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Title: Fifth Avenue

Author: Arthur Bartlett Maurice

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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