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Show FAMOUS FENCE ffl' COMING DOWN :1 St . : New York, uly 27. The famous iron j' fence, surrounding the Fifth av.onue 2 residence of Cornelius Vandcrblit, Is a ! being taken down toaay to make room 11. for the widening of Fifth avenue, re- i cently decided upon bv tho city au- !S , IhorJties jil ; The fence, which cost nearly ?200,- i : 000. was brougnt from Paris and is B : a copy of ibo fence about the Chau- 5i . lean de niols. from which the Vander- r bllt house was copied. Freuch artls- pj ' ans were brought lo this country to il fs dot up the fence as it was too difficult i I. for any of the New York workmen f. who tried to do it, Wt- oo |