New York panorama : a comprehensive view of the metropolis, Part 54

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Publication date: 1938
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aarinen, Eliel, 217 age, Russell, 349 ilors' Snug Harbor, 454, 466 :. Andrew, Order of, 439 :. Andrew, Society of, 105 :. Cecilia Society, 233 :. David, Society of, 105 aint-Gaudens, Augustus, 194, 195 t. George, Society of, 105, 439


St. John the Divine, Cathedral of, 222 St. Lawrence River, 327 St. Nicholas Heights, 28 St. Patrick's Cathedral, 103, 210 St. Peter's Church, 53, 103


St. Thomas Church, 222 Saintsbury, George, 175


Salmagundi Club, 178 San Juan Hill district, 132, 138


Sandburg, Carl, 162, 175


Sandy Hill, 26


Sandy Hook, 4, 20


Sandy Hook Bar, 21


Sandy Hook Bay, 22


Sanitary Commission (of Civil War), 65


Santayana, George, 175


Sargent, John Singer, 194


Saunders, "Buddy," 147


Savage, Augusta, 143 Savage, Edward, 53


Savoy (night club), 155, 159, 259


Savoy-Plaza Hotel, 224 Scandinavians in New York, 84, 92, 93, 116 Schenck-Crooke House, 205


Schlauch, Margaret, 152 Schmidt, John Henry, 232


Schneider, Benno, 279


Schneider, Isidor, 175, 176


Schola Cantorum, 239


Schomburg, Arthur, 147


Schomburg Collection, 147


School law of 1842, 62


Schools, first public, 72, 471; number of public, 59; number of buildings, 478; of Harlem, 147; Superintendent of, 475; number of pupils, 478; Negroes in, 477; effect of population shifts on, 476, 477; High School of Music and Arts, 479; N. Y. School of Social Work, 455; Speyer (P. S. 500) 479 Trade and Workers' Schools: Inter- national Ladies Garment Workers Union, 483; Mechanics, 59; Building Trades, 479; Workers School (Com- munist), 483; Rand School (Socialist) , 483; New School for Social Research, 123; New Workers' School, 123; Free Workers' School, 98, 100; eve- ning trade schools, 464


Private Progressive Schools: City and Country, 480; Ethical Culture, 480; Fieldston Day and Country, 480; Harriet Johnson, 480; Hessian Hills, 480; Horace Mann, 480; Manumit, 480; Walden, 480


Colleges and Universities: Architec- ture of, 221; City College, 72, 221, 319, 320, 421, 476, 482, 484; Col- lege of the City of New York, 476; Cooper Union, 483, 486; Hunter Col- lege, 476, 482, 484; Manhattan Col- lege, 319, 320, 486; Queens College, 476, 484; St. Johns College, 320; Yeshiva College, 130; Columbia Uni- versity, 48, 52, 59, 72, 96, 221, 222,


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318, 319, 320, 419, 471, 480, 485; Fordham University, 486; Long Island University, 320; New York Univer- sity, 72, 318, 319, 320, 482, 485; University of the City of New York, 59


Theological Seminaries: Jewish Insti- tute of Religion, 131; Jewish Theo- logical Seminary, 130; Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 59; Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary, 59; Yeshivas, 130


Teachers' Training Schools: Cooper- ative School for Student Teachers, 480; Teachers College, 72, 472, 484; Roman Catholic schools, 61, 481; Jewish schools, 130-131; Chinese schools, 119; Croatian schools, 113; Negro schools, 133, 471; Greek school, 108; Yugoslav schools, 113. See also Education


