCULE @ RatOGa sates teaa aera. ote 34 Wiberty statue, elhesaeese eco 106 Library of Columbia University 137 Libraries and Reading Rooms.. 142 iederkranzZelhner.-se eee. ee 39 Lines North of Harlem River. 25 “Little Church ‘round the Cor- NEC ke Dn eee arith Mees ee 122 one Htanens .« seston ese cette 179 Long Island City Ferries........ 28 Long Island Coast Resorts...... ithe} Konr islands allroadse ccs nee 12 Otros Glib en eee tetilec ce 153 Lower Park (Central Park)..... 44 MutheranjGhurcheses.-s2 1. oe 125 Maes SOUARB Ms. cusses 27 Madison Square Garden..38, 40 Madison Square Presbyterian CHUL Nese toe ee renee ef Dien 123 Maine Steamship Company..... 6 Malieiive (Central Park) en 46 Mallory inesccamarocctiee ee. 6 Manhattan cachisseearertaes ccc 183 Mai tata: © LUlbmete mae renee tee TS 3} Mariner’ s Church, St olst aster aed 126 Ma Gye OwW.el lamer oder eens 9 MasSoniculemplemihne niente. 156 Medicine (see under Bellevue, Columbia University, and Uni- versity of City of New York) Menarerniesc Diner sock eencecees 45 Mercantile Library, The........ 148 Merchants Glab.uas bop es penne 153 Messenger Ser-*se 7) *. oo eee eee 34 Methodist Episcopal Churches 124 Metropolitan Clirber sae csce: 153 Metropolitan Museum of Art...52-54 Metropolitan Onera House..... 38 Midland Beach ise... Rarer en 6 172 Miscellaneous Institutions. .... 141 Moravian Society, The.......... T25 Morgan Line (Southern Pacific Railroad) tee ee weet eee weet oeeeee . PAGE NOT LUC we esate: doieets coe: 132 Morningside Heights............ 60 Moy rats rok eBwelke Me Re nse 60 Morris & Essex Railroad........ 10 MountiMornistea wares...) eee 61 Mount VieENON*: ste ss seete eee. 177 Mulberry Bendel Nevos..5 esse 113 Miliberryependsbariesenu so. 113 Munson Steamship Line........ 6 MuseumofNaturalHistory,The 48 Museums and Galleries......... 4I Music, Lectures and Exhi- DItlONS urd mee ae eee eae 38 MUSICAIES OCICLIECS | siansientracie cee 39 NALIONAL ACADEMY OF HISESIOM Geert teeth se st a een 149 National Sculpture Society..... 150 INA VVENIA LG oe cote Candee octet e oeenee 167 Newburgh (two lines)........... 9 New Haven(N.Y.,N.H.&H.R.R.) 9 New Jersey Coast Resorts...... 175 New Jersey Northern Railroad 10 ING WalersSeysNOLrGn.cw.a. + nuenen ss 179 NewsRochelleyy tea te. 177 NEWSpDabperOmcess..0 eno ee 84 New York Athletic Club........ 154 New York Central & Hudson Riven Ral leoade anaes nce ee 12 INeweVork'G litbme assess: 154 New York & Cuba Mail Steam- SIAC ON Aid vase eae eters temas 6 New York & Greenwood Lake Ra road eee seen eee ne Io New York & Harlem mobs 12 New York Historical Society... 157 Newaviork Hospitalwelbhesss se 132 New York. New Haven & Hart- LOndeWaillrOad a ascent eae 12 New work .eablic Vibraryv....- 142 New York & Porto Rico Steam- ShipiGoss Meeew.. nace aoe aters 6 New York & Putnam Railroad.. 12 New York, Susquehanna c IWiestecn wal lroadesasss- ore To New York Stock Exchange...... 78 INews Vor wacht Club win... .en.e Tey Nocturnal Ramble,A Routefora 109 Normal College, The...... ...... 138 Nocti brotherlslandeew.s. sen 133 North (or Bower y Beach) Ferry 28 North German Lioyd Line...... 6 North River Water Front, The. 100 OBELISK, SH BR ue enn oe 54 Ocean Ssteamenrse... eee I0l Ocean Grovestsee.. eee soe 179 WAC ElIOWSie sae seareieae tees 157 OHIOISOCTetVete Cee eee 154 Old Dominion Steamship Co... 9 PAINTINGS (see Metropoli: tan Museum of Art). 192 HANDY GUIDE TONE WVORK CI iy, ; _PAGE Panama Railroad Steamship LAN G2. iret saesses meen cetmatiek 9 Parks and Drives North of the Harleny ese tec eee 61 Park Plaza; The (Brooklyn)... 164 Park Row, (Locking North from Broadway and Vesey Street). 33 Pavonial Wena ron tener 28 Pethany2e sec ene eee 178 PelhamibavabaL cee eee nee 62 Pennsylvania Railroad.......... To PhenvtelWine 4. casera 6 Philadelphia & Reading R.R.... Jo Plaversi@litbeer tenon eee 154 PoliceHorces tite reees eeheceree cel Police-Headquarterste. saeeecee iit Porto Rico Steamship Company 6 Posti@ficesmibhe: ee aaee ce sane 32 List of Sub-Stations of the...32, 34 Presbyterian Churches......... 22 Press Club aewae hee oe 154 Prince Lines. coe eee 6 Brintines Ouse Ss duaLenretene 84 Private Philanthropies.......... 