New York panorama : a comprehensive view of the metropolis, Part 51

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Publication date: 1938
Publisher: New York : Random House
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were prize winners in the contest. Two others, Leonard Dean and Franc Keally, have designed the Hall of Communications. Plans for all building to be erected at the fair must be approved by the Board of Design, but i practice this approval indicates only a corrective supervision of architeci appointed by private exhibitors and foreign governments.


Some of the more striking buildings the designs of which had bee, revealed at the time of the preview, and not mentioned above, include a "inside-out" building, and a building "roofless and wall-less." The forme structure, designed by Walter Dorwin Teague to house the exhibits ci the United States Steel Corporation, will consist of a hemispheric she of polished stainless steel supported and segmented by external girde: joining at the top. Norman Bel Geddes is the designer of the "roofle: and wall-less" building, which will be used by Wilson & Co., the Chicag packing house. This unique structure will consist of a series of hug showcases tied together architecturally by a winding ramp and a 96-for glass pylon-the only lighting fixture-in the center of the plot. Thp $750,000 Gas Exhibits building will feature a Court of Flame in which four 90-foot pylons, suggestive of the grid points above the burner of gas range, will surround a burning 50-foot jet of gas. The motif of th Cosmetics building is a lady's powder box; that of the Radio Corporatio of America, the radio tube; while the Continental Baking Company build ing has been inspired by the doughnut. Less novel architecturally will } the non-sectarian Temple of Religion; set in a cloistered garden, it wi rise in the form of a tower, 150 feet high.


Not many designs of foreign government pavilions had been disclosed : the time of the preview, but the announced plans for the Belgian, Italia and Egyptian examples indicate the variety to be expected. The Belgia building will be thoroughly modern, with plate glass forming fully ha of the exterior. Italy's pavilion is described as "modern-classical"; risin high above the frontal colonnades and the oblong block of the buildin itself, a tower surmounted by a statue will be the source for a cascade ( water. Egypt's pavilion is in the conventional style commonly associate with that country, with a temple-like façade ornately decorated.


Expositions dramatize architecture to the public. A world's fair, 1 course, is intended to make money for the sponsoring community and 1 advertise industry; but a fair also gives architects and designers a chanc in erecting temporary structures out of impermanent materials, to crysta lize the art of their time and perhaps precipitate the art of the futur Fa Many expositions have caused major or minor waves of architectural d


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elopment in the style of the exposition. The Paris fair of 1889, featuring e skyscraper skeleton-the Eiffel Tower-began the Art Nouveau move- ient. The famed Crystal Palace, a huge glass-and-iron edifice designed for he London Exposition of 1851, illustrated the principle of "take down" onstruction. Erected in Hyde Park, and later removed piecemeal to Syden- am Hill, it was destroyed by fire in 1936. This was perhaps the first de- nitive monument of modern architecture. The exhibits of the Paris Ex- osition of 1925 exercised an influence on almost every form of artistic fort. Nothing was exhibited which the authorities considered an imita- on or an expression of any ancient style. The two American expositions hat perhaps affected architecture most were the Chicago fair in 1893 and he San Diego Exposition in 1915. The magnificent classic architecture of he Chicago display was a revelation to the American people; from that ear until about 1915, a majority of the civic buildings erected in Middle nd Western America were of classic or pseudo-classic type. At the San Diego fair, Bertram G. Goodhue modernized the ornate architecture of pain and embodied color in his buildings by the use of tiles. This style pread rapidly through California, Florida and other states. "The ultra- nodern functional architecture at Chicago's Century of Progress Expo- ition created a popular furor and good gate receipts and it has exerted an influence, not only on American architecture during the past five years, out on the architecture of the present fair as well."


New York's fair, as indicated by the designs and the already visible tructures, will be bold and striking, with much of the architecture-per- aps not inappropriately for an 'exposition-striving for sensational effects. At the other extreme, scalloped walls, fluted pilasters and old-fashioned columns are not entirely banned. In general, the buildings will be rel- tively low, discreet and orderly.


