. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . 240 The Worlds Greatest Street marble hotel, which was for many years the most notablein New York. This was the Fifth Avenue Hotel, whichwas the usual stopping place of most of the presidentsafter i860 when they visited the city. When Arthur was President, he received here thefirst Corean embassy that visited the country. Theinterpreter was a naval officer named Foulke, a classmateof the author. It was here that in 1884, during theBlaine-Cleveland campaign, the Rev. JMr. Burchard. THE CO
. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . 240 The Worlds Greatest Street marble hotel, which was for many years the most notablein New York. This was the Fifth Avenue Hotel, whichwas the usual stopping place of most of the presidentsafter i860 when they visited the city. When Arthur was President, he received here thefirst Corean embassy that visited the country. Theinterpreter was a naval officer named Foulke, a classmateof the author. It was here that in 1884, during theBlaine-Cleveland campaign, the Rev. JMr. Burchard. THE CORNER OF FIFTH AVENUE AND TWENTY-THIRD STREET, 1852 On this site now stands the Fifth Avenue Building made use of his famous saying in referring to the Demo-cratic party as the party of Rum, Romanism, andRebellion. The alHterative remark, made in the pres-ence of Mr. Blaine, went unrebuked at the time; andas it was repeated in the public press throughout thecountry, it gained such wide notoriety as to aid materiallyin the defeat of Mr. Blaine for the presidency. Thehotel also sheltered the famous Amen Corner, wherethe politicians, journalists, and newspaper men usedto gather in social intercourse, resulting in an annual
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