E-text prepared by Audrey Longhurst, Charlene Taylor, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 16691-h.htm or 16691-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/6/6/16691/16691-h/16691-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/6/6/16691/16691-h.zip) FIFTH AVENUE by ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE Author of "New York in Fiction," "The New York of the Novelists," "Bottled up in Belgium," etc. Drawings by Allan G. Cram New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1918 [Illustration: "MASSIVE AND SPLENDIDLY GOTHIC IS ST. THOMAS'S. THE CHURCH DATES FROM 1825. IN 1867 THE PRESENT SITE WAS SECURED, AND THE BROWN-STONE EDIFICE OF THE EARLY SEVENTIES WAS FOR NEARLY TWO GENERATIONS THE ULTRA-FASHIONABLE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE CITY"] FOREWORD In the making of this book the author has drawn from many sources. First, for many suggestions, he is indebted to Mr. Guy Nichols, the librarian of the Players Club, whose knowledge of the city is so profound that his friends occasionally refer to him as "the man who invented New York." The author is indebted to the Fifth Avenue Association and to the invariable courtesy of those persons in the New York Public Library with whom he has come in contact. Among the books that have been consulted are, first of all, the admirable monographs, "Fifth Avenue," and "Fifth Avenue Events," issued by the Fifth Avenue Bank. From these he has drawn freely. Among other volumes are "The Diary of Philip Hone," Ward McAllister's "Society as I Have Found It," George Cary Eggleston's "Recollections of a Varied Life," Matthew Hale Smith's "Sunshine and Shadow in New York" (1869), Seymour Dunbar's "A History of Travel in America," Miss Henderson's "A Loiterer in New York," William Allen Butler's "A Retrospect of Forty Years," Fremont Rider's "New York City," Francis Gerry Fairfield's "The Clubs of New York," Anna Alice Chapin's "Greenwich Village," Theodore Wolff's "Literary Haunts and Homes," Rupert Hughes's "The Real New York," James Grant Wilson's "Thackeray in the United States," Mrs. Burton Harrison's "Recollections, Grave and Gay," Abram C. Dayton's "Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York," and Martha J. Lamb's "History of the City of New York." Also various articles in the magazines and newspapers. CONTENTS CHAPTER Page I THE SHADOW OF THE KNICKERBOCKERS 1 II THE STRETCH OF TRADITION 29 III A KNICKERBOCKER PEPYS 41 IV GLIMPSES OF THE SIXTIES 60 V FOURTEENTH TO MADISON SQUARE 78 VI SOME GREAT DAYS ON THE AVENUE 100 VII SOME AVENUE CLUBS IN THE EARLY DAYS 125 VIII LITERARY LANDMARKS AND FIGURES 150