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Show LOWER MANHATTAN LANDMARK TO FALL Old Great Eastern Hotel to Ee Razed and Ten-story Structure WiU Take Its Place. By International News Service. NEW YORK. Jan. 27. Memories of the days when lower Manhattan expressed all that was best In the life of New York were revived today when announcement was made that the old Great Eastern hotel, ho-tel, at South and Whitehall streets, will 1 bo lozed and a modern ten-story hotel erected on its site. ! The deed for the hotel is one of the ! oldest in the city, and the property has j bee.n owned by one family since 1SS2. John Bittncr, the present proprietor of , the hotel, ha: bought the Hite for JfiOO.OOD I with the intention of creating an inntltu-I inntltu-I tion worthy to sucreed tho old Astor houso and. Stevens house. The Cvcut Eastern.' nnmrd in honor of the big steamship of that, name, was a favorite slopping place fur Jenny Lind, the Swetlii-h nightingale, when she sang In old Castle Garden, now the Aquarium. Other famous guests were Daniel Webster Web-ster and P. T. Bnriium. The beams of the old structure, it Is Biild, are mahogany. |