To the west of the fair site is Corona; to the east, Flushing; Kew Gar- lin dens and Forest Hills lie to the south. The reclamation of the site, orig- onally an old city dump, was completed in 190 working days at a cost of ate $2,200,000-one of the largest and speediest jobs of the kind ever ac- complished. About 6,700,000 cubic yards of ashes, rubbish, etc., were dnoved and graded. From 12 towers 80 feet high, floodlights were focussed Iton the area nightly and these consumed $80,000 worth of electric current. ncefunk trucks, as many as 40 in one day, haunted the cuts; and many thou- talsands of tons of metal in the form of range boilers, bathtubs and bedsteads urewere salvaged. Hundreds of children organized themselves into salvage degangs: one band taking copper only, another brass, a third lead. One boy


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found a crusty, battered wallet containing $1,000 in bills-the old-fashi ioned large kind. A tin can also contained money, estimates of the amour. varying from $20 to $700. Many fires, decades old, were uncovered. Onb singularly wrathful blaze was due to pent-up gases formed by decomposing tion.


It is planned to convert about 800 cubic yards of excavated meadow ma into a rich topsoil by a process that will effect a saving of $500,000. Ther salty, fibrous, highly acid mat will be plowed, harrowed, turned time an I again, windrowed with lime for five or six weeks, composted with hors manure for another spell, and inoculated with phosphates and nitrogen until it has an organic content as high as 40 percent. Six percent is th State's standard for acceptable topsoil.


This rich soil is necessary, for the fair's $1,500,000 landscaping pro gram calls for 250 acres of grass sod, 250,000 shrubs, 250,000 pansie and 500,000 tulips. Shade must be provided for some of the fair's 50,00 benches. Ten thousand trees, costing $218,000, will be transplanted brought from points as far away as the State of Washington. Some Ca these will be 65 years old, 55 feet high, 25 tons in weight. Scouts at searching the country for specimens that meet the stringent specifications


Storm and sanitary sewers costing $6,000,000 are under construction These will provide drainage for the fair and 3,000 acres surrounding i The city dump on Riker's Island will be spruced up, the mounds levele off and screened with shrubs and trees. The Tallman's Island Dispos? Plant, a $4,000,000 project, will rid Flushing Bay of its pollution. Mor millions will be spent on other collateral improvements such as bridge and highways.


Six main highways lead from Manhattan to the fair site, which is nin miles from Times Square. Northern Boulevard, Queens Boulevard, Horac Harding Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue may be followed from Queen! borough Bridge; Astoria Boulevard and Grand Central Parkway Extensio from the Triborough Bridge. Visitors from New England and easter: Canada will be able to follow the Boston Post Road direct to the fair; th city promises completion of an $18,000,000 suspension bridge over th East River between Old Ferry Point, the Bronx, and Whitestone, Queen to be known as the Whitestone Bridge. The Lincoln Tunnel, between We: Thirty-Ninth Street, Manhattan, and Weehawken, New Jersey, one tub of which was opened December 1937, will be fully completed for the fair opening-possibly also the $58,000,000 Queens Midtown Tunnel unde the East River from East Thirty-Eighth Street, Manhattan, to Long Islan


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fastity. A third vehicular tunnel, crossing midtown Manhattan and connecting houwith both the Lincoln and the Queens tunnel approaches, is projected. O pos nce the system of underground passages is completed, motorists can de- end in New Jersey and come up on Long Island just short of the fair rounds. Ferry service from the west shore of the Hudson is also probable. $700,000 boat basin in Flushing Bay will be constructed, and the Fed- Tical Government has appropriated $505,000 for dredging Flushing Bay hannel and the basin.


A branch of the Long Island Railroad runs along the northern side of e fair grounds; additional trackage and a large overhead terminal are lanned. The IRT-BMT subway lines are a quarter of a mile north of the tilroad; the Willets Point Station of these lines will be enlarged and pr nsi ,00 nte nked by viaduct to the second fair entrance. Running time from central Manhattan will be 14 minutes by rail, 18 by subway, and 25 by motor. A emporary spur of the city subway will be constructed at a cost of $1,700,- oo, with a terminal on the shore of Meadow Lake. The IRT and BMT e dubways will have an hourly capacity of 40,000, the Independent subway ar 0,000, Long Island Railroad 18,000, street cars 15,000, buses-taxis 28,- on 00, and automobiles 17,000. The capacity of excursion boats and airplanes tion ele as not yet been estimated. The fair is ringed by five airports. The North g Beach Municipal Airport for land and sea planes, a mile from the fair, is eing improved at a cost of $12,000,000. The fair will have 17 miles of osaloadways, and parking space for 35,000 cars. Overpass, passerelles, and forfenter lanes fenced and landscaped will keep pedestrians clear of through dgemotor traffic.