133 Produce Exchange, The......... 67 Progress iClubte seen 154 Prombitionseanke see eeeereee 171 Prospect Park (Brooklyn)...... 162 Public sSchoolSen nese eeeee 136 Public Library System..... A Segh 1902) UAKERS' Meeting Houses.. 125 Quebec Steamship Co...... 9 Queensboro Bridge.............- ai RASQUET AND TENNIS CLUB. 153 RAILROADS, various: Connecting with New York... 10 Elevated in New Yor RatlwavioratiOnse see eee 10, I4 Ramble, The (Central Park).. 47 RambleatNir hia nee eeeeteeee 109 Randallest sland eeeenneccaee ence 133 Rapicdidaransitylealicocdcla=se eee 23 RECEEATIONERICLS eeeeeenie eee 44 RediD2 Wines es. oe ee eae 9 Red Stam ines cmcs eestor ne 6 RetormiGlub sree eee ee 154 Religious Organizations......... 130 RepublicanasGlnibeeee ree I54 Residences, Clubs, Hotels, etc. 90 RidingsCl ules eee reer enree 154 Rivers and Harbor, The......... 100 Riverside Parkceereeeeeecccecs 57 Rivetoteam boatsnerreemeecrme cee 9 ROCKAWAY see eee 183 Roman Catholic Churches.. .126, 129 Roman Catholic Institutions... 142 Rooseveltherry ame eenieneoe ee 128 ROOSEVElt Hos piitalaaesee eens Koval Dutch West Indies Mail PAGE SAILOR'S SNUG HARBOR.. 170 St. Andrew, Brotherhood of 131 StnGeorve Suchunch yeas Site Pee the Divine, Cathedral Becks LS aaa oe, Bee a Ras 129 St Luke's Hospital@ee ee ip Site Nicholas (Glib seaess eee 154 Sit eatnickys Caciredia lasses 128 St. Paul’s Chapel and Church- VAT ot cases eee ee ple tense tomes 12, 120 Si Vincent si Hospitals 132 SalmaciuncdicC li bye eee ee 154 Salvation Army, sUhers.5...ce.ne 131 SEHWAOEM El SLANE. sso contoodonddsoe 9 Scandinavian-American Line.. 6 scientific Alliance, The voice. ee ey ties Seaside and Suburban Resorts. 173 Sewardubarkieee. sae hese 44 SecretiOrdersn-seecee eee eee 156 SocialiChubsta. peer eee ee 152 Society of American Artists.... 150 Society for Prevention of Crime 135 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animalsin2. 7... 134 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to.Cchildrense sneer 134 Society for Suppressionof Vice 135 Society Library, The Sound Steanib oars aes eeeeereeeer 9 SOUth Brook lym Hentvereeeeeeeee 28 Southern Pacific Co. (Formerly Gromwellsine) =e eee ee 9 South Statenelslands eae 171 SDeCd Way cL Mes eerode eee: 62 State Charities Aid Association 133 Staten lSlandsen eee eee 170 Staten lslands Henny scenes 28, 172 Staten Island Trolley Lines.... 172 Statue of Nathan Hale.......... 74, 84 Steamboats, River and Sound.. 9 SteamshipavanGdinese eeeeeetees 3,9 Steamship Lines, Various....... 246, Stockshxchanvgen nea nee seee. 78 Stonington (Railroad to Boston) 9 Stuyvesant Salanre. meee eee 04 Sltp-theaSuilnys wine a eeneineeers 76 Surface. CareROUteCS a nanseeeeeees 24 Swedenborgians in New York.. 126 Synagogues...... div edganavetetayen® 126 TAXICABS ialetovecrater eke ecatieetce a oterere 14 Teachers’ College and HonacelVianns SCHOO messes 140 ‘Telerraphs Me eee ee 34 ‘helephonestaesac ae eer eee emplethinanu- ieee eee Terraceand Lake(CentralPar Theaters, List of.. ST, Theaters in Brooklyn. Be ane It 160 himes Bullicingeassenees eres 2 -LOmbSAc UNG... oo aac neers 90 Tour of the City, Ae INDEX. at PAGE LEIDity Gnuren atc ee ee 118, 119 iirinity. Churchyard. eee 120 PLT OPOOMMEL herb aveoA saesee ee 103 Troy, Citizens’ Line.. Ae SRE 8 Tunnals ti Meese je ee 24 En weltthan tehtiGlil pees 154 Twenty-third Street Ferry...... 28 UNION ON DAS s Rene sh, ee 154 Union beastie Clube. 154, 155 NTONESC Watches ee ere 96 Union Theological Seminary... I41 Unitarian Chunches= eee setae 125 Universalista€ hunchestpercee.- 126 University Clube eteetetee ee. 156 University of the City of New WOrKerre tere ee Fh hI Re gp ie 140 VAN CORTUAND PARK...... 61 Wall SS DR Riis Deere sete Spo. 9D Weaallt Street? Merryes. cccct 28 Wards 1Slang ence tater t en coat case 133 193 PAGE Washing rOneAnGlieentnschitc ste 64 NVaShinetoiles Gian eee ae 64 MatenmC@olonmsocietya a. 150 Weehawken erties pens cne 180 Weehawken Ferries............. 28 NWiest DicloiitOnie reece na noe 173 Westchester County Resorts... 