Show r GREAT NAMES ON I REGISTER OF FAMOUS FIFTH A VEUNE HOTEL HO Aside from its prominence as a n. hot hostelry hostel hostel- l. l ry rr at one time the most famous and I fa fashionable in tho the metropolis and bearin bearing bear bear- in ing n jon u its register o of guests the names iames of or most niost of the tho distin distinguished i hed men and I women omen native o and foreign who ho ever I visited tho the city or lived Jived in it the Fifth I Avenue hotel now hotel now doomed to demolition demoli demoli- tion will will hold a place of its own in tho annals of oi the times as a birthplace of if history A trustworthy statistician has calc calculated that no other single ingle hotel hotel bootel ho ho- tel in tho the world orld has ever entertained 5 0 o W many eminent persons as have havo been received receive at nt the tho Fifth Avenue and asserts th that beginning with ith the Prince of Wales wales now King Edward in 1860 a year after the hotel was opened a never ending procession of the thereat great reat men of this and other countries has marched through its corridors Every President of the United States since the hotel opened beginning with Lincoln and including Johnson Grant Hayes Ha Garfield Arthur Cleveland Harrison Har ris rison n and McKinley but excepting Roosevelt has been a l guest of the Fifth Avenue during hi his term of office On the day da of the tho obsequies of Gon Grant in Au August st 1885 not only oDly were the family fam fam- ily and relatives of ot the tho great soldier domiciled in the hotel I whence they took their places in the funeral procession pro cession but Pre President ident Cleveland and aDd Vice-President Vice Hendricks with tho the members of the Cabinet Presidents ex-Presidents Hayes and Arthur with tho the former members of their Cabinets the Senate and House of Representatives e the Supreme Su Suo preme court of tho the United States States- the diplomatic corps the Governors of o of the various arious States each with his staff and scores of other celebrated men men were wore sheltered under its roof The London Times said that this was the most notable notable no no- table assemblage ever er gathered in the United States F. F F. F M. M r. r White Whit in Harpers Harpers Harper's Har liar pers per's Wp Weekly kly |