Thirty-four million dollars spent by New York City, New York State nin nd the Federal Government provide the firmest official backing ever guar- rad nteed to a world's fair. The Fair Corporation has issued $27,829,500 in ens our percent debentures to finance development until the beginning of the sion air's earning period. About $50,000,000 will be received from exhibitors erfind concessionaires. The corporation is a non-profit organization, and New theYork City is assured the first $2,000,000 in profits toward development of ththe fair grounds as a permanent park. City and State will divide any ensfurther profits, the money to be earmarked for charitable and educational espurposes.


abe It is pretty certain that nearly all States and territories and most of the irforeign governments will participate in the fair. Oregon, after appropriat- deling money for an exhibit, withdrew in a quarrel about its site. Germany andwithdrew because of "financial difficulties." Austria simply disappeared.


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Manchukuo was not invited, and Spain and China were unable to accep invitations because of the "uncertain conditions" prevailing in their cour tries. The International Bureau of Expositions has recognized New York fair as the official 1939 exposition.


A network of committees and advisory committees marshals more tha 13,000 prominent Americans behind the fair. Grover Whalen was electe president of the corporation on May 5, 1936, about a year after the fai was conceived. A year before the fair's opening, more than 1,000 person were on the full-time staff. It is estimated that 50,000 persons will b directly employed in building and operating the fair, and an additiona 150,000 indirectly.


World fairs do indeed get bigger, but commentators are not wholly i agreement with popular opinion (as expressed in attendance figures) tha they also get better. The Victorian mama of them all, London's Crysta Palace Exposition of 1851, has even been called the best of the lot. Ce: tainly it was a success from every point of view: artistic, scientific, finar cial. Citizens of the world came to marvel-some 6,000,000 of them; an the show made a profit of about a million dollars. But this expositio presented for the first time the great promise of the machine and machine products, not only in its exhibits but in its exposition building-th glorified greenhouse designed by gardener Joseph Paxton.


Most of the recent fairs have not pleased the critics. According to Lewi Mumford, writing in the New Yorker, the trouble with world fairs is the their promoters "lack any rational notion of a fair except the now com pletely tedious and unconvincing belief in the triumph of modern industry The less said about that today, the better. The peace confidently promise in 1851 is now sour with war, and the plenty that industry seemed abor to achieve now intermittently carries with it a threat of starvation. Lackin any effective dramatization or rational purpose, most modern fairs ar threatened at an early stage with bankruptcy."


The New York fair, secure in its broad official backing, is very we) off financially; it may also break the pattern which has often hithert evolved into a demonstration that the march of progress is a dance. Whethe it does or not, one thing is certain: the City of New York itself will be th smash hit of its own exposition. No vista at the fair will equal the fantasti splendor of the view from a returning Staten Island ferry, and none of it spectacles is likely to match Times Square. The Empire State Building wi. be something to write home about as the big brother of the trylon.


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bbey, Henry, 235 bbey Theater, 274 bbott, Berenice, 17 bbott, George, 278 bolitionism, 135, 136 cademy of Fine Arts, 54 cademy of Music, 95, 234, 235, 241 ctors' Equity Association, 281, 391, 392 damic, Louis, 113


dams, Franklin P., 178, 304 dams, Henry, 168 dams, J. Donald, 177


dams, James Truslow, 300 dams, John, 207 dams, Maude, 268


dams, Samuel Hopkins, 307


dams, Thomas, 6, 13, 400, 402, 415 dler, Felix, 480 dler, Luther, 279 dler, Stella, 279


dolescents' Court, 463


dult Education, 481-483


dult Education, Institute for, 482


dult Education, Washington Square Cen- ter of, 482 dult Education Council, 482 dult Education Project, 482


dvisory Board of Industrial Education, 475


Advisory Planning Board, 450 dy Endre Society, 111 ffiliated Grand Rights Association, 238 fro-American Realty Company, 138 iken, Conrad, 173, 175 Airports, 8, 366-367 ildermen, Board of, 446 ildington, Richard, 173 ilgonquin Hotel, 178 ilgonquin Indians, 35


illen, Henry, Jr., 258, 262 Allen, James Lane, 168 Alley Pond, 30 Alms House Department, 441 Alsberg, Henry G., 272 Alsop, John, 50 Alston, Charles, 143 Amalgamated Bank, 391 Amalgamated Housing Corporation, 433 Amateis, Edmund, 490 Ambrose Channel, 21


