New York in fiction . le waiting forMorgue news. There has been amongcollege men, especially among Princetonmen, considerable speculation as to the 169 NEW YORK IN FICTION identity of Hamilton Knox. HamiltonKnox was drawn from Frank Morse,the Princeton half-back of the 1893Eleven. Two blocks to the north, on the south-east corner of the avenue and Twenty-eighth Street, is the Berkeley Flats,described by Richard Harding- Davis inHer First Appearance. It was here thatthe irrepressible Van Bibber brought thelittle girl whose acquaintance he hadmade two hours before in the theatregreen-room. The a
New York in fiction . le waiting forMorgue news. There has been amongcollege men, especially among Princetonmen, considerable speculation as to the 169 NEW YORK IN FICTION identity of Hamilton Knox. HamiltonKnox was drawn from Frank Morse,the Princeton half-back of the 1893Eleven. Two blocks to the north, on the south-east corner of the avenue and Twenty-eighth Street, is the Berkeley Flats,described by Richard Harding- Davis inHer First Appearance. It was here thatthe irrepressible Van Bibber brought thelittle girl whose acquaintance he hadmade two hours before in the theatregreen-room. The apartment of Carruth-ers must have been in one of the upperstories of the building, for Mr. Davisspeaks of Van Bibber looking outtlirough the window and down uponthe lights of Madison Square and theboats in the East River. This story waswritten by Mr. Davis in Twenty-eighthStreet, only a stones throw from the Berkeley, and the illustrations whichaccompanied the story were drawn fromone of the Berkeley apartments. Re-no. NEW YORK IN FICTION turniiiij^ to Madison Square, the GardenTheatre in introduced in one of BranderMatthewss Vignettes of Manhattan. Itwas there that John Stone, the navalofficer, and Clay Magruder, the cowboy,saw Patience the night before the burn-ing of the hotel where they were Apollo Hotel mentioned in somany of Professor Matthewss sketchesand stories of New York life was drawnfrom the Belvidere Hotel, at EighteenthStreet and Fourth Avenue. At No. 5East Twenty-ninth Street is the Churchof the Transfiguration, better known as The Little Church around the was there that Van Bibber, acting asBest Man, sent the young elopingcouple whom he had found dining on theTerrace at the Hotel Martin. BranderMatthews calls it The Little Churchdown the Street, and makes it the sceneand the raison cVetre of his most char-acteristic tale — the story of the actorsfuneral, with its blood-red climax, the173 NEW YORK TN FICTION bearers passing stolidly down
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