180 West Shoreand Ontario &West- CENA alli AGSer eee eis cei. 10 White Cross Society, The....... 131 Wilite is tareloiilesi wert eet e 6 AY VEN aya) AAW OREN). semi, Mio Seok epi eo ire 6 Woman's Hospital of the State OLEN EG waVionrlee reer sires 132 NVOIMENESHE Ce SsiCll Omnteme eee 156 YALE CLUB RAMs 156 WVONnKELES Sa aa on steno tees 178 Young Men’s Christian Associa- KONO hen te SiS ORE cadet ae aot 130 Young Women’s Christian Asso- CIAtION ween. Se ethereal aie tee 136 J SIs GARDEN EA Hiereenee re tn clas reeiccd: weiner 623 HOTEL RAYMOND ** 2 blocks from Broadway. 28th Street Subway Station at the door. from Hudson Tubes at 6th Avenue and 28th Street. Five minutes from Grand Central Station at 42nd Street, or Penna. R. R. Station at 7th Avenue. CONVENIENT TO THEATRES AND SHOPS Special rates by the week or month. A quiet family hotel. for booklet. East 28th Street NEW YORK 3 blocks EUROPEAN PLAN Single Rooms $1.50 Per Day—with Bath $2.00 Apartments accommodating 3 or more persons, from $4.00 to $5.00 per day. AMERICAN PLAN Single Rooms $2.50 Per Day—with Bath $3.00 Write MARK A. CADWELL. VISITORS TO NEW YORK CITY Desiring hotel accommodation in the best part of the city, close to the shopping and theatre district, should con- sult the following list: HOTEL MARTHA WASHINGTON 29th to 30th Streets, Near Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN 450 Rooms en suite and single. $1.50 per day and up, European plan. Telephone in every room. Numerous baths on each floor free to guests. Caters to women especially traveling or visiting New York alone. Conven- ient to Surface and Subway transportation. Cuisine exceptionally good. = ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF RESTAURANT FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN PHILADELPHIA G OIDE Price 25 cents RAND McNALLYRGe Go: CHICAGO NEW YORK LIST NAME PLE ONCIL LIMO ec meee oe ae geet I ROAC Walaa DiCal Oca Caer een Naess 8 LSEVViS25 this Es cnet ss awe AnSOn Taw mek eee Ai line toi tenes eee AN STOTAELOUSE ee ere Benleclaineaereme teas Belmonte ace ue Breslinmepereresosk... Brettonpaa lle: eae IBYENOOVE eucacae cue eed Broadway Central.... OD mieten Gr OG EES IN NEW YORK LOCATION RATE PER DAY ee ISEWacduS te eeneeen tie ran be. UD ruropean ae Broadway and 41st St............. 1.50 upHuropean Pee VLAGISONMESG.aV CSlae ene tee ene ec OD otro pean ) 2.00up European ....59 W. 44th St Set Hib ieiiskuuel ore retetaonte Ctelieie stent ; with Bath 2.50 up European 2.00 up European PesLOddwavadiGss are leva teen ates 1.00up European Pee bLoadwav ang (th otemanee eee OUD European somal 40l Sic, uae eye, sane oda doth 2.50 up European eb GOAC Waves 29 Liles Uaeneneees arte 1.50 up European Fe DEOAG WaAvaal Greot Dect miss crac 2.50 up European eet BittheAverand sth steno LDU Up Luropean i taks acs § 1.00up European snonleimornvehweky eheloloioltsttase jncadadode MDs ine niemcan BrOZLCliGr eee nme ae one. Mithist nea LittheA view assess 200 Up LH Uropean Buckinghamsaeence eee Bi Lhcn eA wie atl ds o0 thincsumeeccee ee eae 1.50up European Binlineto nie seer eee LO WiesinoU this tie ae te eee ene Ol Tl DI Uneopecdn Gad lace arches BLOAG WAV AlCl oGis tere eee 1.50up European Carltontens ee. ee ROSE OL LSS tee seca cee cease 3 00up European Cecile once as ees OO NWViESt Din deAwicnnee irae ie 1.50 up European @helSeaares wenn. che. Bir NMC PB GRO coi eAtmanicn ore onto our 1.50 up European CGumberlandesene eee: BrOac waved: p4 Dic teens } eee 2 . 1.50 up European Ha rlewenteidh ic nileies cote dex LOB aia Ve Lbyel la Ger nes eeeis toe } 3 OOup American Binipireeree co ie eee iBrapielheky gual (GSfeol Sirs asesn panancac 1.50 up European Hnaicottar ns eee ne Columbus Ave: and sistisitee.. ss. 1.50 up European HlAancdersrste ects oe ciiens ASV VEAT UlioS bectent emcee weiner 2.00 up European ; E 1.50 up European Hredenicke atu ce meee HOuneSte Neale broadway. cree } S Ober in Géxvand ee ae ee ee Aubrey Sis, ileahe IB RORY Gag ouccod ; Pee Gotham-se so oer ee ae Fifth Ave. and 55th St............. 2.50up European Grrr Ce seeetie tranny shmnoence BLOACWoNacdtl Cliollsity Ss leeenneenrr 1.50up European GranadsUnitoneenee ee Parke Avevand 42d)Sie =. ser vate 1.00 up European Great Norineri ee: TOR EVU BTC St een fiero neo, Gee } et Dt bee Elacwt Osh Gh sac e ena: TOW: 49th tease ee Se tee 5.00 up American Heralossatanenrnce seis BEOAG Wa yea TLCrs4 Glin bene eee 1.50 up European dm Wey i aah eWeek ete Se a pit 8 ie Seventh Aviesancdrtedes tween ce 1.50up European ELottinarn ELOuS ea -eeee ee BroazawayeanGecotliio teense 2.00 up European Hollandsrouse....