American Academy of Art, 184, 185, 189, 195


American Academy of Fine Arts, 55


American Anti-Slavery Society, 136


American Artists, Society of, 195 American Dock Terminal, 333


American Guide Series, 179


American Guild of Musical Artists, 238


American Guild of Organists, 238


American-Hellenic Educational Progressive Association, 108


American Labor Party, 380, 396, 437, 446


American Legion Auxiliary, 300


American Medical Association, 98


American Music Alliance, 238


American Party, 89


American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 238, 253


American Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany, 296


Amersfoort (Flatlands), 68


Ames, Winthrop, 271


Amman, O. H., 17, 214


Amstutz, N. S., 302


Anchorage Channel, see Main Channel


Anderson, Garland, 143


Anderson, Hallie, 247


Anderson, Margaret, 173


Anderson, Marian, 144


Anderson, Maxwell, 277


Anderson, Sherwood, 162, 169, 175, 272


Andres, Charles M., 88


Andreyev, Leonid, 274


Andros, Sir Edmund, 45, 46


Annexation Bill, 67 Anshutz, Thomas, 196


Anthony, Susan B., 387


Anti-Slavery Society, 135


Apollo Association, 185


Apollo Society, 233


Appia, Adolph, 282


Aqueduct Race Track, 324


Aqueducts, 27


Archipenko, Alexander, 199


Architecture in New York, 202-230; Eng- lish influence on, 104 Argall, Samuel, 37


Arlen, Harold, 263, 264


Arlen, Michael, 175 Armenians in New York, 91, 116, 117, 118


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Arms, John Taylor, 197 Armstrong, Henry, 314


