The evening world. Newspaper, April 25, 1911, Page 18

' , { _ 18 Sot cetera tnaeentian ea BANTER STREET LOSES LAST OF OLD FAMILIES” Moving of Silverstones Empha- |! sizes Great Change in Fa- mous Thoroughfare. ONCE TRADE CENTRE. |r Few of Old Business Names Remain, but Families Have Gone. Dothes of All Kinda of Custom Made Also All Kinds of UNIFORMS Theatrical Wardrobes and Firemen Clothes. ‘Tria in the sien of J. Goldberg of No. * Baxter street, one of th st ure vivers of the men who made Baxte etreet known around the world, Por Raater street is passing nit will net have a single clothing store in its whole length. will not be a single old man to represent the enterprise, the persistence, the keen baminess sudgment of the Cohens, th Harrices, the Levys and the Goldberrs an@ Goldsteins who have taken more mflions out of tts narrow thoroughfare than were taken out im California or Colorado or Nevada, & Goldberg himself (his name ts Joseph, but he asks The Evening World t@.eall him only by the business me beomuse buriness ts bad enough thi @aye without Josing any advertising vaiues) lives in West One Hundred and ‘Thirteenth street. He moved out of Baxter street with the children a year an@ a half ago. Except for the Louls Silverstones, they Were the oldest sur- vivors of those merchants of Baxter atreet who lived on the premises where they made their money. Last Ones Are Mo: ‘The Louis Silverstonos move this week out of their Baxter street home, which they have occupied for more than a xeneration, to their summer home at Arverne. When they come back to the city they will move into their Fifth avenue residence. It is fitting that the latest removal of the early settlers shoul be the grandest. The Levys, the Coheus, the Goldsteins, the Goldberg, the 6tarks and the reat moved to Lexington, to Madison, to Lenox and St Nicholas avenues. But the Louis Silverstones are going straight to Fifth avenue, overlooking the park. It fe the end. There are no more left to move. A few, ike M Levy, like Alec ( ‘There Goldberg, Mke Moe ven, may for reasons of centiment—and there is a lov of eentiment aimong the old pioncers of Baxter street, don't forget that for minute--keep their nar over their doors, and they make their daily pilgrimages downtown to ave to it that there 18 no waste in the scanty harvest, But there any more. os on srstone has fought {t out to the last against the proteste of his wife and his pretty daughters, but this week js the last of the Allverstones of Baxter street, #0 f as family and social events are cun- cerned. There for Thirty-Two Y Let J. Goldberg tell why. A reporter of The Evening World found hin ‘n his estore last night surrounded with racks hung close with second-hand po- Nice, fire and private uniforms, He sat fag-back on A cutter's bench at the back of the place where he could make limgelf heard over the argument whicn his two salesmen, a I nf hia house- hold and prospective buyer were mak- ing over a pair of police trousers which the buye> Inetsted had been owned twice \efore instead of onve. In ts hand J. Goldberg carried an} eight-foot long ntaff of hund-poltshe | oak some two thehes in diameter, What | tin geo was rome antiquarian may tell; it Was the rod of Moses to the Seeker after. Truth. “Linten to me," you are not an plagues of the fat them—and I street. "Tam here t It fa long tin you don't bi insurance people iy or the credit companies—I have in the one place, right here, No, % Baxter atreet, unt pata J advertising man--th * were nothing ty >’ you of Baxter two years already. But always—and if you forma or anything tn the world you| want wate you cannot find any place on earth which is here, ‘Listen. (You are not an insurance man or any other funny business, no’) You ask about the Wall, pow, listen, basiness of Baxter street. I shall yout i Lived in the Store. “Thirty-two years 1 have been here tel Then there was myself, my wife, my | Deoptes in & etreet and neither haw | {In f the richest mine | can lve | ladere, “it | can ask the T would be a that T make my] Aiden ta are THE EVE ad married sisters, Joe Cohen's wife