- Set ae HMitthvAVersandsOthns teens 2.00 up European HotelpPA Stores seeie eco: Broadway ang 44thist)...cs8-e eee DU lp Auropean Dep ecia lee ask ace cents Broadway and s2d St.,..0.2+4s22 DULL D European , : 2.50 up European SOG MON Sis ne cis be tea oma eine @ 49 WV St S40 Sty cps ogi ans s oe aca ; Apply American 5) Liandlito, ee acne oti eee OCI LATE ROY sla kien Meenas ane ah Ree can USI SIMO Le PLOT fd 45: NAME LOCATION Knickenboekerre eee BroddwayaandiAed Stace eerie Latha miroere cone ieee eet Wh Stanear Mifth Aves Wel Marquis Hlotels eee IZ HASESISTS ties veaeneaet see racer [SONZACKeLat ee er eae A(t taUst Ott bLOAG Wa yaererenie OEGAING are cee a anor JDihe dor vee, shovel “yey Shes noosa soon TSUCErN Caen oer 79th St. and Amsterdam Ave..... MalEStiCyeeeeacen ier ates 72d Steand Central ParkiW.s-. ee Manhattaneecemeeeeeenearace: Madison Ave. and 42d St......... Mair gare teense: 95 Columbia Heights Brooklyn ; Marie Antoinette......... lBhdopel ely Bharal (fll Sito oaosncanbox Manlboroweheees. seeeceeee Broadwayrandis6thioteneeeeeeseer Martha Washington....... 29 E. 29th St. (Women only)....... Mantiniguewan sn. een escn Broadiwavand ssdus iene aeee tee IMIS aan EA eee ee BarkewAv ceand@0thns tasceren aerner Nanracansettee. ce oo Broadwayeand O5dus taeeeecaeeee NaVALEEG Sherrnee Hote ene Seventh Ave. and 88th St....... i Netherland iene: meaner MitthsAviesand both iSite.ce:a.eeeeee IN@waWieESton manne sees 49th St. and Madison Ave......... INOTManGlereteseecnees Broadway andssthi steerer Oxford’ a See sshelalnsiits GuaKoh IPipelke ANUS). Gon mcooddoms Park Avenueinaeescsere ones ParkeAy eran disccis teeereeeeeree Blagastoecae ht eee Fifth Ave., 58th and 59th Sts ...... Portlan Geasseerntc: seers 1B2E Wrath tse eerie ee BrinicesGeoreeernanecceeene OU Fh yy oh d obey heme Ges doommasoce Rector eee aeerne Broad wavaanciethes teenie Ritz-Carlton eee ee Madison Ave. and 46th St......... SEM Denisa tote e eee Broadway anGdelulith Ss teeeeereeeeee SteelAMESAockrte anes oe ae NEST WAS CIS Elay SR a.c4ade caeaoa oocdéc S PRL Oust eee ee cee BAe (82d Sth sane mea eee: ; Sto REGS. aecmueteciacls caret BittheAwvieranG1op thus tascerinceeer SanwRemosrance ence sees 75th St. and Central Park W... j SaviOyieuiccheltt ects HMittheAvexanGdso9th Statceseceseas Sthuylererwies: Oa sees BOAV SACHS EE ers ae eee ee | Sevilleiise curren hen ooweans Madison Ave. and 29th St......... SeVimOure eee eee AVNVedbth Stier ereereriok cp te Sherman Square.......... BroOaGiwavealoau Scio teeeneteenetee SOMELSethe & eee roe T50 WS4 7th tieeeeosc eee eens \Waeterelereloiic, an oanuebucuuese ParkvAwvewandiset ius teers eee VA CEOLIAR aerate ee Broadway and 27thist-...-ce.eueeee WialdonrisAistorniaes.cne ace leant ar ANwiger, ehovel oe hau She, shocesoeccec Wiebstertacee amie nee 402W a45thiS thee cee tree cere Welling tore cece Seventh Ave. and 55th St......... WOlCOttteermint aoe BitthwAviesandislSitis teeaaeeernee VViOOMStOC Keema tench tena TAT EWES GUS Cake ene care eee WiOOGWalCeraeerainen a see: Broad Way anadiopt his tessa eee } RATE PER DAY 2.50 up European 1.50 up European 3.00 up European 1.00up European Apply European 2.00 up European 2.00 up European 2.50up European 1.00up European 3.50 up American 2.00up European 1.00up European 1.50up European 1.50 up European 1.50up European with Bath 2.00 up European 1.00 up European 2.50 up European 1.50up European 2.00 up European 2.00 up European 8.00 up European 1.00 up European 2.00 up European 4.00 up American 3.00 up European 1.50 up European 3.50 up American 2.00 up European 2.00 up European 3.00up American 1.50up European 2.00 up European 2.00 up European 3.00 up European 1.50 up European 2.50 up European 3.00 up European 2.00 up European 1.50 up European 2.50 up European with Bath RAND, McNALLY & CO.’S PICTORIAL GUIDE TO iS) asinim Price, paper cover, 25 Cents Including complete descriptions of the CAPITOL, LIBRARY, CONGRESS, WHITE HOUSE, and all points of interest. THE WHITE HOUSE---From Lafayette Square. Illustrations from recent photographs with maps, plans, etc., pre- pared especially for the work. Valuable Information regarding Hotels and