New York in fiction . iiij^ 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 Va
New York in fiction . iiij^ 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 the aisleunconsciously heedless of the dry-eyed. MANHATTAN CLUB. — P. L. FORDs THE HONOURABLEPETER STIRLING. mother of the dead mans unborn curious arched entrance at the street 174 NEW YORK IN FICTION gate was erected about four years ago,and was of course not mentioned byProfessor Matthews in his graphic de-scription of the church. Crossing theavenue, we find, at the corner of Thirty-fourth Street, the home of the Manliat-tan Chib, soon to be torn down. It wasthere that was held the meeting whichresulted in the nomination of the Hon-ourable Peter Stirling for the governor-ship of New York. A few blocks farthernorth brings us to the Grand CentralStation which Mr. Howells has describedin Tlieir Wedding Joutncj) and .1 Hazardof New Fortunes, and which plays a veryconspicuous and dramatic part in Leicester Fords The HonouraJdePeter Stirling. On the north side of Thirty-thirdStreet, a few doors west of Sixth Avenue,is the Cayuga Flat, which, under thename of Poverty Flat, has figured inmany of
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