ehtidren any more, Our peo-|ilied and he marr ple are Levy took notice of tha trend of aryl married a daughter of Jacob Cohen, “Tat me explain, The Italiane ma t be a gol people, ‘They are a good business people; so much f ean ra With sorrow, Rut when there are two f the other, children, t you call public opinion to younger Rents Have Doubled. espect for the morals 's not a good piace fo wh keep the the old days J paid $0 rent for | the place that ali of u# lived in, Now \1 pay more than double that, and as much more for the place where we live uptown, Tatil] coma down here at 6 pee in the morning and leave at 9 o'clock at night. 1 see my children ron sok only by electric light. If 1 should geo | 18 ' them in the suniight, their father wouki |p tng clothoa tnarket must buy not know them. Yet it is for thet] again and quickis, and if he got his 000, ‘Phe profits of the oid daya arofown cioties back at less than double J But they a not yet emall|thetr value he did well fndeed. enough #0 I can give the business vp. Yet I must move the home, Under- nd?" And there, as the writer of tug! ‘ecord of New York history does understand, I* the reason for the pars= jing of Baxter street—the eeasona why | the names are no longer those which | made the street and the neighboring @ barber, and Mere and there was a clothing store, almont apologetic monument to the d. the relic of a busin that were past, | 4 still too profit- able to be abandone: Once Great Business Street. For in its day Baxt et wasn strest tn busi ed steamboat plera were downtown. The best known places of amusement for out-of-town merchants were down town, Owney Geogheghan’s, Jonny |Stvles‘a and Hory's Armory Hall Tho out-of-town man, whether from San Francisco or Jacksonville or Dallaw or York, headed for istrict first Ho were the days which old New smiling eyni the Canal street larris Cohen established himself at the White street corner. ‘The street | wan then stil! Orange atreet. Later the famous volunteer fireman, Harry How- grd, Alderman in 1866, had its name changed. Harris Cohen in his later daya auc- | cumbed to the attractions of a racing | stable and lost his fortune—atter moving uptown-—through his faith in his horses, Pat Oakley (named after the Alderman of the dintrict), Harris C. and Betsy C. (named after his wife). No Time for Bookkeeping. Jacob Cohen had a place near Canal) street. On Saturday nights his wife went about among the salesmen and held her apron outstretched in her hand for them to drop their receipts nto. no time for bookkeeping— eyn was quicker than the in Canal etreet on the Baxter street corner. Joe Cohen and Harris Cohen 23rd Street On Wednesday, SHIRTWAIST DEP’TS. exclusive model: Sale of White models. WOMEN’S GLOVES. In 16 button length taire. Suits, ry dark colors. | Lavender, Pink, Navy | store vn 1 He headed fer Brook There were tl Pinney Barie the elder, one, The Central nm and the Brandreth was at Canal.) 6 Lond & ‘Taylor's All New the site of the Criminal of to-da cept clothing, In the days] ni atreeat are gone. do businese tn, fn a way place to live. So the Rev. Di A large assortment of Shirtwaists, White Glace Biarritz.... WOMEN’S SUIT DEP’TS. English Serge and Homespun the erst side as 6 Moe nen known and § er had his trou hes, establishes treeta v ose dew # manila had his clothing tten, one Mul- t the terrible thing business yn then War Rich In Its Day. street Was rich tn Raxter tte day ‘The fret of the hotels of Peniineand was at Canal and Centre streets. Hotel waa at Canal and ne etrent. youtha to teht trousers streets is, and gave character to| iN alioes In which the yellow waxed them up to ten or even five years ago, | Stitching showed were the aports of | For it {1 no fonger a street of Co-| that time, Baxter street was a con- Goldbergs, centration of all the vast ary goods and the hotel districts of to-day. It then that Harrigan and Tfart went Haxter street to study east Ide life as tt then was, in the base- theatre where front orchestra the “Grand Duke ‘Theatre’ tn Its deference to the prevailing Si-] 8014 for two cents and aeats in the