Rates Furnished on Request. RAND, McNALLY € CO., Publishers 40=42 East 22d St., NEW YORK CITY OLD DOMINION LINE DELIGHTFUL OUTINGS SHORT ALL YEAR SHA TRIPS ROUND TO OLD POINT COMFORT, NORFOLK, RICHMOND AND WASHINGTON, D. C. Round trip tickets, including meals and | stateroom berth on | OLD DOMINION | STEAMERS NEW YORK TO NORFOLK OR OLD POINT AND RETURN $14.00 Steamers sail from Pier 25, North River, foot of North Moore Street, New York, every day except Sunday at 3.00 P. M. Returning leave Norfolk every day except Sunday at 7.00 P. M. for New York direct SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET W. L, WOODROW Trafic Manager J. J. BROWN, Gen’l Passenger Agent General Offices, Pier 25, No. River, New York Round trip tickets, including meals and stateroom berth on OLD DOMINION STEAMERS NEW YORK TO RICHMOND OR Washington, D.C. AND RETURN $15.00 Are You Going to Boston ? Ladies going to Boston without male escort will find the Franklin Square House a delightful and convenient place to stop. It is a home hotel in the heart of Boston for young women. It has a transient department for all women traveling alone. It is safe, comfortable, convenient of access, and prices reasonable.’ For particulars and prices address Mrs. Alice Gray Teele, Supt. 11 East Newton St., Boston. Take Washington Street Car. AUTO MAPS FOR ANY PART OF THE COUNTRY Are you in need of an up-to-date map, guide or atlas for study purposes or to assist in laying out that pro- posed business or pleasure trip? We have in stock almost everything published in this line. If we do not have what you want, we will be glad to get it for you. Call or write. RAND McNALLY & CO. 40-42 E. 22nd Street New York City Retail Dept. at Nervous y $$ YS LSASA$SA$ pong $YSA$L$% : NAVARRE HOTEL Nearest Hotel to Penn. R. R. Station Seventh Avenue at 38th Street . Short. Block from ep Mie NON NEW YORK | | "Centre of Everything = oS 350 Rooms | . yeh Moe ae ee ee 200 Baths — A Room with a Bath for a Dollar and a‘Half A Room with a Bath fora Dollar and a Half Other Rooms with Bath......... $2.00. and: $2.50 Rooms for two persons.........$2. 50:2 and $3.00 DUTCH GRILL—MUSIC — : Finest in town (ala carte) Send for Colored Map of New York PLAZA HOTEL Chicago, under “the. same management Edgar T. Smith. Manaxing Director SUSAGS ASSES AS? lads SAS ASABASHS Me Mee Mee Mee Moe Me Me Me Me Veo kK S$ ra $ iy Yo ¢| i $ , $ “3 $ | $ Ye $ wy] $ Ye STANWIX HALL ALBANY, N. Y. Albany's most popular _hostelry. Most centrally located hotel in the City. Home of the toumist and travel- ing man. Best Cafe in the State. Rates - $1.00 to $5.00 EUROPEAN PLAN Holloran & McCormick, Props. HOTEL MARLBOROUGH Ed f Avi, ' Po : ane ia fy, Broadway, ~~ oy be 1 36th and 37th Sts. Herald Square New York a? Fm c= a [x [ ares: a vee — 9 = _————— > Mos oul AAD > uy GOO RRG AN er - 0 »- \ pi ayo ay oF iS: _—— : A LJ \ rea Wy b - ) 4 i = @ Most centrally located hotel on Broadway @ Four beautiful dining rooms @ The famous Rathskeller has been greatly improved @ Vocal and instrumental music every evening @ European plan. 4400 rooms, 200 baths SCHEDULE OF RATES 90! rooms, priviléve*of bathe ys. a) eee ee 1D S0srOoms, withsbatu. week a tae ee oe 60 rooms, with bath.. Te meine iete Pras, PANN 50 rooms, with bath. . ech » RI reorr 2000 45 suites—parlor, bed 1 room and bath... ar ree oto WU) For extra person in room. i Re LOO Write ‘Sey Booklees SWEENEY-TIERNEY HOTEL COMPANY E. M. TIERNEY, Managing Director HOTEL EMPIRE Broadway and Sixty-Third St. .°. New York City ee aN IN THE VERY CENTRE OF EVERYTHING Restaurant noted for its excellent cooking, efficient service and moderate charges. Within 5 minutes’ walk of all Theatres and Department Stores. All cars and 5th Avenue motor buses pass the door. From New Penn. Station walk through 38rd St. to Junction Broadway and 6th Ave. and take 9th Ave. L train to 66th St. (Kmpire one minute walk), or Broadway and Columbus Ave. surface car to Empire door. From Grand Central Station take Subway to Columbus Circle (one minute from Hotel), or car marked “Broadway” direct to Empire. Send for Guide of New York—Free 40 Rooms, with Detached Bath, $1.00 per day 100 Rooms, with Detached Bath, $1.50 per day 150 Rooms, with Private Bath, $2.00 