Schott, Anton, 235


Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 235


Schurz, Carl, 98


Schuyler, George, 142, 143


Schuyler, Montgomery, 225


Schwartz, Arthur, 264


Schwartz, Maurice, 278


Scotch in New York, 88, 103, 104


Scotch-Irish in New York, 104


Scott, Raymond, 261, 262


Scottish Societies, Federation of, 106


Scottsboro boys, 141


Scripps-Howard, 306, 311


Sculpture in New York, 194-195


Seabury, Samuel, 17, 308, 355


Seabury-Berle Unification Plan, 355


Seabury investigation, 73


Seaver, Edwin, 176, 177


Secondary education, 478-479


Seidl, Anton, 235


Seixas, Rabbi Gershom Mendes, 127


Seldes, George, 307


Seldes, Gilbert, 175


Sephardim, 130


Serbs in New York, 112, 113


Sessions, Roger, 238


Settlement houses, 468


Seventh Street, 25


Seventy-Six Society, 178


Seward, Albert, 495


Seward, Governor William H., 62


Seymour, Horatio, 136


Sharp, Cecil, 106


Shaw, Artie, 264


Shaw, George Bernard, 269, 273


Sheeler, Charles, 18, 199


Sheldon, Edward, 144, 270


Sheldrake River, 29


Sherman Law, 392


Sherry-Netherland Hotel, 224


Shields, Roy, 248


Shinn, Everett, 196


Ship Canal, 23 Shipbuilding in New York, 342-343


Shipping, New York, 325-345


Shopping center, Development of, 371


Shreve, Richmond H., 219, 491


Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, architects, : Sifton, Claire, 276


Sifton, Paul, 274, 275


Signorelli, Frank, 258


Sikorsky, Igor, 107


Simkhovich, Vladimir G., 107


Simon, Robert A., 234


Simonson, Lee, 273


Sinclair, Upton, 171, 274


Singstad, Ole, 17 Siqueiros, David A., 123


Six-day bicycle races, 322


Sixth Avenue Elevated Railroad, 348


Skidmore, Thomas, 379, 383


Sklar, George, 144, 176, 275


Skyscraper architecture, 72, 215-217


Slavery in New York, 132, 133, 134, 1 136


Slavin, Paul, 145


Slavs in New York, 91, 106, 107


Sloan, John, 17, 172, 196, 197, 198


Sloughter, Colonel Henry, 46, 97


Slovaks in New York, 112


Slovenes in New York, 112, 113


Slums, see Housing Smith, Bessie, 245, 262


Smith, Gus, 146


Smith, James McCune, 135


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Smith, Joseph C., 254, 255


Smith, Leroy, 145


Smith, "Stuff," 261


Smuggling, 338-339


Snowden, George H., 490


Sobol, Louis, 155


Social Hygiene, Bureau of, 458


Social Service Exchange, 468


Social welfare in New York, 453-470


Social Work, New York School of, 455 Soglow, Otto, 197


Sokol Athletic Union of New York, 11: Solman, Joe, 201


Solomon, Hayim, 127


Song Society, 106


Sonkin, Robert, 152


Sons of Italy, 96


Sons of Liberty, 49, 50


Sousa, John Philip, 252, 255


South Americans in New York, 121, South Street, 24


Soyer, Raphael, 197


Spaeth, Sigmund, 249


Spalding, Albert, 237


Spaniards in New York, 121, 122, 1 124 Spanish-speaking people in New Y 121-125


Spear, Alexander S., 482


Special Audit, Board of, 442


Speech habits in New York, 152-161 Spencer, Niles, 200


Spengler, Oswald, 175


Spivak, Max, 201


Sports, 312-324, 146, 147


INDEX 523


prain Brook, 29 pring Street, 26 puyten Duyvil, 23, 29, 206 cts, 2 puyten Duyvil Creek, 23 tacy, Jesse, 262 tage coach transportation, 347 tage of New York, 266-283 tallings, Laurence, 277, 304 tamp Act of 1765, 50 tamp Act Congress, 49 tandard News Association, 310 tander, Lionel, 285 tanislavsky, Constantin Sergeievich, 274 tanley, Henry M., 306 tanton, Elizabeth Cady, 387 tapleton waterfront, 333 tate Grain Elevator, 332 taten Island, 23-24, 93 taten Island Lighthouse Basin, 330 Statue of Liberty, 328