Armstrong, Louis, 160, 254, 262, 265


Army Base in Brooklyn, 330 Art and Artists in New York, 181-201


Art, see American Academy of


Art Union, 185 Artef, 279 Arthur Kill, 24, 326 Artists Congress, 201


Ashkenazim, 130


Assembly, first provincial, 44


Assembly, State, 440


Assessments, Collector of, 441


Associated Press, 300, 310


Association Agreement, 50


Association of American Painters and Sculp- tors, 198


Association for Improvement of the Poor, 431


Association for the Relief of Respectable, Aged, Indigent Females, 454


Astor, John Jacob, 98


Astor, Vincent, 436


Astor Hotel, 480


Astor Place Opera House, 234, 267


Astor Theatre, 289


Astoria, 24


Athletic Commission, State, 317


Audubon, John James, 187


Austrians in New York, 87


Authors' League, 177


Automobile Racing, 322


Avukah (Zionist organization), 130


Baer, Arthur "Bugs," 155


Bailey, Buster, 261


Bailey, Mildred, 262


Baker, Josephine, 144


Baker, Ray Stannard, 307


Bakunin, Michael, 388


Balkan Slavs in New York, 112-114


Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 334


Bank of Manhattan Company, 439


Bank of New York, 53


Barber, Philip, 279


Barber, Samuel, 238


Barbizon school of painting, 193


Barge Canal, State, 337


Barge Canal Terminal, 332


Barnard, George Gray, 195


Barnard College, 72


Barnes, Djuna, 272 Barnes, Pike, 137


Barnham, Henry W., 143


Barnum, Phineas T., 313


Barrett, James W., 304


Barry, Philip, 4, 278


Barrymore family, 268, 282


Barsimon, Jacob, 126


Barthe, Richmond, 143 Bartow, 67


Baruch, Bernard. 252 Barzin, Leon, 237


Basie, Count, 260, 262


Bassett, Edward M., 6, 415


Basshe, Em Jo, 176, 274


Bath Beach, 24


Battery, 22, 25


Battery Park, 24


Baudelaire, Charles, 194


Baxter, George, 40


Baxter Street, 26


Bayard Mansion, 54


Baychester, 67


Bayes, Nora, 250


Bayne, Stephen F., 474


Bayonne Bridge, 344, 360, 362, 408


Bay Ridge, 24


Beach Pneumatic Transit Co., 349


Beardon, Romare, 143


Beaver Canal, 26


Beaver Street, 26


Bechet, Sidney, 265


Becton, Sister Josephine, 141


Bedloe Island, 22


Beebe, Lucius, 155


Beebe, William, 20


Beecher, Henry Ward, 105, 223


Beethoven Society, 237


Behrendt, Walter Curt, 11, 398


Beiderbecke, Leon "Bix," 256, 257, 22 264 Bein, Albert, 176, 275


Belasco, David, 270, 282


Bel Geddes, Norman, 14


Belgians in New York, 87


Bell Telephone Laboratories, 302


Bellamy, Ralph, 196


Bellevue City Hospital, 454


Bellomont, Earl of, 46


Bellows, George, 172, 197


Belmont-McDonald Syndicate, 350


Belmont Race Track, 324


Benchley, Robert, 178


Bennett, A., 68


Bennett, James Gordon, 305, 306


Bennett, James Gordon, Jr., 305, 306


Bennett, Robert Russell, 234, 238


Ben Shmuel, Ahron, 199


Benton, Thomas, 200


Bentyn, Jacques, 68


Bercovici, Konrad, 82, 83, 110


Berle, A. A., Jr., 355


Berlin, Irving, 251, 257, 264


Bernhardt, Sarah, 268


Berrigan, Bunny, 262


Berry, George L., 392


Biddle, George, 197


Bierstadt, Albert, 186


Biferi, Nicholas, 95


Biggs, Herman, 454


Billiou, Peter, 69


Billopp, Christopher, 207


Billopp House, 207


Bimstein, Whitey, 157


Birney, James, 136


Bishop, Andrew, 146


Black Ball Packet Line, 4


Black Yankees, 316


Blackbeard (pirate), 25


Blackford, Gilbert, 105


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lackwell's Island, see Welfare Island laine, James G., 389 lake, Eubie, 260 lakelock, Ralph Albert, 193


land, James, 246, 247 ledsoe, Jules, 144, 273 lind, Care of the, 466, 467 litzstein, Marc, 264 lizzard of 1888, 31 loch, Lucienne, 201 lock, Adriaen, 37 loom, Rube, 258 lues, see Music, popular lume, Peter, 200 Das, Franz, 126


odhananda, Swami, 120 ogan, Louise, 18 ogardus, James, 211 bohemian National Hall, 112 onano, Sharkey, 255 onnet, Leon, 191 ontemps, Anna, 142 bok of the Month Club, 178 both, Edwin, 268 both, Junius Brutus, 266


29 orough Government, 451 oston, 14, 50, 163 oston Post Road, 9, 48 oucicault, Dion, 103, 268 ourne, Randolph, 18, 173, 174, 175 owery, 206, 430 owery Theatre, 267, 276 owes, Major, Amateur Hour, 297 owling Green, 25 owman, Louis, 146


oxing, Amateur, 317 oyd, Ernest, 175 radford, William, 43, 98, 304 randt, Marianne, 235 read and Cheese Club, 165, 178 revoort Hotel, 224


6 reweries in New York, 376 rewing industry, 99 rickell, Herschel, 177 ridge architecture, 213-215 ridges, 213-215, 360-362; Bayonne, 344, 360, 362, 408; Brooklyn, 213, 214, 360, 361; George Washington, 214, 344, 360, 361, 365, 407, 408, 417; Goethals, 344, 360, 362, 408, 417; Hell Gate, 360, 362; Henry Hudson, 214, 420; High, 214, 361; Man- hattan, 214, 360, 361, 418; Marine Parkway, 421; Old Ferry Point-White- stone, 417, 420; Outerbridge Crossing, 344, 360, 362, 408; Queensboro, 214, 360, 361; Triborough, 22, 77, 214-215, 360, 361, 418, 420; Wash- ington (Harlem), 214; Williams-


burg, 214, 360, 361 Bridges, William, 403 Brighton Beach, 321, 333 rindell, Robert P., 390 Brisbane, Albert, 379, 385 Bristow, George F., 236 British Apprentices' Club, 105


British Club of New York, 106 British Empire Building, 106


British Empire Chamber of Commerce, 106


British Great War Veterans of America, 105 British Luncheon Club, 106


British population of New York, 104


Britt Cottage, 206


Britt, Horace, 237


Broad Street, 26


Broadway, 25, 26, 29, 58


Broadway Arena, 317


Bronck, Jonas, 67


Bronx, 23, 28, 29, 68


Bronx Kills, 23


Bronx Reference Center, 476


Bronx River, 29, 406


Bronxdale, 67


Brook, Alexander, 197, 200


Brooklyn, basal rock of, 24; wells on, 27; raised land on, 30; settlement of 68; ship terminals on, 334