per day up 75 Rooms, with Dressing room and Bath, $2.25 per day 100 Suites, with Private Bath, $3.50 per day up Elevated Railway and Subway stations one minute’s walk from our door. W. JOHNSON QUINN, Proprietor PE Sa Larrea MBROKE = 4 116 E, 25th Street NEW YORK Between Fourth and Lexington LE Ohe Avenues Just ten minutes from any railroad station or ferry. In the heart of the shopping and the theatre section. The Pembroke is a private Amer- ican Plan Hotel, accommodating nearly one hundred guests. The home-like atmosphere is one of quiet refinement and good taste. Spacious Parlors, Home Cooking, Hotel Service, Steam Heat, Tele- vhones, Electric Light. RATES Room and Board $2 to $3 Per Day Room and Board $10 to $20 Per Week Double Room and Board $25 to$30 *‘ NEW BINGHAM HOTEL 11th AND MARKET STREETS’ .*. PHILADELPHIA Most centrally located hotel in the city. Directly opposite Reading R. R. Terminal. Three minutes from Broad Street Station, Pennsylvania R.R. EUROPEAN PLAN 300 ROOMS $1.50 Upwards Finest Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Restaurant in Philadelphia Beautiful Roof Garden during warm season. BINGHAM HOTEL CO. DAVID iB PROVANS Manager HOTEL CUMBERLAND icscunieieemeennilameetesdanatiadammmenete tint o een tetanic od NEW YORK Broadway at 54th Street Near 50th Street Subway Station and 53d Street Elevated. ‘‘Broadway’’ Cars from Grand Central Depot pass the door. NEW AND FIREPROOF Best Hotel Accommoda- tions in New York at Reasonable Rates $2.50 with Bath, and up EUROPEAN PLAN All Hardwood Floors and Oriental Rugs Ten minutes’ walk to 20 Theatres Excellent Restaurant Prices Moderate. Send for Booklet. HARRY P. STIMSON, Formerly with Hotel Imperial. Only New York Hotel window-screened throughout. Tenth and ‘‘H’’ Streets, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. A Strictly First-Class House! SSS ay ~ and electric street car lines. VL ps # have private bath in room. We pay particular attention to our table. American and European Plans The Lincoln Hotel Very quiet location, but within one square of the heart of the business section. Convenient to all places of amusement Sample rooms for traveling salesmen. All outside rooms; running hot and cold water in every room; all large rooms American $2.00 to $2.50 per day. European $1.00°to $2.00 per By day. Take Taxicab at depot at our expense—have driver collect at Hotel office. C. 8. HYATT, Proprietor. — WHEN IN NEW YORK STOP AT — oH OT his EARLE 103-105 WAVERLY PLACE One Block West of Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch The location is of the very best in the City. One block from the Sixth Avenue Elevated, Subway and Hudson River Tunnel; and is in the center of the Shopping and Business Districts and within ten minutes ride of all Steamship Landings, Ferries and Railway Stations. 200 ROOMS AND 100 BATHS AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN Room with Private Bath, mlpe=p =) 08-9 5 =: $l.50¢per! day ne ms for twos) ee 2.50 with Meals, - $3.00 for two, with Meals, _ 5.00 oe DAVID H. KNOTT, Proprietor HOTEL ARLINGTON 18-20 West 25th Street near Broadway EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PLAN AMERICAN PLAN $2. 50 PER DAY UP Handsomely furnished; every convenience; a few minutes from Pennsylvania Station; very accessible to everything, EUROPEAN PLAN RATES ROOMS, $1.00 TO $2.00. WITH BATH, $2.00 TO $3.00. SUITES, $3.00 TO $5.00 HOTEL BRISTOL 122-124 West 49th Street Between 6th and 7th Avenues EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PLAN AMERICAN PLAN $2.50 PER DAY UP Entirely renovated and refurnished. In the centre of the city. All modes of transportation and all shops and theatres convenient. EUROPEAN PLAN RATES ROOMS, $1.00 TO $1.50. WITH BATH, $2.00 TO $3.00. SUITES, $3.00 TO $5.00 Write for Booklet and Map of New York City. THE RAND -McNALLY MAPS Of every State and Country in the World are recognized as THE STANDARD Catalogue Free upon Request Visitors welcome to our display rooms where styles of all our Standard Maps can be seen RAND McNALLY & CO. Publishers ariel Grr) gee Ne Dee INS TOV Ver Ye Osea, The Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd. LUSITANIA MAURETANIA FASTEST FINEST LARGEST QUADRUPLE SCREW STEAMERS