17 34, 1 team Boat Ferry Company, 56 teamship lines, 334, 335 tearns, Harold, 18, 174, 175 198 tedman, Edmund Clarence, 167 teel strike of 1919, 393 teers, George, 4 teiglitz, Alfred, 17, 198 tein, Clarence, 6, 18, 398 tein, Gertrude, 143, 155 terling, Philip, 252 tern, Julius David, 307 terne, Maurice, 199 terner, Albert, 197 tevens, George, 177 tevenson, Harvey, 494 tewart, Alexander, 103 tewart, Donald Ogden, 177 tillman-Kelley, Edgar, 240 tillwell-Perine House, 206 470 .455 1, 112 tock Exchange, New York, 53 toddard, Richard Henry, 167 tone & Kimball, publishers, 173 tone products, manufacture of, in New York, 376 torrs, John, 199 towe, Harriet Beecher, 168 trachey, Jack, 242 trand, Paul, 17 trand Theater, 289 trasser, Adolph, 388 21, treet car transportation, 348, 349, 351, 356, 357 treets, Department of, 441 trijcker, Jacobus Gerritson, 181 trindberg, August, 281 2 Strivers Row," 139 trong, Mayor William, 70, 71 tuart, Gilbert, 184 Y tudds, Eastman, 494 tuyvesant, Peter, 39, 40, 48, 103, 126 tuyvesant Heights, 132 161 tuyvesant's Meadows, 25 ub-Treasury Building, 209, 210 ubway unification, 354 ubways, 27, 351-355, 362, 389 udermann, Herman, 278


Sufi Abdul Hamid, 142 "Sugar Hill" district, 139 Sugar refineries in New York, 376 Sullivan, "Big Tim," 102, 103 Sullivan, Joseph J., 249 Sullivan, Louis, 217 Sullivan, Maxine, 262 Sully, Thomas, 185 Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 305 Sun, 136, 307


Sun Yat Sen, 119 Sunday newspaper editions, 309


Supervisors, Board of (county body), 441 Suzzallo, Henry, 113 Swabey, Marie, 16, 398


Swedes in New York, 82, 87, 88, 115


Sweeney, Peter B., 66, 442 Swift, Michael, 273 Swing music, 259 Swinton, John, 379 Symes, Lillian, 388


Symons, Arthur, 175


Synagogues, see Churches, Jewish


Synge, John Millington, 274 Syrians in New York, 91, 116, 117, 118


Taggard, Genevieve, 176


Tammany, Society of, spans century and half, 54; woos immigrants, 58; defeats Mitchel, 75; under Mayor Walker, 76; founded by Irish, 102; gains Negro vote, 148; organizes labor vote, 384; elects Hewitt mayor, 389; origin of name, 445 Tappan, Arthur, 136


Tappan, Lewis, 136


Tashamira, 113 Taxi-cabs, 358


Taylor, Deems, 238


Teachers College, 72, 474, 485


Teagarden, Jack, 262


Teague, Walter Dorwin, 491, 496


Tea-Water Garden, 26 Tea-Water Pump, 26


Television, 301 Television radio stations, 302


Temple, Shirley, 146


Templeton, Alec, 238


Tenant unions, 434 Tenants Council, 434


Tenement House Department, 431, 432, 433, 436, 450 Tenement House Laws, of 1867, 406, 431; of 1901, 426, 432


Tenements, types of, 431; old-law, 426, 432; new law, 426 Ten Eyck Houses, 436


Tennessee Valley Authority, 398


Tenth Street, 25 Ternia, Milka, 235 Territorial expansion of New York, 67-70 Terry, Ellen, 268 Teschmaker, Frank, 265