Brooklyn City Railroad, 347


Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal, 332


Brooklyn Heights, 30


Brooklyn Heights, Battle of, 51


Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation, 350, 354


Brooklyn Public Library, 476


Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., 350, 353, 354


Brooks, Van Wyck, 14, 18, 173


Broun, Heywood, 298, 304, 306, 310, 447


Brown, Charles Brockden, 164


Brown, John, 276 Brown, L. G., 89


Brown, Lew, 251 Brown, Sonia, 199


Brown, Steve, 259


Browne, Francis F., 174


Browne, Henry Kirk, 194


Brownstone front houses, 226, 227


Brownsville, 132 Brunies, George, 262 Bryan, Vincent, 250


Bryan, William Jennings, 250, 389


Bryant, Louise, 272


Bryant, William Cullen, 96, 165, 308


Bryant Park, 63


Bryce, James, 443


Bryson, Lyman, 482


Buck, Gene, 251 Buddhist temple, 119


Building Districts and Regulations, Com- mission on, 409 Building Trades Employers' Association, 390 Building Zone Resolution, New York City, 409


Buildings, Commission on Heights of, 409 Bulgarians in New York, 113 Bunker's Hill, 25 Burgess, Neil, 248 Burke, Fielding, 176


Burke, Kenneth, 175 Burnham, Daniel H., 6, 410, 412 Burns, Robert, 105


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Burr, Aaron, 26, 54, 105, 439 Bus transportation, 358, 365 Bush, Anita, 146 Bush Terminal, 333 Butler, Stein and Kohn, architects, 223 Buttermilk Channel, 22, 332


Byrne, Dr. John, 103


Cable, George W., 168 Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 240


Café de L'Opera, 252


Café des Beaux Arts, 252


Café Royal, 178


Cagney, James, 284 Cahill, Holger, 189


Calder, Alexander, 199


Caledonia Club, 106


Caliente (night club), 155


Calloway, Cab, 145


Cameron, A. C., 387


Camp La Guardia, 466


Campanella, Thomas, 6, 11


Campbell E. Sims, 143


Canal Street, 25, 27


Canby, Henry Seidel, 177


Cantwell, Robert, 176


Cape Cod Canal, 327


Capito, Mathys, 93 Capitol Theater, 289 Caplin, Hymie, 155


Carmichael, Hoagy, 256, 257


Carnegie, Andrew, 72, 105


Carnegie Hall, 72, 237


Carpenter, Niles, 91


Carr, Benjamin, 232


Carroll, Earl, 277 Carstensen, Claes, 115


Carter, Elmer A., 149


Carter, Eunice Hunton, 148


Carty, John Joseph, 103


Caruso, Enrico, 95, 235, 237, 295


Cary, Annie Louise, 234


Casa Italiana, 96 Casa del Popolo, 96 Casals, Pablo, 237 Cash, Harold, 199


Casino Roof Garden, 137


Cassatt, Mary, 194, 197


Castle, Irene, 252


Castle Garden, 59


Cathedral Plateau, 27


Cather, Willa, 169 Catherine Slip Market, 33, 146


Catholic Benevolent Society, 61


Catholic Publication Society, 99 Catskill watershed, 27


Celtic Society, 106


Census, U. S., 85, 86, 91, 106


Central Park, exposures of schist in, 24, 28, 60


Central Park Commission, 60, 406 Centro Asturiano, 123


Century Opera House, 235 "Chain" journalism, 310


Chamber of Commerce, 52, 81, 105 Chamberlain, John, 177


Chaplin, Charles, 242, 287 Chaplin, Ralph, 263 Charity Organization Society, 455 Charter Revision Commission, 446 Charters, provincial, 44, 45; city, 70, 44 469


Chase, William M., 194


Chatham, 250 Chekhov, Anton, 274


Chelsea, 132


Chelsea Hotel, 224


Chemical industry, 376


Cheney, Howard L., 489


Cheney, Sheldon, 14


Child-caring homes, 460


Child Guidance Clinics, 460


Child Labor Amendment, 396


Child Welfare, Department of, 460


Children's Court, 462


Childs, Marquis W., 400


"Chinatown," 119


Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Societ 119


Chinese in New York, 84, 118, 120


Chinese, Masonic Lodge of, 119


Chinese Workers' Club, 119


Christiaensen, Hendrick, 37 fast


Chrysler Building, 215




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