. New York of to-day . venue, Bryant Park and theLibrary extend all tlie way to Fifth Avenue. Thereare no stores or buildings along the entire the opposite side, however, a great retail drygoods store adjoins Aeolian Hall for a good part ofthe block. The recitals and musicals of the latterare quite a feature of New Tork life. The balanceof the block is occupied by small but pretty retailstores dealing in jewelry, knick-knacks, clothing,shoes and nil manner of small ware. Beyond Fifth Avenue to the Grand Central Ter-minal the block is dignified by the perfectly splen-did new building
. New York of to-day . venue, Bryant Park and theLibrary extend all tlie way to Fifth Avenue. Thereare no stores or buildings along the entire the opposite side, however, a great retail drygoods store adjoins Aeolian Hall for a good part ofthe block. The recitals and musicals of the latterare quite a feature of New Tork life. The balanceof the block is occupied by small but pretty retailstores dealing in jewelry, knick-knacks, clothing,shoes and nil manner of small ware. Beyond Fifth Avenue to the Grand Central Ter-minal the block is dignified by the perfectly splen-did new building just erected by the Astor TrustCompany. Built of Indiana limestone, this impos-ing white pile is an adornment to the city. Itranks with the Wool worth Building in point ofbeauty, which is high praise. Small retail storesoccupy the block down to the Forty-second StreetBuilding, the latter being one of the great numberof magnificent office buildings in the neighborhood, the latest, the Heekscber, being on the comer oppo-. NEW YORK OF TO-DAY 65 site. There must be & dozen equally large buildingsof this type within a very short distance of one an-other, and the population of them is said to be wellup to fifty thousand. The new twenty-story YaleClub Building is here; also the Harvard nearby. - The hotels, Belmont, Murray Hill, Kite-Carlton,Manhattan, Biltmore and the projected Commodore,are all within les9 than a few hundred feet of eachother and entertain thousands of guests every Biltmore alone is an institution in itself andhas so many public entertainments going on withinits walls that it is well worth a visit. The newGrand Central Terminal marks the end of the in-teresting part of Forty-second Street to the tourist,and the building itself combines so many new fea-tures that its original purpose of being a stoppingplace for trains seems lost in the shuffle. ^Retracing our steps to the point from which wedigressed, we are again on Broadway, going pass the new As
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