Tesla, Nicola, 113 Textile plants, 376 Thaw, Harry K., 250


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Thayer, Schofield, 175 Theater of Action, 272, 275


Theater collection, New York Public Li- brary, 288


Theater Guild, 272, 273, 276, 281


Theater in New York, 266-283, 146, 248, 250


Theater Union, 272, 275, 276


Theatre du Vieux Columbier, 278


Third Avenue elevated line, 348


Thirtieth Street, 25


Thomas, Augustus, 270, 276


Thomas, Norman, 298


Thomas, Theodore, 236


Thomas Nelson & Son, publishers, 104


Thompson, Denman, 248


Thompson, Ralph, 177


Thompson, Randall, 238


Thomson, John A., 494


Thoreau, Henry D., 14


Thorwaldsen, Dane Bertel, 189, 199


Throckmorton, John, 67


Throg's Neck, 67


Thurman, Wallace, 142, 143


Tilden, William, 313


Times, 177, 300, 304, 309, 400


Times Square, 72


Tin Pan Alley, 243, 248, 249


Tobacco products, manufacture of in New York, 376 Tobis Theatre, 111


Todd, Robert, 232


Todt Hill, 30


Tolstoi, Leo, 196, 274


Tombs Prison, 24, 25


Tompkins Square, 24, 26, 99


Tompkins Square Apartments, 466


Toney, Charles E., 148


Tongs in New York, 119


Toomer, Jean, 142, 143


Topography of New York, 23-31


Tories, revolutionary, 439


Toscanini, Arturo, 95, 96, 110, 237 Tottenville, 20


Town Hall, 299


Townsend,. Edward "Chimmie Fadden," 307


Townshend Act of 1767, 49


Toys, manufacture of in New York, 377


Traction lobby, 351, 352


Trade and industry in New York, 368-378


Trade Union Educational League, 393


Trade Unions, see Labor Unions


Transatlantic Terminal, 330 Transient visitors, 365, 466


Transit Commission, 354, 355


Transit Committee, 353


Trans-Lux motion picture houses, 291


Transportation in New York, 346-367


Transradio News Service, 300


Treasury Department, U. S., 339 Treaty of Paris, 48


Trees of New York, 32


Triangle Film Company, 289


Tribune, 116, 136, 385, 386, 389 Trico, Catelyna, 68


Trinity Church, 53, 210, 424


Trumbauer, Frankie, 259


Trumbull, John, 53, 184, 186, 187


Trunks, manufacture of in New York, 3 Truth, Sojourner, 136


Tubman, Harriet, 136


Tuckey, William, 232, 233


Tudor City, 427


Tufts, Otis, 216


Tully, Jim, 145


Tunnel Authority of New York, 367, 4


Tunnels, 360, 362, 367, 407, 418, 420


Turkish Aid Society, 118


Turks in New York, 116, 118


Turner, Daniel L., 413


Twachtman, John Henry, 193, 197, 19 Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens), 1( 168


