nth Street is the
Episcopal Church of the Ascension, built in 1840, and
consecrated November 5, 1841. It belongs to a part of
the Avenue, from the Square to Twelfth Street, which has
changed little since 1845 32

Madison Square. Yesterday it was the home of the Flora
McFlimsies of the William Allen Butler poem "Nothing
to Wear." Today, in the eyes of the Manhattanite, it is
the centre of the Universe 68

"The Tower of the Metropolitan Building. Whatever artists
may think of it the tower is, structurally, one of the wonders
of the world. Exactly halfway between sidewalk and
point of spire is the great clock with the immense dials" 86

In the bright sunlight the Avenue glitters with the pavillions
of patriotism. Old Glory may be counted by the tens of
thousands; England's Union Jack, and the Tricolour of
France by the thousands. To forestall the Kaiser the
Avenue is "coming across" 112

Where the Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street cross stands the
building popularly known as the Knickerbocker Trust Company.
Here, in the middle of the last century, "Sarsaparilla"
Townsend built in brown-stone, and A.T. Stewart
later built in white marble 136

"At the northwest corner of Fifty-fourth Street is the
University Club, to the mind of Arnold Bennett ('Your
United States'), the finest of all the fine structures that
line the Avenue" 172

"The site of the old Lenox Library is now occupied by the
house of Mr. Henry C. Frick, one of the great show residences
of the Avenue and the City. A broad garden
separates the house, which is eighteenth century English,
from the sidewalk" 218

The terrace of the Public Library. Today the spot is the
scene of the activities of those engaged in the work of
speeding America's Answer. Once it was far uptown, and
on the eastern side of the Avenue were the residences
known as "Spanish Row," or "The House of Mansions". 248

Commerce, with giant stride, is marching up the stately Avenue.
The story of a business house that began in the neighbourhood
of Cherry Hill, migrated to Grand Street, thence
to Broadway and Union Square, and again to the sl