far- cillan order of things, but, like Moe] back section sold for a cent. Tt was Levy's or Alec Coher it was but alin thore days that fi cara were drawn by horaes down to the station on virte Building cheap, @X- Fiveryt then Tt {# but a scant e the Baxter s' able events, W ing was _ Moo mar- ‘amboat transportation was the] ried Coie daughter ten usual method of reaching or leavint| thous heaped New York, Baxter street was the| higher silver oy sin the contre. Raliroad fares were high in the| Christian weddings of these lesser day's 6 10's or t the most] of glory. the {Hustrions days of Baxter The place is still At to But ft ts no But FUNERALS TOO LUXURIOUS. dy Says to Make Cremation Within Reach of Poor. BOSTON, Apri ‘The weartng of 0 Kectic binck at expenne of flow f New York to era, the Velng cremated life such am the dis-/and the coat of cask were all com: trict south of Canal street had then. | 1 upon yesterday hefore the Unl- The natural keenness of the fitst He-/tarian Ministers’ Association by the brew immigrants showed them the! rena cous 1, Cady of the Pilgrim Places where business was to be found. | Nev. George bi. ta ; ‘ Tenay: took to Tuater pireat, Congregational Church, Dorchester, in an address on the high cost of living. “The wearing of biack at funerals ts a eign of despair, not of a‘ Christian ‘home, all, why then let us wear black. wala Dr. Cady, If death ends m funerals, vagance.” much ft costs “As to the cost of mov riding ‘how and how much the average undertaker wots, profit in the business, Dr. ¢ Gexted the supervision of ing business under munictpal control, figures xhowing the enormo: dy ‘the undertak- ‘Make cremation within the reach of u CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Stearke Brothers were at Bowery and Rivington street. They moved to Lenox avenue only fifteen years ax Bears the Moo I rted his great bu! Signature of g J JAMES McCREERY & CO. 34th Street April the 26th In Both Stores, many Mull Waists, tailored Made in workrooms on the premises. 2.95 Both Stores, +-95¢ per pair White Glace Mousque- 2.00 per pair In Both Stores, Tailored 22.00 Striped Cotton Voile Dresses in light and 13.50 and 21.00 Bordered Dotted Lawn Princess Dresses in and Copenhagen Blue, three children, # servant girl, under- Black and White. 6.75 stand, and two cutters. We all of us live. out there in not one-quarter the) room this store has now, and we do business besides. 11 ts no more ao, But ° ee ‘ we are talking about how business was SOROSIS SHOES. mm Roth Stores, nen, “When I came here tt was an old “i : stand. Others liad. been before, ‘Two Boys’ and Girls’ Sorosis Boots, Oxford had made fires ruptcies; then I bought the place. | Tho long, heavy staff pounded the floor yntil the hubbub at the front was quieted, He continued “For thirty-two straight business mayea, nor nave 1 There hes not But I caunet live here any more, here, two had made bank- ars I have made @ have not | changed the name, | been a flre-not one, The | 29rd Street place in no longer the place for my! people or my children. I must otey ewe dor the sake of the Dusiness Bus, | Ties and Pumps,--designed for the perfection and comfort of growing fect. JAMES McCREERY & CO, g4th Strect nes when the man tho not the affinity NING WORLD, | TUESDAY, Arash Have You Tried This? Simple Preserintion Said to Wonders for Rheumatism. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY PROMPTLY REFUNDED Men’s and Women’s Umbrellas of fast Work Maida black Tn A Gigantic = Offering of G Women’s Clever Sample Spring , ; ‘ Coats and Jackets vi UPWARDS OF 3,300 stunning coats—700 samples—balance of made-up stock which a maker sacrificed to us at our own price. Beautiful Mohair and PURE Linen Auto Coats—duplicates of the most exclusive reigning models— and the price is ultra-sensational. There are 54-inch silks. ack satins, mohairs and pure linens (satin sailor collar and cuffs), coverts; serges, panamas, broadcloths and mixtures; lengths ran to 54 inches; short models in satin or silk are lined throughout with silk or satin; some hand- nch Skinner's ‘aid trimmed; sizes 32 to 46; while 4. 