Tweed, William M., 17, 442


Tweed Ring, 65-67, 192, 305, 442


Twentieth Century Sporting Club, 314, 3


Ukrainians in New York, 82, 93, 107 Underground Railroad, 134, 135, 1: 256


Unemployment Insurance Law, 464


Union Theological Seminary, 72


Unionport, 67


Unions, see Labor Unions


United New Netherland Company, 37


United Party, 389


United Press, 300, 310


Universal Negro Improvement Associati( 141


Universities, see Schools


Untermeyer, Louis, 173


Untermyer, Samuel, 354


Unwin, Raymond, 6, 410, 413


Upjohn, Richard, 210, 223


Upper Bay, 21, 326


Uptown Art Laboratory, 143


Uptown House, 155


Uranian Society, 233


Ury, John, 134


Valery, Paul, 175


Valleria, Alwina, 234


Van Cortlandt House, 207


Van Dam, Rip, 266


Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 359


Vanderbilt, William K., 246


Vanderbilt Cup races, 322


Vanderbilt mansion, 72


Van Der Donck, Jonkheer Adrien, 67


Vanderlyn, John, 185


Vanderlyn, Pieter, 183


Van Doren, Irita, 177


Van Dyck, Ernest, 235


Van Gelder, Robert, 177


Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 175


Van Rooy, Anton, 235


Van Tienhoven, Cornelius, 42


Van Vechten, Carl, 143, 175


Van Wyck, Mayor R. A., 352


Varick Street, 25


Vaux, Calvert, 406, 60


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Veblen, Thorstein, 17 37 tk, 3 Vedanta Society, 120 Venereal disease, Campaign against, 458- 459 Venuti, Joe, 259 Verhulst, Governor-General, William, 39 Verrazano, Giovanni da, 36, 93 Victoria Home for the Aged, 105 Vidor, King, 146 Vigilance Committee, 135 7, 4%Villard, Oswald Garrison, 75, 298, 308 420 Villard Mansion, 228 Visiting Nurses, 459 Vivekananda, Swami, 120 Vlissingen (Flushing), 69 , 19 Vodery, Will, 145 , 16 Von Hofmannsthal, Hugo, 175 Von Tilzer, Harry, 243, 249, 251 Voorhees, Stephen F., 491 2


4,3 Waal-boght, 68 07 Wagner, Senator Robert, 394 Wagner Labor Act, 394 , 13 Wagner-Steagall bill, 437 Wakefield, 67 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 224 Walker, George, 246 Walker, James Blaine, 351 Walker, Mayor James J., 76, 250, 408, 37 445 Walker, Ralph, 219 Walker, Stanley 306 ciation Walkowitz, Abraham, 198, 199 Wall Street, 205 Wallabout Bay, prison ships of, 51 Wallas, Graham, 397 Walrond, Eric, 142


Walter, Eugene, 270, 276


Walton, Marion, 199 War of 1812, 55-56 Ward, John Quincy Adams, 194 Ward, Samuel Ringgold, 135 Ward's Island, 22, 77, 421 Warneke, Heinz, 199


Warner, Charles Dudley, 166 Warren, Josiah, 385 Washington, Booker T., 138 Washington, George, planning of capitol, 11, 402; war in New York City, 51; inauguration at Federal Hall, 53; "Fare- well Address," 134, 207, 211; portrait by Trumbull, 184; friendship with Hopkinson, 232; attendance at theater, 266; statue at World's Fair, 489 Washington Heights, 28 Washington Square, 24, 26 Washington Square Players, 273 Watch Department, 62, 440 Water pollution, 32 Water Street, 24 Water supply, City, 61, 105


Waterborne Commerce, 335-338 Waterfront of New York, 329-335 Waterfront property, Federal, 330 Watkins, Maurine, 278 Watson, James S., 148, 28


Watson, Morris, 279 Watters, George Manker, 278


Wayward Minors' Court, 463 Weatherwax, Clara, 176 Webb, "Chick," 264


Webb, Isaac, 4


Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, 379


Weber and Fields, 241, 277


Weber, Frederick T., 197, 199


Weber, Melville, 287


Weehawken, 23, 334


Weir, Robert Walter, 185, 193, 198


Weitting, William, 379, 385, 386


Weld, Theodore, 136


Welfare Council, 462, 464, 468


Welfare Island, 22, 77


Welfare Island hospital for chronic disease, 458 Welles, Orson, 146


Welsh in New York, 103-104


Werrenrath, Reinald, 237


West, Benjamin, 184, 185


West Farms, 67


West Riding, 70


West Side Highway, 215


Westchester County, 23, 27, 67, 69


Wescott, Glenway, 5


Western Ocean packet line, 4


Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 296 Westley, Helen, 273


Wexley, John, 277


Weydemeyer, Joseph, 379


Whalen, Grover, 487, 500


Wharton, Edith, 96, 171


Wharves, Superintendent of, 441


Whipper, Laura, 146


Whistler, James McNeil, 194,- 197, 401


White, Alfred T., 412 White, Clem, 155 White, George, 277


White, Stanford, 18, 313


White, Walter, 142, 143, 149


Whitehill, Clarence, 237


Whiteman, Paul, 259, 261


Whitman, Walt, 6, 15, 16, 18, 165, 166, 210, 269, 308 Whitney Museum of American Art, 200


