Show new yorks famous old hoffman house to be ram NEW nand EW YORK TORK the old 11 hoffman offman house famous for nearly halt half a century and one of manhattans Manh attane lending leading hostelries in the palmy days la to to go ft X will follow the equally famous fifth avenue hotel tho bartholde dl and the other landmarks at twenty broadway and fifth avenue into thit thu bourne from which no hotel returns with the passing of the DR rd I 1 house famed in song and story u 21 j i r well as in the hearts of the ay 1 who have in time times past made the oil 10 place their temporary home then them 4 will be nothing left but badim CO W square garden to remind the ol 01 oil timers of tho the days when twenty third street was as the heart of til as great white way when Alar martins tins at twenty fifth street was almost tin northern heit limit he it of the nightlife night life district when the original hoffman house was as built tho the ground cost pt thi plat now has been sold for so much for tho the unearned along with the hoffman house proper the purchaser bought the old hold how albemarle now an annex of the hoffman man house and oa a the site ot of the tn t will be erected a 16 story office building the immediate success of the hoffman house in its first days led to I 1 tr quent additions so that up to a few years ago the hoffman with the alb AN maria marle included occupied all the Broad broadwin wiy frontage at twenty fifth street in its best days dayd the hoffman house vied with the fifth avenue hota at twenty third street and fifth avenue which some five live years ago gt gall way ay to an office skyscraper the fifth avenue was the headquarters rf d the republicans and the rival democrats took up a reservation in the H ho man grover cleveland stopped there frequently and wae was staying there vba elected to the presidency the second time gen benjamin butler and gd ft winfield scott were regular patrons of the hotel an outgrowth of the fifth avenue hotel is the famous amen corner c exclusive organization of newspaper men and politicians who hold aad a dinners and pull off stunts like thoro of the gridiron club in washington Washing tolL behind the elevator in the fifth avenue adjacent to the buffet were IV seats joining at a right angle and upholstered in red plush these set beo were hidden from the lobby and corned an excellent place tor for quiet conci the late senator platt former governor B B D odell the late amri hanna and many other republican politicians of that day along D n g with blythe eddie higgs and other political writers used to meet et there ere ei afternoon for inferences somebody dubbed the red plush benches the amen corner comer e and tt name stuck the formal organization grew out of it the ingenuity that many a man displays in dodging creditors mould make his fortune in any other line of endeavor it takes a nervous oman moman to dem on strato what nerve force really is an indianapolis artist tat at work biblical subjects undertook k to a sketch of rebecca rabecca at athe the well welt I 1 he draw the water vater As eoon soon as a sick shoemaker amaker b I 1 i to a ork hes on the tho mend |