98 quantity lasts, to-morrow, at 9.98 for Women’ s and Misses’ $12 & $16.50 Spring Suits Including Black Satin and Blaok Moire Silk Suits AN OFFERING without a parallel considering the extreme high grade styles; the handsome, stunning fabrics, the fine tailoring, etc. ‘ARE YOUR NOSTRILS CLOSED? There ‘4 doren different Mseases | thaat attack the nostrils, throat, ear tubes | and lower air passages. Each of these troubles starts like an ordinary cold. They differ from a cold, however, as they hang on and don't get well of themselves, All these troubles are wrongly called by one common name—-Catarrh, Each of these diseased conditions requires a dif ferent treatment to cure it. Hence the so- called catarrh treatments and remedies | usually fail to cure them be mastered by an expert specialist, after examining the conditions, makes a correct diagnosis and selects the one| needed treatment that will cure it somely embroidered; others plain tailored, with sailor collars; 54- who, The TIdENCY CF All CIRMMaBN CHAE IOUHTE | Choice of a dozen sturing styles. All-wool serges, hairline stripes in the nostrils is to spread jo other parts, Lyipansville worstads, mixtures, Punamas and wide wales, New In one disease semi-fitting coats, hipless models, with silk or satin ¢ ; lined tubes, and the result is deafness and throughout with 2-year guaranteed satin; new gored s! te model head noises, When these diseases spread lors back, navy, King’s blue or brow s 32 to 44 to the throat and lower air passages sore ALTERATIONS FREE. On s: “morrow only MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED, Great Purchase and Sale of Important Play Suits for Boys ||fve2 places are formed that throw off a dis- charge. This causes a cough that brings up the discharge in the nostrils enter the WHY IT Howsefurishings Extra Large Size Gray En- | iyi vl ho IS R |} | These suits are of the highest gr good, strong amel Ham Boiler | fabrics; originally intended to be retailed at $1.50 | to $2; our extraordinary price to-mor To Have Closed Nostrils, | Discharging Nostrils, | Dropping in the Throat, | | Noises in the Ears,| Pains in the Chest or) an Irritating Cough. If you’ have Catarrh this !s what you | may expect If you do not have it cured. If the Catarrh limits its ravages to the | nostrils and upper throat, it will close | your nostrils one at a time, closing one | and then the other, or you will have a disagreeable discharge from the nostrils, You will gradually lose your sense of smell. You are about sure to gradually go deaf and have head notses, Besides the material that collects in the back part | | of the nostrils at night drops into the | throat and is swallowed and enters the stomach, In this way the entire system will be poisoned by Catarrh, because wherever the discharge goes the dis- ease will develop. The tendency, however, 1s for Catarrh | to spread downward into the lower air Passages, When this happens sore in- | flamed places are made along the breath- | ng tubes, Those sore places pour out | a discharge that brings on a cough and the cough brings up the material poured out by the sore places. In some the discharge is a tough and greyish mate- | rial, in others it is yellow, in others it is a rusty-brown substa | The sore places in the breathing tubes | are danger spots, It is in such sore places that the germs of Tuberculosis fasten, take root and enter the lungs In this way Consumption very often be- | gins its start, When sore places are found along the breathing tubes and in the lungs you | will know of this condition by pains in| the chest, soreness behind the breast bone, stitches in the side, or a dull ache under the shoulder blade, or by a cough. Catarh is thougit to be a trifling affection. by me ocho ido wot understand ite pomiblities ‘ nm There are Indian (boy or girl) Suits, and Rough Rider Suits. Every suit guaranteed u in SPORTING GOODS DEPARTMENT, on Fifth Floor. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. ik as Steel Couches : oo 3-Pe. Bed aera ped ippable. 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