Wholesale marketing in New York, 372 Wiborg, Mary Hoyt, 145


Wilgus, William J., 6, 413, 417


Wilkins, Mary E., 168, 169


Willet's Meadows, 25


William Henry, Prince, 52 Williams, Bert, 145, 246


Williams, Edgar I., 494


Williams, Gus, 248


Williams, Mary Lou, 260


Williams, Peter W., 135


Williams, William, 182


Williams, William Carlos, 18, 175


Williamsbridge, 67


Williamsburg, 30


Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 165


Wills, Harry, 147


Wilson, Edmund, 175, 273


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Wilson, Frank, 146, 273 Winchell, Walter, 154, 307 Windsor Palace, 317 Wolf, Friedrich, 275 Wolfe, Thomas, 17


Women's Central Association of Relief, 65 Women's suffrage, 136


Wood, Mayor Fernando, 61, 63 Wood products plants in New York, 376 Woodhull, Victoria, 387


Woodmen, Negro lodge of, 150 Woodruff, John, 147


Woods, Arthur, 75


Woodside, 24


Woodward, Sidney, 137


Woollcott, Alexander, 178, 304


Woolworth, Frank, 215


Woolworth Building, 215, 219 Work, Henry C., 236


Workers' Drama League, 274


Workers' Educational Association, 100


Workers' Film and Photo League, 288


Workers' Laboratory Theater, 275


Working population, 380


Workingmen's Alliance, 379


Workingmen's Home project, 431


Workingmen's Party, 379, 382, 383, 384, 440


Workmen's Educational Association, 100 Works Progress Administration, art project of, 143, 200, 484; dance theater of, 255; educational work of, 476, 482, 483, 484; Harlem projects of, 142, 149; music project of, 146, 239, 240, 484; numbers employed by, 456; parks improved by, 321; theater proj- ect of, 146, 275, 279, 280, 281, 300; writers' project of, 177, 179 World Fellowship of Faiths, 121


World Religious Conference at Chicago, 120 World-Telegram, 306


World's Fair, 487-500, 30, 69, 419 Wortman, Denys, 197 Wren, Sir Christopher, 11 Wright, Frances, 379, 383 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 397, 497 Wright, Henry, 6, 18, 410, 434


Wright, Theodore S., 135


Writers' Congress, 176


Wyant, Alexander, 193, 195


Yankee Stadium, 147, 312


Yankees (baseball team), 316


Yeats, William Butler, 175


Yiddish Art Theatre, 278


Yiddish literature, 128


York, Duke of, 43


Yorke, Josephine, 235


Yorkshire, 69


Yorkville, 99, 100, 110, 112, 132


Youmans, Vincent, 264


Young, Art, 172, 197


Young, Mahouri, 199


Young, Stark, 273


Young Men's Christian Association, 150


Young Women's Christian Association 150 Yugoslavs in New York, 82, 93


Zenger, John Peter, 17, 44, 98


Ziegfeld, Florenz, 277


Ziegfeld Follies, 246, 250


Ziegfeld's Roof Garden, 137


Zigrosser, Carl, 197


Zionism, 125, 129, 130


Zionist Organization of America, 129


Zirei Zion Federation, 130


Zoning, 409


Zorach, William, 199


Zuckerman, "Phatzo," 155


Zugsmith, Leane, 176


Zukor, Adolph, 288


Zworykin, Vladimir, 302


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