IN THE WORLD REGULAR SERVICES New York to Fishguard and Liverpool The Most Expeditious Route to London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Etc. New York to Madeira, Gibraltar, Algiers, Ville- franche, Genoa, Naples, Alexandria, Trieste, Fiume, Messina, and Palermo Boston to Queenstown and Liverpool Montreal, Quebec or Portland to London Special Winter Cruises RIVIERA, ITALY, EGYPT A La Carte Dining Service Without Extra Charge WRITE FOR SAILINGS AND RATES TO LOCAL AGENTS OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING OFFICES NOW SY OPK 2 ass chiro ciaceis siscainte » ov Dalescea tats sigh sal aia alesis vole wie gtocotonateqateletere et els merited amiaiel acre tettesree Vout ete 21-24, State Street Boston, Mae ios ase 8 ciasteiere bias ors ieisinrs 6. cia ss wiv sre. stelotale) siele ols sxe gieasie .Cunard Building, 128 State Street Chagos cee scree ctseinacctacen dems dette stavineie wide aoteanies S. E. Corner cf Dearborn and Randolph Streets MIMO ADONIS 5555 ciis cic joe's cists ares eas Sa iare aie 0's bic alaintcis elelsinls aiutais< sis att ioe nisicintae samt o cledirele eatators Metropolitan Building HANDY GUIDES ING, New York City Boston Philadelphia Washington This new series of Guides gives in volumes of “handy’’ size the inform- ation generally desired by travelers seeking health, pleasure, or business. PRICE OF EACH GUIDE 25 CENTS. Hotel information and printed matter for any of the above cities sent on request. Rand McNally & Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK LARGEST MAP HOUSE IN THE WORLD HOTEL YORK 12 STORIES OF SOLID COMFORT STRICTLY FIREPROOF IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK CORNER 36th STREET AND 7th AVENUE ONE SHORT BLOCK TO BROADWAY 2 Minutes From New Penna. R. R. Terminal Within Ten Minutes’ Walk of 10 Minutes From Grand Central Terminal 30 LEADING THEATRES OF NEW YORK Three Minutes’ Walk to NEW YORK’S NEWEST, LARGEST AND FINEST DEPARTMENT STORES AND FASHIONABLE SHOPS ACCOMMODATIONS BETTER THAN RATES INDICATE Attractive Rooms $1.50 and $2.00 With Bath Privilege Attractive Rooms $2.00 to $4.00 With Pri- vate Bath. Parlor-Bedroom and Bath in Proportion Where Two Persons Occupy the Same Room, Only $1.00 Extra Will be Added to Above Rates 1g_ Pe _ T Z fsa, a RESTAURANT PRICES ARE MINIMUM CONSIDERING QUALITY AND SERVICE % H. G. WILLIAMS, Manager ar ee ae a 4 bet . 19s t ‘ By Pez +7 ‘ f { - 4 ¢ a a ne) Under Construction Hy a Hililis Completed ee Oe Car Lines —-neenen= =i een eal : Ga Somes reel Ge 7 | & Manhattan R.R. Tunnels Hudson a Surface com ilroads Elevated Ra, <_U2x = OUTPUT RID! a DOM noee6 SUbWOY ce Ommn Porn, R.R. Tunnels p0009 =) Rand McNally & Co. extend an invitation to the readers of this guide to visit their retail stores 40 East 22nd Street, New York City 166 Adams Street, Chicago, Ill. where a full line of maps, guides, and other publi- cations are carried, and where valuable informa- tion is at the disposal of our customers. Rand McNally & Co. New York Chicago Is Not Half So Soothing to Baby as Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup As Millions of Mothers Will Tell You. It Soothes the Child. lt Softens the Gums. fé Allays all Pain. Ié Cures Wind Colic. It is the Best Remedy for Diarrhoea. It is absolutely harmless and for over sixty years has proved the best remedy for children while teething. BE SURE YOU ASK FOR Mrs.Winslow’s Soothing Syrup AND TAKE NO OTHER. LET US HELP YOU make up that proposed folder or booklet Our new Eastern Plant equipped with all modern machinery for high class work is prepared to handle your BOOKLETS MAILING CARDS CATALOGUES or other COMMERCIAL LITERATURE in BLACK or PROCESS COLORS We will design the work and relieve you of all responsibility Fifty years of experience at your service Write us to-day RAND McNALLY & CO. PRINTERS & PUBLISHERS 40-42 East 22nd St. NEW YORK REEN’S HOTEL Corner Eighth and Chestnut Sts. PHILADELPHIA’ EAs FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN EUROPEAN PLAN 315 Rooms at $1.00 and $1.50 per Day and Upwards 60 New Rooms with Bath Attached at $2.00 per Day FINEST RESTAURANT IN ALL MODERN CONVENIENCES PHILADELPHIA TELEPHONE IN ROOMS Table d’Hote Dinner 50 cents, from 12m.to8 p.m. MUSIC BY PROFESSOR MEYER’S ORCHESTRA Eighth and Chestnut Street Trolley Cars pass the Hotel at the Rate of Three per Minute to all Parts of the City This hotel is centrally located, andin the very heart of the city, being but one square from the Postoftice, Strawbridge & Clothier’s, Lit Brothers, and op- posite Gimbel Brothers, and two squares from the historic Independence Hall. Easy of access to all Theaters, Railway Stations, Public Buildings, and Points of Interest. MAHLON W. NEWTON, Proprietor Broapway CenTRAL HoTeL NOS. 667 TO 677 DAN C. WEBB, PROP. MIDWAY CORNER NEW YORK BETWEEN BATTERY AND THIRD STREET. CENTRAL PARK. Has during the past five years been thoroughly rebuilt and completely reorganized at an expense of Over a quarter of a million dollars, and is perfect in detail and unsurpassed ir comfort and convenience. Recommends itself for its thoroughly careful management, its clean, well-kept rooms, admirable table and service, and reasonable charges. LOCATION ABSOLUTELY UNEQUALED FOR BUSINESS, SIGHT-SEEING, AND PLEASURE. All the New Rapid Transit Electric Lines passing the doors, run the entire length of Broadway from the Battery to Central Park, Grand Central R. R. Station, Lenox Avenue, Harlem River, High Bridge, and Grant’s Tomb, passing all the fashionable stores, theatres, and principal attractions of the city. GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT PASSENGERS CAN TAKE SUBWAY TRAINS TO BLEECKER STREET, one block from hotel, or LEXINGTON AVENUE ELECTRIC CARS one block east of the station, direct to or from the hotel to 42d Street,or Fourth Avenue cars direct to Astor Place or Bond Street, one block in front. TWO LINES OF ELEVATED RAILROADS: Sixth Avenue Station, Bleecker Street, one block in the rear. Third Avenue Station, Houston Street, two blocks in front. te ie oy on poachib cars transfer at Broadway with the electric lines, taking guests direct e hotel. Passengers arriving by any of the ferries, or either foreign or coastwise steamers, can take any cross-town car, or walk to Broadway and take electric cars direct to the hotel or via the Sixth or Third Avenue Elevated, stopping at Bleecker on Sixth Avenue, and Houston Street Station on Third Avenue line, three minutes from hotel. THE CENTRAL WILL BE RUN ON BOTH THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. The Regular Tariff of Charges for each person will be For Room only, - © = «= -« 1.00, $1.50, and $2.00 For Room and Board, - - = 2.50, $3.00, and $3.50 For Single Meals, - 5 ot ep eer es 75 cents Meals, when taken with rooms, for full day, 50 cents each Rooms with parlor or bath, extra According tosize, location, and convenience, and whether occupied by one or more persons, SPECIAL RATES FOR FAMILIES OR PERMANENT QUESTS, FOR FULL PARTICULARS, SEND FOR LARGE COLORED MAP FREE AND OTHER INFORMATION TO BROADWAY CENTRAL HOTEL, NEW YORK 1554 30112 1 3941 BIRD’S-EYE Map of New York For full particulars send for large colored maps and other information. BLACKWELL" 4, ° fy ao—is) | eI > 4 E.[34TH 8T. Sy pepe samen (3a 5 Li IXTH ] Ss. A & W oF > JOVCHATHAM Y Cy a Ets SLOLEELIEELEILELELLE TOA, O, ~A77, oS \ AN on EN NX GOVERNORSZAT SS With compliments of the BROADWAY CENTRAL NEW YORK DAN. C. WEBB, Prop. HERALD SQUARE HOTEL __» EUROPEAN PLAN Thirty-Fourth Street Just West of Broadway, New York City NEW. FIREPROOF. One block from New Penn. R. R. Station. Baggage free to and from. One block from 33rd “Street -| Station of Hudson Term- inal Routes, Connecting with all Railroads Enter- ing Jersey City and D. L. a & W.R.R. and Steamers | docking at Hoboken, and convenient to N. Y. Cen- tral and N.- Yi, N, H, & Hartford R. R. : Rocm, with privilege of bath, $1.50 per day and upwards. Room, with private bath, $2.00 per day and upwards. Restaurant a la carte. Popular club breakfasts. Cable Address , c. F. Wildey & Son, Props. Wilderald_ COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL CHAMBERS ST. AND WEST BROADWAY NEW YORK EUROPEAN PLAN Rooms $1.00 per day and upwards and special rate by the week. Convenient to. wholesale district. Spa- cious Restaurant and Lunch Rooms. Popular prices. Easy of access from all railroad stations and ferries. Cable Address C. F. Wildey & Son, Props. z= Mopolitan